tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76327698935918091652024-03-21T19:22:22.373-05:00Defenders of the Cadian GateWargamers, wargames, and armies of miniatureben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-84556640369929720742017-07-04T05:27:00.000-05:002017-07-04T05:27:08.110-05:00Recent Painting (A filler post)I need to post more frequently on this blog, but it's been a rough day already (it's only 11:00 am and already it's turned to shit), but I figured I've got a ton of pictures I haven't uploaded anywhere, I might as well do it here. So enjoy some of my work:
10mm French infantry, for the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. I haven't played it in more than a year, and like an idiot I sold all the models Iben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-42287454420535995642017-07-03T10:24:00.000-05:002017-07-03T10:24:43.497-05:00Spearhead: Modern- West Germany, 1985, Part 3
I got back onto this blog of mine to see if I'd posted any good pictures recently, since a new coworker is interested in Wargaming, and I thought I'd link him to this to take a look. Turns out I never actually posted part 3 of our Cold-War-Gone-Hot Modern Spearhead game. It's been Quite awhile since this game happened, so the details I write below each picture might be a little bit... fuzzy ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-18270331515819847112017-03-27T06:10:00.002-05:002017-03-27T06:10:22.079-05:00Spearhead: Modern- West Germany, 1985 Part 2
Continuing from last time: The Soviets defend their recent territorial gains against a NATO counterattack!
Some of my chicken-scratch planning on a hand-drawn map.
Plans for the I/290th and III/290th
Hind helicopter support awaiting orders at the Airport.
Andy's British forces begin their advance, spearheaded by his light Reconnaissance units...
...Who walk straight ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-35839123908608961752017-03-27T05:22:00.001-05:002017-03-27T05:55:47.077-05:00Spearhead: Modern- West Germany, 1985 Part 1This past Saturday at the Tyneside Wargames Club, I got to participate in a game of Modern Spearhead that Andy and Ian were kind enough to put on. I was the Soviet commander, and Ian and Andy commanded my American and British foes, respectively.
Our scenario revolves around a disjointed NATO counterattack to reclaim a West German airport, seized by a regiment of Soviet Guards Airborne (all ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-75220704586111729442016-11-18T11:45:00.000-06:002016-11-18T11:45:17.304-06:00A SECOND post, from England!Dang, I'm bad about updating this blog.
Plus we're about to go to Liverpool for the weekend.
So, what I'm going to do now is upload all the pictures of games that I've got sitting around, and then maybe later I'll come back and put captions on them and organize them and all that. Because there are a fair few of them.
Wargaming in England is incredible, there's easily 4 or 5 different clubs ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-46571095485868438942016-10-18T13:04:00.001-05:002016-10-18T13:04:48.952-05:00A New Post, from England!Well here I am in England, finally updating my wargaming blog! Almost 6 months to the day since my last update. The gaming club I play at here is incredible, and I've been splitting my time between Infinity, Warhammer 40k (Using the Heralds of Ruin Kill Team rules, check them out), and just recently Napoleon at War.
So! Here's an update on my current projects!
Armageddon Steel Legion specialben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-61033887885506981132016-04-17T17:45:00.002-05:002016-04-17T17:46:33.105-05:00Armageddon Steel Legion!Finally painted some of my Armageddon Steel Legion for 40k! And here they are. I've wanted some Armageddon Steel Legion for a long, long time, and now I've got some! I already had some tanks painted in that scheme, but I've finally finished a full squad of infantry, on this rainy, dull Sunday.
Hopefully next weekend, we'll be able to have people over and play someben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-63234234139351115762016-02-22T19:42:00.001-06:002016-02-22T19:42:49.024-06:00The Sword and The Flame
Walk wide of the Widow at Windsor, For 'alf of Creation she owns: We 'ave bought 'er the same with the sword an' the flame, An' we've salted it down with our bones. (Poor beggars! -- it's blue with our bones!)
ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-76150408186867239622016-02-07T20:02:00.000-06:002016-05-02T21:43:23.089-05:00The Battle for Hypatia Hive
The
Achilus Crusade began in 777.M41, to reclaim the Jericho Reach from
the sway of Xenos and Heretical forces. Under the command of Lord
General Militant Solomon Tetrarchus, vast army groups of the Imperial
Guard, Naval Fleets, Legions of Skitarii and Titans of the
Mechanicus, and even the mighty Adeptus Astartes, march to war, to
drive out the enemies of mankind.
The
Crusade is taking ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-24601686377020361972016-01-10T08:43:00.002-06:002016-01-10T08:44:51.555-06:00Turn 3 of Firestorm Caen, Belatedly
These pictures were taken 3 or 4 weeks ago, during the third turn of the Firestorm Caen campaign. In a lucky aligning of schedules, I managed to play my games against Evan and Adam on the same day! As I go through and caption each photo, I'll do what I can, but it was while back so I might not remember everything.
Epron
Allied forces at Sword Beach have been battered by attacks by the 21st ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-34753032836571567832015-12-11T22:53:00.000-06:002015-12-11T22:53:14.247-06:00A Return (FINALLY) to Bloody Big Battles
My friend Dave introduced me to Bloody Big Battles, the wargame rule system covering the vast conflicts in what I've always thought of as the Age of Rifles, 1840-1900. I've talked about it before, but basically it's for the really massive battles of history, the kind that you just can't play in a single day, if every battalion or regiment is it's own unit, and you have to deal with all the ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-69220588391334368602015-12-06T20:08:00.003-06:002015-12-06T20:09:09.239-06:00Flames of War- The Battle for Caen Continues
Last Sunday, my friend Evan and I played another game of Flames of War for the ongoing Firestorm: Caen campaign, detailing the British/Canadian half of the Normandy invasion. My grenadiers, along with their kameraden from the 2nd Panzer and 12th SS Panzer divisions, strove valiantly to hold back the British onslaught from Juno Beach. This is the third campaign turn, and... I feel like ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-65577672195667333902015-11-15T07:58:00.001-06:002015-11-15T08:15:15.917-06:00The Battle for BayeuxThe nice crew at Rust and the City blog have been running a Firestorm Caen campaign for Flames of War, which is in effect the British/Canadian half of the Normandy campaign. I finally took pictures of our 2nd turn game, my German Grenadier company (just basic infantry) against Adam's British Paratroopers.
http://rustandthecity.blogspot.com/2015/11/firestorm-caen-turn-2a.html
He scored 6 ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-36616823596883478802015-09-14T10:11:00.003-05:002015-09-14T10:12:36.129-05:00A Birthday Battle of Beneath the Lily BannersThe day after my birthday, I made the trek to Austin for a game of Beneath the Lily Banners with the Great Hall Games crew, and my best friend Evan. I'd cooked up the scenario a week ago, and Lance thought it sounded solid. The outnumbered Franco-Bavarian army, through superior generalship and daring maneuver, had managed to catch the Dutch and their British lackeys before their armies could ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-43998523935298794842015-07-23T16:54:00.001-05:002015-07-23T16:57:11.367-05:00The Battle of Loigny-Poupry- Pt 1.I'm demo-ing Bloody Big Battles for LSHM's open play event, so a friend and I are going to run through the scenario tonight. This is just a placeholder really, and an excuse to post These pictures:
As a handy, dandy reference when I set it up again at Adam's place.
Here, too, are the starting armies:
The Bavarian Korps, in light blue on the right, deploys first, while
the ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-12623319252965753402015-05-07T17:34:00.002-05:002015-05-08T10:28:38.252-05:00An Army is Completed! This might be a new record for me. I painted my complete Prussian starter-army pack in like, two or three days. Now to get started on the French, to oppose them. The miniatures are all Pendraken 10mm, and they came in convenient $40 starter packs.
My Prussians make up five infantry divisions, one Cavalry division? (If they fielded complete divisions, probably not. But four bases, anyways) and ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-36875958111361990232015-05-03T21:00:00.001-05:002015-05-08T10:28:01.214-05:00Bloody Big Battles! Wargaming in the Age of Rifles, 1850-1900
Thank GOD I enjoyed this game, because I bought a French AND a Prussian army starter pack for the Franco-Prussian War in 10mm, without having played the game or even looked at the rules. Stupid? Yes! But I did it anyways. The Prussians in the picture below are what tricked me into playing it, they looked so damn cool. I bought French, too, because the store needs more French players and with twoben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-88483187648471961512015-04-22T18:11:00.002-05:002015-05-08T10:29:26.073-05:00My Current ProjectsI guess honestly the death of our beloved cat, Piglet, has been hitting me harder than I thought. Well, not harder than I thought, but for longer. I sure do miss that fluffy bastard. So I've been throwing myself into the hobby with a lot more enthusiasm lately, I guess trying to stay busy and distract myself.
But yeah, I sold some of my old, unused gaming stuff, and with it bought some 15mm ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-12298752513627389162015-04-20T09:00:00.000-05:002015-05-08T10:27:19.474-05:00Beneath the Lily Banners- Wargaming from 1680 to the mid 1700sThe Beneath the Lily Banners players in Austin are an incredible group of guys. They let me, with no knowledge of the rules, no miniatures of my own, and very limited knowledge of the period in question, just hover over their game, ask questions, and made me feel incredibly welcome. They invited me to actually play in the next game, which I did!
It was this weird, incredibly fortuitous thing, ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-63194933710013163152015-01-19T20:30:00.001-06:002015-05-08T10:31:00.155-05:00For Dad and David to look atThe Tiny guys (15mm tall) are either Ancient Carthaginians or WWII Germans, the medieval looking ones are either Normans (who beat up the english at Hastings) or Crusaders, either way it works and I painted them kind of generically so I could go either way. The ugly looking fellows are Uruk Hai from Lord of the Rings (normans and uruk hai are 28mm)
ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-12021931520689146912014-08-10T16:16:00.001-05:002015-05-08T10:31:55.657-05:00Back in the Firestorm Armada mood A very brief update: I finally settled on a working paint scheme for my RSN ships for Firestorm Armada.
The RSN are basically the state security/ waffen SS of the Dindrenzi Federation faction in FSA. Lethal, brutal, technologically advanced and highly effecient, their paint schemes tend towards very clean and ornate lines.
And no matter how many times I tried, I just couldn't make it look any ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-9764107193925300572014-07-23T18:01:00.005-05:002015-05-08T10:34:05.996-05:00At Long Last, an Update! Necrons and KrautsHello, loyal follower...s? I haven't updated in a couple of months, just haven't had much drive until recently. I don't have much word content at the moment, but enjoy some pictures!
The Necrons belong to my wife, some of them from my friend Derek. The ones that are originally Ria's are the ones with Purple stuff on 'em, while Derek's are from a wide time period, during which he experimented ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-17691586530085417812014-03-31T09:01:00.003-05:002014-03-31T21:12:54.691-05:00Imperial Guard through the agesWith the dawning of a new era for the Hammer of the Emperor, I thought I'd take a look back at the Imperial Guard from their conception, because why not. I'll go ahead and confess right now to not being a big fan of the new name, 'Astra Militarum.' Re-naming the next Space Marine codex Adeptus Astartes is no great leap at all. They have been the Adeptus Astartes all along, Space Marines was ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-61417352537822779422014-03-28T09:32:00.000-05:002014-03-28T09:32:14.413-05:0040K Summer Campaign"The Night of a Thousand
Rebellions" swept through the Segmentum Obscurus in a tidal wave of
blood. Through chaos meddling and the aid of the traitor legions,
hundreds of imperial worlds found themselves besieged or overthrown in
the space of a few days as hidden cults and recidivist elements came
boiling to the surface, overthrowing their rightful lords and turning
from the light of the ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632769893591809165.post-85952317118499828992014-02-03T19:56:00.002-06:002014-02-03T19:56:24.169-06:00Risk: Legacy!
I got Risk: Legacy for Christmas. I'll be straightfoward, this is a
whole new ball game. The game is designed to be played 15 times before
the board is 'completed.' Each game changes the world. Cities are placed
on the board, continents are named by the victors, territories are
changed, for better or worse.
At first, I was really reticent to actually place stickers on the
board,ben.lamanchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607641185641974871noreply@blogger.com0