The Happy Grognard

Some more support weapons for the US...
While I was painting them a piece a synchronicity happened because I was mulling over organizing an event to promote the Ilkley Gamers Club when a tweet popped up regarding a craft fair to raise money for the local school, Ashlands.

'Aha', I thought 'what if I work out some dead simple game involving US soldiers fighting Dinosaurs? And charge a small fee to play, to cover the cost of the Haribos you win for killing the beasties?' And in the meantime, hand out cards with the various links and websites.

Sprinkle in the odd tank or two, maybe some Nazi's - who have obviously created the Dinosaurs - and maybe some packs of Top Trumps...

Speaking of Top Trumps, I notice that you can now get a Bolt Action deck. I wonder if they have the correct weapon ranges, or do the rifles all have a maximum range of @160 feet?

peace:)

For my birthday I got...
US heavy weapons and some M3 half tracks... plus a relatively peaceful day in which I could make a start painting them.

peace:)

The WWII project is back on the front burner....
Last night I went to Bradford Games Society.

My entry in the painting competition came in last place... lol...

But on the bright side I got to play Small World, which is a game I have wanted to play for a long time. And I won... w00t.... with a grand total of 98 points.

On the way home I amused myself by reading reviews of Chain of Command on my phone. This amusement was greatly increased when I read a review that complained that there was no morale system - this was in addition to a number of over pointless complaints, the main one being that Chain of Command was not Bolt Action.

Note, the morale system is built into the shock mechanics, the addition or removal of which, gives you an organic morale system that means as your troops get panicky they move less, fight worse and generally prepare to run away.

peace:)