These is the second part of the infantry of my British 8th army, there should be another post with the final part of the infantry and the full army at once.
Today we have a forward observer team and the second infantry section.
Yesterday we finished our Battletech game.
It was a great game, very closely fought and decided at the very last turn.
After a struggling start, the Inner Sphere, seemed to have taken the upper hand, but at the last turn Clan Smoke Jaguar managed to kill a very annoying locust that had been running around in the rear of their side doing damage to the back of various mechs and, more important, to hit the ammo rack of the Kurita commander Atlas destroying it and taking a definite lead.
We declared a Clan Smoke Jaguar victory that puts them in the outskirts of Luthien.
Next game should be in an urban scenario, we will probably try some second line mechs for the clans.
Here are some pictures of the game:
My 8th army project is finally getting some steam and moving along nicely, I have started to complete some units and I should be done with the infantry in a couple of weeks.
I'm still debating if I should paint the second Matilda I have or if I should try to trade or sell it, since I probably won't have many chances to use two of the beasts in a game.
This week I have a finished infantry squad and a command section.
As it is easy to imagine, I've not been very productive in the past couple of weeks.
I got back from Canada on March 3rd and I got sick right after, I was out for a full week with the flu and could not even sit at the painting desk.
The following week I managed to paint a bit and get some stuff finished, so I will be posting more figures in the next weeks.
The WW2 British 8th army is coming along and there will be pics next Monday.
In the meantime I refurbished a Warzone model that my friend Adrian gave me during my Canadian visit.
It is a Warzone Razide from 1st edition that he painted many years ago. It had a few chips and was standing on a small 25mm base, so it was quite unstable. I fixed up a few scratches and rebased it, so it is now consistent with the rest of my collection.
It is not much, but with the Battletech game pictures I posted yesterday should give you enough to look at until next week.
Yesterday we had the first part of a fairly big game of Battletech.
We had four players for a scenario set during the Clan invasion of 3050. The scenario saw Clan Smoke Jaguar advancing towards Luthien, the Kurita capital.
The Draconis Combine sent out a company to stop, or at least soften up two stars of Omnimechs and Elemental battle armor, trying to inflict the most possible damage.
We played about 4 and a half hours, at a quite relaxed pace and managed 4 turns.
Luckily we could leave the game set and we will be completing it in a couple of weeks.
Here are some pictures to give you an idea of the game:
This is going to be the last post from Canada, next Monday I'll be travelling back to Italy and I hope to be able to finish something to post for the following one.
The figures in this post are the first I finished from a Perry Miniatures set that my fiancée gave me for Christmas. They will form the infantry of my North Africa 8th army for Bolt Action.
I had previously completed some vehicles, a Matilda II, a Dingo scout Car and before that, a utility car, it was about time to add some infantry.
This army will be used against my Afrika Corps army that I painted back in 2020 and never used since completion.
The first models I completed are some support weapons, the Bren machine gun will be part of an infantry section, the Boys anti tank rifle and the light mortar will be independent teams.
I'm looking forward to work on the remaining 34 models and have the army ready to play.
This is the second unit of slingers in the army, with them the light troops are done.
I still have another two of these guys, but I can't find them in the stuff I shipped from Canada, they'll bulk up this unit when they reappear.
Next will be some cavalry and mounted characters, but I have to get back to Italy first.
Hi all, last week, instead of posting on the blog, I was travelling to Canada to come visit my fiancée.
I will be in Canada until the end of February and I won't be doing any painting here, but I have enough material for 3 posts before I go back.
Today we have some Byzantine heavy mounted archers, old Citadel miniatures, like most of the army. They will form the rear rank of the cataphract unit.
They are a little basic sculpts, but I like their simplicity and ease of painting.
Next will be some more slingers, heavy cavalry and characters, but I still have to unpack some boxes and find more models.
I finally managed to complete the unit I've been working on (with a lot of distractions) recently.
As seen in the previous posts, it is a unit of "Noblesse d'epée", nobility of the sword, one of the more basic types of knights in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd edition Armies book.
They are a mix of Ral Partha models with a couple of historical crusaders from an unknown manufacturer that I added to bulk up the unit.
The unit is slowly coming along, I hope to finish it this week, for now this is one more knight I completed, with the remaining three well on their way to be done.
There is also a partial unit picture.
