Battletech game - Word of Blake Vs Kurita

 Last Sunday we had another game of Battletech, this time we decided to change the subject of the game, an encounter between the Work of Blake and the Draconis Combine, we changed, but remained in the same area of the Inner Sphere map, the Kuritan Capital of Luthien, this time in 3067.

Gian took inspiration for the scenario from an of issue of Batthetechnology, the Battletech magazine from the 80s and 90s.

The scenario has rules for rain and mud around the river, which made the game very interesting.

We just decided to scale it down to eight mechs per side to make it more manageable for four players.

It ended up in a Kuritan victory, but we are not sure of the balance of the forces, we might have made some mistakes.

 The game was fun as usual and we manage to finish it by about 5pm with a lunch break.

Back to historicals

 This week we have an early post, I would not have been able to post tomorrow, so I am uploading today.

These are the last Byzantine models I had prepared to paint in winter 2023/24. After more than two years I finally got around to finishing them. 

I still have a bunch of Byzantines to prepare and paint, but those will have to wait a bit longer, I am still trying to organize my stuff after the move and first of all I need to finish all the figures that I prepared, but didn't get around to finish.

Mounted general. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Mounted officer. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Mounted army standard bearer. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Mounted command. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Cavallaroi heavy cavalry. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Mounted section.

Terrain pieces and recycling

This will be a slightly odd post, all I'll be posting has been seen on the blog before, but very long ago and in different shape. 

This is a collection of terrain pieces or tabletop accessories that I put together with previously discarded items or broken models. As some might remember, I moved back to Italy last summer and, although the move was fairly smooth, there were some casualties.

Whatever could be salvaged in some way was repurposed and turned into terrain pieces. I also have more old banners from our very early days as hobbyists that became baggage train decors and a few very very old fences that my brother built in the early 90s that after laying around and broken for over thirty years, were finally restored and painted, the principle being that anything that involved some work should not be wasted and turned into tabletop usable items.

Following you can see the eclectic mix of pieces that I repaired and painted for a whole different set of settings and games.

One of the casualties of the move, one of my beloved three winter Panzer IVs. The turret was caved in, it lost a few roadwheels and the tracks were broken in a couple spots, it was definitely not fixable, so I decided to put a ton of snow on it and use it as a piece of terrain in a winter setting of WWII.

 

These are the fences that IlVJ built circa 1993, there were actually more, but after traveling through different boxes, shelves and cabinets, this is what I could salvage. I based them and gave them a quick paintjob and they are ready for the table.

These are the banners from the first incarnation of my dwarf army, built between 1989 and the end of the 90s. Around 2000 I decided to strip them all down and repaint them (I still have 2 units and a catapult to complete). These were the banners that proudly flew over some of the units, now they will serve as a reminder of the old glories of Warhammer third edition on the background of future battles.

This was a 3D printed Daedalus industrial mech that someone from my Canadian gaming group printed for me for a campaign, its loading arm and a leg snapped during the shipping, it now sits as a wreck on the field of battle.

All these were completed on the side, while painting other stuff, so just came along as I was doing something else.

I enjoy giving a second life to little bits and stuff that would otherwise end up in the garbage, with a bit of work anything can be reused and serve a new purpose.