Prudhoe Castle

We had a nice couple of hours at Prudhoe Castle today. A treasure on our doorstep, Prudhoe Castle is in Northumberland and repelled the besieging Scots.

Pauly takes up the Flames of War hobby!.

I recently acquired the Flames of War boxed set Open Fire and added some Plastic Soldier Company Shermans and Revell 1/144 planes.
I've managed to assemble and paint some of them so I had a rather unbalanced trial game tonight.

 I must get the infantry painted soon and then get some Panthers or Tigers or...

Bolt Action again

Today I got out some of my WW2 28mm collection for a game of Bolt Action. The snag is that my infantry are all multi based on 50mm round stands forcing me to use markers instead of removing casualties.

It looks like I'll have to rebase...

Run through the jungle - Bolt Action style.

 I played my first game of Warlord Games' Bolt Action today, I've had the rules since Christmas but have been busy with other stuff. Anyway, in typical form for me* I decided to play the rules out of period and used them for a Vietnam encounter.

* I played my first game of Warhammer fantasy rules, DBA and Black Powder using my English Civil War collection.

 I used Esci plastics, currently available under  the Italeri and possibly Revell labels.

 I kept the game very simple with small units similarly armed but with differing experience levels.

 Very nice rules in my opinion, simple, straight forward and very suitable for solo play.

 Instead of using pin markers I just laid a soldier down for each pin marker.

 In the middle of this a neighbours cat came for a sleep. He wasn't very happy with me making a noise with the order dice in the cup. I must get a softer cup or line the one I'm using for him!.

 I downloaded the hooch from Miniature Wargames.

 Don't push this guy!.

 Esci made some nice figures.

 A wounded soldier in each set.

 "Run through the jungle", well you can only advance through such terrain in Bolt Action.

My birthday present is still there on top of the cupboard, the balloons went flat but Carol put some ribbons on.
Only a few weeks to go!!!.