Hoplites for Clash of Empires

So to raise an army for Clash of Empires, I just finished rebaing all my Hoplites. Most are the older Foundry with some 1st Corps in the mix. Also if I may note with pride that my wife painted many of these! I've had these figs for years, now they may finally see the table. Two units of Hoplites to help my Macedonians. Now to paint more pikes.

Mercenary Hoplites

Mikeules reviews the troops

Foundry

Left- Foundry, Right 1st Corps

Phalanx for Clash of Empires

Just finished my first box of the Warlord plastic Macedonian Phalanx. Easy to assemble and easy to paint!

15mm Aztecs

Well thanks to Kurt, who wants to try out Irregular Wars, I finally based up some of my Aztecs.
These figs are made by Tin Soldier. I've spent the last two years builing up a small horde of these figs through various trades.  I love how they look. So we'll start with Irregular Wars and then slowly build to a huge game!

The Great War 1914 in 10mm.

Only five days into 2014 and we've already had our first 1914 game. Courtesy of Kurt Braunsroth, who has been working on this period for well over 10 years now. We used his homegrown rules H-Hour and his wonderful 10mm terrain. Kurt uses hexes for movement and fire but does a great job not having them stand out. The game was fast and furious with some 6 divisions on the table, though somehow by mistake the French lost! For those going to Siege of August  this month Kurt will be running his game Sat.

Fierce town fighting

French HQ

This German Battery held out against repeated art fire

Germans

 

Christmas Loot!

I am a very, very, very, lucky man, with a wonderous wife, super sister-in-law and friends.

More pics from the Pacific Game- The Defenses

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Our second Pacific Bolt Action Game

We set the date for our second Pacific Bolt Action game last month for Dec 8th. This time I wanted to have a long 12 foot beachfront. But the month flew by and I had nothing new for the second game! So this last week I buckled down and set to work on some new terrain for second game. One day to build more jungle/vegetation. One day to cut and paint the new boards. One day to paint the Japanese flamethrower teams, snipers and 70mm guns and gunners. One night to build the beach defence. My wife and her twin ended up painting the defences while I finished the beach and based all the knew figs. And I'm ready! Eli did the point cruching and decided to use some of the FoW rules for positioning the landing craft and the second wave. Each landing craft had a med machine gun that could fire everytime a US unit activated to exit that boat. (Covering fire for the 1st turn only)(also dropped three bombardments before the landings)

3 Japanese players on the right

A very fun group of players

Newly painted Japanese Flamethower team

Marines begin to land

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Marine Flame Tank has a bad day

Japanese reserve

The log defenses

It was a great game! We played about 5 turns. the Japanese took a lot of casulaties, especially in some failes Banzai charges, but the Marines could just not get off the beach.
Next game, a bigger prebombardment and more Marines!