Pirates in Winnersh

On Wednesday evening I was working in the south east so had the pleasure of an evening at the Wargames Association of Readings club night in Winnersh.

Richard had arranged a Pirate game using the Pirate version of Songs of Blades and Heroes although I am not sure if it was Flashing Steel.

The scenario was that each side comprised of three factions and we all had different scenario objectives but I think we all had to occupy the ruined fort.

My faction was a file of Redcoats led by an officer, Richard #1 had a force of five Dwarf infantry while Richard #2 had a force of five Dwarf Pirates. The opposition were Ron with a troop of five Elf Pirates, Andy with five Human Pirates and Wayne with four Orc Pirates.

My blokes were quite weedy compared to everybody else, but I could volley with my muskets and that seemed quite effective. Using group moves, I rushed my troops into one half of the fort and formed a firing line and then proceeded to plaster away at anything that got near me.

Waynes' Orcs succumbed to the Grog and were in quite a disarray, I managed to plug three of them with volley fire, but the fourth got into combat with me and caused quite a mess before we stepped back and gave him another volley.

By now Rons' Elves had occupied half of the fort but my short legged Dwarven allies were rushing to the rescue. Alas, they arrived piecemeal and were cut up pretty badly by the Elf and Human Pirates.

By the end of the game I was sat pretty strong in my half of the fort and the Pirates, having fought off the Dwarves in their half. Totting up, no one side had occupied the fort so it was down to casualties. Andys' Human Pirates had scored five so won the game, but I came in second with a creditable four.

Fantasy Pirates is not something I'd usually play, but I really enjoyed it.

While Richard #1 set the game up, Wayne, Richard #2 and I had a quick game of X-Wing pitting the Rebel Aces against the Imperial Aces. Despite Richard ramming the B-Wing into an asteroid early on and then losing all his shields the Rebels eventually prevailed.

For Sale: Warring States / Han Chinese

New Reduced Price £1250.00

You can contact me about these at smith(dt)paul18(a)sky(dt)com

I've decided that to make room for a new project my Warring States / Han Chinese army can go and do battle for a new general.

I painted the core of these back in 2011 for the Warhammer Ancient Battles Grand Tournament held in Stockport and have added extra figures and units since. They have been veterans of a good few battles of both Warhammer Ancients and Hail Caesar since then.

All the figures are magnetised as are the custom made movement trays that are also provided.

Every figure is from the Curteys Miniatures range.

Chariot mounted General

Two subordinate generals / army standard bearer

Musicians, a drum team any a symbol team

A scribe, or Sun Tzu himself if you prefer

Three heavy chariots, each with four horses and three crew

Twelve cavalry with swords and halberds

First unit of twenty-four spearmen

Second unit of twenty-four spearmen

Third unit of twenty-four spearmen

Fourth unit of twenty-four spearmen

Unit of twenty-four crossbowmen

Unit of twenty archers, these match the first spear unit so can be added to the rear ranks

Three units of twelve archers, these match the other three units of spearmen so can be added to the rear ranks.

Two units of twelve swordsmen.

Twenty-four Xiongnu Hu nomad horsemen

Large stone thrower with four crew

Twelve villagers

The entire force

Well, there you go, four heavy chariots, thirty-eight mounted troops, two-hundred and twenty two foot.

All this can be yours for £1250.00 plus postage at cost.

For Sale: WWII British Infantry Platoon

THIS IS NOW SOLD

I'm a man with nine 28mmWWII British Infantry platoons and that really is far too many. So, I am selling my 'Normandy' infantry platoon along with it's supports.

I need the space for my new WWI Verdun project.

All the figures painted by myself and are mainly Warlord Games plastics with a few Black Tree Designs figures added along the way. You can see the original painting articles here, here, here and here.

Some of the figures have never been gamed with since being painted!

The force comprises:

Six officers and senior NCO's

First squad of NCO, eight Riflemen and a BREN gun.

Second squad of NCO, eight Riflemen and a BREN gun.

Third squad of NCO, eight Riflemen and a BREN gun.

Platoon support of a 2" Mortar team and a PIAT team

A 3" mortar team.

A mechanised squad of NCO, six Riflemen and a BREN gun.

An additional PIAT team and a Sniper

A Medic, two Orderlies and a stretcher case.

 Five casualty markers to denote pinned units etc.

Here are some close-ups:

NCO

 BREN Gunner

PIAT Gunner

Rifleman

Rifleman

 M3 half-track

M3 half track

 Casualty

Casualty

Another shot of the entire collection

So that is 63 figures plus a half-track, I'm looking at £225.00 for the lot.

Postage will be at cost and I will ship internationally.