SBH SOLO Vikings VS Hunters of Evil

With my new love of Universal Battle, I have run yet another solo game. This time it was the under dog Vikings VS the Vet Hunters of Evil.

I set the game up like this. This was just an all out battle.

The Vikings are up north, with he Hunters from the south.
Turn one.
Vikings, and Hunters close in on each other. A few ranged attacks but no real action. Here is how it looked at he end of the turn.

Turn three is the last turn in the game, and had the most action.
This photo shows that the Hunters killed two vikings right off.

The final photo show how the Vikings routed after a G kill, and called it a game.

I am really just getting a handle on the rules, both SBH, and SDG. I am also having fun with UB.
So in the end I have had three battles.
Ratz vs Vikings with the Ratz winning.
Ratz vs The Hunters, Hunters Winning
Viking vs Hunters, Hunters once more.

So The Vikings really come out on top after losing two in a row. They picked up 15gp, plus the underdog bonus of d6x10 and I rolled a 6. So they end up with a grand total of 75gp to bulk up with.
Now I have done the exploration after each battle, and find it very hard to gain any thing from it. When you get some thing you have to roll a 6 on a d6. This is to hard. so in three games, I have rolled 6 time and have not gotten a 6. I think this need to be changed to 5+.

I have to stat up my Gor, and get them in top the action next.

Ratz W:1 L:1
Vikings W:0 L:2
Hunters W:2 L:0

Noel

SBH SOLO Game With Universal Battle.

I am killing two birds here with another solo SDG game, and testing out a new software to play miniature games online this time. First the software. Universal Battle

I came across this from the SBH Yahoo group. So I had to give it a try. Now this is a pay soft ware with free access but the later is very limited. I have joined the Pro version for a year @ $14.00 USD. They have a hole pricing plan that is very affordable. I would have joined the lift time plan but I want to mke sure it flies before making that jump, but that is only $29.00 USD.

So his is mostly Fantasy based, but you could fight Historical Midevil battls with it. I am sure they will add more content as they grow.
So you create and account (Pro) and go to the army builder. You are faced with a hold bunch of choices. So I made a Rat, and a Hunters of Evil warbands. I started with a base figure and out fitted it as needed. You can add armour, clothes, hair, color, weapons, shields,  and more to each figure. Then you can store the stats for each miniature in side the information box. So here I stored the Q,C and rules. This information can be vied during the game.

Now I have the armies, I can save them to my computer to up load later, or share. To play solo I had to save both the Rat hord, and the hunters then create a blank army and load both warbands in to it. When you deploy you can deploy singles, or large number of the same for same WFBs.

Once deployed you use the rules of what ever system you want, and start the game. There is a die roller, chat, rulers, templates, markers, and tons of terrain to add to the game. All along you can save and come back to it. You can also save and share with every one. So you can make a map that every one can load and use. This is great for playing campaign games.

So over all it will take some time to get the hang of it, but it can be allot of fun. Also it will allow people how could never get together for a game play. Pair this with google voice, skype or some other VOIP software and it could be really work out.

Now here are the photos of the battle, but I did not focus on this, as i was trying to learn the system.

I had a few more photos to add but had some issues with Picasa upload rejecting them.

But any way you can see what I had laid out.

Now the Rats did not fare will this game, they got kill quickly, and gave up at turn 4, with 4 killed, and the leader being the second to go down. The Hunters did well. The after action was well boring. The Rats only lost one member, and earned 15gp. Had to pay 5 as the Leader was robbed while getting healed. The found a begger that took them for a gold. The Hunters got 20pg, and found a forgotten tomb and ended up with nothing.

So over all I look forward to playing this with some real people on the other side, but it is a great way to play solo, when I can not set up a table in the house.

Noel  

Some Photos form the Snow Weekend!

These photos are not very good but should give you an idead
of what I have been working on.
OK here are three photos for this weekends work.









Noel.

New Dwarf bases!

Here are the photos of the bases I worked on over the holiday weekend. I painted up some Dwarf cav, and some Dwarf handweapons. I also re-based my Medieval foot knights form 4 to a base to 6 to a base. I have to finish the bases off with flock and such but I thought I would share the photos now.This is my first base of BRF mounted cav.
This is another base of Dwarf handweapons. This is a mix of BRF Mirliton minis.
My re-based knights.

Noel

Photos of my Battlewagon Painted!

Here is a slide show of my completed Dwarf battlewagon. Click on the slide show to see the photos.


Noel

Slide show of my other armies!

Noel

Second Base completed!

Well I completed yet another Dwarf base. I have also changed the number of minis per base, and fixed the first base I completed. The first base was BRF Dwarfs, and the second is Mir.
Side by side view.

Noel

Painting Dwarfs 101! Part 1.

This is a small how to on how I paint my 15mm Dwarfs. I used a slide show to save space on the Blog page. Once the show plays, use the controls to move through the slides. I hope you like it.
Any questions place them in the comments for this post.

Noel

What Rules Do I use.

Well I was asked a good question!

The question was what rule set do I use? The answer is this ChipCo’s FR!3 (Fantasy Rules 3). A few years back I decided to make a jump into Fantasy gaming with all the hype about Warhammer, but could not see my self spending that kind of money. So I looked around the net and came up with 15mm as a cheaper way of getting into Fantasy gaming. So before I make this leap I need to find a rule set to use. I looked at a hole bunch before I settled on one. I also spent some money on rule sets. I can’t remember the first one I looked at, but it was not FR!. I can list some I have.

• For the masses (MJ12Games)
• Fantasy Rules 2,3, and TCE (ChipCo Games)
  
• Warrior Heroes (Two Hour Wargames)
• Armies of Arcane (Thane’s Games)
• Warhammer (GW)
• Demonworld (now defunct)
• Hordes of Heroes (kallistra)
  
• The Age of Might and Steel (15mm uk now has these rules)

This is my short list. There were others but none worth mention here. I know some might say I missed Hordes of the Things, but I did not peruse these rules, as I did not feel they were a good match for me.

The first I bought into was Demonworld, but soon realized I did not like the hex based system, and the high cost of the game. Next was some free downloads I found but none paned out. So I had a copy of Days of Knights from ChipCo games, and liked it, so I figured I would give there Fantasy rules a try. Yes they were a bit much in the price, but they were an all inclusive rule set. Once I had the rules there was nothing else to buy, but the miniatures, and game needs. This I very much liked about the rules set. Now I have continued my quest for the best rules set but keep coming back to FR!.

Every one has a different idea on what they want from a game and a rule set, so I have to say FR! Fits mine ware other rules fit others better. I will try a rules review some time but I am sure there are a number of people that have done so. A good Google search should get you what you need.

Noel

Completed my first base of Dwarfs!

Well I have finished my first base of Dwarfs and here are some photos.

Seen here I have based 4 Dwarfs on plastic card, then covered the base with a filler putty. I have given the putty a bit of color to make it easier to cover with paint and flock.

Another angle of the same.

Now this is a completed base. I have added a bottom to the base of magnet, used for cards. You can get then in lots of 100 for about 10.00 US. With a pit of paint and some flock it looks good tom me.

Another angle.

Noel

First Photos of the Dwarfs

Well As promised here are my first photos of the Dwarfs I am working on. The Dwarfs are form the Black Raven Foundry range of Dwarfs. My photos show the new way I am painting 15mm miniatures. From these photos you can see they are mounted on a roofing nail then placed into a block of wood. This made painting the Dwarfs much easier then the way I did it in the past, by painting them on the 40x40 base. When painting I try to work on 2 bases worth of minis at one time, but I mis counted and only painted 7 and not the 8 required. I am going to work on completing one base today. I have mounted 4 of the Dwarfs, and filled the base to give it a better look than just flock.

Noel.

More Dwarfs for Icewind Dale

Well I have ordered more dwarfs for my new army. I ordered some form Old Glory 15s, and some from Splintered Light Miniatures. What did I order sofar.
From Mirliton

• HT001 boxed army.
• QNA010 Kings of the cavern command
• QNA004 Dwarf warriors with sword and shield

From Old Glory 15s

• FO19 Dwarven War Wagon With Bolt Shooters
• FO16 Dwarven Melee Troops
  

From Splintered Light Miniatures

• HOOD01 Robin Hood Personalities (some will be used a chrs from the book)
  
• DWAR01 Dwarf High Command
• DWAR04A Dwarf Huscarls 1

As I am not sure of the size from the three companies I will be taking a close look at the dwarfs when I get them to see what minis I will be using for what part of the army. So look for more soon, as I will post once I start getting them in.

Noel