SOTR - What an army look like

The SOTR kickstarter has started.
Here

 As far as it can help people to imagine what the game may look like in terms of army.

This are old photos of my armies, who have expanded lately.
But they give a fair insight of how much it represent. For information, a standard army will be about 55RP
My armies are mix of Westwind, Artizan, Grindhouse, Warlord, Tamiya, Urban Mammoth (mecha) and can't-remember-the-brand.

Few weird war games shots.

My Plans for 2015

So, how did 2014 go?

The 2014 panzer is gone and the 2015 truck is passing

Writing
Well, not too bad, but not as good as expected. Less battle reports, my RRtK campaign frozen and some battle not written yet.

Expanding my reach

Audience wise, I have to thank Sean who gave me damn good advices how to share my reports to more people.

Painting
That were I am the happiest. I had a good production, not Golden Demon or award level, but decent quality with new twists. There was a load of survivors for my WWW2 campaign, zombies and bolt action.
I also participated to Zombober that gave me a good kick to paint my zombicide.

Battle For Alabaster - Bad guys painted

Games
THW games were the most popular system I have played in 2014, namely ATZ-FFO and RRtk, followed by Bolt Action. I have played 1 SOTR game and 3 games of Kings of War (KoW). We pledged to its last kickstarter with a friend and we had to try army combination before buying new extra stuff.

I have adopted a new format for my battles in RRtK

I have also play few small games with my son and my daughter recently, a paper Xwing game and a playmobile "Knights and Dragon".

Fighting dragons for few gems

Star Wars space fighter game (*unlicensed*)

2015 Plans

In 2015, I will try to avoid buying too much stuff. I think I will add more fantasy ranges than anything else, first to build my Kings of War army, secondly to try to get my son into it.
I am supposed to receive 2 kickstarters (3 if I include KoW): Incursion kickstarter and Stone Dungeon Tiles.

Games:

• Continue my Reich of the Thousand Deads campaign, 
• Play some Bolt Action, 
• Start (maybe this year it will happen) my Fallout campaign, 
• Play Kings of War,
• Design a Star Wars game for my kids (they are deeply into Star Wars!)
• Play a Man o'war campaign with "For a bottle of Rum" campaign rules.
• Play Incursion

 Painting:

• Paint at least an army of fantasy
• Paint at least an army of Urban War
• Finish all my www2 miniatures
• Paint 2 fleets of Man o'War

dwarf fleet #1, the Rebel fleet

dwarf fleet #2

Imperial Great Ship, galleria and wolfship

The Reich of the Thousand Deads: Large Battle Report (SOTR)

In the devastated city of Antwerp, a group of British para with the new British Steel Heavy Armor are fighting against an offensive of SWD troopers.

The British had to hold the line and prevent the SWD to break the line... (More of a battle report down)
NEWS REPORT FROM THE ALLIES

NEWS REPORT FROM THE SWD.

BATTLE REPORT

British Army List

British: 
Para Platoon (Elite, Body Armor, Straffing and Artillery Strike)
HQ + Attached Templar support, Chapelain and Templar LMG
2xPara Team with 1 PIAT
2xMG
Light Mortar  (MVP)
Sniper
Para Sniper (support)
2xTetrarch (1 support slot), with Camo
British Steel team

German Army List

 German:
Werewolf platoon (Elite)
Faust
HQ
1 Grenadier
2 Wolfrunners
1 Werewolf
1 Vampire
2 Mech (1 with Close Combat weapons, 1 with Medium AT)
Aufklarer
2x MG

British Left Flank is held by 2 sniper teams and a British Steel team
Facing Wolf runners and 2 MG

Center, Half team of para and 2 Tetrarch, facing 2 Mech, grenadier and HQ

Machine gun spotted German Mech coming

The German used the cover to their advantage

HQ team and Templar support hold the right line, Facing Faust, werewolf, vampire and aufklarer

Werewolves are approaching the British lines, close combat Mech move on the British right flank

Hidden Mech is sniping British position

A strange man hide in a Church. Allies reports of "Vampire"

Beasty Aufklarer, hybrids of men and rats. SWD is a true Evil

The German reached the British lines

SWD forces are about to swarm the British positions

Critical moment, when any side could lose or win.

At the end, German stood victorious, having bled the British

The British positions were crushed

German reinforcements are coming and Britsh have to fall back

British were able to capture a "Vampire"

British left flank was gone

June: End of Month update and Welcome to followers

Wargaming is a question of scale

Welcome to new visitors.
Grigork: A nice blog where you have really tons of photos about games. And very nice one by the way.
Morikun: He is holding a small temple of heaven in the blogosphere, talking minis and other cool subjects that should be more talked about in temples and churches in my own opinion. Worth a visit, or like, a weekly pilgrimage
Sanguinius:  He is hosting a Manchester Area game blog. He has good tips on how to create your own (otherwise) expensive GW units.
Nobody667: If you like zombie games or great stories, this is the blog to go. Now, he is twisting scenarios and set them in very new places. And he is able to convert a pink Barbie house into a convincing rundown building.


This is the end of the Month and what have I done so far?

Bolt Action standard British FOO?

Look like Press to me

Well, I went to UK and brought back few good stuff to increase my (already) huge Partisan army, Late German Levy in a nutshell. These are going to be very great addition to my current campaign, and with the Dad's Army (warlord again), it will be fantastic!

My Partisan have a die hard leader and his trusted bodyguard

I also increased the number of Artizan models I had with the German Sentries and 2 blisters of partisans. Never too late.

We are also building a big Operation, using Bolt Action, to represent the second day of the Battle of Selow Heights in April 1945. That would be played at the wargame society in early July. Stay tuned if you want to know if Zhukov 2014 will be able to break through the defence and run for Berlin, like in 1945, living a sizeable German force behind him. That force will be too far from Berlin with the supply they had and only few were able to break through the Russian lines, to end up mostly in Berlin during the final battle.

The plan will be to play Bolt Action on 3 tables, 2 using 28mm minis, 1 table using 20mm minis and more tanks/AT guns.

German Army in 20mm

War in 20mm, Airfix resin buildings

I also finished my SOTR APE, that make 10 of them. All in metal. The weirdest part of it, is that with Incursion Kickstarter to come, that will be a very huge APE platoon to come. They are painted as French Foreign Legionnaires, to increase my small French army for SOTR.



Talking about the French, they are reinforced by the great looking Panhard 178, a recce vehicle used by the French Army in 1940. (note the marking are missing on purpose, so I can use it for Bolt Action and SOTR).


Finally, I finished painting my Gurkhas given for my birthday (As you will ask, I am 30, and I have been celebrating my 30th birthdays many years now, so I am becoming an expert in 30th birthday if you need one)


I also painted more minis for my Fallout game. Not being happy with another run on the rules, I decided to move to the mystic "Rogue Trader", the wargame from Games Workshop that started W40k.
I painted more retainer, got a box of Marauder from Mantic (great looking Mutants!) and a Knight that is primarily a Grey Knight Terminator.

I played 2 games of Bolt Action recently, with the Partisan and the German army. Partisan was a win, German a loss, but both games rocked.
Here are some pix of the Partisan game

Partisan overriding a Flak.

Of course, there is also Man o' war that got me recently and that was on another post.