Category: Fantasy
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The Ogress
Gronza, the Ogre Beauty, is a pinup miniature from Artizan Guild. I usually buy miniatures because I need them in a game. I bought this one because I wanted to push my painting skills a little. I spent nearly ten hours painting this one figure (four hours on the skin alone). After looking at the…
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Amazon Update Number 6
Managed to rebase another twenty figures. The finished Amazon collection stands at 186 figures with at least a couple of hundred still waiting to be painted or rebased. Noble Infantry Archers Slingers Warriors Sword Maidens Cavalry Peltasts Leaders, Heroes, and Casters That’s the finished collection, what do you think? Your comments and suggestions are always…
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Adding Terrain to the Map
With the outline done, the next step is to fill in the terrain features of Valkae. To add terrain features to the map, I used drawing techniques from WASD20’s series on how to draw fantasy maps to draw the terrain features, and Tony Bath’s Setting Up a Wargames Campaign found in the book Tony Bath’s…
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The Outline Map
In a previous post, I mentioned I wanted to play a solo map campaign. The campaign AI is provided by “The Solo Wargaming Guide” by William Silvester. Though not strictly required, the guide draws a lot from “Tony Bath’s Ancient Wargaming” which a good part of the book is a reprint of “Setting up a…
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Amazon Update Number 5
With everything going on, I’m still plugging away at my Amazon collection. The goal is to rebase the completed figures from square bases and to assemble and paint the Amazons remaining in the massive pile of unfinished miniatures. With this update, 165 figures have been finished and/or rebased. I’m not sure how many are left…
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Making a Darn Good Game More Complicated
There’s a trend, and a good one at that, to make games quicker and easier to play while still being fun. It’s even the premise of several game companies: One Hour Games, One Page Rules, 2’x2′ Napoleonics, Snappy Nappy, Five Torches Deep, Index Card RPG, and, my personal favorite, Two Hour Wargames among many others.…
Atomic Floozy Adventures 