Tag: Two Hour Wargames
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Campaign Mobilization
It was well into the third watch as Queen Celeste gazed sleepily into her bowl of wine. Thoughts swirled as vapors, her hated enemy, the Elector of Capalan was engaged in a war with Mirholme, which meant there would be no raids or invasion from either for some time. The ancient foe of Imperial Tropilium…
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Armies and Navies
In the ancient world and to some degree parts of the world until the 19th century, there were few full-time standing armies. Settlements were expected to provide a certain number of troops when called upon to do so for a limited season of campaigning. Once the campaign was over, it was fully expected the soldiers…
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Queen Zosga
“There upon the ancient, tusked throne of Gorblud sat Zosga, hobgoblin queen of the Misty Vale.” My first model for this year’s Orktober is Trixia the Hobgoblin Queen by Artisan Guild. I tried a new technique, well it’s new to me, for painting green skin. It’s in Dr. Faust’s Painting Clinic video on layering and…
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Pulp PI – Investigator for Hire, a Review
Just being released, “Pulp PI – Investigator for Hire” from Two Hour Wargames couldn’t have come at a better time. You see, there’s a direct tie between pulp fiction and film noir, and in August, Turner Classic Movies suspends its weekly showing of “Noir Alley” for its month-long Summer Under the Stars film festival. So,…
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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…
Atomic Floozy Adventures 