Irregular Wars Wargaming

I was really pleased to be handed the last of my custom-made fortifications from Jim at Dark Architect Terrain this week. The set has more that 40 fully modular lengths, corners, towers, gates and breaches to allow all sorts of combinations. Here they are thrown down in a pretty random castle set-up; do excuse the board and decking. It was too nice a day not to sit outside! Over on the left you can see an assortment of breaches to be used when walls collapse due to mines, artillery, or direct assault. ... and to top it all off, the structures are all robust enough to be stored in a single box file (along with some resin buildings). Brilliant job Jim!a

After something of a hiatus - not quite a year - The Flores Minor Ranger Corps had their second outing this week, pairing off again against Andrew's Mutants in a snipe hunt. Once again, we were scrabbling through Andrew's absolutely amazing shanty town terrain. Sarge led seven 'men' into the wastes including the rookie, Demo. Doc, the squad medic, was ironically banged-up from the previous engagement, but otherwise the boys were rearing to go. Opposed to them, the psychic escaped slave girl commanded her warband of fellow mutants - also sporting a new member in the form of the winged Stumpy. Hat Boy, the sniper, had become reckless from his injuries in the last match - not a great state for a sniper...  The scenario called for the rival warbands to search six areas of difficult terrain - rusted out cars - looking for clues to pre-Fall relics. The FMRC are scattered along the bottom of the photo. Demo, Point and Heavy on the left, Hotshot ranging ahead in the centre-mos...

The Night Stalkers are the latest of my armies to to be completed for Fantastic Battles . With a theme of all-things-bitey meets Gothic Noir, the army is led by stylishly aristocratic vampires and uses the 'feast' trait as a racial trope. A small army, the Night Stalkers will depend on speed (and the ability to night march) to compensate for their almost total lack of shooting factors. Get in under the enemy's arrows and ripp out their throats! The Night Stalker leadership - the Countess (mounted) flanked by two Barons and a tame Necromancer. Vampiric knights. Ghastly ghouls. Dire wolves. Were-wolves. Giant vampire bats. Succubi. The Death Coach driven by the rogueish Coachman. 

The completion of a unit of succubi 'finishes' off my army of all-things-bitey Night Stalkers for Fantastic Battles . As with most of this army, the figures are 3D prints from Forest Dragon. The figures are first class; I only wish there were more victims/meat-puppets like the one in the photo above. The plan is to use these as a single three-company unit of elite very fast fast fliers - with feast as a racial trope of course. The army's lack of shooting capacity means that all my units are going to want to get to grips with their victims as quickly as possible. Being a large unit will negate some manoeuvrability, but give them substantial staying power.

Against better judgement... I became excited recently by the prospect of a big group 28mm Napoleonics project. As the project is being inspired by Borodino and the 1812 campaign and I didn't want to do either of the main protagonists, I am aiming at Von Bruxelles' Württemberg light brigade (part of the French 3rd Corp.).  This is the first company completed for the 2nd Battalion - figures from Front Rank. This will be a slow burning project, but I wanted to get something complete and up on the blog to start building a little momentum.