Irregular Wars Wargaming

Over the last few weeks I have been slowly plugging away at a few set dressings for playing dungeon crawl scenarios in  Fantastic Scuffles . So far I've only managed ten doors and two sarcophagi (both designed and sold by GatheringGroundsG), but it's a start.  The pieces work very well with the fantastic neoprene dungeon tiles from Tabletop Battlemats. These really are top quality and I'm very pleased with them. The white edges of the mats visible in the photo above are less obvious in hand, and I imagine running a black permanent marker around the edge will fixe any issue there. I bought one sarcophagus of each design. The undamaged one is actually cast from a marbled looking resin and I was a bit sad to paint over it. However, the other one needed paint on the skulls and vines, and I wanted both to look like they belonged together. For no particular reason I opted for purple vines rather than green or brown. Perhaps it is some sort of magical corruption? I based all the...

Having returned from a dander around France, Belgium and the Netherlands, we returned home to find that my wee lad's best mates are all away. A boon for me, as he agreed to play a couple of games of Fantastic Scuffles ! In the first game, I controlled my party five of rogues (mercenary, burglar, harlot, highwaywoman and potion dealer) who's objective was to knock out and abduct one of his party members. He controlled a foot knight, sorceress, ghost and two spear-armed minions who had been asked to acquire an item held (determined randomly) by my half-orc harlot. My highway woman took an early dislike to the sorceress, sneaking up to fire her pistol at short range. The sorceress was wounded, but still standing until the halfling burglar emerged behind her and finished the job.  The wee man's knight charged the potion's dealer who threw down a smoke bomb to escape. The knight then turned his attention to the burglar, taking revenge for the mess he'd made of the sorcer...