Mittwoch, 7. November 2012

What a week ! Achived the place of honor for painting

Wow.. that was quite impressive to me. After taking place in the irish "Preening Dandies" Competition I never ever thought on getting the first place, or place of honor for painting a miniature.

The Miniature I send along for the competition was a french infantry colonel by Perry Miniatures which I did paint in 3 evening sessions(including horse).

You will find the result here:

http://waraltar.onthestep.net/2012/11/preening-dandies-october-edition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheWarAltar+%28The+War+Altar%29

Freitag, 2. November 2012

Starter Scenario - Republic to Empire

REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE is a Napoleonic rules set by Barry Hilton and partners. The general impression I've gotten from reading forums and blogs is that people think the rules are complicated. The game play is smooth and free flowing with minimal need to refer to the main text once concepts have been mastered. New players usually pick up the key mechanisms within three to four game turns.
 
As I do not own a copy of that I had to transfer everything to a rules set based on my Black Powder rules which I own. I simply love all the tips and hints in the bock about how to base or how many miniatures to base at once etc...
 
The difference is that Black Powder is scaleable to fit each scale. I own 28mm but could also use Black Powder on 20, 25, 15, 6 or whatever scale.
 
As not used to play napoleonic warfare I simply downloaded the scenario and adapted it to my needs. When you follow this blog you might have noticed that I only own british and french troops at present and so I had to leave out the spanish here... but hei, who know what comes next. So highly recommended easy scenario.

Enjoy !