Luddite's Blog

[Luddite]

Well, i finally did it.

http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/

Not much 10mm Pendraken stuff yet but give it time...

[GordonY]

Great stuff there Luddite.

[Luddite]

Cheers Gordon.  Really just starting so i'm not sure what i'm doing with it yet.

I'll try and get some Pendraken stuff up there soon.

[Leon]

Cool, it's amazing what you find in these little local museums!  We take a trip to the Dorman Museum in Boro quite often, and the kids love it.

[republic of tolworth]

Great blog there 

[kustenjaeger]

A very eclectic but entertaining blog.

Regards

Edward

[Luddite]

Cheers chaps, i'm not really sure what i'm doing with it yet, but it seems so far to be firmly a 'gamer's blog' so i guess that's what it'll be - with the add dash of geek.

I'm planning to mix things up with the different games we play but also with a few other topics like game reviews, modelling/painting*, etc.

I'm thinking it might inspire me to finish off the FPW French figs, and even my Dungeon World project.

I'll also be featuring, hopefully (if i a. remember to take the dashed tintype, and b. can actually get some decent pictures with the thing) some action reports from the weekly club games night.

We'll see.

What i really don't want to do though is start 'doing things to put on my blog'.  Seems the wrong way round that...

*EDIT: ooh...put one of these up just now!  http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/dystopian-wars-into-blazing-sun_05.html

[Luddite]

The war gyro saw its first action last night!

http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/dystopian-wars-battle-of-tuo-island.html

[OldenBUA]

Nice report! And I like the paint schemes used for both fleets.

Interestingly enough, I also played a game yesterday evening. 750 points of FSA against KoB. No pictures, so it ever happened. But let's just say that it all ended in tears for my Brittania opponent, as his Avenger class fleet carrier was boarded amd captured by one of my frigates! 
A bit of luck on the dice on my part ended with his boarding attempt an utter failure, losing 5 AP in the process. My counter attack (one on one) did not fail. 

[Luddite]

Aye, exploding 6's can make great results like frigates taking down battleships eh?

Shame about the pics though.  Would've been good to see them posted over at the Spartan site...

[Luddite]

OK, a few more after action reports up.

http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/

Oddly no 10mm stuff yet, but its coming!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice work Luddite, great reports!
 

[Luddite]

The latest bash saw us dusting off the old 15mm DBM armies for a round of the new beta-test DBAv3 rules.

We decided to use them for a refight of Magnesia, with an interesting reversal of history.

http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/battle-of-magnesia-dba-v3-draft.html

I think a couple of things were key in the result:

1.  The Seleucid elephants behaved themselves this time.
2.  The Roman cavalry flank sat about until pretty much the end of the game and did nothing.
3.  The scythed chariots were successful.
4.  The Roman players kept rolling '1's'...

[Luddite]

Righto chaps, we're kicking off a new Seven Years War project with the Maurice rules.  I'll be posting up the units as they get painted.



http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/seven-years-war-with-maurice.html

[fred.]

You seem to have bought the wrong figures