My April games so far:
 - 2 x Wings of Glory WWI
 - 1 x 18th century (the aforementioned Lust for Glory at Salute)
 - 1 x WW2 IABSM game (Eastern Front 1941)
 - 1 x Frostgrave [likely to be another on the 28th]

Player hours is interesting. The two Wings of Glory (2 of us playing) were probably 3 hours in total, the 18th century (5 playing) about 3 hours actual play, the Frostgrave (4 players) about 3.5 hours, the WW2 IABSM game (3 players plus me refereeing) about 4 hours.

Edward

What Will said !

Thanks Fred, and yes, I'm way out there now with these absolutely GIANT minis

I don't mean to utter anything blasphemous here, I'm certainly a huge fan of 10mm, but it's the nostalgia; messing with 28mm figures actually *feels* like I'm a kid again playing with toy soldiers

And the Contrast paints are absolutely awesome, never could have done it without them.

V/R,
Jack

Sounds brilliant

I would paint green and wash with a brown tone rather than the other way round

I think it depends on how dark your brown is, if it's a medium or dark brown, then I think it's going to be hard to make it greenish with a wash. I'd either dry brush on a lighter brown, then a greenish wash. Or maybe paint the flesh greenish, using the brown as shadows. 

Tan I would have thought would have turned green fairly easily with a wash. 

Devizes and District Wargames Group will be running two participation games at the Army Flying Museum on Sat 24 May 2025, including 10mm Cold War Commander.  This will see a Soviet Air Asslt Bde carry out a heliborne air assault v Brit Mech BG defending a bridge over the Leine River, W Germany in 1985. We hope to be located in the main display hall near the Cold War era helicopters!

The event is being organised by Company of Makers, which supports military veterans who are struggling on civvy street, no matter how long ago they left the Armed Forces. They provide support through a series of Podcasts, Online Talks & Workshops and 'Get in the Game' Wargaming events.

Entry to the event on 24th May is free if you register beforehand, which includes free access to the Army Flying Museum for the day. Register for the event and get your free tickets on EventBrite. This booking page will be updated with details of the participating clubs, traders and organisations.

Company of Makers produced a video at the gaming event they held at the AFM last year. Also see their website (above) for more info about what they do.

It would be great if some members of this forum were able to come along to the event

QuoteI think that depends on your rules and who you are playing with. For example, in the Martian Invasion campaign I am currently running, if all the players and the Martians moved simultaneously...utter chaos.

I was meaning that all the players on a side take their turns at the same time. Whether the game is IGOUGO, random activation, unit at a time etc. Basically you are choosing which side activates at a time. 

Welcome back Jack. We'll forgive you for going too big scale wise  

Contrast paints are great! I use them for a large percentage of all that I paint now. 

Quote from: paulr on 20 April 2025, 09:05:00 PMFully agree waiting for everyone else to have there go would seriously devalue your player-hours.

Over Easter 2019 I ran three multi-player For King & Parliament refights of the Battle of Cheriton with 7-8 players per game. FK&P is a card/chit draw game but the approach we took was that each player had their own bag of chits. So, all the players on the active side were busy activating units and their opponents were busy fighting back. We did end up with a few situations where a couple of Parliamentarian players were attacking units commanded by a single Royalist player (or vice versa). The three players fairly quickly sorted out the order they wanted to activate the various units.

When I played in Simon Millar's Marlburian 5-6 person play test game of Lust for Glory at Salute we all had our own bag of chits and broadly played the player opposite which seemed to work pretty well.

I can't imagine doing a 6 person round robin without shuddering.

Edward