Soviets vs Nazis

Still working away on my late war Germans vs Russians game using the one page rule set FUBAR.  I think I'm set as far as miniatures are concerned, but I did just start assembling Warlord's plastic Soviet Infantry (Winter) set.  Mainly though that's looking ahead to possibly running the game at a convention.  What I plan for Heagercon (my personal gaming convention) will be relatively small.

The main thing I'm working on now for this game are various playing aids, mainly tokens and roster sheets.  I'm producing these using Google Docs.  At first I was getting frustrated by the perceived lack of functionality in Google Draw, though I started to think outside the box and am now somewhat pleased by the results so far.

To make the tokens I'm using this stuff that's for jewelry making (I think).  There are several videos on Youtube showing how to make tokens for wargames.  This is the one I followed:  Tokens.  I'm not too happy with the image quality of the ones I made, but I don't want to get too bogged down with just this one aspect.  Once I have them complete I'll post some pictures.

One small setback I suffered was due to my middle child's best friend.  I have the game set up on my small table in my basement.  The terrain tiles are 2'X2' drywall pieces that I applied textured paint to before painting black and drybrushing gray.  On top of that I have a bunch of ruins that I made out of foam and cork, and a building from Crescent Root.  Anyway, the drywall tiles hang over my table, and the kids were playing with their plastic bowling set, which of course they set up right by my table.  My kid's friend, even after being admonished to be careful, stooped down to pick up the bowling pins that were kinda under the table, and when he stood up he hit the corner of one of the tiles and knocked everything every which way.  I still don't have it set back up, still seething.

But, I will soldier on.

Stalin

My Warlord T-34s and the terrain I've been working on.

More Fall of the Reich

28mm Artizan Soviets underway.

Actually they're done, this is an old photo.

Fall of the Reich

Working on a skirmish level game set in Winter of 1944/45, somewhere in Germany.

So far I've got 40 Germans completed (and one Panther as you can see) and just about finished 23 Russians.

Fairly prolific for me, since I started this in late November 2016.

Really pleased with the baking soda/Elmer's Glue snow on the Germans.  For some reason I don't want to put snow on my Russian's bases.

Heagercon 2017?

For a couple of years I had considered moving Heagercon (basically my annual gaming party) into January in order to get out of the way of Xmas.  So this year I scheduled it over MLK Day weekend.  While that weekend wound up being the worst winter weather of the year (which isn't saying much) overall it was way better having it in January.

Sadly there was no miniatures game since my MD friends couldn't make the trip due to the weather, but it was still a good turnout and having the following Monday off was awesome.

On the right you have the star of our show, Marshall Wilson, and next to him my handsome brother-in-law, Albert.  The two were the main providers of all the eats, pictured below.

As for the games, played some old favorites like Long Shot, new stuff like New (Ha!) Angeles, but game of the con would have to be Spyfall.

Played Cuba Libre  Went over okay I think.  Hadn't played in awhile, had to teach three new players, but they seemed to enjoy it.

A game that's maybe more confusing than it's worth.

 This game looks like fun.  Wonder where I can buy it...

Finally got to play New Angeles.  Loved it!

Ron sorted his X-Wing minis like a BOSS!



Anyway, hope to see you all next year.