Garden Battle 2011!! G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T.

Last weekend we played our annual garden battle in Luc´s back yard. Words would not do justice to the hilarious chaos that was the scenario. 12 players wielding teams of Royal Navy, vampires, London gangs, zombies and Deep Ones, the Spanish Inquisition and suffragettes battled it out in Victorian London to gain their insidious and oftentimes diffuse goals.

Building up the tablewhile the rainclouds slowly receded:

London City, 1888

 Zombie Central:

 The Royal Navy

 The Royal Navy in strategic retreat while contemplating what to do with a horde of zombies and Deep Ones

 A Steam Walker of unclear affilliation

 Some recently deceased Londoners looking for a second chance

 The Steam Walker disrupting a Cthuloid ritual

 Deep Ones looking for the Royal Navy

A steam-powered Marine (or something)

 The Spanish inquisition (Cardinals Jimenez, Biggles and Feng) battling the evil minions of Dracula

 The Cray gang breaking into Cthulhu´s statue to capture the Catorlite using a scorpion robot

 Steam walker and Suffragette tank battling it out in a climactic showdown

All in all a hilarious and chaotic day with traditional last-minute good weather and enjoyment all around! Many, many thanks to Luc and Lex for organizing the whole shebang!

Holiday paint jobs

No, not the front door or anything useful, but Hasslefree´s Libby on her faithful tiger and two limited edition figures.

As promised, Libby on her tiger

The Glory or Dishonour 2011 participation figure. I got truly clobbered in most battles, but I got this miniature anyway!

And finally the "Bokkerijder"  given out at Crisis 2010. 

Libby had to wait for two years as I was a bit intimidated by the unbelievably good jobs some other people had done on her, but now I had gathered enough courage to start and I think I did not put her to shame. Since I don´t play anything Fantasy she will now spend her days in the showcase, but the two LE figures will join my Dark Age Saxons and Border Reivers respectively.

TSATF North West Frontier game

Last monday we played my first game with The Sword and The Flame since a long time. A late 19th century British column went in to "pacify" a Afghan valley and was ambushed by hordes of wiley Pathans.

The Valley floor before the battle: ominously quiet

Guides ambushed while crossing the southern pass

Imperial Infantry fighting its way through the northern pass

Mounted guides breaking through into the valley (never to be seen again...)

My Redbox Gurkhas and HaT Guides who received their baptism-of-fire in this game.

All in all it was a fun game in which the British managed to push through the northern pass but their southern column was well and truly massacred by Pathan ambushes. Eventually the British were compelled to retreat. In retrospect the Afghans were a tad too numerous and the Gurkhas should have had some enhanced combat capabilities.

A few pictures of one of the most recent wargaming infatuations ( and I can check how the picture uploading works): the American Revolution.

Blogging at last!

After some years of hesitating I finally started a blog. Time will tell whether I will be capable of maintaining it on a regular basis but still I will try.

Subjects will be my main interests like writing and wargaming, but let´s be broadly oriented and see what comes along.

In any case: welcome!