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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

The yellow stuff belongs to the Germans. Not me. Don't remember what it was called.

The models on the right of the 4th photo are the 6pdrs.



 
   
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Another victory - nice!

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Great stuff! It's good to hear about you getting in some games and better yet - doing well in a campaign. Your shot look really nice. I always like the look of FoW games/15mm WW2 in action. Less detailed but more scope than Bolt Action/28mm. Keep up on the FoW updates!

   
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Yeah I really like the 15mm scale. Tanks and vehicles don't work with more than one or two on a table for my liking at 28mm and they are expensive as hell.

I dont have everything I need for my list yet so you can see at the top of the first two photos I have a black base with white tape representing a ram kangaroo.



 
   
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Looked like a squeaker of a win! so many burn markers.

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"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!



 
   
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

It was very close. Without the other guy losing a morale check after having half his army die not sure i would have made it much further.



 
   
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 carlos13th wrote:
It was very close. Without the other guy losing a morale check after having half his army die not sure i would have made it much further.


Yeah Germans with an unbroken spirit would fight to the last man, Loss would be outcome, but breaking their spirit was a lucky break! Awesome!

"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!



 
   
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Yeah Germans have a speical rule where pretty much any solider is able to become the new platoon command if they die. Which seems to help them with morale and removed the use of taking out the leader.



 
   
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Not much painting progress latley. Been busy actually playing for a change. Flames of War and Star Wars Edge of the Empire have been a lot of fun.

I wanted to share what I received in the mail today though.

Disappointed that the tins with token and dice sets for flames of war have been discontinued I decided to see if I could do my own version. Since getting a British set is difficult without spending an arm and a leg and a welsh set was never made.

Here is an example of the official now discontinued sets.



Sadly I don't have the cash to pick up custom dice and the tin I ordered was too small to hold both my dice and my tokens but anyway here is what I ended up with and is now my flames of war gaming kit.

The dice are from Chessex. The Tokens are custom from Warbases and the tin is a tobacco tin from ebay. Its not as fancy as the custom ones but I like it, they all fit well together and its nice to have stuff clearly themed to my army. Might get on the case of some custom dice in the future though.







My version isn't quite as nice cohesive or professional but I am happy with the result.

I have seen people rub crayon into laser cut grooves on acrylic to make it stand out more. Might try that on some of these, see how it works.


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The tokens look cool!

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If you do crayon... be SURE of the color you're going to use before you start, it is a *bear* to get the crayon back out. I think white and black work the best, I was gonna use red on an x-wing token and immediately regretted my sample area even.

But crayon really does make them pop.

Cool tin, too bad it doesn't fit the dice too, but then again it's a chessex brick so pretty convenient on it's own.

I also must say... you Welsh have an outstanding flag. feth basically everybody else, you have a dragon

 
   
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Yeah the Welsh dragon is much better tahn any number of stripes.



 
   
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I'd certainly take a dragon flag any day of the week!

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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Havent painted or played any games recently. Went back home for a week to visit the folks and have been pretty busy.

Good news is my Steel Fist kickstarter just arrived and the quality of the sculpts is awesome as ever.

Quick question to those of you who are reading. Have you ever played Bushido? Very tempted to get into it as its popular at the local club and they now have tengu.



 
   
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Grats on your package arrival

 
   
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I got my package as well, but one set of banner bearers are missing their heads. They are, as you say, very nice minis.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Yeah my order wasn't perfect either was missing some spear guys but Oliver at steel fist has been pretty great at correcting mistaken orders in the past so i am not worried at all.

I added some non kickstarter stuff to my order too so I ended up Ishida both mounted and on foot, Honda both mounted and on foot, Ieysu and the models that come with the on foot versions of each of those.



 
   
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Yeah, he seemed pretty apologetic in his message. I ordered a pack of teppo ashigaru so he wouldn't have to eat the cost of postage.

I got the two charging samurai packs (to make a troop of hashimoto for KoW), Ishida and Ii. All the models are nice enough that I'll be taking my time painting them instead of cranking them out like I do most of my other minis.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

I have both the charging samurai packs already so didn't add them this time.

Based on what I have read of the man historically Ishida would not have been my first choice but the model looked so good I had to order it.

Looking forward to building a nice Tokugawa buntai with the models I have.




 
   
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You guys may have written it already, but I just noticed wargamesfactory.com have their samurai stuff on sale at 49% off right now

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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

For a short period of time Northstar were selling the Samurai and the ranged ashigaru box for a fiver a box. While a great deal I don't like them enough to want any more. Good way to cheaply make a samurai army if you like them yourself though.



 
   
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Yeah, I have such a huge backlog of ashigaru and samurai already that even at 5GBP a box, I can't justify getting any more.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Glad I am not the only one Josh.

Personally atm I would choose a single pack of perries over an entire box of WGF stuff.



 
   
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North Star Games have been selling them off recently, but yeah, I couldn't justify getting them either. And about your last post, carlos.... yeah, I'm inclined to agree. Let's see how this whole Warlord Games distribution deal turns out. There'll be a price hike, that's for sure, but I just hope that they don't kill off the WGF brand and that they don't get rid of too many boxes.

   
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Didn't realize there was a Warlord and WGF deal going on. I like what WGF is doing in general and I am glad that someone is making plastic samurai even if I feel they are sub par its better to have a not perfect option than none at all.

In other news played a demo game of Bushido the tonight and enjoyed it a great deal. Will be picking up a tengu force and joining in with the store campaign.



 
   
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Hey guys. Just to let you know I am not dead. Just so busy with the new job I have hardly any painting time. I am working on some bushido stuff at the moment though as their is a campaign going on. Gonna try to make some time this weekend as well to get some painting done.



 
   
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Still alive? Curses! I now owe some money...



Get your work-legs back (there's such a thing, right? like sea-legs?) and then hop back up on the horse once you get your routine down.

 
   
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 carlos13th wrote:
Hey guys. Just to let you know I am not dead. Just so busy with the new job I have hardly any painting time. I am working on some bushido stuff at the moment though as their is a campaign going on. Gonna try to make some time this weekend as well to get some painting done.


I shall look forward to it.

   
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Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Thanks guys. Hope I can have something to show soon.



 
   
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No worries mate - I know that feeling all too well unfortunately. We'll still be here when you're feeling up to it again (and have more time!)

   
 
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