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Lovely blue there and I really like the tone of those tan trousers.

Very nice Sigur.

Great work on the terrain (I too would have to do something to change the MDF look), and the Orksess... and the other things too.

@sockwithaticket: Thanks very much! I'm a complete sucker for a deep shiny blue.

@Gitsplitta: Thanks!

@Dr H: Cheers, thanks for dropping by and commenz0ring!


Right, finished the test mini, took a photo, sent it off!



Hope you like it, especially hope the client likes it!


edit: The colour scheme has been green-lit, time to paint the rest of the PanO team.

I think it's awesome Sigur! Fantastic looking terrain too!

@Gitsplitta: Thanks!

A WIP shot of the whole team:



Hope you like them so far!

..and a WIP shot of the Yu Jing team:



Hope you like them so far! First time I'm painting Yu Jing, believe it or not.

Man, very nicely done! Figures and terrain both-

@Meer_Cat: Thanks very much!


Right, now for something different for a bit. Yesterday I had my first game in our Longstreet Campaign!

Here's Col.Herbert P.Soup's Brigade. Before deploying to the front lines a pastor preaches sermon and reads from The Good Book.



Then it's off to the front. First we drew Biography Cards for our brigade commanders. These depict character traits of our commanders in the shape of special rules. Virago and I each drew three such cards and were free to discard one and keep the other two.

Virago, in this campaign to take the role of Union Col. Hiram O'Goedel, chose the following:


O'Goedel plays the long game. From 1863 on things would get very interesting indeed.


Whereas I, in my role of Confederate Col. Herbert P.Soup, chose these:


I chose a personal physician (never a bad thing), and for Col.Soup to be a veteran of the Mexican War, giving an option for additional dice in close combat (along with the danger of getting wounded, but that's what a physician is for).


The campaign itself is rather simple. We play the full length of the way. One game for 1861, two games for 1862, three in 1863, two in 1864, and one final game in 1865. The winner isn't necessarily determined by winning games, but by building legacy. A brigade (which is the force each of us commands) won't change the course of the war. It's about accumulating Epic Points (EP). These are gained from:

.) Participating in a battle
.) Winning a battle
.) Achieving Mission Objectives during a battle
.) Grand bayonet charges or repelling bayonet charges without taking any causalties
.) Spezial scenario specific situations
.) EP may also be granted via special situations if both players agree on it.


The first scenario:


The middle of the table is full of high-standing crops which reduce sight and firing effectiveness to just a few inches. After terrain setup and deploying the figures the table looked as such:




...and here with a ton of explanatory text:




Col.Hiram O'Goedel's Union Brigade (defenders):
69th New York Infantry (10 Bases, Eager Recruits)
39th New York Infantry, the Garibaldi Guard (10 Bases, Eager Recruits)
63th New York Infantry (10 Bases, Eager Recruits)
7th Pennsilvania Cavalry (8 Bases, Eager Recruits)
Battery G, 3rd New York Light Artillery (2x 6pdr Smoothbore Guns, 1x Howitzer)


Col.Herbert P.Soup's Confederate Brigade (attackers):
9th Louisiana Infantry / 1st Louisiana Special Battalion "Tiger Zouaves" (10 Bases, Eager Recruits)
3rd Louisiana Infantry (10 Bases, Eager Recruits)
8th Louisiana Infantry (10 Bases, Eager Recruits)
2nd Louisiana Cavalry, "Partisan Rangers" (8 Bases, Eager Recruits)
Moody's Company, Madison Light Artillery (2x 6pdr Smoothbore Guns, 1x Howitzer)

Each side has an objective in their deployment zone as well. Controlling those by the end of the game grants extra Epic Points.

My rebels deployed in marching column, the artillery was limbered.



The union brigade was deployed in line and with guns deployed:



Garibaldi Guard in their snazzy uniforms


Below you will find an overview of what happened during the first few phases of the game: Union cavalry, screened by infantry to their side, advances swiftly at my right flank and threatens my artillery. At the centre the Garibaldi Guard advances steadily to meet the 3rd Louisiana infantry. My cavalry stays at the left flank while 8th Louisiana turns face and marches towards the centre.








As a result 3rd Louisiana charges Garibaldi Guard who under light losses fall back. After this the Louisiana boys sit right in front of the Garibaldi Guard infantry and Union artillery.



At my left flank Union soldiers (mostly Irish actually) advance in a wide line. My Cavalry can do little to stop them, so they slowly give way. At my right flank my Tiger Zouaves fanned out i line to cover the limbered artillery from the Union cavalry. 8th Louisiana hangs back for reserve.

The Zouaves start an attack against the 63th New York to stop their advance. At the other flank my cavalry charges the Union regiment to their front head on. This generally never is a good idea, but it's 1861, we're rebels / Southern Chivalry, Eager Recruits and I had a slightly helpful card to play. Of course I forgot about making use of my Mexican War Veteran trait which would have given me extra dice to roll. Shame. Either way, the whole operation didn't go too well. The Tiger Zouaves did minimal damage and the cavalry even had to take losses and retreat.

In the mean time 3rd Louisiana is still stuck at the centre and tied up by fire, starting to take losses.


Now the Union mount a counter attack.


Infantry and cavalry attack my Zouaves at once. I had gambled away a potentially very helpful card at that point. On top of that the dice rolled very well for my opponent. Green dice are my successes, red and white are successes of the Union player. Ouch. The Tigers were completely broken.

At this point orderly retreat became a viable option. Not possible though, as the 3rd Louisiana was still stuck in their predicament. The game went on a tiny bit longer until my brigade reached the break point and the game ended.



Campaign Phase


In the end both of us had gained 5 Epic Points. We immediately did the post-game campaign stuff. From experience we know that if we don't do it immediately after the game it will never happen. We started with the most important thing - promotions. Longstreet makes use of an abstract ranking system for brigade commanders (1, 2 and 3 Eagles). Those can be equalled to historical ranks or not. As both of us started as Colonels and got our promotions both our characters now are Brigadier Generals (= 2 Eagles rank).

Then we went on to recovering wounded and fled troops. The Tiger Zouaves of course had taken bad, bad casualties, the rest was kinda OK. But then Cholera and camp fever struck the rebels. This cost me quite a lot of bases. Those additional losses were lighter on the Union side. The Elan rating of my Zouaves and the 3rd Louisiana got reduced from Eager to Seasoned. On the Union's side all troops stayed Eager.



The next step was drawing campaign event cards and replacements. The union brigade regained a few bases lost to cholera. On top of that raiding cavalry had gotten my brigade's marching orders in hands, which would be of help to my opponent for the next game. I got a few nice cards, allowing me to advance the 3rd Louisiana to Veterans and from the next game on the veteran 14th Louisiana (also known as the "Polish Brigade" of New Orleans) would be part of my brigade.



The 5th New York Infantry would joint my opponent's brigade from the next game on. Apart from that us both got the Sabotage card, which would also come into play at the start of our next game.


Post-Game Musings

Well, this didn't go that well. I don't play Longstreet often enough. Must be that, right? No, of course I made mistakes. At one point I made a bad decision, and the Union counter attack was pretty ghastly. Never mind, now I got veterans on my side and there's always another battle (well, for most). Apart from that I got that promotion and that's what it's all about, right?


For our next game the brigades look as such:

Brig.Gen. Hiram O'Goedel's Union Brigade:
69th New York Infantry (8 Bases, Eager Recruits)
39th New York Infantry, the Garibaldi Guard (8 Bases, Eager Recruits)
63th New York Infantry (8 Bases, Eager Recruits)
5th New York Infantry (6 Bases, Eager Recruits)
7th Pennsilvania Cavalry (8 Bases, Eager Recruits)
Battery G, 3rd New York Light Artillery (2x 6pdr Smoothbore Guns, 1x Howitzer)

Total: 41 Bases


Brig.Gen. Herbert P.Soup's Confederate Brigade:
9th Louisiana Infantry / 1st Louisiana Special Battalion "Tiger Zouaves" (6 Bases, Seasoned Recruits)
3rd Louisiana Infantry (7 Bases, Seasoned Veterans)
8th Louisiana Infantry (6 Bases, Eager Recruits)
14th Louisiana Infantry, "Polish Brigade" (6 Bases, Seasoned Veterans)
2nd Louisiana Cavalry, "Partisan Rangers" (4 Bases, Eager Recruits)
Moody's Company, Madison Light Artillery (2x 6pdr Smoothbore Guns, 1x Howitzer)

Total: 32 Bases


Well, let's see how that'll go. Longstreet is a solid, solid set of rules and the campaigh rules included are real good fun. Hope you liked this first campaign report!

Holy Gak, this is an amazing thread. Everything is so bloody well painted and photographed. I love it all, from SDE and GB to Infinity and historical .. and especially that latest ACW stuff, minis, terrain, AAR ... the lot. Fantastic stuff!

Oh, and I particularly like the Blue & Tan palette for the PO minis (are they PO? ...)

Wonderful battle report Sigur and the armies and field are astounding! Thanks for posting. Definitely looking forward to the next one.

@War Drone: Thanks very much for diving through the whole thing and for leaving a kind comment!

@Gitsplitta: Thanks, Sir!


Right, back to Infinity. Here's a WIp shot of the Haqqislam figures:



These are just the regular sized ones; there's a big guy yet to come as well!

Sigur,

Great Infinity and a really fantastic battle report.

Cheers,

CB

@Captain Brown: Thanks, Sir. Always appreciated.


Last WIP of the Haqqislam minis. Added the big Al Fasid and some odd lighting.

Beautiful!

@Gitsplitta: Thanks!


In the mean time I got some Malifaux on the table again!



It's pretty much the plastic version of the first Malifaux figures I painted back in 2013. Not sure which I prefer. Of course these here still are WIP; the blue pops weirdly in those cellphone pictures. In real life it's more subdued and jeans-like.

Hej, here's another WIP with a bit more work done and some better quality shot:




They're all mostly done now except for Francisco. Unfortunately his hat is gone. Does anyone of you have experiences with how Wyrd are about ordering replacements? Unfortunately they only do plastics these days. Do they still offer replacement parts?

Right, Infinity minis are done now.










Hope you like them!


..and now I have to go varnish them.

Stunning work as usual Sigur. Blue guys are my favorites.

@Gitsplitta: THanks very much.


Look, I painted some Japanese scatter terrain:


A hand wash station, two gravestones, an outhouse, an official notice board, a bunch of containers with produce including a travel box and a little cooking station and a rack with shrine offerings of Sake.

All from Oshiro Model Terrain. Highly recommended.

Agreed, my favorite scatter terrain supplier. Great job on the painting Sigur. I don't believe you got kanji on that sign... how did you do it?

@Gitsplitta: Cheers. Review of the Oshiro items is coming up in August. The kanji on the sign... well... it's not entirely correct or actual kanji signs. After having done the lettering on the gravestones and the sake offerings I guess I got the hang of what it should look like. The leftmost column on the sign probably has the most proper letters/signs and the lower and right it gets it gets more and more free interpretation and "getting it to look right" rather than being right.

Right-o.

Two things: As you may have noticed, I had taken a few days off after the Malifaux and Infinity minis in which I painted all the Japanese scatter terrain (and not all that much else I have to admit. Painting had gotten a chore and I noticed why: my glasses are subtly knackered and this made painting really exhausting and hard on my eyes. Glasses will be fixed next week I hope) and some more scatter terrain:



More western-stylee scatter terrain for medieval/fantasy settings. Probable more the latter, due to the presence of extremely well-grown fruit and veggies from the new world. It's all by Tabletop World, makers of pretty lumps of resin. Highly recommended indeed.



The past two months I've also been working on a slightly out of the ordinary side project resulting in these:











These aren't commission jobs, but a bday present for my brother. The "Blue Bomber" (ehem) is a third party controller I'd only gotten to test the techniques I wanted to apply to the proper present one. Took me ages, it was a voyage with many ups and downs. Once I finally called it done I got out the original Nintendo GC controller to make it the proper Ninja Gaiden themed "production model". :p My brother's hugely into Smash Brothers and pines for Ryu Hayabusa to be added to the roster at some point. (btw: If you hold any power over the deeds of Nintendo, please make that a thing. That would be swell. ). Hence the theme. Learned a lot about GC controllers over the past 8 weeks, I have to say.

Gave the controllers to him on Thursday (the blue one more for show rather than for play), he was highly pleased.

But that's all past now and yesterday I started doing proper (but unglamorous things) again: administrative stuff, preparing new models for painting, priming stuff, varnishing the Infinity minis, etc. In the mean time I left the scatter terrain you've seen above on the table over night. It's generally not a good idea to leave fresh fruit and vegetable lying out over night in July. When I turned on the desk light today I found the table crawling with these:



A huge swarm of chaos cultists, nibbling at the half-painted plums and cheese. I'll try to shoo them off now by basing and priming them. Wish me luck.

Wonderful paintjobs on those infinity miniatures and your controllers are looking great, too!

Nice work on all the terrain-y bits.

Good job on the controllers too. You must have varnished the out of them to keep them usable without wear.

@LordMcAllister: Besten Dank!

@Dr H: Cheers, Sir! Yus, a ton of layers on the blue one, fewer on he Ninja Gaiden one. Hoping they'll hold up. :p

Awesome . Great to get caught up.

Sigur's blog.. Auesome great painting and a history lesson rolled all in .

@Solar_lion: Thanks very much indeed. Hope I'm the cool history teacher who's down with the homies and has all the hip music tapes. :p

Right, how's everybody enjoying their weekend? Watching the footballs and stuff?

Here's a WIP shot of the new Nurgle bosses:


Hope you like them so far! The shot may be a bit odd, because I think my flash just died. Which sucks. Maybe it gets better again. Anybody here good with plug-on camera flashes?

I think they're very appropriate Sigur. Nice.

Great scatter terrain.

Cheers,

CB

@Gitsplitta: Thanks, that's a very diplomatic comment.

@Captain Brown: Cheers, much appreciated!

Heyhey, here we got shots of the test minis for the Chaos cultists:





The only orders I had for these was "not necessarily the same colour scheme as on the Nurgle dudes, but make the basing the same". So I basically was free to act as I wanted. Which threw me a little to be honest. In the end I went off of the 3rd edition chaos cultists studio paintjob and went on from there. Hope you like them!