Spodilicious split-up

As a way of getting round the twenty page limit in Blogger I've split the content of Spodilicious up. The Barberton City rage virus stuff, which seems to get the most views, will remain at http://spodilicious.blogspot.co.uk/ . The historical and quasi-historical stuff is now at http://spodilicious2.blogspot.co.uk/ . And the rest, chiefly Song of Blades and MDRG, is at http://spodilicious3.blogspot.co.uk/ . There are links to the other Spodiliciouses in the page list to the right. This will remain the place where news will be posted and links given to the new posts.

The twenty page limit

My original plan to have a large number of pages, each on a separate game or series of games, has been sunk by the discovery that Blogger only allows twenty 'static' pages.  The interim solution is to reorganise the existing pages a bit to allow for further expansion.  After that I will have to have a think about what to do.  One quite rubbish way of getting round it is to have a series of blogs - for example  http://spodilicious2.blogspot.co.uk/ and http://spodilicious3.blogspot.co.uk/

Sometime I could fully reorganise the three blogs to have, say, one for DBA, one for the Barberton City rager outbreak, and one for the other stuff.

SoBaH update

I've added a few pictures of the warbands for SoBaH and will surely have a match report from the campaign to post soon.

Song of Blades update

Having resolved the basing dilemma, much to everyone's relief I am sure, I've posted up pictures of the first SoBaH 25mm warbands. They're a mix of painted by me, painted by Easy Painter and painted by someone off Ebay.

Recent Rage Virus game

I've posted details of the most recent ragers game. It was played in an hour which Mr C- H- had spare and was a straight version of the 'zombie hunters' scenario from the Fear & Faith rules. It was intended to be a simple, quick, one-off game set during the early stages of the outbreak but unrelated to any of the other Barberton City games.

Set-up was pretty basic: a squad of well-armed SWAT people is trying to clear an area of ragers.  As the hope was that the SWAT team would appear in later games as deus ex machina reinforcements for struggling players they got names from the very useful name generator at: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/gen-random-us-us.php

It didn't quite turn out as planned, as you'll see from the match report which has been added as Part 4 of the continuing picaresque Barberton City campaign.

Song of Blades & Heroes basing quandary

As you'll see from the preliminary picture http://spodilicious.blogspot.co.uk/p/song-of-blades-and-heroes_17.html I had based these on 2p coins. These were a perfect size and within a millimetre or two of the size of a standard slottabase. However having finished them I then thought about storage. As this is a new project storage should have been considered as part of the whole plan, but wasn't. About the same time I saw an article about sticking powerful magnets inside slottabases and storing the figures in metal containers and that seemed ideal. I am not a big fan of the slottabase, as no matter how well you base the figure the edge looks obtrusive and the the figure appears to be going about on a thick pedestal. However if this solves the storage problem I can put up with that. I know they're only figures anyway.
So the finished Warrior Miniatures figures had to come off the 2p coins. I soon discovered that a metal figure fixed to a coin with two part epoxy and the cast-on base then blended to the coin with Milliput is not easy to shift.  The only solution was to use wirecutters (as used to snip things off sprues) to cut through the layers of flock, PVA and Milliput to the coin then using a not-too-sharp knife carve away the Milliput until the figure's cast on base could be seen. The point of the knife could then be gradually eased under the base and the figure levered off. It was a long laborious process. One or two figures had sore legs from slips of the knife, and I had a few sore fingers too. They are now stuck on slottabases and a supply of 10mm by 2mm magnets is on the way. Those are the maximum diameter that can fit inside the slottabase between the edge and the lip of the slot and should be thin enough to not stick out below the base. I think the magnets are about 25p apiece but as a figure is a pound or over and for those I'm getting painted by someone else the painting adds another two or three quid the price of the magnet is worth paying. So long as the storage problem is solved . . .

Zombies / Rage Virus change

It has been pointed out to me that the infected in the pages hitherto titled as 'Zombies . . .' are actually ragers. So I have retitled all the pages accordingly. Oh yes. And I've posted a report on part 3 of the ongoing series of zombie rager games.

Song of Blades and Heroes

I've been playing this since it first came out, mostly using 15mm figures from the early 1980s which had originally been used in a long-running RPG campaign. (The records for this are unfortunately lost.) However as I can barely see 15mm figures any more I have decided to re-start from scratch. Using only the basic rules and in 25/28mm I'm starting to build up warbands again and will post the details on the appropriate page.

New DBA report

I've added a match report for a thirty-six element DBA game - an eleventh century battle between pre-feudal Scots and Anglo-Danes.

DBA Mongols versus Il-khanids

Finally finished off the report for day two of the DBA Mongols versus Il-khanids game. If you've read day one it's much the same but with added artillery and worse pictures.

Addition to LOTR page.

A battle report has been added to the LOTR page - a fight between some hobbits defending their village and some of Sharkey's men keen to pillage it.

Update to MDRG pages

I've added a new page to the Mutants and Death Ray Guns section to show the cast of the continuing, although extremely slow-moving, adventure.

Who is looking at this?

I've just been looking at the stats and was astonished to see that it is not only me who is looking at Spodilicious.  The figures are:

United Kingdom 481
United States 41
Poland  23
Russia  15
Indonesia  9
Brazil  8
Germany  8
Turkey  5
Sri Lanka  3
Mexico  3

I expect these views are almost all accidental - you were searching for something else - but if not I hope you are enjoying looking at Spodilicious as much as I am enjoying writing it.

New DBA & zombies posts

I've added a couple more match reports and added a page to the zombies section. Each new session of this will now be a new part or chapter.

Page layout update

I've broken the DBA page into several sub-pages for the various games that've taken place. I'll put pictures & battle reports up here in the next few days. Also, I have recieved a picture of some more Ottomans that are being painted for me by http://www.ezpainter.co.uk/index.html and I am very excite. I will post them in the next while too.

Barberton City outbreak

I've added the details of the Barberton City campaign to the Zombies page.  It uses Ganesha's Fear & Faith rules and the fantastic Mythic GM Emulator.

http://www.mythic.wordpr.com/page14/page9/page9.html

Now that I think of it, I should post here to show when a page has been updated. I've added a snippet onto the MDRG page, and will be adding a game report shortly.

Home.

I won't be adding much if anything on the Home page, so see period-specific pages as shown on the right for actual content.