Napoleonic Russians against Turks game report

There's a report of a couple of Napoleonic games - Russians versus Turks - played in a single session  with Song of Drums & Shakos at:

http://spodilicious2.blogspot.co.uk/p/napoleonic-song-of-drums-shakos_5448.html

The report was kindly supplied by Mr. D- W-.

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 . . .