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.