Dungeons & Lasers Swamps of Doom Terrain

For my next upcoming Frostgrave game, I needed some suitable pieces of terrain to use on the board. Some time ago I helped Kickstart another of the Dungeons & Lasers box sets.  This was for the Swamps of Doom.

Opening the box, I pulled out the sprues of Swamp plants, Walkways & Twisted Trees. The set comes with 3 sizes of the swamp plants (which are bright green plastic out of the box). I've got them all primed black & then prepped the ones I needed for speed painting.

Having gotten them painted up, a couple tips for the remaining ones, there are lots of bits of rock poking out through the grass, which when painting the fronds green I had gotten overzealous with, I had to go back & touch up the stone with white before I could use the Army Painter Ashen stone speed paint on them.

For the bit of swampy water in the middle of this piece, I used Gharragak's Sewer, then Mantis Green for the Lily Pads. After the whole piece was matt varnish sprayed, I painted on some Glossy Varnish.

For the 2 small pieces I did, I went over the vegetation with a Satin Finish Varnish. Looking at the 2, I don't really notice a difference in the vegetation.

And the figure for scale photo! Another thing I noticed, is that I can actually stack the pieces, of like kind, atop one another so that will be handy for storing them.

Then it was onto the trees, first up the stumps. Now these were matt varnished, but they sure don't look it. As its the same can as I did the swamp veg with, not sure what's going on at this point. They will need to get sprayed again!

There are 6 trees in the box & these are multi-part requiring some gluing. But they have done something clever!

The tree aligns with the stump using the larger wedge. So once they are aligned...

You have your Twisted Tree. Grrr....the shininess bugs me!

And of course, the figure for scale shot.

I still have the walkways to get prepped & painted before the game, as well as a bunch of Frostgrave Cultists I have built & primed to get work done on.

So that's it for todays post. Thanks as always for taking the time to visit.

 

Black Powder at EWG

 Last night Richard ran a game of Black Powder in 15mm. There were 4 of us playing.

Bruce & George ran the British Forces who were heading towards the Mahdist held hill.

Chen & I played the Mahdist forces. We decided I would handle the ones at the objective (as well as what was hidden behind the hill). Chen would handle all the reinforcements.

Some of Chen's Mahdist forces arrive on the flank of the British Advance.

In reaction George started trying to place his British troops in a Brigade Square.

Meanwhile on the other side of the table, Bruce finally got his British moving & encountered Mahdist troops.

It's likely a good thing I was holding the objective, as I flubbed a lot of my command rolls. The Mahdist spearmen armed troops were getting defeated on the one side & allowing the British troops there to begin moving forward again. But time had past & the game was going to end soon. Perhaps the Mahdists had delayed the British long enough...

The British Lancers finally got a great roll & dashed forward into the waiting Mahdist Rifles. The Rifles were forced to withdraw, losing the fight, which then allowed the Lancers to continue to charge into the Gatling gun.

The Gatling gun got off 2 successful firing rounds before running out of ammo. It had succeeded however in disordering the Lancers.

The battle ended with the Lancers being wiped out by Arab Cavalry & Mahdist Cavalry hitting them on the flank & rear. The British did not take the objective, however they had pretty much wiped out the Mahdist reinforcement troops, so figure it was a draw. The next morning would likely have found the remaining Mahdist forces had withdrawn to fight another day.

Thanks for running the game Richard.

Frostgrave Campaign - The Road to Felstad

 With a new year comes a new gaming campaign. I've launched a new Frostgrave Campaign at my place once a month & have 6 total players participating. For those who have followed my blog in the past, you will see that my 1st scenario is quite similar to what I launched in 2019 (yes its been that long!) Of course the scenario has been updated (I take notes after each game to see what improvements can be made should I run it again)

So for the warbands participating, we have no band names yet, but will use the players names.

Chen's gang

Craig's gang

Dan's gang

Kurt's gang

Rolland's gang

Terry's (My) gang

Also I will be generating the Comic's to showcase our mis-adventures. With 6 bands, this is making for a rather lengthy comic! 

So what happened as we crossed the mountain pass & began our journey?

Grab a drink, have a seat & enjoy!

So there are some tweaks I will be doing as we progress. For one, I will need to determine what happens to the figures who are taken out of action...did they die? Lose an eye? That will make my game description better.

I will also need to clip images prior to the comic & also work on adding some of the smaller panels for close in shots. I do find that the standard 3 panels work well as most images are taken landscape anyway.

There are some omission's from the games as the figures are quite far apart & the images just don't work. That will be taken care of once we get to Felstad & sight lines are quite reduced.

So there you have it. Feel free to comment & provide some advice on ways to improve the story side (comic book) of the campaign.

Thanks for taking the time.