Not Enough or Too Much? (Table Terrain Setup)

Most games that require terrain such as Flames of War require enough to fill a 6'x4' table. Setting up the table so that it is 'fair' to both the attacker and the defender is key.

Today I offer some tips in setting up tables for Flames of War, but this can be used for any other tabletop wargame. Make do with what you have and use some of the pictures as guidelines.

Flames of War Canadian Nationals 2015

Once again Ottawa played host to the Canadian Nationals during the long weekend in September. it's the end of summer and kids are headed back to school, but it didn't stop 38 players from entering the biggest tournament that this country has to offer.

New Podcast Posted

 Irrelevant Elefant

Schedules have been crazy, but there has been a TON of stuff going on with Dice Devils and all the games we're playing! Sit back and listen to myself and Dennis talk about Flames of War, Kings of War, Canadian Nationals, painting and more! As usual, leave any comments below or anything you'd like to hear about on the show.
Use the Podcast link in the index tab or click here. You can also download and take it on the go. Enjoy.

Tanks-Giving Tournament

 
With the dust settling from Canadian Nationals here in Ottawa, there will be another event right around the corner as the summer season comes to an end. Dust off your armor and shelf your infantry.

On Saturday 10 October 2015, there will be a tournament held at Perkins Hobbies in Petawawa. The event will be 1750 points and a LW event, more info to follow and check out the poster on our events page! Please register through Gary at the store if you are in the Petawawa area or email me directly.

phantomrescue@gmail.com

In November, Petawawa Miniature Soldiers will be hosting their annual LW event as well, you can find all the info for that November event right here. Thanks to Bob McBride and Gary Perkins for all their help.
That event will use the Battlefront Limit of 1900 points and is always a good time whenever we get up there to play from Ottawa.

Won't be needing these guys for this event....

Kings of War: Napoleonic French Fusiliers Tabletop Ready

I quickly painted a regiment  for Kings of War.. I am using Kingdom of Man list so these are Arquebusiers.  They are just Perry Miniatures plastic French Line Infantry.   I will ink and detail them later, but I have only a few weeks to get colour on models before the first tournament of Kings of War.. early October!

Command models and casualty figure.. the casualty has been inked and detailed, the regular guys just basecoated.   "Good from Far, but Far from Good" :)

Another shot of the backpacks, where 90% of the detail is.... Next up Cannons.  Then I have to figure out a QUICK way to paint 25 horses ....

Vive La France! (Kings of War army.. French Napoleonics...)

Yes, so the lads locally have been getting into Kings of War.. and while I was going to paint up my dwarves, (on the civic holiday I started) I had to stop.  Why?  This would be the 3rd dwarf army I would paint.  My first was converted 40k Dwarves, aka Squats.. and the second was my Chaos Dwarves, again converted.   Just couldn't do it!!  So I gave away the models to my buddy Matt, and Rob has the other half.   Therefore I am left with nothing that is not historical.. so ofc why not do Napoleonics?  Haha.  I ordered Perry Miniatures plastics from Sentry Box in Calgary, in order to not get hosed in the atrocious Cdn Dollar right now on UK or US orders, and got my metals from the Warstore.  Both orders came in within hours of each other, and here is what I got:

I've G'ot Tha Beast In M'y Sights

The fact I have an entire new army to paint for a game I never expected to play or really have any interest in, comes as a surprise to myself. In starting to figure out how to even paint my new Dwarves is a little outside of my 'element'.

So, in looking for ideas and suggestions, it looks as though I'll be using the color scheme of one of my favorite Hearthstone cards.
Hearthstone is an online card game that is easy and fun to play, created by Blizzard Entertainment. They're responsible for Warcraft, Starcraft and of course World of Warcraft.

I plan on using blue for the trim around the armor of my Dwarf army. It's outside the norm and will look great once they are all on the table together.