Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Bloody April canvas eagles

The month of April 1917 was known as Bloody April by the Royal Flying Corps. The RFC suffered particularly severe losses — about three times as many as the Imperial German Army Air Service  during the spring offensive in support of the ground assaults. 

We played 5 games in four hours (with two coffee and one lunch brake in between) we tuned up the game mechanics a little as we played, the game was on a six by five table with four players and was normally over in 15 minutes although one did last less than three minutes. 

We had a good day out, the Germans however had the worse of it and this April ended up very bloody for them!  I was happy how the rules played, the key to convention rules is simplicity and speed so you can churn players through the game. A big thanks to Ryan, Boyd Ian and Greg For the great games

























cheers
Matt

Friday, April 6, 2012

Foederati

Roman Foederati


Painted these for our clubs latest painting competition, I will be using them as late Romans and Foederati! The miniatures are a mix of old glory and Gripping Beast and LBM transfers.

Foederati