Adventures with Gun, Sabre & Horse: June 2017

Friday, June 23, 2017

WW2 - 3D Printed Forest Hex Tile for Memoir '44

This was fun to see come out. I have many more to make along with hills and towns. Yes 3 tanks fit on top, barely.

WW2 - 3D Printed Sherman Firefly

Printed in 4 parts. Once this is primed the 15mm Sherman 3-Pack will be complete.

Friday, June 16, 2017

WW2 - 3D Printed 15mm Sherman Calliope

This was printed in 5 parts. I like how it came out.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

WW2 - 3D Printed 28mm Russian T-34 Tank

I am not sure how long this took to print as I went to bed and then work. I suspect 13+ hours. Anyway it came out great I think!

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Game Day; June 10th 2017

My son James came down to visit me today. We went to the theater to see "The Mummy" starring Tom Cruise. Then came home and played a game of Risk 2210, Stratego and Checkers. As I mentioned in my previous post, it has been a good day.

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War-Game Advice

"Keep your armies small....." -Bob Cordery

"..all rules should be confined to the back of a postcard." -Donald Featherstone

"..always start your campaigns small." -Donald Featherstone

"It's easy to get caught up in trying to portray every single thing on the table & that way lies madness. Pick & choose the parts that are most important." -Ivan Sorensen

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” -Gandalf, LotR, J.R.R. Tolkien

"... In war, things aren't clean like that." -Mark Hogencamp

Painting 2019

Updated: 8.18.2019

*2mm Foot: 12

*2mm Artillery: 3

*2mm Command: 2

*2mm Cavalry: 2

2mm Aeronefs: 1

2mm Landships: 1

2mm Terrain: 1

3mm Monster: 9

6mm Armor: 4

6mm Terrain: 1

6mm Robots: 1

6mm Foot: 3

1.200 Foot: 9

1.200 Armor: 3

1.200 Artillery: 1

1.200 Trucks: 1

15mm Foot: 4

15mm Armor: 1

15mm Cavalry: 1

15mm Monsters: 2

15mm Dinosaur: 1

1.72 Foot: 1

1.72 Armor: 1

1.72 Monster: 1

1.72 Spaceship: 1

1.72 Terrain: 1

25mm Foot: 24

25mm Monster: 1

25mm Terrain: 3

25mm Armor: 1

32mm Foot: 1

54mm Foot: 1

1.18 Foot: 2

1.4000 Spaceship: 1

Accessories: 22

Figure Bust: 1

Total Painted: 125

*2mm troops are listed by blocks.

SETI ON THE FLANK BY TOM MCMILLEN

The outlook wasn't hopeful for the Pharoah's troops that day - The draw had been Seleucids, so there wasn't much to say. They had elephants, and cataphracts, cheap levy and the like - And he had copper JIS, while they had steel-tipped pike. And he was stuck with chariots; the enemy could ride. Their horses all had armor and their chariots were scythed.

And Ramses eyed his generals, and hope did not run high -He had the sort of Bozos that could make a great god cry. For Amnon was a coward, and Khaneb was a fool, The former liked to cut and run, the latter liked to drool.And Ramses knew that should he win he'd have one man to thank - For Seti, mighty Seti, was hurtling 'round the flank. For Seti never missed the mark, when arrows he let fly, And always saw the battle with a falcon's steady eye. And Seti never wavered - his units knew no fear... Yes, he'd put up even money now - with Seti in their rear!

With confident precision the enemy deployed,Then sure to win, and firm of tread, set out across the void. And Ramses scanned the eastern sky for telltale wisps of dust, In hopeful expectation of the one man he could trust.

There was an ease in Seti's manner as he raised the dice on high,A cold smile crossed his features as he let the ivory fly.He barely raised an eyebrow as the score was plain to see -Then calmly shrugged, then turned away - the roll had come up three.

The army of Seleucus rolled, their plan revealed no flaws -For nothing dared to stop them, nor even give them pause. The levy and the pachyderms soon blew away the screen,Dread pikemen closed on trembling spears, with nothing in between.

A snarl curled Seti's features as he strutted to his place -His eyes flashed bright as lightning as the dice flew into space. The breathless crowd in silence stood and waited for the score - He dropped his head and stalked away, for fate had dealt a four."Smash the dice! " the maddened gallery cried, "Just smash the dice to bits!" And they would have smashed them too, had not Seti calmed their fits.

Then from ten thousand pikemen there arose a fearsome roar,As they charged in on the spearmen with each unit twelve at four. But Amnon passes his waver test - no, not once, but twice!And gibbering, slobbering Khaneb blew the spots right off the dice! And when the turn had ended, and when the dust had stilled - There was Amnon cross the river, while Khaneb held the hill!

And now the whispers silence and a stillness fills the land,As Seti grabs the fateful cube, and lofts it in his hand - And now the eyes are riveted, to watch his fist unfold - And now the table trembles with the force of Seti's roll!!!
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Oh somewhere in the Eastern world the lotus blossom blooms;And somewhere people laugh and sing, and gaily paint their tombs. And somewhere children giggle, as they skitter to and fro... But there is no joy in Egypt - mighty Seti didn't show.