I've Been busy painting my latest models for the Walking dead game

Rick Grimmes and his fellow survivors 

Derek and some of his fellow bruisers

A batch of walkers (zombies)

Over recent weeks when I've been able to grab an hour here and there on a evening I have been busy painting all the miniatures I currently have for Mantics walking dead game, this included the expansion pack I bought at York wargames show back in February. The models are really well sculptured and they didn't prove to much of a problem to paint, even for someone like myself who really is just starting out painting models.as I've stated in a previous post I want the look of the models to be vibrant , with bright colours, almost comic like, looking at the models once I'd finished the painting and basing I am very happy with the results, here are the latest models to be painted

                                                        Donna and Jim

                                                  Morgan and his son Duane

                                                         Dale and Allen

                                                                  Liam

                                       Walkers, the Punk and police woman

Aside from painting the miniatures for the game I have been getting stuck into some scenery I purchased from TT combats to use in my games. I purchased a Abandoned apartment block, fast food shop and a filling station. I decided to give the buildings alook of been abandoned for some time by adding scatter flock and tufts to them, I also came up with the idea of the flooring for the buildings, they are self adhesive tiles which I purchased again from the pound shop, the fast food store is black and white tiles where as the abandoned apartment block has a wood lament effect. once again I am happy with the outcome although the gluing side of completing the filling station once again proved a challenge , with me been all fingers and thumbs. I have also finished painting all the scenery from the walking dead booster pack and I have also been doing some alterations to the vehicles I have been picking up from the local pound shop to make them fit in with the surrounding scenery I will be using.

                                       The filling station and police truck

                                     The back of the filling station

                                Abandoned apartment block front

                                                          Fast food store

                                                Complete with a tiled floor

With these new painted models and scenery I had to get a game so I persuaded my dad to venture down mine and have a game. Quite what my dad thought of the game I'm not to sure but he seemed like he had abit of fun, he managed to get Rick bitten but still survived the game and shoot down one of my gang members with his very first shot. Despite by my dads own admission that he didn't have a clue what he was doing he still managed to scavenge the most supplies before the threat level was maxed and win the game, which doesn't say much for my game playing does it 😄

Rick and Jim making a move for the supplies

Derek and Patrick attract the attention of the walkers 

Rick heads for the cover of the filling station as the walkers start to amass around him.

A fun ECW Baroque game

Last week we managed to grab a game fighting a 15mm ECW battle using the Baroque rule set, which I have already stated in previous blog posts I find to be a excellent set of rules. This time out I took command of the Royalists led by Ruppert and my dad took the role of the parliamentary army led by Mr Cromwell. Our deployments when revealed showed our armies pretty much deployed like for like, my main cavalry body led by Ruppert himself faced off against Oliver Cromwells Ironsides, this in itself should be a tasty clash of cavalry. 

In the centre I had deployed the better of my infantry commands which included the tough Cornish unit and had given these men the task of smashing the parliament centre, my plans suffered early set back as the Cornish unit took a right battering from some seriously impressive musket fire, this really did knock the stuffing out my main fighting unit.

My dad had grabbed the inititive and grabbed the high ground with his infantry command, my command facing this was made up up of mostly raw troops so I decided against a full on frontal attack and engaged in some musketry fire, the hope was that ruperts cavalry command would beat the Ironsides and turn the parliament flank

I was heavily outnumbered by the parliament cavalry on my left flank so I opted to hold the hill just to cover my centre as they engaged the Parliment infantry, fortunately for me my dad had some difficulty redeploying these cavalry due the the hedgerows and couldn't get them involved until later in the game, however his Dragoons proved a real pain as they advanced in front of my cavalry and peppered them with musket fire, my cavalry had little choice but to stand and take it.

Both our centre lines advanced towards each other and engaged in a fire fight for a few rounds, both sides were taking casualties but I was getting the better of this fire fight.

Ruppert and his cavalry made short work of the Ironsides as my dad once again failed spectacularly with his dice rolling when using a cavalry command (becoming a common theme). With Cromwells command broken Rupert now turned his attention to the infantry command on the hill, however a couple of units of his cavalry had got themselves a little impetus in the face of the Parliamentary cavalry routing and had pursued them so they were now out of command and to far away to influence the game any further. 

Back in the centre the Roundhead lines started to thin as a unit of pike and musket broke, in return my Dragoons were routed from the ruined church area

I pushed my infantry command foward in the centre as I could now see the parliamentary cavalry on my left flank starting to get into a position to turn my flank,  one last shot from my muskets caused enough disorder for my pike to charge into the shaken ranks of the Parliment pike.

The combat lasted for a few rounds as a role of destiny from my dad saved the day, however the parliment centre was been pushed further back

The last of the Ironsides cavalry was swept away as Rupert himself led the charge ( Cromwell joined intothe fray to, and if memory serves me correctly He might have been killed in this melee). Ruperts cavalry over ran and were now completely threatening the Parliment infantry.

The Parliment resistance finally give in the centre as my pike now turned the flank on the Parliment centre. My dads second cavalry command had finally got into action and quickly they broke my cavalry command which had been holding my flank under the constant fire from the Dragoons.

I pushed my infantry command foward to attack the hill now that Ruppert had his cavalry in position to charge the Parliment pike in both the rear and the flank, however the Parliment pike were veteran troops and were refusing to give any ground despite the danger they faced.

The game at this stage had reached its time limit just as my dads Roundheads were on the verge of collapse. I was not quite able to completely rout the Parliment army but we were both in agreement that I was winning the game and was awarded a minor victory. The big turning point of the game had been the ease with which Ruperts command had bettered Cromwells Ironsides and this definetly had swung the game into my favour. Great game again and once again the rules made for a fun satisfying afternoon of gaming 😄