SAGA Skirmish: Gripping Beast Vikings vs Saxons!

Had a chance to finally squeeze in some action with an introduction game of SAGA to some new converts. Using Gripping Beast Plastic Viking Hirdmen and Saxon Thegn boxed sets to build the forces, we once again, put them to the test. Here at the opening gambit, the viking line surges forward from the left to attack the Anglo-Saxon defenders.

The Saxons in a bold move rushed the Viking Ulfhednar and wiped the berserkers out. In turn their warriors were cut down by the Viking Warlord and his warriors.

After some crushing skirmishes, the Anglo-Saxons retreat. The Viking Warlord sends his warriors in to attack the opposing Warlord and his last two remaining Hearthguard who are defending from behind a stonewall.

Refusing to be defeated the Anglo-Saxon Warlord stands defiant! The Viking warlord joins his warriors in the attack!

The viking warriors jump the wall and attack and slay the last remaining Saxon Hearthguard....

leaving the Saxon Warlord to be surrounded and slain.

A great night of introducing SAGA to new players who in turn brought additional recruits to the miniature wargaming hobby!

Have a Great Battle!
The Old Crow

Tau XV95 Ghostkeel Battlesuit New Release from Games Workshop for Warhammer 40k

The Tau XV95 Ghostkeel Battlesuit is a formidable display of Tau war technology and is available for Pre-order from Games Workshop.

Place your order now at a cool 75.00 USD, and the product will ship to you on Oct 17, 2015

This huge, deadly and nigh-undetectable weapon of impressive killing capacity, is a formidable display of Tau war technology. Piloted by a single, hand-picked Tau warrior, a lone Ghostkeel Battlesuit is capable of appearing from seemingly nowhere, unleashing a storm of incredible firepower with its fusion collider and disappearing into the mayhem and confusion of battle.

This battlesuit bristles with a vast array of advanced countermeasures, making it invisible to enemy sensors - weapons simply refuse to lock-on and the few that manage to loose off a shot are baffled by a spectacular display of flares and electronic countermeasures.

This multi-part plastic kit gives you everything needed to build one XV95 Ghostkeel Battlesuit.

This miniature has a truly awesome array of modelling and posing options - arms, legs, head, engines and thrusters can all be set to different poses, and there are two different heads supplied.

The head can be raised and the chest opened to reveal a male or female pilot!

As well as this, you’ll receive two burst cannons, two fusion blasters, two flamers, a fusion collider, a cyclic ion raker and two XV5 stealth drone field projectors.

Offensively and defensively, this battlesuit is armed to the teeth!

You'll get these three sprues with 116 components in total, along with a Citadel 105mm Oval base.

For the Empire!!!

Have A Great Battle,
The Old Crow

The Last Place You Will Ever Stop for Gas!

That crazy time of year when zombie games lurch to the foreground. The Haunted Garage is a well made paper model kit from Reviresco tin-soldier.com

Great for any Zombie, Post-Apocalyptic or Pulp Action tabletop game. The paper kit from Reviresco measures 10.5 L x 8 W x 6 H inches and is 1:64 scale. It includes: building, service island, vintage signs, two gas pumps, oil rack and cans, six drums, and Coke machine.

You can get a downloadable PDF at the Wargame Vault for only 5.00!

Have a Great Battle,
The Old Crow

Dr Who Miniature Game from Warlord Games

OK all you Whovians, Warlord Games has secured the licence to produce a miniatures game based on the BBC's Doctor Who

Warlord is extremely pleased to have the chance to bring this iconic series to the tabletop with a game system you all know and love as well as the official range of miniatures to complement it.

The licence covers not just the latest series of Doctor Who but encompasses all of the Doctors, their companions and their foes. So, expect to see Sea Devils as much as Weeping Angels, Leela as much as Martha Jones, and a long, brightly colored scarf as much as a fez.

Keep an eye on the Warlord Games website for further details or sign up to the Doctor Who Miniatures Game newsletter on their site.

We like the detail you get from Warlord Games, but if you can't wait, Black Tree Designs has a current selection of older Dr Who figures including Daleks!

And remember - don't blink. Whatever you do, don't blink...

Have a Great Battle,
The Old Crow

IHMN Civilians, Wagons, Company Characters and Rugs

Always looking out for additional In Her Majesty's Name resources, we stumbled upon Blue Moon Manufacturing. Blue Moon was established in 2007 and have developed a range of figures sculpted by Bob Naismith, covering many genre.

If you are looking for Company leaders and their supporting cast, stop in at their Pulp Character Section you can find Captain Josiah and his Crew with Firearms (as seen above). There are 4 figures in this set and only cost $12.50.

Also check out their Egyptian, Japanese and Russian Agents. There are 5 figures per pack and only cost $14.00 each. Pictured here are the Russian agents.

For towns folk and civilians to add color to your tabletop game, check their Things That Go Bump In The Night section.

For 41.00 you can get 20 figures in each of the Romanian Civilians and London Victorian Civilians box sets.

For additional table details to add flair to your game, the Wagons Ho Section contains the Doctors Wagon This is a resin and white metal kit, some assembly required.

And the Mail Wagon. Each of these carts comes with 2 horses and will run you $26.00 apiece.

Lastly, if you like to go for interiors, print out these awesome oriental rugs, cut and place inside your buildings!

How To Make Wooden Panels for Set Designs

Recently, taking a break from gaming, we did a set design with a lot of wooden panels as you can see here. Folks asked how we did this so we're going to show you how.

We used the same premise as model houses and fences built for war gaming . Starting with 4 by 8 polystyrene insulation board, we measured distances from 4 6 8 and 12 inches across the board. Vary these so your boards are not uniform.

After spacing out  your measurements  draw long  vertical lines along the board . Using a utility knife  cut a v-shape along your lines .

Next we made knot holes by taking a piece of pipe pressing it into the foam and gouging out an oblong hole.

After you have the hole in place, use your knife to cut a V shape running from the hole out to a point. Then use a pencil or pointed stick to score out other lines around the knot as you see here.

 When finished you'll have a panel something like this.

Painting them will depend on the wood look you are going for. You basically need a dark brown for the shadow areas a medium brown for the main portion of your wood and a lighter brown for your highlights. As you can see in the earlier photo we used medium Brown as the basis for the main boards. Here are individual boards made to attach as needed.

Here on this window we use a lighter more olive brown as the main color.

For our main building we used more of a redwood color.

We plan on getting back to "small" scale modelling soon! Till then,

Have a Great Battle
The Old Crow

New Release: Warhammer 40K Adeptus Mechanicus Onager Dunecrawler from Games Workshop

Haven't been big on the newer Warhammer 40K models, but the Onager Dunecrawler for the new Adeptus Mechanicus is pretty nice. The model will run you 66.00 USD individually or get a squadron of three for 198.00 which is a whopping savings of ..... nothing. Available for pre-order from Games Workshop, will ship April 18 2015.

Owing its origin to the lost knowledge of millennia, the Onager Dunecrawler is based on the Mars Universal Land Engine; itself inspired by the bad-tempered beasts of burden that transported their masters across Holy Terra in ancient times.

The Onager Dunecrawler, rather than being a mere people-carrier, is absolutely brimming with advanced, powerful weaponry capable of reducing worlds to wastelands.

On the subject of weaponry, included in the box are four variants: an eradication beamer, twin phosphor blasters with sensors, a neutron laser featuring a coaxial cognis heavy stubber or an Icarus array - an awesome anti-air assault package comprising twin autocannons, a gatling flak launcher, an armour-piercing missile launcher and a radar dish.

The Onager Dunecrawler, a light walking tank, features four crab-like legs with optional armour plating.

The armoured cabin and reactor are complemented by a huge variety of modelling options, with searchlights, smoke launchers, cognis manipulators and mindscanner probes; and the cupola can be modelled closed or open, featuring a Princeps wielding a heavy stubber.

You get a massive amount of configuration and customisation available even before applying weaponry.

Included with this 119-component multi-part plastic kit, making one Onager Dunecrawler, is a small Adeptus Mechanicus transfer sheet and a 130mm round base.

Have a Great Battle
The Old Crow