Avast me mates!

Hoi,

And just when you think my birthday is well and truly over, it isn't! I'm a bit late with this post but it has been mighty busy here, but last weekend I received a large package from my good ole mate AM. What did the box contain? I here you cry! Well just about everything you need to play Freebooters Fate. Yeah you heard that right everything! Let's make a list:
- the rulebook of course.
- a pack of cards needed to play (these are used instead of dice...yep I had to get used to that too)
- a Pirate crew starter box
- an Imperial crew starter box
Now there's two things I don't wanna think about: for starters the amount of money this present must have cost... as I said I'm not gonna think about it (whoops just did, didn't I?) and second the fact that I have carefully steered away from this game for sooo long because it was going to cost me if I got involved. I used to buy a Freebooter miniature at every DUZI and Crisis convention I'd attend since these are just amazing sculpts and I actually have two or three Freebooter's Fate mini's here but entering in the game was just too much temptation... now the die errm card is cast and there's no way out!And oh boy: they've just announced a gang of Amazons...I hate you AM!

A second present I ordered myself: I had got two coupons for the www.bol.com site. This site is a sort of European Amazon.com site and as such I mostly use it to order books and the like, but it also sells LEGO... now there's a new TIE-figther out and so I ordered that and now I can say it's brilliant and far better than the earlier incarnation.

Well then, later today JW (Pijlie) is coming over for a game of Dystopian Wars.

Dystopian Wars update

Hoi,

Today I bring you an update of some scenery, a bomber and some ships for my KoB armies.
Some dwellings:

A factory

A finished bomber

Below some WIP shots of some cruisers and a battleship.

Cheers Sander

Les grenouilles bleu! Part II

Hoi,

Here's the second batch of French Marines for the Crush the Kaiser project:

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "To Mega-Therion" by Therion

Birthday!

Hoi,

Well next to Saint Nick and Santa, my birthday has brought me even more Dystopian Wars stuff! I got:
- a dreadnought
- submarines
- another landship
- more buildings
* civilian buildings
* military buildings
* weapons platform
* factory buildings

oh and I also got the beginnings of my Prussian army:
- land fleet
- blimps

What I also like very much is that I got Simon Scarrows "Praetorian" and some Terry Pratchett audiobooks, guess what I'm listening?

greets Sander

Polish Grenadiers

Hoi,

Here are the final pictures taken of Uwe's white metal Polish Napoleonics.I'm so sorry the pictures are overexposed but so be it...

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Ghostboy" by Gabriel Rios

Down at the Docks...

Hoi,

As you might have read earlier, Saint Nick and Santa (well actually they are one and the same guy) provided me with some Dystopian Wars scenery. I decided to combine the Amera docks with some of the stuff from the Spartan Games scenery sets and this resulted in the dock-scene you see below.

I provided an underground for the docks in order to add some gravel to the sides of the walls. I then used two of the warehouses and the cranes from the Factory Terrain set and two watchtowers of the Military Terrain set to liven up the place. Then I moved on to two of the small islands I've got. These I intend to use as hills featuring a mansion estate and a fortress for DW. The trees are plastic toothpicks, a tip I got from Pijlie. I am now waiting for my local hobby-shop to get some GW roughcoat spray in store to prime the lot.

Can't wait to get cracking on these!

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Sing Loud Sing Proud" by the Dropkick Murphy's

Thanks Santa!

Hoi,

As I said earlier; a bit late but: "Thanks Santa"! I've been spoiled this year. Santa brought me a load of nice Amera Plastics stuff to try out and use for gaming. The selection included:

- The Campaign tents pack
- A tent set
- 3 Nissen Huts
- The Trench Battlefield, now this one is not for wargaming, I'll probably be wanting to do my own modular boards for that. But rather for use in class to show how Trench Warfare worked..
- The Island Harbour set.
- The Island Starter Set these can also be used as mountains or hills in regular games, brilliant stuff! The last two sets are mainly for use with my Dystopian War games.
- For the latter I also got a Kingdom of Britannia Avenger Class Fleet Carrier 


Am I spoiled or what? And my B-day is coming up, yay!


Cheers Sander


Listening to: "Best of CCR" by CCR