Stuff is much better here at chez Sprinks, Sprinkling 2: Son of sprinks is healing nicely while Millie the wronghammer Dog no longer rocks the cone. Thank you all for your kind comments last time out, they seem to have done the trick!. However work is as busy as ever bringing a particular hobby related quandry along with it.
See the clock, see how he mocks me!!!!..........twat!.
Work is as busy as ever and working 'out of area' means late finishes a lot of the time. This means that time in the evening to do hobby related stuff just ain't happening!. This is mostly down to my insistence on playing games with several hundred minis at once, the thought of setting up and clearing away such masses of minis at stupid o' clock is not too great, and i want to spend what time i have with the amazing Mrs Sprinks and the Sprinklings where i can. So whats a toy soldier fiddler to do?.
Not quite so viable......
As my regular readers will know i have been working on some mass battle rules for some time now but as things stand it will be very hard to use them in the kind of windows for gaming i currently have.......which is poo!. So having been indulging in some of this 'thinking' stuff people enjoy so much i have come to the conclusion that i can change the basing for the game while making a few rule changes to allow for said changes while keeping most of the core mechanics in tact (which is good, because i have worked bloody hard on them!!). So i will be turning the mass battle rules into a fast play mass battle system that should allow me to play through a game in double quick time!.
The key?, MULTIBASING!
Like The Duc uses. Picture stolen from his fine blog (grovel grovel!)
Not sure what size bases or groupings of bases per unit but i reckon i have an idea that will make it work smoothly.
On another tac, has anyone seen what the good folk over at Dark Alliance have been getting up to?
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Looks like they are covering the post apocalyptic, zombie holocaust sized gap in the 1:72 market in fantastic fashion!. And if thats not enough.....
Now in my opinion these are proper Goblins, real nasty looking little shits!, they are some of the best goblin sculpts ive ever seen, 1:72 or otherwise. They would also work as some kind of canablistic mutant types for a post apocalyptic setting too. You can find the whole range at the Red Box web page over here.
All that remains is to welcome Steve63 to the world of twattery, blither and such that is this very page!, he clicked the follower bit like many lost souls before him, is there any hope for him left?!!. Welcome along sir, glad to have you. Im not sure if you blog but if you do please pop a link in the comments it would be great to see what your getting up to!.
.....'till next time.....
Totally agree with your comment regarding the new sets of goblins!! The Caesar one are really going to be use as imps. As I wrote in a comment on Sceavus'blog, I thing it's time to create some sort of "Plastic Fantasy Soldier Review" website in order to gather comments of all those excellent ranges of Fantasy minis - an encyclopedic project :) What do you think of it ?
ReplyDeleteOh, and glad to read about Sprinkling 2 getting better :)
ReplyDeleteCheers Phil, the Goblins are making me want to put a new army together....will resist! (who am i kidding??!!). I saw your idea for the fantasy soldier review over at Sceavus', great idea, i would spend hours on a site like that!. Would it stick to 20mm or include other scales that work for large/small creatures?.
DeleteI just read your comment there and posted an answer. No limitation, no rules!!! All bigger scale minis are welcome giants :)
DeleteFor sure no limits, and place for all giants, trolls, ogres, balrogs and whatever!!
DeleteGlad to see Mr Sprinks and all the Sprink family back and recovered!
About the goblins: they will be definetely a MUST .. Still not released and i am already having plans with them and even defining some conversions between them and old figures of mine!!
Hi sceavus, Phil's idea is a good one. Can't wait to see what you do with those goblins, I was thinking they would go very well with your war painted savage orcs.
DeleteNice to see you back on better form Mr Spinks.
ReplyDeleteA box of Dark Alliance Trump Voters - interesting.
Phil's idea is rather awesome.
Hi Jack, yep its all getting back on track. The Rednecks are a fun idea, my brains whirring with hills have eyes/ Texas chainsaw massacre type skirmishes that could be fun to do (redneck vs goblin as mutant cannibal?). I agree with you on Phil's idea, this stuff needs collecting together in one place for sure.
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