When I ran my “Waterloo in Two” games at Historicon last year, I had it mind to make custom ridges for the game; in the end, time ran out, and that just didn’t happen. I’m going to do Waterloo at HAVOC on Saturday, April 5th with the “Square Eagles” rules, and this time out I did have to time to make them. I had almost enough foam board from previous project, but not quite enough of the 1.5 inch thickness, so I wound up having to buy a new sheet. They only had 1″ and 2″ sheets, so I went with a sheet of the 2″ foam, which was way more than I needed. Boy, has this stuff gone up in price compared with years ago! Anyway, I designed the ridges, and cut out the shapes using two different hot knife tools.
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2nd Portuguese Line, “Lagos”
Egyptian and Assyrian pieces from Acheson Creations
With the Portuguese army expansion already done, I have been working on some foamboard hills for my Waterloo game at HAVOC in a few weeks. I had original thought I would do that for my 3 Historicon Waterloo games last year, but ran out of time. There isn’t much to show yet, but there will be in the next week or two.
I am planning on running two different Chariot era games at Historicon this July, using the To the Strongest” rules by Simon Miller. While Acheson Creations sold off quite a bit of their extensive line of scenic items last year, there are still quite a few excellent pieces that remain, and they are still introducing some new items. Here are some I acquired this winter with a view towards those games.
A set (? Set) of six smaller sphinxes; these are about 30 mm tall.
6th Cazadores Battalion 1811
These are the last of the Cazadores to be added to my expanded Portuguese forces.
“Square Eagles” with Will
A few weeks agio I had a new wargames freind, Will over for his first tabletop wargame. Via comments on the blog. we learned that were but 2 town apart here in NW Connecticut. For a first wargame, “Square Eagles” seemed well suited.