Finished working on Five Klicks from the Zone Chapter 2.  Started working on Five Kilometres from Leipzig.  Started thinking about a whole new thing I’m calling Five Nautical Miles from Tortuga. In between I like to paint a bit while my brain ticks over.  So above you can see four EMP wild boars I’ll be using as very angry Razorbacks in 5 Klicks.  Below are the  Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago Giant Lizard and Snapping Turtle, which I think will make for interesting ‘critters’ in Five Klicks. Those were all purchased from North Star because I wanted to take advantage of their special deal for the launch of their new Giant Wolves (5 off and a sprue of the goblin riders).  This works out well as the 15 plastics in the box set aren’t quite enough for my Dernland campaign (FKPS calls for units of 8, plus I can do some individuals). Second picture has one of the plastic ones in the middle, I think they’ll work fine together. On the workbench are the Death F...

  Now finished a very nice mix of bad guys that can be used for many of the human encounter lists for 5 Klicks.

  Shipments should start around the end of the month, PDF of the rulebook launched today and available for free if you order the game. Absolutely honoured to have a name check and to have been involved in this from quite early on.  Fascinating to see the process of refining the details, and it deserves to do well.

  Well I just couldn’t wait to finish painting the ‘bad guys’ and so the Squad had it’s first game against some Napoleonic Riflemen (see the 5 Klicks page for details) funny that the bad guys had access to those uniforms 😉. I’m playing as the rules currently stand, with all the second edition changes, so might need to manipulate the odd roll to make sure I can test everything.  I thought that was going to happen early on as after rolling through one turn that didn’t generate a battle (will have to keep an eye on that, a few are okay, but it shouldn’t happen lots) and then a straightforward Meeting style battle (which was the only type in the original edition), I wanted to try the new ‘monster’ battles I added. So I was pretty surprised when I rolled a 96 on the updated Settlement Events table and that put me straight through to a Monstrosity.  The roll for the thing itself threw up a Giant Snarler, basically a big cat, all teeth and claws!  Again I haven’t started s...

  Another batch of figures I was sent to slap some paint on.   I do enjoy this, painting stuff I would never think to purchase for myself is proving quite good fun.   I also got the 5 Klicks unit done, see that page for those and a bit of the background.  I have now started the Copplestone figures, I am very impressed with the detail, they are very nice.  May have them done by the end of next weekend, we'll see.

  So I spent my first 15 months back in the hobby being very controlled with my projects, trying to make sure I only bought stuff I would actually use, concentrating on Fantasy games. Then when Christmas rolled around I put The Silver Bayonet and the box of Riflemen on my wish list thinking it was time to branch out.  You’ll have seen that I have had a lot of fun preparing for it, but I just can’t seem to motivate myself to get it on the table.  No reflection on Joseph McCullough, but actually the same thing happened with Rangers of Shadowdeep.  I bought the book, rolled up my squad, and that was it, just kept playing Five Leagues instead. I was beginning to think it was me avoiding getting confused over a different set of combat rules, but that can’t be it as I took to GoTT okay and I’ve playtested some stuff from other stables without trouble, so I think it might be that a published and prescribed scenario stifles me? In fact if it hadn’t been Christmas the urge to...