BW Designs

The Dystopian wars table might take another day before the completed table is posted on the site (the first half of the partly finished table can be seen in the Gallery). I have decided to do some more work on it before posting, projects like this can take up way to much of your time as you keep finding extra things that need "fixing" or adding too.

If your a Dystopian wars player and your interested in buying this table or having one made to your specs please contact me.

Cheers

Chris the head bunny

Battletech figure is posted in the gallery now, A Blackjack mech from the "The word of Blake" 3rd Division IV-Mu: Pure Thoughts and Actions.

Tell me what you think.

Cheers

Chris the Head bunny.

Dystopian wars table finished with just the buildings to finish. I have 2 english Dystopian wars scout flyers that are also finished. Though they have sucked up a huge amount of work and still don't look as good as I think they should. I probably needed to have a clearer plan before I started.

Also finished a Battle tech figure finished, a "Word of Blake" Blackjack, of all things. Why I picked an all white colour scheme I have no idea. White is so hard to get right, this time a tried a new technique with gray washes. There are some great decals out there for some of the factions, but kind of expensive for one off models. This time out I have done all the badges free hand. I will see how we go and If we play more battletech I may invest. With Battletech because it is so small and the models are very detailed they do take quite a while. I will try and update the page soon with some photo's and you can tell me if I have gotten it right with any of them.

Cheers

Chris.

Hmmm what to say?

I played badly, others played.............

Meh! best to move on and let it go

Anyway met up with good friends enjoyed their company, now back to painting.

Cheers

Chris

Off to a one day DBMM ancients competition on the weekend to Give the powerhouse of the ancient world (The Lysignian Cypriots) an outing.

I'm donnating a couple of 28mm trophies for the event.

First place trophy.

Guess what the competition organiser does for a living?

Special prize trophy.

What for? and why Napoleon? I don't know but I had it in the spares box so it got painted up, might give it away for the best shirt or shortest person in the room or something.

AND WHERE DOES THAT PIECE OF HAIR COME FROM?

Every time I do a super close up picture there is a piece of hair in it! aaaaaaaaargh!

Calender added for events (please let me know if there is an event you want added) and a few extra bits and bobs and a completion of the game report.

Let me know if it's worth doing another game report as I'm not sure how it reads to others.

cheers

Chris

AKA the head bunny.

These next two pictures are different views of the same stage of the battle.

The Catalan's fierce warriors that they are, launch a devastating attack on the Finn's in the wood with overlaps and one promptly dies, so much for fierce warriors. The Turks wear some bow fire but apart from some of them recoiling are unconcerned.

In the centre the knights belatedly decide to swing to the right and try to attack the dismounted Swedish knights before they start slaughtering the Cypriot infantry. Looking at it now it was a crazy move that should have been punished by the Swedes if they had had even vaguely decent dice. The Stradiots came forward to slow the opposing infantry down rather than kill anything. Some of the Armenians doing the same job on the left hand flank of the Swedish knights and the other end of the Swede infantry line. So close for the Swede’s at this point the hand gunners have come of the hill ready to monster the Armenians in the following turns.

Several turns later the Turks on the left flank have polished of the bowman and are fighting the Swedish cavalry, the Catalans continue to fall on their own swords and loose another element to the Finn's.

in the centre the Stradiots are forced to launch attacks on the crossbow in front of them, to stop the shooting. The Cypriot knights thread the needle......just! and put themselves in front of the opposing blade.

On the right the heavily outnumbered Armenians have decided the new fangled handguners that the opposition are using aren't all that scary after all. Wiping them and their supports out in several turns with some brilliant rolls.

The final picture shows the Dismounted Swedish knights being devastated by the Cypriot knights after bouncing the knights off them on the first turn of contact. They then died almost to a man over three turns. The Cypriot's Italian crossbow mercenaries becoming bold enough to swing onto the flank and start gunning down their opposition. The Stradiot Light horse are now down to two elements, one guarding the flank of the knights. The other found itself alone in front of the Swede infantry having lost 3 of its wingmen to the crossbows killing two in return, but more importantly gaining enough space for the knights to get in front of the dismounted knights.

Out of shot on the far left the Turks after a losing a few elements to the Swede cavalry have swung a few elements around behind the infantry and are slaughtering the Swede’s. The Catalans lost another element to the Fin's and really didn't live up to expectations, by the end of the game they both had lost two elements each.

Final score 22 -3 to the Cypriots, thanks to Bryan my opponent. It had the chance to go the other way early on but poor dice and the inert general slowed his attack down.

DBMM continues to impress me with all its tactical options and the white knuckle moments. It's a complex rule set but has been well worth the investment in  time.

Cheers

Chris

 And at the end of the game the Cypriot Bow were still stuck in the wood sigh!:/

Turn One.

The Cypriots launch their attack.

On the left The mercenary Catalans (superior Axillia Ax (s)) and Turkish Light horse (Lh (S) head towards the gap between the woods and the end of the Swede battle line.

In the centre The CINC (commander in chief) in charge of the knights, some bow and the Stradiots (Albanian Light horse ordinary Lh(O)) and the peasant horde Guarding the baggage. cautiously moves the knights forward once and the crossbow a few times to cut down the manoeuvre possibilities of the Swedes.

On the right flank the commander and his mercenary crossbow do a little dance (probably wondering why they were stuck out in the middle of nowhere all alone) and the psiloi march forward slowly not keen to get into contact with either the dismounted knights or the large group of hand gunners and archers (Ps (S and O))covering the flank of the Swedish knights.

Second turn

On the right flank: the Swedes have moved the Cavalry over to almost cover the gap between the bow and the woods, in response the Catalans have expanded in preparation to assault the Finnish Auxillia in the woods and the Turks have decided to not to push their luck and not try to scoot through the gap. Common sense kicks in and they decide to  expanded into an attack formation (two deep) and take their chances agains the bow.

In the centre: both sides don't move that much due to bad pips and an Inert Swede general don't help.

On the Right Flank: the Swedish dismounted knights wheel ponderously towards the nice meaty target that is the Cypriot infantry, their covering Psiloi follow as well trying to get to combat as quickly as possible to take advantage of their bigger numbers. The Cypriot general back pedals with his crossbow leaving the Ps to their fate.

Second turn

I've tidied up the site added part two of the game to the blog and added a document widget to the toolbar so you can download some of the rule sets and campaign systems that people have asked me for over the years.

Most will be a cut down version suitable for competition play, quick and won’t affect or alter the draw for each round in a competition, but give an extra dimension to the completion without the organisers brain frying.

cheers

Chris

More pictures updated in the Gallery, including a new objective marker of a sinking Churchill tank made up special. Some Malayan emergency figures, (I'll be starting on the foot soon as I source the materials for the Jungle basing) using flashpoint miniatures foot and other manufactures for the vehicals. See http://www.flashpoint-miniatures.com/ or Glynn from http://www.fernvalescenics.com/ for the figures and tell them Chris from BW designs sent you. I'm not sure when Flashpoint the rules will be out but they are well worth the wait, a lot of fun to play with both sides having a good chance in winning.

Cheers

Chris