August Moves For Unkerlant (Big News)

August finds Unkerlant's warring factions making bold moves, possibly to secure lands before the kingdom's terrible winters.
Prince Ruprect reorganized his Borogravian forces, and spread out to capture Wissenburg in Sumpftlund, Ferlangen in Salacia,Klessen in Overholt, and Carroburg in the Principality of Hurn (no doubt for a liaison with his mistress).
In a audacious move, Duke Sigmund decided not to relieve his forces at the capital, Keonigstadt.
Instead, his remaining forces made a mad dash for Franistover's capital, finding it undefended. The Duke lost Keonigstadt, the garrison surrendered to Franistover forces, but hamstringed Prince Adalbert by cutting him off from his own lands.
As mentioned before, Franistoveran armies captured Unkerlant's capital, but lost their own.
Amidst all this marching about the kingdom, the Arch Duchy of Volborg has been remarkably sedentary. Possibly licking it's wounds from the battle of Vollenbeck? The Duchess's only move was to take the fortress town of Waldbruk in Durmwald.
With 2 months of campaigning left, one can only imagine what will happen next.

Blast from the Past

A fellow Basement General sent me this link to a grainy old commercial for SPI games.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ClockMonsterLA#p/a/u/0/dNDe_JDew1E

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from Zee Baron! I actually had a pretty productive painting schedule this year. Got a little bit of everything done. For 2010:
1. Finally get the heavy cav done for my long unfinished Italian Wars Renaissance armies, I've had tons of foot and light horse done for years but never got the Gendarmes done. I have a nice core built, now I just have to add the extras for flavor.
2. More Russian Civil War. Love painting the Copplestone figs.
3. Pike and Shot. My favorite period but I haven't painted that many units. I'm building a solid core of pike amd shot, then add on to cover all parts of the Thirty Years War (and maybe some Unkerlant skirmishes).
4. The War rages on! Unkerlant's currnet sufferings rage on. We had a few scheduling conflicts that pushed back a few battles, but those who have been following the campaign will be surprised by the next few moves. Unkerlant might get a king yet! (though how long he'll keep the title is another matter).
5. 15mm SciFi. Lead Addict Ken gave me a bunch of this stuff for my birthday and I'm steadily hacking away at it.
That's it for now. Haven't taken advantage of my 2 weeks off to use in the painting dept. Mostly playing xbox 360 with my son. Until next year. For God, Glory and Unkerlant!

Holiday Gaming

Our usual Thursday game is being interrupted by Christmas Eve, so the Basement Generals got together last night for a Wild West shootout, using my favorite rules Fistful of Lead. As usual, it was a bloody affair. While the bank was being robbed, two groups made of Mexicans and Indians were trying to steal a load of rifles from the US cavalry. The alley outside the bank was slick with blood, but two outlaws managed to escape with the loot. And, the Mexicans got one load of rifles off the table. Always fun!
Happy Holidays!

Japanese WW2 Supervillains Pt2

Here's some more baddies to add to growing list of opponents to the Liberty League;
Part 1 was here:
http://baronvonj.blogspot.com/2009/02/japanese-super-villains-of-ww2.html
Featured are Tengu (a crow man from Japanese mythology)

Oni, a monster created from mutated Koi DNA

and 4 kamakazi robot explosive devices

PIkes forward!

Here's a stand of shot I put together. This has always been my favorite period, don't no why I haven't spent more time on it. These boys need some firepower...

Thursday night GASLIGHT

With the holidays coming up, its been tough getting enough of the Basement Generals together for a game. But, last Thursday, 3 braved the cold, and that was enough to cobble together a quick game of GASLIGHT. No scenario, just a brawl between a German/Prof. Nightshade faction and an Anglo-Franco-Russian force.
At first, it looked like bad for the Germans as the French took out the much feared Killenkanner on the first shot of the game. But then, things quickly went south. Professor Nightshade's mechanical minions clattered forth, ignoring any losses thrown their way. In a fire-fight with their human enemies, they decimated the British and Russian soldiers. When the Brits finally got their "Red Knights" into action, they were taken out quickly by Nightshades Killbots.
I managed a few snaps of the action.