Gladiator Thursday

Another Thursday, another game. This time it was gladiators. Each player got the same amount of money to buy their gladiators. They had to compete in 6 matches, and the player with the most money at the end won. Poor betting on my part lost my cash early, and I lost all my gladiators. I had no money to buy new gladiators to fight in the last match. I didn't feel too bad. I wasn't the only one.

the Arena

Example of the Gladiator cards

Renaissance Light Horse

Here's Old Glory Mounted Crossbows and Arquebusiers. Decent sculpts but only two poses apiece, These will fit in nicely with Leo Tech.

My Di Vinci Tank

I built this baby out of foam core and a lot of push pins. It's not spot on with the original drawing, but I'll be doing more variants.

A command unit:

More Leo Tech

Handgunners advance, protected by a "Clanker"...

....While a sniper takes aim (notice the subdued "camo" colors).

Meanwhile, a war wagon rolls up.

The top figs are Old Glory from the Italian Wars range and the machine is classic GW.

The rest are all Games Workshop. I added extra horses than normally come with the war wagon. Two seemed insufficient to pull it.

Leonardo Tech

I polled the other Basement Generals about which (of my many) projects they'd like to see me finish first. The majority wanted me to finish what I call Leonardo Tech project. This basically combines steampunk with the Renaissance in a "what if" Leonardo Da Vinci had actually finished all those wonderful war machines. Most of the figures could of course be used as regular historical troops (although they're a bit to uniform, in a world that wasn't).
I'll be posting a few pictures along the way. here are the first, handgunners and halberdiers. I'm basing the squads on 10 man units, which is standard for G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T., the rules I'm tweeking to fit this era.

Wanted: Stout Hearted Adventurers

I've started my own OD&D (Old School Dungeons and Dragons) sandbox campaign. The beginnings can be found here:
http://walllandbeyond.blogspot.com/
The first characters are Gibbly Todd (my 10-yr-old daughter's Halfling), Gruffydd (Lead Addict's dwarf), and Dullwyn (My 8-yr-old son's Elf).

More of the Basement Generals will be making PCs too. But I've had a blast playing with both my kids and Lead Addict's, in an adventuring party who's average age is about 8.
I forgot how fun the original D&D rules are. The mechanics are simple, and it becomes more about the tale.

the Legion in Mexico

Last night the Foreign Legion valiantly held out against greater odds, and died, as they should, to a man.
We played a modified version of Fistful of Lead to incorporate the single shot muskets being used. The scenario had 2 players controlling 5 Legionnaires apiece, defending the barracks against an onslaught of 15 Mexicans.

The Legion prepare for battle

The Mexicans advance

The first casualty

The Mexican casualties pile up

The last stand