To the Strongest - 10mm Fantasy

Master M and I had a go at To the Strongest. I'm much more of a fantasy gamer than ancients, so I dragged out my old 10mm stuff for the game. First game, so it was just the flat green cloth with no terrain and not a heap of units. Thus the lack of wide shots! Here are some of the orcs. They're GW's Warmaster figures. Sadly out of production: they are beautifully detailed figures.

They're based for Impetus - 80mm wide bases. I love the look of the bigger bases: these wolf riders really do look like skirmishing troops. Heavy infantry units look suitably dense too.

As for the rules, we thought they were a lot of fun. Grid-based, so there's no fiddle factor with movement. There's a 'push your luck' element to activating your troops, which I quite enjoy. Master M enjoyed it too when I had a dismal run of activations!

In fact he enjoyed it so much he demanded another game, which we're in the middle of at the moment. A more detailed report to come.

2014 in review

Games-wise, 2014 was the year of Pulp Alley.

• Pulp Alley, 15 games 
• Sci fi Pulp Alley, 4 games 
• Samurai Pulp Alley, 1 game 

Then:

• Force on Force, 2 games 
• Saga, 2 games 
• Muskets and Tomahawks, 2 games 
• Songs of Blades and Heroes, 1 game 
• Impetus Fantasy, 1 game

Painting - not a heap, but a good year for me.

A piratical minotaur by Reaper Miniatures.

 Khurusan's 15mm Control Battalion troopers

Khurusan's 15mm special forces for Force on Force.

Some gothic bits and pieces for Pulp Alley sci fi. 

A Reaper assassin, a Warhammer Quest rat with bonus bionics, a kid's toy drum and a homemade terrain tyle.

A unit of 10mm Warmaster boar riders. For Impetus Fantasy.

28mm samurai, et al. A mix of Black Hat, Black Cat and Northstar. 

Gripping Beast Anglo Danes for Saga.

Pulp Alley bits. 

Goat by Empress Miniatures, temptress by Black Army Productions, other figures by Pulp Figures. The Car is a Lledo diecast. Buildings scratchbuilt from cork.

Muskets & Tomahawks. Northstar French, Galloping Major civilians and Provincials.

So that's 2014. The New Year? I've dragged out some 15mm Napoleonics. I'd like to get some more samurai stuff done. Other than that, we'll see what hits the table.