In Her Majesties Name Okhrana

I had to look up what this batch were called in the game as all I could remember was the Russian secret service. Either way, a bit more on the steampunk side of the IHMN but here's my Valhallan Imperial guard that I used alongside an old ratty shaman and his big wolf. (Not pictured)

Almost all of that lovely heavy ordnance never got used, except the Congreave Rocket Launcher (Missile Launcher) that saw one appearance at the end of the campaign and missed. But then again, whichever idiot of a boss saw fit to send some Siberians into the desserts of northern Africa is beyond me. Although the natives seemed quite fond of the furry hats for those cold desert nights.

In Her Majesties Name Police

Catching up on taking and posting some of the stuff that I've finished off last year and this year and wanting to document what I actually have available to use for games in separate posts.

So first up In Her Majesties Name a Police force, I'd bought these a while ago and was rather disappointed to find out when I got them home that when they said 25mm, they actually meant 25mm. (An unusual occurrence these days, given that often 28mm are nearer 35)

So a bit on the small side compared to everything else I have for the game.

Rogue Stars Ready to go

We're doing a big game of Rogue Stars at club tomorrow (well lots of 1v1's) to learn the rules and now that my PC is working again, here's the 2 crews that I've put together for Ric and myself to use.

First up some new miniatures for me from Hasslefree using their names for now. A Mercenary Crew. Left to right, Drax (Modern Survivor) Weapons master, Sola (Fantasy Dwarven Pirate?) techie t-leaf, Vic (pilot) Leader and medic, Rattie (GW Ratling) the Sniper, Oscar (Modern Survivor) Munitions specialist.

 So I managed to completely skip thier Scifi range when I got these because the scifi ones I wanted were all out of stock. So maybe another time.

Next up Star cops (Void Vasa miniatures) Again Left to right, Archangel (recon), Suppressor Sergeant (Riot/Close Support) Knight of Spirit, Leader/medic/psionic, Suppressor (Riot/Close Support), Commander X (Mobile/Close Support)

I've got a few other groups I could use for this, More Vasa infantry that could easily be a Militia, Escher gangers that could be Pirates, Squats that would be Miners, Necrons to be robots, and Orks that could be aliens alongside my Krogan and genestealers or something.

But we'll see how the game goes first.  Because it's so trait driven it seems like it'll be really hard to remember what everything does, despite the mechanics being fairly simple so I expect it'll take a few games to bed things in and tweak traits as I've probably picked stuff that won't work with the models or something.

Germans for CoC

In the grand tidy up and catch up I finally got round to flocking the bases of my last squad of Germans, leaders and support options. So here are the obligatory washed out pictures. New phone does not mean better pictures, lets call it user error.

 The big picture, 3 squads of 10 men, including a Junior leader and an LMG team.

Senior Leader options

2 man sniper team

Werfer of flamen, panzershreck and panzerfaust.

I'm not sure I need much more for these, tentatively of the Luftwaffe, with a squad of Fallschirmjager (sp?) and the rest standard troops, I could perhaps do with getting another 3 LMG's and an MMG, so as able to field different periods but probably not necessary yet.

Next I'm sorting through my dark ages stuff, to see what else I need to make up units/groups for Dux Brit and Saga Forces as I'm sure I was a group/part of a group short for 2 Dux forces.

Sharp Practice British

Well it's been a while and in amongst the tidying up of other projects, I finally managed to finish the last group for my Napoleonic British, so I've now got both sets ready to play. (Yay) Just need to do another couple of Deployment/objective markers and perhaps investigate some support options, but that's how it goes.

 The full set, 4 groups of line/light infantry, 2 groups of rifles/light skirmishers, 5 officers, 2 drummers, 1 colour party and a deployment point.

 2 Officers and an NCO for the infantry groups, there are 2 drummers as well.

 2 Rifle Officers, one with his rifle in hand, heavy sabre and his blue french cavalry trousers.

And an almost passable close up.

Sharp Practice French

Well it's finally done, I've finished off a Napoleonic force! I really detested painting these figures, I think it's just the level of detail on the uniforms that annoyed me and as a result it took so long to do. (Although it's actually just under a year as I picked the first of these up at Claymore last year, we just won't mention the British that have been languishing for far longer) They require a level of crispness that I'm just not used to painting anymore, recent armies have all been, dark ages, ww2 etc. Anyway here's the usual badly focused/lit pictures.

I'm going to paint a few random things next, last squad for my CoC germans, finish off the last Amazon bases, Tuetonic leader for Saga Crescent and the Cross.  Then I think I'll need a concerted effort to try and get the British done to match this lot.

Hordes of the Things

Played a few games of this now using my 15 mm armies and we still haven't managed to get a win with the undead force. Oh well! But having hunted through the collection, I now have the Undead and Arabian Myth force seen earlier in the blog, but also, Dwarves, Medieval and Romans all painted (with a couple of bases in the dwarf force as an exception) I also have based, but not fully painted Celt and Greeks forces.

Anyway, Dave was talking about doing some Mythical Greece, so I dug out my old Grenadier Amazons and did some tidying up to fit them onto 60mm frontage bases. So here they are all finished. I have 28 points there to choose from so far with a further 4 points lurking.

1 Hero, 2 Knights (Chariots), 1 Beasts or Riders, 4 archers, 2 blades, 3 spear, with another spear on the painting table to make it up to 4.  I'm sure I have another 2 cats, but only 1 rider, (I used the other one on a Unicorn decades ago) which will give me a second Beasts/Riders which I'd prefer as from experience so far I'm not keen on having a single element type present in the army.