Painting 3 Memoir'44 - step 5

The last "real" painting step. Next step will be varnishing and basing everything. The tigers are from an add-on. That s 36 canons, 6 tanks, and 108 pieces of scenery.

Painting 3 Memoir'44 - step 4

This week-end, a little trip to Gold (Arromanche) and Omaha with my little family. No details as this is not the aim of that blog. Whatever, that only left a few hours to paint, this evening. So here is the result : 72 shermans.

Painting 3 Memoir'44 - step 3

Tonight : US infantry (126 miniatures) !

Painting 3 Memoir'44 - step 2

Today : painting the german tanks and infantry : that's 124 soldiers (one is missing) including 20 with camoed jacket and helmet and 72 tanks.

Aujourd'hui : peinture des tanks et de l'infanterie allemande : Ça fait 124 soldats (il en manque un) dont 20 avec des vestes et des casques cam' et 72 tanks.

Painting 3 Memoir'44 - step 1

Après le premier mémoir'44 il y a quelques jours, j'en attaque 3 d'un coup ce soir. Pour me motiver, partie "Overlord" hier soir avec "des tigres dans la neige", du Map Pack 2.




After the first one a few days ago, I'm starting 3 more this evening. To motivate myself, yesterday evening we had an overlord game, "Tigers in the snow" from the Map Pack 2.

1st Battalion 32nd (Cornwall) Foot Regiment

Kraken ! - Report N°6 : Prax @ War !

During Kraken, I organised for the second time my "strategic LARP", Prax at War. Set during the invasion of Prax by the lunar Army, it's a mix between a LARP and a strategic game : Players play representatives of the main Praxian and Invaders powers and act in character. The game is happening in the sacred place of the Paps and no real fight can happen between players. Still, in the outside world, armies are following the orders of the players and fighting each other.


For this run, I was helped by Eric Vanel and Dan Barker in making a brand new map. I also reduced the number of players from 36 to 17, concentrating on the most important or fun characters and adding clear objectives to every players to help them focus during the game (as this is something as new for LARPers as it is for Wargamers). I must say thank you again to Eric for giving a hand on some of the characters and helping with a defectuous printer (he had his diner in front of it, making it restart every 3 printed pages !).


The game was run with 3 GM : Eric was in charge of reading orders and managing Time, Gianni Bacca taking care of the fights and myself as the "roleplay" GM. I must say that their help was very welcome and helped a lot in having a smouth gameplay.


Finally, I would say that the game was a blast at least for me and that I was very pleased by the players and how they made my game their game ! I wont go in every subplot that were resolved in surprising and (quite often) very funy ways as I would not like to spoil the game (we re planing on playing it a few other times), and I will just say : Thank you, my Players !

Kraken ! - Report N°5 : Lost Shores Deep Ones

Fenris Games sent 2 sets of their "Lost Shores Deep Ones" : I would say they re amongst the best deep ones I've ever seen. And I've seen a lot when I made Innsmouth, and after ! If you're interrested in those miniatures, the best way to get them is to send a mail at :

info@fenrisgames.com

So, one of the 2 sets was reserved for the con and the Shoggoths unite ! game. I decided to paint the second set myself. Here is the result...

Fenris Games a envoyé deux sets de "Lost Shores Deep Ones" : Ils sont - à mon avis - parmis les plus "beaux" Deep Ones que j'ai pu voir jusqu'à présent. Et Dagon sait que j'en ai vu un paquet deppuis que j'ai construit Innsmouth. Si ces figurines vous interresse, le meilleur moyen de se les procurer reste d'écrire un mail à :

info@fenrisgames.com

Donc, l'un des deux sets fut utilisé lors de la convention pour le jeu Shoggoths Unite !. Et j'ai décidé de peindre le second set moi-même. Voici le résultat...

Kraken ! - Report N°4 : Incursion

We spent an afternoon playing in the sun and drinking german beers. Exhausting !

MEMOIR'44 et pingouin

J'ai, la semaine dernière (très tardivement) découvert Memoir'44. Je connaissais déjà d'autres jeux de Borg (Command and colors et Battlelore) ou fortement inspirés de son système (Tactique). J'ai d'ailleurs utilisé un système similaire à celui de Battlelore (mais très simplifié et mélangé au système d'HeroQuest) pour la résolution des combats dans Prax at War.


Je n'ai pas encore acheté le jeu, mais cela ne saurait tarder : En une semaine, j'ai disputé 12 parties normales et une "Overlord". Certains des points forts du jeu selon moi (je suis conscient que certains de ces points "forts" seront, pour d'autres joueurs des points faibles) :


- Parties rapides (30 min en général),
- On est directement "dans l'action", dès le premier tour : pas de longue phases d'approche,
- Règles très simples mais pas simplistes,
- Peu d'unités, mais des unités très typées,
- Des scénarii souvent déséquilibrés (j'aime de moins en moins la bataille rangée entre deux listes équilibrées).


Du coup, j'ai passé une partie du Weekend à peindre les figurines Mémoir'44 d'un de mes partenaires de jeu, en attendant les miennes. Et j'ai aussi peint un pingouin.

In a week, I was so pleased by Memor'44 that I made 12 games and an overlord game and painted 144 minies and 36 obstacles ! I love the simplicity and how fast the game is.