Red Barricades - Into the Factory !

Having played some Squad Leader, my best mate and I bought ASL around 1987, as teenagers, and we quickly acquired the Red Barricades campaign.  Since then, I have played the opening days a good dozen times, but have never gotten past that.  I have a small games room, but I'd have to take RB down every Friday to make room for other stuff with my friends.

Now the girls are off to Uni and have moved out...well, I can borrow their room !

Since I can set up the board more or less permanently, this should, at last, be the campaign to end all campaigns, a full playthrough of CGIII of Red Barricades, with its thirty campaign dates.

I made a post back in 2020 that I have just updated, regarding house rules, rules to remember, and some tactical tips for both sides. 

For the first post of this new campaign, I begin with the map drawn from VASL (I couldn't figure out how to get it in one piece, so had to do a series of copy-pastes).  This map has the considerable advantage of place names, and it is a lovely piece of work.  VASL also has an LOS-checker tool integrated, which is very handy indeed.

Stay tuned for Day 1, as the Germans head Into the Factory... 

 

 

 

 

Venetian Guard

Man, I want to paint almost all of TT Combat's Carnevale range.  They keep bringing out new ones, to boot !

Anyway, I at least got this one painted, to join my Patrician faction.  I actually intend to build two Patrician factions, one representing a Noble House, and another representing the Doge's soldiers, those poor souls who are supposed to keep the peace in tortured Venice.

Photo is not great, it is overexposed, but I'm having trouble with my phone camera at the moment.

 

Great figure, a lot of fun to paint.  If you like doing NMM, that is !  

Mistress of Threads

 As George Clooney would say : "Signum Games.  What else ?"

 

 

In the Jungle....

 

A beautiful figure from Signum Games !

I have decided to start a new Instagram account, but parallel to this blog rather than replacing it.  If you want to follow, my moniker is Figurativ_Lee.

Thanks for looking ! 

Carnevale - The Guild

 

I have fallen for the Carnevale universe...I'm hoping to embark my friends aboard the gondola, but for that I'll need to paint up at least three factions.

This is the Capodecina that will lead the Guild band.  I have already posted him here a couple of months ago, but now he is fully based (and, I must admit, the base pleases me !).  My first Carnevale figures were a by product of the terrain I was after, and didn't come with cobbled bases.  I figured that didn't matter, I would paint on the cobblestones when the time came.  Except I really didn't want to, when the time came !

By pure coincidence, I had bought some AK Interactive crackle-effect basing material from an FLWS in Spain.  Whereas the GW equivalent makes large crackling, like sun-baked earth, this one makes much tighter effects, and I figured I could use it for my Carnevale figures.  What a lot of time saved !  

For the moment, the Capodecina is lacking recruits, the band is only three strong.  The Patricians are the furthest ahead, with 7 figures (pictures will follow), there are 5 painted up in the Vatican faction, and the Rashaar have 2 members. Yes, I know I said three factions, that is four.  What can I say ?