Interview on Bring your A Game
Buck | March 27, 2012
I was recently interviewed for an on-line magazine, Bring Your A-Game. Here is the interview: http://bringyouragamemagazine.blogspot.com/2012/03/game-designer-buck-surdu-discusses-his.html
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.: Games Played in 2014 :.
Miniatures: 16
- 1664 at Schlegel's Ferry (Cold Wars)
- Montmirail 1814 (Cold Wars)
- LaRothiere 1814 (Cold Wars)
- GAMER play test (Cold Wars)
- Battle of La Rothiere (War Horse Con, March)
- LSNC: WWI game (War Horse Con, March)
- 1x Blood and Swash Valentine's Day (February)
- 2x Battle Troll (January)
- 1x Saga (January)
- GAMER: WWII play test (January)
- Beer and Pretzels Ironclads (JJ Con)
- 2x Chariot Race (JJ Con)
- Bear Yourself Valiantly (fantasy) (JJ Con)
- Fate of Battle (JJ Con)
- GAMER WWII (JJ Con)
- X-Wing Fighter (JJ Con)Board and Card Games: 2
- Red Dragon Inn (JJ Con)
- Nuclear War (JJ Con)
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.: 2014 Figures Painted :.
10 Hasslefree Scooby Doo figures
8 battalions (240) 10mm Austrian infantry
5 28mm A Team figures
1 Reaper Bones tree monster
6 Reaper Bones flame creatures
8 battalions (480 figures) 10mm Russian grenadiers
6 54mm Marx chariots.: 2013 Figures Painted :.
3 Litko buildings
2 regiments (20 figures) 10mm French Hussars
1 regiment (10 figures) 10mm Russian Hussars
6 regiments of 10mm Don Cossacks plus some leaders (60 figures)
5 regiments (39 figuress) 10mm Russian cuirassiers
5 Pulp rugged adventurers
1 Prince John figure (WI subscription)
5 Pulp Dangerous Dames
5 Pulp seamen
5 Pulp sailors
2 28mm hikers (manufacturer unknown)
3 28mm fantasy women
4 19th century civilians
6 Pulp deck guns and Lewis guns
2 Reaper Bones bartenders
2 Reaper Bones bar wenches
2 Reaper Bones women of ill repute
3 Reaper Bones sweeping women
1 Reaper Bones woman with babies
3 Reaper Bones blacksmiths (one as Thor)
2 Reaper Bones grave diggers
2 Reaper Bones dungeon delvers with packs
1 Reaper Bones man with torch and pitchformk
1 Reaper Bones female hero / wizard
12 flying monkeys from Sergeant Major's Miniatures
1 Wicked Witch of the West from Sergeant Major's Miniatures
5 28mm parking meters for Granville
10 Eskimos mounted on polar bears
8 battalions (240 figures) of 10mm Russian infantry
24 batteries of 10mm Russian artillery
8 battalions (240 figures) of 10mm Russian jaegers
24 10mm Russian cannons
50 10mm Russian artillery crewmen
24 10mm Roman legion figures
24 10mm Roman velites
24 10mm Roman hastati
40 54mm plastic ACW figures
6 54mm plastic ACW cannons and limbers
2 Plasticville Cape Cod houses
1 Victorian "Avengers" Hulk (a.k.a., Mailfaux Seamus Avatar)
1 plaster castle for 10mm fantasy terrain
1 converted Johnny Test science lab device
8 Eureka bear-o-planes
6 Pulp Delancey Street characters
1 Plasticville gas station
1 Plasticville supermarket (as a clothing store)
4 fleeting victorian civilians
3 Victorian hero figures (as the Victorian Avengers)
2 Plasticville motels
3 Plasticville mobile homes
90 (3 bases) 10mm skeletons
10 (1 base) 10mm skeleton cavalry
1 base 10mm skeleton command
30 (1 base) 10mm dismounted knights
10 Hinterland female trench raiders
1 Hinterland Princess Celeste
5 Pulp female cultists
10 Eureka rocket pack women
3 RAFM Cthulu police on motorcycles
3 Reaper Chronoscope Cub Scouts
1 RAMF Cthulu roadster with two people
1 Emissary and Prince from Pulp Sergeants Three pack
24 10mm Copplestone orcs on wargs
10 Pulp 28mm German African Rifles
2 FASA Hangar 18 Flash Gordon cities
42 FASA Hangar 18 Flash Gordon space ships
200 GW 10mm wargs and warg riders
3 10mm goblin mounted leaders (on wargs)
1 10mm goblin commander (dismounted)
1 10mm goblin shaman
15 Pulp Highlanders.: 2012 Figures Painted :.
Toad Face and two others from Pulp (Gunga Din)
Gunga Din from Pulp
Sergeants 3 from Pulp (original)
Sergeants 3 from Pulp (Wolsey helmets)
10 Pulp trappers and traders
10 Pulp Thugees
6 battalions 10mm French legere
1 10mm Napoleonic command stand (Lannes)
50 10mm French skirmishers
6 bases 10mm BoFA goblins (24 strips)
2 10mm goblin hero/leader bases
1 10mm goblin shaman
4 10mm human command stands
10 28mm Pulp mounties (on foot)
7 FASA Hangar 18 Flash Gordon kingdoms
1 crystal formation terrain piece
8 plaster mushrooms for Frog terrain
28 plaster ruined city bits
48 6-figure strips of 10mm goblins
2 VSF steam carriages for female hussars
15 10mm Eureka centaurs (2 bases)
90 10mm Eureka beast men (5 bases)
21 10mm Eureka elves on stags (3 bases)
8 10mm Eureka minotaurs
4 10mm Eureka elves riding dragons (1 base)
20 10mm hobbit militia (1 base)
2 10mm dwarf cannons and crew
1 10mm elf hero on eagle
5 elf heros
1 swamp creature for 10mm fantasy
3 28mm home guard on bicycles
2 28mm highlanders
2 Ral Partha 28mm giants to use with 10mm fantasy
33 Eureka 10mm elves
10 Old Glory 10mm Prussian leaders
10 28mm gamers (Victory Force and Reaper) for zombies
30 Eureka 10mm beast men
1 25mm Dalek
1 28mm Victorian lady with pistol
3 bases (~24 figures each) 10mm Dwarves
2 10mm Dwarf leader bases
10 Bronze Age Red Martians
1 Bronze Age white ape
5 Ironclad Jawa-looking artillerists with cannon
4 Pulp Gestapo
5 Eureka 10mm Elves riding on eagles
26 Games Workshop 10mm eagles
23 10mm Prussian generals
78 (10 regiments) 10mm Prussian landwehr cavalry
3 bases (28 figures each) 10mm fantasy figures (human spearmen)
30 worms for Dr. Who scenario
1 ERTL farm house
39 (5 regiments) 10mm Prussian currassiers
13 batteries Prussian artillery
35 10mm Prussian Skirmishers
39 (5 regiments) 10mm Prussian dragoons
600 10mm Old Glory Prussian Landwehr
5 Christmas truce figures (WI and others) (diorama)
700 10mm Old Glory Prussian infantry
39 10mm Old Glory Prussian Hussars
10 Recreational Conflict totems
5 FASA Doctor Who figures
3 FASA Ice Warriors
3 FASA Companions (Romana I, K-9, Jo Grant)
3 FASA Daleks
1 FASA Davros
3 FASA Time Lords
1 RAFM Johan Ripponoff and Doom Ray
1 RAFM sinister scientists
20 Wargames Factory British in Mars uniform
10 Mega Miniatures frogs with slingshots
8 Recreational Conflict 15mm space men / divers
2 Mars rocket sleds (Recreational Conflict)
1 RAFM elephant gattling gun
1 Hinchclife elephant gun crew.: 2011 Figures Painted :.
16 Sontarans
5 weird WWII figures
1 weird WWII walker
5 Pulp dead end kids
1 British bobby
1 1930's girl with pistol
1 Pulp nurse
1 Pulp Russian
1 Pulp professor
1 adventurer with sword, pistol, shotgun
9 battalions of French Chasseurs
6 Velociraptors
4 frogs riding gators
1 WWII walker
5 50mm boy scouts
8 battalions 10mm French Nap
1 flakasaurus
4 Hydra pirate ships
20 Pulp Gestapo
10 Hydra Valkyrie (Venusian women)
1 28mm Dixon ACW figure
4 Bn's 10mm Austrian Grenzers
6 Bn's 10mm Austrian Hungarians
6 Bn's 10mm French Legere
Other misc. 10mm Napoleonics
160 Old Glory 28mm ACW.: 2010 and earlier :.
This goes back a few years to when I started keeping track.
******** DONE 2010 ********
7 Dark Sword frog personalities
12 dimounted cavalry (VSF)
1 resin space ship
25 NQSYW infantry
7 NQSYW artillery
3 Christmas eggs
22 Hinterland female hussars
Eureka war turtle and crew
1200+ 12mm Polish infantry and cavalry
3x Litko buildings (pizzaria, large garage, two-story building)
10 Annubis warriors
11 Jurassic Reich Germans on Raptors******** DONE 2009 ********
14 Old Glory Zorro figures
6 Old Glory duelists
1 Eureka space girl heroine
1 Pulp tank
15 Pulp Chinese
2 Rec. Conflict robots on poles
5 Pulp Count Somebody
6 Blue Moon space men
3 Blue Moon space crew-swerved weapons
10 Pulp armed seamen
5 Pulp Captains Courageous
4 flat King Arthur
13 Recreational Conflict Science Fiction Lab Equip.
10 Pulp Sikhs
10 Brigade Games greasers
8 GDW Space 1889 adventurers
8 mini robots
6 VSF deep-sea diver or spaceman
10 Eureka apes with guns
11 Toads
3 Plastic Romans
12 Old Glory Cowboys
5 Pulp mountaineers
5 Pulp Surly servants
5 Pulp Police special weapons
5 Pulp 16th precinct
5 Pulp Yangtzee Gangs #3
5 Pulp Tang gangsters #1
4 Toy soldier artillerists
8 Toy soldier cavalry
5 Musketeers firing
20 1:600 ironclads for JJ
8 turtles
6 frog artillerists
1 frog cannon
2 turtle tanks
2 small zeppelins
25 Napoleonics from Eddie
6 Bowmen
24 1:600 ironclads for JJ
6 Foundry SB2/1 Gov Weatherby
6 Foundry SB2/2 Squire Edwards
6 Foundry SB2/3 Finneus Scratch1
6 Foundry SB2/4 Pikemen
6 Foundry SB2/5 Lord Hawksmoor
6 Foundry SB2/6 Squire Jacoby
6 Foundry SB2/7 Archers
6 Foundry SB2/8 Skirmishers
1 C&S Juggernaut
1 Little Einstein's space ship
5 Pulp rugged archaologists
10 Pulp cultists with gas masks
5 Pulp Istanbul Constabulary******** DONE 2008 ********
16 toy soldiers
8 Frog cavalry
16 Railroad people for frames
15 Zombies of the Stratosphere
1 Brigade Games Citroen halftrack
1 Eureka ox-drawn wagon
5 Pulp Upper Crust Swells
5 Pulp Newshounds
5 Brigade deep sea divers
10 British Lt. Dragoons
16 Eureka bear pirates
12 Eureka three musketeer figures
8 Girls gone wild
1 swordmen
3 Dwarves
1 Steam-powered flame cannon
1 Foreign Legion type guy
1 Blue Moon space ship
1 Armorcast airplane
1 Saurian idol
20 Blue Moon spies (German, American, Russian, and Egyptian)
30 Old Glory Seminole War Dismounted Cav
10 Old Glory Seminole War Dragoons
30 Old Glory Seminole War Americans
12 Old Glory duelists
3 James Bond Villains
3 merchant sailors
6 Blue Moon pulp space men
3 Blue Moon rocket men
16 Eureka Sergeant Rock
6 Eureka frogs and cannon
5 Pulp "tin hat" infantry
1 Teddy Roosevelt
2 Old Glory Seminole War Cannon
10 Old Glory Seminole War Artillerists
3 Pulp Miniatures robots
15 Pulp Melanesian warrioirs
1 Old Glory WWI building
4 Brigade Pulp robots
3 battalions of 12mm Pithead Poles
1 battalion of 12mm Polish armor
12 Bronze Age pirate women
2 pirate cannon
16 Pirates from Eddie
16 Brigade Victims
1 Blue Moon roadster
1 Blue Mood hillbilly truck
1 Blue Moon Coach
5 Coach people
12 Eddie Foundry pirates
123 Old Glory Seminoles
1x Retro Raygun Rocky Rizzo
1x Retro Raygun hero type guy
1x Clicky-base girl
2x Fantastic Worlds heroes
5x Brigade Dr. Fang and Guard
3x Brigade SciFi Characters
5x Pulp Cheap Hoods
2 Rooster Cogburns on horseback******** DONE 2007 ********
5x Pulp Mad Science 1
5x Brigade Finns I
5x Brigade Finns Command
5x Brigade U-Boat Crew
5x Brigade Germans in winter
20x 1:600 PT Boats
5x Pulp Callous Captors
5x Pulp Cringing Captives
2x Teddy Rooseveldt
1x Buffalo walker
1x Retro Raygun Legionaire
5x Retro Raygun Hoverbots
1x Retro Raygun Warbot
5 Brigade Haitians
3x Renegade Kelly's Heroes
5x Clicky base victims
1x battalion 12mm Russian truck mounted inf.
1x battalion halftracks
15 Pulp Armed Merchant Seamen
4 Superheroes
6 Resistence
6 Old Glory Pirates
20 musketeers
5 Hooded cultists and leader
9 Pulp airship mercenaries
4 Mariachi band
3 Renegade Fez warriors
3 Renegade investigators
5 hooderd cultists
5 hooded cultists in gas masks
2 Brigade spies
1 Brigade German female colonel
4 Police
11 Pulp bystaders
5 seated Dixon pulp figures
1 drunk pulp
3 Pulp giant gorillas
6 cariboo
5 Old Glory WWI Characters
5 Armed monks
5 Pulp castaways
5 Pulp jungle people
3 Armed nuns
5 Daughters of the Desert
1 Miniature Building Authority babe
3 Foriegn cowboys
2 Clicky girls with whips
2 Clicky spy smashers
2 Clicky girls with guns
1 Clicky scientist
1 Clicky Egytian-ish woman
5 Pulp cheap magic act
5 Pulp femmes fatale
5 Pulp boss creevey
5 VFSM 13 Divers
3 VSFM 14 Octopus divers
6 VSFM 21 Divers
42 Eureka "Toy Soldiers"
4 Foundry dismounted Cossacks
7 Foundry mounted Cossacks
5 Pulp PJE 5 Japs in soft hats
12 28mm Partisans (WWII)
5 Pulp Wierd villans
5 Pulp aviators
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