{"id":6937,"date":"2017-09-20T00:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=6937"},"modified":"2017-09-20T00:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:11:25","slug":"sunday-play-tests-for-fall-in-and-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=6937","title":{"rendered":"Sunday play tests for Fall In and other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Impudent Mortal "rust bunker" painted up for Star Wars Combat Patrol(TM) games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This weekend I had a chance to do some gaming and also do a little painting. \u00a0Greg found something called the “rust bunker” in MDF from a company, called Impudent Mortal. \u00a0Instead of painting it in post-apocalypse rusted metal, I painted it in gray to be a bunker in some Star Wars games.<\/p>\n

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Greg turned me onto this company. \u00a0They are Eastern European. \u00a0They seem to make mostly 1:48 scale airplanes, but they have a handful of 1:48 scale German vehicles. \u00a0I picked up two of these SdKfz 222’s. \u00a0They are pretty simple kits, but the plastic is a little brittle. \u00a0I broke some of the parts just snipping them off the sprues. \u00a0The decals seemed old, and they tore easily. \u00a0The final outcome was pretty good, however.<\/p>\n

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ICM Sd.Kfz. 222s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We also got together to plan this year’s HAWKs Armies for Kids project and to run two play tests for HAWKs games at Fall In! \u00a0The first game was Chris’ Dr. Who game involving 18th century pirates and cyber men.<\/p>\n

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Early in the Dr. Who GASLIGHT game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another view of the early stages of the battle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mission of the pirates and cybermen was to kidnap townsfolk to turn them into more cybermen. \u00a0Meanwhile the Doctor was running around town looking for the stuff he needed to invent a weapon to defeat the cybermen.<\/p>\n

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Pirates and cybermen duke it out with townsfolk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The garrison troops mix it up with cybermen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After the Dr. Who GASLIGHT<\/em> game, we cleaned up the troops, reset the town, and prepared for Dave’s WWII Combat Patrol(TM)<\/em> game involving American paratroopers fighting Germans. \u00a0I was playing in this game, and I forgot to take pictures. \u00a0Rob (on the left in the above picture) had a squad of Americans that quickly got the upper hand against my team of Germans defending the wall. \u00a0I never quite recovered, and was eventually wiped out. \u00a0In the meantime, the rest of the Germans moved toward the buildings we were supposed to stop the Americans from capturing. \u00a0We did pretty well, but in the end, the game was judged a U.S. victory.<\/p>\n

After most of the folks left, Dave and I spent an hour or so working on spotting rules for Look, Sarge, No Charts: Science Fiction<\/em>. \u00a0We made good progress on the spotting rules — enough that we are ready to put troops on the table soon for a play test.<\/p>\n