Latest video, another game of Battle Cry & Terminator Marines!

It occurred to me fairly recently that the 15 years of photos now lost in the posts of the past could be used to make a number of period specific videos for my YouTube channel. Having started with a couple from Old Johns commission work I have this time moved on to the French and Indian War collection that I put together around 10 years ago or so. 

Battle Cry.

I played another game of Battle Cry on Friday morning, this time the 1st Bull Run scenario and once again I really enjoyed myself. It ended in a 6 to 3 Union victory with the Confederate centre deployed on the hill completely devastated by concentrated Union fire, I'm sure that playing the Forced march card as the first card really allowed the Union centre to get quickly into firing line and put the Rebs on the back foot from the start. Battle Cry is not as nuanced as Commands & Colors Napoleonics, for example when the unit that Stonewall Jackson was attached to on the hill was eliminated there was no roll to see if he became a casualty, a lone General needs to be attacked by a fresh unit, so he slipped away on the next Reb turn!

Having been forced to retreat from the hill by Union fire Jackson led his unit back up again where it was destroyed by withering Union fire.

 

The Rebs occupied the hill along it's length but the firefight went very much in the Unions favour! 

Finally, David and I had a long chat on the phone last weekend where we discussed the painting of his figures. These are my first ever Sci Fi figures so I needed a lot of guidance but here are the completed first two and I am now using these as the basis of the rest of the Terminator 'Salamander' squad.