VICTORY FOR
IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY
Yippee! I won the second ever Bolt Action Tournament in Finland!
See pictures of games below.
Reports will follow.
sunnuntai 29. tammikuuta 2017
maanantai 23. tammikuuta 2017
UPDATED: Nopat Club's Winter War event closing in!
UPDATED: Airfield -project & loads of Japanese
Our Clubs annual gaming event is next week and I'll be running the Bolt Action tournament with another Nopat Fellow Juha. Nowadays Nopat Winter War is the biggest miniature wargaming event in Finland with tournaments also for 9th Age, 40K, Flames, Warmachine & Hordes and Infinity.
I've been building & painting stuff for a spesific BA Scenario "Air field raid", that I've designed and play tested (3 times now). Read more about the scenario, test games and see WIP pics on stuff I'm working on.
tiistai 17. tammikuuta 2017
KoW - OK, now I'm convinced
Throng of Jorrim Truesteel's epic battle
against the Varangur hordes
Played my 4th or so game of Kings of War. So far I hadn't been really convinced about the system (maybe because I haven't won a single battle ;-)), this game made the difference... read on to learn why!
maanantai 2. tammikuuta 2017
Updated: Summary of 2016 & Plans for 2017
Year full of HOBBY!
What a year of hobby it has been! I'm in such a happy state in my life, that the split between working - family and hobby-life is almost in balance. Of course once and a while hobby life keeps me a wake too late, which impacts the too others and my wife might not always agree on the balance, but at least we get along and I'm happy with the "balance"!
It seems that my hobby activity level has been the same for 2015-2016:
This is more than a one blog post per week!
The amount of visitors on my blog is also growing nicely with the total of 50K visits closing in fast!
Most popular blog posts have been:
Not surprisingly very popular Bolt Action takes lead, also play testing and unboxing texts gather audience nicely. Also being linked to Dalauppror's blog has generated traffic.
Top 5 texts actually correlate very nicely on the higlights of my hobby-year: painting Finns for Bolt Action (and playing with them), play testing Burn & Loot and seeing it published and of course my Great Northern War -project, which has gathered a total of 25 blog posts and has been most active this year. It has also been the most visited "page" in my blog and it also has a strong connection to why we decided to visit our gaming friends in Stockholm -they have been our guides in both GNW as well as the Russo-Swerdish War of 1808-1809, which I think will be one of my hottest topics for 2017!
Visiting Little Wars -club in Stockholm
Read on to see the high light of 2016 in picture as well to find out about my plans for 2017!
keskiviikko 28. joulukuuta 2016
Take that LOOT!
First go with CONGO!
Kalle had been the first in our Nopat -club to acquire the quite new "Darkest Africa" game Congo by Wargames Foundry and Studio Tomahawk .
So far there had only been excited discussion on our facebook discussion group focusing on not so main stream "eccentric" games. Now Kalle had taken a decisive action and announced a demo game to held. This led to 5 club members to announce themselves to come and play or watch. I "volunteered to play" and this lead to frenzied painting to some African Forest Tribe warriors I had started earlier...
sunnuntai 11. joulukuuta 2016
GNW: Battle of Klissow (Klesow) 1702
Lion of the North vs. August II the Strong
The Battle of Kliszów (Klissow) (Klezow) took place on July 8 (Julian calendar) / July 9 (Swedish calendar) / July 19, 1702 (Gregorian calendar) near Kliszów, Poland-Lithuania, during the Great Northern War.[7] The numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of August II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, was defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII.[8]
Source Wikipedia.
After beating Danes in Humlebaek and Russians in Narva Charles turned his attention towards his cousin
Augustus, King of Poland and Electorate of Saxony. Their first encounter was fought in Klissow.
Charles was so arrogant, that he hadn't even scouted the enemy forces and was surprised to find the well positioned
behind obstructive terrain and more superior in numbers than he had expected... this demanded decisive and innovative moves...
Read on to find out, whether history was repeated or...
perjantai 2. joulukuuta 2016
Bolt Action: Assault on the Mannerheim -defensive line
On 30th of November was the 77th anniversary of start of the Winter War, where Soviet Union started bombing targets in Finland and assaulted the Finnish soil - all without a declaration of war or other warning. This nasty habbit they still seem to have...
It has now become a tradition to play a Winter War battle on this date. This time it was me playing the Finns, defending the Mannerheim-line and Martti and Jussi attacking with a division of Russians each! Kalle acted as the umpire (and as an advisor for trhe Russians), Juha played the role of a war reporter. Pictures from all involved are included in this AAR.
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