Baccus Indians have arrived

Finally received my Baccus6mm Indian Division. This will be my 6th Poona Division. Beautiful figures as usual from Peter and his crew!

While I was waiting for the Indians I continued my work on the British 13th Division as well. Priming, labelling and then adding the first layer of Khaki Drill colour to the troops!

Can`t wait to get the Poona division on the board though!

For my Indian labels, I am going to use the modern Indian army badge to designate the Indian divisions. This is mainly because the Star of India flag just doesn`t fit well with the label.

Gaming Lord of the Rings Battles

I have always been a huge fan of JRR Tolkiens works (NOT THE JACKSON MOVIES), talk about the master!

I have written plays, songs, done board games and made my own miniature rules, which I never played as the GW stuff came out when I was working on it.

So the game on the market today is based on the movies and while the movies are great high fantasy they are NOT/NOT The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. So the rules that are used locally follow the movies.

One of the local gamers had a good talk with me about the newest form of the game and it sounded really intriguing until I started to read the supplement, and yep right into the movie, so I am back to feeling like I might need to write my own set again based on the books.

I don't know why but it just bothers me, but it does, to see trolls wondering about in Sarumans army or orcs fighting at even strength against everyone else :/

Might be time to put pen to paper to try and get a closer to written work rules set - but I will only be able to play it on my own as I have to rights to publish :/ Ah me!

Writing, Painting and Reading

I continue to rummage through maps, reports and writings on the British/Indian campaign in Mesopotamia, not because I need more information, but its very interesting. I am in the stages of finishing my second brigade for the British 13th Division and I am still waiting for my parcels to arrive from Baccus, Empress and a company in China for dice.

I am putting together some INEPTT starter packs, these will include 6 Agents, 12 Zombies, 8 D10 and a copy of the Rules in either black and white or full colour.

For Black and White Rules Starter Set = 66 dollars Canadian.
For Colour Starter Set = 88 dollars Canadian
Shipping will be worked out when I get a request for a pack. PAYPAL is the payment option.

I would like to be able to find a cheaper way to do colour print on demand, but I am very happy with Lulu.com and what they produce.

Writing is a bit slower right now as I am working on trying to synthesize what I am trying to say for the concept I am using within the rules (WWI Skirmish type rules). I am struggling a bit with making it make sense without having to write mounds of information. The KISS principle is eluding me at the moment but when I catch it I will be progressing with mortars and artillery I think.

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Painting up a storm as I await the arrival of my Indian Division, Indian cavalry, dismounted British and ANZAC cavalry and a few other odds and sods.

I did complete the Turkish 51st Division (except the HQ stand and Engineers - which I will do today) and I got one brigade (38th) of the British 13th Division done, plus five batteries of British Artillery :)

Mesopotamia book work

So the next couple weeks I will be focused on my Great War Spearhead II Mesopotamia book. I have some folks who will be playtesting the scenarios for me up at UVIC in a couple weeks, which is awesome. Hoping to have 4 to 6 scenarios ready for play test. I have already done 2. The other 6 scenarios still need fleshing out of Orbats and maps, but that shouldn't be very difficult given the available material.

Pictures to follow of course :)