Monday, 21 May 2018

The Beginnings of INEPTT!

The formation of INEPTT took place after World War Two. In fact, it was during the Viet Nam war, when US, Australian, South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese soldiers engaged with Extraterrestrials, that a world-wide effort was secretly undertaken to get to the bottom of the Alien/Extraterrestrial activity.

But our story goes back even farther, into the age of Imperialism. In the late 19th century, the great powers of The British Empire, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia and to a lesser degree The United States and China all were having encounters with the paranormal and at an accelerating rate. These encounters even became deadly but were often kept quiet by the governments of the day!

Things changed in the year 1881 when the French, upon the death of Auguste Mariette, were able to piece together hieroglyphs allowing them to gain access to a lesser pyramid in Nubia. The pyramid, located in the ancient ruin of Meroe, dated back to about 2500 BC and as the French discovered from the translated text deciphered by Mariette, was supposed to contain the remains of the Goddess Mehit.

This in and of itself was stunning to the archeologists within the French inner circle. So, they put together an elite group of soldiers, archeologists, Egyptologists and free lance adventurers to discover the truth.
In October 1881, the expedition departed Cairo via Nile steamer under the combined leadership of Dr. Georges Daressy, the man responsible for the scientific research and Capitaine Emile Chartrand in charge of the 12-man security team as well as 6 “African adventurers” who were responsible for the safety and security of the 40-person team and the dig site when they arrived at Meroe.

The team would have to travel by paddle wheeler, river boats, some parts by camel and then boat again followed by a further trip via camel and horse. In total over 1800 km. Their journey south was apparently mundane except for the loss of a small boat to hippos which cost the lives of 2 junior diggers and two labourers.

It is known that the expedition began setting up camp at the pyramid to Mehit in early December of 1881. Native tribesmen described two attempts to stop the team from commencing a dig. These attempts cost the tribesmen over 20 dead but took the lives of at least 4 and possibly as many as 8 of the expedition.

The Chief Tribesman of the area described how one day the vault of the pyramid was breached and with it came a sandstorm that seemed to come from no where and with no warning. The storm lasted no more than a few minutes and the sounds, of what the Chief described as the “Screams of a large hunting cat” were heard!

When the storm cleared what remained of the expedition were dead, torn apart for the most part, though some seem to have shot themselves. Neither the Chief, nor his warriors entered either the camp or the pyramid and have shunned the area since. They continue to hear, at night, the cat screams like those they heard during the Sand storm!
This was the first of many expeditions into discovering the various ancient evils that existed throughout our time here on earth and continue to exist today.
In the following chapters, to give you context to why INEPTT exists today, I will detail out some of the expeditions from the 1880s up through to the Viet Nam War and the eventual formation of INEPTT!

Saturday, 12 May 2018

Laid up a bit

Hurt my back last weekend so haven't really done anything on the gaming front :(
No painting, but I did get in my Turkish Dismounted cavalry as well as some 2mm buildings from Brigade Games.

Once I have them mounted on bases I will post some pics.

I am going to try a proof of concept on INEPTT II. See if it is capable of tournament style play, which seems to be a big question for a lot of people looking at the rules.
I will be doing this at the local store, and if it works I may ask one or two of my other INEPTT II supporters to give it a try as well.

Shawn

Thursday, 26 April 2018

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.


Wednesday, 18 April 2018

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!

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

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.

S

Sunday, 15 April 2018

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 :)








Monday, 2 April 2018

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 :)