Self Hibernation Campaign Rankings

At present the Campaign Rankings are:

LIEUTENANT GENERALS:

John                     68 CPs

MAJOR GENERALS:

Mike                     70 CPs

Paul                     65 CPs

Mark                     60 CPs

Dave                     56 CPs

BRIGADIER GENERALS:

Rupert                   36 CPs *

Phil                     16 CPs *

TEAM RANKINGS

Team CSA                 3.0 
Team USA                 3.0 

I have published rankings at one of the key player's request, so that you guys can make the best choices on what to do in this final stage to jockey for position to be overall campaign winners as determined by your Charisma Point level.

Overall positions have not changed since last update but CP spread has pulled everyone together, more than in previous rounds.

I have changed calculation on CSA/USA Rankings as Rupert seems to have parked his campaign bus in the lay-by of life and it wold be unfair to drag down Mark & Mike's results. Thus overall the two warring parties are actually neck & neck.

There will be a 1865 Campaign Rewards Phase but this will not be as extensive as the ones so far....

Minor victories can be claimed by being on the Winning Side!

Off the Workbench 22/7/20

Just three figures completed in the last week or so, being kept busy with the ins and outs of the Siege of Petersburg!

Posting these as they are maybe of interest, in that they address the ongoing Border Ruffian project but also the potential Ancient Greek - 'Mortal Gods'  - opportunities talked about by John.

First-up is three shots of an Immortal Miniatures (now Warlord) ancient Greek unarmoured character, with Helmet, Shield and Sword.

Side on view of figure

This chap is out the box, glued together and placed on a 20mm MDF disk (2mm deep).I undercoated in white as usual, used a cream colour for his tunic, Brass and steel for all else and detailed the shield with leather and wood backing, red rope grips and I printed a Shield design that I attached to the figure with PVA glue and lashings of matt varnish.

Rear view of figure

Figure looks respectable but thinking  may look to get a frame of the Victrix Ancient Greeks to contrast and compare.

Front view of figure, with printed shield design

Next up is an Elizabethan Irishman armed with a matchlock musket, sword and large knife. I'm really quite pleased with this figure, a mash-up of plastic Victrix Anglo-Danes and Warlord ECW Musketeers. Again the figure was undercoated in white, then painted with appropriate colours. 

Irish Kern, armed with Musket

The right arm moving to steady the shouldered musket is actually from a Gripping Beast Arab Light Cavalry box, now that I come to think of it!

Rear View

Finally we have a Warlord ECW Pikeman, with blue bonnet and I'm thinking that this guy can pass for an Elizabethan pikeman if you don't look too hard and don't flood your army with too many similar looking figures.

Front view of Pikeman

Rear view of Pikeman

Daleks without the 'R'

By way of a change, a quick video of some Dr Who Daleks that I painted some time back.

The figures are really cheap, originally from the front of a magazine (I believe) and cost bust a few pence each. You can buy them off eBay in packs of 10 or 20+ and I have simply glued them to a 2 pence (or similar sized MDF disk) and given them a wash in Army Painter Dark Tone.

Once the wash was dry I used a silver 'Sharpie' marker pen to add the disks on the body work, painted grills silver and added orange lights on their heads and a sky blue dot for their eye.

Job done after another coat of matt varnish. I must admit it could be argued that they should have a more glossy finish, that, is something I'm considering when I get round to buying a semi-gloss finish varnish spray...

... until then - they'll do!

Dalek Roles

Currently have 20 x Red Daleks, 6 x Blue, 12 x Light orange, 4 x Dark Orange, 2 x Green, 2 x Yellow and 2 x White. You can see what they are for basis picture above!

Cheap Dr Who Figures available from eBay,
if you look carefully!

Border Ruffians, Hired Help #2 - The Irish

So just completed a batch of 36 Perry Miniatures 28mm Irish, these were made as part of the Perry's War of the Roses collection but are eminently suitable for use in the later Elizabethan period as well.

In addition to the Perry figures there is one Redoubt Miniatures Scot's Chieftain, that I though t looked much more Irish than Scots, so he is being resented here as 'Big Colm', one of the Irish leaders.

All figures have been painted in distinctive, yellowish undyed  material used to create their garments, a number have colourful quilted jackets or armour and robes etc to signify their higher status.

Three leaders plus a standard bearer and a piper

'Big Colm', with the red plaid over his shoulder, acme with a broken arm, I added a shield arm from he Gripping Beast plastic Norman Knights kit and created a usable figure again....

View of six Irish Archers

And a slightly different angle

The archers would be one of the lowest levels of warrior in Irish society, along with the Javelin men who between them could only afford basic self made weapons.

Six Calivar men, 

... and a different angle

Two of the Cavlivar men have padded jackets on, signifying higher social standing, they can afford to buy a gun.

Six Javelin men

... From the Front.

The last of the 'Kern' type warriors, a couple of these guys have padded jackets and half of them carry a small, targe like, shield

Unarmoured Gallowglass warriors, each holding a large two handed sword or axe.

More of the unarmoured Gallowglass```

The Gallowglass where formidable close contact fighters, armed with large two handed swords and pole axes, Queen Elizabeth viewed them as so dangerous that any captured Gallowglass was to be executed to prevent him returning to the fray.

Finally Armoured Gallowglass with a variety of armour types, mostly mail but also some plate

Another view.

Eagle eyed viewers may have noted that one figure is missing, this is a second piper, which I forgot to take a snapshot of when doing the leaders!

Self Hibernation Campaign Rankings

At present the Campaign Rankings are:

LIEUTENANT GENERALS:

John                     65 CPs

MAJOR GENERALS:

Mike                     67 CPs

Paul                     60 CPs

Mark                     55 CPs

Dave                     50 CPs

BRIGADIER GENERALS:

Rupert                   34 CPs

Phil                     16 CPs *

TEAM RANKINGS

Team CSA                   3.0 
Team USA                 4.0 

I publish the rankings now - before 1864 Campaign Rewards Phase so that players can make the best choices on what to spend their rewards on, remember overall campaign winners is determined by your Charisma Point level.

There will be a 1865 Campaign Rewards Phase but this will not be as extensive as the ones so far....

Minor victories can be claimed by being on the Winning Side!

Self Hibernation Campaign - McClellan runs for White House

By Robert Hope

George Brinton McClellan aims to ascend the steps to the White House

As a southern paper we are able to independently report that George Brinton McClellan has openly declared his entrance on to the political stage, to be nominated by the Democrats to run against Ab Lincoln the current incumbent in the 1864 US presidential election. This announcement follows the recent Union debacle at Cold Harbour which saw the common union soldier being sent to their slaughter against prepared fortifications by unthinking, uncaring commanders.

We understand from sources that McClellan has not resigned his commission so technically he is still a Yankee general. Should he ascend to the steps to the White House, insiders’ state that he will resign his commission. Though personally he supports the continuation of the war and the restoration of the Union (but not the abolition of slavery), the Democratic party has however called for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a negotiated settlement with the Confederacy.

On this important issue of a peace with honour agreement, on behalf the Confederacy General Green said:  

“In the north, to ever increasing numbers, the current President’s non compromising attitude to galvanising the war effort against our southern values is increasingly being seen as an impediment to every lasting peace. This is the opportunity for the great silent major of fellow Americans to vote for an honourable, permanent and happy peace.

From reports in northern papers it is clear that Abe Lincoln continues to try out news brooms. However, a new broom sweeps clean. It is the old broom such as McClellan that knows every corner. In order to bring hostilities to a swift and honourable end, we invite the support of the great silent majority. We trust and hope that they will vote Democrat in the forthcoming presidential election.