Black Powder Ancients Named - Hail Caeser

Rick Priestly writes on the Black Powder yahoo group :

"Hail Caesar is indeed the title - but the game does cover the broad ancient and early medieval periods - New Kingdom Egyptians through to Crusaders in the battle write-ups. I think the rules cover the whole period equally well - they would need a little work to cover the high middle ages - but that wasn't really the idea when we started. Ist C Romans have certainly seen a lot of action - as have the Britons -the Roman conquest of Britain being my 'thing' I'm afraid. But the rule are in the framework style of BP with lots of suggested tweaks covering weapons, formations and unit status."

I like the name. What do you think?

New Australian Combat Cams

The Australian army has gone all American. Our troops are now wearing US multicam combat uniforms with the Australian Government signing up with the US manufacturer. The current all Australian design cams will be gone forever. The multicam is for use in the jungle and desert and has been tested and given the big thumbs up from the SAS. The only thing left to pick our lads out from the yanks is the AuSteyr rifle. This video shows Australian soldiers in their new gear heading out from the wire in Afganistan.

Warhammer Historical No-More

Well, we knew things were not travelling well. They got rid of Mr Warhammer Historical Rob Broom, WAB2 is an unedited flop. Rick Priestly got retrenched. And now we learn Warhammer Historical has been dissolved. I wish I had bought that copy of Legends of the Old West.

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2010/11/10/40843

Battlefield Academy

My latest wargaming interest is Battlefield Academy from Slitherine. What a great game. It's old school style I go-You go computer wargaming. Reminds me a lot of the old game Steel Panthers. Graphics are great. The best feature of this game is the play on line ability utilising the PBEM system. You link the game to the Slitherine website and away you go. Simple. Slitherine keep a ranking record of all players involved. I highly recommend this game and if anyone wants to issue me an online challenge I am more than happy to oblige.

Belgian Infantry

At long last I got off my butt and did some painting and basing. This is the infantry element of my Belgian Blitkrieg Commander Battlegroup. And a spotter who is attached to an off-board battery of 105mm Artilley Guns.

The formation consists of a HQ, 8 Infantry Sections (2 upgraded with Boyes Anti-Tank Rifles), and 2 Maxim HMG sections. I broke a figure while basing. I cut off the broken figures legs and glued him back on the base as a land mine victim. Problem solved. Figures are 15mm True North. Click on the pictures to get a better look.

Tactics

My local wargaming store made a commercial. I go there a lot.

Suppression Markers

I have not been doing much painting lately. No reason for that really. I just finished making some suppression markers for my Blitzkrieg Commander Belgian army. Figures are 15mm Peter Pig. They are dead French figures masquerading as dead Belgians.

Warlord Ancient Battles (The other WAB)

Here's a topic I am very excited about with the release of Warlord Games Ancients Black Powder style rule book. SOCAL Warhammer Podcast has interviewed John Stallard from Warlord Games about the new rule book which is growing Internet fame as being called Warlord Ancient Battles (or the other WAB). John has stated the rules will be released early in the new year and the core writer is Alessio Cavatore of Games Workshop fame. It looks like many supplements are planned and many UK ancient figure manufactures have jumped on board in a corroborative wargamer effort to create a playable rule system.

If you want to know more down load Episode 33 of SOCAL. Link below (although you will need to listen to the English Civil War bit first).

http://podcast.socalwarhammer.net/2010/10/09/episode-33-special-guest-interview-with-john-stallard-ecw-and-upcoming-warlord-ancient-rules-system--tournament-and-campaign-information.aspx