Gaming - Revolutionary in fighting - Back of Beyond /RCW

 We had a game today with a bit of  in fighting , Left and Right Socialist revolutionaries try to sort out who is the most revolutionary. Set of course in the Russian civil war 

Martin had the table set up ready to go . His and Andy’s guys on the right . John’s and mine on the left.

Martin wanted to use Bolt Action rather than STEA. The key differences :-

1) BA activation by dice colour and then choose which unit to apply it to , versus specific unit activation by card - both are randomised . BA then need to activate based on morale roll . 

2) There seems to be desire to know exactly how far your units will move (BA ) rather than rolling for it (STEA) and also using officers to to give a move bonus . 

3)the to hit d6 working outs are similar  , but with BA you need to convert the hits to kills. STEA you are just dead. . STEA treats heavy wepeons  / guns, vehicles very differently in terms of damage effects. 

4) melee favours the active side in BA with the attacker causing casualties first . STEA it’s effectively simultaneous with both sides dicing 

5) both have a morale system that accumulated losses impact on . More morale tests in STEA 

Both have their plus points . The movement of BA and the melee for  STEA  We had a good game  . Though Andy failed a hell of a lot of activation rolls which would have made a big difference 

Set up

My new cavalry deploy 

Our units in the centre 

We are also looking for campaign character- we find her in this building .

Andy’s sailors move toward the wood .

My field gun deploys to give support to my advancing infantry .

The firing starts - Andy’s gun crew decide to bug out before firing a shot

My sailors advance 

 

My forces mass and move forward 

My cavalry advance 

Advance toward to armoured car and seek cover 

 

My cavalry have destroyed Andy’s cavalry and are on his back board .

 

Altogether a good game . Somewhat dominated by Andy’s inability to activate consistently which really caused him issues . My dice were pretty good and lots of new units did well .the Left revolutionaries celebrated their victory 

I am looking at building a few buildings from scratch for this too . Example ideas below

Always things to do ! 

Back of Beyond - The Black Sea sailors

 This weeks completion is the lads of “Torpedo Odessa”. A unit of Black Sea sailors - again from Copplestone .

Really enjoyed painting these guys 

 

I have also worked on their boat . I had the good guys from the Pendraken laser room make me up MD`f hull shapes that were clamped together to make a hull about 300mm long . I already had some armament from the paddle steamer model which is magnetised so I only needed to add some of that to enable to swap over .

I am waiting for the command set turning up for these and have designed a suitable flag 

I left it with a simple open superstructure for now . The captain , cox and wheel were all from Ironclad 

I have added tubing to take flag and a main mast that are removable to make it useable for various nations and also easier to store . 

6 layers of full hull , with two extra on the front .

Once it was glued together it was sealed with PVA and primed with an acrylic / polyurethane primer .

A simple paint job after that . 

The funnel is made from a large metal air intake from the Ironclad stuff .

 

I have more naval weaponry on order , including torpedo launchers . I have also commissioned mark 2 longer wider , more detailed supersctrucre etc as a result if the learning with this one .