Wednesday, September 25, 2013

As Found in Great-Uncle's Trunk

The lads and ladies over at WD3 have been mucking around with black and white painting and playing with Photoshop. So I thought I would fire up Gimp and see what I can come up with.

While cleaning out an old trunk that family legend says belonged to one of those familial "Uncles" who so spoken of quietly but with admiration, I came across a faded photograph hidden behind a torn piece of paper lining. While Uncle Ned was known to have served on the North West Frontier and in the less savoury parts of Africa, where this strange picture was taken is a mystery. From whom or perhaps from what the blood spatter in the corner came is an even greater mystery.


All good fun.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Home Guard for Chain of Command

On last year's wonderful trip to the UK, I picked up some of Wargames Foundry's rather nice Home Guard figures. I tried them out with I Ain't Been Shot Mum but the company+ level of the game didn't really fit with the HG's intended role.  Then Chain of Command came out. Platoon level, limited troops on a reasonable table - Perfect! Along with a platoon of Fallschirmjaeger, I was ready to go - but... All the lists in the book were for Late War Normandy and Eastern Front - Not my cup of tea.

The Lardie's Rich Clarke said he was open to player produced lists so rather than mope around and wait for someone else to make one I got stuck in. Ross Bowrage from the Yahoo group was kind enough to send some information my way and gave some really good feedback.  The early drafts in true open source fashion came fast and furious and were posted up on the Yahoo group. Now I am ready with the first final draft* Sadly, the space on Yahoo has run out so I have had to put it up on Google drive - so why not share it as widely as possible? So here it is:

CoC Home Guard List Final Draft 1

Enjoy, comment, criticise :)


*Yes final draft 1. I have worked with enough documents over the years to know that "final" never means exactly that.