After the Third Apocalypse - Albion Takes a Detour

The French army retreated to the next town to regroup their forces. Fully expecting the forces of Great England to follow them. But in a surprise move the English went into one of the borderland areas, following an old highway towards an abandoned scientific base. What were they up to!!

I am using scenario 11 Surprise attack from Neil Thomas' One Hour Wargames book. Not a very fair scenario with the rifle armed English units attacking the musket armed Skirmishes of the Outlanders.

The scenario has been slightly altered with an abandoned satellite ground station at the cross roads which is the objective of the English, They are also escorting two wagons to the ground station for their nefarious purposes.

The starting positions. The English forces arrive from the bottom of the picture composed of 3 Infantry companies, 3 gatling guns and the 2 wagons. 2 Skirmishers of the outlanders are waiting at the first cross road and 2 more will come on on turn 3 from the top and another 2 on turn 9 from the top left.

The English race forward while the Outlanders take cover in the crater on the right and the line of destroyed vehicles on the road.

While the English infantry push forward the gatling guns open fire

 

The English forces charge the weakened Outlanders on the road and destroy them. On the right the Outlanders hold on in their cover facing only one English company

But the main English forces pushes through ignoring its flanks. More Outlanders arrive and occupy the ground station.

The English push forward, ignoring the odds and not waiting for their supports.

At the first cross road the Outlanders retreat as they are nearly destroyed. Unable to face the English Infantry and supporting gatling gun. At the ground station the two English Infantry companies once again ignore casualties and push forward. The supporting guns race forward to attack the flanking Outlanders.

The Outlanders in the ground station have been destroyed.The ones on the flank continue their fire but are now badly outnumbered.

The Outlanders retreat having been blasted by the English firepower. The final two outlander companies never made it to the battle. The English waste no time in bringing their wagons up.

The French commander reads the report. What dastardly plan do the English have. What are they trying to resurrect from the old ground station. Sending commands to dormant satellites? Or worse sending commands to dormant missile silos! Will a Fourth Apocalypse follow the Third so quickly!

Continuing my small campaign / world. I have a few more small NPC armies in the pipeline. Not sure if they will make it though. I am also working on a map to help organise the various powers and give me a bit more structure to hang my ideas/battles from.

At the moment I am thinking that the English will be the power that is driving the narrative, seeking dominance in the fourth age with a cunning plan to conquer first Europe and then the world.

More of a way to play with the toys rather than build a coherent story.

Painting Desk

 In lieu of anything more interesting to post I am joining the fad of posting pictures of my painting desk. I am shamelessly jumping on the bandwagon before the Kardashians.

 Also I have not posted anything for a couple of months and no doubt the internet is suffering. Google's share price has gone up $2 since I last posted so obviously I need to fix that!

Here is the painting desk - not as messy as some but still messy

At the back -Silver rockets waiting for inspiration. Duckulon ships just waiting.
On the left Kangaroo Legionnaires  have been bumped by Instant Martians.
Various unbuilt kits on the right and rear shelf.

The rest of "Ben's wargame room" as my wife kindly says - or "Ben's play room" per my mum's more accurate description.
Unplayed game sitting there for 3 months.

The lead pile. Undercoated figures in medieval armour with guns. These will be post apocalyptic zombie fighters.
In plastic boxes two 30 years war armies to be painted, some dismounted cavalry, pirates and spare figures.

Over the past few months I have actually being painting. Which I don't post as my painting is not very good. My children got me a new camera - that can take photos in much greater detail - not sure that my painting efforts need that - a low pixel count and slightly out of focus works for me. 😁

Dutch Napoleonics - starting down the Nappy rabbit hole with something simple.

An army of bears in case they are ever required. e.g. an army taking a short cut through the wood on Teddy Bears' Picnic day.

Platypus Archers - to go with the Kangaroo Legionnaires - no doubt the result of some unsanctioned genetic meddling in the 23rd century

So there it is - first post for 2023. Hopefully will do better next time. 😁

Space Rangers - Lost in Space

Apologies to all my readers for the lack of posts over the past few months. I have been doing stuff - not much - and will start to post again more regularly - I hope.

Following on from my post in June on the Space Ranger air support the toys went on sale so I got some more 😁 . This one I decided to turn into some terrain. This was done a month ago but I was prompted to post it as my daughter bought me a light box from Aldi. Thanks Alex!

Not all Space Rangers get to make it home. This one crash landed somewhere and his emergency beacon was never activated as his energy source was empty.

Softer light

Brighter light

You can take phots from the top too!

Hollywood white teeth.

and a out of focus different view.

I did not try much painting as I would probably make it worse. Just a simple job with some rocks from a nearby car park. The figure comes with the plane and the skull came from my 28mm skeleton bits.