The Island of Marganspor

Last Wednesday nights game was set on the mysterious island called Marganspor.

Two groups, of adventurers and explorers, had landed on the island attempting to find and save two of Dr Livingstones daughters that had been captured by a local native tribe. With such a large reward being offered for their safe return our two groups were prepared to do anything.

This is how the island looked at the end of the game.

 The groups started the game on the beach, at two of the corners of the table. ( The beach corner tiles with tents marking the camps)

 With no idea what was where they set off to discover what lay head. Each terrain square not being revealed until a player moved onto it.( too much fog and dense jungle to see through)

 With no map to go by the players had to keep shearching tiles looking for the village where the women are held.

 The island was covered in patches of long grass, high rocks, religious places and strange caves.

 Apart from the vegetation causing problems there was also wild animals and native hunting parties to either try and avoid or else deal with.

 Traders could also be found. These guys were helpful by swapping out equipment, food or other necessities with groups. Some of the  characters had bearers to carry food and goods allowing the characters to carry weapons unhindered.

 By now both groups had worked their way north through the island managing to avoid each other, (neither group willing to fight each other yet) but still no sign of the village.

 Ponds, swamps and massive rock skulls were found .

 Finilly one group of characters located the village. They were immediately set upon by a bunch of natives.

 The other group arrived shortly afterward and with all the fighting and confusion going on, snuck into the village, rescued the women and took off through the trees.

 The first group managed to deal to the natives and then attacked the other group as they were sneaking away but, they were unable to prevent the second group of characters securing the win.



These last two photos and the first one are how the table would have looked at the end of the game with the other coastal tiles in place and all the cards and dice etc removed.

Don't panic, don't panic!

Just a few photos of a recent Friday night game.

It involved the Home Guard, the local police force, the crew from a shot down German bomber, a highly trained unit of German Para's and a very unhappy German General.

I can't reveal too much as we intend to do this game again with the Southern Strategists.
However it was a very close and enjoyable game that came right down to the very last turn and in fact the very last shot of the game.

Finished painting the Verger, from the Dad's Army, set in time for the game.

Hodges on the lookout.

All quiet, for now.

The plane crew head for cover.

Home Guard on the move

The Germans in ambush.

The police want in on the action.

I think there is something in the rules about using cows as cover.

Some of the Para's trying to get to safety.

A shoot out going here.

The lovely Para's are from Brad's collection and the police and some civilians are from Geoff's collection.

Crashed Dornier and it's crew

To go with the Home Guard guys, I have painted up the Foundry "German Aircrew" set.
My aircrew needed an aircraft to go with them and I decided that I needed something like a crashed bomber.

As it turned out one of my work mates was able to help.

This old bomber started  life about 30 odd years ago when it was built by a young 10 or 11 year old Craig. It lived, for a period of time in the bottom draw of a set of drawers, along with a number of other model planes that Craig had made as a youngster. His parents house was ransacked by burglars and the planes were all damaged to some degree. Craig rebuilt them and kept them, eventually, when he had a place of his own he hung them from the roof in his garage. Next the 7.1 earthquake in 2010 struck and the poor old Dornier along with the rest of the model planes came crashing down. Some of them Craig has rebuilt, again, but this one was a bit far gone. Not for me however, being perfect for the job I had in mind.

 All the undercarriage parts were broken off and lost.........suited me.

 A few other bits and bobs missing but again, all good by me. Apart from that what you see is all Craig's work. All I have done is base the model.

 I added some mesh to the front to make it look like the crew had clambered out of their wreck through the broken nose gunner's area.  One of the crew members looks to have grabbed the machine gun on the way out too.

 The Foundry crew looking for cover before Dad's Army turn up on the scene.

 There is a fairly big difference in scale between plane and crew but I am not too concerned.

 I think Hodges is trying to tell Mainwaring something. "Look Napoleon they are right there"

Spotted from the air, it will not be long now till the Home Guard are on to them.

Thanks Craig for providing (and making) this essential part for my game.

More Home Guard

Painted up the heavy weapons set of the Home Guard figures from Foundry.