ECW flags

Found these on facebook.  Some great stuff enjoy

Dungeons and Dragon

It stuck me today that I have been playing D&D on off for over 50 yrs.  Yes 50yrs first of all where did the time go.  Groups I played with faded away in the Sunset.  The group I played the longest with six years straight broke up.  As the younger one moved off to college out of state.   As of late the newest group made it a year.  The DM just faded away in the middle of an awesome campaign.  Now I'm in a new group with a bunch of youngsters.  Plus start at 1st level.  Because of vacation and being out of the country I have missed 3 sessions.  But that is the way it is.  I felt this cartoon is a appropriate to me being the ancient one.

 

Crescent Root latest 15mm release

The folks at Crescent root have been busy again. Their latest release is a series of European Brick building.  Yes they are not cheap but these are some of best building out there.

A little humor for the day

Have every wonder what happened to Thor's when he missed his target?

Mission Model IDF paints

Mission models now makes IDF paint.  Great stuff it is very easy to use in an airbrush. Plus levels out nice and smooth as it dries.

Can be ordered here: Mission Models paint

Easy Eight M-16-1 Hit/Damage chart.

Found one chart I missed.   M16 was an Anti-Aircraft half track.  That turned out to be devastating to infantry targets.

Gettysburg 1978 using Stars and Bars

This morning I woke up to realize it has been 40years since the group played Gettysburg. The group at that time consisted of John Thull, Bob Krause, Bob Webb, Bill Parrish, Len Jellnick and myself.  At that time frame Scotty Bowden "Stars and Bars" was the rule set for miniature Civil War.

 The idea of the playing the game was Bob Webb's idea.   Bob wanted to do an epic battle. It was agreed that each of us would provide the require Army Corp for the battle.  The only person who had room for the table was Len as his basement didn't have any stuff in it.  We built the table in at his house.  At took up the whole basement.  The sad part we never took a picture. Unlike today with your cell phone it is just a quick snap.   We had cameras with film, OMG...lol  

It was decided to play on the weekend of real battle.  4th of Jul 1978.   The group figure we could play the game in a weekend.  Little did we know it would be sometime in November of 1978 we would finish the battle.  Let me explain, Stars and Bars is very slow and accurate to the style of fighting.   The game table took two weekends to build.   Next came place the figures on it.  Well to our surprise we did not figure in the weight of the miniatures..  The table started to collapse. This put a quick stop on the play.  We had to have several thousand miniatures spread across the game table. 

When the epic battle began it became apparent this was going to be a very long game.  We sweated through part of the first day of the battle in 3 days that hot July in Len's basement.  This was the opening stages of the battle.  Once we got into the heavy fighting it would take several hours just to move, fight and resolve the results.   But it was fun. A great time with good friends at that time period.  The only person I still see is my Buddy John.  The rest of the group faded away.

When the battle end it was a victory for the Union.  The turning point was Pickett's charge.  Bob Webb came within  a dice roll of breaking the Union line.   I'm going to be 70 this year.  The summer of 1978 was one of my best years in my life.   Happy 4th of July folks.   

Perfect description of what wives think of your hobby.

This pretty well sums it up for most of the married gamers.  How many guys do you know that quit gaming after they got married....

More Normandy picutres

50 cal bullets in the gun emplacement.  You can still see the steel core of the bullets.

Back from missing in action for 14 days.

The simple way to explain is with a picture or two.

If you haven't guess it. Normandy to see where my father landed late on 6 June 1944 on Omaha beach.  More holiday photos later.  Got to recover from Jet lag first..