Category Archives: Game Play

A solo game of Bolt Action Modern

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It’s been over a year since I’ve done any gaming at all … mostly due to my business taking all my time and the business not doing well for the last couple of years just sucking the motivation and passion for gaming out of me.

Well, things are looking up a bit and I’m getting excited about gaming again.

The vehicles I’ve been building and painting over the last few weeks got me pretty motivated …. so, tonight I decided to throw together a little solo game to get me rolling dice again.

I used a slightly modified version of Bolt Action Modern for the rules, updated to BA V3.

I got through 4 turns so far, I’ll finish it up tomorrow. I’m having fun with my hobby again, and that’s a good thing.

Something different – A Game of WWII Micro Armor

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Last Sunday we played Bolt Action Tank War in 6mm.  This game is meant to played in 28mm so we just changed that unit of measurement from Inches to Centimeters and it worked perfectly.

 

About to start a game of TAC II

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Just about to start a game of TAC II in the Game Room. It’s been a while since I’ve played micro armor … so I’m really ready. Now to see if I can remember my own rules 🙂

 

Ready for this Thursday’s TAC II game

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Tomorrow I will be playing TAC II with my friend Chris and we will be filming the game for a tutorial video I’m doing for In The Game Room.  The board is all set up and the cameras are in place.  I’m looking forward to tomorrow.

If all goes well the video demo will be a two camera shoot with the main camera shooting straight across the table at the two players and another camera mounted on the ceiling looking almost straight down on the board.  The overhead camera will be the main view with the player view being a “picture in picture” window overlaid over the main video.

A little playtesting tonight

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Just did a little playtesting tonight of my TAC II rules with emphasis on Conventional Fire Factors and Infantry.  I personally prefer tank vs tank games in this scale, I find that using infantry bogs down the game a bit as it adds a bit of record keeping especially when units start to get suppressed and you need to keep track of when they got suppressed and when they need to make subsequent suppression checks, etc.  …. but still I like to have it as an option so did some work in that area tonight.  Everything went well, I found a minor error on the infantry card for the 3rd World Infantry so I corrected that and I also discovered that the Rifle Squad conventional fire data assumed a squad with a Light MG, so I added a row on the card for a rifle squad without  Light MG,,, just in case that ever comes up.
For the purposes of this test game, each figure represented a Fire Team.

TAC II game at Gamex 2015

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A few photos from tonight’s TAC II (Tacforce) game using GameCraft modular hex terrain and GameCraft structures and road sections.
A fun, fast paced “Beer and Pretzels” style game that lasted about two hours.

Thunder Run at Orccon 2015

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Tonight’s big Micro Armor game sponsored by GameCraft Miniatures. Good times were had by all. The Iraqis got the backsides handed to them but they took out a respectable number of M1A1 Abrams tanks in the process,,, 6 of them, that’s roughly 6 more than the real Iraqis took out in this campaign.