Battlefront - Name Ruleset

 Here is a great little video by Little Wars Gaming Group about the Battlefront Nam Ruleset for 15mm Vietnam. A successor for the original Tropic Lighting Rules adaption for Flames of War. 

Here is the previous to the battle report for their big game! 
A gorgeous table and great game. A standard I would love to get to one day with my Vietnam Gaming. 

And here is the actual games report in all its glory! 

If you loved that video and wondered how they made the table here is a video on the table terrain making. 

Time Fly's

 And so it is now late in 2025.. I have had a tough year.. not done a huge amount of gaming and had some major health issues. 2024 saw two doses of covid and some broken toes and this year has seen a prolapsed disc in my spine on 30th of April and then months of recovery and boom it got worse in October and now I am back on the road to slow recovery and avoiding surgery I hope. 

Gaming wise, last year I started to get the urge to do some more Vietnam.. dug out my 28mm trays of old Mongrel and Baker Company and TAG mini's and was hoping to get them painted. Also picked up some bits from Battlefronts NAM 15mm range and the rules. 

So hoping to setup my self to get back to painting and get some NAM games in next year. 
And return to some regular blogging once again. 

I seem to have a habit of finding systems and miniature ranges just after they have gone out of print. 
Certainly seems with Gale Force Nine and Battlefront merging or buyout, which ever it is.. the Nam range has been dumped in leu of Team Yankee.. Which frankly from the games I have seen played suffers with the whole Flame of War Tank Carpark issues again. 

I like the Nam rules as they seem to do a pretty reasonable job of reflecting the differing tactics of the Communist and Free World Forces in the Vietnam Conflict. 

So I am looking forward to getting some figures painted and table ready and some scenery for 15mm and 28mm built up and on the table. 


Update - I just hit post on this and then had a look back at some of my previous posts and games and wow.. 2011.. was the first posts here I made. 
A lot has changed for me and a lot hasn't. Its kinda scary. I guess that Wargaming and Table Top Roleplaying is still in my blood! 

Anyone after some more Veitnam Wargaming fund the Fields of Fire old Forum, got replaced a few years ago with the new "Reloaded" forum site. You can find it here: Fields of Fire Reloaded Forum

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The Goose is back! Back to the future!

OK, ok.. calm down.. I have only been absent for, errr a while.. shall we say.

So.. firstly! Big apologies for the lack of posts and in fact the general lack of anything what so ever. To say life has been hectic, would be an understatement. New job equals new life and new amounts of other things taking up ones time.

So now I am back. Well I hope so.

So order of the day.. err.. not sure.
Simply put. I have a plan to get a small 40k Rogue Trader gaming setup going again. Why Rogue Trader Warhammer 40,000 and not the latest version..?


Simply because, it was fun and genuine. It wasn't a rule set solely based to make you keep buying more and more miniatures. Rogue Trader did many things, but the big one, was to encourage you too play fun and creative games, not solely 1 on 1 tournament style objective based pairings with equal forces.


It actively encouraged you to creative. To use narratives and have fun.


So I am going back to my roots as it were. A trip down nostalgia lane.

A few beekies and a few orks and a mix of other things for some small scale skirmish games with plots and story and dare I say the odd mutant.. !

No More Room In Hell - Zombie Rules by Iron Ivan Games

Well, as many of you will know. I have a long term zombie horde of 28mm miniatures sitting on my painting table currently gathering dust errr yeh less of that for now.

Anyhow.. with the eventual aim of getting them onto the table. I have been looking at rules options.
Lots out there. Some commercial and some free sets on freewargamesrules website.

Lots of choice. AR:SE is a good set. Simple and fast to play.
But I like a little more of a RPG type options in terms of getting better and interactions with scenery.
Ambush Z is ok, but again a rule set that has a particular style and one I didn't hit it off with.

So, when I spotted No More Room In Hell being offered for £7.50 on a wargames store website. I thought it worth the risk.

So far I have had a quick flick through. Its not too bad. A small glimmer of hope is alight at the end of the proverbial zombie infested tunnel. So now looking forward to giving it a try and seeing what I think.

I will do a full write up as and when I get the chance to play a few games.

For now I can only comment on the art/binding/quality. For the usual £20 price it can be got for.. NOPE!. The book has a colour cover but is grey scale. It is thin card cover with stapled half fold spine. Now a few colour photos would be nice, but mostly a better more sturdy binding would be more important and I think lets it down a little.

That said, if you look after your books and are not harsh of them, it should last. However if you having gaming friends who insist on wrestling their way through a book over and over, chances are after a season or two of gaming it may to start shedding pages.

As for the content, the layout is fairly logical and I commend Iron Ivan games for that approach, as frankly Ambush Alley/Osprey and other rules companies of late seem to have lost the "user-bility" factor or even any thoughts of proof reading and seem to happily miss out content like tables?

Ok before I go off on a rant about a certain rule set that wound me up. I should say, may be I am being a little high in expectations from Iron Ivan, games given they are a small company. And they certainly seem to have produced a much better rule book than the AA/Osprey debarcles of late. So that is a plus mark in their favour.

On the other hand, getting hold of there rules in this country is tough!
Iron Ivan don't do all their rules in PDF option, and searching the UK gaming stores shows few stocking them.

Their WW2 rule set, has been around a while and they have a good spread of expantions and other bits in their catalogue.

So for now.. I wait to play it and see. More to follow!

Gaming Disasters & Crushing Victories

Any wargamer who has gamed for a while will know, the bitter taste of defeat and the ecstatic delights of victory.

But there are times, when, it is possible snatch a defeat from the jaws of victory and vise verse.
So have a look at this photo! And see if you can tell why the Player kneeling down, has such a big grin on his face?

From: http://warhammer.org.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=773826#p773826

If you look closely you should see a big line of Kroot. A white scars army on its transport tray. A ref examining the rules and one shocked Russian player.

The game was in an international 40K tournament. The white scars player (in white T-shirt) had chosen to deploy his entire force on turn 1, in reserve. His opponent, the chap with the grin, having explain he had infiltrators during the list check, then deployed his two squads of Kroot, in his opponents deployment zone, exactly 4" apart. Thus, preventing the Russian player from legally being able to enter the battle field on turn two to contest it.

Probably one of the shortest games of 40k ever!

The grin on the winners face, just says it all!
I think one of the great things that keeps us going back to this hobby and playing game after game, is that there is always that chance you will make that mistake or that move which will see you hailed king or a fool.. hell we have all done it. We have all made those mistakes, when deploying or moving etc when you suddenly think,, oops.. I shouldn't of done that, when your opponent then crushes you into the ground.

So come on then, what was your worst mistake or greatest victory?

Dice - Ever thought about them.. I mean seriously?

Over the years I have bought lots of dice. I have bags of them. I got some free in games. Some free in give aways. Some I have found on the floor, under the table after role playing sessions.

We all have them, and we all tend to have loads we never really need. Well certainly the role players do. Me included.

Well I watched these two videos.. worth a look.

And

I have to admit i recall looking at a set of sharp edged die and seeing the blemish and just walking away. But I probably shouldn't. As I have to say, I do indeed have some favourite dice. And it is because the do seem to roll well. Conversely i have a friend who has dire luck with dice.

Now I didn't think that these small amounts of edge rounding, difference in size etc could matter that much frankly! But when see quite how much material is taken off the dice in the smoothing process to remove and polish them. You realise how it can easily start to each near 0.5mm! No wonder a lot of my D20's are not the same size. They all started out that way, but depending on how long they get polished for, the sizes alter. And the chances of rolling numbers.

I think this chap sold his business on, since these vids were made. But I am rather tempted to get a set of Game Science dice and see how they perform, compared to my RPG set.


2012 - A new year of gaming..

Happy New Year - my dear readers. Hope you all had a good holiday season, where-ever upon this earthly globe you happen to be.

So 2012, its here..!

The painting schedule is already behind, given I am 6 days into the new year, it is a little frustrating, to say the least! But hey, I have plenty of time to catch up.

So far, zombie skin tone has been decided upon. Model Colour Stone Grey. Over a white undercoat, comes up nicely. I will do an update as the zombies progress.

Plans for 2012

Having sat down and cast a serious look at my model collection, I have in keeping with the spirit I started this blog in, decided to keep my gaming projects limited. Firstly for monetary reasons and secondly for time and probably just as important at the others. Space, in terms of storage.

So.. in no particular order I plan to continue my slow progress on my Startship Troopers figures. My Vietnam and a fantasy campaign skirmish project that is in the early days of planning.

"So what about the zombies..??" I hear those awake in the front, scream loudly! Well these are my first project of the new year. The others are on hold till the zombies are done! Now the skin tone is chosen, I can crack on. I still have to settle on a rule system, to use for the games I have in mind. AR:SE may not quite cut it, but we will see.

So.. that's the plans for 2012.. and so what did I find my self playing this week at the club.. Future War Commander in 6mm..

Ok, ok,, its not 28mm.. but I have for a while fancied a foray into a smaller or larger scale game, depending upon how you look at it. My regular group at the club have gone heavily into 15mm, to play FWC and Tomorrows War with. Mostly a mix of GZG and cheap toy shop buys. In fact some £1 shops have had an array of VAB type armoured troop carriers, and cheap tanks and sci-fi type flayers. Quite amazing.

Anyhow, the game was great. I won! How I am not quite sure, but it had something to do with me rolling snake eyes, twice during commands. This meant a free extra action for the unit I was issuing orders. In both cases it was my squadron of four red guard tanks. Which were able to pore fire into main cluster of my enemies, AFVs and APCs.. the resulting couple of rounds of firing, tore out his central push, then a luck round of artillery, deviating onto his commander, meant his commander was put out of the fight.

Its a very different rule set that I am generally used to. The fact you cannot be certain, your units will do as you wish, does make you think differently and more strategically. And I can see a certain appeal. I look forward to seeing how my club mates get on with it, in 15mm, as I have usually seen FWC, or Blitzkrieg Commander II or Cold War commander played in 6mm.

But until I can resolve my storage issues, I won't be investing in another scale for now.

So, anyways I have prattled on long enough for tonight. So hope your gaming projects all go as planned and everyone has a good year ahead. I will aim to keep more regular updates here throughout 2012.  So all the best.

Fast and Simple Gaming Fun..

Every now and then it is fun to have a change of pace and play a game that is fast and simple!
At the club we have adopted the AR:SE rules on the whole. Akulas rules have been play tested heavily and enjoyed by many over on the Frothers forums.

They are simple. They are inspred by several notable computergames and films and can be had for free! See his blog.

Last night at club, we had a quick game. Werewolves v hurman survivors. A simple and very bloody game, that loosely adhered to Akulas mechanics. I say loosely as we have tinkered and changed the odd thing. More on the fly than any real errors with the rules I might add at this point.

It is just a thing we occasionally do. The net result was four players and one games master, quoting dubious inuendo and film quotes regarding monkeys, whilst laughing our heads off, as our characters died in a plot that wouldn't even make it into a B class movie..  

However it was fast and simple and refreshingly fun. So if you have ever fancy a change of pace, and want something fairly simple. Then check out AR:SE, BAD AR:SE and Total AR:SE.. and give them a go.

Warhammer Historicals - Half Price Sale!..

Yes, I was shocked when I first saw a post on TMP about it. Warhammer Historical were having a sale. Given they are subsidiary of the Games Workshop, who are renown throughout all lands for "never" having a sale. It was quite a shock.

Well some time ago at the Phalanx Wargaming show, My self and Mick bought two model pirate ships complete with crew figures. That being a couple of years ago now, they have sat and never been used.

The other night Mick mentioned he had tried a Warhammer historicals rule set for pirates which included ships combat and so, when the sale was announced I ordered a copy.

Warhammer Historicals - Legends of the High Seas

The book arrived today along with a copy for Mick. Its a nice glossy colour production. Perfect bound and reasonable paper weight. Lots of art work and images. And looks interesting.

There is some history on various pirates of renown etc and reference sheets in the back with some templates etc.

I will do a fuller review at a later date. Once I have had a chance to read through it. But I am told it is loosely based upon the Lord of the Ring system which I believe GW have since dropped.

The Warhammer Historicals wild west are apparently also a derivative of this LOTR set too.
So, will post some views and reviews once we get a game or two on the way.

And of course, in the meantime. Their half price sale is continuing. Bringing their usually higher than average prices down to more average market levels.