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I never glue trees or building to terrain boards. I always base them separately
Using the rigid insulation foam for tiles allows me to pin my terrain
Yes and yes. I put very thin nails under most trees to pin them in the boards. Some other trees on bases, and the houses and fields, are also placed on the boards where needed for each game.
can you show me (with pictures) how to store your tiles?
I just need a wall. 😉 😉 😉
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https://www.anargader.net/If I’m not mistaken the platoon you describe first is from mid-1916. I believe in late 1917 the number of fusils-mitrailleurs and lance-grenades increased. At the end everyone was very probably trained to use any of these infantry weapons if needed and available.
Also, in any time in modern history the French tendancy to not apply regulations has often been as strong as the will of the French administration to write more regulations 😉 and there certainly was a large ammount of “système D” (that means people must “se débrouiller” or in slang “se démerder”) and of the fictional “article 22” (a favourite of my grandfather) “Article 22: on se démerde comme on peut”.
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https://www.anargader.net/Meanwhile, there is also a panic around the lake. Creatures appeared in the water, they come ashore, and they begin to destroy angrily the shops and tents! The traders and fishermen (including the three Kobolds) run away as fast as they can.
The mercenaries at the tower shoot a few arrows; then they understand that these creatures are Lizardmen trying to collect the eggs that were on sale to bring them back in the water.
So the mysterious “turtle eggs“ that some traders were cooking and selling to travellers were, in fact, eggs of Lizardmen.A Dwarf on guard duty above Karadog’s mine blows his horn.
This time it’s a group of Half-Orcqs approaching with threatening gestures.
At the same moment (perhaps on purpose) a group of Orcqs, accompanied by an armoured Ogre, advances towards the Dwarves of Thorgrim.
Some Goblins who were not far watch all this but do not interfere.
The Half-Orcqs arrive near the mine. The Dwarves (not in number, as some of them are still exploring the nearest mountain) shut themselves in.
The unexpected arrival of Hans Stahlarm and his soldiers changes the situation.
The Half-Orcqs recoil to avoid contact with the human infantry, while Stahlarm and another mounted warrior charge them from behind, and the Dwarves come out of the mine to take part in the fight.
In the other skirmish the Dwarves of Throgrim, with the help of some of Mitheglas’ mercenaries, have killed or routed the Orcqs. Only an Ogre in heavy armour, who seems drugged, is still fighting.
Having surrounded him, but lacking staff weapons to kill him easily, Thorgrim and Mitheglas (who have finally understood that in this campaign it’s no use to send their own warriors to death if it can be avoided) decide to recoil and let him go.
The Half-Orcqs are surrounded too, and surrender. Stahlarm tells them to lay down their weapons, they will work in the mine for the Dwarves. Karadog then accepts to swear allegiance to the human King (although it’s almost symbolic).
Far from there, the Halfling traveller has eaten his third breakfast of rat farci, and mounts his pony to continue his journey; and the merchants visit all possible customers near the first mountain.
The Half-Orcq prisoners are led towards the mine; then a Goblin wolf rider comes peacefully towards Stahlarm and asks to talk with him.
Another Goblin arrives to talk to Thorgrim and to Mitheglas. The Goblins say that they apologise for the incident with the uncontrolled dragon (Kiki). They swear that their attack against the Royal mercenaries three weeks ago (in the previous game) was caused by the unexpected arrival of Mitheglas and Thorgrim north of the mountain, but that they want peace with the kingdom and with the Dwarves. They invite everyone to a feast.
Stahlarm, Mitheglas, and the two Dwarf chiefs, are cautious about a possible trap, but they accept, thinking that it could help them to settle there eventually.
Goblin musicians (including a violonist) and a Troll with a large drum play music on a rocky outcrop. The howdah dragon that appeared in a previous battle is there too, peacefully carrying beer barrels in its tower.
Everything goes well; although some strange people are seen near the event (an unknown warrior, a Death cleric, a witch, two Shadow Elves…)
The Goblins say again that they want to live in peace; then, they ask who represents the King. Stahlarm immediately answers that’s him. The Goblins offer him a gift for the King: a very young, but already quite big, three-horned dragon. It seems very friendly. They say it will grow big if well-fed with plants and bushes. Stahlarm gives this job to a man he had recruited near the lake.
Then Thorgrim and his Dwarves continue their journey with the Bishop; the Dwarves want to visit the farthest mountain, the Bishop is still looking for the holy place where saint Nainain met the spirit who inspired his faith. Some Goblins up the pass seem unhappy but let them go through.
On the other side of the mountain they find a deep volcanic crater which seems full of unnatural darkness. They cautiously come near. Stahlarm, who took another path, joins them. The Bishop, with help of the other magic-users, tries to dispel the mysterious darkness. They fail a few times, but, still trying, they succeed: the darkness disappears and they see all the stars of the sky reflecting inside the crater.
A small temple appears, nearly the same as the other temple in the village of St-Nainain. The Bishop and two faithful Dwarves walk up the path. A kind of ethereal ghost is in their way but the Bishop dispels it with ease, it was perhaps a last illusion.
In the small temple they find an ape-shaped creature who shouts they must go away; and who adds in a desperate tone that he is the spirit Humandwarf who inspired saint Nainain to found his religion, but that nobody believes in him any more, that even the adepts and the Bishop do not really believe and that they pray without conviction, this lack of belief has rejected him in this unholy shape for eternity.
Hearing this, the characters – including chief Thorgrim – say that, yes, they believe in him! and they begin to sing the holy name of saint Nainain on top of their voices (we sadly regret not to have filmed the players, who actually did this near the gaming table!)
After a short moment, the spirit regains power, and changes himself in an animated statue of the saint.There is a small treasure in the temple, money that the saint had left there at the end of his life, made of donations of people and of King’s subsidies.
Unusually for a RPG no one tries to take it, it would obviously be bad politics.
Even Stahlarm who is always looking for treasure does not touch it; he even adds a small donation from his own purse…
…and then he tells the Bishop that, obviously, the god who lives in the temple will have to pay housing tax and property tax as everyone else.Some days later, people will hear that a man who had disappeared some weeks before (before the previous game where some characters were already looking for him), probably a royal spy, had been found alive in a mountain cave and is now free. He was prisoner of the Goblins who had captured him when he entered their territory and had been uneasy to release him by fear of creating a new incident. Some people say that Mitheglas found him, others say it’s an unknown Halfling who found him. Mitheglas and Stalharm say they will not blame the Goblins for this.
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https://www.anargader.net/…and a good idea it was: a squad of French soldiers of la Marine (NPCs) appears and attack. They receive heavy fire from the Virginians and must retreat.
The French survivors are pursued by the Scottish soldiers (who have finally understood who the Virginians are) and their Iroquois friends …and are caught near a rocky outcrop, blocked by the English and Rangers coming back from the North. The last French survivor, an officier in native clothes, must surrender. The Iroquois accept to let this prisoner to the British, although keeping him for a festive evening of torture was also an option.
The Virginians explain to the other British where the fort exactly is. The fort is then placed South-West of the gaming table; the farthest and now useless terrain tiles are removed and some are placed on each side of the fort with a different landscape to give more room to action.
Coming near the fort, carrying a few ladders they cunningly took in the village, the British can see French soldiers (NPCs) defending it.
Just when the attack begins …two large canoes appear on the river!
They are Huron warriors (NPCs) coming to help the French. Some of the British must turn to face them to protect those assaulting the fort.
However the British now have the advantage and they take the fort. The surviving Hurons go away.
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A similar scenario was played some days later, also in Rennes, with only one player (running both the Virginians and the British) and a GM; and two weeks ago in Carhaix with the same GM and six players, most of them not knowing the rules, this time the players were all on the French side (same basic story but reversing roles and West to East) and had only 6-8 characters each.
We do not often post AARs of different games of a same scenario but in this case we found interesting to watch the differences; the two other AARs are here in French:
https://www.anargader.net/t3673-argad-mais-ou-qu-c-est-y-donc-fort-wilderness-2#33829
https://www.anargader.net/t3674-argad-mais-ou-qu-c-est-y-donc-fort-wilderness-3#33837
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https://www.anargader.net/Hi,
A new PDF update (October 2023) of the generic Argad rules (a mix of skirmish wargame and RPG) is available in English (and is always free).
The rules were first published in 1996 …and have improved since. 😉 The previous version of the generic rules was made in 2020, this new update keeps the same presentation and pagination and does not change the overall system; a few things are better explained, some points outdated by recent extensions are improved, suggestions of optional rules have been corrected. 🙂
Direct link:
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/pdfs/argad-en.pdfEverything else, and links to some interesting AARs, here:
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.htmlThe same update in French (September 2023) is here:
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/index.htmlhttp://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/If you use large polystyrene tiles, 2 cm or 3 cm or 4 cm thick on your gaming table, you can carve it into them.
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