Again, these are Reaper Bones figures, I believe from the most recent Kickstarter.
This is a photograph of my great-great grandfather, and namesake, Joseph A. McCullough. That's him standing up near the front with the great moustache. I don't know the year... though I'm guessing somewhere around 1890?
It's just so a great photo, I thought I would share!
I have never enjoyed painting large groups of similar miniatures, so these are a bit 'quick and ditry', but I do think the blue with yellow highlights really pops and will help them stand out on the table.
Long-term, I hope to expand this collection to include all of the official miniatures. I have recently purchased a large collection, but it is 'at home' in the USA, so it'll probably be awhile before I get them. (Though I do have an Ogrethulhu here - thanks to a generous soul).
A few months ago, it occurred to me that I could use my Hairfoot Jousting rules to play a more traditional ball game. I could use the same figures, rules, and templates - I just needed a ball! (Mine is a bead covered in greenstuff.)
It took a little time to work it out, but I think I've cracked it. I have made those rules available free to my Patreon supporters.
Alternatively, you can buy the rules directly from Patreon for $3. Although, a monthly membership only costs $5 and gets you access to the rules I wrote for Alternate Hairfoot Mounts as well as everything else I have written for Patreon. So...
Either way - here's the link: Hairfoot Polo! | Patreon
No pub this weekend; instead we met a member's house for a bit of Space Hulk action (plus some really nice barbeque - that's pulled pork for those of us from North Carolina).
We played 'The Ship's Log' scenario from the Deathwing expansion, though it strangely uses very little actually found in that expansion. With three players, I took the aliens, as usual, while the guys took a squad of marines each. We play it a bit less 40K and a bit more Aliens, and even had the Aliens soundtrack going in the background.
This is an extremely tough scenario for the marines (in a game already slightly tilted towards the aliens), and unusual in that it forces them to go up the table, grab an objective, and then take the objective back to the start.
First squad advanced quickly up the middle, while covering the left. Squad two set-up a perimeter on the back and right. This worked well enough, but left a very tricky situation near the objective room, where numerous aliens had massed. With some clever use of the flamer; however, they managed to get a marine into the objective room.
At the same time, I had built up my aliens in the lover left corner, and when I saw an opening, I took my chance. With an all out charge the aliens rushed down the corridor. The marine covering the corridor shredded several aliens before his rifle ran empty. He reloaded, but didn't have enough time to stim the tide. The aliens swept over him into the unsuspecting man behind him.
While the objective made it back to the middle of the table, the marines no longer had enough men to cover all of the approaches, and the speedy aliens could pick them off from behind.
In truth, the marines made it further than I expect them too, and with a bit more luck probably could have succeeded... it was a tough one!
Nod Teaplanter (yes, those Teaplanters!) and his mount Gloria (left), join Tubby Tinkerpot and Reginald on my slowly coming together Hairfoot Jousting team! As I came to paint both of them with red shirts, I've decided to name the team 'The Redjackets' after that nasty variety of wasp often seen during the summer, especially in southern parts of the Sod.
After ten years of writing games, this might be the first time I'll have a bespoke team to put on the field before the game comes out! Maybe... probably... I've got 10 days until the UK release to get one more member of the team painted.
