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Tavern is now glued on base. Wooden beams are in place for the balcony. I’m planning to have a removable back panel for the building to allow movement of troops inside the building.

I started building a tavern for our continuing Mordheim campaign: Darkness in Glücksheim. It’s been a while since we last played… Way too long! I want to add a balcony on at least two sides of the building. A platform will sit on the middle portion of the rooftop. I still haven’t decided how I will finish the back of this 2-story tavern. I’ll sleep on that tonight.

This is a battle report of a 3 players scenario written by Qmark (AAM board). See scenario here. It was a lot of fun!

Defender: German 150 points army (Aquilonien)
SS Haupstürmfuhrer
2 Fallschirmjaeger
1 SS Stormtrooper
1 Panzerschreck
1 MG-42 Read the rest of this entry »

I always wanted to have two-dimensional terrain tiles to play tabletop games. 2D terrain can be stored easily and doesn’t take much space! What I was missing was some good dungeon artwork. Fortunately, I stumbled on the excellent work of Ed Bourelle and his e-Adventure Tiles (bonus sample tiles here!). His business, Skeletonkey Games seem to have been around for a few years. He has a very nice and extensive selection of packages: dungeons, caves, sewers, inns, wilderness, tombs, desert, spacecrafts, hives, temples, lairs, warehouses… I bought a few e-Adventure tiles packs (mostly dungeons and caves) that I intend to use for Roleplaying games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, Warhammer, etc.) and for Miniature games (Blood Bowl / Dungeon Bowl rules, Mordheim with underground rules, .45 Adventure, Two Hour Wargame rulesets, etc.).

Here’s a short tutorial detailing how I am building my 2D modular tiles using SKG e-tiles.

Step 1. Get yourself a pack of self adhesive vinyl floor tile (12″ x 12″). They’re pretty cheap. I got mine at my DIY store (RONA) for 0.46$CAD per tile.

Step 2. Cut them in half. Use an Read the rest of this entry »

My friends Global and Kilimangaro played a 120 points game yesterday where the Churchill Croc dominated the battle…

Global (US/UK/CAN) - 120 points
3 x M1 Garand Rifle
2 x M4A1 Sherman
1 x Gloster Meteor
1 x Churchill Crocodille
2 x Entrenched Anti-tank Gun

Kilimangaro (GE/IT) - 120 points
1 x SS-Panther Ausf. G
1 x Sturmpanzer IV “Brummbar”
1 x Carro Armato M13/40
1 x Wehrmacht Expert Sniper
1 x sGrW 34 81mm Mortar
1 x 20mm Flak 38
1 x Fallschirmjager

Map: “Tiger Heaven”

Turn 1
Panther damages one M4A1 Sherman. Carro and sGrW 34 81mm mortar disrupt Read the rest of this entry »