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Blogger saxon dog said...

Big project but it's looking great!
Keep up the good work! Looking forward to seeing this all done as I'm sure you are!

25 February 2010 at 21:35

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Hi there SD, I'm also looking forward to seeing the boards done! 5 weeks of evenings, gone. :-(

I've not tackled anything like these, before, but I think they'll look good in the end. I'm using basing gunk by the kilo!

25 February 2010 at 21:57

Blogger AJ (Allan) Wright said...

Looking great so far!

25 February 2010 at 22:07

Blogger trev said...

Hi Simon,

Hang in there, the game is going to look great. In my experience of doing these big demo games they often look naff until the last minute too. Then everything suddenly comes together. So don't despair it's often darkest before the dawn. :)

Good luck. Really looking forward to seeing the finished product.

Trev

25 February 2010 at 23:03

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Hi Allan!

Trev, must put a face to a name, sometime! IIRC you chaps have a few Romans...

25 February 2010 at 23:38

Blogger Secundus said...

I've left you a little something on my blog, I know its Imperial but It's Roman.

I for one know just how hard It is to get a Roman battle or Campaign up and running, I think you are doing a great job.

26 February 2010 at 01:17

Blogger DeanM said...

Simon:

Great stuff again - your tireless efforts are inspiring! Regards, Dean

26 February 2010 at 06:31

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Thanks for the support everyone; I'll spring open a new tub of Polyfilla, and return to the fray!

26 February 2010 at 08:12

Blogger trev said...

Hi Simon,

I should be going to Salute, so I'll definitely come and say hello if I am. I think we met before actually. We were on the table next to you the year you did the Dwarf Mine game. Although we didn't chat about Romans until later. We do have Romans, yes. Quite a few between us. Not as nice as yours though. To be honest I've been struggling to find a set of rules I like and hence off ancients since I went off WAB a couple of years ago. You keep tempting me back though.

Trev

26 February 2010 at 22:58

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Hi Trev, if you have a spare Saturday, it might be worth doing the SOA day in Bletchley, the week before Salute, for the opportunity of being able to benchmark all the ancient rulesets out there! There should be at least 10 different sets used.

I'm personally intrigued to see Simon McDowell's set played. The number of units in his game are very similar to those in ours, and it may be the rules would give us an alternative to C&C(A). Variety is the spice of life, after all...

27 February 2010 at 08:47

Blogger Consul said...

is the 'chocolate brown sandtex' the stuff you'd used to make the plowed field on the closest board? looks good! may try and scale that up for my boards.

21 March 2010 at 20:08

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Hi Consul, yes that is the base colour. For the highlights, I added a tiny bit of green, and then diluted it with cream.

But Sandtex isn't very textured; there is loads of texture underneath it (sharp sand, tetrion etc). All the ploughed fields were made with a cheap polyfilla, with texture applied on top.

21 March 2010 at 20:28

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