Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 February 2019

Pygmy hunters


Another little after action report from a nice Palaeo Diet game.

This time I wanted to test out a little special special...
I covered an entire board with jungle terrain but had some area terrains representing clearings.
The miniatures we would be using was some pygmies from Wargames Foundry, from their Darkest Africa range: https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/darkest-africa-african-tribal-warriors?page=1





I added some special rules for this game to make it more fitting for the theme.
All the pygmies had no trouble moving in the jungle, archers range was lowered from long to medium if the target was in jungle terrain to represent the poor view of the vegetation.

For the mission: The three players were set up two hunters each on one short side and had to kill three grazers in eight turns to get a victory in this game.


The hunters are running through the jungle to be able to catch the animals of the hunt.











In the end we didnt manage to catch the last kill before our eight turn was ended. We got two kills and a couple of wounded animals and we lost one of our hunters that got stampeded to the ground.
The animals fled towards our starting positions and we had been to eager to flank the animals that we didnt thought about having a stronger centre. We didnt use the ambush orders that I think could have been useful in this game and their is always the dicegods to blame.

Its really fun to see how the animals and the game mechanics behave and reacts.

But all in all, a really fun game.

Sunday, 3 February 2019

Hungergames, African Palaeo Diet AAR


We had another game of Palaeo Diet from Ganesha Games. http://www.ganeshagames.net/product_info.php?products_id=327

We tried out the Hunger Games scenario. We did miss some details with the hunger rules but had a blast trying to get some food.

We used my Kushite miniatures from Warlord Games. Some better pictures can be fount in this old inventory I did years ago.
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2013/09/tribal-africa-inventory.html 





Both hungry hunters are drawn closer by the smell of blood.


A wild stampede brakes out and one of the hunters is trampled down. 

The game scatters and the hunters pursue.






In the end we managed to catch enough game to fill the stomachs.

Sunday, 27 January 2019

Palaeo Diet AAR


We playtested the rules of Palaeo Diet from Ganesha Games today.
http://www.ganeshagames.net/product_info.php?products_id=327

I have had the rules now for some time but never taken the time to get a game in. But it turns out it was really fun.

I press-ganged two members of the club and together we tried it out. Rather quickly we got the hangs of the basics and this is definitely a game we will play more of.

The two players were given three hunters each and six oryxes were placed on the table.

I gave the players the mission to kill three of the oryxes for a successfully hunt.
And the hunter managed to do this.

It was a real fun game with interesting gameplay and how the animals behaved and so on.
I can recommend it.















Monday, 19 March 2018

Scimitar oryx


Here we have some new African Scimitar horned Oryxes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scimitar_oryx


The miniatures are the same as the previous post on the Gemsbok but I bent the horns a litle and painted them differently.
http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=144



Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Oryxes


My African hunter-gatherers will need some animals to hunt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemsbok

I painted up these Oryx/Gemsboks as I just love the look of them. They are so beautiful.
The miniatures are from Northstar
http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=144


I now noticed that I had missed to paint the edges of the miniatures, this will have to be fixed.

The will join my older Oryx painted some time ago. http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2013/11/gemsbok.html