Steampunk...what else?

Apologies for a rather prolonged absence since my last post, I've been somewhat distracted from gaming by a number of Steampunk events of late. The most notable of these was the Oamaru Steampunk festival in June and the Sirculating Soiree held at Avesbury House in Christchurch . Needless to say Yours Truly attended along with a number of my hand picked Ministry Agents and of course, the Memsahib.

But enough of such nonsense, time to get back to some proper wargaming. Fortunately I have still managed to beaver away on my steampunk forces and even managed a couple of smallish trial games using FUBAR. We're still getting to grips with how to achieve nicely balance games that don't favour one side too much as we've found that troops in the open get well and truly thumped so plenty of cover seems to be the ticket.

Rather than bore you with battle reports of trial games I thought I'd include a few pics of some selected highlights and follow up in a future post with an upcoming full dress game that I'm staging in a couple of weeks.

Some of the troops still require a bit of work on the bases but I hope to have this in hand in time for the Big Game.

Some of my favourite figures are the Ironclad Miniatures Grenadier Guards and Redoubts Brits in Home Service uniform. If the sight of these splendid chaps, resplendent in scarlet doesn't stir your blood I'm afraid you're beyond help.

No shows complete without the 'Baddies'. Northstar Miniature's Prussians in re-breathers and some Automata straight off the assembly line. What will those dastardly Prussians think up next??

"Toddle pip for now Old Things".