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Fistful of Lead: Big Battles!  A quite village...for now  Allied forces The German Empire Had another great play test, another great battle. 6 players. 16 units on the table including armored contraptions and flyers, all fought to conclusion in 2 1/2 hours with drinking and BSing included.  Upright Citizen's Brigade. Rated as d8s. They couldn't seem to keep going Low on Ammo. Makes sense.  Contraption fight! The Killenkanners torn the Allied mech open with his Kannenopener  French in the ruins  Naval Brigade in action  Luftmarines introduce themselves to the locals  Rokkittruppen land with only one loss from their experimental jetpacks...

crackle-crackle..."Fire team Bravo, what's it look like out there?" "All clear Alpha. Except I don't trust those mercenaries we have manning the barricades." "I hear ya, Bravo, but orders are orders, and I don't mind the rest."BOOM! Pop! Pop! Pop!"Alpha, we have movement outside the barricades and the mercs are shooting at each other! Some are headed this way, and they look like trouble!" "All teams, man the wall! Man the wall! Treat anything headed your way as hostile!""Alpha. This is Jenkins in the tower. We have have Rebel troops massing in front of the barricades."  "All teams! The Rebs...

Last night I attempted to show the diversity of the Fistful of Lead: Galactic Heroes rules by running a 7 player Weird War 2 Pulp Horror game. Four Allied players led by Major Victory and the Liberty League had to assault a Nazi research base located in the castle of the mysterious Count Orlock, a noble who had somehow ruled the local area for four centuries. The Nazi players new the Allies would attack, but not how or where. They had secret reinforcements ready to go in case of just such an attack. Each player had a Leader with four...

Hello, my Dearies. Grandpa Gruesome here with another Tale of Horror. It seems that nasty vampire Baron Blackheart is up to his old tricks, feeding on the locals, stealing young girls to make into his brides and generally terrorizing the countryside. You know, having fun. But the regional powers are trying to enter the 20th century and they just can't this sort of thing going on. Enter the do gooders. They're trying to destroy Baron Blackheart's tombs, leaving him with nowhere to go come sun up.  The Baron, his brideLucretia, his loyal cossack guards and some locals...  Simon Strange, Occult...

http://baronvonj.blogspot.com/2019/04/after-salute-shareout-parting-thoughts.html We're back. Semi rested, taking a day off to readjust to our timezone, and do things like update the blog and getting orders out. This was my second trip to London in 6 months, the first being my trip to BLAM. That was a great experience filled with fun players and great looking games. It did nothing to prepare me for SALUTE. I won't go into specifics, but it's massive. I've had the pleasure of going to San Diego Comicon several times. It was like that, but with miniatures. Every manufacturer in Europe was there. Almost too much to...