Shelldrake's Wargaming Blog: copplestone miniatures

This last week has seen a few hobby items turn up in my letter box.

First is issue 3 of "Shocking Tales" for Strange Aeons. This arrive last week and has some interesting things in it.

There are new rules for Psychic agents, but it is very hard to actually get to use them in a game, so some house rules may be in order there.

The majority of the book is dedicated to three "Black Dossiers" (read scenarios linked together) which isn't that useful for my games, but within the Dossiers are stats for giant insects, man eating plants, Dunwich denizens and a Servitor.

The Servitor allows me to dust of an old cthulhu miniature of a servitor that I had lying around.

Also in the mail earlier this week was a crypt that only cost me about $3.50. This was one of the crypts from warhammer. As with most of GW items there are too many skulls on it, but it will do the job I want for my Strange Aeons games.

When I was ordering the crypt I also found some banana trees, so I ordered those at the same time. I now have some banana trees for my Vietnam game.

My Copplestone Castings Gangsters and Police arrived today, and just in the nick of time.

I have been creating spreadsheets for my "Mad Dogs With Guns" game and started the campaign. The first scenario I will be playing is the "Showdown" scenario, which pits a single opposition gang member against one of my own.

So now I can play out the campaign turn with some actual miniatures.

Painting wise I have started painting something I purchase over a year ago; Reaper Miniatures "Well of Doom" miniature. This lovely, um, figure is a well with four tentacles coming out of it.

I purchased this to use as a "scene of horror" for my Strange Aeons game.

Photos of all will be posted soon.

One of the fun things about "Mad Dogs With Guns" is creating your own gang.

Using the rules I have put together a gang, and I will use this post to record each character, and display the image of a figure I intend to use for each character.

Reading over the rules I have decided to create a gang with an Irish theme.

As I will be wanting to name each character, I created a name generator of Irish names so that I didn't have to struggle to come up with names.

To create a gang I have $1000 to spend on hiring and equipping the entire gang.

The first to be created is the Boss. The Boss is free to hire, and I decided to use the dice rolling system to create him.

I purchased a Gun Moll and an Accountant, as all Gangs need them.

An Enforcer makes up the Boss's Right Hand Man, and I had enough cash left over to hire two Hoodlums, two Sluggers and a Punk.

All figures shows are the intended figures from Copplestone Miniatures that I want to use to represent my Gang.

Sean Flanagan - Crime Boss