Some time ago I was sent some rules by David Childs Dennis called War At Sea which cover naval warfare from 1939 - 1945. Also included was a Quick Reference Sheet
David has now sent me two more files for these rules:
Ship Stats, those ships marked ‘old’ in the type column were considered obsolete by WW2
Entered our local Poundland store. I was amazed to see they had cheap packs of Halo Clix figures.
Four figures in a pack for £1.00 so I quickly grabbed the last 6 packs on the shelf.
The figures are ideal for any skirmish Sci Fi games or for Frag
I had a couple of problems with the new stat software and for a couple of days it lost all hits, but this has now been rectified.
Average Unique Visitors per Day = 500
Browsers: IE7 = 42%, IE6 - 21%, Firefox = 27%
Operating Systems: Windows XP = 68% Vista = 19% Mac OS = 5% and Linux = 1%
Country of Origin: USA = 36%, UK = 23%, Australia = 6%, Canada = 5%, Italy = 5%
Search Engine Referrers: Google = 84%, Yahoo = 8% and MSN = 3%
Most Visited Pages: Whats New = 16%
Periods by popularity: = WW2, Sci Fi, Napoleonic, Modern, Fantasy, Misc, 19th Century, Ancient, Medieval 18th Century
I will soon put some web counters on the pages to show activity. Stats software supplied by Web Statistik
Myself and Garry played a scenario for the Battle of Salem Church. Once again I was the Rebs.
Not too much went wrong with the rules, some slight tweaks here and there as we played, I will post the updates in the next couple of days.
The really surprising thing for us was that it gave us a complete historical result so the rules worked better than planned.
I’m not to sure that they will look much like FoG by the time we finish with them.
**UPDATE. Latest file now attached.
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Thanks to Steve Oates from The Baggage Train I can now show you of his new “Lizard with Guns” range of 28mm figures.
These figures are as yet unnamed and are not on his website yet, however, Steve game me these samples to show off to you all. They should be in production very soon.
For a while now on the various wargames forums there has been talk of the “dip” method of painting figures. Basically you block paint your figures in basic detail. You then dip your figure into the magic dip solution. The figures come out nicely shaded.
There are various ways of making this dip solution, one of which uses floor polish.
I purchased some painted Sci Fi figures from ebay which in the photos look well painted. When they arrived the painting was very poor. I couldn’t get hold of the floor polish so purchased a Walnut woodstain. I dipped the figure in and it came out completely black I couldn’t see the paint underneath. I then realised you have to dab the excess off. Any I must say I was impressed with the result and it certainly improved the figures.
A couple of years ago a professional product was released called Army Painter which was not cheap when released but is a better price now. (£18 for 250ml) The outlay was alot if you weren’t sure if it worked. Once bought though it is economical. It gives outstanding results, visit their galleries on their website.
Now Cote D’arms paints have now released Super Shader which does a similar job is reasonably priced (£4 for a 60ml bottle) and being acryllic brushed can be washed in water. They are available from all your usual Code D`arms suppliers like Black Hat .
A couple of things have now been added to the site.
Search
When I upgraded the site to the new look I forgot to add a sitesearch to it. Well finally got around to it tonight so that should please a few people.
Web Stats
These were being monitored by Google but I was never happy with the result so I have now added my own software to track visitors to the site. I have quite detailed information on visitors and how they are getting to the website and if they are using a search engine what criteria is being used. This should help tweak my search engine optimisation
In the near future I will be adding a counter which tracks the number of visitors to the site together with current users at the site.
I will publish some stats here once its been up and running for a month.
Still To Do
I need to add a sitemap page as lots of search engines look for this. In the meantime I’m having a short break.