Battle of the Short and Burly.

Hey all, this here's a fantasy batrep between myself and my buddy Soloman.

We decided for 1850, and went to work.

I brought my undefeated Orcs and Goblins army.

3x Night Gobbo Hordes,
     1 w/ Bows
     2 w/ Spears and Nets

19 Savage Orcs

 Boar Chariot

3 Trolls

Spear Chukka

Doom Diver

Orc Big Boss on Boar

Orc Big Boss (BSB)

Night Goblin Shaman - Level 1

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Soloman brought an Ogre Kingdoms force.(Im not sure of all the exact names so, apologies if i screw these up)

Butcher

Gnoblars

2x Ogre Bull units

Leadbelchers

2 of the Rhinox Riders. (scary beasties these things, and super cool minis)



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Deployment

I deployed my forces in a concave, with the general and "bsb" in the center to keep down all those pesky animosity rolls in line and too support against the scary Ogre combat superiority.

A few from across the field as the Ogres surge forward, taking heavy fire from the Goblin war machines and archers losing several to the Spear Chukka especially.

The Gnoblars move across the field and engage the bow unit of goblins who hack them to bits and proceed to chase them into a terrifyingly precarious position directly in front of the ogre bulls on my left flank.

Combat quickly is joined in a series of charges all across the field, and dozens lose their lives, 2 hordes of goblins are sent against the Rhinox who are dragged to the ground by sheer weight of numbers.  The Ogre Bulls on my left, rout the archers, but are set upon by Trolls, a Chariot, the Savage Orcs and the Orc General.

Ogre troops take a brutal toll, massacring many of the Night Goblins in combat, but are eventually taken down, though not much is left. 

The Ogre army sounds the retreat, as they have only a handful of leadbelchers, bulls and the butcher left to fight the hard combat units of the O&G army. 

All in all, the war machines did most of the damage, had the Ogres had better luck on ANY of their charge rolls the outcome probably would have been a lot different. 

As it stands now it is an 

Average Orc and Goblin Victory.

-Your Favorite Madman- 

The Second American Civil War.

The American Civil War, was the most bloody conflict fought on US soil.  It was brought about by important ideological concerns between two groups of people in the country....



The Recent Presidential election, and growing importance on party loyalty, got me thinking about how a second american civil war might come about in a modern or near future setting. This of course spiraled into me looking at minis and my collection and seeing how i could use them to make the idea of  The Second American Civil War into a mini game. So without further ado, here is my idea on the start of the conflict that would change (future) America forever...


2065- Tensions between Democrats and Republicans reach a fever pitch, with rioting and violent protests being held at opposing political rallies and at debates.

2066- Early in the year a Democrat is elected to the Office of President of the united states, in what is considered a mockery of an election by many senators, and republicans.  Many republicans in the Senate refuse to pass any laws or even to show up to the Capital building for several weeks.  The president, makes it clear that he will not stand for this and orders a unit of marines to round up the absentee senators and have them forcefully escorted to the capital. Outrage erupts all across the country.

2068- Growing frustration turns into open rebellion with republican senators and representatives in the house fleeing into hiding across the country and encouraging radical right wing militia groups to actively assassinate Democrat senators, mayors, and judges. The president orders military forces home in an attempt to control the situation, many generals choose to ignore the order to return in the hopes that Republican loyal National Guardsmen and Militia can overrun Washington D.C. and seize power.   Other generals loyal to the president catch on, and the crisis spills over into American Military bases in Germany, England, and The Pacific Islands.

2069- Washington is taken by Republican Forces, after a 3 week siege, seeing over 2,000 dead.  The President evacuates to a secret bunker in the Northeastern United States.  All across the nation, Militia's of various political affiliations go around murdering civilians and "capturing" towns from other parties.  With communist, fascist, libertarian, anarchists, and of course republican and democrat troops cutting the former USA into dozens of smaller countries.

The Northeast, and West Coast have stayed staunchly democrat,  the South and most of the East Coast has become a bastion for Republican forces.  With the central US, becoming a no mans land of warring factions.



Hope you enjoy what you read, might paint up a couple guys here and there, unless this gets overwhelmingly positive feedback.


-Your Favorite Madman-

Regimentals!

For those of you not "in the know" so to speak, i'm writing my own blend RPG/Wargame, that is around a platoon level in scale, in a fantasy setting of my own design.  I actively involve my playtester's in building the Worlds History, via campaigns and AAR's sent to me. I hope to have a lot of coverage of the beginning of the current playtester world event called "The War of Four Flowers", and of course a lot of game tutorials and other fun information on it.  I've spent a ridiculous amount of man hours making art, rules, and background for the game, so if you'd like to give it a try i've just finalized the most recent edition of the rules with the help of my loyal playtester Chris McCollum. Its an evolving world, and you can be assured that with enough support it can and will be made into an actual book for your enjoyment and play.  

With that, i leave you with some neat pics from my site, and after that a helpful link to the site where the PDF's for the game await  FREE OF CHARGE i might add.   So if you'd like to become a playtester, contact me at impcommander@gmail.com for more details

Minis from Splintered Light, Painted by Chris Hollowell

Commander Sai, Owen Ligon's.  Uie "Creed" Commander

An Example of one of the few Wyvern's in "The Realm" these beasts are deadly

The Web Site :     http://impguard.wix.com/impcommand

-your favorite madman-