Andrew Oates
@captainsquarebear.bsky.social
Woodworker, Lab Tech, Miniature-Painter, Pixel Artist, Sailor, Bear. Probably a few more things, but I can't recall.
I've been making a lot of preserves in the last month or so, mostly jams, apple butter, and a whole variety of stuff. But I just had a full batch of pear-ginger jam not setup properly, and will probably have to be thrown out. Sad times.
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We had a few games of trench crusade this last week, including some of the new carcass front stuff. That Nineveh Novus scenario is fun, but the lunatic monks hit like a truck. Most fun part was using puppet master to pull my opponent out of melee with the monks, good laughs all around. Cheers!
Had some trench crusade games at the house this evening. The one pictured was Great Hunger against Eire Rangers, where the rangers just squeaked by, destroying the supply caches. My buddy wants help making a better great hunger list, so now I'm trying to figure that out. Potentially fun stuff.
Last week I set up a wargaming board for trench crusade that I was really very happy with. Since only one game got played on it, I may try and re-make it this week. I also got a fancy gunboat printed (an stl by Nate Feyma), and I now have to hype myself to paint it. Artillery witch for scale.
Also this is my favourite illustration from the Carcass Front book. It brings me great joy:
Our Trench Crusade games day was a success! Everyone got at least one game in, and some got several. one giant game went for over 3 hours, featuring a standard New Antioch vs. The Great Hunger, battling for control of the high ground. Overall a very great 12 hour day of games. Cheers!
Tomorrow I'm hosting a trench crusade games day for my local group, with 2 tables setup, a bunch of possible scenarios to play, and I think 7 to 9 people attending throughout the day. Should be a fun time!
If I were hosting a #trenchcrusade event at my house this weekend, what kind of themed sacks should I serve?
Just a little WIP today, a Polish TKS tankette, made appropriately weird-war, and awaiting a paint scheme. With two Wargames Atlantic figures for scale. I was jokingly thinking of using this as a mechanized heavy infantry for trench crusade, as it would be funny.
I got the rocky cliffs terrain done, and am pretty happy with how they turned out. Then last night they got used in some trench crusade games, where we finally played the Dragon scenario. It rampaged around, destroying a whole lot of terrain, and remaining undefeated by the end. Good times!
So the latest issue of Wargames Illustrated has a Trench Crusade unofficial mercenary, the Maori warrior. I think this is awesome (both the Maori, and magazines making third party TC content). His battlekit says he is armed with a Taiaha (a spear of some sort), but it does not give a statline.
Another lovely day of working on minis (and terrain). I am waiting on my cliffs basing to dry, but in the meantime I finished a forklift and pallets for scatter terrain. I also finished a bog giant, so I can make my lion rampant dark age force into a dragon rampant force (bowman/halfling for scale)
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I've gotten up to a fair bit the last little while. I finished a giant tank for trench crusade (the Dragon), which took a while to get done. I also started on some rocky terrain for the high ground scenario (and hopefully for lots of other games too). I also made a lot of jam. Cheers!
Today I am going all in on making preserves. Apple butter has been slow-cooking for 6 hours already (just 4-5 more to go), and now I'm making some blackberry jam. there are also plums in the fridge for jam, but I think that will be tomorrow or later. Tis the season.
A few random miniatures things from the last little while; a food truck finally painted up, a complete (24 point) Quar weird war army for Xenos Rampant (with a human auxiliary light infantry), and a Monitor ship printed and primed for my ongoing harbour terrain for Trench Crusade. Cheers!
Yet more miniatures! Some dark age archer and slingers, a Mordheim halfling, I finally finished all 6 dark age cavalry I had built (for Pillage or Lion rampant), and my current court warband for Trench Crusade (yes, no praetor or saint). I seem to be finishing random projects on my shelf, hooray!
Alrighty, got the proper photo-box out, and took some finished pictures of my Albigensian Host - my trench pilgrims for Trench Crusade. Mostly kitbash and proxies, and a lot of fun to make. These models also spent Way to long sitting unpainted on my shelf, as I couldn't decide on a colour scheme.
Ah, turns out I did get some good pictures of one of yesterdays trench crusade battles, I just somehow missed them. I still didn't get any good pics of my battle, where my heretic naval raiders were getting trounced by my friends Court warband. What a shame.
Had more fun trench crusade last night, and although I did attempt to take pictures of the battles as they went, the pictures were too blurry. I did manage the gameboard beforehand, and some pics of my newly finished Trench Pilgrims (my Albigensian Host). Cheers!
Successfully washed my vehicle in the front driveway - while people were wandering past, and somehow managed to avoid any comments of "you missed a spot" or "can you wash mine next?". Truly shall wonders never cease.
Had a few games of Trench Crusade at the house today, first I played my New Antioch against my buddies Court, followed by a rematch where another friend used my warband (he forgot his own). Both fights were real close, which always makes for the best battles. I also finished a sloop, cheers!
Just finished up some more fellows for trench crusade (some more trench pilgrims and ecclesiastic prisoners), as well as some docks and such. The docks are from the lake town terrain set from GW, and it went together really nicely. I may have to get more. Productive couple days.
The other night I was watching a friends art stream, and painting minis, and apparently I should not have sat on a padded kitchen chair for nearly 5 hours. My back was so sore that I spent most of yesterday just sitting in my giant comfy "grampa-chair" recovering. Still painting, of course.
Had an intro game for a new trench crusade player the other day, which came out pretty evenly by the end. New Antioch vs. Iron Sultanate. I am in the process of making another HMI, and also trying to figure out how to make a better sultanate list (any suggestions welcome). Cheers!
Back with another Trench Crusade game, this one featured an ongoing hurricane of blood, obscuring ranged attacks and impeding charges (presumably all the mud). My Pilgrims fought against my buddy's Court, and somehow I steamrolled him. First time my pilgrims have accomplished anything, Hoorah!
Why work on second novel in a series when you can start a new novel that has WW1 ghost tanks roaming Doggerland!
And some more Trench Crusade minis finished; A second Artillery Witch (the one with the pistol), some Trench Pilgrims finally finished (I was debating a colour scheme for too long), and an AoS Knellmage that I'm going to use as an Observer and a Chorister (for their respective forces). Cheers!
