Talking about LPE on the Chipco Games Yahoo Group
got me back in touch with my friend Steve S. Steve is primarily an ancients and
medieval gamer (he is listed in the credits of several of the Warhammer
Ancients Battles supplements), but enjoys all of the Chipco Games.
Recently Steve has been conducting a solitaire campaign
using the Chipco rules Days of Knights to resolve the
battles. He has been posting the results on the Yahoo group.
Steve suggested he and I get together for a game at a newly
established San Antonio store, Tabletop.
Tabletop’s new location is only a couple miles from each of our homes. So last
Friday night we arranged to have a game there. While everyone around us played
GW or Star Wars, we brought out the Chipco rules and historical figures!
Steve brought along Successor armies, but used Fantasy
Rules! Tournament and Campaign Edition or FR!TCE as the rules. It
was the first time I had used them, but having played LPE for so long I picked
it up easily. Not enough to prevent being thoroughly defeated, but at least I
understood why!
Then I pulled out my LPE armies and we had a game of
that. It was a very bloody game.
Neither game was particularly interesting in a tactical way.
There was little terrain (okay, there wasn’t any terrain) and essentially we lined up and had at each other.
Basically, we were refamiliarizing ourselves with the rules and trying to
generate some interest in historicals. We did get a couple, "Ooo
ahhs."
On other subjects, Ray has been on a collecting spree. And
since he’s coming out to San Antonio in a few days he has had the goodies sent
to my house. So I’ve been vicariously opening his packages, pawing through the
toys, and sending him pictures to tease him. Objects have so far all been Napoleonics
from Warlord Games, including French Light Infantry, Guard Grenadiers,
Chasseurs a Cheval, Vistula Legion infantry, paints, brushes and the free
figure of Napoleon on foot.
I’ve been cleaning up and organizing my 28mm Napoleonic collection.
Ray and I long ago decided to base all of our 28mm stuff singly and then use
sabots to play any particular rule set. It works, but I managed to get lots of
units split up into different boxes and otherwise mixed up. All are now
properly sorted, but I found a lot of detached cavalry riders, broken bayonets
and swords, and missing flags. Surgery is being performed.
By the way, what is the Interwebz opinion about broken
swords, bayonets, and plumes? Do you bother fixing them? Only the “easy” fixes?
I don't like broken minis so I repair everything I can. Sometimes that means pinning pieces together. Sometimes it means some work with greenstuff and other bits to try to make things look like they should. And occasionally it means I will do weapon swaps, removal of weapons or other bits, and sometimes even doing stuff like replacing a damaged leg by sculpting on a pegleg or fixing a face by adding an eye patch or whatever. The repairs might depend on whether I'm doing regular troops or irregulars or character figures.
ReplyDeleteI don't worry about bayonets but I do try to replace broken swords with straight pins. I haven't attempted any plume replacement yet.
ReplyDeleteJim