The Old World In Hexagon

Per my prior post, I'm working on a DIY Mighty Empire set of tiles for a Warmaster Campaign.

My loose inspiration, in part, will be the Empire of the Old World.  To start sketching out the plan, I overlaid a hex field onto a map of the Empire:

There are about 28 tiles here that need to be made.  I don't plan on following the layout religiously, as I will try to keep the hexes geomorphic.  But I thought this would be a good way to break-down the different tile types I need.  

I see something along the lines of:

Costal Tiles:           6

Mountain Tiles:     13

River Tiles:            7

Woodlands:            5

Plains:                    4

That comes to 35 tiles (which means I'm counting some double), but it looks like a decent mix . . . other than too Mountain heavy?

Here's me playing around with a printed copy of the map, along with the counters I made:

Now that I've got this up, I'm actually wondering why I'd even need to make Mighty Empire tiles.   Well, too late now, my OCD has kicked in! 

Warmaster Markers

To gear up for some Warmaster campaign action, I'm planning to put together some home-made Might Empires type tiles, using MDF hexes.  I also wanted some tokens to represent the different factions.

I found some on-line templates, but decided to put together a variation with square markers (I suppose you could make them into small flags, if you wanted).  And, I created new markers for Empire, Bretonians, Undead and Araby.

Thought I'd post it up in case anyone else found them useful.
They should print up on a 8"x11" sheet of paper at 100% scale.

Enjoy!

Battle of Germantown - Post Game Results

Its been a while since my son and I played this game out, but I'm finally getting round to the battle rep.  The Battle of Germantown scenario (written by Bob Barnetson) I'm playing is from Tea for Two, a great hack that turns the Warmaster rules into an AWI ruleset.   I made the counters myself and posted them up on the site if you want to download.  For a good depiction of the actual battle map, this one is pretty good.

The Declaration of Independence and a D6.  What could be better?   Well, a beer and hot dog might add to the fun.

Chew House

The above picture is of the Chew House, the main battle objective.  The Redcoats are in and around the house (they barricaded themselves under cover of fog), while the Bluecoats are coming down the road to drive the Brits out.

Warmaster Paper Counters for American War of Independence (AWI)

Per my last post, Warmaster has provided me with some fun hours over the last months.  But with Christmas coming, my mind is drawn away from elves and dwarves and towards the brave men of 1777 who encamped at Valley Forge en route to liberating the New World from the yoke of Monarchy.

Damn, these guys look cold.

Warmaster Paper Counters

Out of print, but still available via the Interwebs.

Though I've not been blogging much about it, I've gotten into Games Workshop's (oop) Warmaster quite a bit recently.  If you've not looked into it, Rick's Warmaster is the place to start.  It's got the rules and lots of articles and variants up on line.  Basically everything you need but the 10mm fantasy minis.

Good news is that there are no Line of Sight issues with respect to hight or terrain, so while minis are preferable, paper counters work just fine for trying out the game.  The base size is 20mm X 40mm, and there a few folks out there who've published their own paper counters.