Yearly Archives: 2010

Countdown to Little Wars

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Only three (3) more days until Little Wars 2010. We hit a slowdown in production work last week when Liam decided to bring home some nasty stomach bug. It hit us all one by one. I was the lucky one it only lasted a couple days for me.

Needless to say we are a bit behind on casting and such, but we are close to being ready for the convention (only a few days behind the schedule I had setup). Alison is finishing up the last of the orders to be picked up at the convention; should be done with those today. That leaves her with a few last minute, out of stock items to catch on Thursday (She gets to take tomorrow, her birthday, off from casting). Tonight I need to try and complete some table display items and if there is any time left print out some more packaging materials (luckily I can finish packing out some items after I setup the tables).

We will have all the usual ‘stuff’ plus a few new items and a bit more in the way of Scruby figures (some 25mm & 30mm figures) on hand. We are also holding a drawing for a copy of  The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose. Anyone making a purchase from HistoriFigs at Little Wars can enter. The drawing will be held Sunday (25 April) at noon. Need not be present to win.

The Pacific

We will also hold our “Guess How Many Figures in the Jar” contest. Closest guess without going over (in the event of a tie, winner will be chosen at random from the qualifying entries) will win $20 in HistoriFigs credit (spend it at Little Wars or wait for your next order). Content open until 11:00am on Sunday, with the winner announced at noon.

Well, I had better get back to work. See you at Little Wars !

Toe-to-Toe Nu’klr Combat with the Rooskies

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The other night I had a chance sit down and try out this, fun, new game from Victory Point Games…

Toe-to-Toe Nu'klr Combat with the Rooskies

Ok, so your first question is: “What is this Toe-to-Toe Nu’klr Combat with the Rooskies business all about?

Well, I’m gonna cheat here and borrow from the VPG website; “Toe-to-Toe Nu’klr Combat with the Rooskies is a fast-playing solitaire game. You decide the payload, pick your targets and must then challenge the Soviet Union’s defenses.”

This simple statement really sums things up nicely. Sure there is more to it than that, but this description was enough to make me want to try this one – in short the game fully lives up to this description. It is a fast-playing game. Pick a target, determine the payload and go for it! easy as pie (really).

The game uses a card & chit (marker) system. Markers are placed face down in each space along your selected flight path. Entry into a space reveals the marker, (a SAM site, MIG aircraft, increased awareness of your ingress, or a random event). Encounters are frequent, and must be dealt with…

Choices, and you do have choices to make, increase altitude to reduce the chance of a SAM hit? Or perhaps go in under the radar? Watch your fule consumption – you do want to make it home don’t you? Perhaps a target of opportunity (a newly discovered missile silo) will appear? Do you hit it or push on to your primary and secondary objectives? Dont forget to use flares (handy when dealing with MIGs) and chaff (if dealing with SAMs)…

All this and more awaits you in Toe-to-Toe Nu’klr Combat with the Rooskies. Wait, we forgot about the fat playng part – an average game can be completed in under 15minutes (including setup) and with a campaign game length of 4 missions you wil have an enjoyable hour!

Yee-Haw!

Victory Point Games (my new favorite board game publisher) hits another home run!

 

Scruby Fantasy Miniatures

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Recent discussions have revolved around the almost forgotten Scruby fantasy miniatures. The short history behind these figures is:

Scruby’sFantasy figures were designed with the man-sized figures being 30mm scale. This was the scale recommended by Gary Gygax in the classic rules book Chainmail (published first by Guidon Games and later by TSR).

For those of you who have never seen the Scruby Fantasy miniatures we present some quick photos showing the figures as they are produced today (new molds using the original pattern figures)

Fantasy Miniatures by Scruby

Scruby Fantasy Miniatures
Troll, Giant Orc, Ent, Orc w/spear, Wizard w/staff and Hero

Scruby Fantasy Miniatures
Orc w/spear, Goblin, Dwarf w/axe, Dwarf w/sword, Hobbit

Scruby Fantasy Miniatures
Wizards

For full figure listings be sure to visit the Fantasy Figures page on the HistoriFigs website

French & Indian War Terrain Sets

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This past Sunday was one of our resin casting days (something we do two or three times a year). When I was done I realized that I’ve not yet posted a listing of the various terrain items we produce. As a follow-up to my previous post and without further delay…

HistoriFigs Presents: French & Indian War Terrain Sets

Models are scaled for use with 10mm to 12mm figures (N-Gauge).
All Models are supplied unpainted (unless otherwise specified, see product description).

Cabins:

The design of our cabins has been based on several sources; ranging from photos of the small shack at Fort Necessity to the cabins built nearly a hundred years later at Fort Edmonton. They are crude structures by our own modern standards; with low doorways, thick rough walls, and little finish work.

NT – 05 Cabin Set includes 5 long wall sections, 5 small wall sections, 2 long roof sections, and one short roof section. The roofs can be removed or glued on as desired.

Priced at $8.00

The cabins pictured below have been created using two ‘sets’ to show the 3 sizes of building possible.

Rustic Cabins

Fort Necessity:

Several sources were consulted during the design of our Fort Necessity model; in an attempt to make the terrain as historically accurate as possible – the only liberties taken were with the grass roof (the actual Fort used leather hides stretched over the top) and the two firesteps (it seems more likely that they would have just fired through the gaps in the palisade).

The fort itself was a small shack with a 50 foot palisade surrounding it – as this set is sized for 10-12mm miniatures (N-Gauge) it just happens to fit on a standard music CD sized base.

NT – 08 Basic Fort Set includes 6 palisade wall sections, 2 firestep sections, 1 gate section, 1 gate, 5 small cabin wall sections, 1 small ‘sod’ roof.

Priced at $9.00

Washington had his men dig a small earthen wall – which when added creates our NT – 09 Deluxe Fort Set which adds an Earthen Wall Set consisting of 16 straight sections and 12 45 degree corner sections. Priced at $19.00

Fort Necessity

NT – 06 Palisade Set includes 6 palisade walls, 2 firestep walls and 1 gate section.

Priced at$ 6.00

NT – 07 Earthen Walls Set includes 16 straight sections and 12 45 degree corner sections. Priced at $10.00

NT – 10 Mudhole or dried up pond makes a nice addition to your game table. Use for that ‘different’ bit of terrain.

Priced at $16.00

mud hole

NT – 04 Gabbion Set includes 2 ‘L’ sections and 1 straight section.

Priced at $2.25 unpainted or $5.25 painted

gabbions

NT – 01 European Tent Set includes 3 tents per set; have been the home of soldiers for hundreds of years.

Priced at $2.00 unpainted or $5.00 painted

European Tents

NT – 02 Teepee Set packaged 2 teepees per set.

Priced at $3.00 unpainted or $5.00 painted

Teepee

NT – 03 Wigwam Set includes 1 large and 3 small wigwams; domed single-room dwelling used by many Native American tribes.

Priced at $5.00 unpainted or $9.00 painted.

Wigwam Set

Combine with the Palisade Set (NT – 06) to create your own Iroquois village.

Village

Painted Models Note: If painted models are not in stock (we stock limited quantities of painted models) there will be a shipping delay of up to one week.

Our next two topics will be:

  • Scruby Fantasy Miniatures
  • Toe-to-Toe Nu’klr Combat with the Rooskies

Until next time…

Tents, Teepees and Wigwams

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Today, I’ll share some pictures of a few items from our small line of 10mm French & Indian War terrain pieces. We will have these items available at Little Wars.

European Tents (set of 3)
European Tents, set of 3 (NT-01 $2.00)

Teepee
Teepee, set of 2 (NT-02 $3.00 unpainted $5.00 painted)

Wigwams, set of 4
Wigwam, set of 4 (NT-03 $5.00 unpainted $9.00 painted)

Wigwams and Teepees are available painted and unpainted. We may add a pre-painted option for tents too – they just look kinda funny when panted, but not based…

Look for more on our 10mm French & Indian War terrain in the near future.