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Verrotwood Game 9 - How Winter kills

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Introduction A savage winter has descended upon the Verrotwood. Beast, man and things less easily categorised, struggle over the scraps in a desperate battle for survival.  When a flock of carrion birds is seen circling in the sky, the cultists of Wisentii and The Uncoiling of Beiysss set out to see if any sustenance can be gleaned from the forest.  The last stragglers from a herd of wild cattle have become stuck in deep snow and scavenger birds have spotted them.  This has alerted not only the cultists: a pack of desperate wolves (Forest Beasts) and a bear (Greater Forest Beast) have also descended on the clearing.  The cultists will have to fight hard to take any prizes. Set up This game is played on a small board over four rounds.  The four stranded cattle are placed in the centre of  the board.  The cultists activate from opposite edges.  The wolves and the bear are placed on the side edges facing each other.  The wolves activate as a pac...
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January 2026 hobby update

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January 2026 has been a curious month.  On the downside I've had what seems like a perpetual cough and cold for almost the entirety of the month.  The weather has also been dismal.  However, where this has stopped me getting out and exercising, I have done a lot of hobby stuff, swings and roundabouts and all that.  Consequently this is quite a long update.  Here's what I completed this month: 48 Baccus Franco-Prussian War Infantry finished as French Foreign Legion for my 19th Century French Armée d'Afrique collection.  I started these early in December and they had sat on the table since.  However, once I got back to them I knocked these out quite quickly.  Lovely sturdy Baccus figures, this gives me another unit and a bit to make a total of three FFL units for The Men Who Would Be Kings.   Verrotwood Cultist.  After the bloodletting of the last game ( here ) the Wisentii cult needed a new cultist, so I bashed one together using Northsta...
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15mm M4A3s

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I picked up a box of Plastic Soldier Company M4A3s in the summer and it's taken me until January to finish them. They're very nice little models.  Although there’s not many parts, assembly was not as straightforward as it should have been because the kit allows you to make three differently armed versions and there's no  instructions included!  To cap it all the parts sheet that I found on the web differs to how the sprues are actually made up!  At one stage I'd looked at so many pictures of M4A3s trying to figure out what's what, that I thought I never wanted to see one again.   I spent some time deciding which versions to make and I wanted to make them as flexible as possible.  This is easier said than done because although there are separate parts for the 75mm and 76mm turrets,  there are only enough .50 cal turret HMGs and hatches to make five tanks.  However, by using spare Battlefront .50 cals and being crafty by not gluing on the hatch...
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