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October 2025 hobby update

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October started well, then I picked up a nasty fluey thing that curtailed my hobby activities for a full week.  Work has also been full on so not as much done as I'd hoped, but still a bit of progress.   Completed  Here's what I finished off during the month: I concentrated on the Heroics & Ros 6mm and got another 79 Iraqi and Iranians all based and finished.  I used the 3-2-1 scheme I explained last month ( here ).  The initial Iranian and Iraqi forces are now complete.  I'm quite pleased with that as I managed to do it within six months of buying them.  Just a few aircraft to do now and this phase of this project will be complete. I finally finished off the Italian villa that's been on the table for a while.  I spent too long thinking about how to do the courtyard and in the end used embossed plastic card, which was my original idea!  Cut to size and painted this has worked a treat.  Once this was in place I added more weather...

Verrotwood Game 7 - A return to the Place of Power

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Introduction  Years have passed and the ancient stones of the Place of Power are once again sending out their arcane emanations.  Unable to ignore the call, the cultists of the Wisentii and The Uncoiling of Beiysss are drawn to battle in the shade of the great monoliths.   Set up This game is a revisit to one of the earliest games of Verrotwood that I played ( here ).  Pre-game I rolled for additional terrain and generated a piece of Elevated terrain.  The three standing stones are along the centre of the table.  The creature roll generated a Greater Forest Beast (GFB), which I deployed in the centre of the table.   Round 1 Round 1  starting positions  The first round action is dominated by the cultists manoeuvring to place themselves in a position to take control of the stones.  SerpensLeachim of The Uncoiling and B reath of Wisentii are the only two to achieve this.  The rest of the cultists are either stopped in their t...