ECW - resurrection after 40 years
Up-date after Easter
A bit of a break over the TWO Easters we celebrate as I am living in an Orthodox Christian country and this year Easter was one week later than the UK.
So a bit of a slow period in the predicted work, but so far there are three Foote regiments, 12 casualty markers, eight re-load markers, four Brigade commanders, and the two Commanders-in-Chief.
We also played through the rules a couple of times (my son is SO “lucky” with his dice throws – no reflection on my command decisions at ALL!) and I realized I need some form of “Unsteady” marker as well – so, I’ll give that some thought.
Also for the “full” game, I want the regiments to have different starting ammunition – I am thinking of 2d6, or d6+6 (this makes the differences between units less dramatic), and again an on-table-top marker might be good. But, does that mean too many markers? Not sure yet, so I’ll make a couple of testers and see how they look.
Next up I want to start on the Cavalry and all those horses. I’ll be tying out some different techniques with contrast paint (a brown) over different base colours. I expect that I’ll try different light browns as the base colour. I have several of the “Foundry triad” paints, and the highlight colour of the three might work. I’ll see.
All the best.
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