It's been a stupidly busy week, in a good way of course because busy means I am working hard and paying the bills. It has meant however, that my time for sitting and looking at gaming stuff and getting big ideas when Christmas is just around the corner , has thankfully been somewhat curtailed. That said, what has happened, is that I've decided on where I am going with my gaming now that all the Ancients are funded and with my painter of choice. I love sci-fi and so, fancying something different to grim armoured troopers and fast, sleek vehicles, I have actually been looking at Victorian Sci-fi and in particular, I've managed to get myself convinced that grand and epic battles on Mars would be fun. To this end, I have 50 units (note I say units and not figures) from the Paroom Station VSF line, courtesy of Ral Partha Legacy, mostly Martians but with some British regular troops and a band of human renegades. Rules-wise I have gone with the Space 1889 'Soldiers Companion...

 A very good day to you, and thanks for stopping by. You may recall, when we chatted recently, that I have fond memories of playing Laserburn in the early 80s, albeit at a scale which, even then, was in the realm of 'go big or go home' and beyond the scope of the standard Laserburn rules. We would regularly construct a spaceport with 'buildings' made from the foam inserts of Citadel figure boxes, using haberdashers pins to hold them together, once we'd unpacked all the Traveller models from them. Terrain was limited, and of course there were no starships on the table, we had to use silhouett, very simple silhouettes it has to be said, to represent where starships were located. We assumed that the defenders were freedom fighters, terrorists or alien invaders who would usually take control of the buildings around the spaceport and dig in, having to be rooted out by 'The Military', who would advance across the Synth-Mac under murderous fire and try to do some d...