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A family game. Link won!

Bruce played One Ring RPG. We played the starting adventure and Link joined us in the afternoon. It was good. The conspiratorial hobbits made it through in the end.

We played Dad’s Army, King of Tokyo, exploding minions and some other good card games.

15mm Austrians finally painted to add to my Napoleonic Austrian Army.

8 bases of German Fusiliers. White uniforms, Shakos. Yellow and Dark blue facings. The Shako being introduced after 1808 and there being a mix of Shako and Helmet wearing regiments in 1809. My force is created for 1809 and the invasion of Bavaria. These Regiments have been issued with brand new Shakos from the supply depots.

Austrian Jaegers. Pike Grey, Corsican hats and Dark Green facings. The Jagers had a good reputation and were considered to be marksmen.

I also re-based 3 officer bases for my Austrians.

I have some cavalry and Grenadiers on order from old glory too, to add to the lead pile. If I get these done I will have a fairly large force to oppose my Bavarians.

Caught up on further Napoleonics painting . Got lots of Austrian skirmish bases done for general d armee . Also a field forge decorative diorama piece.

Just finishing off a unit of grenzers with skirmishers now. Deciding which unit to choose so can select the facings colour.

In the unpainted pile I now have some Hungarian Hussars and generals to paint up . Again which unit do I choose . The green coat red trousers unit look attractive but might merge with my green coated light cavalry . Light blue is out because my Bavarians are light blue . Pike grey and dark blue seem less colourful.

A two player game of the Lord of the Rings card game. Two sets of dwarves. Used the Moria random scenario deck. Used encounter decks 1 to 7.

We won!

Setup the fire spider lair with Link using our new tiles.

Hero kids with Link. He played as Kevin the Hunter and Chris the warrior. Rescued the wagon and saved the farm animals from the ravenous wolves.

Two player game, second of our print on demand Moria scenarios . We used the rest of the encounter cards – decks 8 to 14. This was a tough one but our party of six dwarf heroes made it through with five heroes remaining. A particularly nasty treachery card kept wiping out our group resources.