Move Eight Continued -- The Firefight. . .

When the smoke clears between Major von Hirschbiegel's grenzers and Colonel von Grundig's jaegers, we see that the former have inflicted four hits on the latter. . .

. . . while the jaegers have inflicted five hits on the grenzers! Could this signal a turn-around in Colonel von Grundig's heretofore poor luck with dice rolls? Might this apparent change in fortune suggest that the tide of battle is turning finally in Stollen's favor? Might von Grundig be able to send word to General von Drosselmaier at the end of the day, indicating that he has managed to wrest control of Pickelhaubewicz from the white-coated Zichenauer menace? Only time will tell, but "the colonel" did roll yahtzee in four consecutive games at the coffee table with his wife last night, and it seems that his lucky streak continues today -- at least for now!

Addendum. . .

Drat! "Major von Hirschbiegel" has just reminded me that we forgot to halve the number of casualties inflicted on troops in open order. But in the spirit of the game, he suggests that we leave things as is this time around, and attribute the heavy casualties to an especially stiff firefight between our respective grenzers and jaegers. I concur. Besides being tactically adept, the Major is a very reasonable opponent too. ;-)

Comments

tradgardmastare said…

Exciting stuff- is the dramatic officer in the wood with sword a RSM figure?
Alan

2:30 PM

WSTKS-FM Worldwide said…

Hello Alan,

Yes, he is indeed the company officer and of RSM95 parentage, Happy you are enjoying the game!

Best Regards,

Stokes

2:34 PM

Bluebear Jeff said…

Remember my advice . . . when the battle reaches that critical point, get the Grand Duchess to throw the dice.

-- Jeff

2:34 PM

Conrad Kinch said…

I'm with Jeff on this one. Mrs. Kinch is often called upon to blow on dice for me and occasionally give the odd shimmy before particularly important throws, which raise the old morale if nothing else.

5:14 AM

Robert said…

Wonderful stuff, Stokes! Keep it coming.

I just love the "look" of your games. The bright, gloss colours and the rich green of the terrain.

Inspiring!

5:21 AM

And We're Off!!!

Arrrgh! Gotta go back into camera settings on my iPhone to bring all of the frame into focus. Blast! Painting is underway on the 60 or so Minden Austrians, which are slated to become my version of the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment of AWI renown. More or less indistinguishable from Austrians of the era really, right down to the red facings and turnbacks, but the eventual flags (already in my files) will set them apart. I went ahead and based-coated all of them over a couple of days lthe last week of August, using a mix of light gray and white acrylic gesso, before next applying my usual basic alkyd oil flesh tone to the faces and hands. In a day or two, I'll hit that with Army Painter Flesh Wash to tone things down a bit and bring some definition to the faces and hands. As usual, the plan is to focus on about 20 figures at a time, splitting the regiment roughly into thirds along with the color party and regimental staff. Depending on ...

Sunday Morning Coffee with AI. . .

A rmed with a second cup of fresh, strong coffee, I messed around a bit this morning with artlist.io using its image to image function in an attempt to convert my hand-drawn map from September 2006 to something that more resembles an old map from the mid-18th century. And just like my experiments with Ninja AI in June, the results are mixed. The above map is pretty good, but Artlist keeps fouling up the place names and has trouble putting a faint overlay of hexes across the entire area. Hexes, admittedly, are not likely to be found on any genuine maps from the era in question, but there we are. Frankly, I prefer the appearance of the Ninja map, but there were problems getting it to correct its errors. Grrrr. As is the case with so much having to do with the various AI's out there now, the output generated is a direct result of the prompts entered. For text alone, and when you develop a lengthy, highly detailed prompt, it is...

Continued Regional Map Revisions. . .

F ooled around a bit more with the revised map just before and after dinner this evening, using the Fotor app to reinsert missing text . I also removed a few other things using the 'Magic Eraser' function, which works surprisingly well. Now, we're getting somewhere. I just have to figure out how to ensure that the text is all a uniform font style and maybe figure out a way to add a few bunches of trees to suggest forested areas, Ninja AI is not always entirely cooperative to the tune of "I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that." -- Stokes

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