Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

Historian · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 7:42 pm Post subject: Pharsalus!

The Providence gamers, a newly (named) group, based at the Regency Hills at Providence condominium community center. The group consists of a couple of old guard miniature gamers and a few members that are brand new to the war-gaming. When explain what we had to offer, one of the new guys asked, “Can you do Pharsalus?”
Thinking of all the Roman Legionaries I inherited from Tony Sherman, plus my own, I said yes.
We used the rules set “Fields of Glory” because it was a simpler system to ease into, and we had played a game using that set earlier in the year. Knowing this was going to be a big game it was set up in my basement, and for two nights.

Pharsalus!

http://philonancients.blogspot.com/2016/02/pharsalus.html
Enjoy.

Ed Kollmer · Centurion Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1018

Looks great.
Wish I knew how to do the picture thing.
Thanks for sharing.

Historian · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 3:08 pm Post subject: Camera

Just about any camera can to pics of figures now. I remember working out the combination on film. Tripod, minimum aperture, lots of light, 2 second exposure. Now it is point and click.

Ed Kollmer · Centurion Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1018

Getting the pics is a problem for me but
also how do you put them into a word doc or
some word thing.
EK

Historian · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 1:10 pm Post subject: Details

Yes the process is a bit complicated. Open the picture in a viewer, select all, copy/ paste into the receiving document or blog. BUT, you want to reduce the size/quality for online viewing, otherwise you could be sending 100mb documents, which causes most blogs to seize up or emails to bounce. How to shrink the pictures depends on your operating system/ software available. "ShrinkPic" is freeware that does it automatically, but Windows XP and 10 also will do it for you.
Then there is the write up. It is a labor of love but it does take time.
When I was doing 100% text battle reports, it took 8 hours. Having pictures shortens that to 2-4 hours depending.

Ed Kollmer · Centurion Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1018

Whee!!
It sounds beyond me.
Thanks, maybe if I get adventurous I might see if I can do it.
EK

SWA-Gaming · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:35 pm Post subject:

Ed,

Suggestion: Use a free online photo sharing service.
Popular options:
Flickr
Instagram
Photobucket

Here is a list of several others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photo-sharing_websites

Vendors are trying to make it simple to...
1. Connect your digital camera to your computer
2. Download the photos to a folder/directory on your hard drive
3. Upload the photos from this folder to the web/photo sharing service
4. Link to the photos online in your blog posts (like Phil has done here)

This saves you from having to shrink the size yourself.

-DC

Historian · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:12 am Post subject: Camera

I was looking at cameras today, and they are coming with WIFI, which saves the step of hooking to your computer.

Ed Kollmer · Centurion Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1018

WOW!
Ok
you guys have me really thinking about trying this.
Thanks Dave and Phil
EDK

Historian · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 3:03 am Post subject: Camera

I have been doing this for a while, my Ancients blog is at http://philonancients.blogspot.com/

My WWII blog with FOW reports is at:
http://philonworldwartwo.blogspot.com/

Martians:
http://philsmartianfront.blogspot.com/

Cold War Stories:
http://storiesofthecoldwar.blogspot.com/

I have just been working on upgrading my camera for the process.