Battle of Baja City (Planet of the Apes) 1st ACW 3075 AD

General Urko takes control of Ape Central City with a coup and dissolves the Supreme Council of Ape City. His plans are to launch a military campaign into the forbidden zone against the councils rejection. He therefore stages a coup and takes over the Ape Empire on the West Coast. Some of the council members flee to the south to try to organize a rebellion against the newly claimed dictatorship, which starts a civil war. General Urko marches south to capture and begin to put down the rebellion in the southern cities. The first attack in his campaign is the ape city in the Baja region known as Baja City. The figures used in this game are 40mm from Monolith Designs. The horses are 42mm Irregular Miniatures.

The ape forces in dark maroon are Urko troops and the forces in green are rebel troops.

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Baja City being occupied by Rebel apes. Rivers are made by Wargammers Terrain.

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Rebel forces returning with news of the approaching Government forces or Urko.

Aerial view of Baja city. Rivers are made by Wargamers Terrain. Mountains and grass are made by Battlefield Architect. Buildings are made by Art of War Terrain. Apes are made by Monolith Designs and horses are made by Irregular Miniatures.

Rebel apes prepare to move into defensive positions

View from south

General Urko army arrives at the bridge to Baja City

The assault on Baja City begins

 Rebel apes have taken many casualties defending the bridge from failed enemy cavalry attacks and artillery shelling.  Luckily for them (for the moment) Urko's artillery forces have moved too the east.

The Rebels have stopped  General Urko's advance by denying his cavalry units across the bridge, and inflicting massive casualties and hold the bridge to the city. This was all done while taking incoming artillery shelling. Urko's is now moving  his infantry forces forward  towards the bridge along the river. Unfortunately the rebel forces have ran out of mortar rounds that were helping to hold the bridge, with the help rebel machine gun positions dug in on along the river bank near the bridge. Urko has ordered his artillery units to move east along the river to fire indirectly into the center of Baja City in an effort to cut off rebel reinforcements in the south eastern part of the city before he makes his final assault on the bridge.  (View from the western end of the city near bridge)

Government troops move across the bridge and attack rebel forces.

Rebel forces are being pushed back and start to retreat.

General Urko troops have taken the bridge and have taken Baja City. His next campaign is to march on to Kofa City in the Sonaran Desert region. 

28mm High Elf Army

Here is my High Elf army collection. The figures are all Warhammer from Games Workshop. I painted these a few years ago, and they have never seen battle as of today. I plan to use them in Warhammer fantasy battles. I also plan to use them as elves of Beleriand as well as in Gondolin...and any other place I need elves. I also like to game in Mithgar from the Iron Tower Trilogy by Dennis McKiernan.
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http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Gondolin
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28mm Dark Elf Army

28mm Dark Elf Army

28mm Dark Elf Army

 These are old edition High Elves but still match in scale but painted up as Dark Elves.

Dark Elf Knights

Dark Elf Knights

Dark Elf Knights

High Elf Knights

 I research a lot of different manufactures before picking the Warhammer High Elves. I like the armor and shield type. They are extremely easy to paint. I used silver paint then washed them in black, then painted the various colors on and washed again in lighter browns.

High Elf Army

High Elf Army

I used various bits to make 14 High Elf chariots, however I decided to sell them on Ebay.

28mm City of Troy

A few years ago Philip Viverito of LMW Works sold me this City of Troy in 28mm scale for the use with 28mm Trojan miniatures  It was used in a Geico commercial and at one time I had a link to the actual commercial. This City of Troy has been at various gaming conventions all over the country and seen by millions of gamers I am told. I was very proud to purchase it from him. Philip is a great modeler and a good friend as well, and a rock star in the gaming world. Something I wish I could be..but everyone has their place. I also own the City of Tyre that he built as well that I use my 28mm Macedonians. And in few weeks I will also own another great city that he built City of Carthage for use with 28mm Roman miniatures and 28mm Carthage miniatures. Along with that, I will also soon own Hadrian's Wall that Philip built as well as a Roman Marching Fortification camp. The Hadrian's Wall that he built is featured in Historical Miniature Gamer Magazine issue 6.

 The Trojan city is roughly about 10 feet by 5 feet.  Philip also is the publisher of the various Classical "Hack" war game rules. I used Homer Hack rules for this game. I game mostly Greek Mythology using my imagination and using ideas from the Wargods of Olympus and Wargods of Aegyptus rules.

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The detail on the city is amazing.  It takes up a lot of storage space too. It has about 20 or more buildings that make up the city.

I played a game awhile back using some old 20mm Atlantic Greeks and Trojans that I had painted up. I currently painted and converted all of my Greek armies in 28mm scale, I still have these miniatures and they are great to game with.  But I have so many 20mm Atlantic Greeks and Trojans that it made the game really fun. I have now 28mm Trojans and 28mm Spartans to go with the city that took me awhile to paint. I use Crocodile Games 28mm Spartans and 28mm Trojans as well as 28mm Greeks from Black Tree Design.

I also used some old 20mm scale model ships made from Academy. The ships were marked 1/250th scale, but the correct scale is about 1/72 scale or close. I bought about 9 at once and mass produced them in about 3 weeks. The models now go for about $50 each. But I got all of mine for $10 each. I used to have sails on them, but I removed them all. They also work well with 28mm scale, if your not too picky. I plan on using this with the Wargods of Olympus rules. 

 The City of Troy at the Siege of Augusta in 2005