Pictures and videos of Tifaruin game

I now have photos and videos of the two day game at gauntlet.

SOTCW Game 2010 - The Rif Wars from Pete Jones on Vimeo.

You can find more photos at my flickr page:
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Tifaruin/Gauntlet ready

Sorry, no pictures but the table is now set up for this weekend's game, and it looks impressive already without figures.

Will

Tifaruin - secret of Rif success revealed.

Thanks to the Journal's roving reporter, we can revel to readers the reason for the low morale in the Spanish garrison of Tifaruin.

This gentleman, Antonio Gelati, has been supplying Ice Creams and other cold delights to the Rifs surrounding the town. Often this is in plain sight of the garrison.

One unnamed soldier said he'd willingly surrender for a 99.

Tifaruin - buildings complete

The fearless reporter for the Journal, Martin Adie, also known as the man in the off-white suit, arrives in Afrau.

A couple of views of Afrau

Tifaruin, Mullah Baber can be seen on the mosque

Sidi Massuad

Tifaruin buildings - WIP

A quick update on my progress for "Tifaruin 1923" the SOTCW game at Gauntlet.

Here is the set up for the various towns. Afrau at the front (on the coast) Tifaruin on the right with the mosque and Sidi Messaud on the left.

Along with the mosque there are a number of other new buildings, plus quite a few old oneswhich I am tarting up ready for the game.

Roads for Tifaruin

Just finished creating all the roads to be used for Tifaruin. Those who were at Gauntlet last year will recognise them as I have used the same materials as I used for the road over the Chiunzi pass.

Here's a sample

Rif bits and pieces

Firstly, since there were comments that the trial layout needed to look more Moroccan rather than generic middle east. Here are some Rif/Moroccan flags trawled from the web, I always like to add some flags to my games to add a bit of colour.

Some useful stuff here on Steve Balagan's site for those interested (link)

Most of the flags above came from the Flags of the World site (link)

Tifaruin, a trial layout

With just over two months to go till Gauntlet I though I's better try a quick test of the terrain so I could see what was needed. The hills will go under the cloth, but I will need to construct some larger versions to correspond better with Richard B's map. This is all laid out on my 9' x 5' table tennis table

View from the west, Afrau on the coast and Tifaruin inland to the south

View from the east with Sidi Messaud

view from the north

Overall it's a bit tight on the north/south axis, so I'll either reduce the area covered by sea or expand the width to 6'.

So my immediate plan is to create the large hills needed, more palm groves to replace my deciduous trees (I've still got a pile in a box somewhere in the attic), then work on upgrading the villages, including addin a dock to Afrau.