What's going on with the Lead Adventure forum?

What's going on with the Lead Adventure forum?
That is the question I am posting to the folks that graciously fallow my blog.. (Even though I am not that active)

Are they doing updates? Did they get flagged and removed? Did Germany fall to the Alien invaders?

Thoughts?

Happy Easter

Nation’s Veterans Demand Farmland In Gaul

Nation’s Veterans Demand Farmland In Gaul

A Satire
Link http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/01/nations-veterans-demand-farmland-in-gaul/

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A delegation from the American Legion had a meeting today with several leading senators to demand suitable farmland for the nation’s landless veterans in the province of Transalpine Gaul.

“We swear here, upon Jupiter’s Stone, that if Consul Obama Africanus does not compensate us with suitable farmland in a quiet province, we shall not peaceably disband or leave the capital,” declared Mattis Magnus, former commander of the I Marine Legion and head of RUBICOM.

He spoke on the front steps of the Senate under a banner proclaiming “We came! We saw! We conquered!” and was dressed in full armor, brazenly armed with his gladius sword and brandishing the skull of a Parthian warrior he took at Fallujah.

Mattis called on Obama to come out from behind his Praetorian Guard and speak to them directly, or send co-consul Hillaria the Elder. He and other veterans then publicly spurned Obama’s offer, relayed to them by Coinmaster Petraeus, of free farmland in Afghanistan on the condition that they only grow cotton and not poppy.

“Afghan land is only good for growing poppies,” complained Decimus Verdus of Dayton, Ohio, “and [Obama's] refusal to declare Afghanistan as a slave province means we will not have the necessary Pathan labor to properly farm it. Plus the plows keep hitting IEDs.”

Many other veterans who fought in the eastern campaigns seemed to agree, claiming this was only the latest in a series of broken promises going back to Georgius the Younger’s invasion of Mesopotamia.

“There is no more farmland left in my home province of Wisconsin,” noted Gaius Rufus Snuffius, a resident of Wausau who served with the X Mountain Legion. “It is all owned by patricians and worked by slaves from Hispania. For this I decimated Ramadi?”

Studies have shown that unlike their predecessors, younger veterans are twice as likely to end up begging in the marketplace or the forum, and four times as likely to end up fighting in the arena. Many veterans have also complained that they are alienated from their fellow countrymen.

“I swear to Pluto, I will run-through the next yellow-tunic wearing citizen who thanks me for my service,” said First Spear Centurion Severus Murfus Felix. “And stop asking me if I’ve crucified anyone!”

The Legion says this only proves the need for fresh land for veterans to help them beat their swords into plow-sheers. They have also ridiculed what they call Obama’s false statement that Gaul is too small for them and can only be properly divided into three parts.

“Without land, what other course do our men have, save banditry?” asked a Legion spokesman on condition of anonymity. “This is a bipartisan issue: it shouldn’t matter whether you’re an optimate or a populare.”

“I spent my youth marching up the Via Tampa to Babylon with the CI Airborne Legion. Don’t I deserve land, and slaves, and German women?”

Update: This report has been amended to indicate the preference for land in Transalpine Gaul, not Cisalpine Gaul, which is overrun with hairy Gaestati.

What if the Great War never happened?

What if world war one never happened? This question is asked in this NPR posting

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/11/285915312/a-world-without-wwi-featuring-music-man-lenin-and-herbalist-hitler

Comes with a 9 minute long recording.

Finished up the Sci-fi dude from last week.

Finished up basing the buy from last week.

I really like how the dark green and orange contrast. Think I will keep it up for my sci-fi crew once/if warlord games every starts releasing there BGOA range of sci-fi mins.

also need to get a camera because the phone just isn't cutting it.

GOA "Hansa Nairoba" And WM Mechanic

These are two figs I worked on last night. The Privateer press Kordor Mechanic just got some touch ups.

the other Model is from Warlord games "beyond the Gates of Antares" Hansa Nairoba model. One of the only figs to come out from the failed kickstarter. Apparently Rick Priestley is getting WLG's to give him another chance, and they are working on getting a new range of Sci-fi mins along with new rules out. We shell see what comes of that.

But I am getting side tracked. haven't been able to get much painting done as of late because of school and work but these are the fruit of long distance movie night with the GF.

the Hansa fig needs to be based and some touch ups but, I am happy with it so far. At first I was I was not a fan of Hansa. But while looking over my "mechanic" I noticed there similarity.
I have been using Him as my representative in some traveler games. What was supposed to be a one off character took on a personality that I would like to keep on using in the future.
That of a grimy, lecherous, Expert mechanic in are citizen X campaign.
He is crude, usually drunk, but some how always gets that little extra out of the ship and isn't to bad in a scrap ether.
But what I was lacking was a suitably military looking fig for the down and dirty operations when its all combat. So the Hansa fig works perfectly for that.

Op Red Wings. Photo Memories

Photo Memories

Some of you may or may not know, that I was on Op Red Wings as part of a regional QRF. I was in Charlie company 2-504 PIR(parachute infantry regiment) 82nd Airborne.

In light of the new movie "Lone survivor", I thought I would share a few photos from that operation. None of the pics will show any thing that is sensitive or graphic. Just patrols.
I didn't do any thing heroic or "Cool" up there, just did my job. And by the grace of god, luck or what ever you believe in, none of my buddies were lost up on that mountain.

The first pic is just before we Ex-filled. We had to walk off the hill and wait for Gunship and ground support before we could leave.
We were kind of screwing around at this point. And don't worry, we had lots of dudes pulling security at this time and we just got back from doing a resupply run in the valley. So we dropped kit.

Loading up to go in.

Back view of a "Shit-Hook" As you can see lots of Afghanistan can be pretty green.

Joint patrol in the valley with ANA, Just to let you know it was the height of summer so the temp was hitting an average of 110-120 degrees.

This is a photo a patrol on the mountains.

And this is a photo of me.

And this is a photo of me.

I didn't take any of the photos and the ones I have were giving to me by some of my Airborne buddies.