Wrapped for Trouble a free USEME Festive scenario

Hello USEME fans! 

The festive range at 15mm.co.uk is great fun and it expanded again this year with a fourth new code and as before that means a new USEME scenario adding to the stable of the Terminus Arc, Abominable Weather, Branch Face and Cold Thing. We present the forth themed winter scenario. Our last new content of the year and releases too.

Wrapped for Trouble - A scenario for two players or solo play. While the Malmute Mercenaries face their own troubles at the Hegemony station across its far side a new faction has entered the fray. Snowmen, Xmas Trees and Snow Monsters all try to prevent a horde of Psycho Presents from reaching their own rendezvous at the station! 

CLICK HERE to download the scenario from our dropbox account for free as a PDF to your computer or device. Its easy and great fun and will only need your of miniatures some dice and about half an hour of your time. Excellent! 

You can download all of the festive scenarios from this special link HERE if you are lacking any. 

You can find the Festive Range on its own page of our website HERE 

If you do not have a copy of USEME UM001 15mm Science Fiction you can get it on our website as a download HERE. 

Merry Christmas! 

GBS

Last Month of 2016 and what's coming....

Here are 15mm.co.uk we are looking forward to a week off at Christmas and again thank you for your support during the Four Day Mega Offer at the end of November.  There is a lot happening here for 2017 but this month we have some surprises for you including a free USEME Scenario and a new HOT 15mm small monster code too.  All in the first half of December.

We have had a lot of kind words and nice emails about our 15mm Festive Range and its new pack SN04 Psycho Presents.  I had not intended to do a new free USEME scenario for this year as I had not been asked much but over last weekend that changed.  

So..later this month and featuring the gun toting Presents against the Security Force Alpha lads from the previous scenarios...I will put up here...'Wrapped for Trouble'.

If you are interested in the USEME Series you can see it HERE.

Thanks for Reading and Merry Christmas!

GBS

Psycho Presents new to the 15mm Festive Range!

Its that time of the year again!  Our 15mm Festive Range is back to stay and with a new code too. We present SN04 Psycho Presents!  Yes, you read correctly.  Total madness.  So we have Evil Snowmen, Killer Xmas Trees and Snow Monsters too plus a sample bundle with saving too.  On top of this we collect here the three USEME free scenarios featuring our festive miniatures.  Enjoy by reading on and hitting the links and by going HERE too.  The range will be online all year from now on..but we will not mention it until November next time we promise!  

SN04 Psycho Presents

This code contains five different 15mm scale white metal miniatures. Our armed to the teeth animated wrapped presents suitable for any festive themed scenario or army. Each of them stands about 10mm tall and poses are pointing Sten Gun, holding Blunderbuss, Polearm, firing Sten Gun and Machine Pistol. You can choose a pack or choose the Value Blister (Psycho Present Sack) where you get 20 Random Mixed Presents with a 10% saving. All miniatures are supplied unpainted and without bases.  Some Assembly may be required with miniatures.  Go HERE.

SN2016 Seasonal Fun Sampler Pack – Save 10%  

This collection code gives you one of every pose in the 2016 SN Festive 15mm Range.  The pack contains five SN01 Evil Snowmen in five poses, three SN02 Killer Xmas Trees in three poses and two SN03 Abominable Snow Monsters in two different poses plus a sprue of Christmas hats and five different Psycho Presents too.  Unique and fun with a lot of uses from a festive themed army to a post apocalypse campaign, arctic warfare or even science fiction and more.  Supplied Unpainted and without Bases.  This collected code saves you 10% off single purchases.  Go HERE.

SN01 Evil Snowmen

This code contains five different 15mm scale white metal miniatures.  Our not so friendly snowmen suitable for any festive themed scenario or army.  Each of them stands about 10mm tall and poses are hat with hatchet, top hat and candy cane, wool hat and rifle, saucepan and scarf, severed head and knife. Supplied Unpainted and without Bases. OR  Evil Snowmen Horde this code contains twenty 15mm scale white metal miniatures taken from five different poses. The bumper value pack saves you 10% off list price! Go HERE.

SN02 Killer Xmas Trees 

This code contains five 15mm scale white metal miniatures in three poses.  From one side these approx 22mm tall trees are nice and friendly with sparkly baubles and paper bands adorning them but turn them around and horror they are all teeth and doom!  Unique and fun with a lot of uses from a festive themed army to a post apocalypse campaign and more these monsters will get your opponent's attention for sure. OR Killer Xmas Tree Forest this code contains ten 15mm scale white metal miniatures in three poses. Supplied Unpainted and without Bases.  The bumper value pack saves you 10% off list price! Go HERE.

SN03 Abominable Snow Monsters 

This code contains two 15mm scale white metal miniatures in two poses.  These are both one piece and come with a separate sprue of two Christmas Hats which may be mounted on the miniatures or left off. Abominable Snow Monsters approx 35mm tall these creatures are covered in fur and have sharp claws and even sharper teeth. Unique and fun with a lot of uses from a festive themed army to a post apocalypse campaign, arctic warfare or even science fiction and more these beasts will add some scare to your games.  OR  Abominable Snow Monster Gathering this code contains six 15mm scale white metal miniatures in two poses. Supplied Unpainted and without Bases. This bumper value pack saves you 10% off list price! Go HERE.

There are several free resources for USEME from previous winters using the Festive Range.  Three great scenarios.  Click on the links under each to download them from our Dropbox Account.  Each uses UM001 15mm Science Fiction for its rules.  All written by myself.

Cold Thing. Click HERE

Branch Face.  Click HERE

Abominable Weather.  Click HERE

We wish you the best of the season and we do plan to expand this range by another code each year as we have done in the last three years.  Crazy, odd and mad miniatures but they are fun and that matters to us.

Thanks for Reading,

GBS

Free USEME Scenario - Uplink 404

Today we give to all you 15mm science fiction wargamers out there a brand new free scenario for USEME.  Uplink 404 is a small scale mission between Corporate Ashigaru and Security Force Alpha all about a Maginot Turret.  A quick and fun scenario written by Thomas Hamilton.  You can see the USEME Range HERE in print (for the moment) and all as paid for PDF downloads too.  This scenario uses UM001 15mm Science Fiction.

Click HERE to download this fun and free one page scenario from our Dropbox account.  Enjoy!

If you like free scenarios for USEME a quick reminder that you can get the whole Terminus mini-campaign arc of scenarios from us.  Linked up and great fun and written by myself just click HERE to download it.

Thanks for Reading and well done Mr Hamilton!

GBS

Kidnap - An alternative use for the HOT103 Cockatrice 15mm monster

I am delighted to present to all you 15mm fantasy wargamers out there a new article by Andy Jefcoate!  If you missed the previous half dozen by Andy you can see them on the blog HERE. Great for Age of Might and Steel and also USEME 15mm Fantasy plus of course any other 15mm system this time his subject is a conversion of our HOT103 Cockatrice one of this years most popular releases.  Enjoy and Thanks.  GBS

Kidnap - An alternative use for the HOT103 Cockatrice 15mm monster!

Some of you may have read my earlier article about painting the new Cockatrice that has joined the excellent 15mm.co.uk HOT range of figures. By strange coincidence Sam Croes and I both painted the new figure using similar colours despite being separated by a few hundred miles! I was therefore determined to paint another and come up with a very different colour scheme so Gavin very generously provided another casting for me to use. At the same time I was planning a big fantasy game and needed a  general to lead my combined forces of evil, so I decided that the Cockatrice would make an excellent mount.

After much consideration I picked the mounted Chaos Knight figure from the Tabletop fantasy range (537 Chaos Knight on mount) to be my General. This was because the figure has a full helm so could be male or female, human or Vampire and could be used to fit various scenarios. In my game it was a Vampire Lord who had control of a Goblin tribe to fight alongside his Undead forces but as I've said before the only limit is your imagination. I clipped off the spear that the figure holds and replaced it with the sword from the Undead Cavalry standard bearer (HOT24) to make it different from my other Chaos Knights. 

To make the figure stand out further I decided to portray it as in flight as the Cockatrice already has it's wings spread. I carefully clipped off the base and used a flying stand (from the LBA1 pack) that was attached to the Cockatrice with a thin brass rod. The flying stand itself was then attached to a 40mm square base to give it stability.

As the bulk of my forces of good are human I decided to put a human command figure in the creatures claws to look like an enemy leader has been kidnapped for questioning. I used the command figure from pack MRC26 of the Altuos historical range as the majority of my humans are also from that range. 

For this Cockatrice I painted the scales in purple with a light blue underbelly and legs, then the feathers were coloured a light grey with the crests on the head in a vivid pink. The whole thing was given a black ink wash to tone it down so that it fit in with my Undead army but as the Chaos knight is mostly encased in metal, pretty much any colour would work.

I enjoyed this project as it's fun to spend a bit longer on your leader figures to make them stand out on the tabletop. I know that the colour scheme won't be to everyone's taste but you have to agree that it's very different to the last Cockatrice that I painted. I have a growing collection of characters with monsters as mounts and they are always fun to do. While I like having a good size collection of generic monsters that will fit with pretty much any army, it's good to tie some to a specific force as for me it helps to give the army an identity.

Here is the HOT103 Cockatrice as it appears on the 15mm.co.uk website.  It is a three piece white metal monster.

Recently the lads at 15mm.co.uk released digital downloads of Age of Might and Steel and UM002 USEME 15mm Fantasy.  These are excellent compact rule systems check them out!

Thanks for reading.

Andy 

USEME Solo Play Campaign Setting and Rules for free by Vic Dobson

Last week the entire USEME series of wargame titles was released as digital downloads. At just 3.00GBP each these twelve titles cover science fiction, fantasy and historical wargaming along with other settings too. You can see all of these on the 15mm.co.uk website HERE if you missed that. We are delighted now to present to you for free an entire campaign setting based on the HOF 15mm Science Fiction range written by Vic Dobson which also includes solo play rules. Read on for the download link and more. 

To download the campaign setting in a zipped file from our Dropbox click HERE. 

You will need UM001 USEME 15mm Science Fiction to make use of this campaign setting and we also recommend UM010 USEME Support Pack too for your games. If you want to fight actions in space around the planets then you might like UM006 USEME Starship Battles as well. Super fast, really easy and great fun! 

Written by Vic Dobson who has created other USEME articles (click here to search our blog for USEME to find them HERE) this solo play campaign is a great way to plan out your table top battles across several weeks. I think a campaign of four player sides with two dozen games would take about six weeks with several games of half an hour or so each session. Enjoy! 

There are many free files for all of the USEME titles and these are collected on its page of our website where you can download the latest version for free. 

Thanks for Reading and well done Vic! 

GBS

My beloved USEME Series of wargame rules is now digital downloads!

Following on from HOF Fire Team and Age of Might and Steel but proceeding the mighty Alien Squad Leader we at 15mm.co.uk are proud to announce that the dozen titles in the 'Ultra Simple Engine for Miniature Engagements' USEME series are now digital downloads.  At just 3.00GBP each you get the book, the covers and an 'ease print' version for home printing with all the non-text and vital graphics removed. We no longer have all of the A6 pocket print booklets of USEME in stock but what we have is on the website. You can see them all HERE.

USEME as a series has sold more than seven thousand copies and to me, as its lead author and creator, it makes me so happy that the little set of rules I developed for playing with my then eight year old son has given wargaming fun to players all over the world ever since.  Firstly as booklets and then as downloads and now as digital books on the 15mm.co.uk website.  If you are short of time or want something to plug in and play in ten minutes to an hour then USEME is for you.  Science Fiction, High Fantasy, World War Two, Modern Warfare, American Civil War, Starship Battles, Post Apocalypse, Wild West, Zombie Dawn, Cyberpunk as well as Eldrich Horror and the fantastic Support Pack that works with the other titles.  Here is a list of the titles and a link to each.  We also have two Complete USEME Games containing book, miniatures and scenarios too.  Each page linked to has all the information you need as I want to keep this article short enough for sanity!

USEME 15mm Science Fiction

USEME 15mm High Fantasy

USEME World War Two

USEME Modern Warfare

USEME American Civil War

USEME Starship Battles

USEME Post Apocalypse

USEME The Wild West

USEME Zombie Dawn

USEME Support Pack Expansion

USEME Cyberpunk

USEME Eldrich Horror

Though there have been no new USEME titles published in two years or so there are a half dozen titles in the works from several authors.  It is my intention to get these out to wargamers as digital downloads.  More on this at the time of course but the nearest to ready are about Gangsters and a Modern Warfare Setting title plus of course my own Alien Safari.

Thanks for Reading,

GBS

Three new free USEME sci-fi scenarios by Vic Dobson!

All of us at 15mm.co.uk are delighted to present to you three new free scenarios written by veteran wargamer Vic Dobson for the USEME rules system.  Ideal for use with UM001 USEME 15mm Science Fiction the first title in the series (you can get this and the other USEME titles as paid for downloads as well from HERE) these three scenarios are based around Vic's collection of miniatures taken from the HOF range, the SHM range and the Loud Ninja Games range of figures.  Click on the links to visit these ranges and the rules system.

There are near a dozen titles in the USEME range of wargame rules covering many genres.

 

Download the three scenarios from our dropbox account in a zip file by clicking on this link HERE. Each of the scenarios presents a different challenge and level of complexity and playing time. Here is a quick run down of each of them.

Scenario One – Recon Run

Recon Run is a two player game of USE ME. In this small game two reconnaissance teams encounter one another and battle to gain information whilst denying it to the enemy!

Scenario Two – The One that Got Away

The One that got Away is a four player game of USE ME. In this small game, as the local gang boss meets with a dangerous but useful hireling, and the local authorities seek to arrest  both, whilst some bounty-hunters plan to gain their reward, and new arrivals add complications to all sides …

Scenario Three – The Raid

The Raids a two player game of USE ME. In this small game a small but elite Chuhuac special operations’ strike team endeavours to destroy a shield regulator defended by the local planetary security teams.

Enjoy!

Thanks for Reading,

GBS