"Photos of Buck Surdu's Fall-In 'Ribbet!' Game" Topic

At Fall-In, Buck Surdu hosted a GASLIGHT battle called "Ribbet!" pitting his North American frog army against my South American one. These armies had met at Historicon resulting in a South American frog victory.
This time the SA frogs were not to be so fortunate. Their bad luck began in the first few turns when the SA heavy cavalry was charged by the NA light cavalry resulting in the surprise of the heavy cavalry being wiped out in a few turns.
Meanwhile in the center a battle developed between the NA heavy cavalry and several units of SA spears and pikes.
A bright spot occurred for the SA frogs when their light cavalry was able to make their way into the rear of the NA army, overrunning a unit of NA mallet wielders in the process. But their success was short lived. A charge against the NA king's guard went badly, eliminating the cavalry.
The SA tank then disabled its engine preventing it from any maneuver.
The NA flame tank, however, was cutting a swath through the SA ranks, not with its gun, but with overrun attacks. It eventually tried unsuccessfully for the SA king. The SA king managed to jump on board and dispatched the NA tank's commander.
None the less, slowly but surely the South American units were worn down and the victory went to the North American frogs. The game was a lot of fun and looked great.
Photos can be seen here:
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-Chris Palmer

Those turtle tanks are cool!

That was a very cool looking game! Well done!

Strange, but very fun looking!

And we're worried about GW polluting historicals?

Nice game!

Rich

That is a silly, silly thing.

I therefore approve.

Some day, I shall finish my ACW chickens…

Just something silly and fun--looks great.

I'd love to hear about how the tanks were made and where the giant snail came from.

Chris-
The tanks were made from toy turtles that had a hard plastic shell and a stretchy rubber body. We got them in the toy section of a Giant supermarket. It was an easy task to remove the rubber turtle body leaving us with a hard plastic shell. The shell was easy to convert; cutting hatches and gun ports, gluing on axles and wheels, etc.
The snail was a garden decoration. It was made from some sort of hollow resin/ceramic material so I knew modification would be difficult. I had some success at first drillng small holes to put in nails to tie off the howdah ropes, but even in doing that I shattered a large part of the shell and had to glue it back together. It was an easy matter to constrct a howdah out of balsa and card and glue it on the back.
I hope this helps, let me know if you have any more questions.

I went and found turtles like we used (or ones very similar) in the Rhode Island Novelty Co. catalog at the top of this page:
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Thanks for the info. Your results were great!