Some of the RPG minis I've painted this year

Last years painting challenge I entered made me realise how much I enjoy it. Though I game now more than ever before I still probably prefer to paint than game. Yet at times like most it can be a struggle to get both time and motivation to paint. After picking up both the Reaper Kickstarters I thought it about time to paint some of the minis after all it is not like I have a lifetimes supply of lead and plastic out the back waiting for a bit of love, cough , cough. So over the next blog or two will be some of the odd minis I have painted just because.

Reaper bones wolf, GW Chaos Ogre, Mike Broadbent Satyr?

Ogre Close up

Love the bones wolf

Malifaux bear thing, now this will make the best werebear in an upcoming RPG I am gamesmastering.

Bear from.....??? Second Hand

Void or Urban Mammoth Minigunner

Void? femme fatale maybe use this in Infinity RPG when it comes out

Shadowforge Sci-Fi lady maybe also use this in Infinity RPG when it comes out

Introducing Infinity to the lads at the club

I have been very keen to get some of the lads into Infinity. I barely know the rules myself so it will be good if we can all learn them together. So if you are not sure Infinity is a near future Sci-Fi skirmish game with 5-15 miniatures a side. It does seem to work with only three sides but all the games I have seen is only the usual 2 opponents. the game plays fast and furious with troopers going down pretty fast if you don't use cover properly.

We did not use any of the more interesting aspects of the characterisation of individual miniatures but this will happen in time. So 5 miniatures a side including one leader model that was a little better than the troopers. You need lots of terrain set up about 12 inches in and off we go. It is an IGO-UGO game but with a lot of reactivity to the non mover as it were.

The first game was a more carefully considered dance around the table as fire positions were manoeuvred to and after around an hour and a half one side was 3 miniatures down and game over. The two lads really like it (great as far as I am concerned). So images?

Game 1 Pan-Oceania on the right Nomads on the left

I want my figure to go that way

Ready to sweep fire around the corners of the containers

 



Eye Candy how to paint book to "convince" the lads of the beauty of the game

Close to the end, Infinity is rather brutal a reaction shot by the enemy and one critical later and all that armour is useless.

Father Knight huge sword, big gun, lots of armour and hides most of the game, "keeping him in reserve"........ Victory to Pan-O

Game 2 new opponent on the Nomads team (red minis) Pan-O same lad running the blue guys.

 

Clever use of terrain, run up the stairs, then move into the corner.

This time the Nomads won convincingly in around 30 minutes.

 

I really like this game fast, characterful, nice toys and games play out fairly quickly.

 

Other games for the night.

40K Tyranid Civil War

Necron vs Black Templars

The Roleplay lads, Pathfinder character progression and purchase of goodies.

Always a rule to look up, always.

Boneswords rock, well chop actually.

Needless to say the big lad did not win.

 

Like I said always a rule to look up, always.



Mid April Games night

Just a quick update on club happenings.

1 X 3 way (4 army) 40K game with the Tau Imperial Guard allies on top this time, Tyranids Went down first and then the Space Wolves. The Tau have such a huge amount of firepower with marker lights and other toys.

Game about to begin

Tau Guard Allied

Nids awaiting the rush

The Rhino is about to explode and due to appalling dice rolls sees around 1/2 the unit killed by the shrapnel leaving the Tau victorious

 

 

 

X Wing game with 3 sides, Darth Vader and Two escorts were an unknown and could fight one or both opponents. Both were chosen..................

Part way in with considered pondering.

Up close and personal, almost looks like a boarding action, wrong game I guess.

Boys these guys fly close together

The First blood in the wings of glory game to the Brits but unfortunately they fall from the sky 20 minutes later with so much smoke and flames it was hard to see the table mats, pity really. Great game never the less.

March at the club

Quiet night, only around 8 turned up, lots of the lads have exams and man flu seems to have knocked out many of us as well.

One of the newer lads played in this game and guess what at long last the empire won.

My Bretonnians got a show, first in oh 2 years or so.

Vs the Skaven of Clan plumbium, there are some really nice old school models in the lot. Sadly they did the usual Skaven thing and ran away to fight another day.

 

Yep my two trebuchets on turn 1 both misfired. Argh, yet the roll just left them unable to fire this turn.

As you can tell this is why the empire won.

I bought my Chain of Command along for a couple to the guys to use whilst I snotted the Skaven, it was great to see some Russians against the British Paratroops, must have been 1946. Seems the guys are picking up the rules pretty fast.

Another view of the same game.

 

That's all for now folks.

RIP Terry Pratchett

Sad to hear that Terry Pratchett has passed away. I had the chance to get a book autographed by him oh close to 15+ years ago. Supposedly later in the day he pulled out a cocktail shaker and made himself a G&T with dry ice. Well I think I will have one in his honour this afternoon after work. Yep one author I will miss.

Chain of Command First run at the club, or the blind leading the blind

Club roll out was good as we had 8 roleplayers that ended up playing a couple of games of Magic The Gathering. 3 gamers doing the Wings of Glory WWI thing, one painter and us four trying out Chain of Command.

I have been very keen to give this game a run at the club. A couple of convention demo games that I played in convinced me that we could have fun with this. So one of the club members a couple of weeks ago said lets give it a try. Woo hoo, only problem was that I am not really all that, shall we say, comfortable with the rules yet. Demo and Solo games not withstanding I had not really played many games. Well not only did I have an opponent but 1 more member and a new blood stepped up to the mark as well.

1 platoon of Grenadiers, an Sdkfz 222 and a Panzer IV for the Germans.
1 platoon of British infantry, a Daimler and a Sherman for the Allies.


Even enough and though we did not play a scenario from the book the feel of the game seemed fairly accurate.

Patrol Phase about to begin, the game within a game seemed to keep us entertained.

The British are in the ruins near the wheat fields and are taking somewhat of a pounding, yes they get to dish out a bit of pain back to the Germans but to be honest we really needed to go tactical in the ruins as we were using them as light rather than heavy cover. Note the little squares for shock, I think I shall put differing numbers on the, rather than stack them.

View from the right flank of the Germans. Yes that is another MG 34 enfilading the Brits in the ruins. Note the size of the Jump off points, yep 15mm minis. Oh until I make some fancy ones Jump off points and patrol makers and the chain of command board are mounted on foam core. Light easy to transport and wont blow off the table easily.

View from the British side. As you can see a huge amount of shock on the "ruined" British Infantry but not many kills. The little PIAT took a pot shot at the 222 early in the game with limited success but it did force it to move away with a dead gunner. About 10 minutes later a German squad pops up to the right of the hedges near the hapless Brits, opens fire, more shock and then throws itself into the maelstrom of hand to hand and sure enough the Brits crumble to a man. Melee is brutal and if you don't pin and reduce the numbers of defenders the attackers can come off second best when the bayonets come out, noted by the German commanders a couple of phases earlier.

 

As the shock started to mount both commanders brought on their senior commanders to rally a little shock off. Now this sounds sensible but it meant that the Germans tried 4 times to bring on the PanzerIV and I tried once with the Daimler but to no avail, I am actually glad that the IV did not come on as we would have been packing up pretty early.

Hard to make out from the blurry foreground but the 222 is concealing a Panzershreck armed fire team that leaps out from cover to smash the Sherman in two shots. Nice work for the little pair of troopers. Gaining 2 phases in a row with the double six throws can be real handy when you neatly place your Senior commander and keep rolling 4s to get him to make his three activations.

 

The British lost out this time but the better news was that my opponents want to give this game another run but use one of the scenarios with a defender somewhat limited against a stronger attacker. Happy days when the Blind lead the Blind and they want to come back for more.

First Run with the new time slot

In Australia at the moment TV stations are advertising when their programs are running and without fail it is never at the advertised time, so you stick around and wait for the show to start or you move on. Well the club has had to change times and rather than move on it would seem some of the Old Guard have returned Huzzah as they would say.

So what happened on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, Pathfinder and the inevitable rolling up of characters, an X-Wing game, Saga 4 ways, and 40K Tau vs Dark Angels sort of.

on with the show

2 hours to roll up characters and then  a small intro scenario

Teaching a Noob the fine art of using a battle board, notice the move to the biscuit bowl, hmmmmmm

Riptide nice model shoots a long long distance.

The Tau that brought me down

David vs Goliath in X-Wing needless to say the Rebel scum won again.

My Dark Angel successor chapter got to keep the objective but at the end of the game were down to around 10 men from 1250 points ouch, oh I lost.

Infinity tart ups, actually Haqislam that was nicely painted and all I rally needed was to do a wash and finish the bases.

 

More of the same

My cheap and cheerful Infinity terrain is coming along. Foam core buildings with glue on texture packs, the Mototronica set from Operation Icestorm and a highly overexposed PlastCraft Games building.

For those interested in these fantastic and I really mean fantastic Foam Core templates and texture packs try this site http://infinitytheforums.com/forum/index.php?/topic/22023-foam-core-terrain-template/page-2 all credit to Tony as this is what is needed to get you into the game quickly and cheaply.

Club meeting times have changed.

Due to the needs of the Youth Group at the church our club will now meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month and the kids day will also stop on Saturdays for the time being whilst I drum up more dice throwing clever kids from my school. Please come along and enjoy the games and friendship on the Tuesday nights, and of course if you would like to be a part of the Church Youth group you will also be more than welcome on the Fridays.