All fun and games

So I've been away on a nice break to Barcelona and it was lovely I even found one of the games workshops.

I am still working on the goblins and the board for open combat. 

Also still working on space wolves legion I have some tanks to add but feel the need to go elsewhere with it perhaps a knights Errants force made out of an unbound list each man a centurion with garro as a praetor. Then some vehicles to offer support not particularly competitive but would be cool. 

Thinking about expanding my open combat lists with some of the gale force nine dungeon and dragons minis or perhaps some reaper minis to bulk out a force 

Open Combat my new joy in Gaming

I was perusing the internet prior to my birthday and came across an article about a skirmish system 

http://mikesrandomwargamemeanderings.blogspot.co.uk/

this piqued my interest in a multitude of ways firstly I was looking for something fantasy to pass the time until the Warhammer End Times passed and to find out if the rumours were true , it only needed a handful of models so I could dabble without much investment, but whilst pottering around the company's website I saw

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. How big is the area needed to play?

A. Open Combat can be played in any area but we recommend approximately 24″x 24″

Wow a game I can actually play at home without difficulty, don't get me wrong i can play at the club too but sometimes its nice to play a game when you want to.

then I had an idea 2ft square theme boards and I was sold.

I have begun previously working on terrain and have made a little piece about 10 inches wide as a raised platform so from here I was thinking a cemetery to fight on.

from here I needed some men so as I was at Warhammer World I picked up the Night Goblin Command and my friend bought me a Goblin hero on a Squig

So currently I am waiting on my cemetery bits to show up and still deciding if I want lots of paving or grass in said cemetery

Comments always welcome and i have just broken 20000 views i will be running a competition shortly to say thanks

Ishi

Scale!!!!!????

"What Scale  of games do you play" I was asked and straight away I answered Mass combat or skirmish usually

But it could of meant actual size scale and then I play 28mm heroic, 35mm, 28mm true and 10mm 

I have played many scales in many types of games and personally like my models to be reasonably large so I can attempt to paint them well

but that doesn't mean a set scale firestorm Armada ships are a tiny scale but the models themselves are massive easily out sizing a normal Warhammer model 

so you find a size you like and play that then do you go for skirmish where each model is independent or squad based and are you looking at platoon level with a couple of squads and a support or mass combat with ranks and ranks of fighting men/massive Armies with a single model representing a battalion

as I said I like approx 28mm if I am honest about it and I prefer skirmish games with 10 models at most and a smaller playing surface.

now most of the games i play fit into one side or the other on this opinion and a couple fit in both.

What are your favourite scales?

ishi

The hobby?

Firstly I think this will come off better as a vlog but I think the discussion will be better here.

Why do you hobby?

In my opinion there are three/four parts to the wargamer hobby 

1. The first part is collecting which can be  for a completionist reason or just picking up the models you like

2. Painting - if you want to paint competition worthy pieces or just tabletop pieces.

3. Gaming. Not going into more detail play how ever you for whatever reason.

4. Background - I realise most people will not be interested based on a games fluff but for me it's a deal breaker so it's obviously the facet of our hobby that is highly important to me

That's not to say the other parts are not important and they all have the edge at times but fluff for me is the driver

Games I really like have lots of history or back-story that I can absorb myself into and games lacking in this area I struggle with.

I have an extremely addictive personality so when I get into something properly I am all in I may not want to collect everything but if it's for my faction I want it including the rare things this is when collecting becomes my highest importance.

Painting is my hobby time, I am not the best painter but I am mostly happy with my results and I spend a lot of time looking at techniques to try and improve.  I spend more time painting and building models than anything else yet its not really ever my most important part of my hobby

now for something I rarely do I mean like at  most frequent once a month but more likely quarterly, gaming features as my highest focus I will only collect models if its towards an end goal of playing a game which is why many of my models sit in a box.

so my hobby time is probably split 50% Fluff, 49% painting and 1% Gaming

So I hobby to game yet rarely do so or I hobby for the fluff for playing in so I actually have an end goal based on gaming  a theme based on fluff that also allows me to paint. I prefer the second thought to the first as otherwise I spend a lot of time preparing for nothing.

Ishi.

Models or minis

So do you buy models purely based on gaming possibilities or because you like them?

do you play games because they have a low cost to get into? Or purely because the look amazing?

Now I play GW games because of availability of players and models along side high quality. the GW plastics are beautiful and with variety of poses no one comes close.

I also play Malifaux which is in my opinion the only company that can compare in quality of plastics to GW but mono-pose minis is its only downside.

but when you expand into wider areas like resin and metals there are loads of companies that make beautiful models

I like to be able to use my models so rarely will I buy a model only for painting I have but its rare and then its normally something I may like to use in an RPG

Ishi

Update and what to play on friday

So a friend of mine is coming down the club on Friday and we said we would play a game of something

Check out his blog https://pritalus.wordpress.com/

So we chatted about possibilities and came up with the following

• Dropzone Commander - i have a growing Resistance force and a starter for Scourge and my friend is just building his first Scourge force so we put that to one side until he has built more.
• Malifaux - I have 2 forces and its an awesome game but due to other games already on his list we couldn't play this.
• Warzone Resurrection - The game that always maybe is, i love this game and consider it possibly the best game i have ever played in its design but my army is still not finished and my friend has packed his away so whilst we say we will play i am unsure it will ever happen.
• Wolsung - A game both of us want to play i even have a painted starter but he is still waiting on kickstarter to get delivered so another "we will play"
• Firestorm Planetfall - a game i would like to try but unfortunately i was unaware that my friends who own the game are yet to actually play it so another no.
• Bolt Action - unfortunately my armies are not yet ready
• Warhammer 40K - The old faithful, everyone knows it and almost everyone plays it i have a number of armies and hauling them out for an evening is easy and quick so perhaps this is the perfect game especially when you consider the last game of anything was a fun "kill the knight" game back in December

From there where do you go i have all these games and others that when it comes down to it i don't play more than a handful of times and i have Warhammer 40K that i bash a lot but have great fun i love the fluff and the minis and when compared to the likes of malifaux easily comparable in quality but more pose-able than the mono-pose Malifaux.

So recently i have been working on my 30K heresy wolves and i love them alongside my 40K demons of Nurgle.

My collected Heresy wolves at the moment there is 1300 pts excluding the knight that's painted but have more tactical marines and and assault squad to add and a Typhon Siege tank due on my birthday

This is a couple of pictures of my (Glotkin) Great unclean one that also shows an old metal Plaguebearer for a size comparison loved painting this.

So Friday 40K and then Warhammer world on the 1st March for my birthday quite excited

Ishi.

Batman and other projects

So i built and painted some batman figures a while back both Batman and Green Arrow but didn't have enough to build a team

So for a change i bought the Black Mask crew and threw that together and primed them its a really nice set of models with very little clean up required especially versus the batman model which had a fair bit needed. 

A friend also wanted to play Mordheim so i have built my first warband of the two i need - a group of Reiklanders 

And my newest unit for my preheresy rules a Tactical support squad with 5 flamers (need to replace the chainsword as my sergeant cannot have one and a flamer)

Also added a Knight and a Librarian to my force too now it really needs some tanks.

Hopefully i will have enough to field a proper 1500 point heresy force soon as i really want to organise a 30K intro game at the club.

Ishi