Warzone action or how I got blown up

So Paul and I got together for our first proper 1000pt game with cards

We got take and hold with quarter deployment which was awesome 

Set up and army lists

Capitol.

Upgrade - crazy horses

Warlord big bob

10 Airborne

5 free marines

5 heavy infantry

2 purple sharks 

Orca

Bahaus 

Warlord - Angelika Drachen

Lord - Max Steiner

5 hussars - schnel and iron will with a rocket launcher

5 hussars - schnel and iron will with a MG40

3 Juggernauts - schnel

Vulkan - schnel 

Turn 1 - Capitol initiative

The Capitol forces moved up and Angelika moved up and called in an air strike which got lost en route thanks to Bob

The sharks moved up and blasted a jugger to bits.

The Vulcan moved towards the objective the free marines infiltrated to and flamed 3 of them

The free marines retaliated with c4 but failed to scratch the impressive Bahaus designed armour

Max cleared another marine 

The airborne deployed launching missiles as they land 

Before the missile attacks from 10 airborne....

After the fusillade....

This made me very sad...

Turn 2 

The juggernauts opened up destroying the sharks followed by the heavy infantry killing the juggernauts with armour piercing rounds 

The orca pumps out lots of fire immobilising the Vulkan.

At this point Steiner and 2 hussars were all I had left able to effectively fight so i conceded for lunch.

Was a great game the first half of turn 1 I couldn't fail a roll my Vulcan passed every life support check I rolled.

But the dice turned against me in at the top of one when the airborne landed and I lost so much.

Oh well back to another game.

Dust Tactics

So I popped to the local games store this weekend and picked up some new toys also a very good game

Dust tactics http://www.dust-tactics.com/

The Dust background is a continuance of WW2 with a dash of alien tech and removal of Hitler

I picked up all three starters and the quality is good and it all comes pre-built and pre primed in a faction colour

each Taskforce contains a paper battle-map, a rulebook and a set of faction dice.

The game plays with specialist dice to resolve tests the dice have 3 symbols. A faction logo which is what you need for most rolls and then a shield which helps in cover rolls and a target symbol which i haven't used yet

The game plays somewhat like Deadzone in that it is a grid based game and movement/range  is based on number of squares

The models information comes on a card, here is a breakdown of the card layout.

The game plays quickly but is also has a tactical depth rivalling most war games.

The Rulebook including fluff info is available Dustrules_starter.pdf

After the starters the models to expand the range are varied and interesting including some superheroes.

looking forward to playing more

Warzone painting log part 2

So I have finished my part for Big Jim's painting challenge but still have a lot of time to go so built some more Bauhaus and also reworking on my Dark Legion.

For month 2 I painted Max Steiner, a squad of hussars and a squad of juggernauts.

I have built 5 etoiles mortant and a Venusian ranger and 2 vorreitters I may hold of until next month challenge for them though as I still have to base of build a load more.

For my legion (haven taken photos of most of it yet) I primed alakhai with his new sword the old one was too small, a Razide with a nazgaroth and my squad of undead legionnaires. I also built and primed Golgotha, a squad of Praetorian Stalkers with scythes of semai and a Praetorian Behemoth 

So lots to paint now very exciting times.

The Return

Apologies for being away so long i have been feeling the hobby limbo since the new year and so have dabbled in many games but not really done much with any of them.

So what have i been dabbling in?

well I finished my Grey Knight army and took it for a fun game versus Chaos  which was a lot of fun but also very cheesy

also I started some bolt action Russians but have yet to paint or play.

I have found some time to paint and also rekindled my love for Warzone Resurrection.

so here are my basic force from the starter for my Bauhaus I still need to do some squad marking but otherwise all good

I am also working on cleaning up my Legion starter so that demo's can be run.

also on the Warzone front previews of the Imperial Faction have been appearing and they look amazing though thanks to the mention in the book I will be looking at Capitol next.

Modiphius have also been working on the RPG as previously mentioned when I participated in a couple of the demo games and the Kickstarter is running at the moment with 8 days to go. so go take a look here and take a look at here for a Q&A from Chris at Modiphius with my friend Seb

I will post more updates as i finish the other WZR models from the starter and then crack on with the other cool units.


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The path of damnation

So templarscrusade01 has started talking about his new campaign after finishing up the great crusade and the heresy.

The campaign will start with basic chaos lords and grow over time to add 500 points.

Force org is
1 Hq
1 troop
1 elite
1 fast attack
1 heavy

The squads are all minum of 1 model for this campaign.

I have built my lord he is an iron warrior

Warzone Con

Well what a day! Yesterday was the first Warzone convention and it was a great day out i started early to head meet up with my mate Paul (Gamer templates) before heading up to the midlands for the event.

The journey up was interesting as Paul had done a favour for the prodos guys and prepared a 100+ objective markers for the attendees which i had the please of cleaning in the car.

upon arriving we wandered around wellington trying to find the venue and ran into Sebastian and Henrik which was very cool two lovely guys check out Seb's Blog moonshriek.blogg.se

We arrived at the venue to find Rich "Bender" Chalcraft and his shiny metal ass already waiting and caught up with him and some others whilst we waited to go in.

The convention was opened by the mayor which was a new experience for a gaming convention

once inside we caught up with the prodos guys i went around and took some pics (which mostly turned out crap) but lots of games happened 

We caught up with Chris from Modiphius games and got a demo of the latest beta rules for the Mutant Chronicles RPG and it was awesome we all had fun (thanks for the Photo Rich)

Chris at the top Left, Paul, My mate John, Me, Henrik and Sebastian

After the game we grabbed lunch and returned for the Q & A but were at the back so couldn't hear :( but from comments afterward it was very cool.

Rob, Michal, Jarek & Mark from Prodos on stage.

The painting competition was cool there were a few entrants and whilst i don't understand the criteria used to pick there were some lovely entries

very cool Meka with free hand Kanji and Fiber optics to give actual light effects.

Very cool action pose Banshee and the Winning entry Matsumoto

Blood Beret doomtrooper

Other entries (apologies battery ran out)

Was a really long day in the end but i really enjoyed it and picked up some more Legion models including a Behemoth.

Thanks so much to Questing Knight Games, STAGS, Modiphius and Prodos for an awesome convention roll on next year,

Wip - warzone in progress

So a quick post to say I am working on my warzone minis the sculpts are amazing but they do need a little work to clean up though less than some other brands of resin.

Here is a few wip pictures of my legion I am still laying the bases colours down over some preshading

The razide has had the most work so far with a couple of glazes so far.