Tanks and Guns

So one of the local gaming clubs has got a Tank Aces Flames of War campaign going so I will enter my Panzerkompanie into it, so far  I have got one Panzer IV to lead them and 7 Panzer III to break into two squadrons and one to lead act as second for the Panzer IV

Pictured is the command Panzer III

I have also started buying the rest of my sisters and will continue to do this over the xmas period and picked up the Alt sculpt of Sonnia Crid for Malifaux as with the crew lists I can use a lot of the models with both factions

Hope to get more pics up this week

Hobbits & Goblins and Dwarves

So Games Workshop has released the Hobbit SBG and from the first comments on the internet it looks like people don't like it.

Having come late to the Middle Earth party I had not read the book which I am doing at the moment so at first agreed with some of the comments.

But once again we have to remember what the main target for GW is for xmas he is 8 - 12 and has never heard of tabletop gaming so walks past GW and sees the glossy display of the film trailer he has seen on TV he comes in and if the shop is good they have the stuff in the front. Mum and Dad will probably consider £20   for childmiding not bad value and all of the staff are CRB checked and shouting about sticking swords in people

Main comments are
Too expensive - likely to agree with this but I have decided to buy only certain things and use the models from my collection for others, so for my box of Hunter Orcs in which I get 12 £20 lets see what I could get. Right boxes for under £20 include a combat squad of marines or 5 marine scouts both of these are £15.50 so I might be able to pick up the glue to put them together with my £20 and after that I have one squad which takes up 100 pts of a game that is usually played at 1500pts.
So I get 12 models which are very well sculpted from the pics and in all honesty will only need 50 of these models so will spend around £100 in all. So maybe not

Horrible scale - right pet peeve here Imperial Guard Soldiers who are 6' should not be modeled the same as a 8' tall space marine, anyway lets look at the size of historical miniatures, they are true 25 - 28mm and should be the same scale and if you shop around will be able to use gripping beast or fire forge to expand your army, would like to see Imperial Guardsmen scaled down to fit better with the universe so the scale thing does not bother me in the slightest

Dont like the look of the models - ok the goblins did not do it for me but not GW's fault I know that the sculptors had a trip to New Zealand so were following Peter Jackson's vision of the goblins also from someone who has read the book they had not yet evolved into the Mines of Moria goblins also the dwarfs are based on the costumes of the film so not their fault and blame Jackson for that and go to red box games for some more dwarf heroes

Goblin Town set can be made with balsa wood - not by a 8 year old with no modelling skills the terrain kits arent really for experienced modellers but for the kids so they are not sawing into wood or scattering modelling polystyrene around their parents house, we all did it.

So for the people trying to sell the hobby to someone who has is the Hobbit any good for someone getting into the idea of tabletop gaming - I would say yes, low cost lots of people their age will be playing and terrain that just needs gluing and painting and mum and dad pay how much for a computer and games for the kid so they learn social skills because they are across the table from their opponent so no swearing at your opponent like Call of Duty

All this and not a GW apologist

Kill Teams FTW

So recently some of my friends have started getting into Kill Teams for 40k 

As regular readers of the Blog may know skirmish gaming is my thing and I was planning on doing some 30k Kill Teams. :-)

The rules that people are using are by heraldsofruin blogspot and they don't seem to different from the normal game which is good for getting new players in.

So I present my first kill team made of 

Night Lords Lexicanium 

Combat squad of Death Guard with suspensor Heavy Bolter specialist

Veteran World Eater with Power Sword

and World Eater Assault Marine 

should be having a game this weekend and week so will get to see how they do the time frame will be just after the Council of Terra 

Plans for 2013

So hopefully the world will not end this year and I will continue my quest for world domination into next year.

I have decided to limit myself to certain key projects for the year.

1. Armies on Parade - Dragon is bought and lying on the work bench, still to find a Chaos Sorcerer to ride him and acquire the rest of the warband this will include the Skullchrushers
2. Menoth army for Warmachine this is still a bit nebulous the idea for the core of the force is medium base infantry so Cinerators and Bastions will form the core will be about 50pts
3. 30k Kill Teams - While some of the Horus Heresy models from Forge World are very nice they cost a bit and it will feel a shame to use them as line troopers what could be better than running them in small squads with your own characters leading them.
4. Merc 18th Century Warband - still some to paint and one box to buy for these for a quasi skirmish game of quasi historical muskets and axes
5. Blood Angels Lamenters - random models will be added when I fancy it to my main army and any actual progress will of course be recorded

Quick amendment - the armies on parade will be an Easterling force for Lord of the Rings this will still have the dragon which is assembled apart from the wings

Weekend painting week time gaming

So the year starts to close up and of course I have got lots going on.

I had a game of Warmachine on Thursday which reminded me how much I love this game, it also shocked me how much of the game I remembered, the only thing I will have to remember is the unit activation not bad for it being a teaching game for me, and something I will remember with my Menoth for next year.

The second thing, as I was not doing loads in the day I chose to spend most of Saturday painting and managed to do these, they will fit into my mercenary 18th Century army who will be helping the Ruskis to fight against the Czar.

On Sunday while not doing much I decided to work on a new project

These are two of the defenders of the Imperium for my Warhammer 30K kill team project, which I will be adding to over Christmas with some ForgeWorld goodies.

The idea is to make a 300pt force that does not include Unique Characters but does include Independent Characters so here we have Captain Milios of the IXth Legion 20th (Sword) Company on the right who is supported by Veteran Helvane of the XVIth Legion 10th Company expect to see a Field Captain from the Emperors Children and maybe a Sanguinary Priest.

In other news I put together a Orc and Goblin Spider Monster this was fun and apart from the pictures being a bit poor was clearly numbered and labelled

Dystopian Wars

So on Thursday I had my first game of Dystopian Wars.

All I can say is what a brilliant system this is. It models naval and air combat very well and the extra stuff about tesla and fusion meltdowns is very good. I played this at Phatcats and had a brilliant time. I will be playing this again and buying more stuff.

I have also had more stuff to put together
Dark Elf dragon, this was a really nice kit that I put together in an hour with the sorceress. I could have done more bits but the client only wanted the quick and simple. Very nice

Wood Elf Treeman - not a good kit. Had to put certain parts of the model into hot water so that it would stand up in anything like a realistic pose and when it was constructed it looked very small. Would not use this if I decided to do a wood elf army.

 Treekin - while the one i put together was simple to put together I would not be impressed with this kit if I bought it the models are very small for what they are supposed to represent. for both of these units I would be looking at Privateer Press Circle wold stuff.

I will be immersing myself in the Iron Kingdoms soon when I get the IKRPG.

More work and some play

It's sad times at the moment as my power lead has died and I need to get a new one

Since last time I have been putting together a

Soul Grinder - this was a nice kit and and simple to make not brilliant just nice
Ghazkull - brilliant really quick to put together nice and quick
Slaaneshi chariot - some fiddly bits instructions could be better but ok

I have also been painting some more iron kingdoms models so expect pics soon

Till the return