Last night we got together at the club & had quite a showing of players. I think we had 11 or 12 people make it out.
Gord & Chen joined me in a game of Zombicide. What better way to promote Zomtober!
We each played 2 survivors & did the scenario City Block, where the survivors had to find 3 items (Bag of rice, water & canned food) as well as acquire all the objectives, then make it off the exit.
Phil was the first to fall, as he was literally swarmed by walkers. It was nothing he did, honest. The walkers had 2 extra turn cards in a row & hammered the luckless fella.
Meanwhile Troy & the Cardboard Samurai were working at keeping the exit path cleared without too much noise.
That swarm of walkers was kept at arms length as the players figured out that using noise to draw them away to open a path was the best option.
The players did make their run & managed to get off the board, losing only 2 of their group (Phil & Ned)
This game will look so much better once all the figures for it are painted. Rumour has it my latest Zombicide Kickstarter is on its way...the horror!
After having our Thanksgiving Feast, done the cleanup & digested the meal watching Walking Dead, I managed to finish off the next 2 figures from the consignment I am working on.
Up first we had the Royal Paladin.
If I learn nothing else about painting these figures, its that its all about the eyes.
I gave the figures an overspray of matte finish, but it seems this guy just wants to shine. I figure its due to my haste to capture the photos before rushing out the door for errands, that it wasn't quite dried yet.
This next figure was an interesting one, her name is Nyan-Nyan. She seems to be some sort of hybrid cat lady. And she does have some impressive attributes.
These figures have a lot of character to them. I am enjoying each of their unique challenges.
Not exactly sure why she wears a bell on her tail, unless its to chime dinner time.
It's off to the club this eve to play Zombicide. Alas the figures will be unpainted ones, but that won't quell the fun to be had.
So another week has passed, the wife has returned from her trip, just in time to make Thanksgiving Dinner for us. We decided on doing it today vs tomorrow so that we can relax and digest the feast without worrying about rushing to clean up.
Add to that the return of the Walking Dead, & yes the weekend has been full of the previous series airing again, so its turning out to be quite the weekend!
So here in my next Zombicide zombie for this weeks entry
The shot below is what I have painted up so far from the Zombicide game. This small batch of shambler's surely is no match for a stalwart survivor.
Now with the smell of turkey starting to fill the room, my stomache is growling like Zombie, time to get some food!
While I was down in Calgary I received my next consignment figures. I was asked to try a new painting style, namely to paint BESM style. Not sure I managed to 'change' so to speak, but I have aimed to match the character to her card.
So here we have the first of many Super Dungeon Explore figures.
This is the Sister of Light, obviously a healer/cleric type.
These characters are quite large compared to a standard 28mm figure.
The only issue I had painting the figure is that they were already mounted on the base & thus I was unable to get some hard to reach spots up underneath. As well the slot is longer than the mounts of the feet so there are some gaps. Not really a big deal & I think I only notice as I am trying to get into the nooks & crannies with my brush.
For coating I used the Light Army Painter Dip, followed by Matte Overspray.
I leave it to the owner of the consignment to let me know if this is what he was looking for before I proceed.
I have completed my Zombie for the Zomtober event for this week. He is another walker from Zombicide.
I have also completed another ships crew (that makes 4 now). On the bright side that means painting 1 less figure for the rest of the crews I am working on.
The first figure is from Foundry and is wielding some large bore musket, the second is a marine & the last is likely from Old Glory.
I am 2/3rds complete on the first of the Super Dungeon Explore miniatures, will be working on another Zombie for next weekends update as well as of course...more Pirates.
I also need to think about what will be occurring for my upcoming November 11th Gaming afternoon.
Getting home from the club meeting, sorry now photos this time round, I got the matte spray on my 2 latest pirate crew.
Both are metal, the fella on the left is Foundry while the other is likely Old Glory.
Having taken a look at the return of Michael Awdry to his blog, his post sent me to another promoting ZOMBTOBER 2013. I have decided to join this event myself, surely I can manage a single zombie a week for the next month.
The post is here if you also want to participate as we all know, Zombies don't travel alone.
I've just returned home from Fallcon number 26, held in Calgary Alberta. It was another weekend of miniature gaming for me & I managed to once again avoid any boardgames. I was of course tempted to get into Zombicide (which I don't consider a boardgame) but instead opted for a Too Fat Lardies game. More of that to follow.
I spent the weekend at Mark's new home (THANKS MARK & FAMILY!) & discovered it was located at the base of Nose Hill in Calgary, a large natural walking wildlife area. Bonus to them for the location! It was also a very easy drive to The Sentry Box for my yearly trip as well as to the convention site.
Now onto the games
Friday night started off with a large SAGA battle. I played the King of Englad...Oh King eh! Very nice! This is where I met one of Mark's new gaming buddies...Mike.
My force consisted of the King and 4 units of Hearthguard.
Across from me was Mark playing a force of Welsh.
I took my force along the flank, losing sight of the rest of the army, but not wanting to leave it open to the Welsh.
As I moved into the gap between the blocks of woods I noticed a gaping gap in our centre. Things were not going well there it seemed.
After a turn of being stumped by the Welsh hitting and running, I was able to draw his leader into a combat, where my Hearthguard aided in slaying the Welsh leader, forcing his army to retire. Alas the battle was lost however as most of the remainder of the army had been shattered. Regardless it was nice being able to out roll Mark!
Saturday morning Sean once again brought out his G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T game. You can see how popular this game is as we had 9 players. The objective of this scenario was to gather up as much of the Glowindium (blue stones) and hold the central repository of the Glowindium (centre of the table). Of course there were guardians of the Glowindium as we soon discovered.
A shot of the table showcasing some of Sean's excellent terrain pieces. As well as the scattered Glowindium.
I played the same force of British Camel Corps led by the esteemed Phil MacCracken with his Indian Guide Lal Singh. As can be seen below whenever someone successfully gathered some Glowindium, a roll was made to see if a guardian arose, which for most of the game was Giant Spiders.
The player beside me, fielding Stampy & the Sikhs charged the Giant Spider. I did send in Lal Singh to assist, though this spider was tough as nails & took down both Stampy, Lal and a Camel Corps member before succumbing. These buggers had saves of 14 which were very hard to beat.
Below is a shot of the Glowindium Repository.
I decided to split my force, taking 3 soldiers with MacCracken while the others formed a screen & dealt with any guardians.
Marco agreed to a truce with me on my right & spent quite some time dealing with this spider. It likely fed on 5 of his men before it was taken down. Meanwhile the Steam Tank trundled over what Marco considered his Glowindium, this broke a truce barkered between the two & led to a side shot from the cannon.
Eventually we were faced with a Giant Worm which went after Mikes Camel Jockeys. He did slay this monster after a short couple rounds.
Meanwhile the forces of Pasha Spice (Marco) were engaged with the Steam Tank and managed to get the crew to bail out. They were quickly slain by the sabre wielding pirates.
The evening found me in a game of Through the Mud and the Blood, a Too Fat Lardie's WW1 game system. This was a part of the battle of Cambrai in 1917, where the British were trying to penetrate as far as they could pas the 2nd & 3rd trench lines. The host Patrick had a fantastic battlefield.
I had control of the tanks Bosworth. The British forces had the use of 3 tanks & 1 aircraft.
The initial deployment with everyone but the tanks on blinds.
The tanks trundle ahead, with a couple of our infantry units suffered some losses & lots of shock in the open.
The British Air force makes a strafing attack.
Mark Stadel had control of the tank Bob & had taken a hit causing an engine fire. He was able to put it out.
We were only able to get my tank to the halfway point thru the wire before the game was called due to time. We did get started an hour & a half late so that ate into a lot of our time, as well as the teaching of players new to Lardie's systems.
Another fun year of hanging with friends, talking smack with Mark Stadel, making some buys from the auction & finally taking the plunge & buying into the Star Wars X-Wing Miniature Game.
