New Audio Story: Chains a Warhammer 40k Crime story narrated by me

 

Thirteenth Game in Atlanta: Combat Patrol Death Guars vs. Death Eaters! And changes in Budget Plans!

 I went over to one of the public libraries, were the director is a wargamer to donate the rural ruins terrain set I created (this is part of it). We took advatnage of the early hour and slow buisness to play a game of Combat Patrol with him leading the World Eaters and I the Death Guard. As life would have it I took the wrong box of minaitures, brining my historical 15th Century stuff rather than my Death Guard. Well we went forward with it and had a good scrap, though by the end of turn 3 it was over for me and I conceded. 

Twelfth Game in Atlanta: Multiplayer 40k Free for All! Athalika takes the field in her disgusting glory!

 During this weekend Challenges Games and Comics organizes the Atlanta Sci-Fi and Fantasy Expo (they do this annually). I got together with three other players to play another game of Multiplayer 40k (Incursion level). I run my 1000point Fly Blown Host Detachement of the Decayed Triad. My Deamon Prince Navigator Athalika blessed the gathering taking the field as well with her Nurglings. We played a free for all game where I contested the maps against a fromce each of Tyranids, Dark Angels, and Kroot.

We started at 14:00 and had to call it off at 18:30 playing three full turns in four and half hours. I generally had fun and Victory Points wise the game was competetive when we ended, but it did make me thing about a diffrent turn sequence to cut down on the dead time for non-active players. While there was a bit of the 2vs 2 dynamic, our special VP bonus to players who destory and make half strength at least one unit from each enemy army did foster some aggressiveness. That said I am vetting a semi-alternating activations trun sequence with other players. just for multiplayer games. Once it is vetted I will post it here.

My force (minus the Foetid Bloat Drone that sohuld not be there)

Project Completed: Death Guard Collection

 I am happy to announce that I have completed collecting and painting my Death Guard force for Warhammer 40k and other sci-fi games. This is a 28mm scale force made up of Citadel Miniatures, Immaterium Gods, and Abyss miniatures. It is a bout 1500 points, and can be used to create two diffrent Incursion level lists (1000 points), the current Combat Patrol, and Boarding Action lists. The army started with a gift of painted figures by Onur. All in all I enjoyed building this force, and it did not cost me too much (I believe in total about 250-300 USD). It took me three years to complete.

A video tour is available here 

Porject Completed: 28mm Sci Fi Ruined Settlement Terrain

 I have completed after three years of work, my 28mm Ruined Settlement scractch-built terrain porject. This covers a area for Warhmmer 40K Combat Patrol, Kill Team, Xenos Rampant, and any other skirmish sci-fi game using small units. The next phase in my terrain building is a 28mm Factory/Boarding Actions set to compelment this one. Enoy a video tour here. 

Eleventh Game in Atlanta: The Atlanta Eastside Light Irregulars become acqunted with War and Conquest

This Sunday the 3rd Atlanta Eastside Light Irregualrs met for a learning game of War and Coquest (written by Rob Broom). I finally got the full colelction of 15th Century Western Europeans in Danian colours to the table vs. Khayman's and Preston's united Hussites and Pole-Cossaks. 

We only played 3 of 12 turns, as Khayman was also working the shop, and me and Preston were babysitting. Still it was a good chance to get an idea of the War and Conquest rules. There was a lot we liked, but we found that the organization of the rule-book and the lack of a good free QRS was a major problem for the rules. Now the QRS problem will be solved, and that will help with the organization issue, but I felt that a good sumamry of some rules at the end of the rulebook (i.e when do you get disordered) would be great. 

Combat was very, very smooth, and once we got the hang of it we loved it. It does not bog down.  In general a system we will try again in the future, hopefully with a good QRS.

Updated Sci Fi Terrain

 My terrain project is nearing it completion. One of my old buildings need rebasing to artist canvas, and I want another round of decals to go on them, but I believe this is adequate for Combat Patrol 40k and Small Scale Skirmish games. 

Once I am done on that I plan to invest and work on a equal size mat that will be factory/spaceship terrain. That will permit me to play Incursion games, and Baording Action games. That will probably take a year or two to finish.