Am I the only person to look at this and immediately think of Warhammer 40k?
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Inspired by The Scorched Archive, I will be doing all of this as publicly as I can. I think the idea of building an army on a monthly budget is a great one (and I would probably get a reasonable amount of support for more controlled spending like that from my wife; I have a tendency to get a tad overboard sometimes).
Wish me luck! And follow along at home.
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I played my first game of Kill Team last sunday. We played the Assassinate scenario with my Genestealers trying to take out some special Imperial Guardsman dressed up as a Techpriest. All in all it was a refreshing change of pace from standard Warhammer 40k, especially for someone (like myself) that plays a horde army like Tyranids.
]]> I fielded a brood of ten of my special stealth genestealers. Okay, so it was not so much that they were especially sneaky, they were just primed black. For this particular scenario and table setup though, I am going to call them stealthy.
The genestealers started almost in the back corner of the board (from my perspective at least). They made a run/scuttle to the back a bunker in the center of the board. From there, they dove right into the first available squad of guardsmen and made quick and messy work of them.
After that, they chewed through squad after squad until they surrounded their objective. They could have made stew (probably very metallic stew) out of this poor fellow, but in a very un-tyranid like move, I chose to allocate the majority of their attacks to the guardmen that surrounded my genestealers after they surrounded the target. It took two turns to kill the target and I barely made a dent in the seventeen guardmen attacking the genestealers. They managed to finish my tyranids off the following turn.
I definitely look forward to playing Kill Team again and we are going to work very hard to find a role for it in the campaign system we are trying to put together.
]]>Micro Art Studio has added new 25mm square skull bases to their online store.
Five bases are available for €4.88.
Drool...
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This past weekend at Kyle's, Rob and I had the opportunity to playtest some Star Wars customizations Joel made to Full Thrust for use with fighter size ships (tie fighters, x-wings, etc.).
]]> I chose to play the Empire and was given six tie fighters; Joel mentioned that he preferred that I play the Empire anyways as they were significantly more maneuverable (i.e. thrust 10 versus thrusts 6 and 8, for those who know the game) than the Rebel ships and my prior experience with Full Thrust would probably keep me from flying off the table. Rob played the part of the Rebel Scum and was given an x-wing, a y-wing, and a Millennium Falcon-like ship.We started on opposite corners of the rectangular table and gunned the engines at each other. The first turn went relatively well for the Rebels. The x-wing took a couple minor hits but the three Rebel ships managed to completely destroy one of my tie fighters.
The second turn is where things got a little hairy. After writing down our orders and moving our ships, we discovered that we were playing with miniatures on octagonal stands instead of hexagonal. In other words, instead of the usual 30 degrees for each point of turning, it was actually 45 degrees. Unfortunately, we moved the ships back and forth a couple times before we figured out why our results were screwy.
After another couple turns I got a good handle on the change to turning and I managed to get my tie fighters right into the heart of the enemy and take out the x-wing. The problem, though, is that he managed to take out three more tie fighters that turn.
Other responsibilities were calling at that point, so we decided to call the battle for the Rebels. Joel then mentioned that I actually was outclassed to begin with, so I suppose I held my own fairly well.
In the end, I had a blast and I would absolutely love to take another bunch of tie fighters up against some x and y wings.
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Recently, I finally decided to get off my rear end and start painting my Tyranid horde once again. Up until then, the only real paint the figures had seen was black primer, if that much, as you can see from the picture taken at the last game played at my house.
I started with my termagents. On top of the black primer, I added a hefty layer of drybrushed dark brown. After that, I painted the armor plates a nice red color and I even managed to get a drop of a phosphorescent green into their little eye sockets.
I am still a little unsure what to do with their weaponry though. I could keep the main body of the guns brown like the rest of the figure, but then it looks a little bare. I could also paint them red like the armor plates on the figures. I've also thought of drybrushing a little ivory-like color on them. I've had good luck before with that on top of brown, but I'm a little unsure how it would look with the overall figure. I've also thought about trying a color with both red and brown in it, like a maroon or burgundy. A glossy black has also been suggested to me, which would certainly fit in with the intergalactic cockroach theme I'm going for.
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