The Good, The Bad and the Truly Ugly Dice

With winter fast approaching the club hall was rather cool on Saturday for our monthly meet, next month it’s going to a damn freezer in there. It’s been a month since I last played a game of FOG, how time fly's. So my Egyptians made it to the table again, a little worst for wear thanks to a small accident with them meeting the floor from table height, with only one major casualty. And that sums up the game rather well. An accident for every Egyptian on the table. Mike’s shooting dice were on fire and mine were average. But when you consistently roll 2’s and 3’s for cohesion checks things go bad fast as I found out. So I received a complete ass whipping.

Then with all of Marks Wild West buildings out on the table we rolled out a 4 gang showdown. I used my new Black Scorpion Apache models (only got them at the beginning of the week so manages to get a couple almost finished). The new resin that they are producing at Black Scorpion is awesome, the mould's are just superb, no bubbles at all.

Anyway, the game was a riot, 4 gang’s, – Mexicans, Apache’s, Out Law’s and Law men. Chaos and carnage rained as my Apache’s took a pounding and headed for the hill’s first followed by the Mexicans. Leaving the Outlaws and Lawmen to fight it out, which lead to the Law deciding the town wasn’t worth saving and leaving it lawlessness.

It was a fantastic game, with all the new terrain, the barrels and toff's that Mark has it really adds to the game. We even started using a few house rules, keeping track of the bullets in a six gun and making them reload. Which worked really well. Can’t wait for this weekend.

Hail to the Queen

Oh yes, hail to the Queen …. yep, my lovely wife just gave me an awesome birthday present, A Dremel tool kit, complete with a bunch of accessories.

This is going to make building my roads and furniture for Mobs wars soooo. much easier.

So I can now retire my cheap ass Chinese knock off to the bin.

WIP – The Mob Bar

So I’ve been busy adding to my Mob Bar setup, with some tables using some hexagonal bases I had for my Battletech miniatures. Also added a bunch of details to the bar from my bits and pieces bin. The beer taps are just electrician terminal connectors which work really well and are so simple it not funny.

The corner booth was a nice little challenge, using plastic card to get the nice smooth curve on the seat took a few goes. Solved by using masking tape to hold it in place before gluing. Now I just need the buildings to turn up.

The Mob’s Bar

After many hours of searching the web for interior furniture and finding very little that was affordable or looked half descent, I started on building a bar from balsa wood. This is what I have so far.

Once the glues has fully dried, I’ll sand it down and add in some detailing. Was thinking of trying out cutting up plastic card for some of the finer detailing. no idea if it will work, but you have to try these thing sometimes.

Random

Since I've got nothing much to take photos of other than wet looking roads that I've just sealed with PVA, here's something a bit more interesting. some more random picutres from my Omaka trip back at Easter.

 

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

So I’m finally getting around to my starting my Gangsters. After playing Legends of the Wild West lately and loving it, the guys are keen to use the conversion rules and play some 1920/30’s Gangster and Mob wars.  I’ve gone and ordered some Sarissa-precision buildings which I’ll be able to use for lots of other games as well. I managed to pickup some 1/43 scale Matchbox cars for really cheap, so I was stoked when I got them and the scale is pretty spot on.

While I wait for the buildings to arrive, I started testing out making some roads on a few bits of old mdf. So far so good, my masking wasn't the best on the first run, so it’s need a touch up, need to use stronger masking tape on the MDF compared to model plastic. Overall I think my general idea will work, just need to see how I get on with the sidewalks and the printed cobblestone work. Watered down PVA should do the trick then a spray matt varnish. Also really looking forward to seeing the Mob War models from Brigade games, first time I’ve ordered anything from them.. …so many games…so many models … so much painting… life must be good.

Big Bugs and Six guns

The weekend started with me trying to cut my thumb off, followed by smashing it on a bench vice followed by badly burning it on a tungsten lamp. yep, that was my Saturday. It did get better when I went and watched Iron Man 3 at the movies. Nothing like siting back sippin scotch and watching a great movie.

So come Sunday I was ready for some gaming. So I rocked out a random list for my Combined army using the Cascuda again, since I put all that time into making the base and painting him. Phil with using his ALEPH and that nasty Asuras which I always seem to have trouble dealing with. We used the YAMS cards for missions and this time I had three which I though I’d have a good chance of getting and one was a maybe…if I’m lucky.

It turned out I was lucky, and I actually got all four of my objectives, the first time ever. So I ended up winning the game 4 to 3. Whaoo .. The highlight was having the Cascuda’s airborne deployment hacked by Phil, then nailing the landing on top of a building…. and landing on one of Phil's camouflaged models hiding on the roof. Splat …Urrrr …Bug Bug carnage.

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A shot of Will’s Highlanders from his game against Phil in the afternoon.

After that Mark and I picked up a game of Legends of the Wild West with his newly made fences and repainted buildings (still a work in progress), along with his newly acquired wagons, gallows and a long drop. This time we used the full rules and made up gangs using the $200 startup money. My usual Cow Girls versus the Mexican Bandit’s.

The game rolled out very smoothly and with all the extra cover, it was alot more fun. Everyone on both sides was lasting alot longer with all the cover taking a beating from gunfire. Add that with the use of the Fame and Fortune of the characters really made for a fun game.

With my burnt thumb there was no way I was taking my DSLR to take photos so I just shot a few pics on my phone, which turned out ok,

My Soiled Dove did a great job of walking up and shooting one of the Mexicans in the back, only to try and take cover from the others in the wagon and failing her climb roll, then her grit test… broken neck.. what a way to go out.

In the end the Cow Girls whittled down the Mexicans and they headed for the hills once again. So I think that puts the Cow Girls in a bit of a winning streak.

I’ll probably regret it next game.

Guilds of Cadwallon

Got home tonight to find a nice surprise on my doorstep, my first Kick-starter backing turned up. Guilds of Cadwallon by Coolmini or Not.

After playing through the very basic rules a couple of times by myself to get the mechanics down, then playing my wife at two games (and losing both of them) I’m please to say it’s a very “Cool” game indeed. The mechanics are pretty simple, and the production quality is very good, equal to any Fantasy flight game production. The artwork on the cards is outstanding, better than I expected by miles. I must say, getting the big box and the game board was also a good choice as it makes the game look much better on the table. Also means with the extras I got, you can play with 2-8 players. Very neat little quick game.Looking forward to seeing what the guys think of it on the weekend.

Here’s a few pictures off the web site and a little video of the gameplay.(no need to reinvent the wheel)

Link to the Kickstarter project

Mass Battle

An 800 point battle, yep, everything we had was on the table in one big mass game of Dust Warfare. Phil and I taking my SSU up against the Axis commanded by Will and Mark. We left out the most of the Hero's, with only one per side so not to complicate things to much. Three helicopters and one plane on the board looked awesome, along with all the walkers and tanks on both sides. Oh.. and one or two infantry models as well….LOL…only 20 units versus 24… not many really.

My new huts look pretty cool in black and white, (love Photoshop) not so much on a brown matt, one day I’ll actually get around to finishing off my winter table.

The Helicopters actually did there job in this game, unfortunately not a lot else did and the SSU took a good old fashioned beating.

I really need to re-read the rules and play more, same old story, too many games and not enough time. That’s no excuse, just a fact, still great to see all the toys on the table.

After the mascara in Dust we rolled out a quick game of Legends of the Wild West with some real basic gangs. The Cow Girl’s versus the Mexicans in the Vendetta scenario. The Cow Girls hold up in the tavern in the middle of town as the Mexicans came at them from two sides.

Sneaky Mexicans moving around the back of the builds to try and outflank the Girls on a third side, which ultimately meet in a fire fight with some six gun action and the girls kick Mexican butt.

Deadly dynamite took out two of the Girls in a lucky throw through the window.

The Cow girls fort off the Mexicans in the end for the win as Mexicans broke and ran for the hills after losing half there gang early on. But they managed to stay in the game for another three rounds before finally failing there “Head for the Hills” (morale) roll. By which time they had made a good fight back and taken out half the Cow Girls. It’s fun little game.