Into the Jungle

Yesterday saw Mark and I get in a small game of Beyond the Gates of Antares on my nice new Deepcut Studio alien planet mat, along with my home made jungle terrain. As Mark was a bit sick of my butt kicking Ghar army, I fielded the 514 points worth of Boromites I had put onto bases. This being my first game with the Boromites It was also a good little learning curve for me as well. The game started good for the Mark with his Concord, there superior range paying off in the first turn. Then a couple of bad choices by me and the Boromites got a right old rogering. With half of my units (all 5 of them) getting dusted quickly. I came back a bit when I got my Lava mites into combat, but ultimately I got wiped out. A fun little game on my awesome looking table. I'm really pleased with how the jungle terrain has come out. Just one more dusting of flocking around the base edges and they will be complete.

I just need to workout how I’m going to do the area terrain edges for the jungle. I’ll have to do some testing with bits of clear acetate or other type of plastic so the alien mat image shows through, then use the jungle terrain in the same fashion as you normally use trees on forest area terrain.

With Hail Caesar coming back to the club next month, my greeks are back out looking for more paint, so it going to be a busy month of painting.

The Jungle

With my Ghar now finished, I've started on putting together some Sci-fi terrain to make the games more themed, especially if we manage to get the campaign going.

The first thing I have to say is my wife rocks! She was out doing some girly shopping over the weekend and I get a message "Found some plastic plants..do you want .. $2" . So $12 later she arrive home with six different plant bunches.

Add in some cheap FAS clay, a few old bases and coasters and a small jungle is made.

I also had some old seed pods and a dead branch from one of the trails I've taken to running lately. (they are the brown ones on the left) They will get a lick or two of paint once the clay drys.

The Ghar

So today I finished off my Ghar army for Beyond the gates of Antares. Pretty sure this is a record for me painting an entire army, from the first purchase to fully painted in exactly 2 months to the day.

My army also includes some Rebel Ghar units, which I will build up if we keep playing, keeping the same colour scheme so I can run either army list.  

With this lot I can run a list 1750 points, or do a 2000 point list by bulking all the units up with their respective unit options. 

I've also created a massive excel spread sheet as an army builder. I've currently got the Ghar and Boromite armies all setup and working, with unit option selections, points calculation etc. It's been a mind bending experiment into excel logic and advanced formulas, but it was a good little challenge for the brain and good training for me work wise. It's still got a long way to go with getting the other army list into it. I'm pretty pleased with the outcome thought. 

Look forward to getting some more games in and also for my Boromite army to arrive so I can start work on them.