Rex: Final Days of an Empire

Last night I had some friends over for a couple games of Rex: Final Days of an Empire by Fantasy Flight Games. This game is set 3000 years before Twilight Imperium (another game I'd like to some day play). This game is a reimagined version of an old Avalon Hill game, Dune. The players assume 1of 6 races vying for control of the Imperial capital. The goal is to assume control of a number of key city sectors.  At it's heart it's essentially a game of conquest.  The game is pretty simple and can be explained adequately in a couple minutes even if one of your players is drunk. The game is made for 3-6 players, we had 4.  I really would like to try it with 6 as I think it should be played with 6.

Later.

Been a while...

It's been a while since I've posted so I thought I'd post up something. Work has been insane crazy busy so I haven't got almost anything done in regards of miniature painting.  I also haven't got much accomplished in the way of board gaming either. I think I'm in a bit of a gaming funk or maybe it's more of a milieu funk as I can't seem to read anything either. Oh well... . Looking back on my New Years resolutions, I had set myself a target of getting 350 figs painted this year. It's been 5 1/2 months and I barely have a quarter done, so I think I can safely say I've blown that resolution.

Here's my present state of gaming:
I am slowly working on a couple bases of Teppo for my Samurai army.  When I'm done these two bases I might take a break and shift to something else for a little bit. Not sure yet. Maybe I'll knock off some Full Thrust ships or start on my 15mm sci-fi alien faction.

Earlier this month we had our club's annual convention, MayDay. I ran a game of War Rocket, pitting a Galacteer force on a mission to destroy an Imperial asteroid base.

The game generally went off without a hitch and ended in an Imperial victory due to some odd decisions on the part of the Galacteer player. I like this ruleset as it's quick and easy to explain/learn.

Yesterday Chris and I gave a run through of a 15mm sci-fi battle using FUBAR.  We used the basic rule sheet and the Armored Vehicle rules from the Imperial Commander sheet. The rules were okay I guess, there's a lot they didn't have. The vehicle combat rules from the IC sheet are an utter disaster as they make a vehicle virtually unkillable. Our game was almost finished when we switched back to the basic vehicle rules. Overall we weren't impressed. And it uses d6 and you know how I looooove d6's! We're going to try Stargrunt II next. Chris is reading the rules and I'm on chit duty.

For boardgaming I haven't played nearly enough and I think I'm suffering from board game withdrawal.  Our Descent campaign isn't going very well and I honestly don't think it's going to end very nicely. We'll see.

Later.

Tomorrow's War

Tonight Chris and I ran through a couple games of Tomorrow's War. The last game was an armour and infantry assault through a small village populated by some militia and a few vehicles in support.

I'm not really sold on the rules.  The rulebook is not that great as things tend to be scattered all over the book. I'd like to give Stargrunt 2 a run-through to see if I like that better.

Samurai Part 2

Due to work being extremely busy these past few weeks, I haven't been able to get much in the way of painting done. Regardless, tonight I finished a couple more bases for my Impetus Samurai army. These figs are all from Kingston Miniatures. First up is my third base of Ashigaru with yari.

Also completed is a base of sohei (warrior monks) that I'll use as heavy infantry. I really liked painting these figs.

Next up is a couple bases of Teppo (Ashigaru with arquebus). Hopefully I can get them done before the end of the month.

Samurai Part 1 - Completed

Tonight I finally finished a couple bases of Ashigaru. These minis are from Kingston Miniatures. They're pretty nice figs, nicely detailed. The basing actually turned out pretty good compared to my usual crappy basing.

I've got another base of Ashigaru almost completed and I've started on a base of sohei.

15mm Dragon's Teeth

Yesterday I finished up seven bases of dragon's teeth for 15mm.

The teeth themselves are some sort of concrete supply bits I acquired from my friend Chris. I have enough left over to do at least another 20 bases.

I hopefully will get my first two bases of Ashigaru based up tonight, but we'll see. I've got another base a little over half done and I've started on a base of sohei (warrior monks).

Samurai Pt. 1-ish

Been a while since I posted so I figured I'd post up what I'm doing. Due to work being extremely busy, I haven't had quite as much time to paint. Regardless, I've got 2 bases of Ashigaru with yari sort of finished. As you can see from the pic below the figs are completed, they just need to be based. The only thing stopping me is I'm waiting for some material to come so I can do up a banner. These figs are all from Kingston Miniatures.

The clan I've chosen is the Kuroda clan. See the Samurai Heraldry Gallery, page 3 about a third of the way down. I went with this clan because they were active in the Sengoku period and they did participate in the invasion of Korea, hence keeping my opposing model options open. The other reason is I needed a sashimono design I could paint without it looking too crappy. The sashimono design of Kuroda Josui Yoshitaka fit that bill quite nicely.

Once I have the bannerman and bases done, I'll post up another pic. Meanwhile I've started working on another base of Ashigaru with yari and some dragon's teeth terrain for my 15mm sci-fi stuff. Speaking of which, Chris and I are going to give Tomorrow's War a run through maybe this weekend.