Stone Age and Satellites

Last night I got in a couple games of Stone Age by Rio Grande Games.  The premise is you guide your Stone Age villagers in building up their village. It's got a number of similarities to games like Puerto Rico and Agricola. You place your villager meeples onto certain spots (or jobs) on the board and they collect resources in which you can use to advance your village.  Visually a nice looking game with lots of little wooden bits and it took us about an hour and a half with 4 people per game. If you like Eurogames, then I'd recommend this one.

Also this past week, I completed a group of 6 figures for a friends X-Wing game. These were from Spartan Games Firestorm Armada range and are a pack of their Communications and Point Defense satellites.  Unfortunately I didn't get a pic of them.

On my paint table right now is a collection of assorted figures for a number of different units for my NK Egyptians.  I need to allocate more time to painting as I'm finding it hard lately to get anything done.

More Egyptians

I finally finished up another batch of assorted 15mm NK Egyptians. These figs are all Old Glory 15's. First is a group of 4 chariots.

Next is a group of 4 line infantry.

Finally there is 3 bases of skirmishers. The one on the right is a unit of Nubian short bow and the other 2 are "Asiatics" with slings.

I'm not sure what I'm going to work on next.  I've still got as bunch more Egyptians to do but I might take a break and start working on my 1/200 scale Robotech models.

MayDay 2013

This past Saturday we had our annual MayDay convention. Here's some pics of the various games.

First is a pic of the Gaslight game. Evidently it featured multiple war bands, camels, a steam tank, a giant spider and even a dinosaur. I'm not sure which group won but apparently it was a hoot.

Next is a pic of Chen-Song's Tomorrow's War game. I believe the insurgents won this game.

This next one is a pic of a Dark Age Apocalypse game. This was one of three games Warren ran, which was quite impressive. I didn't get a good look at the figs but the terrain was really nice.

Next up is Dave's War & Conquest El Cid game. I participated in this one on the Christian's side.  We narrowly got the win over the Muslim raiders. There's some really nice figs in this game.

Next is a Command Decision 4 game, the Battle of somethingorother. I'm thinking it might have been in Italy. This game went on for two time slots and I have no idea who won but it looked impressive.

I ran a game of War Rocket pitting a Zenithian force against a force of Pirates that were in the process of looting a crashed Zenithian mothership. The pic doesn't really show the ships very well but I believe Terry's blog has better pics.

There were a couple games of X-Wing run. Here is Bob telling someone that he is strong with the Force.

X-Wing is a great convention game as it's quick and easy to learn, doesn't bog down with lots of rules and the prepainted figs are really nice. I'm expecting we'll be seeing this game at next year's convention.

There was a game of 6mm FUBAR. I didn't get a chance to actually look at hte figures but the terrain was really nice. Stu will have to bring this one out to club night again as I wouldn't mind giving it a go.

The other game I participated in was the third game run by Warren: 15mm Gruntz. I was eager to get in on this game as I'm still looking for a good 15mm sic-fi ruleset.

The terrain was superb and the figs really nice. The game pitted some colonial marines fending off a horde of aliens so the colonists can escape.  In the end most of the colonists made it off but the marines died to the last man. The aliens won due to the sheer numbers of kills they got.  I think I'm going to pick up this ruleset as it may be what I'm looking for.

Next is a game of Age of Piracy. Terry had painted up some nice ships and figures for this one.

One of the highlights of the day when it came to terrain was Justin's game of Charlie Company. It was very green!  I believe the US troops won this one.

Also taking place all day was a Warmachine/Hordes tourney.

Kevin provided all the terrain for the 19 players which is pretty darn impressive. Hopefully we'll see another one next year.

Like the Warmachine/Hordes tourney, there was an all-day Warhammer 40K tourney. Lots of infantry, tanks and flyers.

The last tourney was a DBA tourney that I think Mark Wall won, but I'm not 100 percent on that.

I was not able to get a pic of the Battlemasters game, Axis & Allies game or Zombicide game.

Overall it was a great day of gaming and everyone had fun! Thanks to everyone who helped make this day possible.

More NK Egyptian Archers

This week I finished off another batch of New Kingdom Egyptian archer bases. These figs are Old Glory 15's.

On my paint table are more units of chariots, spearmen and skirmishers. Also next Saturday is our annual Mayday convention and I've got my War Rocket game all ready to go. My scenario is going to pit Xenithians versus Pirates with a smattering of Imperials thrown in.

Last night I had some friends over for a game of Arkham Horror using the Dunwich Horror expansion and the King in Yellow expansion.  Big surprise, we didn't win.  With one group of friends we never lose and with the other group we never win.  Last night's loss was mainly caused by the fact we had numerous Mythos cards with ongoing effects in play. At one time we had 3 of them going. Brutal. In the end we faced off against Yog-Sothoth. We game him a bit of a run but he/she/it prevailed in the end.

Incidentally I've come to the conclusion that I need to come up with some sort of card stand for all the cards as they take up a considerable amount of room on the table.

NK Sherden & Skirmishers

Finally finished some more bases for my New Kingdom Egyptian Impetus army. These are all Old Glory 15s figs. First up is 4 bases of Sherden heavy infantry.

And the next pic is of 5 bases of Nubian skirmishers.

I've got some more archers on my table and after that should be some more chariots. Meanwhile I'm finishing up the terrain for my Mayday War Rocket game.

X-Wing Miniatures Game

This week I was over at a friend's place and we finally got to play X-Wing.  He had the base set and a couple of expansions, giving us a total of 2 TIE Fighters, a TIE Advanced, an X-Wing and a Y-wing.  The game itself is very fast and we got in 4 games in under 3 hours.  Each ship has a handful of pilots to choose from and each ship also can be upgraded to have things such as astromech droids, missiles and pilot upgrades.  Movement is dictated by movement templates and is not hex based. Although I can see the game being easily converted to hex based movement.  The minis are prepainted but are done really well.  

There was a post on TGN this past week stating that Wizkids has licensed the game system from Fantasy Flight to do a Star Trek game.  Should be interesting.

New Kingdom Egyptians

Been quite a while since I've posted something up. I was waiting for some bases from Litko to arrive which delayed this posting a bit. So the yesterday I finally finished off the first batch of bases for my Impetus New Kingdom Egyptian army. These are all Old Glory 15s minis. There are based up on Litko 3mm plywood bases with a 80mm frontage.  First up is 4 bases of light chariots (CGL):

Next up is 5 bases of line infantry (FP):

Next is 8 bases of veteran archers (T). There is only 1 category of archers so both types of figures are pooled into the same category.

I probably should have made the skin a little darker than what I did, but oh well.

Next up is a pile more infantry including some more archers, Sherden heavy infantry and Nubian skirmishers.