tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79966837053225089232024-03-12T19:24:02.965-07:00Strange News From Under ThereMinitrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922412141162967651noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996683705322508923.post-2531253546342035192015-10-20T00:35:00.000-07:002015-10-20T00:35:22.648-07:00He tenei mea i runga i?<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We made some rather important decisions and it left us with very little time but life has stabilised of late and while I never stopped gaming my focus certainly changed and for a year or two there was the occasional bout of Dreadball and little else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started playing X-Wing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I became obsessed with tracking down old games I wanted to share with my children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heroquest, Space Crusade, Talisman and more all repurchased and in the process of restoration!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there was a resurgence of Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game., Independent of Games Workshop it seemed people started rediscovering this gem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The prices remained high. The source books as rare as Hens Teeth bit still the Ring called to all of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now for te first time in 5 years I will actually be leaving my family to go to a tournament to play Lord of the Rings!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh there's a lot to catch up on but I really wanted to get something fleshed out and published today.</span><br />
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Minitrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922412141162967651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996683705322508923.post-3682362814981939112013-10-20T15:03:00.002-07:002013-10-20T19:28:49.965-07:00The Filler Episode: Laugh Track Optional<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s quite nice to have several projects on the go in my experience. As my final Dreadball kick starter package arrived a few weeks back I ramped up my efforts to get the teams painted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finished the Forgefathersteam which marks four teams base painted and playable! Again nothing fancy these are just washes and several applications probably 45 minutes total for a completed team I can live with!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s actually quite cool seeing them on the board painted and having the bulk of season 1 completed now I assembled my Robots from season 2 and you’ll see these by Friday I hope!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Here’s the group shot of everything so far. Lucky Logan’s face was ruined when I was tired and used the wrong wash so back to work with him and the ref-bot needs to be re-done I think she doesn’t really stand out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also started on some Mantic Goblins and Orcs. The new kits are quite fun looking and characterful. I am still not a fan of the “restic” material – I have assembled 5 of these Mawbeast riders and they are way too multi part for such simple sculpts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have 2 x body, a head, a shield, a speararm, a tongue for the Mawbeast, foot for the Mawbeast, top knot (half of them). So 8 pieces and these are small figures and cleaning the horrid mould lines is sheer torture. I had hoped to have the full force assembled but stalled after the 5 were done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By contrast here are the new Elohi for the Basilean force and they go together very well. Fairly easy to clean up and good joints for assembly. You can see I even used the Basilean Paladin Knight helms and they match up fairly well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This reminds me is anyone interested in a review of the two new supplements for Kings of War and the new kits? Let me know I pretty much have one of everything!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tried two more test schemes and again these are what I like to call sketches rather than even game display standard to get<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> a </span>feel for the schemes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other news look forward to more Realm: Fantasy Warfare coverage and a retro game review…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well we are finally there. The army was done a fortnight ago and I never got a chance to post the final progress. It is also up for auction - link at the bottom!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />So the final element was the assault squad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I was really pleased with these and through a happy accident when priming the amour came out cracked and worn. It really suits their role as shock tactic aficionados!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not normally a fan of blood on weapons but it was something I have been wanting to try again - I think it looks quite good!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> You can see the weird effect on the scorched parts caused by the strange way the undercoat dried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I re-painted parts of the chaplain and completely changed the base colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall I am really pleased with the army as a whole I think it looks great and I really hope it sells to raise money for Jaynie. Remember you can follow her Facebook page<a href="https://www.facebook.com/LoveForJaynie?ref=ts&fref=ts" target="_blank"> Love for Jaynie</a> or her blog <a href="http://breastfeedingwithcancer.blogspot.co.nz/" target="_blank">Breastfeeding with Cancer</a>. As always be aware her posts can be graphic in nature and updates are sporadic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Just an update on Jaynie she is currently in Waikato hospital and heading into surgery tomorrow morning to remove a tumour that is blocking her right bronchus. It is causing infection and her lung has also collapsed so they are hoping to laser and remove tumour and some infection and get oxygen back into her lung. She has also had a ct scan and it has showed some growth in her existing tumours and growth of new tumours.. at the moment we are looking to the surgery and taking it one step and one day at a time. She is so strong and brave but this has been very hard news for her, Daniel and our family. If anyone would like more information or to pass on a message to her please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you all for everything you have done so far to help her and Daniel keep sending your love she needs all she can get at the moment. xx"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that's it. The project is complete. It's a fairly good example of what you can complete in a short time with a deadline! I am much more confident about completing my new Kings of War army now and it's definitly made me a better painter.<br />The auction link is <b><a href="http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.asp?id=649715572#qna" target="_blank">here</a> - if you're in NZ please share!</b></span>Minitrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922412141162967651noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996683705322508923.post-5746438185643445682013-09-23T02:11:00.003-07:002013-09-23T02:11:41.678-07:00A grab bag of painting...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not happy about the freehand on the helm and I think I will obliterate to and replace it with a "II" as they are the second company - just makes more sense not sure what I was thinking! And as the Wood Elf has jumped in shot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a spare fifteen minutes so I pulled this together as a test scheme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would also like to bring your attention to a great wee Facebook group for the painterly and aspirational </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/494255643989065/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>Carry On Painting</b></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - no egos, no advertising - just gamers trying to get better results. Pop on and say hi!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And on the subject of Facebook...Robert from<a href="http://penandlead.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"> Pen and Lead</a> would like you to err "Like" his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/penandlead" target="_blank">page</a>. Do it and you too could win a thing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Even the threat of a well positioned ref couldn't save the Corp guard from being curb stomped Joe! I thought the ref had eyes in the back or the head but it didn't stop Old Rowdy from being off for three rushes!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Yes Rudey I believe the Goblin Jack of all trades earn't his fee tonight distracting the refbot's practically a full time job!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What do Goblins get paid anyway?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Badly, Joe, badly"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Corp have just scored 4 points Joe and let's review the moment that set it all off. The Corp Striker comes from the outside and steals the ball then proceeds to sprint and dash his way to the undefended scoring hex! Truly stunning Joe...Joe?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"...since when has DIGBY allowed the use of the ref as ablative armour Rudey?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"They've locked the Orx down here Joe and have they..? Yes YES a score it's two points!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The striker has the ball again and he goes fore the bonus 4 pointer but the Orx coach is calling foul! The Corp have seven players on the court! Will the Striker get sent off? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It's just a Jack Rudey, the Striker still makes his play, it's a four pointer the Corp win 6-0!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That will teach me for having the only non-hobby blog post related to the game. I discussed this with some friends who all basically said stop being a tease then and put up some LOTR coverage…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Easier said than done it has been a long time now since we last played the game (I actually believe the last LOTR related game we played was War of the Ring but the Phantom Nuisance could confirm that…).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am still working on the Storm Lords Chaplain in terminator armour at the moment and I don’t really want to show any more until I have some good photos. Looks like the perfect time for another retrotastic instalment of: <b>Armies I Have Known: the LOTR edition</b>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I loved the Moria Goblins in the Fellowship of the Ring movie they were, to me, the best realised Orcs in film/concept to date. I loved the idea of fielding a swarming force that can climb over any surface...climb tests be damned they say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These were the first Moria goblin I painted and they took agessssss. So many angles and they are so tiny. I think the orange was not the best decision ever made either but at the time I think I was trying to match the Card art for the Decipher Lord of the Rings CCG..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then as usual what really got me painting was the threat of a tournament. In those days you needed one force for goo and one fro evil. Well, I wasn't leaving home without my goblins! The problem was I left the painting until the week before. This sounds familiar doesn't it? I needed a very <b><i>VERY </i></b>quick scheme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I ended up doing was pasting gravel and textured wall paper on the bases for ruined look and then primed black. Red cloth. Snot green and rotting flesh for skin. Metals were just a wash of scorched brown over black then a wash of bestial brown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Done. It was fast and brutal but they looked effective from a distance ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are still my favourite Elves ever in terms of looks. I wish I had more to paint. I did like that the elves in the Hobbit movie have this style or armour again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the time I thought a wash of Tamyia: smoke would be a great idea on the armour. No I have no idea why either... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted some <span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Númenórean</span></span> cavalry so I took the Rohan mounted warriors and added </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Númenór<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">heads. A basic conversion as I didn't have time for extra fanciness!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well there we go. I did have other painted Lord of the Rings figures but a lot are broken /stripped/awaiting another chance at this vale of tears...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People who know me have heard my displeasure of this project for some time. I wanted a break from my Space Marine force over the weekend and this set was sitting unfinished for a year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that's it! Now if you want a better review of the game try <a href="http://theshellcase.co.uk/2012/05/14/project-pandora-a-review/" target="_blank">here </a>or </span><a href="http://thefrontlinegamer.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/review-project-pandora-grim-cargo.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. And if you must buy it try </span><a href="http://www.manticgames.com/Shop-Home/Project-Pandora/Product/Project-Pandora-Grim-Cargo.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My original plan was a conversion based around the Commander Dante figure. However after filing and cutting off the details the figure vanished. Now. I am not saying it was the borrowers…but…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It felt right to paint him up. I also chose a librarian as I wanted to use the colour blue and he has a psychic hood modelled on so I figured I could easily link the Storm Lords scheme. The down side of my plan was I have one solitary blue paint...so the actual painting process required a lot of blends to get some variation in tone and some weathering for interest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the mean time here is the Librarian complete with his Brothers and the first time you can get a sneak peak at finished models!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was a striker backer and like a sucker I also backed Mantic Games Deadzone game, due December 2013. As I don't want to be further inundated with unpainted plastic I elected to make a stab at getting <em><strong>ALL</strong></em> my Dreadball teams completed by December and starting with Orx and Corporation, the refbot and one star player.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am only painting these in the small bite sized chunks of time that appear between parenting tasks. Usually in the evening while the boys get ready for bed/in the bath I quickly slap on some colour or do one wash and it's easy! They are nearly there but I wanted to do a work in progress post as I am debating further highlights or going straight to the pin washing to add the distinctive Tron-like glowing elements in the recesses that feature in the Dreadball art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Essentially these are gaming pieces and I don't want to muck about. Also they're actually quite small...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I started the corporation team with a base coat of Army Painter: Goblin Green. Then a drybrush with the yellow Citadel Dry paint and then with a bit more white.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then came the washes. I washed the Corporation team with the Vallejo: Green Wash. The some Secret Weapon: Algae in the cool spots and when this wash was dry a final Secret Weapon: Dark Sepia wash. This was thinned and completed twice; after allowing for drying inbetween.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Orx team got a dry brush of Citadel Dry: Necron Compound followed by a wash of Secret Weapon: Drying Blood (I think...). Then I mixed the Army Painter Goblin Green with Barbarian Flesh for a nice tinted green flesh colour. The Goblin Jacks received a green wash and the Orx Guards a green wash followed by Dark Sepia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that's where they are up to for now. Hopefully they will be done by the weekend then I will do the Veer-Myn team (shudders).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Punny...And another entry so soon? Well when you are on a roll! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was pretty happy with the red after the last entry and I needed to keep in mind that as my aim is to add weathering powder I don’t want to over highlight and then obliterate all the highlighting with weathering. That would be a painful waste of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you look at white in real life it’s very rarely “white”. For instance a white sheet will have shadows where the cloth folds and where the material overlaps this shadow may vary from greys to beiges dependent on light and what material it’s made from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only time you ever see pure white is usually the lacquered paint jobs on vehicles and whiteware. I imagine that’s how marines start all shiny and new but then the paint begins to wear and that’s what I wanted to show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I unashamedly stole from James’ <a href="http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2013/07/first-bike-finished.html" target="_blank">interesting post on painting white </a>(White Scars, and Storm Lords are a successor chapter…coincidence? Or conspiracy!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ahhh it's not a proper project till you a): Learn a new technique and b): get sent back to the drawing board multiple times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You dick.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It transpired my muscle memory for free hand is basically non existent and my transfer skills had evaporated. Now it may also be a factor that my transfer collection is quite old but I was assured they should still be usable by wiser heads than mine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did what everyone does facing adversity. I whined to the internet. And Sigur brush-wizard from <a href="http://battlebrushstudios.blogspot.co.at/" target="_blank">Battle Brush Studios</a> came to my rescue. He has kindly allowed me to reproduce his advise here so you can all gain the wisdom from a <i><b>very </b></i>experienced commission painter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for the rest, I usually apply another coat of gloss varnish. Don't bother watering it down as there should still be a bit of water on the decal anyway and you want the varnish to keep the decal in place. Don't be shy to use much of the stuff. In my experience, gloss varnish dries very thin and doesn't leave streaks on the surface. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next, use some paper tissue to carefully push the last bits of the decal which still don't adhere to the surface down and let it soak up excess water or varnish where necessary. Let the varnish dry completely, give it a coat of matte varnish or, as I prefer, Vallejo Matte Medium (this stuff takes the sheen off everything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It takes a bit of getting used to but it worked for me. Since last year I also use a bit of decal softener but to be honest, I didn't find it too helpful. I think that it helps a little bit, especially with pushing down the last resisting edges, but I think that it's not essential. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love this hobby. I love that we can be in contact across all corners of the globe and help each other. It's a little thing but I dunno it makes me feel pretty happy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sigur was on the money and this time no peeling! The transfers stayed on and adhered. But this is where it gets amusing. In the end I free handed the tactical arrows for over half the marines. Dunno why - I started touching up some white and just got into it. Are they as perfect as the transfers? No but they were pretty beat up and it matches the aesthetic I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I am still processing that issue which is why the delay between posts as the transfers were all meant to go middle of last week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then when I was highlighting the rest of the Rhino I just took a bit more care and now you can't really tell!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bases all got Armageddon Dust textured paint. Again another time-saving device. Washed with Secret Weapon: Dark Sepia and dry-brushed with Citadel Rakarth Flesh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A normal person would have used an airbrush...Then I modulated the very highest and therefore brightest points with a mix of Army painter Red and Demonic Yellow. Then a dot of Army Painter Matt White in the brightest points.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mottled </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the bronzed battle damage with Citadel </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hashut Copper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember to learn more about Jaynie and the reason why I am doing this mad idea you can follow her Facebook page<a href="https://www.facebook.com/LoveForJaynie" target="_blank"> Love for Jaynie</a> or her blog <a href="http://breastfeedingwithcancer.blogspot.co.nz/" target="_blank">Breastfeeding with Cancer</a>. Again use caution her updates can be graphic in nature.</span><br />
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Just a quick korero here: my project posts are not very formulaic and hardly the best format for a step-by-step! Hopefully there’s enough information in my stream of consciousness for you can pick up the good points and improve on the aspects where I went wrong! But please ask questions if you have them!</div>
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Previously I decided on Storm Lords (LOL). They have a brief, brief, history in Warhammer 40,000 canon, basically as White Scars successors. This leads me to thinking slightly less disciplined than strict codex adherents, maybe more fast attack, but as this is a starter force I don’t see that coming into play. </div>
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I decided on a weathered appearance for the force for two reasons. One: I am not the best painter in the world and weathering can help hide a multitude of sins. Two: these models are second hand I can't guarantee some of them weren’t assembled in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> a </span>daft way. This approach would help to explain it as a force isolated and cut off from supplies. Perhaps forced to develop idiosyncratic means of repairs and fighting methodology – hit and run like their parent chapter.</div>
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There are a large number of ways to weather a models and I planned on using a few different ways. In the post previously I linked <a href="http://spikyjames.blogspot.com/2013/07/tactical-marine-walk-throughtalk-through.html" target="_blank">Spikyjames</a> and in his step-by-step he uses a sponge.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kia Ora internet. Ahhh another of those afternoons where the washing mountain yet again rears its cloth-some head and exhorts its minions to take over my lounge! You lose your rag at the children and finally there’s some breathing space.</span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently a friend of ours was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer. She underwent a double mastectomy but the cancer returned and she is continuing to fight while at the same time raise her three boys. I have two boys and amidst the chaos and the mud and tears of today I decided, perspective being a great leveller, for me at least it could be much worse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s the little quirks I like with this chapter - divided livery, company colour is the helmet, and the chapter icon can easily be made through freehand and I can utilise existing decals. So, I set brush to a marine rattling around and made a test figure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then for a number of reasons and in no small part due to the fact my wife has spearheaded several fundraising campaigns for Jaynie this didn't take place. Lately though fundraising has stalled so I decided to dust off this idea and roll with it. </span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will be a small army and I funded it only through careful Trade Me bids - only ever buying black under coated models. In short can a silk purse emerge from this sows ear?</span></div>
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<br />Minitrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922412141162967651noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996683705322508923.post-83676660291435505262013-07-18T12:06:00.001-07:002013-07-18T12:06:47.553-07:00Spikyjames Paints: Tactical Marine Walk Through/Talk Through.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really enjoy seeing another painters process laid out like this I guess there's no excuse for not starting my Pre-Heresy Night Lords now ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I am not sure if the smoke alarm should be in with the onions but the brushes are quite legitimate I use them, to brush away dirt...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needless to say the flotsam of my hobby Diaspora was carefully reintegrated and a production queue of assembled and primed miniatures was steadily accumulated...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, well, well to continue my Realm Fantasy Warfare obsession this week look what turned up in the mail - a starter force of models painted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thesoundofmachinescommissionpainting?ref=stream" target="_blank">The Sound of Machines</a> - Commission Miniature Painting. Thanks again Luke!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've never used a commission painting service before but it was part of the prize and I thought well, why not, save me a job! Actually my wife said “tell them to paint them you won’t do it and they’ll sit in a box forever!” I'm pretty pleased with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Senator</b>: Magic Tome: A treatise on the Nature of Natural magic. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ll add a commander figure at a later date</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now as we discussed earlier Realm is designed for smaller scales and let me say you are spoilt for choice at 15mm but a couple of great ranges are :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lurkio.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Lurkio</b></a> Mostly historic but there are a couple of ranges which suit the more human army lists</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.splinteredlightminis.com/" target="_blank"><b>Splintered Ligh</b>t</a> Massive range from typical fantasy staples to gladiators</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.eurekamin.com.au/" target="_blank"><b>Eureka Miniatures</b> </a> have a large range of not-Lord of the Rings </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then once you get them they are easy to paint. Or if you're interested in commission painting I can now recommend The Sound of Machines - Commission Miniature Painting if you're in the antipodes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would also like to link you to <a href="http://www.studiogaarew.co.uk/" target="_blank">Studio gaarew</a> who is stupidly clever with a brush at 15mm! Check out these ones I pilfered from his page:</span></div>
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Minitrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922412141162967651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996683705322508923.post-27185306753297522642013-03-05T14:59:00.001-08:002013-03-05T14:59:05.356-08:00Question and Answers for Realm - Fantasy Warfare <h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A big thank you to Scott @Serious lemon for putting up with my inane emails!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First of all a clarification:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>I also suspect there is an error in the army lists with the armour ratings as it states </em></span><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rabble <strong>Arm</strong> 10 Versus </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knight <strong>Arm</strong> 2</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>“Characteristic Checks are resolved by rolling a d10. The Check is successful if you roll less than or equal to the Characteristic. A roll of 10 is considered a Critical Fail and always fails regardless of modifiers. A roll of 1 is a Critical Success and is always successful regardless of modifiers.”</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>So if you wound a Knight the attacker will almost certainly kill him as you need to get a roll of 1 or a Critical Success on the D10 roll!</em></span></blockquote>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scott @Serious lemon (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S@SL</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) says:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Question:</strong> Is there an error in the army lists with the armour ratings?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Answer:</strong> I'm not 100% on what was in the pdf, but the values stated are correct. The attackers are making the armour check, not the defenders. For a ranged attack for instance, you roll combat checks, then roll armour checks (on your opponents armour) for each success. The defenders do not roll (only rolling composure checks for casualties). You can think of it as 'wounding' in Warhammer...except that it is testing to penetrate your opponents armour, rather than their 'toughness'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Minitrol:</strong> ahh sorry I should have cross checked against the web version that’s what I did with everything else and picked up a few things I did wrong. Missed this one though! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So for example an Arm check on a Rabble requires a score of 10 or less on a D10.</span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S@SL</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>):</strong> Essentially Rabble will take casualties on all Armour Checks except Critical Fails (natural 10).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Rule "A unit may target a single enemy unit in the Melee, regardless of whether they are in base contact or not."</strong></span></span></blockquote>
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Question:</strong> does that mean if we’re not in base to base and opposite corners of the board I can engage you in melee?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Answer:</strong> This is something that was updated, since that pdf version was created. The new rule is - "A unit may target a single enemy unit in the Melee they are currently in base contact with.” The original intention was that in a multiple-unit melee, you could attack any enemy unit in the same melee, even if you weren't physically touching. This led to too many messy situations, so I changed it to be on the enemy units you are physically touching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Answer:</strong> Winning initiative gives you the option of moving all of your units activated in the current wave before or after your opponent does. They do not alternate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Minitrol:</strong> Which is what I thought but I could see how you could read it both ways!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Question:</strong> Is all ranged combat simultaneous?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Answer:</strong> Yes, entirely. I've tried to capture a simultaneous feeling to the entire wave, despite it being broken into three phases. A unit may make a ranged attack at an enemy unit that was a valid target prior to movement for instance, that is no longer a suitable target. As the movement and ranged combat are essentially all happening at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Minitrol:</strong> again that’s really good for clarity</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>About the web based </strong><a href="http://realmfw.com/downloads/" target="_blank"><strong>rules</strong></a><strong> and </strong><a href="http://realmfw.com/creator/" target="_blank"><strong>force creator </strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Minitrol: </strong>I can see if you had a tablet or the like this could very well work but at a club for instance Wi-Fi might not be an option. Have you explored an app like the one <a href="http://mentemeccanica.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mente Meccanica</a> made for Kings of War (search Android Play “eKOW)"</span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S@SL</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>):</strong> I agree. I've been banking on people having a mobile connection when they're out and about. But it's not going to be suitable for everyone. I just had a look at eKOW. It's an army builder app, yeah? The reason I went with the website is that in theory, it should work on any device. Whereas if I write an army builder for Android, I have to also write one for iOS, Windows (+ Win Phone), OSX etc. I just don't have the time to do it. I can fix whatever issues there are with IE though!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Question from a reader: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I particularly like the idea of the order structure, it will make the game very simultaneous which is cool. I do have a question about it though, Does it mean you can issue more than one order to a unit, or can you only order them to do one of each thing or is it just one order per unit?</span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S@SL</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>):</strong> Each unit may only be issued a single order. There's no limit to the number of times an order may be issued though (your entire army may be given orders to Charge for instance).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All orders are given at the start of the turn which leads to interesting component of the strategy in Realm; trying to guess what your opponent will do and to counter that with the right orders for your troops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So guys if you had a chance to read through Realm yet? Any more burning issues Scott’s here to make t better!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel I lost something with these guys some depth is missing. I might start with a ruddier skin tone or add even more gore next time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I finally put scalpel to plastic and primer to plastic and hairy stick to model.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With thanks to their Kickstarter and Crazy birthday/Christmas deals I have a sizeable collection of Mantic Games Undead and Elves. I can’t really bring myself to create an Elf force so I thought about an Undead force, perhaps one that’s not aware they're dead?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The background is a work in progress but I decided enough was enough! It was time to actually get some ideas together.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want them to be versatile as I want to be able to use them as a Kings of War force, Warhammer, and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Realm and possibly God of Battles. So will there will be multi basing? Yes; but it will be minimal 40*40 squares and 60*40 and loose warriors as required</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These two guys do use parts from both the Mantic Elf Spearmen and Mantic Skeleton sprues. I then Primed them grey and gave them an over head burst of white.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The plan was simple: to complete them in a hour or less. I am going to need 100’s of 'em so I want a technique which is fast!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I based the armour quickly in a Vallejo Pastel blue and Army Painter Navy Blue. I then used Army Painter leather brown on any belts and undersides of shields. I then used a couple of thinned down dry paints to pick out details from Games Workshop (Hexos Palesun and Hellion Green). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then glazed the armour quickly using mixes of turquoise, blue ink in recesses, red ink in the bones and any gore, and some Coelia Greenshade on the weapons then I used Agrax Earthshade on the brown details and any bone areas I wanted contrast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you still haven’t checked out Relics then this is a great opportunity. Tor Gaming has started a new Kick Starter and in addition to just funding towards to the new goodies in the concepts below you have the opportunity to get in on the game at the ground floor with a revised rule book (<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">£18</span>? He must be mental – are you making money off that Gav!), starter sets and any of the existing range. It looks to be a very flexible campaign with a shopping cart style pledge and I for one can’t wait!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Relics is at best a quirky squad based skirmish game where you don’t need maths and you don’t need to memorise a lot of special rules.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The game works on through alternate activations. Each squad or individual/monster can perform a number of actions then play is passed to the next player. This repeats until all units have activated and the turn ends. The game plays best at mid range level 18” seems to be when the action gets going!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well. Instead of hit rolls or opposed rolls or value based dice targets in Relics you need to roll doubles. Attacks succeed for each double you roll on a minimum of two dice. If you ever through modifiers get reduced to below two dice you STILL roll two dice but disregard double ones and twos.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*All images and video copyright Gavin Moorcroft and Tor Gaming</span></strong>. Minitrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922412141162967651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996683705322508923.post-52547084870208785552013-01-20T23:02:00.000-08:002013-01-21T12:07:04.389-08:00It's not really a resolution post if I don't call it that...<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So a friend encouraged me to do this after convincing me I really needed a way to organise my thoughts from spilling from the Warp into Realspace.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first blog. My first semi-public anything. You know I have a job and I deal with the public everyday but that's work and they're customers not real people like you dear readers...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am pretty proud of 2012. I felt I wrote a lot and responded to feedback and developed my writing style. You have no idea how tempting It is to go back through all old posts and re-write them but that might be an event for when the blog has run continuously for a few years yet!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like to consider that for the bulk of the first 6 months I wrote draft posts on my phone while rocking an infant or carrying an infant. Usually on 4 or so hours of uncontinuous sleep and still managed to get paint on brush! As a result I am not going to “score” anything but I am thinking about improvements!</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a wee </span><a href="http://strangenewsfromunderthere.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-celebratory-post-and-idea.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">competition</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on my blog…sadly not many uptakes but for those who were interested:<o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would answer my favourite 6 questions in a future blog post and the best question as judged by my wife (controller of the hobby budget!) would win!<o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here they are ranked 6-1:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 – </span><a href="http://platoonbritannica.com/index.php?threads/allonairres-wip-thread.1248/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allonairre</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My question would also be about Kick starters. What do you think is driving the current boom, I use that word a bit lightly, in games development, and will there be a saturation point reached? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There really seems to be a massive number of new projects out there at the moment and many are quite involved gaming systems. While I could understand multiple one off investment style games these are not the only games out there.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 - </span><a href="http://englishmaninukraine.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Englishmaninukraine<o:p></o:p></span></a></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have seen Warhammer 40,000 evolve over several editions, from the crazyness of the 80s to the static poses of the 90s, to the grim-darkness we have today. Where do you think the hobby will go in the next 25years? (This can be anything; fluff, model design, rules etc)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>I love this question. I’ve drafted several responses then kept finding pictures of models I love and start over</em>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is another great question (considering its number two you expect that!). Not many people were asking this at the time most were still thinking Kickstarter = Mini Manna from Heaven. While a few bloggers have mentioned it since I don’t feel as a community we have addressed this yet!<b><o:p> </o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally the winner chosen by my wife <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 – </span><a href="http://penandlead.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Penandlead</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not sure how to work this into a blog post yet but I won’t give up on it!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></em></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Mr Penandlead I have sent you a message</u>!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks everyone and again apologies for the delay. I should also mention if you interested in natural parenting techniques or saving money in the high stakes child rearing avenues please visit and follow my wife’s blog <strong><a href="http://siananigan.blogspot.co.nz/" target="_blank">Natural Mum on the Cheap</a></strong>!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started with the aim of a blog post per month and I actually exceeded that! I also wanted to get over 10,000 hits and 20 followers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">None of which are my favorites! While that doesn’t matter really I found it interesting. It’s made me more determined to keep writing what interests ME. If people don’t view it I need to work on MY communication as I think all games have something to tell and something relevant mind you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Errrrrr well, maybe. Posts that went nowhere. Someone told me if its not working just write anything. And that’s true some posts started out as great ideas but then I was sick of them and they went no further. I have 6 posts I think will never be published as they are just not my voice. I can hear too may other sources in them and I am not adding anything. There is a couple like that in the list to your left and I wonder if you can <em>spot</em> them?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next spurt of writing after I killed off the duff posts ALWAYS went smoother. Damn clichés are clichés for a reason I guess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So keeping it simple. I still aim for a 12 posts this year. No really. I want to get consistency and if that means a limitation of posts then I have to be okay with that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now enough humdrum let’s get back to the toys which is what we all care about really.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Build a force for Kings of War that can also be used for Warhammer and Realms FW<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paint my Relics collection<o:p></o:p></span></strong></li>
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<li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finish my bloody Veer-Myn for Project Pandora – my white whale<o:p></o:p></span></strong></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s really all I want to do. Anything above and beyond will be a bonus. Not to say I won’t be distracted that’s the life of a gamer. The family will also implementing a Big Move sometime this year which may disrupt hobbyness so you’ll know if that happens as the posts will get grumpier!<o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the best for 2013 all my followers and any casual viewers and friends!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As you may recall I am bit of a stalker of <a href="http://strangenewsfromunderthere.blogspot.com/2012/06/interview-with-jonathan-peace-writer.html" target="_blank">Jonathan Peace</a>. I was very interested when he announced recently he is linking up with Serious Lemon to unleash his furious penmanship upon their background setting for their mass battle game - Realms Warfare.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course as a dedicated stalker I had to know more and immediately contacted Scott @Serious lemon for more information.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is a game based on unit actions and not individuals. It has a lovely element of abstraction and simplicity and a toolbox of flavourful rules to cover everything from different units to magic, war machine and interactive terrain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Right from the outset these rules are nice and clear for instance we immediately get clarity on Line of Sight:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The game lasts 6 turns or unless one force is broken earlier. Each turn is broken into simultaneous waves of orders. These orders are Move, Engage, March or Charge:</span></span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Important: this game does use Dice with ten sides (D10’s) and Auto Fail and Auto Success rules.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This little fellow comes from the <a href="http://realmfw.com/armies/cursed/" target="_blank">The Cursed</a> list:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also suspect there is an error in the army lists with the armour ratings as it states </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rabble <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arm</b> 10</span></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knight <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arm</b> 2</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In melee and ranges attack when hits are counted you take <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arm</b> tests, the section on tests states:</span></span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Characteristic Checks are resolved by rolling a d10. The Check is successful if you roll less than or equal to the Characteristic. A roll of 10 is considered a Critical Fail and always fails regardless of modifiers. A roll of 1 is a Critical Success and is always successful regardless of modifiers.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif; mso-themecolor: text1;">”</span></i></span></div>
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">So if you wound a Knight the attacker will almost certainly kill him as you need to get a roll of 1 or a Critical Success on the D10 roll. It seems like </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">all the values were transposed and it should read as:</span></span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rabble <b>Arm</b> 2</span></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knight <b>Arm</b> 10</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">So a Knight can only fail with Critical Failure and Rabble would only succeed with Critical Success . This seems more accurate! The alternative is for<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Arm</b> checks you need to roll equal to or over the characteristic value but the rules don’t support this interpretation.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Either way we will ask Serious Lemon for clarity! But I may have misread – what do you think?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Just to be different in this review I will make a wee army. The beauty of this system is how simple it is to tailor a force and theme it. Along with choosing your race you can then add armour, a class for your units or add a master craftsmen who can apply an army wide bonus and then tailor your spell selection to one of a number of different magic disciplines</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It isn’t clear if you can have multiple, Commanders whether this is perhaps for larger games I don’t know but we will stick with the implication only one is required. I assumed this as there is no cost for the commanders. As long as your commander sticks around you get the army traits from your chosen nation. In my case the Cursed get “Dread”!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“Each army has a particular trait in its description. These traits only apply when a Commander from that nation is leading the army</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This means if you select allied armies then the traits of the allied component will not come into play as they will not have a commander of their nation. Simples. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Unit Type<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Base Size<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Models/Base<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bases/Unit <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Height<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Power<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Resilience</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">like</b> this rule set a lot. At the moment it’s hard to get into as the website itself makes it difficult to get the rules and read them. Then to play a game you’d need a laptop nearby or to have the patience to print out web-pages. Sure it’s not hard to do but some of us are time poor and fussy!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In their favour Serious Lemon have made it easy to create a force using an <a href="http://realmfw.com/creator/" target="_blank">Online Calculator </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(You may have to experiment with the best browser to use though…)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also for those keeping score at home that army is also pretty equivalent to a 1,000 point Kings of War force and as long as you keep within the army/basing foot print or close enough you could easily create force able to be used in BOTH games.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If you were especially cunning you could make a force compatible with Hordes of the Things, Kings of War, Warhammer and Realms Warfare!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So there you go a brief intro and I'm sorry it’s not very in-depth but after two read-throughs I think this is a very intuitive game with a lot going for it. It has some resemblance to Warmaster but actually now that I mentioned it earlier I actually think its like a modern version of Hordes of the Things and its historical counterpart DBM, DBX. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is every chance it could still be recognised as intimidating being so open with so many variables but the nice concise rules and the options in the tactics for placing orders balance this somewhat. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If you have a collection of figures based on 20mm bases why not chuck a list together, print out the order counters and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Give.It.A.Go</b>. Drop Serious Lemon a line and let them know what you think they really appreciate your feedback!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Now…go roll some dice!</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I was correct I was doing it incorrectly above (as pointed out by Allonairre below) and the live version differed from my PDF. I'll be doing a follow up to clarify soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was also taken to task, quite rightly, by an enraged Scotsman. As</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I first started this review as I was interested in the rules. But I did find out after it was written RealmFW had a contest for mentioning their ruleset. I entered it and WON. I hadn't won when this was written but to be fair I should have clarifed that I was submitting this as a contest so it was right to point this out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apolo</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gies for any misdirection or confusion this causes - lesson learned</span><br />
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</span>Minitrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922412141162967651noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996683705322508923.post-24107584127733910302012-11-21T23:13:00.001-08:002012-11-21T23:13:23.097-08:00A Knife in the Dark: Musings on The Hobbit Strategy Battle Game<h2 style="text-align: center;">
A Knife in the Dark</h2>
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This post is brought to you from a day of meandering thoughts and the collected musings of myself and a silent partner to this blog The Cheeselord.<br />
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I love the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. I really do. It's fun. Quick to learn, and yes harder to master and with a myriad of forces and models despite being set within Tolkein's Middle Earth it has been the game I played the most of sine the first Fellowship of the Ring Boxed set.<br />
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We've played through it all. Every source book. The Journey books. Every new release culminating in the Mines Of Moria collated rules and then...<br />
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It was inevitable really. The bubble burst and those that loved the game were left wanting and deprived. I shouldn't have been surprised it was always going to be difficult to sustain interest. But we kept playing.<br />
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I can honestly say looking back I suspect I have played more Lord of the Rings than any other game. It actually astounds me.<br />
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Well, our forces all fell by the wayside and although War of the Ring injected some excitement it was short lived as that game was just too difficult for the newcomer to get into let alone afford. There was serious 8th Edition Warhammer business to attend to!<br />
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(of course when that turned out to suck we stopped playing!)<br />
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As an aside for a games true popularity try the torrent test. See if you can find a torrent of the War of the Ring expansion...first to do so may get a prize!<br />
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<b>Whispers of a nameless dread...</b></h3>
When we first heard of the extended license we did think maybe, maybe they would slowly gear up Lord of the Rings coverage but as most of you know a bizarre non-disclosure circus descended and aside from the Worst 'Rings Release Ever in January '12 (source books and some models no one cared for or asked for like the Dweller, the Watcher and Gandalf with his cart and Gandalf with his iPhone, actually, that may not be true.) It seemed the game had died a death...<br />
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I began to hear rumours of a new game, to replace the Lord of the Rings moniker but still the same engine. Still skirmish based could this be the panacea to my ills an affordable game using the mechanics I love...<br />
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Wow...just... wow<br />
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OMG WTF BBQ<br />
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I may be AMAZED at the contents but it seems unlikely. Now. Don't get me wrong they look perfectly fine. Better than many offerings from many companies. But I really, really need to seriously ask where is this product marketed?<br />
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I knew the price would be within chump change of the Dark Vengeance and Island of Blood but this is so far out of whack…I have heard retailers advise they have serious doubts the product will shift. You probably know they are required if they signed up for Games Workshops retail plans to get a certain number as mandatory product. <br />
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They are relying entirely on Christmas mentality and the movie release to buoy sales. Will it be enough?<br />
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I couldn't justify the Warhammer 40,000 set - I mean it's quite good, awesome plastics (stingy on the dice though 5 dice?) but I think we just reached my {$} pain point.<br />
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Are they targeting the super fans and collectors, rather than the normal wargamer/Games Workshop officiant, at those prices?<br />
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Are they also dipping their toes in the water for that level of pricing, if it sells okay, well I would pick Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 might see there prices going up equivalently. If they have heard any noise about prices, but still want to raise them, they are only risking their small game as a test case. <br />
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Call us cynical.<br />
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It does make me wonder if they only opted for license for one year? Make a big slash and burn to gouge profits then drop the line…If that makes your eyes water how about $145 for the Finecast White Council?<br />
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<b>The road goes ever on...</b></h3>
I remember when LOTR: Strategy Battle Game was the option when you wanted to play a GW game, that was capable of being a bit smaller and cheaper. Now it's no longer the case.<br />
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I think, they probably have bought the rights for the next 3 years to capitalise for all three movies, then our pick is the LOTR: Strategy Battle Game will quietly disappear after the movies are done. I was hoping after January's LAME relaunch of the skirmish game it would get a shot in the arm as sadly War of the Ring was badly marketed; great game but completely unaffordable. And it was caught up in the "White Dwarf not knowing how to handle any new releases well" years.<br />
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If it was $185-195.00 I could justify it, hell, Dreadfleet was $220.00 and I damn well convinced myself I needed that!<br />
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<b> Riddles...</b></h3>
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As a gamer first and a lover of Games Workshop second you have to ask yourself, are you going to keep collecting? If not, am I not better spending that money on an army I <i>currently</i> collect?</div>
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Since September last year I have brought paints. Other friends have probably spent about the equivalent. The Cheeselords last purchase was Warhammer Armies: Tomb Kings. I dunno. Maybe I am trying to hard to hold onto something?</div>
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The thing is I spent $185 without a seconds regret on Kings of War and and Dreadball and have a TONNE of models and still more of Tor Gamings tasty Relics mini’s yet to arrive.That said instead of work I have been looking at pictures and the new Hobbit models ARE nice. They are not as lazy as recent endeavours and the fine details are great. But the price! </div>
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If I knew I could get three years of gaming out of it I would probably get it but if the feeling is no new players, so no new tournies, no events then no point.</div>
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The rules sound fun but a bit more kiddie light and definitely a refocus on skirmish there are hurls and rends for monsters and some weapons can confer bonuses its basically the same though. I feel, instead of a rebuild or a tighter they just tacked on extra special rules, <b>Heroic Marching </b>and <b>Heroic Channelling</b> for instance.<br />
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I'll leave this with a final word from The Cheeselord:</div>
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See, I think you have the answer there. The price is the point of being a barrier to a lot of players, and if it's more of a light, kid focus, it's definitely a barrier to those players, as I can't imagine many parents saying that $245 was worth while. Hell, it's getting to the price point for a new xbox or playstation, and I don't think it's the same perceived value for money. </blockquote>
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I can see the blog forming in your emails. : P</blockquote>
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He was so right.<br />
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What drives you in our hobby?</h2>
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Every now and then I get to ask, be asked or I ask myself why am I doing this, why wargaming what's the benefit to me? "Why do you enjoy it?". Sometimes people ask me this without a need on their part to say anything. I can read you know. I say 'I collect and play wargames' and through g’lazed expressions they say 'that’s interesting. Which means in no particular order what's he talking about, OMG the <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=&prodId=prod1710146a" target="_blank">prices</a>, ha, weird and (rarely) that's interesting.<br />
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It's difficult isn't it. To explain why you enjoy something that only a minority in the world does. It's not as popular as Nascar but I suspect more popular than curling... where's the cut off for merit through interest by per head of population?<br />
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Yo wake up. A broken sleep. Unusual. Up, the list as long as you're arm. Connect to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tabletopgamingnews" target="_blank">Facebook</a> on your mobile while you do the dishes and the washing. Share a joke and a laugh with some other leadheads. Share a smilie. There's a meme. You've seen it so many times it's totes not relevant but it makes you smile. You 'like' it.<br />
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Its coffee and its kids and its building a robot with your eldest before you leave you warn him not all good guys are good. Youngest brains his Ironman onto a White Dwarf.<br />
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Everybody else's problems are now yours. It's all gone wrong. Panic. More coffee. Things get done its busy and you make yourself take breaks. Check blogger. Look at the views. Do people value your opinions. Unusual. Everyone's busy why are you complaining? Sometimes its just hard; sometimes a problem is symptomatic of a larger issue. Not your department.<br />
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There's a debate on the new <a href="http://www.spartangames.co.uk/games/dystopian-legions" target="_blank">faction</a> being released. You all joke 'I have no more money'. So many people talking passionately about a shared interest. You all try to moderate the topic.<br />
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End of the day you listen patiently as the problems pour out. Sigh. Changing to another role? What's the point. The shame shit in a different chair. The devil you know and all that.<br />
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Home. Kids. Food. Stories. Bed. Check Facebook read some blogs. Some great <a href="http://firstpointofaries.blogspot.co.nz/2012/11/ecclesiarchy-echo-priest.html" target="_blank">inspiration</a> out there. <a href="http://thefrontlinegamer.blogspot.co.nz/2012/11/sunday-sermon-what-is-proper-wargamer.html" target="_blank">Jealousy</a> is common and you need to curb that Shite. Some awesome topics abound. <a href="http://diceoflegends.blogspot.co.nz/2012/11/deep-thought-disabilities-and-wargaming.html" target="_blank">Disabilities</a> in gaming. Supporting the nascent companies. Critical dissection of <a href="http://theporkster.blogspot.co.nz/2012/11/warhammer-xk-and-wargaming-almost.html" target="_blank">background</a> material.<br />
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We do everything else. Gaming is a reward. Its unimportant. which is why, to me, it's so important.<br />
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You lie helplessly still as your face fall apart...</h3>
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Work in progress. These are all being done with the army painter set and a couple of new GW paints. I Army Painter red. Its gorgeous.<br />
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Until next time...go roll some dice.<br />
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