Sryth:Artist.Gamer.Designer

1st Post of the New Year

2011-01-11T00:20:00.001-05:00

Well its finally 2011 and like lots of people I am resolving to do many things. Now probably most of my resolutions will just end up crap but hopefully a couple will stick. The 1st being that I will post on this blog more frequently even if its just a painting update. With that said welcome to my 1st painting blog post. Just kidding..then end of 2010 was a bit weird I went from gaming twice a week to zero immediately after Gencon. Most of that time I spend working through a lot of personal issues and pretty much the demise of the gaming group that I have gamed with for going on five years. Things are looking up I am having fun playing Warmachine again and I am really loving MERCS. Speaking of MERCS you may have noticed they have made the “Top Ten Links” over there on the right. I see a bright future for MERCS, I love the art, the story and the game is great two and the dev team is local which is awesome.

Painting Blog 1/11/11
In addition to getting back to gaming I have also been painting again something I haven’t done since before Gencon. I am currently working on my MERCS stuff I have an “Yellow Jackets” squad and a USCR squad but I love this stuff so much I will more than likely own them all eventually. Below are a couple of WIP shots of the Yellow Jackets Squad Leader Figure. I would call this tabletop quality I am trying to stay away from metallic to help match the look with the artwork from the book so it has a kind of flat look.

These are a couple of early shots of the base coat. I am still working out the orange detail pieces and how to detail out the face mask.

Here are shots of the model about 90% complete. There base is still being finished with its forward firing arc. I have turfed the base as well and the model as been washed and highlighted.

Keep and eye out for MERCS this game has huge potential the models are great the artwork is awesome and it is a blast to play.

Happy New Year!
Hear's hoping its better than last year.

Sryth:Artist.Gamer.Designer

Return to Warcraft: or how I learned to Stop Complaining and Love World of Warcraft

2010-11-26T11:27:00.001-05:00

Thats a big title but its true. Within the last few weeks I have put all the issues I had in the past with World of Warcraft(WoW) and got back to playing and I can't believe just how wrong I was, and how bad it is out there in the world of MMORPGS.

Now let me give a little context here, I played WoW back in the early days of what is now know as "Vanilla WoW" back them the game was pretty brutal the level grind was slow but if you could make it to 40 and beyond there was a lot of cool stuff to be had. I will admit back then I didn't make it to 40 I don't even think I made it to 30 and that was primarily due to the grind that was leveling. I quickly lost interest and started new characters. This pretty much continued into the next expansion and even up to the Lich King expansion. I will say things got better during the last couple expansions but the grind was still there and the game became more and more like a job that I was paying to do. So I took some time off. I tried out other games both free and play and not and I can't honestly say nothing holds a candle to WoW, the other games just are not polished enough and and just not designed well enough. So when the latest expansion for WoW was announced Cataclysm my interest was peaked it seemed like a good time to get back into WoW.

So now I am back into WoW and loving it. Cataclysm content is dropping and the game is even better than it was before. They have also done a lot to make easier to level a character so that is fun and not a mind numbing grind like the old days. The future looks good and I am really enjoying my time in the game so much that I am going to be starting a new feature on the blog where I can post some of my screenshots that I have taken while exploring the world of Azeroth. The new feature is going to be Postcards from Azeroth and the plan is to run it once a week or more if I have good screenshots to show. The first Postcards from Azeroth is planned for next Monday.

"What do you mean there is an Octopus on my face?"

Sovereign Wars News

2010-09-22T12:39:00.001-04:00

Sovereign Wars Alpha Release

I am proud to announce that we are at a state in development that the game has been released to the alpha testers. Hopefully we will be able to go to beta by the end of the year depending on how well that alpha goes. Stay posted to this blog, over the next few days I will be posting information about the first four races of Sovereign Wars.

Artists Wanted!
I am looking for some talented artists to contribute to the model line as well as the rule book. Anyone interested please drop me an e-mail here. We are looking at artists of all types from Character Design to Ship Design. Have some talent looking for a resume piece and the opportunity to get involved with a games on the ground floor drop us an e-mail.

Sovereign Wars and C2 Games

2010-05-07T09:06:00.003-04:00

It's been kinda slow around here lately but even thought the blog has been slow I have been fairly busy. Between playing Warmachine and painting up models I have also been working on a side project for a while now and all of the pieces are finally starting to fall into place. Without further delay I would like to announce C²Games and Sovereign Wars. Check out the C²Games blog here. What does this announcement mean for this place? Well its hard to say I am still a big gamer at heart so there will always be something going on but I guess time will tell....

Also before I forget I have also been working with a local group to solidify our local gaming scene. Check that site out at www.CircelCityGamers.com

Tuesday Night HeroClix?

2010-02-24T08:25:00.001-05:00

Yea playing is believing its been something like 5+ years since I have even looked into Heroclix and now its one of my top games of the moment. Last Tuesday I was able to get a couple of games in and I must say its starting to bring back all that fun that I use to have with MageKnight and other Wizkids games. It is also apparent that the game has come a long way since that original Infinity Challenge box set(for which I have 2 of). With that said that game is a blast to play and the models themselves are pretty cool for pre-paints. Thanks must goes out the NECA for resurrecting the game hopefully they will bring back MageKnight and Mechwarrior.

Alkemy Lives!

2010-02-01T20:46:00.002-05:00

After what seems like an eternity I have decided to break out the Alkemy stuff and give it another go. So diving in head first I decided that I would run some events at Whosyercon 2010(more info on that as time progresses) for which I need some painted figs. So over the weekend I put some time in a finshed up my Kaliman starter and then proceeded to paint up my Jade Triad starter and reinforcement pack most of which you can see in the image below. I am also going to be building a modular 3'X 3' table that can be broken down for smaller demos, more on that as it progresses, I am still debating wither to do a Jade Triad theme table or a Kaliman table I should know that in a couple of days and I work out some drawings.

From New Images

Post Holiday Post….

2010-01-08T07:16:00.001-05:00

With the holidays taking up most of my primary gaming time there is not much to tell. I did get some painting down and completed a box of Sea Dogs for my Warmachine army. Other than that its been very slow on the gaming front but all that should change with the arrival of my Warmachine Prime Mark II book. I have only leafed through the book but it looks sweet as ever now I just have to wait for my Forces of Warmachine Books.

In addition to new Warmachine goodness I finally got my hands on Dragon Age: Origins and the only word to describe this game is Awesome…in the true original definition of the word. Bioware has simply created the best and most engaging RPG I have ever played and the the the cool part is they have contracted Green Ronin Publishing to create a pen and paper RPG which also looks promising and a game for which I will be getting shortly.

All in all I am kind of glad to see that the holidays are over and life and my gaming schedule can get back to normal. Maybe my blogging will get back to normal as well…….one can only hope

Oh almost forgot Who’s Yer Con has been announced, I will be running an introductory Dragon Age:Rpg game there at least one, possibly other games as well. Check this link at the top of the page for more information.

Privateer Images

2009-12-15T14:43:00.002-05:00

I was finally able to get some pics of my Warmachine stuff that I have painted over the last couple months. More to come as well as images of a Uncharted Seas fleet I am working on for a commission. Check out the album below for new images, please excuse the lighting I need get some new lights for that table.

Warmachine,Empire,X-Crawl

2009-12-09T08:03:00.003-05:00

So, its been a few weeks since my last post and to be honest I with the holidays coming up I imagine that post are going to be few are far between. Anyway recently I have been a bit obsesses with Warmachine and for that matter Hordes, in the past 2 months I have been able to participate in two tournaments and many Sundays and Thursdays of gaming. Its nice to be able to go to game store and be pretty much guaranteed to get in a game. With that said I have also been doing some work on my Empire army and with some black Friday purchases I have picked up 16 more spearmen and some additional great swords. I was also able to fill out my unit of knights.

Along with my miniature gaming works I am also working on a X-Crawl conversion to the Cortex system to be played by some local players. Finally I have some Uncharted Seas commission work on my painting table which is coming along.
That’s it for now I hope to have some new images uploaded soon of my Mercs which are coming very close to being fully painted.

Empire Project Update 004

2009-11-04T06:57:00.003-05:00

And so grows the Empire! My shipment of bases and my Bartertown trade arrived on Monday and were quickly forced into action. I was able to get all my plastic Spearmen based and in the movement tray(you may notice 3 old school Spearmen in the back there are 3 more where they came from. I also finished up a detachment of Handgunners and Swordsmen. Finally I made the decision to use my Templars as Greatswords I just removed their. Below are some new images of the growing army.

From WIP

Currently on the workbench for this army I have a unit of fighters that will be made up of Griffin Purifiers and Duelists lead by Phidias. I also have come to the conclusion that I am just going to have to break down and buy a box of Flagellants and of course a Steam Tank, these GW models are just to good to pass up and their is not much in the Confrontation range that matches up well(the Sessair models I was going to use just don't have the same look and feel).

Empire Project Update 003

2009-11-02T11:43:00.006-05:00

Just a small update today, over the weekend my Warstore order of Rackham plastics arrived and withing a few minutes the miniatures have been liberated from the oversized packages, removed from the circular bases and in the case of the Knights of redemption attached to proper Warhammer fantasy bases. Today I am expecting a big shipment of bases as well as some items I recently traded for. Below are some WIP shots of the Knights, the images were taken with my phone so quality is a little suspect.

Before

From WIP

After

From WIP

Empire Project Update 002

2009-10-30T10:59:00.006-04:00

Work on the Empire continues, although at a very slow pace. On the positive side I am now up to 32 plastic griffin spearmen(and they are already painted to boot). Not much work to do on the spearmen just some minor gluing and modifying to get them to rank up properly. I will eventually prime and paint them however they are last on the list since they are already painted. I also worked on my griffin conscripts putting on there shields and fitting them into rank formation. That's about it for assembly I did put a bunch of stuff into the "simple green" to strip their paint and get them ready for inclusion in the army. Finally I ordered two spearmen attachment boxes and a Knight of Redemption attachment box from The Warstore.

Its kinda of weird but I am looking forward to Rackham plastics now... as easy additions to my Empire army. Now they need to get around to starting up the Dragon army so I can finish up my Cynwall-High Elf army.

Oh finally saw that my 20mm bases shipped should be here Saturday or Monday along with my stuff from The Warstore. I already have a sizable army for less than 100 dollars at the point.

Empire Project Update 001

2009-10-26T12:49:00.007-04:00

Progress continues on my little project. Over the weekend I re-based 17 plastic griffin spearmen along with a small unit of swordsmen and even some fusiliers. I also built Sered and plan to use him as a War Priest I also re-based Mira and plan to use her as a Captain of the Empire. I am currently waiting on some more figures to come in based on some trades as well as some more 20mm bases. I will need to do some assembly on my fighters as well as figure out some more equivalences Below are a couple images of my progress.

From New Images

The Empire Project

2009-10-22T08:15:00.004-04:00

Well its been a few weeks since my last post and I can say that those weeks have been pretty much crap. I haven't been able to get much gaming in due to a lot of family related stuff. I haven't even working on any models or anything. I did get the last bits of my order from Wyrd in finally so I guess that's a positive oh yea I also picked up another year in age as well but that's neither here nor there. Anyway after a lot of thought and some gentle prodding from a few friends I have finally decided to put all the metal that is just sitting in my closet to use and get back into Warhammer Fantasy Battles however I am going to be doing it without buying GW models hence my new project, that's the goal anyway. I am planning to take my Age of Ragnarok sized Griffon army and re-purpose them as and Empire army. I am also looking at doing a full Cynwall, High Elf army that is going to take a bit of work though. To do this I am planning on augmenting my exiting metals with the Age of Ragnarok plastics(repainted of course) I should be able to put together a fairly descent army. With that said I am still looking for metals so if any of my old Confrontation buddies(or friends of Confrontation Buddies) have any Griffon(plastics included),Lion(plastics included) or Cynwall collections(I am open to all conditions would prefer to see complete models paint conditions is irrelevant) they aren't using and wouldn't mind parting with for a modest amount please drop me and e-mail or Facebook message whatever. I am just tried of seeing these awesome models just sitting on the shelf.

Oh yea almost forgot. I am also looking for a Dwarven Chariot to convert into a Steam Tank...figures I would through that out there.

Gallery Updates and Blood Bowl!

2009-10-09T06:48:00.004-04:00

I 'mmmmm baaaaaack! Well I never really left its just been a slow couple of weeks for gaming but I got some updates. First I was able to get some studio shots taken of my Malifaux miniatures and what is quickly becoming one of my favorite miniatures my Buccaneer. Special thanks to Totengräber for taking the time to take the pictures. In other news I have finally got some Blood Bowl in with my new Orc Team(soon to be named) and I can say it was a blast, not quite the same as playing online but I was able to see how the game worked pretty fast and implement strategies pretty quickly. Anyway that's all I got for today I am working on a custom pitch for my Orcs and should have a name for them soon. Check out those new images below and they have also been updated to the main gallery.

Malifaux,RPGs and Bloodbowl?

2009-09-24T07:13:00.003-04:00

Forgive me blog sphere for it has been 23 days since my last post. Yup that's right been to busy to even blog! In the last three weeks have I got a ton of stuff done and have been playing a lot of Malifaux and DDO and I also have a new addiction that kinda counts as both a tabletop game and a video game. Now without further delay on with the blog!

Malifaux
The local group and I have gotten in a hand full of games and this game just keeps getting better. I think at this point we have the mechanics down and are starting to work more on the tactics of the game. I personally have also gotten all but on of my painted that's right folks that two crew starter boxes, 3 hoar cat groups and Hans. They are some of the best models I have ever painted. I have one more remaining and another starter box should be on the way now that Wyrd has models back in stock.

Elsewhere in Gaming
In between Malifaux games, reading and painting I have found time to play and work on some other games. A couple of weeks ago I was able to get a copy of the Cortex Rpg rules set. I can't say how much I love this concept even thought I have yet to run a game along with the Cortex book I picked up the Serenity RPG book which is what Cortex is based on and even named after(cortex is the computer network in the Firefly series). I am currently working on an adventure set in the Serenity universe I hope to run for a few friends.

And now on to the video game/tabletop game I mentioned in my introduction...well is none other than Blood Bowl.....the video game, or should I say and 3d virtual can of tabletop fantasy football whoop ass! This game has it all full classic Blood Bowl rules that play exactly like the tabletop game along with full league rules and you can even take all of this online and play with other from all over the world. The only draw back to this game at the moment is that they do not have all of the races but they do have a core of 8 that cover most of the popular races, but thats not to say that an update couldn't be made tomorrow to add a race or two as well as support for for LRB 6. Come on GW and Cyanide you know you want to.

Well that concludes my confession...I mean blog entry hopefully it won't be three weeks before my next entry. I doubt it will as I am hoping to have a little Games day at the house the 2nd week of October. Until next time, Oh and stay posted to the gallery I am going to try and get pictures of my Malifaux stuff online soon.

DDO Unlimited Headstart, Other News

2009-09-01T07:18:00.007-04:00

D&D Online Head start

Dungeons and Dragons Online has finally launched its free to play with the head start portion starting today and everyone else getting in on the 9th! Now the head start is not open to everyone only those that are Very Important Players(former subscritpion holders) and those that participated in the closed beta. Luckily I was in the closed Beta for a week so I am currently downloading the client and will be login in sometime this evening after work. Now some of you may ask why all the excitement well for starters I really like how Turbine is running their free to play service mainly the fact that the game has all of the benefits of Guild Wars but is way more accessible, the cool part is that fact that I can play the game for free and have a lot of fun or if I enjoy they game a lot I can spend a bit of cash to gain access to an extra area or race I can also buy gear that will help me along but its nothing that can't be earned in game. In addition I can also go ahead and pay a standard monthly subscription fee and get access to everything just like any other game. The options are pretty much limitless. It also helps that the atmosphere of the game make you feel like you are actually playing D&D, you see all of the die rolls and there is actually a narrator when you go into dungeons. Needless to say my subscription to WoW will not be renewed when it is up again. If anyone is interested in checking out DDO follow the link.

Other News

I currently have only 4 more Malifaux miniatures to finish up and I will have all of the stuff I purchased at Gencon, on that note I will also have a fully painted crew for the Chicago tournament as well. The game is still number one on my liste of miniature games at the moment and I don't for see that changing for a while its just to well written and polished to pass on.

Malifaux Night at Gamerz

2009-08-28T06:59:00.001-04:00

So we finally decided to pay a visit to a newer store in the are that a couple of us have been checking out for a while. Over all I would say the experience was pretty good we got to play on brand new tables and the BS level of the store was pretty minimal and most importantly we were left along to play our game and enjoy the evening another nice aspect of this store is the shear amount of gaming space that is available for just miniature gaming they have 4 4'x 8' table and another couple of 4'x4' tables.As for the gaming I was able to get in a 25 stone game with a new player and much as a lot of our games it was a brutal affair.Since we are all still getting use to the rule and because I forgot to take some pictures of the game I am not going to go into a battle report needless to say Rasputina took out the majority of my opponents crew(after hey took out the rest of my crew of course) if they game would not have gone and extra turn she would have lived.

One a side note I have been playing with completely painted crews(for the 1st time ever in a skirmish game) I was able to get my Cult of December box painted as well as Joss and the December Acolyte painted. Currently I am waiting for a Viktorias box so I can get my opposing faction painted. I will try to get some images up on the site soon I am currently without a descent camera so It may be a few days.

Next week the Wrath of Rasputina continues!

Malifaux Official Errata Posted

2009-08-25T06:49:00.002-04:00

EricJ has posted the official errata for the 1st printing of Malifaux. I can be found on the Wyrd-Games forum in the "Malifaux Matters" section, our follow the link below to be taken there straight away.

Mailfaux Official Errata

All Hallows Eve in Malifaux Tournament

2009-08-21T13:50:00.004-04:00

ALL HALLOWS EVE IN MALIFAUX!
TOURNAMENT!

Where:
Games Plus

When:
Tentatively scheduled for Saturday October 24th
Starting around 12:30PM

Rules:
35 Stone Scraps!
4 One hour and fifteen minute rounds.
Strategies will be given out every round.
Up to 2 Schemes may be used.

Painting prize for best painted Crew!

Follow Link to TTGamers for More Information

Let the Malifaux Begin

2009-08-21T06:50:00.005-04:00

Got in my 1st two games of Malifaux in last night and I can say that the rules and the game are pretty much awesome! The mechanics are easy to pick up but there is so much depth with abilities and triggers and the fate deck resource management system makes for a more controllable game. So, for both games it was pretty much starter boxes with my Cult of December facing off against the Death Marshals in a 25 point scrap. Both games when by in a blur but we were able to use the encounter system to generate our strategies and we also used some schemes bottom line both games ended with our Masters dueling it out in the end. Both games were a blast and went very quickly and with very few questions that the well produced out book could not answer. I think Wyrd Miniatures have a winner on their hands here quite possible the elusive Confrontation 3.0 replacement my group has been looking for many years now.

I will do my best to work up battle reports for future games the games last night were pretty much test games to work out the rules.

Gencon 2009 Wrapup

2009-08-18T07:31:00.002-04:00

Well 28 demonstration hours later and a few hundred dollars lighter Gencon 2009 is officially over. Overall is was a fairly good year I saw a lot of familiar faces and meet up with some old friends I also made a couple of new friends. With that said I also saw a lot of cool new games as well as the old favorites as well. For myself this Gencon has become the Gencon of Malifaux and I am not the only one that has been sucked into this game, I hope to have a full review of the game in a couple of weeks as I am still working my way through the book. I am also working on a follow up to the games I previewed prior to Gencon. Not much else to say the some was awesome as usual with way to many cool things to mention them all.

Special thanks to Table Top Gamers for allowing me to run my events through them and I hope to work with them on some events next year not sure what that will be but I definitely will not be working as many hours or at the times I ran events this year.

Gencon D+1

2009-08-15T10:24:00.002-04:00

Crocodille Games miniatures display

Gencon D+1

2009-08-15T10:15:00.001-04:00

More Malifaux Tables

Locals, Crocodille Games minatures display

Gencon D+1

2009-08-15T10:13:00.001-04:00

Malifaux demo tables

Gencon D+1

2009-08-14T09:47:00.002-04:00

1st Ambush Alley event for the day

Gencon D-Day

2009-08-14T09:46:00.001-04:00

Ambush Alley Force on Force setup

Gencon D-Day

2009-08-13T17:09:00.002-04:00

Awesome Formual D board by Asmodee!

Ex-Illis miniatures and printed tiles

Gencon D-Day

2009-08-13T12:46:00.003-04:00

Heavy Gear Bliz Models

Heavy Gear Blitz Tanks

Reapers new resin model of the Dark Maden

Gencon D-Day

2009-08-13T12:17:00.001-04:00

Geek Chic gaming table

Gencom D-Day

2009-08-13T12:14:00.002-04:00

1st Ambush Alley game of the day

Gencon D-1::Setup Day

2009-08-12T21:48:00.007-04:00

This is a shot of the Angel(I believe that is is the Sierra Angel from Magic the Gathering) that is positioned at the top of the main escalator as you head up toward the Sagamore Ball Rooms.

Gencon D-1:: Setup Day

Not much going on today its basically a free day to get all your event stuff up into the rooms and setup for the next day. I was also able to hang out with all of my old Confrontation buddies from all over the country.

The Agenda for Tomorrow

I have Ambush Alley Demos from 8 to Noon and then the day is open until 8pm when I have a large Force on Force game. I am hoping to get into he dealer room and check out Ex-Illis,Malifaux and then find my way over to the Alpha Omega booth and pick a copy of The Encountered(?). I am also planning on checking out Arcane Legions as well.

Check back tomorrow for updates as I can write them up and post them.

Gencon Preview Part 2

2009-08-11T12:55:00.003-04:00

Less that 48 hours to Gencon....can you feel the excitement?

The Ambush Alley terrain is DONE! nothing else to say it all packed and ready to go

Now on to the Previews

Malifaux

by Wyrd Miniatures

Malifaux is literally brand new matter of fact the book was just released yesturday. Now I must say that origianlly I was not really into this game or the concept. A lot of it may have to do with Wyrd's miniatures that until recently didn't do much for me not to say that the miniatures are not beautiful and very well crafted I am just not into the theme. With the release of the game and reading about how the game works my interest is peaked so I will more than likely be picking up the book and an Arcanist starter box. This seems to be the most talked about game in my local group.

uhh..... O I am out of stuff to preview I have been busy finishing up terrain and am to the point where my brain is fried. Next post will be direct from Gencon.

Wyrd Games Releases Malifaux

2009-08-04T19:53:00.001-04:00

Wyrd Games Releases Malifaux

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Gencon Preview Part 1

2009-07-29T06:41:00.008-04:00

With Gencon now less than three weeks away I figured it was time for a little preview of what I am looking forward to seeing. Along with this preview I hope to be posting updates during the Con directly from the floor which should be cool but it all depends on how well my camera phone works we shall see. Now with our further delay here is my Gencon preview

Alkemy

by Kraken Editions

Alkemy is not a new game in fact the game was released before Gencon last year, however its been a slow year with only one release since Gencon and the rulebook for the game has been pushed back from a January release to Gencon. I love the game in fact I ran one of the very 1st tournaments in the country for the game. I do think that a lot of people have forgotten about the game,but there are rumors that there will be a big release that will kick start the game. I hope this is true as I own two complete armies that are at this point collecting dust.

by Wells Expedition

This semi-collectible miniatures game looks interesting. It if the 1st mass combat/movement tray base game that I can recall ever being released in a collectible format. I have seen the demo kit and for the most the figures look good they are a little small and thin for my taste but the pre-paints look ok and the game itself looks fairly straight forward. This is definitely an entry level game aimed at non-hobby gamers but that is not necessarily a bad thing. I personally and interested in the this game however I don't think it would be something that I would have a lot of opportunity to play and the semi-collectible nature kind of puts me off and I was heavily into Mageknight and Mechwarrior to only have those games ruing in my opinion by the necessity to push the collectible/moneymaking aspect of the game.

by Bastion Studios

This game promises to be some sort of hybrid the uses a software client to calculate combat results. Not to much is know about how the game actually works. The miniatures they have shown thus far do look pretty cool they are very realistic looking and are made from plastic with is a bonus. I think that this game has potential but I am a little concerned that they have not been updating their website very often.

Next week previews of Malifaux,Privateer Press, and Heavy Gear Blitz.

DDO,Ambush Alley,Gencon

2009-07-22T07:13:00.005-04:00

Well its been ten days since my last confession..I mean blog post and those ten days have pretty much been absorbed with building my terrain for Gencon which is now only 22 days away. Luckly it looks like its is all going to come out as expected and will look good once it hits the table, with the painted troops being provided by my event running partner we should have a decent showing for Ambush Alley Games and their solid games.

As for actual gaming its been pretty stagnent these last couple of weeks primarily its been a lot of testing for our large battle games using the Ambush Alley: Force on Force rules. Next week we move onto testing for our Ambush Z game which will be our big and might I say SOLD OUT zombie game for Gencon.

DDO is back! For the uninitiatied DDO is Dungeons and Dragons Online and the cool thing is its going to be free to play. Starting in August the game will be going live and it sounds like we have a small local group that is going to play which is awesome and the price is great. I personally was about to get a beta key and have been testing the game out. I can't talk about but August looks to be a busy month.

Terrain,Oblivion and a little FoG

2009-07-13T09:06:00.001-04:00

Well another Monday has arrived and better another day closer to Gencon. Having said that time is running out to get all of my Ambush Alley terrain finished luckily I was able to get 3 more buildings built over the weekend with only a few more to go. To finish out the terrain sets I am planning on building building a bunch of ruined building which should go very quick.

In addition to building terrain I was able to get in a little more Oblivion and that games is such a blast even disregarding the overall quests there is always fun to have.I also played a little more City of Heroes but my video gaming time is a little low now a days with aprox 30 days remaining until Gencon.

Just a little FoG...or to the uneducated Field of Glory. I got to catch the majority of a Field of Glory game on Thursday and I must say that the game is less complicated that the book makes it out to be making the game a bit more interesting. For an ancient game is pretty cool and seems to do a pretty good job providing solid game play. It also looks cool on the table in 15mm I know that some people play the game in 28mm but the number of troops you need to play would cost an insane amount of cash to put together.

That's it for this week I am working on a couple of small projects that I will be starting up after Gencon.

Gencon,WoW and FoW

2009-07-01T07:19:00.003-04:00

Another week has passed and its been a little slow around here. I have been working on my various projects primarily working on getting my Gencon Terrain together I also finally registered for Gencon so now I can actually run the events I am already signed up for. Also last Saturday I participated in a FoW tournament in West Lafayette coming in second after having a solid day. I believe that I lost by 1 point and my final round didn't help I had to play a "hold the line" like scenario leaving me with little on the table and I didn't receive reserves until the 4th turn by then it was all over. Special Thanks go out the the guys of The Sages Shoppe they put on a great tournament in a really nice store.

In other news, I finally got my latest character in WoW up to level 40 and I have decided to take a bit of time off mainly to work on my other projects but much like it has before WoW is slowly becoming a job so in place of WoW I decided to cash in my three free months of City of Heroes I received after NcSoft closed down Tabula Rasa. CoH is a nice light hearted game that is a little less intensive than WoW and doesn't take itself very seriously it did take a bit of tweaking just to get it up and running but it seems to be work it. CoH actually reminds me of Anarchy Online which is a game that I loved at the time but seriously shows its age now even though it is free.

That's its for now not much is going to change in the next few weeks I have a lot of terrain to finish up for Gencon that will take up most of my time. I also have a Confrontation Throw Back day at my house in a week that should be a blast for the local group.

And on a final note I don't usually offer non gaming opinions on this blog but, I got to see the new Transformers movie matter of fact I have seen it twice and I will say that while its not going to win any awards it is a typical summer movie that is more of a exhibition in effects and explosions but its worth the price of admission. I am not sure what the deal is with the critics but it is not anywhere near as bad as they make it out to be.

Return to Battletech

2009-06-25T07:06:00.013-04:00

After about a decade of not playing the game at all I finally got to play a game of BattleTech and I must say I had fun. Now, yea I tried a few years ago and honestly it looked like I was going to get back in them but I got involved with another game after Gencon and kind of forgot about BattleTech, however recently I have been going to one of the local stores on Sundays and they have been talking about there weekly Battletech game and encouraging me to play. After a couple of weeks of being unable to attend I finally went last night and had a great time so much in fact that I am looking to break out the old stuff and start playing again. One thing that readers may not know is that Battletech was the 1st wargame I ever played and I owned a ton of stuff it the universe I have always been interested so much in fact that I own a good portion of the novels as well as all of the PC games. I was even into Virtual World games for a while(I actually own a manual for the pods and how to pilot them).

Anyway enough about my Battletech past the future looks good especially in this economy where funds are tight I already have enough Battletech stuff to keep me going for a while I just need to pick up the latest rule book(I will actually own every major rule book published in the games 25 year history...crazy!) and some of the newly sculpted minis which have come a long way since I started picking up minis.

Awesome new Terrain and Painting site

2009-06-17T14:02:00.005-04:00

Not sure if this site is actually new or not but it has some great work on it

Sentinel Minaiture Painting

I am not going to go into a huge review of the site but I can say that there is a lot of well produced terrain and miniatures on ther a well as a tutorial that shows how they put things together. I may not be up to this level of building but it give me a lot of ideal on how to approace scenery. Oh and the pictures are great as well.

Flame of War progress, Other News

2009-06-15T09:02:00.009-04:00

It has been a wild couple of weeks, hence the lack of posting but thankfully things are now returning to normal or whatever normal is these days. Now that the explanation is out of the way we can get on with the post.

Flames of War Progress
The past two weeks have shown a resurgence in my interest in Flames of War not that I ever lost my interest in the game I just didn't see a whole lot of opportunity to play at the point level I like to play at which is 1500. Also the FoW Club that I am a part of is going through a lot of turmoil at the moment and I kinda got caught up in the middle of it. Now with the turmoil sorted out I actually got a game in a week ago it was a horrible version of the game but I still had fun. After the game I quickly started work finishing up my friends British Rifle Company that I have been painting for him as well as working on my own army for use in a couple of upcoming tournaments. I currently have a Royal Engineer Airlanding Platoon setting on my paint table I am working on for a tournament in Fort Wayne in August.

What Else is going on?

Work continues on my terrain for the Ambush Alley Games we are going to be running at GenCon this year. I would say that I am about a month or so from being completely finished and I believe that we have all of the troops painted that we will be using along with the vehicles. As for everything else I am contemplating entering a figure into a painting contest that TTGamers is holding, I don't have a chance in the world of winning specially with the painters that are over there but it would be interesting to see what happens. Finally I am working to completly paint up my Alkemy army for the tournament at Gencon.

Warmachine Mk2 Report, Other News

2009-05-22T06:43:00.014-04:00

Warmachine Mk2 Battle Report, 5/21/09 Mercs vs Mercs

Thursday I was able to throw down with another local Totengräber in some Merc vs Merc action. Since the Mark 2 rules are still kinda of new to us this game was still more of a learning game but was still a blast to play.

For this battle we played 35 points which allows for a little more flexibility and defiently put a lot more stuff on the table here are the lists:

Totengräber

Magnus, the Traitor
Steelhead Halberdiers x6
Stannis Brocker
Mule
Mangler
Renegade
Vanguard
Dirty Meg with Talon Jack Marshalled
Orin Midwinter

Sryth

Fiona, the Black
Alexia and the Risen
Steelhead Halberdiers x6
Sea Dogs x6
Buccaneer
Mangler
Mariner
Bosun Grogspar
Aiyanne and Holt
Master Gunner Dougal McNaile

I was lucky enough to win the initiative roll and choose to go second forcing Totengräber to deploy and go first. The first turn itself was pretty much the same for both of us all about moving up into position and setting up for the second turn. I was able to get a shot off with Mariner on the Vanguard but did little damage. Turn two resulted in more movement some shooting and some Orin Midwinter magic limitation. I was able to get a charge off with the halberdiers and killed a few infantry models feeding more risen to Alexia. From the 3rd turn on the game boiled down in to a war of attrition with Alexia chruning out Risen all of the open terrain between Fionna and all of Totengräber's are hitting jacks as well as Magnus. In the end we both tried one last ditch effort to get a caster kill in but to no avail. Overall I would have gathered the most victory points because I had killed all of the infantry on the table(to the point I was killing my own guys to get more Risen) however Totengräber still had both of his heavies as well as

Vanguard.

Overall I did learn a lot from this game the primary thing is I need to be more agressive with my Jacks and use Alexia to manage the enemy infantry specially against a caster like Magnus mainly due to his high armor. I am going to have to dedicate a Jack or two to Magnus in order to take him out.

New Mass Combat Collectible game?

Tabletop Gaming News reported on this earlier this month and most recently Wells Expedition the compnay behnd the game has releases images from the game and also talked a bit more about how the game is going to be distributed . I am not going to rehash the entire article but I can say that the concept is interesting and from the pictures the painting masters look good I am a bit concerned because the designers are ex-Wizkids employees but Wizkids did make good games earlier in the life it wasn't till the end that things went crazy. Hopefully they can fulfill this promises and provide a solid game in an easy to collectable format.

Wednesday Update::May 13 2009

2009-05-13T07:15:00.005-04:00

Update

Well not much to say really, I have been hard at work getting this blog cleaned up and running again. You may have noticed that I have added a couple of sections on the right, one for all of the podcasts that I listen to(yes this is more than one I have a few logos to prepare) and one for links to other cool sites as well as ones that my friends run.

Aside from my blog I have been working on some commission work along with a couple of terrain pieces for Gencon. Personally I assembled a couple of Warmachine solos and continues work on Master Gunner Dougal MacNaile for my mercenary army.

Thursday Night Gaming

For those not in the know my gaming group normally meets every Thursday at a local store. In the past we have been dedicated to just one game but for the last couple of years now its been kind of crazy, to the point where we rarely play the same game from one week to the next. Anyway enough about my unusual group this week the plan is to play the new Force on Force rules from Ambush Alley games. There have been a lot of positive reviews on the rule set and we are going to be runing it at Gencon this year so we have to learn some time. I am also going to brining along my Warmaching and Hordes armies just in case...you never know. Expect to see a battle report of update sometime Friday

The New and Improved Indy Gamer

2009-05-11T12:41:00.006-04:00

Its been what two maybe three months since my last post...ok maybe a bit more than that but to be honest my normal posting time are now filled by..gasp..work. With that said I have been trying to make some tme to post about my own personal gaming and also whats going on in the Indy scene. I am also going to make an effort to add some more sections and posts to the site about what I am currently working on along with that I have recently added the ability to post via my cell phone with has a camera so I will be blogging about gencon and other gaming events I am attending as well as possiblly even local game nights.

Thats enough about the site here is the big news that has really got me excited

I can't say enough about the new rules, they have fixed the learning curve and made the game fun to play and easier to understand. Don't get me wrong the depth is still there as well as the complexity but over the game is far more accessable. As of right now Warmachine Mark 2 is the #1 game on my list as far as games I want to play. I am also working on a mercenary army in between all of my commission work an work from Gencon.

Speaking of Gencon work continues on all of the terrain for the Ambush Alley Games that myself and a friend are running at Gencon this year. We will be testing the games in June to see where we are with out knowledge as well as how the just release rules for Force of Force battles work.

I think that pretty much covers the current news and what is going on currently expect to see more in the days ahead as I will out the new shell of the website

At-43,FoW,UF,DBA

2008-10-23T08:31:00.006-04:00

Its been a little while since I have updated this partially due to the fact that I was prepping for a the 1st ever Alkemy tournament in the US, which went very well by the way and secondly I have just been busy with no gaming related stuff which I won't go into here. So, with the tournament over and real life settling down a bit I now find my self feverishly working to catch up on painting and assembling various miniature for many games I have also been working on my own original campaign setting the the game Unbridled Fury and recently I have decided to get back into Flames of War thanks to the recent sale of my small AT-43 collection.

So that's basically what is going on, still big into gaming I am even starting up a DBA Early Imperial Rome army which adds to my collection of 15mm miniatures which is quickly becoming my standard for gaming as I have pretty much given up on buying into new 28mm games. I do plan to continue work on the current 28mm games I do play with Alkemy being the priority followed by Unbridled Fury and then the GW games. It is sad to think that this all started with Confrontation and now that game and company have been gutted and from the rumors I have been hearing big changes are coming but I still feel it may be to little to late.

To wrap this up I would like to announce that I am adding a section to the blog regarding my current projects, it won't be much to start with but I am hoping to start doing weekly blogs about the various updates to each project including pictures when possible. The 1st couple projects will be my historical armies the Romans and my Soon to be purchased British Paratroopers.

Alkemy Battle for the Circle City:Intro

2008-08-29T17:36:00.014-04:00

Date: 10/11/08
Location: Games 2 Die For
Time: Check-in at 11:30 am 1st round start at Noon
Cost: 5 dollars
Limit: 10 of 16 Seats available

In order to receive pre-registration bonus points for this tournament army list must be received no later than 10/8/08

Faction Breakdown

Aurlok::3

Avalon::2

Jade Triad::2

Kaliman::2

Prizes: Prize Support Provided by Kraken Editions

Requirements
Army Construction: 200 points one character mandatory, one character maximum.

The Architekt should be used to create all lists, list should be submitted in PDF form to Sryth(sryth.varo (at) gmail.com). Please include your Real Name and location with your army list as well as a TTG forum name if you have one.

the Architekt can be found at Kraken Editions

Players will be required to bring an army constructed of Alkemy figures as well as set of Alkemy Tokens available in the starter(at least 4 resource tokens and 3 jin posts markers)

No proxies will be allowed

Painting is not required but encouraged

Structure
The Tournament will consist of 3 Swiss rounds of scenario play using currently published scenarios with each round lasting 1 hour. Players will be given 10 minutes prior to the start of the round for scenery and army deployment.

Scoring
Cumulative Scenario VPs plus Bonus Points.

Bonus Points
Win(Victory Condition Achieved) = 3 bonus points
Draw = 1 bonus point
Loss = 0 bonus points

In order to receive Win bonus points a player must complete the Victory Conditions of the scenario, at anytime a players army is entirely destroyed the game is immediately over and both players receive a draw.

If victory conditions have not been when time for the match is called players must complete any combats that have already been started and then calculate any victory points as if the turn had just ended.

Other Bonus Points
1 point for pre-registering a list and then playing that exact list on the day of the tournament.
1 point for having an fully painted army. Fully painted is considered to be a minimum of 3 colors per model and each model is painted in a way that details such as clothing,weapons etc are discernible from the rest of the model.

Ties for placing will be broken based on bonus points then by goal average(kills-losses)

Schedule
11:30 am Check-in
12:00 Round 1:Control the Jin Posts
01:10 Lunch Break
02:10 Round 2:The Informants
03:50 Round 3:The Chests
05:00 Wrap up and Awards

Alkemy,Tournaments

2008-08-29T08:40:00.003-04:00

More Alkemy goodness. I got to play another game of Alkemy last night and I must say the game just keeps getting better the more I play it. Last night we got to test one of the prologue scenarios released by Kraken Editions earlier this year. The scenario was called the Informant and follows the story line setup in the prologues intro, essentially you are trying to find this man you had an artifact that many people wish to possess through the scenario the objective is to talk to as many information are you work your way down the table and gather enough information to find the man. Basically you have 3 informants close to the starting area that are worth 2 point you have 2 more about half way down the table that are work 2 points and then a one more at the complete opposite end of the table worth 3 points once you have scored 5 points the game is over. This scenario forces players to make decisions about when to fight and when to run which forces you to play the scenario and not the opponent which is nice. there is also the very distinct posiblity of a draw which is always cool. Over all a very fun mission and good game last night.

In other news I am putting the final touches on a tournament that is going to take place in mid octover more details will be posted here in 24 hours or so but it should be a pretty exciting

Gencon,Alkemy,Rackham,AO?

2008-08-26T14:10:00.005-04:00

Well Gencon has come and gone and with it a lot of good time and money spent. Fortunately this year I was prepared and showed up to the Con packing cash and saved myself for the bank shock the following week. Overall the show was great I got to see a lot of old friends from the old rackham days as well as see a lot of people in the industry that know. The big thing this year for me has to be Alkemy.

Go figure another french game has snagged me in its grasp so much so that I bought 2 entire armies for the game. Thats right folks I am pretty much all in with Kraken Editions game. The great thing is they seem to have their priorities straight and everything that was a negative for that other french company they have turned around and made positive. For starters there are only 4 armies at the moment and they will be updated in waves. Yes, every army gets something in every wave. The game itself is top notch with a very cool system of dice and actions. This game is everything one could want in a skirmish game and the models are top notch as well. Even the designer was a very cool guy. Oh and did I mention the demo team was my old buddies form Rackham. Glad to seem them working with a solid company again.

And that brings us to Rackham..what can I say after their total lack of support for CAOR and the Legends line now only available from their main French site I am now officially done with them. I am no longer going to be supporting them in anyway and I have put away my books and the miniatures are now RPG minis only. Its also doesn't help that the last Confrontation tournament which was meant to be a fun tournament was completely ruined by a couple of Dirz players that did not understand that intent of the tournament. These gentlemen playing these armies may be ok individuals but they missed the boat with army construction and landed solidly in powergamer land I hope they had fun playing each other in the final round. There is something to be said from a tournament that started with 16 players then after 2 rounds only had 6 or so left to participate and many players walking away in disgust. This was my only low light of the entire show.

With that said I would like to thank the Table Top Gamers crew for putting on a solid list of events and providing a place for all of us to just hang out from time to time. I hope to participate in more of their events in the future maybe even help out if need be.

Last but certainly not least I have starting playing Anarchy Online again. I know what you are thinking...that game is still around..yes it is. It is also free to play at least the base game and the 1st booster expansion and if you like it you can upgrade to the 1st full expansion for only 5 bucks a month. I was in on this game from day one and it has only gotten better with age. So for anyone that is into Sci-Fi and interested in playing an MMO that is of a bit more slowed pace check it you can find it here. If anyone wants to find my in AO(Anarchy Online) please leave a comment and I do my best to meet up with you ingame.

Painting,Confrontation,Gencon

2008-07-15T09:11:00.007-04:00

Don't everyone die of shock and amazement but this is and update less that a week from the last one. Surprisingly there is not much to share another week of painting,assembling and gaming not much in the way of news though. I was able to get in a test game of Confrontation 3 using my Griffons and they did pretty well against a Lion army played by one of the local C3 players. I am still not sure if its going to be the final list or really even if its the final faction choice as I do have a lot of painted Sessairs ready to go.

As for painting my Trollbloods are starting to look a little less barren. I was able to finish up a minimum unit of Pyg Bushwhackers which may or may not see a lot of table time once I get stuff I really want and they were a nice unit to experiment on for my Trollblood skin tones. I was also able to get the skin on my war beasts painted and I started on the Champions. I am still a little perplexed at how I am going to paint and albino Madrak but he will be the last to see any painting time. If I can get my hands on the camera I will see about getting some images up loaded soon.

The Gencon 08 countdown continues and now we are down to 4 weeks! At now that I actually have my badges in hand excitement is starting to build sad thing is I have a lot of work to do between now and then.

Side Note: I was able to see Hellboy 2 this past weekend and I must say it was a excellent movie its to bad Dark Knight is getting so much hype because this latest Hellboy 2 is one of the best movies I have seen in a while a must see for fans of the 1st movie or just good movies in general

Warlord,Hordes,C3 and Gencon

2008-07-09T06:44:00.007-04:00

Its been almost a month since my last update and to be honest it has actually been pretty quite on the gaming front around here. The local gaming group continues to play Warlord but we are branching out people are starting to play Games Workshop games again specially with the release of 40k 5th edition coming soon. We are also talking about Confrontation again which is always a good thing. I personally am gearing up for the big(possibly last) C3 tournament that is being held at Gencon this year. The goal at the moment it to get a couple of games in between now and August so I can have the best list possible ready to go which also means a fully painted army.

With all the fun being had with Warlord,C3 and Warhammer I have also decided to finish up my Trollbloods for Hordes. I know what some of you are thinking, "But you hate Privateer Press", not true I am not a fan of Warmachine, Hordes to me has better game mechanics and just plays better. Its also a newer game so its a bit easier to jump into. Currently I have about 500 points and am building up to 750 in anticipation for the fall league.

Gencon, what else is there to say its that time and year and Gencon is only 5 weeks away. 5 weeks until a much needed vacation and the nice thing is this year I pretty much am going obligation free, not demos to do, no major gaming group presence its all about basking in gaming goodness and seeing what is out there. With that said I am going to do my best to post to the blog nightly and have pictures if I can get my hands on a camera.

In other minor news, I have finished the 4th book in the Dresden Files series in the last couple of days. I have also been playing EVE online, again after it most resent update I got an additional 14 days of trial period to try out the new PVP features unfortunately I don't have any characters that qualify for the features in game yet so I have been doing as much as I can to at least see PVP stuff before the trial runs out. PVP was one of the things I was most interested in but EVE is kinda of a long tedious game and it was going to take way to long for me to get to the point where I could get into the main PVP part of the game the new features seem to fix this.

Thats it for now hopefully I will have another update prior to Gencon but I make no promises as life always seems to find a way to distract me. Oh almost forgot I added a new link to the navigation on the site you Circle City Gamers a forum of gamers in Central Indiana to meet up,discuss all types of gaming.

Warlord,Warhammer, Dresden FIles

2008-06-11T08:59:00.004-04:00

Since its only been about 2 weeks since my last post not a while lot have been happening. The local group has picked up Warlord and they seem to be pretty excited about the game. Many players have in fact picked up their own armies which I think is awesome. Personally I have been working on my Reven army and they are almost completely painted and I will say they look very sharp. I have started using a new technique which makes blending fair easier and the models are turning out great. Hopefully when the next few days I can get some images up because these are some of the best models I have ever painted. With that said I also have a small growing elven force waiting on my desk to be primed and painted so I will have at the very least 2 750 point armies to throw down with in warlord. Eventually I also hope to have an Dwarven,Crusader and Merc force all around the 750 point mark.

Good, enough about warlord and on to Warhammer, not much to say about my elves at the moment I have finished pretty much everything that I was working on painting wise and I am currently awaiting the funds to start picking up some more units. Until I have some extra cash the Warhammer army is at a stand still.For those of you doing the math all of the warlord stuff I currently have was either given to me or was heavily discounted it was pennies compared to what my Warhammer army will cost. I am still aiming to participate in the Fall GT in Dayton provided I get everything complete. I was just informed that my army leader figure has just arrived at the store so thats one less thing I have to get.

On to role playing, I recently picked up a PDF adventure for the Xcrawl setting and I have to say it looks very fun. Basically its a level event that give players a taste of the Xcrawl world without have to have the Xcrawl rulebook. For those of you who don't know what Xcrawl its a D&D setting currently being produced by Goodman games in this setting it is modern times but instead of technology the world has magic as well as all the creatures and races that go along with it. In this world the main form of entertainment is a bloodsport called Xcrawl where teams of players run through dungeons and they exploits are broadcast live on tv for viewers to see. Think medival running man with all the tongue in check humor you can think of. Thats the basically the PDF that I picked up put players into the Division 4 finals which until today had been a non-lethal event but in order to increase rating the organizers have decided to removed the restrictions and let the violence commence. I really like the idea of this game and its prefect for players that like to do a bit of role-playing but are more apt to solve there problems with the sword. Essentially it is one dungeon crawl after another and depending on how players do in the crawls they can be rewarded with bast treasure and prizes eventually even getting sponsored by the various corporations that are in the world. Hopefully withing the next month or so I will be able to to a couple of one off adventures using this intro PDF and maybe even go on from there.

And Finally
The Dresden files,I have recently started reading the Dresden books by Jim Butcher and I can say after finishing up the 1st I loved the book and will soon be starting on the second, I have even picked up Butcher's fantasy series and have just started reading that. In addition to the books some of you may be familiar with the Dresden Files tv show that Sci-Fi recently canceled. I was able to check it out on DVD last weekend and although I liked the show it was to much of a departure from the books for me to really enjoy it. I thought it worked great as a show but for an avid fan it just wasn't enough.

That is it for now hopefully I will get back to the blog in less that a week but we shall see. As always please feel free to leave a comment if you have a question or well...a coment.

Warhammer,Warlord and others

2008-05-23T08:38:00.004-04:00

Well its been a while since I have posted and to be honest not much has happened. I have been working on my Warhammer army so my High Elves are coming along. I have a unit of Sea Guard finished and I also have my bolt throwers and crew painted as well. Just need to finish up my Battle Standard Bearer and I will be ready to pick up some more stuff.

Recently I have been on a fantasy skirmish kick so I got out my Confrontation 3 stuff to get it prepped for the Gencon Tournament so I will be getting some C3 games in but I also picked up a new game Warlord by Reaper. I actually got to play Warlord last night and I can honestly say I love the system so much in fact that I wish I would have found the game 4 years ago and not had to deal with the headache of Confrontation for so long. Don't get me wrong Confrontation is a great game it just dealing with the bad translation,poor management and a company that only really half supported it was a bit tedious. Warlord on the other hand is well supported it get updated yearly and the figs although not all of the them meet Rackham level of detail are very cool in their own right. The game is also way cheaper with figures being about half of what Confrontation figs are.

Now some of you out there may claim that I have gamer ADD and in some instances you may be right I do seem to be hopping for game to game at the moment but I myself have come to the realization that I am getting more into the Hobby aspect of gaming where I like to paint cool models and use them in their respective games or use them in any game I choose. With that said I haven't seen any other games out there that I am really interested in so I think I am sticking with Warhammer,Warlord, C3 and Infinity for a while that may change I also have an eye on some Anima Tactics figs but that game is in need of a rule book for me to get into they do have some cool models though.

High Elves,New Links

2008-05-07T08:44:00.004-04:00

During my last post I mentioned that I was starting a High Elf army, in the past few weeks I have actually started buying miniatures and I have a burgeoning army now. Currently I have about 1000 pts sitting in various states of assemble on my desk. Currently I have unit of Sea Guard that is 95 percent complete they are all painted I am just finishing up their shields and banners. The rest of the army is still kind of up in the air at the moment I can say this I am choosing to not have a dragon in the list at least initially. My main reasoning for this is the fact that every single High Elf list I look at online has a dragon and I want to be different. I hope to get some images up on the site soon of the in progress figures as well as develop an army construction diary we shall see as of right now I am currently without a camera so image updates are a little hard.

In other news I have added some new links one being the podcast Podhammer which is currently the only podcast dedicated solely to Warhammer Fantasy. I have also added the blog of a reader who commented on my last story it is a blog dedicated to Warhammer and it can be found here.

Not much else going on here at the moment, Indianapolis Motor Speedway is now open so the buzz is picking up for the race. Personally I have some commission work to finish up as well as continued work on my High Elves.

rFactor,Confrontation,Painting

2008-04-10T08:33:00.006-04:00

Wow, its been a week since my last post that either means I have been really busy or its been so boring lately that there isn't much to talk about...anyone care to guess? Actually things have been a bit hectic since last thursday so much in fact that I didn't realize that I hadn't made a post in a week.

So whats been going on? Well having to work on Saturday night kinda put a cramp in my weekend there is also that pesky rFactor racing sim that has been sucking up a lot of my time. I have also had some painting to work on as well as a Spycraft game to run on Sunday. The rest of the week has been a bit of a blur with lack of sleep causing all kinds of havoc.

For those of you who may be reading this that aren't into racing sim rFactor is pretty much the end all be all sim that covers just about every aspect of motor racing expect for motorcycle racing. I love this game but on my old system it wouldn't run properly so I never really got to play it like it was intended on the new system however I can run it will all the bells and whistles turned on and no hiccups or slow downs. So being the sim type person I am I have been running in that "sort of" career mode where you start out with little expierience and work your way up through the lower series to the top tier series. I have been running in the open wheel rTrainer Advanced and just started my second series in the division hopefully I can score some descent points and be able to afford to break into the next series up. That brings me to a problem I have with rFactor. All of the different series are treated as separate entities so experience and money do not carry over from one to the next something that I think would be awesome. So with that said I have been working on a career rFm file that will unify all of the series under one entity so that money and experience can carry over. I hope to cover all forms of racing and allowing for entry level series to feed into all other series. At this point I have integrated all of the series that come with rFactor I just need to test the setup to make sure that everything works then I hope to post it to this site so that others may use it if they like. If anyone has any question about this mini-mod for rFactor please leave a comment.

The whole rFactor thing has been sucking up a lot of my time lately so I haven't had much time to play and Guild Wars or Tabula Rasa I have played a bit of Supreme Commander which I picked up recently that game is impressive and very difficult. In a more real work setting I have been working on some Confrontation lists and hope to get a game in next week. Hopefully this goes well as I need to get onto painting up my figures for the Gencon tournament.

On a side not I did get to see a the last half of the Indy Car race in St.Petersburg on Sunday and I have to say I am impressed the former ChampCar team have pulled through should make for an excellent 500 this year as well as a good series.

Well thats it hopefully I can think clear enough to post another entry in less than a weeks time. I also have more images I need to put into the gallery.

XPS,Slowdowns, Shadowforce Archer,Indy Car

2008-04-03T06:42:00.008-04:00

After nearly a month my new PC has finally arrived and boy has it arrived, but now comes the hard part...getting everything installed and up and running.

The PC seems to be the highlight of my week specially with the weather setting me back a few days on getting my workbench cleared(its had to prime and specially seal miniatures when its raining). So in other words I have been working on my Shadowforce Archer campaign for Sunday and now that the PC is in I will be busy getting everything installed and setup. Getting a PC is almost like moving in to a new house and it takes time to get everything exactly where you want it and not to mention all of the updates and utilities that need to be installed.

With the new PC I should be able to get my Offline Indycar Series up and running. I have decided that I will use my own car for the series and I started painting on it yesterday. Its starting to take shape and I should have images up soon.

On the plus side I was able to get Tabula Rasa installed and updated and I can say this confidently the difference from my old PC and the new PC is night and day. I was also able to finally get Flight Simulator X to function something my old PC refused to do.

That should wrap it it for the last few days. I may get and update in later today just depends on what I am able to finish up this afternoon.

Gencon,Dragons,Indy Car Racing,C3,Shadowforce

2008-03-31T11:22:00.006-04:00

Well its about that time of year again, the time when the master event lists are available for Gencon. Its weird though because this year I am not helping run an event and Confrontation is not high on my to do list(I do have an event planned we will talk about that later) so this year my Gencon is pretty much wide open. Hopefully I can find some new game to check out and maybe get in on some old favorites. We will have to wait and see as the event lists are due out any day now.

The Dragon has left the building! Well not quite I need to get him sealed and the humidity has been up the last couple of days preventing me from getting him sealed. It is however based and ready to go. In other painting new I recently got my last batch of Infinity figures primes and started work on them. One of the things I love about the Infinity models is they are clear and concise when it comes to detail so its really easy to paint them up quickly. I expect to have these models ready for Thursday gaming.

Finally the Indy Car Series began it season with 2 races at Homestead Miami. Although I thought the race was great to listen to its still going to take a bit of time for the ex-ChampCar guys to come around. In honor of the new series and the release of an outstanding rFactor mod I am going to attempt to run my own offline racing championship using the mod and rFactor. I hope to have the 1st of many race videos uploaded within the next couple weeks.

Confrontation 3? Yea thats right it looks like they have ironed out the rules for an independent Confrontation 3 tournament for Gencon this year and since its being run by vets from the old tournament scene I figured I should throw in my hat for what I hope is going to be a great tournament for a solid game. I have yet to decide what army to play at this point, hopefully I can convince some of the old local players to jump in and have a go.

Last but certainly not least I have decided to do a revamp on the fledgling spycraft campaign that I started a little over a month ago. We have decided to go into Shadowforce Archer as our setting and I am going to be throwing in stuff from all over. Hopefully I can make a more balanced campaign for our reduced numbers. It should be interesting a Shadowforce has a lot of interesting things going for it already before I start to tinker around with things.

Dragons,MMOs and Miniatures

2008-03-27T12:43:00.004-04:00

Well another day another opportunity to get some painting done. Well at least one can try, last night I was about to get a quick dry bush highlight layer onto the Cynwall Dragon I am working on for a friend. Not a lot of progress but the majority of the painting is complete and not I am down to the final wash then basing and sealing and it out the door or rather off the "to be completed" shelf.

In other dragon related news...Rackham has release some images of the new Dirz Wyrm. For anyone that has played Confrontation and know a little bit about the Dirz this model is immediatly recognizable as a Driz creature and quite possible a clone. I will say that I am still a bit confused on why the Cynwall Dragon does not have fore limbs and the Cynwall Wyrm does and this model does as well. It also need to be said that the new Dirz Wyrm is must smaller than the Cynwall Wyrm actually he is very close to the size of the Cynwall Dragon. Could this mean that the Cynwall with be about to use the Dragon model as a Wyrm making him a Titan. Rackham if you are listening make it happen the dragon is great but the 200+ dollar Titan model is a bit much.

Enough about dragons and Rackham Tabula Rasa recently announced that version 1.6 is hitting the servers today and at the latest tomorrow. I can't say that I was unhappy with version 1.5 but with the changes coming in 1.6 mainly the ability to respec your character by participating in Control Point defense and attacks is enough to make me want to spend a bit more time in game. Specially since Guild Wars Factions has consumed most of my MMO gaming time as of late. It doesn't help that GWF has little down time and there is always something to do for lack of a better term the game is just fun, much like Tabula Rasa is but very different all the same.

That about wraps it up for today I would like to mention that I do have a FoW lot up for sale over at BarterTown if anyone is interested details can be found here. Tonight is also Infinity gaming night for my local group hopefully I can get a battle report up using one of the operation paradiso missions. On a side note if anyone in the local Indy area is interested I am trying to arrange a Babylon 5 CCG game. It would be just for fun and I would provide any necessary materials for anyone interested. Anyone interested in the B5 CCG game leave a comment.

Guild Wars Factions,Miniatures Gallery,MMOs,Infinity

2008-03-26T07:03:00.004-04:00

After much thought and going back and for about I decided to give in a pick up Guild Wars but I will qualify that I picked up Guild Wars Factions which suites my play style and interest a lot more than standard GW. It also helps that I had a gift card for the store and that the game doesn't have a subscription fee. Surprisingly I actually had a great time playing through the early levels of the game and can't wait to get into the PVP portions which is what intrigues me about Factions. Unfortunately this means a pause to the MMO search, I know I only made it through two but after listening to a few pod casts and doing a lot of research on Factions I made the low risk decision.

Some of you may have noticed that the Gallery is not working properly at the moment I am working on it and I may have to do something different with it as it seems like the element that I have it linked to has more restrictions than I would like. I should have that sorted out withing the day.

Infinity news...We have big news on the Infinity front, new rules a new site and promised for 2008. It looks like the guys behind Infinity are gearing up for a big 2008, now we still don't have details on a new book but we will be getting a more robust website with just more stuff all around. They have also released their 1st rules update with the creation of additional levels for Infiltration which can be found be linking to the new Haqqislam figure they have previewed on the site. Basically new troops with have access to different levels of Infiltration and existing figures will infiltration will be treated to the level 1 rule which make things a bit riskier for an infiltrator.

Check the following link for more details on infiltration: Daylami Infantry

That about does it for today I should be on Tabula Rasa this evening along with a stint into GW:Factions might even get the gallery finished up still have about 30 or so images to add.

Gallery,MMOs,Computers,End of Eve Online

2008-03-25T06:36:00.007-04:00

Well another day another post. Actually its been a couple days...As some of you may have noticed there is now some animation going on over on the side of the page, you are not going crazy I was finally able to get some of my miniatures photographed and uploaded to Picasa. I am still working on getting everything uploaded and captioned for now at lease people can check out my painting skills on some of my favorite pieces. There is also a Commission Work section that is where my paint for hire stuff is.

Other than the gallery work its been a slow few days for me, with this weekend being Easter I had the family stuff to do so my time was limited. I have however been playing Tabula Rasa in small spurts. As for Eve Online, I have come to the realization that I really can't afford nor do I really have the time to devote to Eve Online so with that said it looks like if I want to have an alternative to Tabula Rasa its back to Guild Wars, which is not a bad game I do think I am going to pickup the Factions game soon because I really like the concept of the game just wish I could find a free trial for it.

Speaking of computer related things my new Dell was delayed a week. Talk about frustration I order the system back on March 7th and now it won't ship until the 31st. Now this isn't a huge issue but its just the principle of the thing as a geek I was all pumped up to be getting my new hot rod machine and now more waiting. Don't get me wrong my current machine is still functional but its pushing 3 years old now and its at the end of its technological life cycle. That and my personal frustration level with it has gone way beyond healthy.

Enough...Hopefully I will get some captions on the images in the various galleries today as well as get the Operation Paradiso info out to the local group. Till next time.

EVE Online Trial: Day 4 and other stuff

2008-03-19T06:22:00.007-04:00

Another day more skill points! Not much going on in EVE at the moment I did however move up in the world a bit and picked up a new Incursus Frigate which I have essentially turned in to a gun boat for NPC Pirate Killing . Other than that is more of the same in by day my character is learning Skills while I am at work and at night I run a few missions and try to keep from getting shot at. As boring as that sounds it actually quite fun. I also put in an application to join the EVE University, which is an in game corp that helps train new players and get them up to speed faster. Hopefully I will hear from them soon.

In other news it looks like I am going to be selling off my Flames of War army, not that I don't like they game it just started to dawn on me that I haven't played for months and I don't really have an interest in playing so I am going to keep the books and put the rest up for sale. Hopefully I can sell it all in a package deal, anyone that reads this that may be interest in a good sized painted German force I will have more info in a couple of days I have a couple of friends locally that may be interested in the army if no one here wants them they will go up on Barter town.

Its sad to say but I haven't got much done in the past few days between Tabula Rasa, EVE and watching Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica(I know I am behind no Sci-Fi channel here) I haven't had much time to work on any or my own stuff. I have been doing some commission work but nothing major. Speaking of Battlestar for any of you Freespace 2 fan or even space shooter fans in general there is an awesome stand alone game out there based on Battlestar called Beyond the Red Line. I highly recommend that anyone that was into Freespace or Wing Commander even Star Lancer check this demo out. They are using the open source version of the Freespace 2 engine which has been updated constant over the past few years so the game looks good almost up to show quality.

Some of you out there may have noticed that I have been posting Missions for my Operation Paradiso Campaign, these are pretty much beta missions for use with Infinity. I hope to get all of these out in the next couple of days eventually I hope to have the campaign up and running on the blog for now the missions will do. As always if anyone has any questions or comments please leave them on the specific mission page and I will do my best to answer to every comment.

Well thats pretty much it tomorrow is my weekly Infinity gaming day which should be a blast as usual. Oh before I forget if anyone in the Indy/Central Indiana area that does happen to catch this blog plays Heavy Gear Blitz please leave a comment I am trying to find players in the are before I get to interested in this game.

EVE Online Trial: Day 2

2008-03-17T08:58:00.007-04:00

For anyone who has never played or seen EVE I will 1st say this. EVE is not your normal MMO. EVE hearkens back to games like Elite and Privateer as well as the X universe series(space based trade and combat games). With that said the 1st thing that I noticed as a new player to Eve was the user interface, and boy is there a lot of it. The UI for EVE is unique because it is very configurable and for the most part except for a small part of it it can be setup as needed. This comes in handy as it is very intuitive basically if you have used a modern computer you will understand how the windows work and should be able to view the info you need. Speaking of information EVE is loaded with it almost bombards you with information from the start but new players should not fear as every window you pull up has a welcome screen that gives you a brief outline of what is in the windows as well as links to tutorials on how to use them.

Ok, enough about 1st impressions on to the game play. When you begin the game as a new player you go through an in depth character creation process where you create you character portrait which has a fair share of options which allows you to create your image as other players see you. Its important to setup your portrait because this is the only way other than your starship that other will see you in game. The rest of the character creation process evolves choosing your race and then setting up your background by selecting where you character originates as well as selecting their training. EVE doesn't have any character classes so how you setup your character in creation effects you in the future but you are not locked into playing a particular type of character like in other games.

Now that we have our character are spawned in the newbie star base the location of which depends on you choices during character creation. Now that we are in the star base this is the 1st time we get to see our rookie ship which is not much but it yours, we also get to meet the AI thats riding around in our pod to help through the early stages of the game. The introduction to how everything works is done by way of a voiced tutorial. I recommend that new players follow this tutorial because EVE is very different from any other MMO and not following the tutorial you will miss a lot specially how to navigate and fight. The tutorial also help you establish contacts with your agents an possibly even get you into your second ship.

Well thats a very brief run through of how to get into the game. Currently I am working on a Gallente Pilot that is currently working the Essence area. Right now my character is busy running missions and building up skills. Speaking of skills that is another interesting part of EVE, skills are earned over time even when you are not online. It takes a minute to get your head around it but basically you select a skill that you already know or your buy a skill book from the market and you then train. The nice thing is you can interrupt skills being trained and you don't lose any of the training already spent on it. Its very handy when you need to learn a new level 1 skill from a book to pause a higher level skill that will take hours to learn. So the smart player sets up a long skill to train while off line and then works on any short learning skills while online.

Overall I will say that after 3 days of EVE off an on while playing Tabula Rasa I can see why player sometime call EVE a "slow burn" kind of game. Its a game where you are in for the long haul but there are things to do while you are getting there. I am also impressed by how much of the game is player run. I have read many interview with CCP (the makers of EVE-Online) that their goal was to provide the tools and environment for the players to do as they see fit. This is why EVE has one of the greatest communities of all MMOs.

Hopefully in the next week I can get some screen shots up for my characters as well as some images of my Table Top armies. I would also like to point out that I am still playing Infinity every week and enjoying the heck out of that game my army still need some work but it will all be painted soon. I am also looking into getting in a RPG group as a player because I do miss that aspect of gaming the only problem is that currently in this area its kind of a DnD world with few people willing to branch out....and I personally cannot stand the current incarnation of DnD. On a even greater tangent I am actually looking a selling some of my FoW troops to get into another game Heavy Gear Blitz its still just a thought though.

Dark Age of Camelot Trial: Day 3

2008-03-15T11:05:00.005-04:00

Well when it over is over. After playing for a couple hours this morning something began to dawn on me. DAOC is to similar to WoW for me to truly enjoy. Yes, DAOC has is differences but over all it more of the same. Bottom line the benefits of playing an older game with a more dedicated community do not out weigh the benefits of playing WoW in the case of DAOC. Since the objective of this search is to find a better alternative then DAOC is not going to work.

So where to now, well with my new gaming machine coming in a few weeks I am going to hold off on playing DDO and EQ2 because of their righter graphic requirements. So with that said I am going to load up EVE and get my space ship fix on.

Infinity,Tabula Rasa, DAOC

2008-03-14T07:17:00.003-04:00

Not much happening in the world of DAOC or Tabula Rasa. Thursdays are my table top gaming days so my online time is kinda of limited on those days. I did however jump into TR for a few minutes but I didn't have any quality time to spend. As for DAOC day two of the trial is a wash so I am going to try and double up my time tomorrow.

One thing I was able to get some work in on is my Operation Paradiso campaign which I will be posting here later today.

Dark Age of Camelot Trial: Day 1

2008-03-13T06:35:00.006-04:00

After my daily gaming time in Tabula Rasa, I decided to fire up DAOC and get the trial under way. From the start it was very easy to get the game setup and running it did take a while to get the game updated but that is almost to be expected with any new MMO installment. It is interesting to note that unlike a lot of new games that use a web based account management system DAOC at least initially has a stand along account creation. This may hearken back the fact that DAOC would be considered a 2nd Generation MMO as it was released back in 2001.

Once my account was created the game showed me a cool intro movie that covered all the races of the world and gave a bit of information on the classes as well as the realm versus realm combat which is what DAOC is know for. After the movie I was presented with the character selection screen where you have the option to pick an existing character or make a new one. With not characters created I had to create a new one. I will say this once I was into the character creation screen it was pretty straight forward with many options which made if easy to create a character that was unique. Another really nice thing that more MMOs need that DAOC has is a random name generator. It may not sound like much but a name generator can solve a lot of problems with coming up with a name that fits the world and helps in the immersion and rp aspects of the game.

With character creation complete it was time for my character to begin his adventure. The game starts your character at a training facility where it you are given the option to run through a tutorial or just jump into game. The tutorial is actually helpful and it is completely voiced so if you don't want to read through a lot of text and if you check out the chat windows there is a lot of text flying around. The tutorial itself is pretty straight forward the first part gives you the basic movement and combat procedures as well as explain parts for the interface. After the basics the NPC sends you on a you way to a small village to show you how the vendor system works. Once you have complete this portion of the tutorial they put you on a horse which is your rapid transit method in the game and they drop you off in what is the real starter area where you can start picking up quests.

Following the tutorial I didn't have much time to really start working quests I was able to complete a couple of fedex style quests and a quest there I had to go out and kill a couple of mobs. I was able to pick up a level and gain a new weapon style as well as buy some better equipment.

Now for my 1st impression of DAOC, overall I was impressed by the look of the game for being a game that is 7+ years old it looks very good. I do know that there has been a graphical update and I am not sure what expansions are included in the trial if any. I will say that one thing that does kind of bug me is the UI I won't say its clunky but it took me a good 5 minutes to find how to exit the game and you cannot edit the video options from in the game. Other than that the interface is configurable and has "hotbars" very similiar to every other MMO out there. Bottom line it functional and not a graphically intensive as say WoW or other modern MMO's. The game has more of a realistic feel. It kind of feels like Ultima Online in the fact that when you look around its all medieval but not cartoony like WoW.

So that was my 1st day in DAOC, not very productive character wise but I did learn a lot about the game I am am pretty confident is using the UI and actually playing the game.

The Great MMO Search of 2008, looking for an alternative to the WoW Career

2008-03-12T13:35:00.008-04:00

As you may have guessed from the title I am going on a little quest of sorts. A quest to find a better fantasy game than World of Warcraft. So may say it can't be done I personally beg to differ WoW has become more of a career than a game with players having to spend countless hours grinding away for little return.

With that said I have already found my Sci-Fi refuge in Tabula Rasa which is by far the most fun I have ever had in an MMO, but sometime you need an alternative, a side track to prevent burn out. For me normally I have a main MMO and a secondary which I may or may not keep a subscription to or just enough to prevent character deletion. Usually my second game fills some gaps that the 1st has or it just something completely different. In the case of my new quest I am looking for a good Fantasy game that I can alternate with the Sci-Fi game I love.

So Here is the quest, I am going to do as many trials or fantasy based MMOs. I am talking game that are in full release with an established community. I will give each game a full try for the length of the trail post my feelings here and then move on to the next. After a few months I should have a fair grasp on each game and can make a educated decision. For the readers out there I hope to offer and incite into some games that may have been forgotten and new games that people may have written off.

The Great Quest of WoW alternative Finding
Current Candidates and the order in which they will be played

Dark Age of Camelot--Where WoW got a lot of there ideas on how they do things. To much like WoW to be worth playing for to long
Dungeons and Dragons Online
Everquest
Asheron's Call
Lineage 2
Everquest 2
Lord of the Rings Online

EVE Online...Yea I know its not a fantasy game but I have to give this game a full try.

More will be added as they are discovered.

Events,Terrain,Campaign and a New MMO

2008-03-05T08:41:00.007-05:00

I figured it was time for a little update specially since it been a while since I started this blog and its been pretty inactive. First I would like to say that I am officially done creating and running events for At-43 and Confrontation. This is the result of the utter disappointment at the turnout for the last event(there were 3 of us including myself) and the lack of local players that are willing to participate. The doesn't mean I am done playing Confrontation or AT-43 but they are not going to be my primary games until we have a more stable release schedule and we have more local players. With that said I am going to concentrate my efforts on helping to build the local Infinity group.

Speaking of Infinity I am currently building terrain for 2 4' X 4' terrain. I hope to have images up on the site soon along with information about the company I have purchased the textures from and tutorials on how to make the building themselves.

In addition to terrain I am also working on an Infinity Campaign called Operation:Paradiso which will be a multi-mission map based campaign that will be supported online. More information as

Finally in addition to everything else I have become a Tabula Rasa addict. Its so different than any other MMO out there and the bottom line its fun to play and doesn't feel like a job(like WOW does). If anyone is interested in trying out the game send me a message or leave a comment and I can hook you up with a 3 day trial. For more info on Tabula Rasa visit www.rgtr.com

Tournaments:: Indy Tournament Rules v1.5

2008-02-21T07:13:00.001-05:00

Indy Tournament Format for Rackham Games 2008

Version 1.5

Updated 1/2/08
Updates marked in blue

Tournament Structure

Tournament will consist of at least 3 rounds.

Each round will last a minimum of 90 minutes. This time includes deployment of units (when necessary) and game play time. Terrain will be deployed prior to the start of official time.

Once the time has expired players will finish activating any unit that is currently being activated and then perform an entire Control Phase.

In the event that one side is completely eliminated the game ends. The side still remaining on the field completes any remaining activations and then performs an entire Control Phase. At which point the game is over and results are calculated.

Tournament Scoring Format A

Format A scoring will be based upon the margin of Elixir/Victory points between both opponents at the end of a match. Once the margin has been determined individual scenario points will be based upon the tables below.

Scoring Chart
EP/VP Margin =	+15	10 SP
EP/VP Margin =	+10	9 SP
EP/VP Margin =	+6	8 SP
EP/VP Margin =	+3	7 SP
EP/VP Margin =	+1	6 SP
EP/VP Margin =	0	5 SP
EP/VP Margin =	-1	4 SP
EP/VP Margin =	-3	3 SP
EP/VP Margin =	-6	2 SP
EP/VP Margin =	-10	1 SP
EP/VP Margin =	-15	0 SP

Elixir/Victory Points will also be accumulated from round to round and will be used for breaking any ties in the final results.

Tournament Scoring Format B

Format B scoring will be base upon the win/loss records of players. Elixir values will be used to break any ties. Scenario points will be awarded base on the table below

Scoring Chart
Win	3 SP
Loss	0 SP
Draw	1 SP
Highest Elixir for the round	1 SP

Scenarios

Each round will use a different scenario which will not be announced prior to the tournament.

Scenarios must be from a published source or approved and tested prior to the tournament.

Any and all special rules regarding terrain, deployment or activation will be determined in the scenarios themselves.

Playing Surface

Tables must be a minimum of 120cm x 60cm.

Army Construction

Army must be built to the specifications in each army book. In the case that an army book is not in print players must have the current online version in order to play their particular army.

AT-43 Scenario List

See AT-43 Rule Book

Confrontation Age of Rag’narok Missions

All currently published Confrontation: The Age of The Rag'narok missions that feature equal forces are tournament approved.

Additional Approved Missions

See Missions Section

he Group are in no way affiliated with Fantasy Flight Games or Rackham we are fan based group that enjoy their games. These tournament rules and Missions are presented as an alternative to any official posted rules.

AT-43 Assault on Indy wave 3:Mega Battle

2008-02-16T07:05:00.003-05:00

Basics
Date: Saturday, March 1st 2008
Time: 11 AM to 5 pm
Location: Games to Die For in Indianapolis,Indiana
Registration Fee: $10
Rounds: 2(one 2 hour round and one three hour round)

Allowed Releases
Any Model released as of February 29 2008

Registered Players
Karmans:
Red Blok:
Therians:
UNA:

Force Construction
1 2000ap list

Terrain
Each player will be required to bring 1 container matching their faction(theme if possible) and 3 low walls

Scenario
"The Therians have forced a division of UNA troops back to the surface causing them to fall back into defensive positions. Unfortunately for the UNA the Karmans have decided to join the fight along with the Red Blok. The UNA must work fast to clear the Therians retake the access points back to lower levels before the Red Blok. For the Therians and there Karman allies it is imperative that their push to AVA be unhindered."

Format
All players will be playing on the same table using multiplayer rules as they apply.

Each player will start each round with half(rounded down) of their units active and the remainder in reinforcements.

The objective the game is for the Red Blok and UNA forces to control a set of access points located on the Therian side of the board. The Karmans are tasked with pushing the UNA and Red Blok forces from the defensive positions and off the board.

Each player will be given a 20cm deployment edge where all of their troops may enter the board. Around the table there will also be various "drop zones" that may be used to bring in troops once they are under control

There will be two rounds. The 1st round will be a meeting engagement were all armies are setup in there initial positions and neither side will have an advantage. For the 2nd round depending on which side is leading the initial positions will be adjusted accordingly.

Scoring
Each player will have an objective container that must be placed at least 30cm from their table edge. This will be their primary objective.

Their will also be other containers and nano generators scattered around the battlefield.

Gaining VP
Destroying an Infantry Unit 2VP
Destroying an Armored Fighting Vehicle 3vp
Killing an Officer 1vp per rank level

Capturing a neutral container 8vp
Capturing a Primary Objective of another player 25vp*
Controlling a Primary Objective of another player 15vp

*Players may not capture a Primary Objective from a player in the same faction.

Gaining RP
Capturing a Nanogenerator 225RP
Controlling a Nanogenerator 175RP

Capturing a Container 200RP
Controlling a Container 250RP

Rolling Reinforcements
In addition to normal reinforcements we are also bringing back something that was seen in the Operation Damocles box set, something we are calling "Rolling Reinforcements". Essentially what this means is that units that are eliminated are placed into your reinforcement pool and may be brought back onto the table using RP like any other unit. The only exception tho this rule are heroes, once a hero has been eliminated they are considered dead for the session. Players are allowed to promote the leader of the unit to an officer by paying the cost of the upgrade when they pay the RP for the unit. This is the only change that is allowed to be made to the unit.

Force Balancing
Since it unlikely we are going to get an even representation of all factions on the table I am working out a way to try and keep numbers as even as possible by giving under represented factions extra RP as long as they have at least 1 unit on the table. The bonus RP will be determined based on how many players their are of a given faction using the following formula.

(Number of Players in Majority Faction - Number of Players for your Faction) X 75

300 RP Maximum per round

Awards
This may not be a tournament but we are going to be keeping a running total of VP across both sessions. The awards will be as follows(Prizes will be determined at a later date)

Overall Best Officer:: Players with the most VP at the end of the battle

Best in Faction:: For each faction represented we will give an award to the highest scoring player.

If anyone has any questions of comments please feel free to leave them here.

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2008-01-30T07:20:00.000-05:00

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