Fantasy Gaming (7) - More Mordheim Scatter and First Warband

 We sat down for a marathon paint session the other night and managed to crack out a pretty significant amount of scatter terrain. This was all painted with craft paints for the most part and 3d printed from Hexengarde this time around. 

The walk ways are from printable scenery

 Rubble Piles

Barricades

Lampposts and Walkways. The lamposts are WIP still as I figure out what I wanna do with the lights themselves

Well, Town Notice Board. Also WIP as I decide what to do for the actual notices.

Cargo Piles, Lumber Piles

Sewers and a better shot of the side of the risers. These risers use a openlock clip system and are really sweet and modular.

Here you can see the system in detail

I set up a few shots just to see it all out at the same time.

I also managed to finish my first warband. These are mercenaries. The files are from reptilian overlords i believe and are pretty decent. 

I actually slapchopped the first guy probably over a year ago and never got around to the rest.

Fantasy Gaming (5) - Frostgrave, Warhammer Quest and Other Diversions

 A few of the guys have been musing over doing a short, 3-game Frostgrave second edition campaign day and as a result I've dug out all my old original Nickstarter stuff and slapped together two warbands. This is the first of them. I'm going to go with a Sigilist this time around. The Wizard and Apprentice are metal, the remaining figures from Frostgrave Soldiers 1. I went with close to box art for the wizards paint and themed it around that. So the wizard has a body guard themed in dark green with a matching rune and the apprentice has her own with a light green and matching rune. Its simple but as someone who doesn't name models for example I thought it was a nice narrative touch.

I've also been thinking about Dungeons lately, something we'll come back to. I did a tiny bit of digging and discovered that there are just a ton of resources available to print your own copy of Warhammer Quest '95. Now I've never played it and have no idea if its worth the hassle but I've been wanting to learn some of the equipment at work so figured this was a good opportunity to self teach

I mentioned dungeon crawls. I've been in the early stages of writing my own dungeon crawl ruleset. I'm not ready to share much in the way of details yet but after we got a bit of playtesting in the other day I am ready to share that it exists

I didn't manage to get many photos as we were pretty engrossed in the rules discussion. I'll admit I spent quite a while writing rules with place holder numbers that did not work at all on the first encounter. A quick on the fly adjustment though and everything started working perfectly. There will be more down the road but for now all you get is this quick little teaser. 

Fantasy Gaming (4) - A City Fit for a King

 I've been threatening to play Mordheim for years now. One of the big barriers to entry however, for anyone familiar with the game/genre is the high amount of terrain needed. I've been printing scenery for it off and on for the last couple years and last weekend decided it was time to break it all out and get it painted for an upcoming mini Frostgrave campaign.

These were all painted with a friend on Saturday and I spent a few hours Sunday and Monday finishing them up. They could stand for a bit of a clean up especially on the wood color but en masse I don't think its really that noticeable. Quality, Quantity, Etc... 

The buildings are currently a mix of two manufacturers. The overwhelming majority are from the Shadowfey ruins set from Printable Scenery. The small corner ruins, small 2 floor corner ruins and the single building in the center with the iron bars on top are all from the Hexengarde range from Tiered World. 

There's still a few details to finish, but it's all very minor stuff. I think I'm going to do the clock face in brass instead of silver but I was rushing to finish before a work trip. I think there's one tiny roof section for one of the larger buildings I need to print. In short though this is all but done and ready to play. I was hoping to take some more set up table glamour shots but that will have to wait until I get a game out. 

For now most of the project fits neatly in this tub. I have a second tub for the wizards tower as well as eventual scatter, bridges, and other bits. 

I think we spent all told around 10 hours painting, but its all done and for that I'm quite happy. 

Fantasy Gaming (3) - The Dwarven Mountain Hold Marches Forth

 As mentioned in the last fantasy post, I've been working on stubby little dwarves. Here are some photos of the "army" in its current state. 

The force so far is the basic contents of the newish starter box for The Old World though I've gone ahead and swapped out one gyrocopter for a Dwarf King from the Skull Pass set. 

So with this, we're ready to play some games. I've already looked ahead a bit towards a couple of the other rule sets and have noticed there will be a few things I need to add. I'm still going to be starting with Old World but am forming a bit of a plan to try other games sooner. I set out originally planning to just commit to these square bases and not think twice about it but as I've been doing rules research I'm much less sure I'm going to like the old world enough to make this the one I've commited to. Well see. 

Next fantasy posts will probably be another subject though I already have more dwarves on the bench. 

Fantasy Gaming (2) - First Test Building Done

 As mentioned in the original Fantasy Gaming post, there is a pretty long list of rulesets on my radar. One of the sort of "to-do" list items of my gaming and painting career as of late is to finally try Mordheim for example. I don't imagine it will be a ruleset I become obsessive over but as it does require quite a bit of terrain I figured it would make for a good project. 

I have about half a table worth of terrain printed so far. The buildings are a mix of Printable Scenery's Shadowfey Ruins and the Hexengarde range. This first building was one of the "scatter ruins" pieces from Hexengarde.

There are about 3 of us who are going to end up painting the whole board eventually so I kept the paint jobs incredibly basic. Subscribing to my usual "quality, quantity etc" line of thinking I figure that even though I could take this piece quite a bit further, it makes more sense to make it quick and easily replicatable, even for non hobbyists.

I primed in black, drybrushed gray over the stones, wet brushed on the burnt umber and unbleached titanium colors. painted on the metal bits and called it a day. 

I was a little hesitant to post this because I have no idea how soon were getting together to paint the rest of the stuff and it may be a while but because this building only took 33 minutes to paint and I could use a little more respite from the Dwarf project I wanted to crack this out and see how it looked. 

On the dwarf front. I have just half a unit of warriors and the copter left to paint from the original batch. However disaster struck yesterday. Like a moron I had been keeping the box of dwarves on the same bench as the printer. I guess it finally shook them loose and after picking up the pieces I was left with this

I have since reglued almost all of it back together. The bolt thrower is damaged and I havent tried to repair it yet. The king lost his arm and has been mended. Almost everything else was just regluing to bases thankfully. I had just stuck the figures directly into the wet vallejo putty which as you can see was not a strong enough bond at all.

Anyway, we're nearing the end of this first milestone with them and I'm looking forward to showing the "completed" force pretty soon.