Sunday, August 8, 2010
War Games Con 2010 Macragge Narrative Track - Day 1 Game 1
Game1: The Death of Tyran
The Xenos invasion made up of Nids, Eldar and Hivemind controlled Guard cautiously deploy far back from the Imperial lines, awaiting the counterattack which never quite materializes:
10 down, 9990 to go:
Just before the Mawloc is splattered off the landing pad - ensuring an Imperial victory:
The Xenos invasion made up of Nids, Eldar and Hivemind controlled Guard cautiously deploy far back from the Imperial lines, awaiting the counterattack which never quite materializes:
10 down, 9990 to go:
Just before the Mawloc is splattered off the landing pad - ensuring an Imperial victory:
War Games Con 2010 Macragge Narrative Track - Day 1 Game 2
Game 2 - Prandium Falls
Photos start at turn 2. The Xenos have already taken out the Marauder bomber and 2 lightnings on the tarmac before they could take off and one of the 3 bastions, with the other two soon to fall:
Xenos victory
Photos start at turn 2. The Xenos have already taken out the Marauder bomber and 2 lightnings on the tarmac before they could take off and one of the 3 bastions, with the other two soon to fall:
Xenos victoryWar Games Con 2010 Macragge Narrative Track - Day 1 game 3
Game 3 - Battle of Cold Steel Ridge
The Hivefleet's Swarmlord faced off against Marneus Calgar.
Xenos arrayed for the assault:
Swarmlord cowers behind a rock. Calgar will live to fight another day:
Genestealers sieze an objective - Tyranid win:
The Hivefleet's Swarmlord faced off against Marneus Calgar.
Xenos arrayed for the assault:
Swarmlord cowers behind a rock. Calgar will live to fight another day:
Genestealers sieze an objective - Tyranid win:
War Games Con 2010 Macragge Narrative Track - Day 2 pt 1
Macragge - The Polar Fortress
The Xenos assault the Polar Fortresses of Macragge in the final battle.
The Xenos assault the Polar Fortresses of Macragge in the final battle.
War Games Con 2010 Macragge Narrative Track -Day 2 pt 2
Middle of turn 2 and the walls are down! 
Turn 3:
Just before the apocalyptic explosion of the Thunderhawk takes a bite out of the tyranid force:
Xenos victory holding 7 wall sections vs 6 for the Imperium
Turn 3:
Just before the apocalyptic explosion of the Thunderhawk takes a bite out of the tyranid force:
Xenos victory holding 7 wall sections vs 6 for the Imperium
War Games Con 2010 Taros Narrative Track
Afraid I didn't get many photos of the Taros Campaign, Just too much going on!
War Games Con 2010 Narrative Track
Some of the Narrative Track forces:
Oscar the Grouch Orks - Brilliant!
The BOLS crew's Titan lineup
Oscar the Grouch Orks - Brilliant!
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Thunderchild
A flicker of flame went up through the rising steam, and then the Martian reeled and staggered. In another moment he was cut down, and a great body of water and steam shot high in the air. The guns of the _Thunder Child_ sounded through the reek, going off one after the other, and one shot splashed the water high close by the steamer, ricocheted towards the other flying ships to the north, and smashed a smack to matchwood.
She was alive still; the steering gear, it seems, was intact andher engines working. She headed straight for a second Martian, andwas within a hundred yards of him when the Heat-Ray came to bear. Thenwith a violent thud, a blinding flash, her decks, her funnels, leapedupward. The Martian staggered with the violence of her explosion, andin another moment the flaming wreckage, still driving forward with theimpetus of its pace, had struck him and crumpled him up like a thingof cardboard. My brother shouted involuntarily. A boiling tumult ofsteam hid everything again.
Normally I like to recess the magnets, but in this case they are the exact same diameter as the tripod legs so just gluing them on creates an almost invisible seam. The magnets are available from http://www.kjmagnetics.com/ in an amazing variety of sizes and shapes. I used the D101-N50 for this project. The 1/8" diameter disks are also incredibly useful. $10 will buy enough magnets for literally dozens of projects. Please remember that magnets can be lethal if ingested so no gnawing on the mini's, and keep away from small children.
She was alive still; the steering gear, it seems, was intact andher engines working. She headed straight for a second Martian, andwas within a hundred yards of him when the Heat-Ray came to bear. Thenwith a violent thud, a blinding flash, her decks, her funnels, leapedupward. The Martian staggered with the violence of her explosion, andin another moment the flaming wreckage, still driving forward with theimpetus of its pace, had struck him and crumpled him up like a thingof cardboard. My brother shouted involuntarily. A boiling tumult ofsteam hid everything again.
A few simple cuts and application of magnets to the Brigade Martian walkers allows them to serve double duty on both land and sea. I used 1/16" diameter neodymium magnets glued onto both ends of the legs to allow the upper half of the torso to be removed. Another trio of magnets recessed into the water base hold the body securely when wading through the depths.
Normally I like to recess the magnets, but in this case they are the exact same diameter as the tripod legs so just gluing them on creates an almost invisible seam. The magnets are available from http://www.kjmagnetics.com/ in an amazing variety of sizes and shapes. I used the D101-N50 for this project. The 1/8" diameter disks are also incredibly useful. $10 will buy enough magnets for literally dozens of projects. Please remember that magnets can be lethal if ingested so no gnawing on the mini's, and keep away from small children.
Monday, March 30, 2009
British Centurion Class 1 Ironclad
A Centurion and an Imperator face off against two Martian Fighting MachinesThe latest in the escalating arms race between Britain and Germany, the first Centurion rolled out of the Enfield Works just days before the Martian invasion of 1901. Quickly reduced to molten slag by the heat rays, the tradeoffs made between hull armour and additional firepower became painfully evident. It would be two years before another Centurion class entered service.
Type: LI(1)
Hull: 19
Shoot: 16
Melee: 12
AA: 4
Speed: 4
Command: 5
PV: 110
Hull: 19
Shoot: 16
Melee: 12
AA: 4
Speed: 4
Command: 5
PV: 110
A fairly simple modification of the Brigade Sovereign, the base for the deckhouse was filed smooth then scribed to continue planking across the deck allowing the deckhouse to be slid towards the rear and given a pair of funnels from styrene tubing. The mounting notches from the original sponsons were filled in and new ones fabricated from tubing sections bisected and filled (though 1/2 round rod would have been much easier).
Looking like the Imperator's meaner older sister, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. I have another Sovereign model set aside for a mate. Playwise it hasn't faired as well though - having the greatest firepower on the board (and being my HQ) in its first game the martians immediately set upon it with five tripods and reduced it to slag in 2 turns!
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