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Kill Team - Phobos Marines

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With the Warlords starting Tuesday night gaming, I got in a kill team game against Ed and his Nemesis Claw team. I decided to try out my Phobos team. We were playing Sabotage on a lengthways map. This created a situation where the table looked like a street with ruined buildings on both sides. My Phobos team is painted in a codex approved night fighting camouflage scheme. This mutes the normally bright Howling Griffons scheme. Behind this building I have the Vox Breaker, the Minelayer and a Reiver. On this side I have the Sergeant, the Veteran and the Marksman. Opposite my Sergeant is the Shriecker, Ventrilokar, and Champion. Across the alley is the Meltagunner. Here is the Missile launcher gunner and the Skin Thief. I have occupied my home building. My Voxbreaker moved forward and Auspex scanned an 8" bubble of no obscuring. My Minelayer moved forward and planted his mine on the other side of the door thus making charging through the door an unattractive option. The Riever is up ...

Hobby update Trench Terrain

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Back before trenches were cool, I got inspired by Ash Barkers games of The Last War and set out to make some trench terrain. I decided to make the terrain as a series of modular square and rectangular shapes which I can position to create the Trench lines. I got inspired by Ed and Richard building their own Trench terrain sets to finish my own. Here is an overview of the painted pieces laid out om the kitchen bench. Here is a close up view of the taller pieces. The crater design was inspired by the Terrain Tutor, so you can put a figure in the bottom of the crater and it can stand up. I can place pieces together to create strongpoints or larger closed areas. Otherwise, you end up with the trench lines being too long. This shows a Sally Port where models can charge through from cover. The triangle pieces also make great ends to line up against the edge of the table. Some of the pieces have some GW wire called on them. The top surfaces of the blocks are textured with a layer of coffee gr...

Hobby update - Stargrave Crews and NPC factions

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Here is my updated crew. in the back left we have Billy the Kid the Chisler, Dundee the Engineer, Holliday the Medic, Litton the Trooper, then we have the new Dalek armoured trooper, Dalek Hybrid Sek the pilot, Thay the ship gunner and Ogron Zeg the machine gunner. In the front we have the Master and the Dalek sub commander. These are made from Stargrave plastics and the Dead Mans Hand Cowboys, with some wizard bits thrown in. The Daleks are from Black Tree Design. This is the Space Rangers. These are plastics from Warlord Games Gates of Antares game. These are a quick Contrast Paint job with some additional highlights. These are my new Robot faction. These are the invading robots from Core Space. They are all one-piece plastics and are great for gaming pieces. These are my models from the Star Schlock kickstarter I back a little while ago. These are metal models and very nice casts. All the NPC teams have basing material from Kraut Cover. The Robots have the very popular Grim Dark, pe...

Stargrave game 3 - Commence rescue operations immediately.

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 I was in charge of designing the scenario for this game. Here was the initial background information we all received. Initial Message “Calling all independent crews. This is Duke Federugo from Zingara. My daughter the Princess Chabella has taken the royal yacht and a small crew and fled the palace. I am not sure why she left, maybe asking her to marry Count Verona was too much. Please find and bring my daughter back safely. If you are brave enough to achieve this task, the reward could be more wealth than you can imagine! Second Message “…….This is Princess Chabella…..Mayday. Mayday…….. My ship has fallen under attack, we are making an emergency landing on the only habitable planet in the system…. We made it to the surface, it’s very cold here. Some of my surviving crew have disappeared. We dare not send out search parties to look for them…. It will be dark soon, and it’s only going to get colder. We are going to take shelter in some nearby caves … I’m setting the ship...