Onepage Rules had the brilliant idea of releasing rules for a zombie faction. I don't know if the Infected Colonies faction is based on an existing Warhammer army, or OPR wanted people to use their zombicide miniatures, but what matters is that I have a stash of Secret World stuff on TTS and now I also have an excuse to use them.
Models Source:
-Secret World models from BOSS Asset Library by Bright Corvid.
-Left 4 Dead models from Common Infected and Special Infected, both by CougarMagnum.
Wife and I gave One Page Rules a try this weekend, Grimdark Future: Firefight specifically.
Her Osha Compliance Squad suffered a close defeat at the claws of Hive Fleet Leviathan before claiming an overwhelming victory over the Eridium Enclave.
The rules really were refreshingly simple compared to 40k (just like everyone says), and I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of nuance in the activation/stun/wound economy. The gameplay felt really engaging without being needlessly cluttered. I was also impressed by how much mechanical identity each model had despite the streamlined special rules. Definitely looking forward to playing some more.
Not art, but related. I know I've mentioned briefly I haven't had much chance to play, but I finally got around to going to a nearby wargaming club, and I've now had a few games of.. well not actual Warhammer yet, but close!
Been playing some One-page Rules: Grimdark Future. Just 1000 points (which is near 500 points in 40k) with 3 games over a couple of visits.
First game against some ancient robots. Regeneration is annoying, I didn't have enough AP, made some wonderfully bad tactical decisions, getting my walker with 3' range waaaay too close, so it could be easily attacked and pinned. And those little bugs were so annoying xD I won... But by model kill count, and I'm not sure if that was the best way to decide.
Next two games were against a plague heretic player, and now I'm convinced all other factions have regeneration xD
Unfortunately I set up the second game terrain myself, and didn't favour myself at all. This is the game with the red pipes. I made some better decisions, got some points. But was picked off a lot, and couldn't possibly catch up in points with what remained, and lost horribly.
Third game had the green crystals, much better terrain placement. I could use the terrain more effectively, to avoid getting my powerful units in los of their powerful guns. And it all came down to some careful tactics and tense rolls in the last turn. Very exciting, very fun. I managed to secure the win, and was really proud of some of the tactical decisions made.
All in all, I've had fun. The club has an OPR doubles tournament coming up so I'm keen to give that a go. And I've got some model painting going so I will hopefully have enough for a 1k Warhammer game soon to see how that plays differently.
This was my first time ever using a paper flag, this one came from the Perry Miniatures Afghan Tribesmen box that I’ve been using the bodies and heads for my conversions, I’m stoked it came out so well.
Also stoked that the Perry box just...came with a flag that almost exactly matched the color scheme I had already chosen for my flag! It’s basically perfect!
@mikailborg: Decided to see how close the latest HeroForge update could get me to a Catgirl of Battle figure. Super close.
Once a punishment detail sent to literally clean up loot after battles, the Catgirls now proudly wear the Furmother’s armored apron as some of her fiercest troops.
i keep seeing takes on either side of this and i don’t disagree with any of them because the whole point is that We’ll Never Know and it really could go either way BUT! i do think it’s like. important that the way that kendall differs the MOST from logan is his relationship with his siblings and the love he has for them/needs from them. kendall thinks he’s only built to run waystar but really he’s built to be part of a trio!! he’s a love sponge, they’re all love sponges!!! the three of them are bound together in a way that logan and ewan never were bc logan is the big evil and the big love that built them! not to mention the fact that roman and shiv are not ewan. shiv will probably hold out longest because her pride and her rage and her exhaustion is what brought them to this point but. roman is blowing up kendall’s phone 48 hours later MAX. kendall is getting invites via roman to family events he wasn’t invited to and bringing squiggle beats to his nephew’s christening…. shiv is calling ken to leave five minute voicemails about how pathetic he is and how she beat him…
Took the day off yesterday and made some terrain for the Grimdark Future. These two industrial containers were made from nut cans, nerf gun parts, and trash.
Made a small Terran army (ya know, from Starcraft) for my games of Grimdark Future, based on the Battle Brothers faction with models from this mod by The_Long_Dark.
For incredibly flimsy reasons*, they are going to fight the Combine in an abandoned Russian town (map by Axebeard). For now the game is setup, but I'll give another read on the manual (plus the solo rules) before I get to play this thing.
I've never played Warhammer, but i adore Thavu!! Peak blorbo right there!!
warhammer requires a gateway friend or two to break down the wiki into bite sized pieces and also maybe drag you into a related game-osphere (darktide, vermintide which is warhammer fantasy, etc,). also i've never actually played the tabletop game either and regularly forget it isnt just a. mini painting thing, for fun and blorbo
speaking of which It's also a perfect blorbo making machine because the whole point is that it's the WOOOORST and everything is a nightmare, now go build someone who's managed to survive