Game Play 3/23/15: Mordheim

One month between games?  No not really.   I just didn't post before before and now I changed up my warband.  I will still be playing Witch Hunters just a slightly different lineup.  (After a death in this game it will change again.)

Occupy 3-21-15:
We finally got all four of us in one place and played a four way Occupy of sorts. Each of us started within eight inches of a corner and had one main building in our quadrant to occupy.  We also placed a central building to give the game five total objectives.  Here are a couple shots of the city.

City View: Occupy

City Veiw 2

The participating warbands were Undead, Possessed, Skaven, and Witch Hunters.  Here are the starting views of each warband.

Undead

Possessed

Skaven

Witch Hunters

The scenario began with each warband moving forward in turn 1.  All four leaders started with the same approach of splitting up and heading toward opponents and objectives.  Turn two is when the first carnage started and it led off with two Skaven slings taking out a Flagellant and my captain on a steady stream of sixes and fives from the Skaven warband.   Since my warband only had seven members and two were taken out before I did anything other then move, I decided to rush the rest of my members into fights.  I took one Possessed henchmen OOA and then proceeded to lose almost everything else.

Witch Hunters about to route

I voluntarily routed with only two warband member left in play.  The Undead left one turn after me and the Skaven snatched the victory out of the hands/claws of the Possessed.

Post Game
One of my flagellants lost his life.
The only Witch Hunter who did anything will Miss Next Game.
The remaining three that I rolled for all got a full recovery.
I found four shards of Wyrdstone and no extra GC.
We haven't sold Wyrdstone or searched for rare items yet, we'll do that at our next game.

We should be playing some one on one matches on Monday.  Hopefully my Witch Hunters can perform better.

Update 3/5/15: Mordheim

We are close to starting our Mordheim campaign.  We're all getting in a couple games to build up our Warbands a little bit.  I've played two build-up games so far and have been soundly defeated in both.  I don't really know what to do yet and combine that with my terrible rolling and you've got an uphill battle on your hands... or my hands... I'm not good at words. 

I've also been starting more terrain projects.  That's problematic since I haven't finished a single piece.  I need to finish the building of one more wall piece and then I've promised myself I won't start anything else until I finish my current stuff.    Rubble, grit, and paint.  Here are the advancements I've made to this point.

Added bases to these

Tavern front 90%

Tavern left 90%

Tavern right 90%

Extras

Extras in use (Tavern inside needs work)

Extras in use

Wall with one Corner piece (one to come)

The Wall

I've got these to finish up and some models to paint.  Geez, I got a lot to do.  Hopefully with my next set of pictures you will see a little less black, blue, and raw wood.  There should be paint,grit, or texture in the way.  Maybe even all three!

Update 2/24/15: Mordheim

We played!  We didn’t get as many games in as we thought but at least we played. 

Scenario:  The first game of the evening saw my Witch Hunters take on the Undead.  The scenario we rolled for was Surprise Attack.   My Witch Hunters were too busy searching the ruins to notice the Undead approaching from the west.  I’ll do a story style write-up later. 

Result:  The Undead destroyed me causing me to have a route test from the get go.  They continued to maul me for a bench of turns but I was very stubborn and kept passing route tests.

Injuries:  One of our Witch Hunters received multiple wounds which included a miss next game and a -1 Initiative.

Most Valuable Warrior:  The Warrior Priest did his part to keep us in the battle taking 2 of the Undead out-of-action including an outright kill on a Dreg.

Money:  My Injured Witch Hunter had to fight a Pit Fighter.  He defeated him in round 1 of combat and won 50 gc for his trouble.

Exploration:  2 Wyrdstone were found

Blurry shot of the table

My first knock down.  He knocked me down earlier but my boy took care of him.

The second game was between the Undead and Skaven.  I enjoyed this game from afar.  They played the Scenario:  Wyrdstone Hunt.

Skaven with "Wyrdstone"

Necromancer with "Wyrdstone"

 It was so much fun to get to play.  Now I know to make some wyrdstone tokens, hiding tokens, and other stuff I overlooked or forgot about.

Update 2/23/15 - Mordheim

Here we go!  The plan is to play some real games tonight.  I will be using my Witch Hunters against some Undead and Skaven.  I truly expect to get my butt kicked but I don't care.  We're finally going to play! In honor of actually playing some, I thought I'd get out every bit of terrain I've work on, and photograph it.  Now this is just a quick, random setup and not one of these pieces are finished.  The table I'm using to display stuff isn't 4' x 4' but this is just to inventory what I have so far.  A lot of these pieces aren't even totally constructed, let alone painted.

4x3 Table

Overveiw

Wall and Well

The flagellant is getting ready to put the night runner in the stocks

Wall 'o' Verminkin about to fire some slings

Hangman is coming down from the Gallows

Witch Hunter advancing between buildings

I might make the obelisk into rubble

Not the best photos.  Bad lighting and out of focus but oh well.  Also, please excuse the mess.  Here is what I have so far.  I put my Witch Hunters and Skaven out there so there would be some idea of scale.  I like the idea and the look of more elevation sections so I think I'll make more risers.  I've quite a bit of work to do, but not tonight.  Tonight we play! 

Update 2/19/15 - Mordheim

Well I had a few minutes, a few.  I squeezed as much in as I could.  I primed the Skaven Warband I'm making so I might paint again at some point, maybe. 

I made some bases for the extras for my Mordheim terrain and added some grit to them.  I made stocks, a gallows, and a market stand out of some craft sticks a while ago.   Then I decided to make a well, so I carved up some scrap blue foam pieces to make blocks and glued them together.  I took one whooping photo of what I did, so here's that:

That blue thing on the left will be a well... someday. 

Oh yeah.  I'm making a water tower as well.  So far I've cut up a Pringles can and added some craft sticks.  I'm going to create a base and top as soon as I figure out how.  I think I'll have some time tonight so I'll try to get more done.  I find if I do a little more planning ahead of time I can take much better advantage of the little time I've been getting.

The Slog - 2/12/15

You hear that sound of hobby work grinding to a halt?  That was coming from me.  I haven't been able to get much hobby time in.  The only thing I was able to do was do some minor conversions on the Skaven Warband I'm building, work a little on the Dog Bowl III dugouts (which now will be the Dog Bowl IV dugouts), and play three games of Blood Bowl while co-running a tournament.  I played a roster of all skinks and one krox, it was a blast.  I got destroyed but it was so much fun that if the skink roster is a FTLOTG team for Zlurpee Bowl XI, I'm taking it!

Dog Bowl III was a success and my co-conspirator, Randroid, may be planning a second Kalamazoo tournament later this year.  Keep an eye on the Zlurpee Forums for Mid-West tourney news.  I have got a bit of the hobby bug back so, if the wife will allow it, I hope to get back at it tonight!

I think I just added something to my list with this all skink team.  Hmm?  The wheels are churning...

This hopefully ends a few unproductive weeks for me.  Here's hoping.

Dog Bowl III and Mordheim Stuff - 1/27/15

This year's Dog Bowl is fast approaching.  This will be the 5th KUBBL presented tournament and for the last three years we've held it at Marmalade Dog, a gaming convention but on by the West Michigan Gamers Guild. 

We have monkeyed around with multiple rule sets over the past four tournaments and the one we've landed on is the rule set we used last year except we are playing three rounds as opposed to four.

The tournament is free to anyone who enters the convention, therefore we don't have any income and need to get creative with our prizes.  This year Randroid and I decided we would build 3D dugouts to be used as trophies.  We are both doing our own things so each dugout will be original and different.  We used standardized dimensions but that's it.

For materials I am using foamcore board, sucker sticks (unused), balsa wood, an orange bag, and random bits.  Here is what I have so far.

Blood Bowl dugouts have three areas: Reserves, KO, and Dead and Injured.  The tiles at the bottom are for turns and re-rolls.  These dugouts will fit on some FF Field Boards.  The plan is to use the bag and sucker sticks to make chain link fence.  These need to be ready in less than two week so I need to get my butt in gear.

But...

...I have been working on other stuff too.  I made some small random things to use in Mordheim.  I used craft sticks and balsa wood just to make some stuff to take up room and such.  It's not finished or painted but I shouldn't have been working on these at all.

The picture is that good but it's a fruit stand, stocks, and gallows.  I'll post more and better pics as I go.