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Sorry for sort of bugging out towards the tail end of last weeks weekender; life got in the way a tad, as it is want to do. 😛 As compensation, have some music. Hopefully it works properly, this time…
(Got it to work after a few tries…)
I did manage to get the Volksgrenadiers/Veteran Grenadiers finished that I was working on, and here they be! Pleased with how they turned out, even got a Rifle Grenade on one of the guys…I will not be doing that again…fiddly bugger that was…
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As for the questions…
1. Bolt Action’s order system. It adds a great element of reality to the game because you don’t know what’s happening next. Makes the choices you make much more enrapturing, like you are actually dealing with a real situation. The biggest draw, next to the historical context, for me in the game.
2. I’ve yet to come across one that is so detrimental that it ruins the game for me. There are things I find frustrating, but nothing so major as to make me not want to play a game.
3. House Rules are always fun, though my older brother tends to go overboard on them to the point of ruining balance. Until the actual rule was inputted into 2nd edition, I always played by my own personal rule of never shooting with or at medics in Bolt Action, that’s more of a personal rule, though, than a house rule. I always play by the Geneva Convention for that game, though. It’s why I pick background for my armies very carefully. But that’s just me.
As for pledge, I still have 20 Grenadiers to build, but rifles and MP40’s for this next lot. I might also build a Hanomag and the other two Custodes I have lying around somewhere in box that I haven’t gotten to, yet. I may also get some more paint on the 5 Intercessors I have in my cabinet that I haven’t touched for a month or more… We’ll see…
Finished another dice bag… this time is Sci-Fi Urban Camo 🙂 Well it isn’t finished yet. It is currently getting pressed flat under my considerable weight in my armchair and I need to sow up the top.
Hoping the rain stops so I can get my weeding done in the garden. Off to shed to have a play.
@mage the Active Reaction Order – whenever you activate a model in Infinity your opponent checks to see if they can react with any of their models. That can be something as simple as taking a shot as your model passes their line of site, performing a hacking action on the model that activated if in range or in range of a Repeater, dodging incoming fire, attempting to reveal what a camo marker is, or even alerting models nearby to a threat they are not facing so that they can change facing and be ready to react if it activates again. It really makes you consider every action you take and potential consequences, and makes you think about your positioning for when it’s your opponents turn and you can react….
A Warhammer-themed Transformer? Ok, challenge accepted:
Ultima Maximus is one of the last Glorianna-class Battle Barges within the fleets of The Imperium, and no one quite knows for which Primarch it was built, but it serves as mobile fortress monastery to The Sons of Primus chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. A system-control ship, the Maximus is not just laden with firepower comparable to small fleets but has hangers and docks large enough to serve The Sons fleet of Strike Cruisers and Escorts, as well as enough internal space to service a Legion of Astartes, let alone the requirements of the chapter that now call it home. As such there are large portions of the ship that have gone un-tread for millenia, and expeditions into these depths to accurately map the vessel are often used to provide training for the novitiates of the 10th company. Of the secrets that have been uncovered, the most closely guarded is a unique machine spirit that provides an incredibly intuitive connection between the crew and the ship, and which can – in times of the utmost dire need – allow the vessel to reconfigure to a titanic approximation of a fully armoured Space Marine, capable of engaging like no other vessel in existence, but at the cost of a battle brother who must intergrate their nervous system with that of the vessels core….
Unbeknownst to Sons of Primus their vessel is in actuality one of the lost Cybertronian Titans, lost, critically damaged, and forced to hide his existence from the universe at large, lest his systems be scavenged by those who would abuse them.That do the job?
As for why no painting, I’ve had a bad week pain wise and am just trying totake it easy today. As such I’ve even binned he idea of getting some stripping done, instead I finished off building the minis from the Blackstone Fortress core set (lovely sculpts, but I really need to pick up one of the bespoke foam sets out there for it…), built an Umbra Samaritan I’d had knocking around, and delved back into the 3rd Edition Space Marine Codex to mount Pedro Kantor’s wingman, the Crimson Fists own man of Iron, Captain Aleissio Cortez onto a 40mm base.
Seriously though, what were CB thinking with that sculpt and putting it on a 25mm base?
Yeah he looks a little derpy (and his legs are especially slim), but threw on a more blinged out Sternguard backpack (which has the bonus of having an Iron Halo sculpted on) and I think he looks pretty great 🙂
Otherwise it’s been a day of catching up on videos online – a few bat reps from Tabletop Tactics and Guerilla Miniature Gaming, a spread of What Culture’s latest offerings, Cinema Wins Rogue One video, and I’ve had through review disks for the Netflix Castlevania anime to watch and do a write up on for a site I (very) occasionally contribute to.
Also after spending a few years looking for sources of transfers for the Raptors chapter, I find not only does this site have just the sheets I need, but also does sheets of Roman numerals. Looks like I’m saving buying the 3d-printed versions….
https://www.themightybrush.com/product-category/waterslide-transfer-sheets/
And as it’s Eurovision time, here’s my personal favourite winner 😉
@mage yeah, I’m all in on using Shadowspear for my Raptors. I’m looking at re-purposing the old marines I had for a force built around their Chapter Master Lias Issodon for combined sneaky deployment shenanigans alongside the Vanguard and the Phobos armoured Primaris (I dig the idea of getting Devastators or Assault squads into unexpected positions…).
(I think I’ve mentioned I picked up a Legion Vigilator to use for as Issodon? If not have a picture 🙂 )
I may also have put preorders in for extra copies of the Scouts issue of Conquest, and will probably do the same for the sniper Scouts issue….Cortez grows on you, and I adore how for the WD Crimson Fists Index Astartes article one of the chapter-specific Warlord Traits represents Cortez’ will not die durability 🙂 .
Yeah the pain sucks but I’m hoping to get confirmation of my surgery date soon 🙂
Hi All
Brilliant questions again this week. I need a bit of time to consider those mmmmm
This evening Andrea kicked me out of the house (in a nice way) to go and spend a bit of time doing some hobby. I wont spend too long at it as tomorrow is ‘family day’ just a silly thing we do to mark the 19th May when we first met as we both value the family we have ended up with so we always try to mark it in some way for the kids just to remind them how important family is. And this year is 10 years so a special one, so I’m feeling a bit soppy lol.
But tonight im back on lizard folk and starting to plan out a rebasing project for an ogre army that was decommissioned as well. (There was a spate of decommissioning here in Northern Ireland and these armies got caught up in it too lol)
Last night I got a game in with Lloyd and Gerry with the elves and the dark lord, it was awesome to finally kick back and chuck some minis on the table and throw some dice.
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