Batman Game Bane Crew.

This past week has been really busy hobby wise. I have decided to goto the Titan Games Batman tournament after being asked a few times by Pulp Citizen I have decided to have a crack. My last batman game with my Penguin Crew things finally began to twig with the rules.

I have enjoyed learning the game with my Penguin Crew and they are far from finished but I fancied something different for the tournament and besides the large numbers make them quite unwieldy to manage. I plan to get more free agents such as Deadshot, Catman and perhaps Copperhead (I still like the model Pulp Citizen :P )

Anyway my new crew I have settled on is a Bane one. The main reason I really like the military/mercenary look to the warband. Bane is a nice imposing model and I can choose 3 flavours of Bane to lead the crew. Also with the DKR Bane I can dip in my toes with the League of Shadows.

Now someone happened to be selling a Bane starter and Merc set 2 (unpainted and unassembled) on one of the facebook groups and this was to good an offer to refuse! The crew was rapidly started :). They arrived last Wednesday afternoon and in a blur of activity I managed to get them all assembled, based and painted in 3 days finishing Bane Saturday evening. (I have been on  leave).  I still have more to add to it to bring it up to the full 350 rep $1500 required for the tournament which is on March 19th. I have another merc set on there way (hopefully arriving tomorrow). I want to add a free agent but can't decide again neet make my mind up by end of week in order to get the model painted in time.


I have had my first run out with the Crew (Borrowed Deadshot and proxied some gaps) They played quite well a lot easier and with some of their traits (Veteran on most henchmen) more forgiving when planning actions for the turn.

The main man himself I lost him in my first game I let him get pounced on by the Court of Owls Butcher and one of the O'Malley Henchmen he was knocked on his ass then stabbed repeatedly by the smaller henchmen removing him from play before I could rescue him. (Bad deployment on my part didn't help) Though the game ended with Bane 36vps to the Courts 32vps (Counts as a draw tournament wise) I was quite pleased I had managed to catch up with PC's early lead in the first few turns and started to take over towards the end I nearly could of pipped a few more VP's in the last turn but the dice gods were against me with Dallas rolling triple 1s when I really need to finish off Branden O'Malley in the final turn.

Here is the main man himself. This version comes in the starter set and is known as Origin Bane. Nice thing about this guy is that he is all one piece :)

Next up is Dallas equipped with an Assault rifle he is the ranged firepower of the group. Undecided on any extra gear for him at the moment certainly Night Vision goggles (Unlimited vision) and either extra ammo or Grapnel gun(bat claw). Dallas was probably the fiddliest to put together right arm with rifle, left arm, body and head. The arms were annoying to line up but I got him together in the end.

Next in the gang is one of my favourite miniatures out the set McGregor. This one comes in three pieces legs, body and right fore arm with machete on.

Another Melee fighter named perfectly is Smash wasn't so much fiddly to assemble bit had some awkward gaps to fill where his arms attached to hammer join his shoulders/waist.

The Starter crew completed :)

The additional blister I got was the Bane Thug Set 1 (These can only be used in a pure Bane Crew no LoS crossover)

First up is the Venom Soldier another tough melee fighter he has the bodyguard trait meaning if I keep close to Bane (which I didn't do in my first game) he can soak some of the damage from his leader. This guy is three pieces legs body and the backpack with pipes quite simple to put together really.

The second thug in the set is TNT (He is a bit special in the fact he has Elite 'Soldier of Fortune' trait which hints at least one more character like him and a special boss in order to take more  than one in of his kind in a crew) I really like this mini as well really intimidating. Sadly I can't fit him and Dallas in the same Crew they eat up all the cash leaving very little for gear or other characters. I may one day take pure Bane mercs in a friendly game and see how things work out :)

The Elite Duo

The whole crew so far.