Radioactive Refreshments!

Been a mixed bag this week. Started out great with a game of Across the Dead Earth with my good friend Pulp Citizen . Played a loot game and tried out all my terrain (some unpainted) which was nice to see how much it covered the table. I think personally a couple more taller buildings are need so once I have got all this Mantic stuff done its something I shall look into.

The little one was bad with a stomach bug on Tuesday evening which quickly went around the whole family by Thursday night and we all been unwell. All seem to be on the road to recovery now but its meant an unpleasant few days.

Finished for Tuesdays game and were planned for a post on Wednesday which I never got around to doing here is are the Radioactive Refreshments again by Thunderchild Miniatures. These are a treat to paint up especially as there damaged in the apocalypse. Rather than free handing some signs on the sides. I had a go at printing out some posters and weathering them a bit to appear old and worn. I went for Nuka Cola ones well because Fallout is cool :)

In other news. The Shattered Crown kickstarter is nearly at 100 backers and approaching the 7k mark of  its 20k goal. If your thinking of backing now is the time to join with 8 days left to go!!



https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chappellm/the-shattered-crown-the-fantasy-war-game-reinvigor

Also a Across the Dead Earth is having a Summer Sale!!



Gangs reduced to £12.50 and the combined deals reduced grab youself a bargain!!
http://dead-earth-games.myshopify.com/

The Shatter Crown Kickstarter Now Live!

Well the Shattered Crown Kickstarter has began and is currently just over 25% of the way towards it target goal and is steadily approaching funding each day. I spent ages trying to find something clever to say about the game. But I am going to pinch a post from the facebook group from a guy caleld Mike Tittenor and these are his thoughts about the game.

long gone are the days when you would wander into a game store and gasp in wonder at a set of rules that allowed you to fight historical and fantasy miniatures battles. (A game store is what we old folk use to call the Internet). They are now quite common and over the years have developed from the rules intensive nightmares that required a degree in accountancy to the buckets o' dice systems that suggest the drooling players have at least a mild barbiturate problem. So in this mature market, it takes something to stand out and be worth looking at. The Shattered Crown is one such. Its pedigree is sound, coming from those fine folk who brought you Across the Dead Earth.

The premise is straightforward: fantasy island with a quasi High Medieval society fighting a brutal and bloody civil war. Ok, nice enough but hardly exceptional, you might say? Then look again. Look at the artwork. Filip Dudek is one of the most talented gaming artists in the modern industry. I can only assume the rules authors have him locked in a cellar somewhere and exchange first rate artwork in return for meals or something. Whatever. Just make sure he doesn't run out of paint down there. The artwork is gorgeous. Get the rules just for that.

There is a figure range going from the nice basic infantry units to the utterly gorgeous....bear riders! They have a range of bear riders! OK, Ok, bear riders, yes, yes, pretty exciting, I suppose but still not unique.

Game mechanics? Pretty simple in the attack, defend, will stats and a rather nice preferred enemy system that boosts certain units against others (so, for example, spearmen are good against cavalry). However, the key point that makes this a good investment is the Command System. This is the bit you'll like. Each unit has a card allocation from a standard suit of playing cards. You can even put the card details on the unit banner so everyone knows that the elite Black Spears are the Two of Spades. At the start of the turn, each general plays his preferred unit's card face down. Both then try to guess the opponent's card. They then roll for initiative. If you guessed your opponent's card, you add a bonus to the die roll. The winner then moves that unit. Repeat until one side runs out of cards. Restart the turn. Now only a drooling idiot fingering his comfort dice with sweaty paws can fail to see the tactical options this gives you in a game.

You need to learn how to use combined attacks, feints and reserve units. You have to tactically beat your opponent, beat him with a stick until he whimpers like a beggar in the gutters of Helles. No longer can he claim he was robbed by the dice! He was beaten by your enormous Tactical Manhood and nothing else! You know you want this game now, don't you? Yes. That's right. Repeat the words. Enormous. Tactical. Manhood. Only from The Shattered Crown.

The Shattered Crown Kickstarter. (click me for KS page)

Heres the promo video.



More of the artwork by the highly talented Filip Dudek

 A unit of Hellesburne  Crossbowmen

 A unit of Hellesburne Spearmen.

A unit of Hellesburne Swordsmen.

First Render of the Khra Stag Rider.

The Shattered Crown Hellesburne Swordsmen

Finally finished these guys off this week I have really enjoyed painting these figures despite them being a regiment and not normally how paint things up especially in numbers of this size (for me). The colour scheme I went for was based around natural colours and I want there clothing to look like worn leather. I think in hindsight f I'd have done them again I'd of perhaps replaced the green with another colour as they blend in with the flock I used a bit.

Some shots of the figures singly and from the sides and rear. They come in four pieces body, head left and right arms. At the moment there are sets of Spear, Sword/shield and Crossbow arms. Some mixing and matching of bodies and heads gives you quite a varied looking unit.

 

Gifts and Gaming.

Another busy week here at ville de Brummie.

 Had a pleasant surprise arrive on Thursday in the form of a small parcel arriving from the lovely lady that is Anne O'Leary of O'Leary Miniatures containing some fab looking miniatures from Anvil Eight Games.  It contained several figures that were part of there successful kickstarter Aetherium. Anne very kindly left a message on a previous blog post saying that she has some perfect post apoc looking miniatures going spare that would compliment a lot of my own post apoc collection.

A HUGE THANK YOU ANNE :)

I eagerly agreed and now they have arrived. I must say they are lovely sculpts. There made from Resin by the looks of it. I've not had to clean them up yet but I'm quite excited to get started with these. There are the four human figures and the bottom pieces make up two cybernetic/robotic hounds.

The game Aetherium by the looks of it some sort of uprising against corporate or religious masters. What I have is a selection of the rioters and the hounds are from the corporate/religious faction.

 Riot Girl and a guy called the Masque (he has a V for Vendetta type mask)

 Tinder and Tov I really like Tov lobbing molotovs.

Not sure what I'm going to do with Tinder its a great mini. I'm pondering whether to convert the banner in to a two handed weapon of some sort.

The Shattered Crown beta testing.
Thursday night we play tested another game of The Shattered Crown click this LINK for more info from a previous post. What was good this week was that we had some of the prototypes painted up and finished so the game was a more nicer playing with painted figs. I'll do a post tomorrow with the finished figures I did.

 Not wanting to miss out on using these fably painted figures by Battle Brush Studios we used the six randomly armed minis as the Hellesburne elite unit the Great Blades.

The swordsmen unit I finished this week on the field of battle along with a hero figure painted by Sigur of Battlebrush Studios

 

 The Great Blades hack into the House Khra Black Halberdiers having just help destroy a unit of Khra Spearmen along the Hellesburne Warbears.

 Apparently my dice rolls were better than Yoshi's!

The game was a lot of fun. I managed a victory destroying two units, his mage and routing the Crossbowmen. The cards and random activation is a lot of fun.