tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88635385183732636802024-03-13T02:04:49.029+00:00Full Spectrum DominanceGeorge Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.comBlogger502125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-38801192891498077472018-08-17T18:09:00.003+01:002018-08-17T18:09:29.134+01:00Influence and InspirationWas the Internet worth it?<br />
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I'm not getting into anything political here. No identity politics, no grand philosophising. Pure hobby. In which case, the answer is obviously <i>yes</i>. But in what now seems an incredibly obvious statement, it has recently dawned on me how big an influence the Internet has been on my hobby life over the years, how images I have consumed and projects I have followed have stayed with me far beyond I had realised. And how many names I have forgotten...<br />
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I have recently started developing my Instagram presence (<i>georgemac0098</i>), where I have been posting some of my favourite conversions and recent paintjobs, as well as a few of my older projects with pictures taken from this blog. Following a post featuring a converted Warhammer Ghoul with a gasmask and a lasgun, a model I had converted somewhere in the region of seven years ago, I was messaged to say I should give credit to a fellow hobbyist, who had done this conversion <i>first </i>and was clearly deserving of credit.<br />
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Obviously I had not stolen his picture and reposted it for my own gain, but the fact that my conversion was an almost exact replica was enough to get this response.<br />
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At first I was taken offguard by the presumption. The original influence for this conversion, as far I remembered, was a 54mm Inquisitor model from White Dwarf back when I was a teenager, and I had tried to replicate this in 28mm. But then I pushed my mind back, to the old Portent and Warseer forums, to the original Inq28/Inquisimunda project logs, and the rough memory did come to me - this hobbyist mentioned was one of the old guard, one of the first serious Inquisimunda converters, and of course his work had been a huge influence on me! He had indeed made a conversion almost exactly the same, and it could well be that I had seen this and tried to recreate it.<br />
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The anonymity of the Internet strikes again. I trawl through project logs, Facebook images, Twitter and a huge number of other resources, looking for inspiration, but I don't pay enough attention to the names attached to the images - and so when I do my own version of what may well be their original idea, there is precious little acknowledgement. I regularly save interesting images when I'm looking through pages on my phone, but rarely do I make a note of the original poster. Harmless this may be, it is still not good form.<br />
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Nonetheless, it can be difficult to attribute things correctly. Pictures are reposted or outright stolen, old images copied and pasted a dozen times. I cannot promise I will be able to list all of my influences, especially when my phone is filled with a thousand unlabelled images, but I will certainly be trying harder in the future to give credit where it is due!<br />
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To everyone who posts their work publicly, thank you. You keep the hobby alive for us all, and inspire more conversions and sweet paintjobs than you can imagine. It is a great time for miniature wargaming, with a thousand sources for inspiration available at the touch of a button, and thank you for sharing.<br />
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Thanks for reading,<br />
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<b>THE BEASTMAN BOUNTY HUNTER ENTERS THE UNDERHIVE</b></div>
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Rant over. The Beastman Bounty Hunter was a real treat to paint, in the end, and I am happy with the result. The ochre armour was a nice change, and it was nice to try to balance the cloth, leather, armour and fur into a scheme that looks good. These photos look a little dark, but I'm very happy with how it turned out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Curiously named by an ill-educated Underhiver (he has a broken horn, not tusk), relatively little is known about the Beast-Man. His armour, in particular the campaign marking on his shoulder pad, mark him as a veteran of the Black Star Campaign, a warzone far from Necromunda where an entire world was plunged into madness and anarchy by a solar eclipse.<br /><br />The Abhuman Auxilia were thrown into the front-line of a brutal campaign against the deranged populace, and on several occasions targeted and shelled under the mistaken assumption they were servants of the Archenemy. Turok watched almost his entire herd slaughtered (most by Imperial guns), but somehow survived and became a battle-hardened killer. </i></td></tr>
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GeorgeGeorge Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-64823823228267928082018-08-03T20:23:00.002+01:002018-08-03T20:40:01.504+01:00Warblind<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<b>OBLIGATORY NURGLE LORD CONVERSION! </b></div>
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Another special conversion for my Necromunda collection, this Lord of Nurgle is an old model I have had for some time, rebased and touched up for my Venator gang. The original model was going to be used for Inquisimunda or something similar, which is why it features the Inquisitorial =I= on the armour, but now I think it will feature in my Bounty Hunter gang. </div>
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In my head, this conversion was always inspired by the description of the "Warblind" from Dan Abnett's book Pariah. The Warblind were veterans of an ancient war, kept alive by their combat implants and bionics but driven insane by the horrors they had witnessed. Tolerated and left to fend for themselves in abandoned parts of the city, the protagonist of the novel has a couple of experiences with a particular Warblind, and there is a great twist at the end I won't reveal. </div>
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I took much from that as influence for this model, as well as the host of other conversions people have done with this model. My own conversion is relatively light, and adds a penitent touch with the back banner and the purity seals. A holstered pistol shows this is not a mindless killing machine, but still a ruined, battle-ravaged soul who will never be able to return to civil society. </div>
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Thanks for reading,<br />
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GeorgeGeorge Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-42522010620278126062018-07-22T21:20:00.002+01:002018-07-22T21:20:23.822+01:00Mechanicus Reclaimator<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b> ALL NECROMUNDA, ALL THE TIME</b><br />
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Another addition for my Necromunda collection, this week sees my custom Bounty Hunter "<i>The Reclaimator</i>" added to the field, along with his macabre familiar. The original model is the Drakoath Chieftain who first appeared in Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower, and the inspiration came from a similar conversion I first saw on Facebook. This model was a long time coming - I think the conversion was done some time in January but I was distracted painting other things and never had the guts to get on with it - I was nervous about messing it up! </div>
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This ended a few weeks ago, as I reached capacity and finished painting all the Goliath gangers I own, then bashed out a few Bounty Hunters and Hired Scum. With no more excuses, I got on with it, and despite my trepidation enjoyed painting this model a lot more than I expected! Painting plastic is a joy compared to resin sometimes, and added to that I had complete creative control - my other Scum were often based off the Forgeworld Studio paint schemes (<i>or at least could be compared to them</i>) and this added pressure. </div>
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I concentrated on making the model feel old and battered, with cloth highlighted almost to pure grey, and no hugely bright colours aside from the glowing plasma pistol. I wanted the scheme to feel washed out, relying on a few key points on the model to pop - the aforementioned gun, the bones, the verdigris on the metal. </div>
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Once I was happy with him, I came across an old conversion I had made some years ago, when Inquisimunda (<i>or Inq28 as it is now</i>) was something I was looking to get into. A hideous floating familiar converted from the plastic Wraith model was something I knew I had to refurbish and get onto the Necromunda table, and this seemed like a good excuse to give the Reclaimator a friend. The cloth was quickly painted in the same washed out red as the Bounty Hunter, and it was given a Necromunda base. Now I have the perfect counts-as Servo-Skull for my Bounty Hunter, a tallyman who keeps records for the Techpriest-gone-rogue and floats about freaking people out. </div>
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I think both models work well as a pair, but they're also strong conversions and paintjobs that can stand alone. Here's some more pictures and flavour text - all credit to Dark Heresy for the initial descriptions of a Reclaimator.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>Reclaimators are the the most-skilled and certainly least trusted of the Adeptus Mechanicus' minor ranks of Tech-priests. It is their task to redeem raw materials from old and damaged systems, to scavenge parts and be tasked with the endless cycle of minor repairs needed to keep a starship flying or a hive city’s infrastructure from collapsing under its own weight. By necessity, a Reclaimator’s skills begin to stray into a higher understanding of machinery and technology than most of their brethren and many learn to worship the Machine God in a fragmentary and superstitious manner, marking them apart from their fellows. Reclaimators themselves are often sent into dangerous or unsafe areas with little direct supervision, and they scavenge and salvage a good deal more than their masters know. As a result, most Reclaimators have a well-deserved reputation as suspicious, shifty characters who sell their skills and the items they retrieve or repair for a good profit on the Imperial black market. Many have links to criminal gangs and more than a few are willing to resort to robbery and even murder to build up their spoils if they think they can get away with it.</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Technology is a thing little understood in the Imperium of the late 41st Millennium and its workings lie shrouded in mystery and superstition for most of humanity. The Adeptus Mechanicus holds undisputed rights to the secret lore of science and technology, but the Tech-priests themselves are comparably few in number when set against the teeming billions of the Hive Worlds or even the isolated crews of starships plying the void. Such people rely on technological infrastructure in great profusion simply to live, be it a hive water-recyk system or a ship’s thermal heaters. The ongoing low-grade maintenance of such petty systems, along with the day-to-day workings of the more sophisticated parts of a manufactora’s machinery and the like, are left to an army of technomats, functionaries, duct-crawlers, voidwalkers and work-prefects gifted by their Mechanicus masters with just sufficient knowledge to perform their tasks with due deference and supplication to the Machine Spirits and nothing more. Of this disparate group, arguably the most skilled and certainly least trusted are the Reclaimators.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>In the Calixis Sector, Reclaimators are common in the reaches of the hive cities of Scintilla, Malfi and other worlds, as well as on the great Chartist vessels and numerous small trader ships. Despite their vital purpose, however, they rarely enjoy a good reputation, although in some places their ill-renown is more deserved than others. In the depth of the Sibellus underhive, it is well organised networks of Hereteks and "reks" that are the real power behind the infamous narcogangs. On war-ravaged Tranch, the men and women who make up the numerous Reclaimator scav-packs that prowl the ruins are often little more than murderous bandits weighed down by dead men’s plunder and broken trinket-fetishes. Among the Void Born it is no different; the wreaker crews of breaker-ships and junkers are considered untrustworthy and accursed of their kind and the void families tell dark stories of death-scows, haunted vessels filled with scavengers driven to cannibalism and madness by want or by uncovering something best left alone in their desire for valuable salvage.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The nightmarish hive world of Necromunda is a little different, for the immense manufactora are dominated by the Houses and the Gangs. The Adeptus Mechanicus is a less obtrusive presence, usually happy to monitor from afar. Nonetheless, there are times the Mechanicus must intervene or deploy their agents on missions of importance. The wandering Bounty Hunter known as the Reclaimator may well be one of these priests; his mission long forgotten or his presence in the underhive the result of some schism or exile. It is obvious from his appearance that this creature is no longer a Tech-priest in any traditional sense, but has been driven feral by his time in the hellish tunnels of Hive Primus. Less of a shifty scavenger looking to make a profit, this servant of the Machine God has learned to hunt and kill to survive, and grown a taste for it.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Clad in scraps of red cloth now supplemented with scavenged armour plating, furs and other feral trappings, the Reclaimator strikes a fearsome appearance. He carries an array of weapons; a valuable plasma pistol, an immense arquebus of unknown origin, a three-fingered power claw and a simple knife.</i> <i>His original mission may well have been to recover lost technologies and keep things running in the depths of the underhive, but this seems to have been overtaken by a desire to hunt. Nonetheless, part of his agreed payment is always the bionics and other mechanical enhancements his targets may carry.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Reclaimator rarely speaks, preferring to operate alone, but has been seen with a strange floating familiar on a number of occasions. This deformed creature appears to be constantly muttering, dictating what it sees to a quill-armed servo-skull hardplugged directly into its brain. Agreements and contracts with employers, tallies of kills, technologies recovered and chance encounters are all recorded. Some say the servitor-creature has been with the Reclaimator since he first came to the underhive, and just as the Tech-priest has devolved and been forced to adapt to his surroundings, so the servitor creature has degraded until it is this malformed creature hidden under tattered robes. All agree that its appearance and constant, low muttering disturbing</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The creature cannot write anymore - or perhaps never could - so dictates directly to the scribe-skull hardplugged into its skull</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A rolling record of everything it witnesses is endlessly written over - who knows what use the Reclaimator has for this information? Knowledge is power...</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The servitor-creature can usually be seen accompanying the Reclaimator, but not always. It is not known where the Reclaimator has claimed as his base or resting place, or if he even needs to sleep</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Perhaps the Goliath gangers would consider hiring him?</i></td></tr>
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<br />George Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-60922526287508260742018-07-18T10:24:00.000+01:002018-07-23T21:05:11.664+01:00Titans of House Goliath<b>CHAMPIONS AND MY LEADER FOR NECROMUNDA - MORE DETAIL</b><br />
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Shown here are three of the Champions and the Leader for my current Necromunda gang, the Rust Belt Overlords of House Goliath. There's a little colour text under each picture - all of these "achievements" were from the campaign I am playing in at the moment (<i>my first in N17!</i>). The 'Belters have acquitted themselves very well in the tunnels of HB-111, winning the majority of their games and getting a reputation as the gang not to mess with.</div>
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I do not know how much longer we will be playing this campaign, and I definitely have my eyes on the next gang to be released - House Cawdor. If I do shift allegiances in the future, I will keep the Goliaths ready as an NPC gang to help out - I enjoy playing and painting them far too much to just retire!</div>
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The three Champions were named the Zayas "brothers" in my head, as they all use the same body and head - I guess I really like this particular shouting face! Maybe they're not blood-related, but the vats that House Goliath use to enhance and grow their subjects resulted in a handful of guys who look a bit <i>too </i>similar? Whatever the reason, I think they all look really cool, and even with the involved conversion for the servo-harness done for the Leader, I'm not sure which one is my favourite. Currently... Gunnar. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-weight: normal;">Gunnar Zayas, first of the Zayas brothers to venture down into the lost dome HB-111. Mentally unstable after numerous brain traumas induced by combat-stimms, he has carved a brutal reputation through the Underhive as a mad butcher, famously destroying a rogue Excavaion automata in single combat, cutting down several hideous mutant-hybrid Aberrants and hobbling the Suicide Kings gang of House Cawdor </i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Guthrum Zayas, youngest of the brothers and probably the sanest. He carries a pair of chainaxes with which he famously cut down the leader of the Dancing Claws gang of House Escher</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Gregor Zayas, another of the 'Belters drug-crazed enforcers. He too carries an industrial rocksaw, which crippled the leader of the Tombstone Mining Corps. of House Orlock, and cut down a swathe of the Lurking Darkness, a warp-cult festering deep in the Underhive</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Overlord of the Rust Belt, Loghar Khotari is the master of the 'Belters and rules with several iron fists. His many injuries across a lifetime of gang warfare have been overcome with a metallic servo-harness fused to his very bones. The guns attached to this frame are deadly, but he prefers to kill with his bare hands; beating the enemy to a pulp and breaking bones in a horrific show of force</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The servo-harness came at great expense for House Goliath, but they are generous benefactors to those who bring them glory</i></td></tr>
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George Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-18595476538994962242018-07-15T09:26:00.001+01:002018-07-15T09:26:03.353+01:00Hired Guns<b>SCUM CONTINUE TO POUR INTO THE UNDERHIVE</b><br />
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<a name='more'></a>A couple of weeks ago I revealed my first few non-Goliath models for Necromunda, which included Yolanda Skorn, ex-Escher Bounty Hunter, and my loathsome Ghoul conversion (both of which are shown in the picture above). Since that time I have been busy, first with an annual family holiday, and then busy painting more Bounty Hunters, Hired Guns and Scum! I am aiming to have a good number of non-gang affiliated fighters painted up soon, and these are the start! One day I might even run them as a Venator gang.<br />
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This week, I can show off three more models - the remaining two offerings from the Forgeworld scum set, and a third converted from one of Joker's Clowns from the Batman miniature game. More to follow!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>"</i>Mad Dog" Mono - Longshoreman and one of the most detailed 28mm models I can remember painting - so many different layers of cloth, armour and straps! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the model I tend to test all the different scales from different ranges against - as you can see he is a little bit smaller than my Goliath Champion Gunnar!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grub Targeson AKA "Lumpy Nox" - like Mad Dog before him, I followed the colour scheme used by the Forgeworld team very closely. His skin is a big paler, and his tunic/coat a little browner, but otherwise he is very close. It was nice to use a lot of colours I do not often choose, like the purple and red on the weapon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unnamed (<i>at this stage!</i>) Scum - I painted the trousers in a prison orange, giving the impression of a recently escaped prisoner, or some kind of Penal Legionnaire. Since taking this picture I have improved some of the skin around the armpits and orange belt loops - more pictures to follow!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hired Guns as they stand - some bigger guys on the way like Gor Half-Horn himself! </td></tr>
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GeorgeGeorge Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-14595427771603380662018-07-13T21:13:00.002+01:002018-07-13T21:13:14.351+01:00Totem<b>THE GANG RELIC FOR NECROMUNDA</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Necromunda, certain missions require an objective of sorts for the opposing gang to sabotage, steal or desecrate. This is often referred to as the Totem or Relic. For the Rust Belt Overlords, my massive Goliath gang, I modeled a special Relic using an appropriate marker from Blood Bowl, some razorwire, skulls, and a massive number of spare weapons gathered from my Bitz Box</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The result can be seen here! I painted it in neutral, weathered metallics - all the guns silver, with a touch of rust on the razorwire and some of the debris under the guns. A copper pipe with sickly green sludge dripping from it finished the piece</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The piece is a little bigger than a ganger, and is modeled on top of the Initiative marker found in the Necromunda starter box - roughly 50mm wide</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The clenched fist may be a symbol of House Orlock, but some of the fluff behind my gang and some early campaign games saw them smashing Orlocks, so I figured it was a looted prize, along with the guns and smashed skulls of old foes - note that none of the skulls are complete! All are fractured or cracked in some way</td></tr>
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GeorgeGeorge Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-74242821425308445462018-07-05T08:34:00.001+01:002018-07-05T08:34:48.111+01:00The New Scum<b>TWO NEW HIRED GUNS FOR NECROMUNDA</b><br />
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This week, two more models for Necromunda, and blessedly not more Goliath gangers! I have finally started making progress on the Hired Guns and general scum I have collected and built recently - totalling almost enough for a whole Venator gang now! </div>
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The first is an ex-House Escher Hired Scum, who was painted in almost exactly the same scheme as the Studio model from Forgeworld. I kept her hair one colour rather than the Harley Quinn-style red and blue as I wanted the model to have a more limited palette, and promptly ignored that when I ran a green glaze down her Stiletto Knife - some form of poison no doubt! </div>
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This model was tough after the relatively large and simple Goliaths, and features a lot of different materials. The hair, skin, facecloth, loincloth, yellow armour, red cloth, gun holster and black leather was the just the start, before even considering the metals! Looking at the finished model I am vey happy with the result, but a little concerned with the bright verdigris-style green on the base. This may have been one colour too many...</div>
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The second Hired Gun is a converted Ghoul with a Lasgun and respirator-clad head from the Imperial Guard vehicle accessory sprue. I wanted a wasted, wretch of a man, barely clothed and clutching an ancient weapon.</div>
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The skin was washed with reds and yellows to give a sickly tone and highlight his scars and deformaties, while the free hand was painted to be bloodied and burned, like the lasgun had malfunctioned or had injured himself somehow. </div>
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Overall I am satisfied with the result, though the massive blown-up pictures shown on this blog do highlight every little mistake with the painting! It has been a long time since I have painted a model like this, and was good to try it again. </div>
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GeorgeGeorge Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-57727471969561306362018-06-03T17:57:00.000+01:002018-07-22T21:21:03.798+01:00The Doctor Is Sin<i><b>"I don't believe that man has ever been to medicae school..." </b></i><br />
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<a name='more'></a>My Necromunda projects continue - this time, while taking a break from painting Goliath gangers, I worked out a quick conversion for a Rogue Doctor. Inspired by a Dr. Zoidberg conversion found on the Necromunda Worldwide Facebook group, I swapped out the head and arm from a Poxwalker for some gribbly Genestealer Cult parts. No other work necessary!<br />
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I went for an orange/red scheme on the skin to keep the model away from too many Genestealer influences, and also look a bit more like Dr. Zoidberg. A grey/white labcoat, still relatively clean, was a nice contrast. </div>
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So far, he has somehow managed to save two of my gangers and kill (<i>for good!</i>) another, so it's a worthwhile investment. I still don't think I'd trust him near any of my friends and family...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYfGm5f6MCR5s3Zm4Nt1XAPxOnWxZCj4G9DgCVlM-u0iYCDcj-LltgEXVERHiLF-Wwg50wqsaffpQDs2U_Zoy_9WFsdu0gtHyLkNlInLONpZzFfSSkvYNSLGsj91fFxyMecdLU38uTYpRa/s1600/IMG_8032.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1473" data-original-width="1600" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYfGm5f6MCR5s3Zm4Nt1XAPxOnWxZCj4G9DgCVlM-u0iYCDcj-LltgEXVERHiLF-Wwg50wqsaffpQDs2U_Zoy_9WFsdu0gtHyLkNlInLONpZzFfSSkvYNSLGsj91fFxyMecdLU38uTYpRa/s640/IMG_8032.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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GeorgeGeorge Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-91275000815741858502018-05-30T16:12:00.000+01:002018-07-13T22:13:03.608+01:00Big Guy<b>A BRUTAL OGRYN JOINS THE RUST BELT OVERLORDS</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This mighty Ogryn Rharg was taken from the Fighting Pits and now works for Loghar Khotari and the Rust Belt Overlords</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rharg still believes his master is the long-dead Pitmaster, and that the 'Belters are just looking after him until his master returns</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Loghar regularly beats him into submission when he asks to many questions, but dares not reveal the truth that his original master is dead</i></td></tr>
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GeorgeGeorge Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-91069856004881094852018-05-28T19:46:00.000+01:002018-07-13T22:11:10.952+01:00Mud Bath<b>A SPECIAL ADDITION FOR THE FARMERS IN GUILDBALL</b><br />
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Taking a break from Necromunda, this week I have painted a special model for my Good Friend Ben. It was his birthday recently, and he asked me to paint this up for him. I was happy to oblige! </div>
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This is the first time I have painted the Guildball plastics, and I was pleasantly surprised. The detail is crisp and there are no massive mould lines or anything like that. I decided to go for a traditional scheme and make the pig very, very pink. The scheme looks a little flat at the moment, but I think when Ben adds the tufts and grass it will really pop! </div>
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I have no idea what this model does in Guildball as I have never played, but I hope it brings Ben and his Farmers some luck.<br />
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GeorgeGeorge Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-24507374492227429312018-05-26T18:54:00.000+01:002018-07-13T22:09:59.971+01:00Power Loader<b>SOMETHING LARGER FOR NECROMUNDA</b><br />
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<a name='more'></a>First up I must apologise for the lack of posts this month - I have been refurbishing my new home and it has been quite time consuming! Any hobby time I have had has been put into playing games of Necromunda and Dropfleet Commander, and painting. There has been no time for taking photos and writing. Hopefully this will improve soon, as I have a new home with a larger gaming area, and after next week should have the Internet sorted to get back to posting!<br />
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In the mean time I thought I would show off a project recently dug out of my hobby trash pile and given a new lease of life... the Power Loader.<br />
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Some years ago I made a conversion for a Warhammer 40,000 Ripley in a giant Power Loader, converted from a Grey Knight Dreadknight with the arms of the Sentinel Load Lifter (<i>now sadly discontinued I think</i>). The model was really cool but I was never happy with the Ripley conversion, and in the end the model was left in hobby limbo, half painted, for probably ten years.<br />
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Last month Gang War Three was released for Necromunda, no doubt one of the best supplements for the game so far, and alongside a host of new rules, there was the scenario Archaeo Hunters. Gangs must fight to control a giant automata, and use it to open the Vault to get the archaeotech treasure within. My mind was suddenly drawn back to the Power Loader... could I retrofit it and make it suddenly useful for our campaign?<br />
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Digging out the old conversion I replaced the Ripley conversion (<i>which was decidedly amateur</i>) with a servitor from the bits box and added a few more pipes, then got to painting. The base was painted to match my Goliath gang, while the model itself retained the Aliens-themed Power Loader colour scheme, albeit with some Warhammer flourishes. A couple of purity seals and transfers tied it to the Mechanicus, while the chevrons added the Necromunda touch.<br />
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Ultimately it is a very large piece of kit - standing far taller than the Ambot automata Forgeworld will be releasing. Nonetheless, it is a centrepiece for the Archaeo Hunters scenario and a great piece of terrain for my planned Sector Mechanicus board. It has already featured in one of my campaign games - brutally shot with a krak grenade and then ripped apart by my Champion with his Renderiser and stimm-slug stash. Hopefully next time it will be a touch more fearsome!<br />
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Into the darkest depths of the Underhive come the Rust Belt Overlords, titans of House Goliath and rulers of Gallow's Deep. </div>
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Helmawr's Chasm, The Pit, The Drop - Ventilation Shaft Alpha-1138 has a dozen different names, all dependent on House and history as much as where the hiver stands within the gaping hole. It is the meeting point for a hundred thousand smaller ventilation pipes and heat extractors, an immense junction that has evolved into one of the largest heat run-off shafts of Hive Primus. It extends from the surface of the Hive Proper to the deepest levels of the Underhive, so large it can be seen from the air as a deep wound in the side of the Hive. The crevices and hollows along the inside are inhabited, like the wall of some deep-sea trench. </div>
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Those closest to the surface live and work as any law-abiding members of the Hive - maintaining the nest of pipes and ductways that run into the shaft, or travelling to nearby factorums. The further down you go, the harsher and more desperate life becomes. There people eke out some form of life surviving off the scraps that fall from above, utilising the heat and meagre light that runs through the shaft to grow what food they can, and working to assist those who would use it as a quick means to descend into the Underhive. They do not help those who wish to climb out. </div>
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Like a festering wound riven with maggots, the Deep bustles with activity. Maintenance teams working around and within the shaft observe people of all Houses and all walks of life taking the risky drop down as a quick route into the Underhive, while traders bring their goods down to the lower levels where prying eyes cannot reach, bypassing legal complications and checkpoints by dropping directly into the lower levels in bizarre crawling contraptions, or aerial skimmers of incredible value. From below, the light of the sky above attracts all manner of underground dwellers, curious or hungry, desperate to escape or eager to trade. The Chasm is an access point to the Underhive, brutally steep and requiring specialist gear to traverse, but crucially, ignored by the authorities for reasons of their own. </div>
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As with any settlement or realm beyond the light of the Imperium, there are those who would use their own strength to dominate and control. Gangs and other, more monstrous creatures fight constantly throughout the Deep. For decades the majority of the lower levels lay under the brutal control of House Cawdor, and some believe this is where it took its name - under their direction dozens of "sinners" were hanged over the edges of the pit, thrown to dangle as a warning of the wages of sin. </div>
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Others believe that the name came from millennia past, when the Hive was barely a city. What would become Gallow's Deep was used as a place of execution, and as the city grew ever upwards the gallows were kept in use. The bodies of criminals and heretics were left hanging over this great drop before being unceremoniously dropped - some obscure fashion of the time or idiosyncratic wish of the Governor. In time the executions would be relocated, the open space repurposed into an immense junction to help regulate the temperature of the Hive, but the name endured. Those inclined to superstition speak ill of the bottom of the pit; millennia of executions have forever tainted the ground below them. Others mock this and say the stench of death is just the reek of the Sump carrying up with the run-off heat. </div>
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<b>The Rust Belt</b></div>
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Gallow's Deep was constructed over millennia, growing up with the Hive around it. Like the stratified layers of an ice core, the ages of the city are visible on the inside of the shaft; different materials used, fashions of the time indicated by decoration and architecture. The various "ring-levels" can also be marked by differences in weathering and degradation across ten thousand years. One of the most obviously visible layers is the Rust Belt. </div>
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Ring-levels 43-45, deep below the surface of the Hive, were built millennia past from less than ideal materials. Impure irons have suffered from exposure to the toxic atmosphere of Necromunda, leaving the metal skin oxidised, rusted and stained. Looking down the length of the Deep, one can see the ring-levels as an orange blemish running around the circumference of the shaft. Dubbed the Rust Belt, it is one of the lawless levels beyond the reach of the Palatine Enforcers, and the home of the Rust Belt Overlords. </div>
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The Rust Belt sits at the border between the Underhive and the city itself, and is marked as the point where traders and travelers should <i>stop </i>their descent. Below the Belt lies the broken, twisted horror of the Underhive; collapsed spars and wreckage impassable for any aerial vehicles. Below that, the sickly filth of the Sump, gurgling and bubbling, spewing foulness upwards. Slathering, eyeless beasts crawl forth toward the heat and light of the Chasm, while greed and desperation drives many to attack the riches of the Belt - those who rule there can never sleep without an eye open and a gun close to hand. </div>
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The gang known as the Rust Belt Overlords (<i>or 'Belters</i>) have ruled the ring-levels for several years now, long enough to reckoned as a permanent fixture of the Deep by its blighted denizens. Their territory extends outward from the ring in a haphazard sprawl, dictated by the broken tunnels and collapsed domes that surround it, but the Belt has always been their true source of power. </div>
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The Deep itself is hellish, exposed to the toxic atmosphere of the planet, scoured by wind and stifling with the heat that rises up through it. Nonetheless, for those willing to brave the volatile conditions it is one of the fastest routes up or down the length of the Hive and a prime route for all manner of legitimate and illegitimate trade. The Rust Belt sits at the mouth of the Underhive, and the 'Belters that control it tithe all manner of travel and commerce that passes through. </div>
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The heat is nothing compared to the furnaces of their House, and their position is well defended from all sides. Attack from the surrounding territories must penetrate a warren of tunnels and half-collapsed ducts, where the brutal power of the 'Belters becomes evident at close range, while those who try to use the Well itself must contend with both the incredible heat and the metre-thick armour plating, shuttered access points and reinforced bulkheads - slick with condensation and defended by a host of enraged gangers. </div>
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Their is no fixed point of command for the Rust Belt - the gangers know to move constantly around the ring so as not to present a static target. They have the numbers to man the various checkpoints and access ways throughout, and the firepower to shoot from one side of the Chasm to the other should the need arise.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Their armour is pitted and rusted, marked with warning chevrons and spikes</i></td></tr>
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Like many of House Goliath, the 'Belters favour brutal weaponry and unsubtle tactics. Stubguns and Stub Cannons are a preferred gun of choice, the sheer concussive force of this weapon good for forcing enemies back over the edges of the Pit. In honour of their surroundings, their armour is pitted and rusted, while their hair is styled into orange mohawks. There is a predilection for combat drugs and stimulants to a disturbing degree, and their leader has recruited many members that other gangs might consider somewhat <i>unstable</i>.<br />
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The membership of the gang tends to be split between the rational and the "mad dogs," crazed enforcers of the Overlords armed with vicious melee weapons and pumped with horrific cocktails of combat drugs. So long as the more cogent keep control, business continues as usual, but there have always been "<i>incidents</i>."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Grendel is an abomination of gargantuan proportions. Some say he is the son of a Space Marine, others that his mother was injected with growth-stimms while still pregnant. None speak these rumours within earshot</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Horror in the Underhive - Gunnar Zayas charges down the walkway toward his next victim</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Gregor Zayas unleashes his Rock Saw</i></td></tr>
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Their current leader is Loghar Khotari, who rules the Belt through fear and sheer brute strength, as is the Goliath way. He is supported by a network of lieutenants and the aforementioned "mad dog" enforcers, but is not shy from delving into the tunnels himself and blocking a corridor with his own stimm-enhanced bulk. He achieved his role through violent challenge, and no doubt will lose it the same way, but for now he is the undisputed tyrant of the Rust Belt Overlords.<br />
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Given the success and strength of the 'Belters, splinter-groups are often sent out into the Underhive beyond, expanding the reach of Loghar and House Goliath. Not all have returned in triumph, or returned at all, but some have gone on to success and furthered the reputation of Overlords across the city. When word reached the Rust Belt of new territories revealed by the Hive Quake, Loghar unleashed a handful of his trusted gangers under the command of the savage Zayas brothers, each a violent killer infamous for their pit-fighting prowess.<br />
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They would bring the power of the Rust Belt Overlords to the depths of the Underhive, in the search of the mythical Hab-Dome 111...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Loghar Khotari, leader of the Rust Belt Overlords</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The brutal Zayas brothers</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Loghar has suffered brutal injuries across a long career in the Underhive, and his frame is now supplemented with an implanted servo-harness drilled into his very bones</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Through half-collapsed tunnels and flooded chambers, the road to the hidden archaeotech lies open for the denizens of the Underhive. The journey will be difficult, the prize beyond imagination - but is anything truly as it appears?</i></td></tr>
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<br />George Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-3267382204539096132018-05-02T20:46:00.000+01:002018-05-17T12:36:21.945+01:00Midlands Maelstrom 2018 - Dropfleet Commander Tournament Report<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a name='more'></a><b>PREPARATION AND THE TOURNAMENT</b><br />
This weekend saw Adam and myself head up to the wilds of Worcester for our second <b>Midlands Maelstrom Dropfleet Commander Tournament</b>, a grand affair run by the guys from the <a href="https://scannersoffline.com/"><span style="color: red;"><b>Scanners Offline</b></span></a> podcast - and one of the biggest, if not the biggest, Dropfleet Commander tournament of the year so far. It may be a horrendous car journey north, but we'd enjoyed ourselves a great deal last year and those guys came down to our tournament, so we could only keep up appearances!<br />
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Arranging the weekend was a bit of a struggle, as Adam initially could not make it and he is my driver. I had managed to trick a friend (<i>Good Friend Ben</i>) into taking up Dropfleet Commander, teaching him how to play and making him drive up there, but ultimately Adam pulled some strings around the same time Ben regretfully dropped out due to family commitments. George and Adam heading to another tournament as usual then!<br />
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After the <b>Battle for Tlalacon</b>, I had decided to return to my beloved UCM. Scourge were a lot of fun but I enjoy the character of the UCM a lot more... and I love Burnthrough Lasers. Adam would be running his usual Shaltari shenanigans.<br />
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We had played a good number of games with the <a href="http://redwarsoc.com/"><span style="color: red;"><b>Redditch Wargaming Society</b></span></a>'s special Errata and new Tournament Pack, which were a nice twist on the old rulebook missions. They certainly made UCM feel a little better with the improvements to the <i>San Francisco</i>-class Troopship and the <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes, while the enhanced scoring for <i>Critical Locations</i> made the space game feel more important. I think Adam and I managed five or six practice games between the Maelstrom and the Battle for Tlalacon, and I actually managed to win one of them! They were a lot of fun and I should probably get round to offering a more in-depth consideration when I have the time.<br />
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One thing that should be noted is that the final score for each player would be influenced by how well their opponents did over the weekend - bonus points for each win your three opponents scored in their other games. This was called the <b>Strength of Schedule</b>, and something debated by a lot of community as a leveller given the difference in experience within the relatively small Dropfleet Commander tournament scene. It had been looked at after our Battle for Tlalacon tournament, and the organisers of the Maelstrom had wanted to give it a go. You can see how it affected the final results in the Results section below.<br />
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Onto the tournament itself...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My pair of <i>Avalon</i>-class Battlecruisers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wolf Pack - thee <i>Taipei</i>-class Missile Frigates</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four <i>Poole</i>-class Fast Insertion Strike Ships and a <i>Seattle</i>-class Carrier</td></tr>
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<b>THE LIST</b><br />
<b>Carrier Group Cervantes</b><br />
<i>Six Launch Assets</i><br />
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<b>Vanguard Battle Group - SR11</b><br />
<i>Avalon</i>-class Battlecruiser (<i>Level Three Admiral incl. bonus</i>)<br />
<i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carrier<br />
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<b>Vanguard Battle Group - SR11</b><br />
<i>Avalon</i>-class Battlecruiser<br />
<i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carrier<br />
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<b>Line Battle Group - SR12</b><br />
<i>Seattle</i>-class Carrier<br />
<i>San Francisco-</i>class Troopship<br />
Two <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers<br />
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<b>Line Battle Group - SR9</b><br />
<i>Seattle</i>-class Carrier<br />
Four <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers<br />
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<b>Pathfinder Battle Group - SR4</b><br />
Four <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes<br />
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<b>Pathfinder Battle Group - SR3</b><br />
Three <i>Taipei</i>-class Missile Frigates<br />
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This list was an evolution of my fleet for <b>Fleet Muster II</b>, where I had run a pair of <i>Avalon</i>-class Battlecruisers with ten Strike Carriers and no Troopships, and a pair of <i>Jakarta</i>-class Aegis Frigates. This time I had dropped a number of Strike Carriers and taken a <i>San Francisco</i>-class Troopship as well as an extra <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvette (<i>I had wanted at least five...</i>) and replaced the <i>Jakarta</i>-class Aegis Frigates with a pair of <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers to bring the number back up to eight.<br />
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In composition it now looked like something between the list run for the last Midlands Maelstrom and Fleet Muster II. I enjoyed running this list, even if it had suffered (<i>as usual</i>) in my practice games against Adam. I had tried running a list without any <i>Seattle</i>-class Carriers, instead running even more Burnthrough Lasers with <i>New Cairo</i>-class Light Cruisers or a pair of <i>Berlin</i>-class Cruisers, but they had underperformed. <i>Seattle</i>-class Carriers would bring a little more flexibility and a pair of good Mass Drivers.<br />
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Aims for the weekend were to be a little more cautious with my Battlecruisers and <i>Taipei</i>-class Missile Frigates - all too often I had thrown them forward and lost them far too early. I would also have to be patient with the Troopship and learn the value of <i>Silent Running</i> even when I could be dropping - better to keep it alive and in the right place than lose it on Turn Two.<br />
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<b>GAME ONE</b><br />
<b>Refused Flank versus Will's UCM</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fleet moves in two groups against their foe</td></tr>
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The first match was drawn through some form of Seeding against Will of <b>Scanners Offline</b> fame, and his extreme UCM fleet. He was running a <i>Beijing</i>-class Battleship with a pair of <i>Lima</i>-class Detector Frigates, a <i>Moscow</i>-class Heavy Cruiser with a pair of <i>Lima</i>-class Detector Frigates, a second <i>Moscow</i>-class Heavy Cruiser, one <i>Rio</i>-class Cruiser with three <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers and two Battle Groups of six <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes. Very, very aggressive, with no Launch and virtually no Drop! The mission would allow for this, however, as the Clusters were fairly sparse and far apart.<br />
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The game was extremely cagey at the start, as we both advanced with <i>Silent Running</i> and our <i>Active Scanning</i> failed to reveal our chosen targets. In the shadow of the moon Will deployed his flagship and the Corvettes against one of my Carriers, a Battlecruiser and a large number of Strike Carriers. Following them up, I sent in my own Corvettes and the Missile Frigate squadron.<br />
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I tried to deal with the massed squadrons of <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes by first unleashing my <i>Avalon</i>-class Battlecruiser and then following up with the <i>Taipei</i>-class Missile Frigates and my <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes, using the advantage of their low <i>Strategy Rating</i>. A key Command Card scuppered my Alpha Strike as the enemy <i>Santiagos </i>leapt forward to all but obliterate my <i>Taipei </i>squadron, while the <i>Beijing </i>went <i>Weapons Free</i> to cripple my <i>Seattle</i>-class Carrier on that flank.<br />
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Fire from the survivors destroyed several of the enemy Corvettes and my Battlecruiser started attacking the enemy Battleship, hurting it before it finished the <i>Seattle</i>-class Carrier. As it died, a massive chain reaction of <i>Reactor Explosions </i>finished all of his Corvettes, my last <i>Taipei</i>-class Missile Frigate, three of my <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers and took four Hull Points off both my Battlecruiser and his Battleship. Carnage!<br />
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This left us both in a weak position behind the moon, especially after my Battlecruiser was crippled and suffered <i>Weapons Offline</i>. Unable to finish the Battleship, which was now down to three Hull Points, I could not stop him finishing the Battlecruiser and claiming the <i>Critical Location</i>. I contested the other one and denied either of us any points, while on the ground we were both holding our respective Clusters.<br />
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The loss of my <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers here in the freak explosion meant I could not threaten his Cluster, while the sky above was a mess following the chain explosion and the crucial <i>Crippling Table</i> result.<br />
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On the other side of the board, my own flagship (<i>the second Avalon-class Battlecruiser</i>), the other <i>Seattle</i>-class Carrier and the <i>San Francisco</i>-class Troopship took on the two <i>Moscow</i>-class Heavy Cruisers and the <i>Rio</i>-class Cruiser. Several key moves saw the enemy ships destroyed, the last <i>Moscow </i>finished by my own <i>Santiagos </i>sweeping in from the flank, but I was unable to secure the opposing <i>Critical Location</i> as my flagship was sacrificed and my other ships had been forced to stay back above my Cluster.<br />
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The game ended with my UCM winning by a handful of <i>Objective Points</i>, securing the Space Station and running even on <i>Critical Locations</i>, but his advantage in <i>Kill Points</i> left it a <b>10 - 10 DRAW</b>. What a bloody mess! So many ships destroyed by <i>Catastrophic Damage</i> explosions. Will's fleet was impressively shooty, making up for the lack of Drop with sheer firepower, and over the course of the game a lot of fun results and unexpected <i>Reactor Explosions</i> threw both of our plans out of the window. A key <i>Taking The Initiative</i> card cost me the starboard flank, but equally a <i>Reactor Explosion</i> took out his entire fleet of <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes. Unexpected results like that happened throughout the game, and it was really one of the most unpredictable, fun games I've had in a long time. Kudos to Will for a great game and a well-deserved Draw.<br />
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<b>GAME TWO</b><br />
<b>Station Assault versus Hector's Scourge</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>UCMS Rocinante</b></i> feels the heat as the plasma storm engulfs it</td></tr>
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My second game was drawn against another new opponent, Hector and his insanely aggressive Scourge fleet. Hector was running an <i>Akuma</i>-class Battlecruiser, two pairs of two <i>Wyvern</i>-class Cruisers, a pair of <i>Chimera</i>-class Troopships, a <i>Chimera</i>-class Troopship with three <i>Nickar</i>-class Corvettes and a <i>Gargoyle</i>-class Strike Carrier, and another set of three <i>Nickar</i>-class Corvettes with some more <i>Gargoyle</i>-class Strike Carriers.<br />
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I do not have a good record with Station Assault, but figured I could work against the Scourge with good rolls... somehow. The important thing was to secure the troops on the stations, as Hector's Troopships would be easy targets. He sent his <i>Wyverns </i>and <i>Akuma </i>down the middle with the Corvettes and a handful of Strike Carriers, while the paired Troopships and another Strike Carrier went down my starboard flank. Against this flanking force, I deployed three Strike Carriers and my <i>Taipei</i>-class Missile Frigates, who Hector misjudged and allowed to get in close with the Troopships. In a pair of stunning Activations they destroyed both of the Troopships, then caused a massive chain reaction that claimed Hector's Strike Carrier, one of my own Strike Carriers and a pair of <i>Taipeis</i>. Ouch! At this point I could not stop him holding the starboard Space Station as he had already achieved a good amount of Drop onto it, but my ships could lurk and secure the <i>Critical Location</i>.<br />
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In the centre, I sacrificed my <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes early to take the bite out of the <i>Nickar</i>-class Corvettes. My Battlecruisers and Carriers marched up the centre, targeting the third <i>Chimera </i>before shooting the <i>Wyverns </i>in the centre of the board and trying to flush out the <i>Akuma</i>. I foolishly split my fire and fluffed a lot of rolls with my Bombers, and though I did manage to destroy the third <i>Chimera </i>and almost finish one of the <i>Wyvern</i>-class Cruiser squadrons, he launched a counter-attack that destroyed most of my main fleet.<br />
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The bloody combat that swirled around the centre saw the <i>Wyverns </i>dominate with their plasma storms, and my fleet was mauled. Nonetheless, I had secured two of the <i>Critical Locations</i> and held three of the five Space Stations with troops on Turn Four. In the closing moments of the game he managed to wrestle back one of the <i>Critical Locations </i>with a pair of badly damaged <i>Wyverns</i>, but it was not enough and despite his <i>Kill Point</i> advantage, the game ended a <b>12 - 8 VICTORY</b>.<br />
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Hector was undone by crucially missing the three <i>Taipei</i>-class Missile Frigates that took out most of his Drop capacity, and lost points on not holding the Space Stations. I should have played better with the distribution of my shots, but they were choices that felt right at the time and would have paid off if the dice had been good.<br />
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Once again an opponent running a fleet very heavy on firepower and utterly lacking in Launch - if my own Launch had been able to roll better I'm sure it would have felt worse for Hector. He had a lot of Drop, but concentrated in <i>Chimera</i>-class Troopships that I managed to take out of the game quick enough to secure my victory. Another great game against a new opponent, one I hope he enjoyed as much as I did.<br />
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<b>GAME THREE</b><br />
<b>Line Breaker versus Adam D's UCM</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Killfrenzy </b></i>comes in to offer its own brand of support</td></tr>
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The last game of the day was drawn against Adam and his UCM - not my common opponent Adam thankfully. This Adam was running a pretty threatening list; one <i>Avalon</i>-class Battlecruiser, one <i>Johannesburg</i>-class Battlecruiser, a pair of <i>Berlin</i>-class Cruisers with five <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes, a <i>San Francisco</i>-class Troopship with three <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers, one <i>San Francisco</i>-class Troopship with two <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers, and a funky little Battle Group with one <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carrier, one <i>Jakarta</i>-class Aegis Frigate and one <i>Lima</i>-class Detector Frigate.<br />
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It was a tasty list, with a lot of firepower and a lot of Drop, but relatively little Launch and quite large Battle Groups - my smaller Battle Groups would appreciate that, especially given the mission.<br />
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Line Breaker is an interesting scenario given the line that runs down the centre of the board, interfering with all High Orbit interactions. It was a personal favourite, and one of the only missions I had beaten my friend Adam at in the past year. My tactic was to use <i>Silent Running</i> to approach, split his fleet and then spring my trap and launch over the line, driving through debris if needed to take the initiative.<br />
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The plan worked well. Adam sent his Troopships and Strike Carriers to the corners of the board, while his heavy Battlecruisers and Cruiser squadron advanced cautiously down the centre. On the port-flank his Troopship and three Strike Carriers were pounced upon by my <i>Taipei</i>-class Missile Frigates, who had used their low Strategy Rating to first cripple the enemy <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes before ripping apart the Troopship. My own Corvettes then shredded the three <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers and finished the enemy Corvettes.<br />
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In the other corner, my Strike Carriers and Troopship were supported by a backup <i>Rio</i>-class Cruiser from a perfectly-timed Command Card, represented by the infamous <i><b>Killfrenzy</b></i>. It took them all game, but they secured the large Cluster and eventually destroyed the enemy Troopship - this was one tough beast!<br />
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The centre of the board saw more violence as the enemy Battlecruisers and Cruisers took on my Battlecruisers and Carriers. I crossed the line first, though it cost me one of my Battlecruisers in the process - crazily I forgot I was holding a <i>Taking The Initiative</i> Command Card and it was immolated without firing a shot. This Card came in useful later though, as the <i>Seattle</i>-class Carriers and my flagship took out all four of the enemy capital ships. My flagship was destroyed in the process, but the wounded <i>Seattle</i>-class Carriers smashed through the wreckage, destroyed the last enemy vessels and secured the <i>Critical Locations</i>. Launch really came to play a big role here, and I was surprised at how effective it was in clearing the last stragglers.<br />
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As the debris settled into a stable orbit we counted the cost, and my UCM fleet had come out on top - with the full <i>Kill Point</i> bonus and significant points in <i>Critical Locations</i> and on the ground, it was a <b>16 - 4 VICTORY</b>. Nice! A great way to end the tournament.<br />
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Adam played well and it never felt comfortable, but some crucial rolls went against him and my Strategic flexibility gave me an advantage in the early turns. Crossing the line first and scoring some important hits first really helped, knocking the enemy UCM back to a point they could not recover from.<br />
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<b>RESULTS</b><br />
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One draw, one minor win and a big win put me in a good position, and with the bonus from <i>Strength of Schedule</i> I finished <b>FOURTH</b>. Nice! On pure <i>Tournament Points </i>I had finished a good few ahead of Chris Rogers and his Scourge, but his opponents were more successful and the bonus points there pushed him to Third. I did finish second on <i>Kill Points</i> and achieve Best in Faction for UCM - a second win for this since Fleet Muster II - feels pretty good to maintain that.<br />
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My colleague Adam finished Second (<i>again, Strength of Schedule pushing the overall winner Charlie over him</i>). Well done to him - personally I'm gutted as he said he would retire the Shaltari if he won, but I think he will be going back to PHR for a while now anyway.<br />
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It was... interesting to see the top two players were both running Shaltari, with very similar lists!<br />
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<b>CONCLUSIONS</b><br />
I had a great time at the Midland's Maelstrom - three fun games with opponents I had not played before, some good results and an overall strong feeling from the whole weekend of relaxed professionalism. The games were well organised and there was a good timetable that allowed me plenty of time between games to relax, find some food and buy some new models (<i>mainly for Necromunda, I must admit...</i>).<br />
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The UCM felt fine to run, but then I did not have to face any Shaltari or PHR. My opponents fielded some interesting fleets with some unconventional choices that made the games very interesting - from the outrageous firepower from Will, the close action horror of Hector and the wall of cruiser-hulls from Adam D.<br />
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Most of the fleets focused more on firepower than Drop, perhaps due to the increased value of Critical Locations for this tournament, and the new Scenarios relative lower number of Clusters. I also only faced one opponent with any Launch Assets - Adam D and his three from the <i>Johannesburg</i>-class Battlecruiser. This made the <i>Seattle</i>-class Carriers feel <i>very </i>comfortable, though they did not achieve a huge amount in my second game against the Scourge due to poor dice. I'm not sure where this meta-shift came from - by contrast I looked positively old school with my fleet of <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers and pair of Carriers. Perhaps this was just a fluke of my draw - both Will and Hector admitted their lists were a little unusual.<br />
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I learned a couple of things that I had been playing wrong in the past - the <i>Aegis </i>rule was clarified, and the true HP value for some of the Sectors was discovered, which would make my games with a Adam somewhat different in the future.<br />
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Going forward it is difficult to to imagine playing without the new Destroyers involved somehow - game changers for a lot of people in how they will be running their fleets. With that in mind, it makes it difficult to say what I have learned from the tournament and what I would change if I could, given that the Destroyers will be appearing in my lists for at least the next few games. Perhaps a <i>Jakarta </i>instead of a <i>New Orleans</i> here or there. There are certainly a few things I would like to try with my Scourge fleet now, and some fun ideas with UCM from Will and Adam D, but ultimately I think the list I ran was great and would be happy to keep it as it was.<br />
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We will see when the next tournament comes along... nothing planned at the moment as we cannot make it to the UK Games Expo, but we hold out hope for TTCon in the Autumn.<br />
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Overall a great set of games and a great result - another excellent Midlands Maelstrom from the Redditch Wargaming Society - well done Matt and JJ!<br />
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I will post some further thoughts on the RedWarSoc special Experimental Tournament Pack when I have the chance... watch this space.<br />
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<b>THOUGHTS ON THE EXPERIMENTAL RULES</b><br />
It is honestly difficult for me to judge the Experimental Rules that were run throughout this tournament, as Adam and I have been playing with them for nearly three months now, and would have to give serious thought to NOT using them for our own tournaments. I'll give it a shot though.<br />
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Looking over the UCM changes, my main experience during this tournament was the strength of giving <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes Calibre (<i>Light</i>), the Linking of all UF-4200 turrets and the bonuses to the <i>San Francisco</i>-class Troopship.<br />
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Starting with the latter, the <i>San Francisco</i>-class Troopship is now worth taking and not a massive, wasteful points sink. The weaponry boost is minor, but enough to give it some teeth and help out the its more violent brethren, and no longer feels like an empty activation. Perhaps something should be done to make the <i>Chimera</i>-class Troopship a little more competitive now, but I've honestly never felt the same level of disdain for it as I have the <i>San Francisco</i>. A lot of the UCM players at the tournament were running two, though usually not in the same Battle Group so it is difficult to see if massed Close Action weaponry would cause a problem. I doubt many UCM players would run two together with the express purpose of massed Close Action, so don't consider it a problem.<br />
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The Linking of all the smaller UF-4200 turrets is a nice change and boosts the <i>San Francisco </i>and <i>Madrid </i>without overtly affecting the other ships in the fleet. One aspect that has come up, however, the Command Card <i>Gunnery Masters</i>. This allows an <i>Avalon</i>-class Battlecruiser to fire it's mega-laser and <i>eight </i>additional shots from the turrets, even on a Special Order like <i>Course Change</i>, as it has UF-4200 turrets with four shots each. It's situational, but powerful when I was running two of them! This occurred twice during the tournament and helped immeasurably, but I wonder if the RedWarSoc guys had come across this combination.<br />
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Lastly the change to the Corvettes made them worth taking. End of. I destroyed a large number of enemy Strike Carriers and Corvettes, and, outside of the tournament, this change has helped me ravage enemy Frigates and Destroyers. It was telling that Will of the RedWarSoc group was running two Battle Groups of six!<br />
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I feel this change makes them perhaps too reliable, and also boosts them in space far more than perhaps it should. I have certainly considered running more than one squadron, and had good success with a large number of <i>Nickar</i>-class Corvettes in the recent past. If I was to recommend anything here it would be to make the Calibre (<i>L</i>) only come into play when the ship and the target is in Atmosphere. Still great for hunting Strike Carriers and Corvettes, but not so hot for destroying enemy Light squadrons in space.<br />
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<b>PICTURES</b><br />
Some of my favourite pictures from Matt and JJ showing off the games and painted fleets on display!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gaming area was divided into two rows of tables</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ten individual mats made the tables all feel unique</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up as the UCM engage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ian's subtle Scourge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shaltari unleash hell on their Scourge opponent</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adam's Shaltari secure their second big win</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bold colour scheme for the UCM</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adam's Shaltari again causing havoc</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adam played all three of his games on the Top Table... yuck</td></tr>
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There's been a big rise in these kind of kits where you get a minimal amount of MDF which you use to surround a pringles tube or drink can and here's another one from <b>Epsolon Industries</b>.<br />
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Things like this are good fun to paint as they're quick (<i>with an airbrush</i>) and you can slap the weathering on. I like the size a lot as it's big enough to take using an airbrush without having to be really really careful, but small enough that it's not a massive ballache.<br />
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Recently I've been making good in-roads into bring my painting backlog under control, but the terrain side has remained static. So, for the next few months I'm going to attempt to get back to my old pattern of one mini, one piece of terrain, and we'll see how it goes.<br />
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I've never used a Warcor because I've not got around to painting one, however I have been on the receiving end of their super annoying <i>Flash Pulses</i>, forcing me to burn Orders. So it's about time I got one painted... however this Warcor is not for me.</div>
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This is the second model I've painted as prize support for our local tournament SCTS, which is held at Lvlup in Bournemouth. I quite enjoy the SCTSs that have been held in the past and it's great to see familiar faces turn up, especially the guys who make a big effort to come over from Cornwall. </div>
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This model wasn't one of my favourite to paint, there's so many bits to paint, bags, belts, leg things... I threw the three colours rule out of the window and picked up whatever I felt like putting on at the time.</div>
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Well, I hope you like him, I really do need to paint one for myself to use as they are valuable pieces.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>The other weekend just I attended the <b>War of the Worlds VII</b> tournament held at IBuyWargames in Woking. The format was escalation over three missions - 200pts <b>Transmission Matrix</b>, 300pts <b>Looting and Sabotaging</b>, and 400pts <b>Biotechvore</b>.<br />
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Three of us represented the Bournemouth crew, a veteran Tohaa player and an ever-faithfu ISS player.<br />
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We arrived nice and early (<i>too early</i>), to set up three tables of terrain including my own brightly painted set of Warsenal buildings and Warmill roadway with Antenocitis Workshop vehicles. I'm acutely aware of the downsides of the table I set up - really long fire lanes that favour sniper positions, which is why I don't usually offer to bring it unless really needed. It is an issue I intend to address, but there's so much I want to do, and so little time to do it. I know there was a bit of grumbling about the table on the day, so to those people I apologise, I will continue to not offer it up until I can get some los blocking ad signs attached to the roadway, which should help with movement across the board.<br />
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<b>Round One - 200pts Transmission Matrix</b><br />
I had an awesome opponent using my old nemesis... Corregidor. Well, Corregidor on paper, because when he arrived at the shop he realised he'd left his army bag at home... doh. The TO cobbled together a bunch of models and we took full advantage of the proxy rules. I'm glad that I'm vaguely familiar with Corregidor as otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue what was going on.<br />
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I won the Lt. WIP off, and chose sides. The terrain was such that I think my side had a favourable set up. My opponent agreed with my assessment after the game, and chose to go second.<br />
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With no targets to shoot at, I spent Orders pushing my Myrmidon Link Team up to secure the central objective. I also got to take on the Designated Target with my Data Tracker, which felt odd as my <i>Classified Objective</i> included having to do things to the HVT (<i>something's not quite right there</i>). As luck would have it, my opponent rolled a critical for the Dodge roll and I spent further a three Orders on my Myrmidon Officer chasing down this blasted Designated Target (<i>my own Go-Go Marlene</i>). That left me with a single Order to consolidate and get ready for the counter attack.<br />
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This was essentially a McMurrough-fest. Using smoke to protect himself from my <i>Total Reaction </i>Rebot's <i>HMG</i>, McMurrough took on the Myrmidon Link Team. I tried Dodging, engaging and shooting back, but three of my four Myrmidons fell, leaving the central objective clear. Then McMurrough turned to face my TR Remote and <i>Flash Pulse</i>-equipped Remote. Somehow the <i>Flash Pulse </i>bot passed its Dodge roll and the TR bot passed its armour save whilst taking a wound off McMurder. With two Orders left, McMurder moved one more time to place his danged double <i>Chain Rifle </i>template over the <i>Flash Pulse</i> bot, TR <i>HMG </i>bot and the helper bot sat behind waiting to fix things up. Somehow the <i>Flash Pulse</i> bot survived... hooray. The TR bot went double <i>Unconscious </i>as did the helper bot (<i>rats, the engineer was too far to try and fix things up</i>), but McMurrough was finally dead.<br />
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With his last Order, my opponent moved his Intruder with <i>Combi-Rifle</i> over to the central objective in order to secure some point but risking a shot from my remaining Myrmidon with <i>Chain Rifle</i>. I lost the Myrmidon to <i>Combi-Rifle</i> shots (<i>screw you MSVL2</i>), but his sacrifice was worth it, as the <i>Chain Rifle</i> put the Intruder down... leaving that central objective uncontested.<br />
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4-1 to me.<br />
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In <i>Loss-of-Lieutenant</i> and only five Oerders, I burned all of my Command Tokens and turned four <i>Irregular </i>Orders in to regular Orders and sent Scylla with her Charybdis to retake the central objective. She went prone behind a box whilst the Devabot took cover ready to get its <i>Heavy Flamethrower </i>on. Not a great turn, but not much else I could do.<br />
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My opponent was also in <i>Loss-of-Lieutenant</i>... what!!! Turns out the Intruder was his Lt. This was really going to save my bacon. All the Command Tokens spent on turning <i>Irregulars </i>regular saw Senor Massacre lead his Link Team in a wide arcing flank manoeuvre to avoid the Devabot and nail Scylla dead. This left the central objective again uncontested... I think. I'm not entirely sure if I could count the Devabot in its un-connected state as securing the objective or not. I know in the past people have claimed that they can, but that seems stupid to me.<br />
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4-1 to me... still.<br />
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Four Orders plus new Lt. I spent it all on my Thorakitai <i>Engineer</i>, who ran up my right flank to take a single pot shot at the lone Jaguar on home defence duties. Massive fluke, but I took him out. Although I was too far away to claim that objective for myself, it was now uncontested, forcing my opponent to fight.</div>
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With a new Lt in place, my opponent had all the Orders. First objective, nobble my Designated Target, which he did (<i>I rolled a 12 for the Dodge grrrrr</i>). Then take out my <i>Flash Pulse</i> bot, babysitting my left hand side objective, which he did, and claimed for himself.</div>
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<b>4-5 LOSS</b>.</div>
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Wow, what a game. We were told after that we could have swapped our <i>Classified Objectives</i> for ones not involving an HVT, but honestly I can't find those rules anywhere and if I can't read it for myself then I'm not going to do it. I really enjoyed this game - I was on the back-foot after being McMurrough'd in the face, but pleased that I didn't quit and kept fighting to the end, giving my opponent lots to work around. I hope to play him again, with his real army as he was a top guy to play against, sporting, knew his stats (<i>and mine</i>), knew the rules... exactly what you want.</div>
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<b>Round Two - 300pts</b> <b>Looting and Sabotaging</b></div>
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I moved upstairs for this game, sandwiched between two boards on either side and a dude right behind me. The terrain on this board was really built up, with lots of overhanging balconies and such, which made moving your models at ground floor a little awkward. It wouldn't have been so bad if we'd had an admin area, but there you go.</div>
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My opponent this round was an Hassassin Bahram player, which I don't recall ever facing, but I know I'm going to be having <i>Camouflage </i>tokens thrust at me. My opponent won the WIP off and rightly took deployment; I elected to go first.<br />
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I wasted a couple of Orders trying to discover if Bob from Accounting was actually El Dribble (<i>Al-Dajabel</i>), but to know avail. It was time to activate plan "clobbering time". Up ran Ajax with his big fat hammer with his Myrmidon team in tow. A camo token revealed (<i>I think a Daylami</i>) and covered my team in shotgun-template goodness, I had to declare <i>Dodge </i>so all the members could benefit. Well, I lost one Myrmidon and the Officer went NWI. Ajax was unaffected as was the remaining Myrmidon. I decided to break the Link and sent Ajax on his merry way, winning the face-to-face with the Daylami and sending it <i>Unconscious</i>. Ajax continued to move towards my opponent's AC2 revealing camo tokens (<i>including mines</i>) from left, right and centre, then with my last Order, Ajax moved and swung, to take two Structure Points off the AC2. A Muttawi'ah managed to isolate Ajax with his jammer, which meant he was feeling really lonely in the danger zone all on his tod.</div>
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My opponent's <i>Impetuous </i>phase felt really really long; four Muttawi'ah and Yojimbo (<i>forgot to mention this was a Soldiers of Fortune event</i>). All aimed at Ajax, who dodged and dodged and dodged and dodged some more. I don't know how many <i>Dodge </i>rolls I made, it was ridiculous, I dodged all the chain rifle shots from Mutts, <i>Impetuous </i>and <i>Irregular</i>, I dodged fire from Yojimbo, I dodged fire from Daylami (<i>I think one might have hit and I armour rolled it</i>). By the end Ajax was alive and still in base contact with the AC2. My opponent then went after my AC2 with a Fiday in smoke. The Fiday hit the AC2 three or four times and managed a single point of damage (<i>armour 8 for the win baby</i>).</div>
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I needed that Fiday gone, so my Myrmidon Officer set about that making full utility of her <i>Boarding Shotgun</i> and <i>ODD </i>at close range. I moved the <i>To</i><i>tal Reaction</i> HMG-bot up on to the top of a building to watch over Ajax (<i>turned out LOF wasn't quite that good</i>). It took out a lone Mutt, but couldn't see anything else. Ajax pounded on the AC2, critting and doing a further point of damage to destroy the thing for good - boom objective done! Ajax had been my Data Tracker. With the tonne of fire coming in at Ajax, there was little chance of him surviving... nevermind, he'd been more than a hero. I moved a Myrmidon with <i>Chain Rifle</i> up, to be a nuisance.</div>
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My opponent set about moving El-Dribble (<i>Al-Dajabel</i>) to do further damage to my AC2, I can't quite remember the specifics, but I think he burned to a <i>Light Rocket Launcher</i> hit from an ARO'ing Thorakitai before he could damage the AC2. Then came the charge of Yojimbo, lots of smoke to protect from the nuisance Myrmidon, lots of smoke to protect from the HMG bot, boom, hit the AC2 and down it goes. However Yojimbo wasn't the <i>Data Tracker</i>, so I was just ahead.</div>
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I finished off Yojimbo from a hail of fire from my Thorakitai Link Team, then sent things to collect goodies from the panoplies. My Myrmidon Officer grabbed a <i>Flash Pulse</i>... nice, then my Dactyl <i>Engineer </i>grabbed a <i>MULTI Sniper Rifle</i>... for <i>real </i>nice. The Myrmidon Officer was at this point in Zone-of-Control of the enemy HVT... also cool.</div>
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With plenty of Orders still around and still plenty of blasted camo tokens, my opponent grabbed three things from the panoplies, each time dying to Thorakitai ARO fire... but that didn't matter as they did what they needed to do. Then came a critical moment as a camo token attempted to sneak up on my Dactyl <i>Engineer </i>and Myrmidon Officer. I declared <i>Discover </i>with them and also declared delay with my <i>Total Reaction</i> bot in case it revealed. I was really pleased with this decision. The camo token continued to move, so I rolled the discover and passed. Whatever it was shot up my Myrmidon Officer and died to a hail of fire from the <i>Total Reaction </i>bot for his efforts. Thanking my stars for <i>No Wound Incapacitation</i> on the Officer, she was still in the game and securing the HVT. With his remaining Orders my opponent stood up some dudes that were on a roof to take shots at the Myrmidon Officer; I popped <i>Eclipse Smoke</i> which worked out and meant she could no longer be shot at.</div>
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Once again a superb opponent, who could have gotten really salty with all the <i>Dodge </i>rolls I made for Ajax. Kudos to him for having a really well organised set of camo tokens all numbered up and clearly marked on his list. He played a really clean game, had a sporting attitude and once again was everything I could wish for in an opponent.<br />
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400 points really suits Steel Phalanx, with our unlimited <i>Enomotarchos </i>Link Teams and expensive units to lead them; the more points the merrier. My opponent was sporting a really nicely painted Qapu Khalqi army, with an Iguana, five-man Kaplan Link Team, an Odalisque Haris, a Druze Duo, a couple of Yuan Yuans, a <i>Total Reaction</i> <i>HMG </i>chicken bot and a Djanbazan sniper. My opponent won the WIP off and chose to go first.<br />
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I'd hidden most of my troops, except for a Thorakitai <i>HMG </i>and Thorakitai <i>Forward Observer </i>staring at the <i>Total Reaction HMG</i> chicken bot on my left and a Thorakitai <i>Feuerbach </i>staring down the Iguana. Smoke from a Yuan Yuan protected the <i>Total Reaction</i> bot's route forward and the Odalisques safely got out of the Biotechvore virus zone. The Iguana moved forward too, winning the face-to-face role against the <i>Feuerbach </i>before settling into a nice <i>Suppressing Fire </i>position. The Kaplans and Druze also moved out of the zone to safety, covering my routes in plenty of ARO opportunities. The only troops to not make it out of the Biotechvore virus zone were the Yuan Yuan's (<i>due to my command token usage</i>) but they passed the BTS save.</div>
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Oh rats! Hector and two remaining Thorakitai were covered in AROs, including the Iguana in <i>Suppressing Fire</i> and a sniper Djanbazan. I kicked things off with my other Thorakitai team led by Thrasymedes and managed to knock out first the <i>Total Reaction HMG </i>chicken bot, then using the <i>Light Rocket Launcher</i> on a pair of Odalisques... sweet opening moves. I moved one of my Myrmidon teams up to safety, then started to wonder about what to do with Hector... then it hit me and of course, so obvious. The first Myrmidon link team threw down some <i>Eclipse Smoke</i>, then my other Myrmidon team lead by Eudoros moved up the far right flank, popping even more <i>Eclipse Smoke</i>, <i>Dodging </i>some shots in the process... all hail ODD. This gave Hector and his two Thorakitai buddies all the smoke cover they needed to move forward. One of the Thorakitai couldn't make it out of the danger zone and succumbed to the virus (<i>sad face</i>). I popped Hector and a Thorakitai <i>Combi-Rifle</i> dude into <i>Suppressing Fire</i>.<br />
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I think my opponent's morale was a little broken, but he doggedly set about doing what damage he could, the remaining Druze went aggressive, but went down to AROs from Myrmidons. The remaining Kaplan tried to get some shots off but again AROs caused him to fail courage and go prone.</div>
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An <b>8-0 VICTORY</b> for me... easily my best result in a tournament setting! I was over the moon. Once again an amazing opponent to play with, knew his stuff really well, really sporting and unfortunately for him the victim of far far too many critical hits.<br />
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Two wins and one loss got me into 9th place out of 20... a new record that's for sure. I've never made top half before although I do feel like a lot of that boiled down to good dice and not skill. I'm so lucky to have had three amazing opponents that I would really enjoy playing against any day, which is another first for me. Despite a slightly cramped venue and a few awkward tables of terrain (<i>including my own</i>), I had a simply fantastic tournament experience.</div>
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I'm quite inspired to get my remaining Steel Phalanx painting finished off (<i>including Andromeda... don't, just don't</i>) and crack on with some terrain so I can feel confident about providing a good playing experience on a fully painted board.</div>
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Thanks for reading, once again epic fail on my behalf to take photos.</div>
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Here's my entry for the MasterGlass competition run by Mayacast. Given the recent release of the Druze Sectoral, the theme this round was Druze. I've had this model kicking around for a while, it's a limited edition model which I think came with the N3 Rulebook.<br />
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Choosing a colour scheme is always a daunting prospect for me. I'm not a decisive person by nature, and I'm not sure why but I decided I wanted to rip off a familiar theme from somewhere. I actually settled on Rebel pilot as my theme and was gutted when I discovered Tom (<i>of Mayacast</i>) had already done it. Not sure where the Judge Dredd theme came from, but after a little googling I was besotten... those bright greens and the blue... yes!<br />
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As the colours are vivid, I wanted to ensure I didn't desaturate them as I'm prone to do. So I kept the colour highlights subtle, with stark edge highlights. I don't know if I've overdone the edges, I think on the green maybe I did.<br />
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For the base, I tried to pay homage to the rulebook that got me this miniature. The front cover has a Hac Tao, lit from one direction in blue and from the other direction in red. I think it's amazing artwork.<br />
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As usual, I mostly hope to get some helpful feedback, Tom has given me useful thoughts in the past.<br />
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edit: having just listened the the podcast...really pleased to have earned a mention, got some great feedback...which coupled to some other feedback I've had recently (from Kujo Painting) means I need to work on painting hair.Winner Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16474948596994735061noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-63972705908800285882018-04-03T22:26:00.001+01:002018-04-03T22:26:43.041+01:00Midas' Touch - Alchemist Guild Ball Team<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<b>BEN SHOWS OFF ANOTHER TEAM</b></div>
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Ben here back with another Guild Ball update. In the last post I posted my finished Brewers team, this time I have my new Alchemist team... well, the first half of the team. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My main man, the goal scoring machine Midas</td></tr>
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Alchemists were an odd one for me, for some reason I thought I didn't like the models, really don't know why, and dismissed them as a team I'd never buy. Then I was down the local store <a href="http://entoyment.co.uk/"><b><span style="color: red;">Entoyment </span></b></a>and I was browsing as always, Pete has so much stuff in his store it's easy to spend a few hours lost in there. Anyway I started looking at the back of the original six Alchemist box and it stuck me that the renders were really nice! I mean really really nice! So nice I bought the whole team there and then and spent the evening building the team (<i>building the team was less nice.... man I love plastic models....</i>).</div>
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For colour scheme I based it off the box, but with a few twists of my own. The green is a favourite colour of mine, Vallejo's <i>Reflective Green.</i> The colour really suits my style and it's really easy, a quick black wash, re-coat <i>Reflective Green</i> and then add Vallejo <i>Buff </i>for the highlights. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mercury, he sets things on fire and has a cool beard.</td></tr>
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For the off white I used two paints from the GW range that have become staples since my return to painting, <i>Rakarth Flesh</i> and <i>Pallid Wych Flesh</i>. After a final highlight of white this makes a lovely off white.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vitriol, a slightly odd pose but quite a nice model to paint. </td></tr>
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One thing I wanted to do with this team was keep the number of colours limtied, so to this end a lot of the stand out colours are the same. The vials and the flames are all done using the same greens, I feel this works as while it's another green on an already green model, it is a very bright green to contrast with the more matt green of the uniform. </div>
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I have only got one game in so far against one of the local player Kendall's Blacksmith's in a winning effort. The most important thing I got from the game was that the team was really fun to play throwing out fire and poison templates and Midas is a goal scoring machine! Also the team plays very differently from my Farmers and Brewers playing a far more control and scoring based game over combat focus of the other two. </div>
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While Brewers were my first love, Alchemist are rapidly catching them and dare I say might surpass them soon as my go-to team? </div>
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I have started the second box having so far painted four of the players (<i>need to finishing basing them but I ran out of tufts....</i>). Just the two big guys Veteran Katylyst and Compound to go which I hope to finish before the end of March.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Smoke, Naja, Crucible and Venin were all a joy to paint - but Crucible, the girl with the green jet, was one of the worse models I have ever put together!</td></tr>
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After I finish the Alchemists next up for Guild Ball will be the Rat Catchers which are out the end of April. Before that I have a couple of other projects which I will talk about next time.<br />
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Until then, thanks for reading and it's been emotional.<br />
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Ben<br />
<br />Ben Davyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11772143949298711220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-34548374007373539832018-03-31T18:57:00.000+01:002018-03-31T18:57:14.827+01:00Agêma Marksman - MULTI Sniper Rifle<br />
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When Mayacast's Tom and Kip announced the 2017 Q4 for the Masterglass painting competition I took it as an opportunity to paint a model that's been sat around in my backlog for far too long. I'm not out to win these competitions, there's too many amazing painters that enter, but I do like to use them as an opportunity to get stuff done that I wouldn't normally choose. So I got <b>Go-Go Marlene</b> painted up, photos taken and sent in. Some of the entries were stunning, especially the dioramas. I wasn't overly happy with my entry, I do seriously thin my paints, but somehow the paint job looks a bit thick. Anyway, as part of the competition the guys do a random draw and miracle of miracles, yours truly was the winner of the random draw. So, I asked for a blister that I need to help complete my Steel Phalanx force, but was reluctant to buy as I'm not keen on the model.<br />
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Inspired by finishing my recent <i>Thorakitai</i> team, I cracked straight into this guy... the Agêma Marksman with <i>MULTI-Sniper Rifle</i>.<br />
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I quite enjoyed painting him and incorporated some slight improvements I thought about after the Thorakitai. Unfortunately, I think I really need to bin my varnish and buy some new bottles. The varnish seems to have added a slight cloudy appearance and even a bit of crackle effect, which was not there before I applied the varnish.<br />
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I really need to try out this dude in game, I really like the idea of running Atalanta, but at 39 points she's expensive and tends to die in my experience. This guy is 9 points cheaper, but 4 less BS (<i>1 BS + 3 BS for SpotBot)</i>. He's still a bit pricey to simply leave out as an ARO piece, so that makes him an Active Turn hunter... but then again nearly everything in Steel Phalanx is an Active Turn piece. I do tend to eschew long-range weaponry and that is often a mistake... so I'll give him a go, see what happens.<br />
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Thanks to Tom and Kip for their generous prize!<br />
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Hello all,<br />
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I am George's Good Friend Ben. I use to be part of this blog as George's regular Dystopian Wars opponent in the After Action Reports. As George posted back in <a href="http://fullsd.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/farmers-ball.html"><span style="color: red;"><b>November</b></span></a>, after taking a long break away from miniatures gaming to play card games I have come back! The game that brought me back was Guild Ball, to be more exact the Farmer's Plastic box set, and much like my Dystopian War and Flames of War days, I don't do things by halves. After painting the first Farmer box I quickly bought The Brewers Guild.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first half of the team I painted before Christmas I posted elsewhere </td></tr>
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I don't know why, but the Brewers were always the team that took my fancy back when I first saw Guild Ball during the Kickstarter. I think it might be that there is an element of Fandom about them, it might be the cool berets or that they have a cat, who knows for sure.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stoker is one of my favourite Brewer models and this was my first every <br />
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For the colour scheme I picked a mustard yellow backed off <i>German Ochre</i> from the Vallejo range, a colour I had learnt to use painting Flames of War Germans. This was the most time-consuming part of the model being built up from brown to yellow, although annoyingly I found a much quicker way to paint it when painting the last model....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mash was a lot of fun to paint, a really characterful model.</td></tr>
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I'm taking the Brewers to my first tournament on the 8th April, I was tempted to take Alchemist (<i>stay turned for a new post about them</i>), but I have got far more games in with the Brewers and feel I know the team better. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 2018 Ringwood Worst just waiting on the new signing Decimate to be released to finish the team.</td></tr>
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That's this team done until they release Decimate in May. I'm also tempted to pick up the rookie league version of Mash. No difference in stats outside of the Rookie league format, just a nice model.<br />
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Thanks for reading and until next time, it's been emotional,<br />
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I've just finished painting these guys for my almost nearly complete Steel Phalanx collection. The new Thorakitai sculpts are easily my most awaited release, I can't stand the old sculpts and I did not enjoy proxying my <i>Light Rocket Launcher</i> for a <i>Feuerbach</i>, so getting my hands on these was most welcome. A generous friend gave me the Nesaie Alkê model too, which is good because I did not relish the idea of spending money on that sculpt... combat pig tails anyone?<br />
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The new models were a joy to paint, Corvus Belli's new way for assembling the models is a great achievement and the scale creep makes the details just that bit crisper and therefore easier to paint. I did get caught out by my old nemesis, so there's a couple of mould lines, which is annoying.<br />
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Initial reports on the boxset had the <i>HMG</i>-toting guy as a <i>Marksman Rifle</i>, so I assumed a stand alone blister would be released for the <i>HMG</i>. This made sense to me as, that thing does not have enough ammo for an <i>HMG</i>, it needs drum mags or better yet a belt. I could do with at least one more (<i>two would be better</i>) of the <i>SMG </i>model.<br />
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In game I find a Thorakitai link team almost indispensable, being so much cheaper than their Myrmidon brothers. These guys get the work done, as long as you can hit it, there's not much that can stand up to a 3-Burst <i>Feuerbach</i>. The <i>360-Visors</i> on the <i>SMG/CR</i> guys has saved my bacon more times than I should confess. The awkward choice is always which Enomatarchos to lead them. Thrasymedes is cool, with his <i>ODD </i>and <i>LRL</i>, but he's also our only infiltrator, which makes him invaluable in that role. Nesaie is cheaper than Thras in points cost but 1.5 SWC is usually 25% of our SWC allowance... ouch.<br />
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Looking forward to having these guys on the table.<br />
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The past few weeks I have been feverishly painting up more Goliath gangers, repainting some I've not been happy with and constructing <i>even more</i> gangers. I think I now have twenty four built, but shamefully only fifteen painted! You may have seen some pictures earlier in the year, but here's how they look now as they approach the start of their first Campaign.<br />
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One of the biggest hurdles to overcome has been the bases - up until recently none of them were based. I was concerned about making the bases match with the Underhive tiles while also not blending into the rest of the model - they were already covered in rust and chevrons so there was not much to set them apart. Ultimately I am happy with the result, and though it is not a huge contrast I feel they look different enough to compliment the rest of the model. I will be adding more chevrons in the future, and an additional models I finish for the gang will all have some nice black and yellow on the base!<br />
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This gang is by no means my starting gang, it just happens to be the first fifteen models finished. Future additions will be a pair of Juves, some more basic Gangers with normal weapons, another Champion and the boss himself, my converted Gang Leader. He is a big project and I am looking forward to him especially!<br />
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Also sitting on my painting table are a gang of Bounty Hunters and Underhive Scum, and a converted force of Enforcers, my Guild-employed Magistratum. If I could paint these Goliaths a bit faster I would be cracking straight on with them! Another Necromunda project is my terrain... both 3-D and some walls for the 2-D game. As you might be able to tell, I have a problem.<br />
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On with the pictures... the <b>Rust Belt Overlords</b> ('<i>Belters</i>) out in force!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Converted <i>Flamer </i>from the Horus Heresy Forgeworld kits</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This pyromaniac is the latest addition to the gang, his face is marked with burns from a little over-enthusiasm! He is the first model with chevrons on the base, and this was an experiment that I will be continuing with future models</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Converted Ganger with punch daggers from a Blood Bowl kit - I wanted to try to make as many different close combat weapons as possible for the gang (<i>more to come currently on the painting table!</i>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first converted <i>Heavy Stubber</i>, using a Goliath <i>Grenade Launcher</i> and barrel from an Imperial Guard <i>Heavy Stubber</i> - very happy with how this guy came out! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second <i>Heavy Stubber-</i>wielding member of the gang, converted with pieces from the Genestealer Cult Neophytes. I'm probably never going to need two run two fof these, but I had the idea for the conversion and wanted to give it a go</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The big guy - who I'm still planning to use as a Juve! This model was converted from the Age of Sigmar Slaughterpriest with Goliath and Ork parts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the amount of scar tissue on his back, but it does look a lot less pink in the flesh (<i>so to speak...</i>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basic Weapons... and a <i>Heavy Stubber</i></td></tr>
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More to come soon enough, and hopefully the start of the Campaign!<br />
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Thanks for reading,<br />
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GeorgeGeorge Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06388385317574593732noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863538518373263680.post-4748957410375882732018-03-07T19:34:00.002+00:002018-03-07T19:34:29.635+00:00Centurion<b>TWO VERY DIFFERENT <i>CENTURION</i>-CLASS CRUISERS JOIN THE UCM DROPFLEET</b><br />
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<a name='more'></a>I may have been premature when I stated that the UCM fleet was finished. TTCombat must have picked up on this hubris, and have released the first new design since acquiring the Dropzone and Dropfleet Commander games; the <i>Centurion</i>-class Cruiser. This antique vessel is a relic of the pre-Fall days, the mainstay of the Terran Grand Fleet before the treachery at the Battle of Vega and the Scourge invasion, and their special Limited Edition miniature for this year.<br />
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Fluffwise it seems that a scattered handful have survived the intervening years - mothballed by the UCM and kept in their Reserves, or part of the "Remnants," scattered human fleets or individual ships that have somehow survived the decades alone and abandoned. Two new factions have been specifically mentioned - the <b>Scrapfleet of Vega</b> who emerged from the wreckage-strewn battlefield of the great Battle of Vega through sheer force-of-will, armed with a fleet scraped together from the debris, and the <b>Kalium Kabal</b>, a splinter Colony World independent from the UCM, who maintain the ancient designs of the old Earth Fleet with a desperate yet totalitarian, brutal regime.<br />
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The rules and background can be found <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0965/1274/files/Centurion_Class_Cruiser.pdf?7465248998669695855"><b><span style="color: red;">here</span></b></a>. This is the first vessel to feature a 2+ armour save - potentially a game-changer in Dropfleet! The rest of the ship is extremely solid - Hull Points to match a Heavy Cruiser, a primary weapons system with Damage 3, average speed and scan ranges. The Point Defence is a little low, but with support from <i>Jakarta</i>-class Aegis Frigates I am sure this will be a solid addition to the fleet. Divisively, it is extremely cheap - my knee-jerk impression says 125pts is an absolute bargain. More than anything I would like to see that go up.<br />
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Look and background-wise this vessel brings to mind all kinds of great sci-fi tropes to me, not least Battlestar Galactica, Reavers from Firefly, Pandorum and anything involving spaceships that have been forced to survive through great hardship, alone in the void. The Kalium Kabal evokes the attitude of the Terran Empire of the Star Trek Mirror Universe which is fun, while the Scrapfleet of Vega are probably the easiest solution for those who want to bring the Resistance into Dropfleet.<br />
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As a die-hard Resistance player in Dropzone Commander, I was bound to pick up at least one these vessels. Seeing that they can be taken as a squadron of two, I resolved to buy two and model them slightly differently. One would be painted in my usual UCM scheme as an artefact Museum ship, the other covered in spikes, scrap metal and filth. This would be a Reaver-style Remnant ship, clearly crewed by humans who have suffered a great deal in the years since the Fall, working alongside the UCM in the loosest of alliances and assigned the Museum ship as its escort.<br />
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<b>UCMS Retaliator</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>UCMS Retaliator</b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This ancient vessel still wears scars earned escaping the Cradle Worlds with pride</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrolling the debris for signs of the enemy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The immense turret is old technology - highly difficult to manufacture and maintain</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rearguard duties see the <i><b>Retaliator </b></i>escorting two Repair Vessels</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Passing a space station on manoeuvres </td></tr>
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<i><b>UCMS Retaliator</b> is a relic of a lost age, an antique preserved for the future generations of Mankind to appreciate and wonder at. For decades it has sat in orbit around the shipyards of New Carthage; first as protector, then a museum, and now, in the glorious years of the Reconquest and the horror of the Scourge counter-attack, holding the centre of Battlefleet Carthage. </i><br />
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<i>This Centurion-class Cruiser was one of the escorts for the great warship <b>Carthaginian</b>, one of the few that battled past the Scourge invasion and struck out for the Colony Worlds all those years ago. As the Carthaginian was decommissioned, dismantled and refitted into the central hub for the weapons testing facility and shipyards of New Carthage, Retaliator maintained its role as protector, and in time, was decommissioned as well. Preserved for decades as a Museum Ship, Retaliator entertained generations of children and sightseers, while the military scientists of the UCM turned their efforts to building faster, leaner and easier-to-produce vessels. </i><br />
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<i>In the wake of the Scourge counter-attack and the invasion of the Colony Worlds, Battlefleet Carthage was forced to assemble every ship they could muster; several experimental testbed ships with esoteric weaponry, outdated and outmoded Battlecruiser hulls refitted for action, and the glorious Retaliator. Months of refitting and rearming has brought this relic back to the forefront of the Reconquest, taking pride of place among her younger siblings.</i><br />
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<b>Killfrenzy</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The brutal <i><b>Killfrenzy</b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How this ravaged and ancient ship is still in one piece is a mystery</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old scars and new adorn the skin of the vessel, while brutal spike-like modifications cover the superstructure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lurking amid the debris fields</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Killfrenzy </b></i>preys on civilian vessels</td></tr>
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<i><b>Killfrenzy </b>is a different beast, twisted and corrupted almost beyond recognition. Her surface is pitted and scarred, embellished with a thousand makeshift repairs and brutal-looking spiked modifications. Once a proud vessel of the Terran Fleet, this grand cruiser's history is distressingly vague; the current, savage crew either do not remember or will not speak of it.</i><br />
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<i>The leading theories argue that she escaped or was not present at Vega, somehow evading the subjugation of the Cradle Worlds by hiding amid asteroid fields and stellar phenomena, making short jumps and preying upon isolated convoys or other Remnant vessels. It is unknown how a single vessel survived for so long, and it is generally assumed that the Killfrenzy is the last survivor of a small flotilla, kept alive and operational by scavenging her sister ships and assimilating the crews.</i><br />
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<i>Those few crew that have been glimpsed by the UCM mediators appear viciously cruel, prone to bouts of violence and macabre obsession. Their alliance with the UCM is closer to a prolonged ceasefire - these brutalised survivors have a need for foodstuffs and raw materials, weaponry, and an abiding hatred of the Alien that they can share with their fellow humans. They have the sense to see that attacking the UCM would be suicide, but to fly alongside them, to attack and take their share of the spoils - there lies a profitable future.</i><br />
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<i>Since the recovery of the Killfrenzy and its "repatriation," the vessel has been accompanied by the Retaliator into battle - the only vessel with the corresponding outdated communications arrays and a signature that the feral crew trust. The Retaliator's role is to monitor and guide this berserker, watching the flanks and adding her significant firepower. Observation of this ancient vessel fighting alongside Battlefleet Carthage would see it treated like a vicious, half-rabid attack dog, unmuzzled and thrown into the enemy.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A rear view shows the difference in their engine maintenance!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The vicious <i><b>Killfrenzy </b></i>is kept in check by the <i><b>UCMS Retaliator</b></i>, dissuaded from chasing a civilian transport ship</td></tr>
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<b>PRACTICE GAMES</b><br />
After ordering a pair each, Adam and I decided to give them a run. He had also ordered a pair for his PHR fleet (<i>something I have not really touched on above - yes they can be taken by the PHR as well!</i>), so the first game I would use my UCM against his Shaltari with a pair of them, while Adam would play the following game with his PHR against my Scourge fleet.<br />
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My list was altered to accommodate them, taking my tournament list from Fleet Muster II and dropping the second <i>Avalon</i>-class Battlecruiser and two <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers for a pair of <i>Centurion</i>-class Cruisers. This would give me the points to increase my Corvette squadron up to five, which was nice. This was a bold choice, but the alternative was to lose the Corvettes, something I did not want to do given how useful they have been against Shaltari in the past. The fleet would also pack a lot of firepower and solid Launch capacity.<br />
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<i>Avalon</i>-class Battlecruiser (<i>Admiral Level 3</i>)<br />
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Two <i>Centurion</i>-class Cruisers<br />
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<i>Seattle</i>-class Fleet Carrier<br />
Four <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers<br />
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<i>Seattle</i>-class Fleet Carrier<br />
Four <i>New Orleans</i>-class Strike Carriers<br />
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Five <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes<br />
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Three <i>Taipei</i>-class Missile Frigates<br />
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We rolled for the scenario and went for <b>Grid Control</b>, "<i>the one with the Orbital Guns</i>," and Column approach. I dislike Column approach with this particular fleet - something always has to be sacrificed for the Third Turn, and it usually ends up being my Admiral.<br />
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Adam was running a vicious Shaltari fleet lead by the <i>Platinum</i>-class Fleet Carrier, featuring three Motherships with nine Gates, a <i>Basalt</i>-class Carrier, <i>Obsidian</i>-class Heavy Cruiser and six <i>Topaz</i>-class Frigates. The Heavy Cruiser was packing the nasty Particle Lance, while the amount of Launch was going to cause a lot of trouble.<br />
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The game started badly after some initial deployments as the <i>Taipei</i>-class Frigates were obliterated by the <i>Platinum</i>-class Fleet Carrier jumping ahead with a <i>Quick Thinking</i> Command Card. My fleet began to target his flagship as it bore down on them, but with shields up the power of the <i>Centurions </i>was stymied, and a <i>Launch Chaff</i> card saved him from my <i>Avalon</i>-class Battlecruiser.<br />
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Eventually the Fleet Carrier was destroyed, taking the full firepower of the entire UCM fleet over several turns, but by then it was too late and the Shaltari were overrunning my position. Taking so long to destroy it had meant Adam had free reign to deploy waves of Bombers that brought down my <i>Seattle</i>-class Carriers and the <i>Avalon</i>, before they turned on the <i>Centurions </i>in the final two turns.<br />
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Turn Four scoring Adam had the advantage in the centre and was winning by four points; by Turn Six he had capitalised on this, smashed my fleet and won a convincing <b>5 - 15</b>. Highlights were the five <i>Santiago</i>-class Corvettes taking down two Voidgates, crippling a Mothership, finishing the <i>Platinum</i>-class Fleet Carrier and generally annoying the Shaltari. The rest of the fleet generally underperformed.<br />
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The <i>Centurion</i>-class Cruisers did... fine. They were tanks against non-Critical attacks - I think they suffered one hit in total from a failed armour save. The issue was how many Critical Hits and Particle weapon attacks Adam poured into them. The <i>Centurion's</i> amazing weapons did cause damage, but as the Shaltari had their Shields up it was largely for naught. A few better rolls and a few less Command Cards from the Shaltari and this could have been a different result, but I think the power of the <i>Centurions </i>was largely mitigated by the strengths of this particular Shaltari fleet.<br />
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The second practise game was meant to be a reverse - Adam running PHR and I running my relatively inexperienced Scourge.Ultimately the game did not go ahead when we had expected as Adam had work issues, but hopefully we will be having a few more soon now we have them in our hands!<br />
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I believe Adam is working on modifying his to look more "PHR" - I look forward to seeing that one!<br />
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Thanks for reading,<br />
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<a name='more'></a>This is only the second Infinity miniature I've bought simply because I liked the model. The other is Tarik Mansuri, although he remains unpainted.<br />
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Because of my World War Two wargaming background, I'm comfortable with the amount of time and effort painting camouflage takes - in fact I don't find it to be much longer than a plain colour as there's less highlighting and shading to do.<br />
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I wanted a nice worn look to the black, I'm quite pleased with the effect on the material items (<i>face mask and boots</i>), but not really happy with the flat areas (<i>forearm armour and knife sheath</i>).<br />
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It seems tactical rocks are here to stay, so figured I'd embrace it.<br />
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So, this miniature is going up for prize support at the next SCTS event, which I think is in June. Ideally I'd like it to go for the most-sporting player. That may be controversial and ultimately I'll leave it in the TO's capable hands. I just felt I wanted to contribute in someway to the Infinity community. Will I do more...I don't know, it might depend on how well this goes down.<br />
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Feedback is welcome!<br />
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Thanks for reading,<br />
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DaveWinner Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16474948596994735061noreply@blogger.com1