Markers for Miniature Games

Since Malifaux 2e came out, I wanted to make markers and counters for the game. That way it would eliminate any confusion with who has what condition or counter.

 I started with these wooden disks, from a Canadian company in Nova Scotia called Bear Woods.

They make disks and things of all kinds. I got them for historical miniature gaming but never applied them. They are almost 30mm (one inch) and perfectly fine for what I want. These disks were in my Malifaux 2.0 beta markers and scenery post here.

 I did not find a woodburning kit used but bought it new at Michaels during one of their 40% off one item sales. The one I purchased had a variety of heads, variable temperature for different materials.

 I made a token for my classic Dark Eldar miniatures. I will also use this method for making Space Marine tokens for their Tactical, Assault and Support tokens. I realized after I did it that it would not look good after painting and that I had to do the painting first.

 I purchased some more dollar store paints and made these tokens for Malifaux 2e, using a felt pen. I used a felt pen as I was running a demo at Curious Comics Too Gamecentral! and needed to get them done in a hurry. I made a bunch of flippable Guild and Neverborn Scheme markers (if two gangs of the same factions play against one another), a bunch of flippable claim markers, corpse and scrap tokens, flippable defense and focus counters, five squat counters with flippable "mine" and "not yours" tokens that go on top of it, and one turf counter. I now have all the tokens I need for playing and shared strategies.

After revisiting the Bear Woods page, I realized that the better sized tokens to use would be the one and one-eight sized for 30mm, one and a half for 40mm, and two inch for 50mm. It also makes me realize I could use the larger one for Warmachine wreck markers and anything else I need that size for.

Malifaux 2E Rulebook and Wave 2 Beta

 

The Malifaux 2E rulebook, from Wyrd Games, is out and I and my friends are exited. Its 284 pages in length and soft cover. Lets take a look inside.

The rules are well laid out and flow much better than the previous rulebooks (1 and mini 1.1 rulebooks). The basic rules are forty pages in length, standard encounters are eighteen pages, and story encounters fifteen. I will endeavor to make markers in the upcoming few weeks and post the results.

At one hundred and eighty-one pages are the different factions: Guild, Arcanist, Resurrectionists, Neverborn, Ten Thunders, Gremlins and Outcasts. They include the faction masters, totems, henchmen, minions and peons. New models not yet seen have rules in this section but many that have models out now are not in the book. Wave 2 of playtesting is on now for all remaining models, with downloadable rules and cards available here.

Masters are not as powerful as they once were but with low soulstone cost, they can get the abilities you know and love. The cards you see in the rulebook are also available in playing card size in the new Arsenal decks for each faction. They retail around $8 each and what is in them can be seen here (just click on the faction box and it will have the list of cards).

Gremlins have been moved to their own faction and if the models look like the pictures, they will be a lot of fun. I especially like the "drunken gremlin kung-fu style" and Kin factions.

A great new product for Wyrd Miniatures that will bring a whole new group to play this fantastic miniatures game.

Basing Dystopian Wars Land Forces

I was wondering how I would base my Dystopian Wars land forces when I decided to just do what I do for my Cygnar Warmachine figs.

 You Saw my brown bases before.

 Then I used the new textured GW Stirland Mud paint on the back for tread marks. It was not as course I would have hoped but I did use it on the bottom of the tanks for good wear effects. I then used dollar store craft glue to cover everything else and flocked GW gravel. This I let dry for a day.

Finally I painted spots of dollar store glue and flocked GW grass on it. Quick and effective.

Lamposts

Its October and you know what time of year that is! No, not Halloween....Christmas! Therefore its time for the Christmas villiage stuff to come out and show us inexpensive pre-painted terrain.

 At Dollar Tree, they have a four pack of lamposts for $1.25.

They fit well for 28mm miniatures so I picked up two packs.

I'll be keeping an eye out for more Christmas terrain in the weeks to come.

Interactivity and Curious Too Gamecentral! are Open

As posted earlier, two gamestores have opened in Victoria in the last 30 days. Interactivity and Curious Too Gamecentral!

Now I have to be honest, Interactivity has been in Victoria since the late 1990's. Its first location was a very small shop on Fort street on the outside of, then, the Eaton's Center. It then moved across the street until just over a month ago. It now is on 723 Yates street in a very much larger location. It has dedicated tables in the back for renting games to play and a very big wall of board games. They also sell very nice puzzles. I've been buying games from Jack, the owner, since it opened way back and his recommendations are solid. He also has open game nights Thursday and Sunday. He also hopes to get his Health license soon to sell coffee and sandwiches.

Curious Too Gamecentral! is located on 1319 Broad street, just down the block from thier comic and collectable store, and have a good selection of role playing, board and miniature games (Warmachine/Hordes, Malifaux and Flames of War). They have a small area in the back for playing these games and have a warmahordes journeyman's league starting very soon and hope to have more events. Andrew, the head manager, is great guy and can offer suggestions and hints.

Both stores can order what they do not have in stock.

Background Histories and Paint Schemes for my Space Marines

Some game systems lend themselves to letting the players make their own backgrounds and paint schemes. It was what drew me to tabletop gaming in the first place with Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40k line of models. Depending on what I bought and scrounge up used, it would drive the background I created for my armies. In other game systems, like Dystopian Wars or Warmachine, the background is standard while it is the paint scheme that can be unique. Looking through my old documents on 40k, I was reminded of the fun I had creating a history. Examples of this were the two Space Marine chapters I created, the “Translocation Rangers” and the “Antediluvian Crimson Order of the Emperor’s Machinations”.

The Translocation Rangers were thought up with the 4^th edition of the codex, because I liked bikes, scouts, terminators and land speeders but did not want Dark Angels because of their dark background. The idea of a lone group of space marines gathering intelligence on the universe and disseminating it to the Imperium sounded really cool. I thought a brown base with green shoulder and knee pads suited them and only got as far as some Tactical Marines and a bike being painted before I focused back on my Necrons (my first 40k army). That and the cheap paint I used looked horrible.

After the 5th edition codex came out, I looked at my four dreadnaughts and Techmarines and came up with the Crimson Order. With the Master of the Forge rule, I came up with a background of remnants of Space Marine chapters defending Mars and uncovering a heretical worshippers of the Dragon God, one of the four remaining C’Tan. After their victory over the heretics they were given chapter status and fight heretics and xenos throughout the Imperium. They believe that because the Emperor is sustained by machines then to be closer to the emperor they must also be sustained by them. Very similar to the Iron Hands but different, although the new 6+ invulnerability Chapter Tactics is a nice touch for warrior models in the 6^th edition of the codex. I envisioned my army being filled in the Elite and Heavy sections with five dreadnaughts, Master of the forge with servitors in a razorback, a Thunderfire launcher, and three squads of troops for around 2000 points. As seen in the picture, their color scheme would be dark reds with a cog on their shoulder pad as a symbol of their chapter. I made one model before I focused on more Orks.

As I dig out my Space Marines and begin to buckle down to make an Ultramarine army, I still fondly remember the armies that might have been. Why am I choosing Ultramarines? The consistency and recognisability of the Ultramarines appeal to one side of me. This does not mean that I should not make them unique, which I will do by individualizing each model in slight ways. Look to this blog for further posts as I assemble and paint them.

Reconstruction Complete!

All links have been fixed and search words re-entered. Now onto more models, games and posts!

Lost Doctor Who Episodes found!

In Ethiopia, 106 Lost Doctor Who episodes have been found. Perfect timing for this years 50th anniversary of the science-fiction TV character.

Prussian Empire Armored Battle Group

In Spartan Games' Dystopian Wars, the Prussian Empire are heavily armored, excellent assaulter troops and utilize Tesla technology to keep enemies from getting too close. The Armored Battle group comes with what you see in the photo, plus templates and counters like the Britannia starter box.

Primed black with drybrushed two parts P3 Cold Steel and one part P3 Frostbite. I drybrushed a little too heavily so it looks different than my Sea starter.

Then a little P3 Trollblood Highlight lightly drybrushed on the models.

P3 Rhulic Gold

P3 Black

P3 Cold Steel

P3 Arcane Blue for the windows

 GW Badab Black wash then a little GW Dwarf Bronze drybrushed on the gold parts. Here is the Landship

 The bombards.

 The tanks.

The small tanks. 

Now onto basing the Britannia and Prussian tanks!

Links and Searches in Construction

When I portaged everything gaming related over from my Gollygeegosh blog, it did not port over my links and search words. Please be patient as I will be fixing this over the next week.