Cathedral Rubble

Another purchase picked up a while ago, the Armorcast Cathedral Rubble 1 terrain can look great for multiple settings: Medieval, Malifaux, WW1, WW2, Warmachine...etc.

The slightly blurry photo above depicts two of the terrain pieces that were painted with dollarstore paints, flocked with GW grass and topped with Army Painter Meadow Flowers.

They make for good height terrain to block small dudes from LOS and give cover to those who are larger.

Malifaux Shifting Loyalties and Campaign Deck

At Worldcon 2015, I ordered from Wyrd during thier GENCON sale a few items. I'll review them as I build them but first is the book and campaign deck for Shifting Loyalties.

The book is the same size as the large format rulebook and Crossroads expansion and contains many interconnected short storys in the ongoing sage taking place in Malifaux.

The campaign system is uber-cool! It reminds me of the best things about other campaign systems. You start off with a crew led by a henchmen (can start with a master if everyone agrees). Through games played and weekly scenario changes, injuries, new skills, new recruits, buying a master and eventually getting them to avatar status you can play a great story based campaign. They recommend playing for a couple of months and then stopping and making a new one. Even though there are inventive ways to enable players who have lost a lot and lag behind to catch up and be equal on the battlefield, you want to start fresh once in a while.

The avatar section makes interesting boosts to your masters. Basically they make hat they do better.

There is also new model stats for the figures that will be coming out in the next year. There are not as many as the crossroads expansion but each faction will get an emissary of fate, one of the Crossroads 7 musicians and a few other models. The Guild and Neverborn get three extra with the two player new box set models.

The campaign deck is another extra that makes playing a campaign easier. There is a lot of cards in it so be careful when keeping track.

Overall an excellent addition to the Malifaux 2E lineup. Now to read all those stories!

Star Fleet Battles

There was a Star Fleet Battles tournament that was advertised in the Worldcon 2015 booklet and I thought that i'd take a look.

I played back in the early 80's but lost interest. I picked up the newer edition in the early 90's but lost interest after I moved. It is a rules intensive game but very detailed. Above is the Federation Space map which is used for the strategic game.

Unfortunatly the fellow organizing it did not have enough players so I chatted with him for a bit and admired his ships. Brought back memories.

Merlyn's Game Store in Spokane

Merlyn's is a great gamestore in the downtown area of Spokane. It has a massive tabletop area in the back, has lots of comics as well as board, miniature and card games. During my time in Spokane for Worldcon 2015, they also offered a 20% discount cupon so I picked up some Ten Thunders models, because heck knows I need more miniatures to plan my painting for the next ten years.

It also has a connecting food area beside it with a brewery, bakey, greek food and coffee place.

Ruined Hamlet by Warlord Games

The Ruined Hamlet from Warlord Games has been sitting in my primed pile for over two years now. I really like how you can make whatever configuration you want.

I chose three larger buildings and multiple ruins to make it more adaptable.

The scale is closer to 1:72 but still works. I used dollar store paints as well as GW flock and some lychen.

GW Fences and Walls

The GW Walls and Fences set is a nice basic wall terrain set. Painted using dollarstore paints.

 They are just the right scale and have two lengths.

Basius 2

When I saw the original Basius system on Kickstarter, I thought it was a good idea but limited. Then they came out with Basius 2 (kickstarter here).

Wow! What a great idea and follow through and now they are in my hands.

This is the size of one of thier blocks.

Here is the detail close up with a 30mm base for scale.

The flip side of the same base. Because they are so large, you can use various parts of it to make distinctive based for your entire range with a very small chance the same base gets repeated.

You need a healthy amount of green stuff on the base. I waited till the greenstuff was losing its tackiness. I then used water to wet the basius base and the 30mm base and pressed the two together.

Voila! Instant base!

The basius molds are also maked on the side for easy identifiaction in a bookshelf.

Another one I got was the hex mold and used a flat top Infinity base.

Looks good so far.

I'm looking forward to using these for basing new models and trading them for others friends got when we joined in on the kickstarter.

Epicast Electic Van Den Graaf Generator

From a now defunct company, Epicast, comes the electrical generator.

I painted it up with dollarstore paints and a GW Asuruman Blue wash for the blue effects. I also used a Prismacolor black pen for the lightning effects.

This terrain piece should be good for many different games.

Industrial Pipe Terrain

Here is the Industrial pipe terrain. Made by Armorcast a long time ago.

I used dollarstore paints and drybrush techniques.

Farm Accessory Set

Next for terrain is the more medieval Farm Accessory set from JR Miniatures.

 I got two sets so I can set up mega barnyard action or enough to flavor two tables. The water troughs are mostly for decoration, although they could be hindering for a half inch, but the rest is great for hard and hindering cover.

Middle East Street Median

Here is JR Miniatures Middle Eastern Street Median.

 These are good for flavor on the tabletop as they are not hazardous nor really hindering. and definitely not blocking, as seen below.

I again used dollarstore paints and basic drybrushing techniques.