Marauder Warband for Deadzone

I've been sitting on these for a while now in a state of near completion, with my first post on these from a year and a half ago!  In the mean time they were sent off for painting, returned and then sat on my shelf.  However as I'm currently trying to get my various half finished projects up to date and I have an urge to get some games of Deadzone in I decided to finally get these finished up this weekend (along with re-painting the bases of my Plague force to better match up to how I'll be basing my Deadzone/Warpath forces and doing some repairs on my primed Enforces how are now on the painting table).

What I asked for with the paint scheme was early WWII German uniform with Uruk-Hai skin tones, darker for the bigger creatures and more red for the Goblins.  The idea behind this was I wanted a force that looked like a crack military unit rather than the more comical approach Orcs/Orks tend to receive these days and I think it has worked out pretty well.  For my part I added the odd highlight here and things like the energy lights, grit and grime, blood work and the basing, just things to finish them off.  I'm really happy with how these turned out and I'm looking forward to getting them onto the table for a few games (maybe even a campaign).

Forces of Nature: Giant Owl, Pan and Treelings

A quick update on Amy's Forces of Nature army, first up we have a Giant Owl and a Giant Faun or Pan miniature.  The Owl is from Otherworld miniatures while Pan is an old Harlequin Doctor Who miniature (which she wanted after seeing one in my DW collection):

Next up we have some Treelings or Dryads from Foundry:

Coming up next from Amy will be a Forest Troll I believe.

Kingdom Death: Monster

Around a month ago we finally made the choice to start playing Kingdom Death: Monster after the arrival of the 1.5 version of the game (even though we backed the first Kickstarter campaign).  What can I say, we've never gamed this much before, it's horrendously difficult and unforgiving and oh so addictive.  The world Adam Poots has created is a true nightmare which you play through in an almost story like fashion, reading the rule book only when events or triggered in game.

Though we have watched a few play through's in order to get a grasp of the rules (the ones from Beasts Of War and Hit Points Gaming are well worth a watch, links below) you can never really prepare for the game.

http://www.beastsofwar.com/monster/

Hit Points Gaming

Our first campaign didn't start well with two survivors only making past the prologue White Lion only then to be followed by rolling for the lowest population at the settlement phase and then having a full party wipe on the ensuing level 1 White Lion fight.  That was the end of that settlement.  However we started right back up again and with grim determination we've now made it to the Watcher (who we should be fighting over Easter) and though we haven't actually lost a monster or nemesis fight that's not to say we haven't had our share of death and misfortune, in fact I'd say more than our fair share!  Come what may with the Watcher, as we don't have a Twilight Sword, we're already looking forward to our next settlement and how we can develop it differently using different principle and going after different armour sets.

Meanwhile as we've been playing the game I've been building the required monster and survivors which has kept me rather busy.  The game isn't wysiwyg and instead survivors are built when you've made a specific build you enjoy or after a daring feat or a certain monster is taken down by said survivor etc.  Here's everything I put together so far but this barely scratches the surface of the kits you receive in the game:

 White Lion

 Screaming Antelope

 Phoenix (with a survivor for scale)

 The Watcher

 Gold Smoke Knight

 The Nemesis'; The Butcher; The Hand; The Kingsman

 The Starting Survivors

 Intimacy Couple; Troy and Wade

 Old Survivor

 Riddick (who became Vinny), Figwinn and Gabrielle (who became Rene)

Cecil, Willow, Brent (who became Burt) and Michael (who became Gabriel)

Juan Garcia who received the Kings Curse

The game isn't easy, it's not cheap, it can be very stressful at times but would I recommend it?  Absolutely!

Quick catch up...

As I haven't been posted as often I thought I'd give a quick update as to what I've been up to.  Though I've been relatively quiet on here the same cannot be said for hobby time, which has seen the play through of The Devil In Iron campaign for Conan and we're now playing through Kingdom Death: Monster (I'll do a separate post for this as it deserves it's own spotlight but I have never gamed this much, such an addictive game) as well as squeezing in a game of Dark Crystal from River Horse Games and preparing the still boxed ships for Star Wars Armada which will be the next game we're going to run with.

Dark Crystal - a talisman style game but very thematic, I had the soundtrack blasting out while The Chamberlain became Emperor of Thra forever!

Other than sleeving lots of cards and PVA-ing cardboard there hasn't been much to show off for Star Wars: Armada however the recent Thrawn expansion did come with two Mandalorian Gauntlet Fighters so I gave them a quick lick of paint

I thought I'd also mention a couple of Kickstarters which I'm currently backing and may be of interest.  First up we have Pacific Rim from River Horse Games.

This is a game of Jaeger vs Kaiju based on the upcoming film plus the original film with 75-115mm pre-painted (not so)miniatures.  Personally I love a good giant monster movie and really enjoed the first Pacific Rim film so this was a must for me, especially as I've always been impressed with River Horse games.

The next game probably doesn't need and introduction as it's been quite heavily covered on various hobby sites, Batman: Gotham City Chronicles.  This is a Kickstarter exclusive game by Monolith and uses an updated version of the THS system which was used for Conan and on that alone we've gone all in, the game system is brilliant and will work fantastically for Batman.

Stargate for 7TV

I'm jumping back to a project I haven't visited in some time but with the launch of Stargate Origins I have the itch again so with an eye to getting some games under our belts I have created unit cards for my Stargate casts in 7TV (if you've not got a copy of this rule set go grab yourself one now, http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk, a fantastic rule set for playing TV and film inspired games).

If any of you give these a try I'd love to hear some feedback.