Thinking Outside the Box

Had a chance to play several new games through late October and early November. The first one was Epic Armageddon . Sean and Rick both graciously donated me pieces for a Space Marine army. We played a 4000 point game, with Rick running an Ork horde against Sean and I each playing 2000 points of marines. Since this was a learning game it took a LONG time, with us calling it after the second of four turns. This was my first foray into a smaller scale, and it was pretty neat. Since the other fellows have plenty of terrain I am doubtful I'll make any for the game. I will have to paint up the figures I have at some point, which really shouldn't take too long if I actually sit down and do it. I'll be using the colour scheme for my "Obsidian Fists" chapter, because well, why not? Next up were a few learning games of Infinity N3. Brad and I ran through the first three scenarios out of the the "Operation: Icestorm" starter book. There is a LOT of stuff ...

October was a fair bit lighter in the realms of completed work, but not an entire wash. Hobby: - Cleaned, based and primed six new SuperFigs . This batch included the very first model from the line that came in multiple pieces. My copy of SuperSystem 4th Edition also arrived so I'll try my hand converting these character profiles over from 3rd Edition. - Built and primed the last two (of three) western-themed buildings from PlastCraft . They are all quite similar in design, but mixed in with the rest of my buildings provide a nice amount of variety. - With all of my western buildings finally finished I was able to lay them all out on the table and decide what each of them was going to be, and what colours I'd likely use. I'm going to aim for having a decent amount of colour, but still look worn and weathered...it'll be an interesting experiment. - Built and primed half of the Infinity N3  models I have from the "Operation: Icestorm" starter b...

The past week and a half has been really good for some gaming! Rather than focus on each play individually I'll just rip through them all in brief. During a quick trip to I had picked up a copy of a nifty little 1-2 player card game called Onirim . We both tried it a few times, ending up with the base game played as a 2-player affair. The game came with SEVEN expansions in the box, which we haven't tried any of yet. A lot of value in that little box though, and I am looking forward to trying a couple of variants soon. I also had a chance to try out a nifty little dice game called Art of War . Ironically enough I had been looking at this game on the same evening I bought Onirim, and damned near bought it. I may still do, but we'll see. I'm not sure how much fun it will be with smaller groups, but it was great with 6 players! Mid-week I got to play another 250 rep game of Batman Miniature Game . My opponent was gracious enough to let me try out my "Batman Beyon...