It's been a while since I last painted. I have a bad back from a car accident, it requires meds to control pain, lots of meds. Since May I haven't been taking them due to the government, but that's a different post for different blog, lol. This has stopped me from painting. Well I now am able to afford/take meds, but what I call the gaming room, the missus calls it the dining room, (silly woman) is being decorated. So my painting station is out of order. As painters will know, you can get burnt out, lose fresh ideas or just get "CBA syndrome", but atm I am eager to get a brush in my hands, stuff is stacking up and it's annoying me. I feel a paint frenzy coming on. Is this just me or is it common to go through painting highs and lows.
Showing posts with label Dystopian Wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dystopian Wars. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
TODAY I WISH PAINTBRUSHES HADN'T BEEN INVENTED
So I was painting today some of Mr Ashs British Dystopian Wars Fleet, when he spookily phoned me, wanting to chew the fat to burn time.
Now what I should of done is put the brush down, knowing that its tempting fate to do two things at once. But guess what, I didn't, because I am stooooopid. So after chat with Ash I carried on painting, Only after 1 hour and 15 minutes, did I look at models, to pat myself on back.
Only to have a weird sensation nag at me, it was then it twigged the oh so simple camo scheme of green grey green, had become grey green grey, the horror, curse the inability of humans to truly "multi-task".
God knows how long it will take to undo, now its not Ashs fault, at all, but he is still gonna suffer ear ache while I moan about it over the next decade or two.
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Of Wargaming and Music.
Dropzone Commander unboxing blog has yet to materialise, but until I get that done, I've been thinking about music one can wargame to - the Beard has a CD player in the same room as his gaming table, and the Outpost often had music playing in the background. The Beards CD player had as yet gone unused, but the Outpost often plays discs I assume are brought in by members of staff, who fortunately have a better taste in music than the drivel usually played on local radio stations.
It doesn't really set much of an atmosphere though, so I've been wondering what sort of music would? Would classical music be suitable for the epic naval battles of Dystopian Wars or the titanic clashes of Warmachine? Would the Halo soundtrack add that little extra something to a game of Dropzone Commander? I don't know, but I'm going to find out!
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Spartan Games announces Dystopian Legions!
Spartan Games have announced Dystopian Legions, a 28mm tabletop wargame based on Dystopian Wars!
Since pretty much all my previous wargaming experience has taken place at this sort of scale I'm quite excited about it, especially considering how much I like the Dystopian Wars setting - I like, and consider myself a bit of a Steampunk, so I like stuff like Dystopian Wars and Warmachine, wargames that employ a new take on what these days would be considered a more antique technology.
From what images Spartan Games have teased us with so far and from what I know of the Dystopian Wars rules I've had a few thoughts on what we could get:
Infantry: I can see these working like small and medium squadrons, with models having a single health point, with dice being rolled to overcome an armour value/damage rating to inflict death upon a model, in a similar way to how combat works in Dystopian Wars. Likewise, I imagine models will have the same sort of firing options available to them as models in Dystopian Wars do, such as being able to link fire to take down larger, heavier infantry targets, or being able to use something similar to the indirect fire option to represent firing while hiding in cover and not aiming properly. Likewise I could see cover either increasing the armour rating/damage rating, or making it harder for the opponent to hit, such as going from 4's to 5's perhaps. Squads would have a couple of models that carry more specialist weaponry such as flame throwers and rocket launchers and sniper rifles.
Heavy Infantry: I see these being similar to infantry but tougher, capable of taking multiple hits, and carrying much bigger guns. Things like the Teutonic Knights of the Prussian Empire. I imagine they'd have a firing option equivalent of split fire, allowing them to use their big guns' high rate of fire to attack multiple models.
Tanks: I've not really played Dystopian Wars from a land perspective so can't really draw any comparison to them there, but I imagine they would be like the equivelant of a Dreadnought or a Battleship at sea - big, tough, scary and nasty. Like the Landships perhaps?
Tiny Fliers: Except they wouldn't be so tiny. They'd be fast, strong, and cost a fair chunk of points out of your list. They'd probably also be quite fragile, but would be a real terror to tanks and infantry alike while on the table.
Commanders/Generals: I imagine these would act in a similar manner as a fleet commodore, being able to buff allied squads and such while on the table, while also being able to take part in battle itself as well! When I first saw the image of Oberleutnant Lily Reitsch in the Dystopian Wars 1.1 rulebook, my first thought was that at some point Character Commodores were going to be introduced that would have individual Command Abilities and/or would allow players to use themed lists similar to those found in Warmachine, allowing for new and different fleets to be played by doing things such as increasing the maximum size of a squad or decreasing the points cost of a model, or that some sort of larger-scale wargame was in the works.
Dystopian Legions wont be released until October, but if the prices of things are anywhere near as cheap as what those for Dystopian Wars are, I can see it becoming quite popular rather quickly!
Since pretty much all my previous wargaming experience has taken place at this sort of scale I'm quite excited about it, especially considering how much I like the Dystopian Wars setting - I like, and consider myself a bit of a Steampunk, so I like stuff like Dystopian Wars and Warmachine, wargames that employ a new take on what these days would be considered a more antique technology.
From what images Spartan Games have teased us with so far and from what I know of the Dystopian Wars rules I've had a few thoughts on what we could get:
Infantry: I can see these working like small and medium squadrons, with models having a single health point, with dice being rolled to overcome an armour value/damage rating to inflict death upon a model, in a similar way to how combat works in Dystopian Wars. Likewise, I imagine models will have the same sort of firing options available to them as models in Dystopian Wars do, such as being able to link fire to take down larger, heavier infantry targets, or being able to use something similar to the indirect fire option to represent firing while hiding in cover and not aiming properly. Likewise I could see cover either increasing the armour rating/damage rating, or making it harder for the opponent to hit, such as going from 4's to 5's perhaps. Squads would have a couple of models that carry more specialist weaponry such as flame throwers and rocket launchers and sniper rifles.
Heavy Infantry: I see these being similar to infantry but tougher, capable of taking multiple hits, and carrying much bigger guns. Things like the Teutonic Knights of the Prussian Empire. I imagine they'd have a firing option equivalent of split fire, allowing them to use their big guns' high rate of fire to attack multiple models.
Tanks: I've not really played Dystopian Wars from a land perspective so can't really draw any comparison to them there, but I imagine they would be like the equivelant of a Dreadnought or a Battleship at sea - big, tough, scary and nasty. Like the Landships perhaps?
Tiny Fliers: Except they wouldn't be so tiny. They'd be fast, strong, and cost a fair chunk of points out of your list. They'd probably also be quite fragile, but would be a real terror to tanks and infantry alike while on the table.
Commanders/Generals: I imagine these would act in a similar manner as a fleet commodore, being able to buff allied squads and such while on the table, while also being able to take part in battle itself as well! When I first saw the image of Oberleutnant Lily Reitsch in the Dystopian Wars 1.1 rulebook, my first thought was that at some point Character Commodores were going to be introduced that would have individual Command Abilities and/or would allow players to use themed lists similar to those found in Warmachine, allowing for new and different fleets to be played by doing things such as increasing the maximum size of a squad or decreasing the points cost of a model, or that some sort of larger-scale wargame was in the works.
Dystopian Legions wont be released until October, but if the prices of things are anywhere near as cheap as what those for Dystopian Wars are, I can see it becoming quite popular rather quickly!
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