Monsterous Fun

The giant spider shoots a web round Electotron

With the start of the October break for schools upon us, Arabiansquire and I headed to our ocal club for a game of oemthing, this Saturday. As it was his holiday break, I let th small lad choose any game he wanted (I usually at least get a guiding opinion in) and he picked out a game we've not played in ages - a previous favourite Monster Island.

Another monster falls foul of the web.

Over the last few years I've collected up a variety of 6" plastic toy figures to battle with, so we press ganged our local Press Ganger Alan into a game and battled away. Top fun, and Alan thought it captured the feel of the old monster movies well. (Electrotron was the last monster standing by the way)

Electroton looks on as the entangles Stegataur is grappled
his arachnid foe.

As a related aside I've just noticed that all the rule pdf's are available for a paltry $1.99 (with support material only $0.99). I'll have to complete my own ruleset at that price, but I would heartily recommend at least picking up the core rules!

Tristan's Harlequin - WIP

After months of inactivity I finally started to put some paint on the well traveled Harley in my desk. Not much to show so far, but enough to get a general idea. Hopefully Tristan won't think the whole postage and experience was a waste!

Still not decided what I'm doing with the legs yet. I don't think my free-hand will stand the diamond pattern I'd love to do, we'll all have to wait and see...

SoBH Battle#3

Battlefield: Forest
Weather: Heat Wave
Scenario: Assassination
Defender: The Blightvale Autho-RAT-y

Forces:
(New additions/changes to the warbands are in italics. Full stats shown for new recruits)

Valgen Maest's Warband

• Valgen Maest : DWARF COMMANDER (2XP) 95 Pts
• Ovthur Whurdar: Crossbowman (1XP) 24 Pts
• Bolbir Dwifik: Thief (2XP) 30pts
• Falster Vonlyr: Elite Warrior (2XP) 46pts
  Equipment: Healing Potion
• Harthic Urduum: Warrior (2XP) 34 Pts
• Klob Garathal: CROSSBOWMAN (Chainmail, Crossbow) 24 Pts
  Quality 4+, Combat 3
  Short Move, Medium Shooter
• Delgar Faderg: MAGIC-USER; (dagger) 41 Pts
  Quality 4+, Combat 3
  Short Move, Magic-user

The Blightvale Autho-RAT-y

• Skeener - Leader (2XP) 60 Pts
• Rusineth - Swarm Master (2XP) 46 Pts
• Masssch - Warrior (2XP) 27 Pts
• Griszarr - Warrior (2XP)27 Pts
• Durlik - Thrower  (2XP)27 Pts
• Ikineth - Standard Bearer (2XP) 27 Pts
• Rat Swarm (x2) 22 Pts

Setup:

Rats at the nearside, Dwarves far edge (ranged on road, melee off road)

The whole table is considered to be forest, with the exception of the road running the length of the table and a circular clearing in the table centre. This meant that for the second battle running the dwarves would need two actions to move if they were away from the road or the clearing (as well as all the usual line of sight restrictions). The assanination scenario had the dwarves trying to kill the ratmen leader.

The rats and the ranged attacking dwarves took advantage of the better movement up the road. The melee dwarves battled through the undergrowth, although early on the heat wave took effect on the Dwarven Elite warrior, worsening his quality by one due to fatigue.

The rats cut west towards the clearing and the melee dwarves, hoping to pick off an insolated warrior, but with the going slow they were not quick enough to get round before the crossbowmen moved into support positions. Not wanting to get caught battling in the clearing the rats cut east across the road to the safer forest undergrowth there, knowing that the dwarves needed to attack their leader.

A new recruit, the dwarven magic user decided to make a name for himself and raced to the edge of the road to crack off a fire ball, but with little effect. Despite his struggles (knocking down a swarm) he was swamped by rats and fell.

As time for the game end approached, Valgen made one last effort, ordering his troops i range further down the road to try and get a shot. Unfortunately for them the Rat leader stayed in the shadows of the forest, and the rats rushed the short legged thief, taking him down in the last action of the battle.

Battle Result:

Blightvale Autho-RAT-y: Victory

Arabian Squires, Knights and Bishops

Arabiansquire has recently discovered Chess (via a class mate and a chess set in a holiday cottage we were in a couple of weeks ago). I'm not going to get into the whole "chess isn't a wargame, it's an abstract boardgame" arguement because, quite frankly I don't care! Most of the time board games don't make it into this blog (with one or two exceptions) but this time it's comes with a bit more geek attatched. Once home his interest finally gave me reason to break out my Star Wars Saga edition chess set I was given one year "A long time ago in a another house far, far away...." if I may paraphrase for a second.

Whilst a bit confusng at times (the chess symbols are on the figure bases) it does bring a bit more "cool" of sorts to keep interests up...

The forces of Good.

The Dark Side of the board