You Can't Kill the Metal

It's been a very long time since I've posted to this blog. A lots happened in the meantime. I've had a daughter, written a book, and got a feature in the New York Times. There hasn't been much time for gaming. 

I like coming back to this blog periodically because it's a nice way to mark the progression of life through the lens of pushing toy soldiers around, for me if not for anyone else. It's a good way to remember.

But if anyone is still out there, you're not here for that. You're here to look at pictures of said toy soldiers. 

My buddy Dave and I got in a game of Forbidden Psalm, which is a bunch of doom metal album covers held together with a very nice skirmish ruleset. It's the game you play if think Mordheim is too light hearted. 

It's a delightful system and I'm here for it.

The game consisted of Garax the Cursed and his motley band of things that go bump in the night facing off against Dave's hobby-horsed Jester accompanied by far more human characters.

The game ebbed and flowed, but was eventually dominated by Garax randomly summoning an unkillable god that ate the scenarios wandering ghouls for dinner, then had some of our actual characters for dessert. 

Corpses were looted, characters were maimed, and things were eaten by a being too terrible to describe. 

A good time was had by all.

Hope you enjoyed the post. I'll see you all again. It might be ten months or ten years from now, but I shall return.

Armageddon x 7

Played a massive 7 person game of Shadow war Armageddon. A fun game with a great group of people, some great figures and great terrain.

No one suspects the ...

Had a fun couple of games with my newly painted Shadow War Armageddon inqisotion gang. Its a fun game, but I really miss the underhive gangs. I know I could do them with a guard list, but it doesn't feel the same. 

The campaign system is a hell of a lot better though. Balanced and fast. The game is better for it. I'll be playing some more in the future. 

Arabian Knights

There's a Kings of War tournament at the store in November. Its about time I build up my paltry 750pts of kow into a respectable 2000.

Here are the k rights for the force. I'm using the dornishmen yellow, but this army is not Done. At least its not meant to be.

News from the Westeros front

Had another game of the Game of Thrones rules that the local group have been brewing. This was the last practice bashup I'm going to get to do till the August campaign starts.

I had forgotten my dornishmen at home, so I borrowed my buddy's Tyrells. We did a 3v3 mash up. I was wiped out to the man. But I'm obligated by journalistic ethics to say the my buddy Ben saved the day with his Danyris and unsullied. Even going so far as to kill the mountain. I should take note for my prince obryn. No doubt he will come across the mountain during the campaign.

Game of Game of Thrones

I had a chance to pit my Dornishmen against the other factions of the Cardiff Westeros group. An initial fight with the Boltons ended in a pretty solid victory for prince Obryn. After that there was a big multiplayer game pitting Borathians, Nights Watch, Unsullied, my Dornishmen and a Dragon against one another. Sporadic pictures below.

Its worth noting that this was one of the few winning nights for me. I think in these rules, its good to have a good mix of heavy hitters and some fodder to back them up.

I picked up some gripping beast plastics at the shop, so I'm going to try my hand at converting up some wildlings and a giant.

Winter is coming

Well, here we are again. Its been two years since I've posted. There's been a lot of new jobs, fulfilling Kickstarters a failed attempt at PhD funding and various late 20s life events. But to misquote Jeff Goldblum, gaming finds a way. 

So here we are in the new era of Over There. I'm still in the UK, but far away from being a student. My buddy's foray into blogging has inspired me to dust off my own blog again.  

My hope for the future of the blog is to use my phone to do a bit more candid blogging of my gaming exploits. So please forgive the eneviatble blunders. Though auto correct on android is much better, so my writing should be more befitting of a native English speaker. 

So without further ado, here are my efforts for my gaming group's Game of Throne's campaign. One of the guys has written a super simple mordheim adaptation. The main rules are intact, but the campaign rules are much simpler and abstract, which is good for me since my warnands always look like a hospital ward aftery first game of straight mordheim. 

The figures are mostly unconverted GW Lord of the Rings Haradrim. Prince Obryn (or less generously, Charles Bronson) and the gentlemen with shields are a mix of Fireforge Games Mongol infantry and Gripping beast Arabs. We are living in an age where there are enough plastic kits to cobble together basically anything from plastic bits. 

So there it is my return post. If anyone is still out there, thanks for reading.