2016 Hobby and gaming log

[ashmie]

Here I will attempt to blog about this years hobby projects and games played.

Today we played Warhammer 40,000 7th edition. 3 players, alternating kill points, much fun was had. A good solid 4 hour game with 5 turns each.

Ash: Ultramarines: 4 kill points 1 objective locked: 5 victory points

MiJ: Dark Eldar: 3 kills points 2 objectives locked: 5 victory points

Egor: Eldar: 2 kill points 1 objective locked: 3 victory points

It's still a great game and I enjoyed learning the slight changes to 7th edition.

MiJ has devised an ingenious game where in a 3 player match you must alternate the kills between your two opponents in order to score the kill point. This meant we had a more balanced game and it was a lot more interesting strategically.

[Lovejoy]

Looks like a nice game, and great to see Egor appearing once again!

[me_in_japan]

Many thanks for a good day of gaming, chaps. Man of the match: Egor's Autarch, the Eldar who just didn't know when to quit

[ashmie]

First miniature of 2016. Road Warrior from Reaper minis.

[kojibear]

Many thanks for a good day of gaming, chaps. Man of the match: Egor's Autarch, the Eldar who just didn't know when to quit

Looks like you guys had a good time! Nice to see Striking Scorpions, too. Thanks for the round up Ash!

[ashmie]

Managed to get out the vault and meet the lads for a quick play with the dolls in Tsu today. Nice to see everyone.
Frostgrave. New skirmish miniatures game from Osprey publishing.
Great work Takahashi San for putting this all together. I really had fun.
Looking forward to next month already. Making a library is a great idea. This table will be up next month as well on March 21st if anyone wants to come and give it a go. More than welcome. We are playing campaign mode.

[me_in_japan]

Id like to second Ashmie's praise of Satoru's setup here. It's a fully painted fully textured fully terrained Frostgrave board, which plays really well. Also, his idea of using tapioca straws to punch out cobblestones in expanded foam is bloody genius. A final bit of praise is due his tokens, which cover pretty much everything. He even has a stick-on eyeball for Wizard Eye, and a skelly hand coming out of a base for Bones of the Earth*. Kudos to that man for effort and a nifty final result.

*not to mention the nuddy woman for "Beauty" which looked suitably incongruous when his bearded Illusionist wizard cast it

[Lovejoy]

Glad you got a game in, seems like everyone had high hopes for Frostgrave and it doesn't disappoint. Terrific board too, complements to Satarou san, must be fun to play a session on it. The only thing I'd like to see is more snow, given the setting and all.. Maybe a few scattered snow drifts. Seems cheeky to mention that though given how nice it is!

[ashmie]

Cheers boys. Satoru san has booked the next Frostgrave day for March 21st if you fancy it. I'm keen as mustard on the system. I was wondering about the snow also. He assures me its a seasonal board and the next month we will see flowers for spring. Very Japanese, I like it. He's working on a library. Considering he did all this in 24 hours I think it's pretty amazing.

[YellowStreak]

Cheers boys. Satoru san has booked the next Frostgrave day for March 21st if you fancy it. I'm keen as mustard on the system. I was wondering about the snow also. He assures me its a seasonal board and the next month we will see flowers for spring. Very Japanese, I like it. He's working on a library. Considering he did all this in 24 hours I think it's pretty amazing.

That board looks awesome. I'll be playing my first Frostgrave game in Australia next weekend, so may try and make it to Tsu on the 21st.