What did you do today.

[me_in_japan]

Those are looking bitchin' good. I'd be happy to play against something that looked like that, even if it did kick my ass! They look particularly good against the backdrop of the rest of the army. It's gonna look very coherent once it's all done. Big thumbs up from me

[Colonel Voss]

Got my new pad lined up and paid for. Dead tired though. Things have really been like climbing the Andes recently.

[Spevna]

At 7:30 this morning I got my terrain done !



I'd been working on terrain for a Judge Dredd game (run courtesy of Lovejoy) and finally got it all done! It was still a little damp when I put it one the table, but it got the job done.

Me, Konrad, and Lovejoy squeezed in 2 games of JD between beer and bourbon ( lovely bourbon thank you Konrad).

The first game saw my gang of punks trying to grab some loot from a bank heist that they had dropped while on the run. Lovejoy's apes were trying to grab it, and Konrad's judges were busy extending the long arm of the law, trying to nab us both. At the end of the day, my punks managed to pull it off.



In the second game , a group of Brit City judges,on an exchange program, were assisting Mega City One's finest stop my gang ( with the help of sone robots) blowing up a shanty town. My gang, not having the muscle to blow up a shanty by themselves, hired two demolition robots to take them out. With one turn left to go before kaboom, my final punk ( those judges are great shots) bottled it and ran away





All in all a great day of gaming , drinking, curry munching, and shooting the shit.

[Spevna]

A couple more pics of the action;

[Lovejoy]

As Spevna writes, today we managed two games of Judge Dredd. We'd heard it was an easy game to pick up, but I was surprised at just how easy- it is really, REALLY easy. even through the fug of beer and whiskey it was a breeze to figure out.

In summary - well, I am of course biased, as a paid up Dredd fan - But I have to say that trust me, this game is terrific fun, and the best new tabletop system I have played since Bolt Action. It really IS Dredd- amusing, lethal, ridiculous, exciting. Easy to pick up, fast to play. I am told it is very Necromunda, but without the superfluous dice rolling. The campaign system offers and rpg lite style way to add a plethora of abilities. When you start adding these, you will find all the crunchy and more complicated stuff, should you be looking for that extra complication. This is a terrific game, and I need hardly say, a must for Dredd fans. I don't know about you, but it had always been my dream to mutter "Armour Piercing" or "Standard Execution" through gritted teeth, before shooting a big old robot, or a crazed man in a mohican with filed teeth, or something. Sadly that dream may never be realised, but this game has brought me closer to realising that ambition.

First game -
I played Apes, Spev a street gang of revolutionary anarchists, Konrad the Mega city justice dept (including 2 rookie judges on a training exercise) The idea for each team was to retrieve some contraband which had been stashed in a bombed out sector of the city. My apes made a good fist of looting the stash, 2 of the five items. They can clamber over anything and have great mobility. Konrad's Judges were easily the most outnumbered, but despite their losses (yeh, the baby judges both bought it) they gave a good account of themselves. After most of the monkey gang had exited the board with their stash, or else been shot or barbecued (Gorilla fritters courtesy of Spev's flamethrowing anarchist) the orangutan boss wanted payback. High on the buzz of clubbing a rookie judge to death with his fists ('right turn, Clyde!') he went kill crazy and tried to whack a street judge. He was overplaying his big old monkey hand. 'Standard Execution', said Konrad, and off to resyk the monkey went.
A win for Spev, who had 3 looted items, but in terms of kills, I think Konrad's judges administered the law very thoroughly.

After this game we could all level our gangs. The campaign bookkeeping was really the only downside to the Dredd experience, but you expect that in this kind of game. I'm assured that is is still much, much less hassle in this respect than something like Necromunda.

Second game -
Spev's revolutionaries had to demolish a building by spending a specified number of actions on rigging the explosives.
Konrad took his judges once more, this time only 2 'Helmets' (the rookies being dead), but with some seriously good upgrades on them. He was unlucky and one of his Judges was almost taken out of commission very early on. My ape heroes had basically been shot and crippled- unable to play this next game, and in any case, would have to have used all their levelling up gains on negating the injury penalties sustained. So, I jumped ship and started a new Brit-Cit list and teamed up with Konrad against the vile Spevna threat.
Spev added some demolition droids this time to bring the points level - they were not the droids we were hoping for, being extremely tough to bring down. My Detective Judge Morse was clubbed out of the game by one such robot wielding a breeze block the size of a mini cooper on a stick. Meanwhile, the explosives were being steadily primed by Spev's revolutionaries.
The only chance for Konrad and Lovejoy was to kill enough to force the Spevnites to flee. We gave the low level minons the appropriate gunishment, and ended with a dramatic face off. Having cooly executed a number of anarchist perps, Judges Lewis and Para Judge Strange finally sent the last Demolition droid to the junk yard - but it was a very knife edge thing. Luckily this act forced the check which meant that his last minion fled,the game was won and the explosion stopped.

Beers throughout, curry after.
Many thanks to Konrad and Gracious host Spev for a fantastic day of gaming.

#Edited for spelling errors (tired)

[me_in_japan]

Glad to hear all at chez Spev had a good time. Dredd is a game I'd be happy to play if I could a) borrow somebody's minis and b) be the judges.

Today I finally made a wee bit of progress with the jetbikes. I really must learn how to airbrush one of these days...



Guns and carapaces to be crimson. I also need to fix stuff like repainting the undercarriage vanes dark grey, and many other things. I'd say these bikes are about 40% done.

[AndrewGPaul]

Today, I have been mostly painting turrets and other add-ons for Imperial Guard tanks.

[Konrad]

@Spevna and Lovejoy- Good day of gaming gents. Being a geek of the American variety, I have only a cursory knowledge of Judge Dredd. Thanks for the introduction.
The rules are pretty much Necromunda lite, but with each model on a team taking two actions of the players choice. (move/move, shoot/move, move/shoot, special/shoot, etc/etc.) before turning play over to the opposing player. Seems to be generally a smaller model count, not a lot of "roll for pinning, roll for falling, roll for recovery, roll, roll..." You get to choose your advances, but it uses a tree system for skills, so you have to work your way through the rookie abilities before you get to the sexy, superpowers. Rulebook itself is a lovely tome of glossy geekery. Maybe it was just me, or maybe the bourbon, but it did seem a bit poorly organized for such a simple rule set.
I'll have to track down some Dredd comics and whatnot. I would pirate a copy of the new movie, but.... "Illegal download, 20 years hard labor perp."

[Primarch]

Rulebook itself is a lovely tome of glossy geekery. Maybe it was just me, or maybe the bourbon, but it did seem a bit poorly organized for such a simple rule set.

Mongoose Publishing, the company behind the game has a history of badly made rulebooks. I remember some of their offerings for Dungeons and Dragons where they had put pictures over the text, preventing you from reading it. They also have a habit of milking a product as much as they can in the early stages and then dropping it in favour of something else as soon as growth slows down. With Warlord involved in the miniatures side of things, hopefully the game will keep going strong, but sadly Mongoose NEED an editor and have done for a very long time.

[ashmie]

Some really fantastic models on this thread guys. You should put them in a hobby log for posterity. Great work.
Judge Dredd scenery looks equally amazing. Well done lads. I was free this weekend and could have joined. Zannen. I'm not a huge fan of Dread as I was reading 2000 AD just before it ended so I'm not familiar with the world. Wasn't Sly Stone involved somewhere? I'm keen to join Fort Spevna again if you'll have me. Always a good day, hit me up next time.
I really need to paint something this year.