What did you do today.

[YellowStreak]

Nice work Prim, I've got some of those same Lead Adventure figs waiting for attention. let's get some more TNT on the the near future!

[Primarch]

@J-R & ToD - Colourful!
@KB & YS - Thanks!

Yesterday evening, I spent some time assembling some mdf terrain. It was bought with Infinity in mind, but it might be usable for Malifaux as well. The kits come from a store called Knights of Dice (https://www.knightsofdice.com/store/), they are really nice, but an absolute b1tch to put together. I had to use a hammer at one point. The tolerances are so tight on the fittings that you cannot have any gaps or the whole thing refuses to go together.

[jehan-reznor]

I would have like to see that using a hammer on scale models

Colored the armor plates so it is done, need to put together the genestealers i have so i can use the leftovers to make more ships
Here is a size comparison with a BFG cruiser

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Some work done on the Dark age figures and Prodos Space Crusade figure, the 2 ladies in the back should be also Dark age but they seem to be OOP can't find nothing on the Dark Age site.

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[The Other Dave]

Spent most of the evening punching out little card chits for Sails of Glory, which arrived today, and also finished up three more Scourge frigates for Dropfleet. I'm now up to three games I'm eager to try out but haven't yet (CoC in 15mm, Dropfleet, and now Sails of Glory) - with any luck, 2017 will be a busy year on the hobby front!

[Primarch]

I spent several hours tonight painting Anglo-Saxons for Saga. I also started laying out some structures for Malifaux.

[me_in_japan]

Today ToD very kindly came down to Tsu for our first try at Dropfleet Commander. We managed a relaxed couple of games, and overall impressions were very positive. I'm sure ToD will be here with his own thoughts on the game, but speaking for myself it certainly handles differently to other games I've played. In our first game I didn't quite appreciate the importance of capturing clusters on the ground, and as a result although the space battle was fairly evenly matched, I was trounced in victory points throughout the game. For the second game we played the same scenario again (for reasons of trying to solidify our understanding of rules) and it was a good deal closer, with it coming down to a (very) squeaky win to me in the end. Also, I got to ram his cruiser with mine

The top of turn 1


It was at about this point that my cruiser died...


Game 2


Overall my thoughts on the game are:

Pros
Plays quickly
Strong focus on objective capturing
Quite deep tactically - there will always be a trade-off in your fleet between shootiness and ability to drop ground assets
High casualty rate, so it feels like your ships' guns are effective
Very pretty minis and maps
minimal outlay for actually playing it (either a faction starter box and a rulebook, or half a 2-player starter set.)

Cons
The base insert to show orbital layer/energy signature/damage taken is a bit finicky. We managed fine by using dice to track damage, mind you.
Focus on objective capturing means that a standard kill-em-all approach to gaming will not serve you well

Overall, I'd certainly recommend this game to folks. Both ToD and I have 2 fleets or more, and will happily make ourselves available to demo games for anybody that fancies trying their hand at shooting honking great laser guns at fleets of alien starships.

[The Other Dave]

Big thanks to MiJ for having me over!

My verdict is definitely: It's a good 'un!

Blowing ships up is definitely important, and happens entertainingly often and with pleasantly large explosions and carry-on damage to nearby ships, but where the game really seems to shine is balancing void combat and ground combat. You need to take specialized ships to directly support your men (or, as the case may be, men controlled by evil alien brain parasites) on the ground, and that gives you less firepower in the void. Taking ships to get more men on the ground likewise gives you less firepower in the void (and even there you get to choose between small ships that deploy small numbers of elite troops from the relative safety of atmosphere, but that take time to redeploy across the board, or bigger, more durable, ships that deploy large numbers of regular troops from a more-dangerous higher orbit, and can relocate to a far-away cluster relatively quickly). And as mij found out in our first game, no matter how well you do in void combat, if your opponent builds up a ground-based victory point gap early in the game you're toast.

Which is to say, like mij says, tactical depth is a huge selling point, supported by fun explodey spaceship combat with solid, quick-playing rules and really slick models with a pretty reasonable buy-in cost. (After today's games, I suspect that 1000-point games, which means just two very-reasonably-priced-indeed starter fleet boxes, will give plenty interesting games.) Demos for anyone who wants 'em!

[Primarch]

A quiet weekend for me, hobby-wise. I put some more paint down on some Anglo-Saxons and assembled a couple of mdf buildings.

[Konrad]

Got in a good weekend of puttying on the Diggachicks. Though a more of it was finicky scraping and sawing. I noticed one of the gals lovely, long legs were freakishly long. So I sawed a 1.5 mm out of the upper thighs and caaaaarefully drilled tiny tiny holes next to the central wire and re-pinned them with tiny tiny wires..... A bit touch and go by I think it resulted in a net improvement. While I had the drill out, I drilled holes in their heads and glued in some wire to support their hairdos. Look like freaky, gothic, Hellraiser, Statue of Liberty statues right now. I also did a lot of sculpting, as in scraping and scratching dry putty. Re-working a couple of faces and er a boob job.... Hard getting both the right and left to match. That goes for faces and boobs. You actually can get a pretty smooth, detailed job with a sharp cutter blade, but it takes way, way too long. scrich, scrich, scrich, scrich..... I have an even greater appreciation for the masters. Imagine doing that on a 10 foot tall pillar of marble.

[Primarch]

Got in a good weekend of puttying on the Diggachicks. Though a more of it was finicky scraping and sawing. I noticed one of the gals lovely, long legs were freakishly long. So I sawed a 1.5 mm out of the upper thighs and caaaaarefully drilled tiny tiny holes next to the central wire and re-pinned them with tiny tiny wires..... A bit touch and go by I think it resulted in a net improvement. While I had the drill out, I drilled holes in their heads and glued in some wire to support their hairdos. Look like freaky, gothic, Hellraiser, Statue of Liberty statues right now. I also did a lot of sculpting, as in scraping and scratching dry putty. Re-working a couple of faces and er a boob job.... Hard getting both the right and left to match. That goes for faces and boobs. You actually can get a pretty smooth, detailed job with a sharp cutter blade, but it takes way, way too long. scrich, scrich, scrich, scrich..... I have an even greater appreciation for the masters. Imagine doing that on a 10 foot tall pillar of marble.

Have you ever considered going into the plastic surgery business? There's probably a lot of money to be made by someone who can resculpt a face or a pair of legs.