Terrain Boards, Cons and the Future part XVIII

 

            I am home this week. A great time to get back at it. I want the board finished by Fall In. If I do not get my ass in gear, it will never happen. I had stalled out on the last tile. That is fixed. My gaming table needed resurfacing. Done My paint room was remodeled. Done. The printer went down. Its back up. No more excuses!

        The first raised tile. The first new tile. The focus point of this one will be the Forge World Church. It will be off center. I wanted it to be dead nuts center, but that would have forced the church to cross two tiles. Its original. I don't want it damaged. I don't want to repaint it. 

        The gap between the Walls and the 3mm plastic card surface was the worst of the fill job. It was very hard to cut the green card to match the walls' edge. the spray foam pulled back some and did not raise as high. That is why the gap exists. I had intended from the start to have flowering trees next to the wall. Very gritty sand was flocked in to fill and level it roughly.

        This is the monument, rich section. High above the dirty peasants. The roads will be straight and there will be more parks and less ruins.

        Originally where the roads touch the side of the board or came close to it, I left them destroyed. Then in round 2, I started connecting them across the boards. I had to pull up most of the roads. As they were not square. Surprise FW products. Then when I made the molds I never squared the roads. The roads here became straight cut and matched up.

        Now its round 3 or 5 depending on how you count. At this stage, I am finishing all of the road right up to the edge.

        Perfect time to use all these bit and chunks I chopped up to get the main road sections down.

        2 great examples of me not finishing to the edges.

        By Fall In the each and every tile will be completed. Roads, Ruins, Buildings, raise sections and walls

Terrain Boards, Cons and the Future part XVII

 

        I used plastic card and plastic beams for support. 

        Then laid in liquid nails to secure the seem at the bottom. The train gates were packed with tissue paper to prevent the foam from leaking out.

        Next expanding foam is used to fill the void. A flat saw used to cut off the foam form above the hill top plane.

        After I covered it with <1mm plastic card to cover the mess. Once everything was dry, it was not level. I thought about what to do for months. The problem in my head was two fold. I did not want to make the tile heavier nor did I want to make the surface higher. 

        I ended up laying down 3mm plastic card and trim. Some areas had additional scrap plastic card laid under for support.

It was then trimmed out for smooth edges. The train tracks have been added. The cutting of FDM printed stuff is.....a mess. I had these 40K electric fence things in the box of junk. 

            Roads were laid down for the lower section. 

                    Some of the roads have material issues. I made them years ago when this project started. I was not the best resin pour guy, mixing guy. Or the resin was bad. The roads in that color resin are full of bubbles. Which is fine and you would never know. But if you go to cut them, they won't cut straight. They do break up beautifully. 

        The sectors, areas, for buildings are being created. I pulled out some of my FW and creations from the past to fill in. 

        The Forge World Tank Factory doesn't exactly fit the space. It is not square or level. It is FW so no surprise there. It is original. I am not interested in cutting or sanding it. It will remain as one of the only Structures not to fit in it's sector.

And I bought another collection part II

 

        I got a take down, auctions canceled. Yeah maybe I should not have listed as forumware. That is my bad. I regularly search for forumware and see it all the time. Other auctions are up now with forumware. I have actual no shit painted forumware still up.

        6 of the listing taken down are GW's products. 2 knight auction were left up and 2 taken?

        I still unloaded 6 knights and 2 titans in private sales. 3 groups of chaos are gone within the group. I have made my money back on that collection. I won't charge my mates afterwards.

Mountain

2023

Bought = 228, 3 collection, 1 army

Sold = 126, 123 Detachments, 1 Army

Painted = 341

28mm = 53

20mm = 94

15mm = 0

10mm = 0

Epic = 143

Terrain bought = 161

Terrain painted = 59

Printed Terrain = 4

Printed = 30

Games

Games played = 19

Games hosted = 8

Books

Bought = 3

Read = 6

2022

Bought = 1289 + a collection + 3 Armies

Sold = 76, 14 Buildings, 22 detachments + 3 Armies + a game

Painted = 763

Blood and Plunder

 

        Two more girls in the EIC palette. 

        A new world civilian shepherd

        El Capitan got damaged. The paint rubbed off and his pants repainted. 

Mountain

2023

Bought = 228, 3 collection, 1 army

Sold = 122, 117 Detachments, 1 Army

Painted = 341

28mm = 53

20mm = 94

15mm = 0

10mm = 0

Epic = 143

Terrain bought = 161

Terrain painted = 59

Printed Terrain = 4

Printed = 30

Games

Games played = 19

Games hosted = 8

Books

Bought = 3

Read = 6

2022

Bought = 1289 + a collection + 3 Armies

Sold = 76, 14 Buildings, 22 detachments + 3 Armies + a game

Painted = 763

Terrain Boards, Cons, and the Future part XV

 

        The 2nd river tile. I was tossed back out on the road. On the road it is just too much crap to take with me. I got an hour or so to work on it. 2mm summer grass and 4mm double stacked autumn grass. I didn't use the new grass applicator. The old one struggles with longer grasses.

        Side by side here. On the right is the original test tile. 

                1.) You can notice the river stone look a bit lighter. That doesn't matter, as the ends only need to blend. 

                2.) Also the sand is not as heavy on the left. I am increases the sand coverage now. They will match in the end.

                3.) The tuff areas are smaller on the left. That is not getting fixed. The next board they will match. I did the tuffs with the original put away.

       2nd tile finished. It is on the left again.

Legions Imperialis "Dead on Arrival"

 

        GW drops the ball. Legions was slated for an August release. In the middle of a marketing push 4 weeks old, GW leaves a one paragraph statement on today marketing announcement. 

Legions delayed to later in the year!

        Something went wrong. Someone was praying and covering the fact that it was not going to happen. There is no way the company went forward with a marketing rush, only to say gotcha bitch. 

            Yet no one is truly surprised. GW has been under printing and producing product for over two years now. Not one of their releases judged supply. Orders were not filled, customers waiting half a year for books GW never printed more than one per their own stores. 

            This first occurred with the Black Books. FW/GW did not print enough leading to 2 printings of the Blood Angel and Dark Angle Black Heresy books. Then GW/FW never listed them as 1st and 2nd editions.

            Someone needs to be fired! This is a horrible way for a publicly traded company to be run.

            This is not a full on nerd rage. This is gross mismanagement! Exactly who is going to wait for GW to get their shit together?

                * GW has leaked the rules. Other than using inches, people are already playing. Not with their new rules. People are stoked about the game, waiting. Now they may find other ways to scratch that itch.

                   There are 3 rule sets in play now for the Horus Heresy in Epic scale. The last one being Imperialus Dominitius. Which I am sure Peter has updated to reflect the new Legions units. 

                * People own 3D printers. There are print services, print farms, running right now. As soon as the pictures and scale were released, the printing started. STLs were being created. The market will be saturated with minis by the time GW starts selling. 

                    In 8 hours my Mars II printed all the command section and primarch for the Emperor's Children and I am 4 weeks later to the game. I have Salamanders and World Eaters in 6mm Horus Heresy already. Other are posting their printed PAINTED armies!

Legions Imperialis Game rules and CAF

        More and more continues to come out about how Legions will work. It is 2nd Edition Epic with inches. CAF is back, hidden orders, and the turn sequence.

        If I was going to looking/interested in Legions and I were a veteran Epic player, one that lived through all editions, WHY would I not stick with Epic Gold? The Primarch dude and the community at Epic Gold went through the rules and lists. The rules are clearified, cleaned up, FAQed and the lists have been balanced, updated.

        The WHY, would be it is not 30K. True. Remember as a veteran Epic player I know of and or have looked at Imperius Dominatus. The Primarch dude, Peter, took Net Armageddon and Net Gold, replaced the D6 with a D10 to develop a 30K Epic. Again the community, proofed, and tested the system. 4 updates are out correcting mistakes.

        In Legions armies are back to being structured with cards. Or blocks of command elements. Those elements can be upgraded. The heavy tank is 2 for 150 with each additional tank costing 60. 

        Now the discount for fielding a large block Vs the same firepower in 2 activations has been continued. Example; you get one warhound for 275 or two for 500. The discount in combining the activations into one is 50 points. In legions it is 60 points.

        I always liked this idea. In Space Marine we had cards with the stats on them. Those cards are back. In the leak GW noted a deck of unit cards are available. Nothing about if they are included in the box set or you get to buy them.

CAF

            I remember CAF from back in the day. It is the biggest reason why I don't like Epic Gold. CAF is the circus called assault or engage. THE BAD,  it takes forever. Every stand get paired off, add modifiers, a roll off is done. The winner stays, loser tot he foam. If you out number you get extra dice. THE GOOD, engagements when completed result is one side wiped out. 

            In Armageddon; You roll and I roll, no difference. Hits get allocated, you save and I save, and then we add modifiers and roll off. Winner take blast marker, loser get over kills and broken. 

            The 2nd edition part of pairing off is what takes hours. Especial if your mate does not know his army or have the cards and looks up each CAF every time!