Terrain Boards, Cons and the Future Part VII

                Today was nice and hot and I didn't have shit to do. And I thought, what a great day to fix the Stones River RF&F terrain. You know spray/soak it in liquid white glue and have her dry in the sun. Well that did happen. As I was distracted by the GW board we had played on last weekend. It looked like crap.

                I had planned to originally do redo these boards with a killing fields mat. I know the Perry Bros did something like it to their boards. It is this fleece thing all static grassed up. Looks great.

        Then I did a test piece with a simular product. It sucked. You have to use floor glue to hold the fleece down and weight it to stick. The fleece stands up too high. Or raise the ground level up. Then your forced to blend in something a 1cm high. Its a mess.

        The Games Workshop Realms of battle board I was going to do this to was the grass lands, plains one. I had bought it used this way over 4 years ago while in Argentina. It sat in dad's house until I moved back. No idea how I thought I would get it down there. Or where exactly I would store it. Or who exactly I was going to play with in Santa Fe. (The closest group was a 7hr bus ride)

        The only thing I ever did too it was fill in these fucking skulls. GW and their goddam skulls. Then spray otter brown over it. That was it. 

        Today they will become the Afghan high desert plain boards. I will be laying down pure white glue and pushing it around with a water soaked crap 3" brush. Next shaking on GGS "Fields of New Zealand." Yeah Yeah its New Zealand, but the shit looks like Afghannyland to me. After that shake off that basing material that did not stick. I dragged them out back into the sun and soaked them in watered down white glue through a Lowie's sprayer bootle. White glue to hot water ratio 1 to 6.

Note;

                The GGS base ready stuff has tile grout in it. I used a drop cloth to shield the back table from my mess. The drop cloth did not stop the grout from passing through. If it stuck to the table, it would never ever come off and the wife would punch me square in the junk. Sooo if you do this, DONT use a drop cloth.

        The were 4 boards done. Then I was about out of the GGS stuff. 3 more bags of that crap were ordered. Here they sit in the back yard sunning themselves.

                These are the two river sections that will join the table.

Warmaster Lizardmen Shrinks and mean dudes

 

            

            I have not forsaken the Lizards. When HistoriCon got canceled or moved to Fall In the need to finish them died. Also there was that 2 months of actually having to work that screwed everything up. 

            This week I seem to be free of the BS. Only phone and email support. Full speed ahead! 3 more units for the Lizards

Shrinks

        And then these badass dudes with skulls for helmets. I had to go look up their name, Temple Guard. Very original! Well I guess the selection of royal purple was correct.

Army shot

Mountain

2021
Bought = 341 + an army

Sold = 0

Painted = 643
20mm = 8

15mm = 282

10mm = 102
Epic = 22

Terrain bought = 151
Terrain painted = 238

Books
Bought = 13
Read = 5
Games Played = 12

Games Hosted = 7  

By Fire and Sword "Rebasing" part I

 

            You know I got a problem painting horses. I don't like it. So what did I do, picked a game system with cavalry as it's main component. The system/rules are excellent. I am guessing this project will take all of this year and next year to complete. This year they will be a side, side project. Next year full on. Maybe I should have bought painted or have it hire out?

            They have been waiting for a month or so. I sat down and flocked them last night.

            The first actual BFaS miniatures. This is the Polish 

Epic World Eaters Vs Sisters 3000pts

        I got double lucky. Sunday day became free. Posted last minute and Kal was free also. It has been ages since a game of NetEA. I can't lie. There were some problems. I could not remember the initial deployment sequence. I forgot about garrisons. Not that I had any. I should have picked corners when dropping.

        Game ended turn 3. Sisters 3 --- World Eaters 1. Kal got BTS, DTF, and TSNP. I took BTS. I had the chance for DTF and deny TSNP. Kal broke the Lord of Battle in a shooty engagement and I failed to advance my WE Berzerkers across the 50. Kal's last activation shot me off the DTF and contested. 

        I thought about bring the Tau out. Then went with the World Eaters. No fancy French list. World Eaters V3.8, the current TacCmd list. Completely different from the French list I play getting ready for Lyon. The French is much stronger. 

        Problems

                List issues;

                        1.) Predators are only an upgrade for WE Berzerker Retinue. 

                        2.) WE Possessed Retinue has "Chaos Pact." What the hell is that?

                Self induced;

                        I went crazy with upgrades. My detachments were wicked expensive. Only 9 activations to             start, 5 off board (and the Space Craft is a once and done activation), the first turn was rough. 

                        The Hellfires got picked on right away, were broke by aircraft, and stayed that way till turn             3. They did nothing all game. Now I am down to 3 activations on board. Hellfire cannons are too                slow, too juicy, and break if the sun raises.

                        I forced the SC and drop. The SC did break a detachment. The drop broke a detachment.                 Then faced two to the right and 3 more detachments to the left. Had I waited till the last of my                     activations the end result my have been more to my favor.

                        The lord of Battle was too expensive for what it did. It is tough as nails. As one of the only             shooty items in the list it is easily avoided. Two more activation would have been nice.

My List;

WORLD EATERS BERZERKER RETINUE [350] 

4 World Eater Legionaires, 4 Khorne Berzerkers, Free Rhinos, Blood Lord

WORLD EATERS TERMINATOR RETINUE [550] 

World Eaters Skull Lord, 6 World Eaters Terminators, Keeper of Chains - Icon Bearer, Daemonic Pact

WORLD EATERS POSSESSED RETINUE [200] 

4 World Eaters Possessed, Chaos Pact, World Eaters Skull Lord

WORLD EATERS CHOSEN RETINUE [375] 

4 World Eaters Chosen, World Eaters Skull Lord, Dreadclaws, Daemonic Pact, 2 World Eaters Dreadnaughts, Keeper of Skulls - Champion of Chaos

DEVASTATION CLASS CRUISER [150] 

THREE HELLBLADE INTERCEPTORS [200] 

LORDS OF BATTLE [425] 

Lord of Battle

JUGGERNAUTS [350] 

7 Juggernauts

KHORNE SUPPORT ENGINES [275] 

4 Hellfire Cannon

WORLD EATERS DAEMON POOL [125] 

Greater daemon (Bloodthirster), 5 Bloodletters 

                 My BTS was a 550 Termie detachment. They were the stars! They tied up the complete right flank and sucked up activation after activation. Each engagement saw a detachment elimination. 

                They teleported T1 extreme right flank. Which I then lost initiative roll. They were gang banged and broken. Yet eliminated an activation with the loss of 2 out of 6.  T2 they came back and sucked up 3 more activations to break them again. I finally lost the BTS in T3. The termies being expensive, never lost an engagement. They broke by casualties.

                The World Eaters are nasty in engagements. I need practice getting them in! Once in even if they lose they win.

Kal's List

In no specific order game pics;

            There is something wrong in blogger. It no longer has the gear thingy to up date the Mountain.

2021
Bought = 341

Sold =

Painted = 581
20mm =

15mm = 282

10mm = 48
Epic = 22

Terrain bought = 151
Terrain painted = 238

Books
Bought = 13
Read = 4
Games Played = 12

Games Hosted = 7           

Regimental Fire and Fury "The recount"

 

            The last group to be re-based. 13 Texans, 22 general CSA Inf, 1 Brave Col, and 2 Cmd Stands. They have been done for a long time. 2 months waiting. Life prevented me from finishing them with flock and a seal. 

            Now that everything has been rebased or based properly I can see where the collection stands. What scenarios can I run? What is left to be fully playable?

Union

    201 Inf stands

    32 Cmd stands

    27 Cav Stands

    6 Horse holders

    10 DisMounted Cav

    5 Brave Col

    8 Brigade Commanders

    2 Division Commanders

    16 Artillery

CSA

    213 Inf stands

    25 Cmd stands

    2 Cav Stands

    3 Horse holders

    9 DisMounted Cav

    5 Brave Col

    10 Brigade Commanders

    5 Division Commanders

    12 Artillery

A ton of game markers

2 Supply Wagons

14 Limbers

            I need to work on the CSA Cav and some Union Brigade Commanders. Also most every Command stand flag needs to be replaced.

            I can run any game in the Scenario books and main rule book.

Everything to date