More Fantastic Battles ruminations

 

So more ideas, not all of them are mine. 

While I have moved away from Warhammer I still have fond memories of some of the quirky rules and effects. So for your consideration here are some quirky ideas mixed in with some ideas that seem somewhat reasonable. 

For the most part they are untested, but we did try the artillery rules, they worked fine. Some like the oblique marching just seem reasonable as do the marching rules (I think maybe Nic talked about that)

Anyways here they are:

New units for Fantastic Battles done (at last)

 

So, two 2 company units of light Dwarf infantry are done. They were actually fun to paint but kept getting shunted aside for other tasks which is why it took so long to complete. In the end I just wanted them off the painting table so flocked them up today.

Again these are going to be fast moving skirmishers.with decent shooting skills. It should make them fairly flexible.

Some chaotic ruminations for Fantastic batlles

So, back in the old days when we played Warhammer 3rd ed, there were two tomes that could be used to create a Chaos army. It was silly fun as you rolled on chart after chart to create your army often rolling something that had no functionality. The best result I remember was the general of the army who was a lycanthrope who walked on four legs when human but would turn into a bipedal mammoth. He had so many other mutations that should he gain one more he would instantly turn into a chaos spawn and cease to be the leader, he was the most expensive figure in the army.

Anyways, it amused me to start work on a simple Fantastic Battles chart to allow a chaos player to create their own strange units. So here it is:

To say that it is a work in progress might be too generous but it ties in with some of my other ideas regarding the racial tropes and how to further define some armies.

Fantastic Battles Light, fast Dwarf archers (WIP)

 

Sprinting at you, some quick strike Dwarf archers!

So, I finally got around to building and basing some of the Oathmark light dwarves that I bought many months ago. Up first are these 12 guys who will be an auxiliary unit for my Roman Dwarves. I envision fielding them as two units of two companies, but I might also need to spread them out into four one company units.

I think they look the part and are bright enough that they should not go unnoticed on the battlefield. With only three figures a base they do look irregular, almost skirmish troops. Many of the poses are running or at very least they are in action poses. The bows were an add on that I had not planned for but the box included a mix of weapons and bows made sense.

They stat out as:

Irregular    Doughty    Shooting    Skirmish    Fast 

Just the way they look!

 

Fantastic Battles spell & relic cards

Here, despite the lack of demand to see them, are my cards for Fantastic Battles. They are in no order and are a mix of spells and relics. 

Disclaimer: I found these images through online searches and was unable to determine if they were copyrighted, hopefully not. At any rate I, perhaps foolishly, thought I would share these, no copyright infringement is intended & if I offend let me know and I shall remove them.

I have found them somewhat useful as all required information is included on the cards. I tried to make the cards visually interesting and the images matching the spell.If you are using character cards you could clip these to those cards to indicate who has what. 

For the spells you would want to record what level any given spell was selected at. I use plastic card sleeves for these cards, so dropping a damage marker into the sleeve is a quick way to record the spell level.  

Anyways, for what it is worth here they are!

 

AAR Pulp Alley - Vice Alley II, Late night flight

 

 

The Pointes across from Martin airfield

The first game of the new campaign, oddly enough not actually from the Vice Alley book. We went for one from Perilous Island; Last Flight. We simply substituted substituted the location and used cops instead of French troops. Otherwise it fits well with the Vice Alley theme, one faction trying to sneak a star witness out of the city while the other seeks to prevent this from happening.

 

Martin Airfield

Some 14 buildings for Pulp Alley Vice Alley campaign

 

So, I have been working on the buildings for the up coming campaign. Some of them had been started many years ago while others were started recently. Some, like the warehouse above (red brick and green) had been used before but had to be taken apart and redone. Still others were purpose built from either Dust tactics buildings or Pegasus gothic buildings.

Recent boardgame night

 

So, the other night we got together for another board game night. This time around we decided to try a new game (to us) Horrified as well as yet another game of Sentinels of the Multiverse. The game features many of the classic Paramount monsters from the 30's, 40's and 50's. 

A rare sight and preview of next game (WIP)

 

So, a completely cleared gaming table, almost never happens. However this is just a temporary thing as I have already started working on the next campaign layout. This time I am going a bit over board...

Some Pulp Alley plot point cards

So, I quickly made up 5 plot point cards for a recent Planet of the Apes/Pulp Alley game. The idea was to add some extra flavour to the plot points and to create some extra urgency when pursuing the various plot points. A few of them allowed certain leagues to treat certain plot points as major plot points. They were all placed as normal and were all treated as minor plot points. Then as, demonstrated by the card above, the plot point worked out to be a major plot point for one league. In theory a lot of major plot points could have been scored, but by the end of turn 6 only one 'major' plot point was achieved.

China Station campaign - China Station Inferno

 

So, we had a two player game, home brew Mystery League (a duo league) vs The Sons of the Empire league from one of the Pulp Alley books. The Empire league was played by a first time player. Well for a first time player he certainly picked up the rules pretty fast. He made great use of the cards dealt to him even though this was the first time playing with this league he picked up on the nuances of the league.