Another board game night, a space theme!

 

A real blast from the past, this game has not seen the light of day for 2 decades and yet I was able to remember many of the rules, needing only to scan them to get playing. I did not select this game to play and he who did was not convinced what we opened the box. It looks very much a product of its time, a large board, lots of plastic figures and Styrofoam storage trays. It looked an awful lot like A&A! Happily it does not play like A&A. The really big thing about this game is the solar system map that dominates the centre of the board.

Every turn you must advance the planets and asteroids on their respective tracks. Each planet moves on its own track at its own pace. As a result planets will become closer or farther away from each other each turn, thus impacting on ones strategy for conquering the solar system. 

OMG; The Warrant officers & Sergeants Mess meeting: Terminator Genisys (lots of pics)

   

The Terminators deploy

On Saturday July 19th I ran a game of Terminator Genisys for three player, all of them new to the game. The two sides placed a total of 6 objective markers on the table. To be victorious the winner must control more objectives than their opponent. 

Well that was quickly ignored right after the game started, instead it became a gritty battle to the death.  

 

Humans cautiously advance, while the robots rush forward.

 

 

Another dollar store find a Sci fi shuttle craft

 

So this is the type of thing I like to find when wandering the aisles of Dollarama. It is a toy that shoots some sort of rubber like disks, but to me it looks like some thing else.

To me it looks like a shuttle craft or will after a little work. It seems to match up well with my 15mm figures. So it will take a little patching here and there and I may  add some round bases to represent lifters on the feet, but in the end it looks like a pretty easy fix.

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Some star fighters for my growing 15mm Sci-fi collection.

 

So, I found these fine Buzz Lightyear space craft at the local Dollarama. I think they are a good size for 15mm figures and should repaint up nicely. I figure I can use them as troop carriers or shuttle craft ar just have them sit there as big damn space craft.

The Fifth Foreign Legion

So, this is how my organization of the Legion, using the Dirtside II rules, is going so far. I am, more or less setting it up as per what I can glean from the book shown above. I hope to have the vehicles painted up this week and I have already painted up their opponents vehicles. I also have 150 proxy enemy figures on the painting table and I will soon place an order for the Legions troops.

Dirtside II in 15mm, my latest obsession!

So, for no special reason I seem to have embarked on a mass purchase and thankfully mass production of 15mm Sc-fi figures. So far I have been sourcing the figures from three companies; Ground Zero Games, Brigade Models and Alternative Armies. There has been a recent binge buying on my part that has seen the acquisition of a few hundred infantry and 50+ vehicles. All these augment the preexisting (and largely ignored) forces that I already have.

The plan, such as it is (and subject to change) is to be able to field 7 different forces. Each army will have from 12 to 28 vehicles (a mix of APCs and AFVs) as well as 75+ infantry. The tech level of each army will vary quite a bit from low tech track/wheeled vehicles to full repulsor lift high tech vehicles. One army will be the exception in that they are very low tech troops with few if any vehicles but armed with captured weapons and arms given to them by an alien race that is keen to disrupt the status quo.

The rule set, Dirtside II, is intended for micro scale figures but I am adapting it to a larger scale figure. I am keeping the basing a multiple figures on a base, using Flames of War size bases, but I am including some personality figures to add something extra to the game. So far I have been fielding 'native' armies 3 to a base and plan to have 4 to a base for the more regular army/marine type forces. 

A few years back a fellow gamer took the chit drawing system that Dirtside employs for combat damage resolution and converted it to a D10 system. I have adjusted this system slightly to reduce the frequency of 'BOOM' hits that automatically take out a vehicle, but otherwise the system remains intact. So far I have been thinking through other changes but I have yet to record any of them.

To date I have painted up 20 Hammers Slammers vehicles, and 91 Ikwen native freedom fighters. I have drawn inspiration from the three Fifth Foreign Legion books and to some extent the Hammers Slammer stories. 

Some photos; The Hammers Slammers, vehicles only so far

Recent painting of GW 40K stuff, has, sadley, got me thinking about Epic...and that is a path to madness

 Well, hello old friend...

Halo UNSC Pelican

 So today I built two of these ships. I thought I would take a break from all the glue sniffing, and try this snap together model. Well, it certainly was a breeze to build. Everything was already off the sprue, the instructions were clear and well illustrated, and amazingly everything fit so well that no glue was required! 

My other T2 model is done

 

 This time it is the Aerial HK Machine it is also 1/32 scale, but looks good to me.

Another build day, with the bounus of a priming day too!

 

 Another 2020 purchase now built, and primed! 

Next on the workbench, some epic stuff bought in 2020

 

So with the idea that I will no longer keep moving boxes of unassembled stuff around my room, I am determined to build what ever I touch. In this case I moved this box of Adeptus Titanicus scenery so that I could find a spot for my newly assembled German flying saucer, well rather than stack it somewhere else, I guess it is time to build it. For good measure I searched out another box. this one for Aeronautica Imperialis. And finally I also dug out my based, but unpainted, 6mm resin sci-fi buildings.

Blast from the past

While doing an inventory of my great pile of unpainted miniatures, I stumbled upon these old scratch built 15mm vehicles. Clearly, judging bu the dust, it has been quite some time since they saw the light of day Also they certainly have seen better days s all of them have taken some damage!