Oct 17
The Battle for the Bahamas is a scenario played at Battleground Games in Abington a few weeks ago by the regular War at Sea players. One of our regulars, John the Industrious, crafted 3D airfields, with rules, to place on islands. In addition he included rules, courtesy of WoTC, for shore batteries, which are supposed to appear in the next set if “confirmed internal rumors” are believable. They usually are.
The game pitted an Allied force defending the Bahamas against an invading Axis force. This 2 on 2 game arrayed John and Rick as the United States, fielding a 200 point joint carrier fleet, hoping to stop Cary and I as a German and Italian coalition fleet. As the attackers we had to escort transports to the main island. The transports had to unload their reinforcements, bolstering our small landing party, and in turn giving us objective points. The Allies had to do the same thereby repelling the invaders and, at the same time, destroy our transports.
Below you can see the progression of the game in pictures. The game ended with the Axis losing due to failure to protect the transports and also from superior Allied air power. Half a dozen carriers tends to do that, though, so no surprise there. Much appreciation goes to Ben for taking pictures of the game. Thank you kindly good sir.
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written by ^Raven^
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Axis and Allies Minis, Collectible Minis, Historical Gaming, War at Sea.
Aug 29
This is the complete War at Sea Picture Gallery. It shows all cards personally scanned in by me at 600dpi per card. Head over to the War at Sea Task Force Picture Gallery for all the cards from set 2.
We will be adding to this over time and hope to have it completed shortly.
I hope you enjoy the card gallery. It will be supplemented with a picture gallery of all the models as soon as possible.
We will soon have scans of the cards’ backs and make them available to everyone. You can enlarge any of the pictures simply by clicking on them. This will take you to a larger version where you can see all the text on the Special Abilities.
Before you click READ MORE please note that the gallery has 64 high resolution pictures. That will be resource heavy and if you use dial-up it will take a very long time to load. Dial-up users are better off going to Baset Set Gallery Folders and peruse the folders by nation.
If you wish to download the complete gallery you can find the 18mb zipped file at Base Set Stat Card Gallery Zip (right click, save target as).
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written by ^Raven^
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Axis and Allies Minis, Collectible Minis, Historical Gaming, War at Sea.
Aug 26
Monsterpocalypse was a big hit at GenCon Indy 2008 and rightly so. Great looking models, solid rules, and great support from a classy gaming company. The game doesn’t officially release until later this year but who can wait until the Autumn? Not I and to that end I now have real, live (well not alive), models and stuff for the game.
The products arrived yesterday and I documented the unveiling with many flashes of digital camera. More are en route including the limited edition GenCon Indy 2008 only sculpts of two monsters plus more units and even more monsters. For now, I have a solid base with 1 starter, 1 unit booster, and half a dozen monster boosters.
Enjoy the pictures below. Remember to click them for a larger pic.
written by ^Raven^
Tags
Collectible Minis, Monsterpocalypse, Privateer Press.
Aug 10
Wondering if the new No Quarter is worth purchasing? The table of contents below tells you what issue #19 covers. There’s great Metamorphosis coverage plus tons of modeling articles.
Over 90 pages of Privateer Press goodness all for just $5.99. It is nice to see more Hordes coverage. We are very excited about that game.
- Fire in the Hole p. 2 “Letter from the Editor-in-Chief.”
- Bosun’s Call p. 4 “Letters to the Editor and general shenanigans.”
- News From the Front p. 5 “Events and important news from around the world.”
- New Releases p. 6 “The latest Privateer Press products for July and August.”
- Epic Proportions p. 9 “A first look at Metamorphosis and the warlocks who have gone epic.”
- Full Metal Challenge: Weather the Storm p. 19 “Think you have the Warmachine chops to figure out this challenge?”
- Battle Report: Blood Harvest p. 20 “The Privateer Press staff takes two of the new epics out for a little spin.”
- 2008 Privateer Press Invitational p. 38 “A few dozen of our best fans came over for a friendly couple of games.”
- Modeling & Painting: Speed Painting Worldwatchers p. 40 “Ron Kruzie shows how to paint wood and stone - super quick!”
- Painting Challenge: Knock on Wood Challenge p. 43 “Bust out your table saw and make your ‘jack or beast look like wood.”
- Summer Rampage 2008 p. 44 “Get your fury and focus on with a new Summer Rampage campaign.”
- Shifting Gears p. 49 “Things change. Rework your tactics for these classic warcasters.”
- Sign & Sigil: The Greylord Covenant p. 54 “New Paths of Power for the Greylord Ternions.”
- The Gamers’ Journal: Studio Showdown, Part 3 p. 59 “The studio is up to 750 points. Now the real mayhem begins.”
- Secrets of the Wild: Might of the Kriels p. 68 “Big, bad, and blue. Tactics utilizing the mighty Trollbloods.”
- Monsterpocalypse: Agendas and Factions, Part 3 p. 76 “The last two factions and a sneak peak at the Monsterpocalypse comic.”
- The Gavyn Kyle Files: Ashlynn d’Elyse p. 78 “By blade and pistol, Ashlynn fights to restore Llael’s sovereignty.”
- Secrets of Five Fingers: Disease Name Generator p. 82 “PCs have a mere cold? Think again with this disease name generator.”
- Guts and Gears: Tharn Ravagers p. 84 “Vicious, deadly, and cannibalistic. What’s not to love?”
- Parts Bin p. 91 “A look at individual parts available in the Privateer Press Store.”
- Drawn & Quartered / Player Gallery p. 93 “IK inspired comic and some of the best fan-based paint jobs around.”
written by ^Raven^
Tags
Collectible Minis, hordes, Iron Kingdoms, Monsterpocalypse, No Quarter Magazine, Privateer Press, Warmachine.
Aug 07
Wednesday evenings are War at Sea night at Battleground Games in Abington. Tonight I thought it’d be fun to record my game and write it up as a battle report. I brought my digital camera with the hopes of taking pictures. For some reason it wouldn’t work at the store. Either the battery died or squigs were playing a game of Blood Bowl with its innards.
Thankfully I took some pictures of my fleet before I left my house and I have peppered those throughout the battle report. I played a 200pt game against my gaming buddy Rick. Below is the breakdown of our two fleets. Mine is accurate and his is as best I can remember.
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written by ^Raven^
Tags
Axis and Allies Minis, Collectible Minis, Historical Gaming, War at Sea, WAS Set 2, WAS Task Force.
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