War at Sea: Condition Zebra Stat Card Gallery

This is the complete Condition Zebra Picture Gallery. It shows all cards personally scanned in by me at 600 dpi per card.  Please note all our stat card scans (including these) are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share alike 3.0 Unported license (as is everything on this blog).  You must adhere to that license in order to use the scans.

I hope you enjoy the card gallery. Don’t forget to use the Condition Zebra Stat Cards, 2010 Starter Stat Cards, Flank Speed Stat Cards, Task Force Stat Cards, and Base Set Stat Cards.

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 40 high resolution pictures. That may be resource heavy and if you use dial-up it may take a very long time to load. Dial-up users are better off going to Condition Zebra Gallery Folders and peruse the folders by nation.

PLEASE NOTE IT IS NOT YET POSSIBLE TO DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE GALLERY. THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND THE ZIP FILE WILL BE UPLOADED WHEN THE PROJECT IS COMPLETED. If you wish to download the complete gallery you can find the REPLACE WITH ACTUAL SIZE IN MB WHEN UPLOADED 6mb zipped file at Condition Zebra Stat Card Gallery Zip (right click, save target as).

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War at Sea: Condition Zebra Case 1 Pulls

My case of War at Sea: Condition Zebra has arrived courtesy of the Miniature Market. I am happy to announce that I received no duplicate rares in the case. Including the units pulled from the boosters purchased at Battleground Games in Abington my collection is now:

1 HMCS Uganda
1 Bearn
3 D.520
3 Lamotte-Picquet
1 Provence
2 V-156F Vindicator
1 Giorgios Averof
2 Proteus
3 Vasilissa Olga
3 Witte de With
3 HMS Cossack
1 HMS Royal Oak
1 HMS Victorious
2 Sunderland Mk. I
1 B-24D Liberator
3 USMC F4U-1A Corsair
2 USS Allen M. Sumner (DD 692)
1 USS Houston (CA 30)
1 USS Lexington (CV 2)
3 USS S-37 (SS 132)
0 USS West Virginia (BB 48)
1 Arkhangelsk
1 Vainamoinen
4 Fi 167
1 Gneisenau
1 Nurnberg
2 Z32
2 Ascari
0 Caio Duilio
3 Leonardo da Vinci
0 Trento
3 Z.506B Airone
2 Agano
2 Chikuma
1 Fuso
1 Junyo
3 Matsu
2 Murasame
2 N1K1-J “George”
1 Suzuya

For those who are keeping track, this means I am 1) only missing 3 rares (they are en route) and 2) the problems I had with missing units has since been rectified through local resources.

Now, the really good news for everyone is that I am now digitizing the stat cards. Only missing three units is a pleasant change for me. When Flank Speed released I purchased 3.5 cases and was still missing several units. Being able to purchase a single case and a few boosters yielding all but three units is simply amazing!

The digitization project will commence immediately. I will post scans as they are available with a goal of posting entire nations at a time. Like before I will be spreading out the scans. To answer your questions, yes this is to make you come back often looking for scans and yes it may be dastardly but this does work.

Lastly, please note that usage of the scans must comply to the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share alike 3.0 Unported license (as is everything on this blog). This is also mentioned in the readme file included with the zipped scans. The basics of the license is that you cannot use the scans for commercial reasons, you must state that I scanned them, you must provide a link to the scans (either www.wargamingforums.com or the individual scan), and you must share the scans under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share alike 3.0 Unported license so people have equal access and will know about the lengthy effort I put into this digitization project.

This was posted on my iPad.

War at Sea: Condition Zebra First Pulls

I’ve been anxiously waiting for my case of Condition Zebra to arrive and couldn’t stand waiting any longer. Today I gave up the wait, drove to Battleground Games in Abington, and purchased two boosters.

This gives me a start on the scanning project and marginally sates my appetite for shiny new War at Sea minis. My two boosters were hand-picked by star store employee Chase, happy birthday by the way, which yielded amazing pulls.

My first booster was torn apart to reveal:
11/40 HMS Cossack
24/40 Fi 167
30/40 Leonardo Da Vinci
32/40 Z. 506B Airone
34/40 Chikuma

The second booster provided:
4/40 Lamotte-Piquet
10/40 Witte de With
16/40 USMC F4U-IA Corsair
19/40 USS Lexington (CV2)
37/40 Matsu

Each booster overwhelmingly favored different sides. Between the two I have a start of five Axis and five Allies units. I am very happy with my pulls. The USS Lexington helps to found out my USN carrier fleet while I have nice additions to my Axis air fleet and a strong replacement for the Ambra.

The Chikuma isn’t a terrible pull, but it isn’t from my top ten list. Wednesday is gaming night and these new units give me a chance to integrate the new set with my existing collection. I know it will provide interesting results.

Please visit again for my WAS Condition Zebra 600dpi stat card scans.

This was posted on my iPad.

War at Sea: Condition Zebra Stat Card Gallery Update

War at Sea: Condition Zebra was released about a week ago and I didn’t even notice. I recently got married and completely forgot about CZ’s release.

Don’t worry, because a case of Condition Zebra is on the way into my grubby mitts. As soon as it arrives I will immediately begin scanning all of the stat cards. The scans will be uploaded in batches for your viewing pleasure.

There is one potential change to the scanning project. Usually I purchase four or more cases of each set. I have decided to limit myself to a single case of CZ. As such it may take me some time to obtain some units and their stat cards.

All scans will continue to be high resolution 600dpi color scans. As with all the scans the Condition Zebra ones will fall under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share alike 3.0 Unported license (as is everything on this blog). You must adhere to that license in order to use the scans.

Please enjoy the scans I do share while I hunt down any vagrant units.

War at Sea: Spotlight on Danaussie’s Custom Model Painting

War at Sea is a wonderful CMG (collectible miniatures game) but many people overlook the hobby side of the game.  The models are nicely sculpted and painted but they are not always historically accurate.  There is a growing number of gamers who collect the models to do more than just play the game.  They customize the models by converting and/or painting them.

Axis & Allies ForuMINI member Danaussie is one of those individuals.  He recently wowed me when he posted several pictures of his newly custom painted USS Baltimore.  After seeing those pics I knew I needed more.  Dan, a resident of beautiful Canberra in the Land Down Under, has kindly agreed to give me permission to share his pictures with all of you.  I have a small sample of his work to share and will hopefully have more available in the future.

Before we get to his spectacular artwork we have one other thing to share.  Not only is Dan an accomplished artist but he took the time to compile a painting tutorial as a PDF document.  If you like how Dan paints and want to learn his techniques please read his tutorial.  It is very nicely done.  Also please see his other works at Danaussie’s WAS Custom Painted Gallery (you can browse the folders by nation).

Please click the pictures for a larger version.