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ch player chooses and plays creates a unique scenario every game secondly the cards give players something more strategic to aim for as the cards represent the fickle and varied priorities of their characters i chose the high noon public objective this meant that both leaders started in the middle of the table and had a shoot out before the game began half breed bob was too elusive so i discarded the card halfway through the game marc s outlaws chose the robbery public objective card these three characters were deployed in an agreeable location and each was assigned a loot counter at the beginning of the game as always where ever you find marshall mills the assumption vigilance committee is never far behind the game in full swing the outlaws slowed down by loot made their way towards the edge of town meanwhile the lawmen stormed the corral and ended up driving the outlaws out of town sadly not all the loot was recovered another great game i have to say marc and i agree that the card system adds a lot of flavour and ultimately makes the game more tactical and unpredictable we will continue to tweak and play this objective system over the next year or more count on seeing more game reports in the future and for the record my lawmen won just sayin thanks for reading jet posted by jet aka jason at 11 01 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels old west shoot outs and hold ups sunday july 20 2014 the wrath of brother abelard we haven t played a great amount of chaos in carpathia in the last six months but it is still one of mine and jason s favourite games i snapped a few shots of last night s game for all you gothic horror fans grossmeister abelard fends off the vampire lord as his dark minions encircle the brothers we played one game my brotherhood against jason s nosferatu since we both have six warbands each for cinc one never knows what two foes will end up on the table for any given game the brotherhood are quite a different warband from my european monster hunters although they lack the pseudo super characters available to the monster hunters there s the ability to spread skills around the warband in a much more balanced fashion for this game we used my new and improved objective system it s similar to the one i posted a couple of years ago except now there are separate objective decks for human and monster warbands the brotherhood drew the duel the search and the task the nosferatu drew the duel the invasion and the kidnapping of course we didn t know what our opponent s objectives were until after the game was over father athanasius inspires the brothers to greater acts of courage it was one of those rare games where a player can end the game early by earning all 6 vp before the time is up things started going right for me early on after my leader charged the master vampire and killed him in two turns without any help from his fellow brothers doing the job himself earned my warband the maximum of 2 vp for the duel with two less combat oriented objectives remaining i e the task and the search i concentrated on a couple of key characters finding things and solving puzzles while the rest of my warband held the monsters at bay it worked out in my favour and early in turn five i announced that the game was over and that i was victorious brothers ephrem and ambrose protect sister benedicta from the night creatures when the game ended jason had 3 vp and i had 6 vp plus 9 investigation points to add to my campaign sheet more importantly we got to roll lots of dice while insulting each other with horrible transylvanian accents i m not really painting anything for gothic horror these days i m trying to focus which is hard in summer on painting a new posse for legends of the old west and some other odds and ends that i m trying to get finished before the fall however jason has purchased models for two new warbands french monster hunters which he has started and romanian vampires i ll keep you posted thanks for reading jet posted by jet aka jason at 12 38 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gothic horror campaign wednesday june 18 2014 avar noble cavalry the heart of the avar army the noble bow armed lancers the avar nobles were true medium cavalry who could ride in loose order and use bow fire to disrupt the enemy however they could also form up into a solid line and deliver a formidable charge as the avar wave crashed westward many steppe peoples joined their conquest impetus unit type cl base size 8cm x 6cm special none manufacturers essex old glory 15s comments this collection of miniatures is a true hodge podge of codes and nations i ve attempted to combine and paint them in such a way as to give the impression of a melting pot of nations united under more or less one banner i really had to scrounge the collection i was given to put this part of my force together literally every available and suitable cavalry model i had was pressed and bent and forced into service it s one of those few projects where i have no left overs it s a good feeling actually the three main units are played as vbu 6 cm lancers with comp bow c in essence this means that as impetus units their primary purpose is close combat with their missile capability being more of a bonus to take advantage of when the opportunity arises the last photo are also bow armed you can t see it from the photo but these are fielded as vbu 5 cm with comp bow b in other words the bows are more of a primary weapon ideally melee engagement would only take place after a couple of volleys of bow fire combined with the four units of light cavalry in the previous post this really is the heart and backbone of my avar army when i manage to mount a unified attack with all of my cavalry in one turn the outcome can be quite unsettling for my opponent in my opinion every impetus player should have a fast moving bow armed cavalry army in his collection thanks for reading jet posted by jet aka jason at 12 22 am 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 15mm impetus avar slav gallery tuesday june 3 2014 avar skirmishing cavalry scourge of the steppe the avar nation was really a conglomerate of many different nomadic peoples impetus unit type cl base size 8cm x 6cm special none manufacturers khurasan old glory 15s comments so i was going to take individual photos of all four units from multiple angles but i didn t these units function as light cavalry cl in my avar army for impetus i should specify that there are a fairly even mix of horses from khurasan and old glory most of the riders are from khurasan s huns range and their avar range please take my advice and don t buy the avar cavalry they are very poor models and the horses were ridiculously huge i e i threw them in the garbage it s funny because on the contrary their hun models are the nicest 15mm huns i ve ever seen i was also forced to twist and bend riders to fit on unmatched horses such is the mish mash nature of these units i really had to scrounge through the collection to get enough minis for four units i had originally planned to use four riders per base however when it came time to start painting i decided to try three just to get the extra unit with the impetus style diorama basing i think it turned out ok although sparse on the base they actually look correct galloping out in front of my more densely based noble cavalry and let s face it one of the cool things about impetus is that we don t have to use the same basing conventions as our opponents i typically field them on the flanks in my secondary commands and use them to harass the enemy and when possible to flank slower moving units the great thing is if you play them right you can cause some disorder and a little damage to the enemy and then have them flee before they are taken out themselves thanks for reading jet posted by jet aka jason at 9 46 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 15mm impetus avar slav gallery saturday may 31 2014 workbench update avar horsemen and old west citizens before my blogging hiatus i always found that organizing my thoughts in the form of a blog post was very beneficial for one it helped cleanse my cluttered mind and keep me focused on the task at hand also as a blog reader i enjoy reading about what others are plotting and painting as it would often give me a chance to live vicariously through projects that i would likely never take on myself so here we go a unit of avar light horse for impetus the chap on the left is the last one to be finished my avar slav army for impetus was in its infancy when i stopped blogging a couple of years ago however i m pleased to report that my painting carried on even though my blogging didn t the horsemen pictured above are the last unit of cavalry for that army thank god although i love the 15mm scale and i enjoy painting 15mm projects as a whole cavalry at this scale can get particularly monotonous to do a nice job one must pay attention to certain nit picky details such as the horse s barding and saddle not to mention the belts scabbards and quivers sported by the rider for a complete 500 point army all i have left to paint is two units of slav javelinmen fl contrary to the cavalry i find these light infantry types go much quicker so i anticipate having the full army ready to go by the middle of june this completion date will coincide with stu receiving his frankish army a commissioned painting project that will just so happen to provide historical opponent for my avar can t wait this i don t particularly enjoy painting 15mm cavalry realization is quite timely in one way and a little inconvenient in another i have enough 15mm miniatures poked away to paint a full 500 point all mounted alan army they will stay in storage for now but if i knew then what i knew now i likely wouldn t have purchased an all horse army in the first place however it s not all bad i backed my first kickstarter project this year i will be getting one of the new westwind 15mm ancient armies in the fall although we are still figuring out which era we will pursue i ve already made up my mind that i won t be choosing a horse heavy army more citizens for assumption in various stages of completion eli mason far left has already joined the posse the above photo shows the old west citizens i am currently painting these are all from dixon miniatures i bought them years ago and never got around to them i must say it s quite liberating to finish projects that have lain dormant for so long i have another half a dozen that have just been primed i m aiming to have them all finished before my foundry cowboys and my renedra buildings arrive in the mail to dip or not to dip i am at that stage of geeking where i have more or less stayed focused on a few main projects gothic horror old west pulp and impetus both gothic horror and impetus are pretty much finished as much as any project is ever finished and the old west and pulp projects will be clued up by the fall with a new 15mm army on the way soon and looking to next year it will soon be time to try some new things i think as i get older and as the miniature cabinet starts filling up with painted figures i feel less need to make every project the best i can do with that in mind i ve been starting to develop a curiosity concerning dipping products specifically i would love to buy a box of 28mm plastic something or other from warlord games for instance and try my hand at priming the main colour painting on the other base colours and then dipping inking washing i don t expect the same level of quality as with a traditional paint job but i would like to experience the thrill of mass painting 30 or 40 models at once in a week or two i have ordered a dropper bottle of army painter s strong tone wash when that arrives i will experiment on something i have lying around i shall post photos of my successful or failed results here thanks for reading jet posted by jet aka jason at 10 33 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels project diary older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments posts by date 2014 7 jul 2014 2 legends of the old west playing with new objectiv the wrath of brother abelard jun 2014 2 may 2014 3 2012 6 nov 2012 1 oct 2012 2 may 2012 1 apr 2012 1 mar 2012 1 2011 44 dec 2011 1 nov 2011 3 oct 2011 3 sep 2011 2 aug 2011 3 jul 2011 3 jun 2011 4 may 2011 4 apr 2011 3 mar 2011 6 feb 2011 8 jan 2011 4 2010 85 dec 2010 4 nov 2010 6 oct 2010 8 sep 2010 7 aug 2010 7 jul 2010 8 jun 2010 6 may 2010 7 apr 2010 6 mar 2010 7 feb 2010 12 jan 2010 7 2009 107 dec 2009 9 nov 2009 11 oct 2009 8 sep 2009 6 aug 2009 7 jul 2009 10 jun 2009 10 may 2009 12 apr 2009 9 mar 2009 7 feb 2009 8 jan 2009 10 2008 25 dec 2008 4 nov 2008 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