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ot my game related blogging on a new blogger page solely dedicated to gaming and although i created the page i never actually posted anything on it it s now 2014 a little over 2 years later and i m going to give my butt a good kick and try to blog again both non gaming and gaming the latter of course dependent on actually gaming related although i just posted a game review here i decided this was the perfect opportunity to start anew and so with that in mind i ve also re posted the review on my new gaming blog linked here the one inch general i think i m going to attempt to continue blogging here on rassilon s matrix but it won t be gaming related what i am going to blog about i don t know yet if you have any suggestions please let me know thank you to those who continued to bother to follow this blog despite the lack of posts and hopefully you will still continue to do so in the future posted by rassilon at 8 46 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest star trek attack wing review after a long hiatus i am finally posting to my blog again after playing numerous battles of staw today for the first time with a couple of gaming buddies here s a brief review of star trek attack wing if you re a miniatures connoisseur you ll be disappointed but from what i ve seen on the youtube they re paint quite well just search youtube for star trek attack wing re paints it s based on the x wing system but produced by wiz kids the main difference is that because you re playing with capital ships you re able to add more upgrade cards and additional crew components although the cloak mechanism doesn t hide your movement on the table it seemed to do a good job representing the ability and gave it a decent feel with the additional evasion dice displacement and loss of lock on after multiple turns of cloak activity agreeing with my friend chris yoder it feels the most like my favorite starship game star trek starship tactical combat simulator shout out to my old gaming buddy silver since it stopped being produced it certainly doesn t replace it but it definitely emanates a similar vibe i especially like the idea that it s a system that seems to be aimed at running no more than a three ships a squadron or wing per player i generally dislike the broad trend to make starship combat games aimed at clashing with massive fleets where you loose the nuance of starship to starship combat the exception being full thrust for when you do want fleet battles as it s a well designed classic game that seems to balance detail and numbers on the downside again the miniatures are rather bland the color choices are questionable for example the federation ships are an odd shade of blue however the worst thing about them isn t the miniatures themselves save the constitution class see below but the way in which they are releasing the waves for example they ve released the reliant with khan this past fall but the same era enterprise isn t due out until july huh constitution class og enterprise vs the miranda class og movie era reliant i m pretty sure the enterprise refit in the movies was not much larger than the original enterprise the wiz kids st aw constitution is ridiculously tiny they must re release this with better scaling i need to play it some more but it i think i like it maybe even more than x wing it would definitely make for a perfect adaptation to capital ship combat in the star wars universe too with the addition of some kind of fighter squadron rules another bonus it appears to be easily adaptable to house rules like ststcs was 3 5 to 4 out of 5 stars update i ve re posted a slightly edited version of this review on my new blog the one inch general i m going to attempt to reboot my attempt at gaming posts on this new blog if you wish to continue follow just my gaming posts please follow the new blog posted by rassilon at 7 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels miniatures star trek wargaming sunday october 30 2011 fright night 2011 image created by ted henkle this weekend a small spooky affair took place at historic fort steilacoom wa the grounds surrounding the fort s old location are supposedly haunted you can read about it here in an excerpt here from myths and mysteries of washington by lynn e bragg welcome a frightastic night was had by all thanks to lawrence b damond c and bruce s for hosting and organizing this inaugural event also in attendance were myself dean m daryl n scott m and a new member of the wargaming community and his son who i unfortunately cannot remember the names of scott a also showed up briefly to give dean and i some goodies from an old glory order and a special guest goodie were brought by attendees of course a huge thank you to my wonderful wife for baking a bunch of nummy cupcakes for everyone altar of goodie doom mmmm there were two games set up when i arrived but because the original invite was limited because of it being a trial run there weren t enough of us to play both therefore we voted to play in bruce s sword and the flame variant sword and the vein buahahahah set in mid 19th century austro hungary my vampire hunters nervously sweeping the woods the good guys were attempting to rid the area of evils emanating from dracula s castle the forces included papal zouaves on loan from the pope monks with holy water hungarian chassuers with a light artillery piece polizei werewolf hunters with silver bullets vampire hunters and a couple brave villagers as guides in opposition were werewolves nachtspiele pumpkin demons zombies and of course vampires oh my the vampire hunters had bonuses in killing vampires the polizei had two silver bullets each giving bonuses the monks had holy water giving bonuses and also had the ability to prevent zombification of the good guys instead of the 3 4 on a d6 to wound the if attacked by zombies a 3 and 4 would also turn them into zombies the game was actually played by candlelight while the chassuers and papal zouaves advanced directly toward the distant howling in the woods the polizei advanced through the graveyard where they happened upon a casket which were victory points and the vampire hunters slipped around the flank attempting to reach the castle avoiding dracula s minions the hungarian chassuers were ambushed by werewolves at first chasing them away but later after perhaps over confidently advancing they were pinned by the returning werewolves while nachtspiele ripped into them the remaining hungarians tried to re group with the zouaves who were too late in rescuing them nachtspiele re group the polizei didn t make it to the scene of the carnage until after the werewolves had run off again and were eventually killed off later the remaining zouaves were whittled away after trying to intercept dracula s carriage they eventually attempted an escape the hungarians not learning their lesson pressed on perhaps they didn t truly accept the horrors that were going on around them but they eventually met their doom to a herd of zombies mysterious carriage zombie herd the vampire hunters discovered the werewolves and finished them off only to later also succomb to the zombie menace in the meantime dracula and his evil mistress had raided and burned down the village a frightful night indeed afterward myself dean and lawrence visited one of the quarters in which people lawrence himself have experienced strange happenings quarters 3 at night photo borrowed from dean later when i examined one of the photos i took i noticed this dark something over the desk lawrence had talked about earlier what is this all in all i had a great time the game was a hoot and the visit to quarters 3 gave me goosebumps and left me with chills a more extensive collection of pictures from the event can be found here fright night photobucket album oh by the way i mentioned our special guest earlier slashicus motimus posted by rassilon at 11 36 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest victrix napoleonic british infantry w i p part 1 5 just a quick update on my project a first coat of red added to the 48 line infantry the paint red craft i used was rather thin so i may have to go back over where i painted with another coat and most likely another shade of red i had a devil of a time figuring out where straps began and ended so i ll probably do this after i attempt to paint the white lace and straps my portion of our group old glory also came in also i was able to make a deal with my buddy dean to assemble the victrix artillery crew and limbers in exchange for another box of warlord romans definitely a worthwhile exchange given my extreme distaste for assembling fiddly bits speak of the devil or deanvil see comment below just after finishing this update dean sent a photo of the assembled victrix artillerymen and limbers all finished thanks dean posted by rassilon at 9 49 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday october 26 2011 victrix napoleonic infantry w i p little did i know i would be working on napoleonic miniatures again let alone 28mm plastic ones my first experience miniature wargaming the napoleonic era was back in the early 90 s playing napoleon s battle s with the frankfurt wargamers i later attempted collecting 15mm napoleonic armies of my own but realizing the task at hand i ended up selling them off i then had the bright idea of using 6mm miniatures and made a large purchase of russians from adler that are still sitting unpainted in a cabinet i was later seduced by idea of napoleonic skirmishing in the peninsula based on the richard sharpe series of stories the sharp practice rules set by too fat lardies and the lure of victrix s extremely well sculpted and relatively cheap plastic 28mm box sets after discovering that sharps practice was not the skirmish rules set i thought it was and realizing the work needed to assemble the plastic figures the victrix boxes also sat in a cabinet collecting dust as i focused on other projects however my buddy dean continued to host game after game of sharp practice and watching him slowly build his armies and even trying out our own simply designed single page set of fast play napoleonic rules my interest slowly rekindled and with a recent game of black powder it finally sparked again so here i am actually working on 28mm plastic napoleonic british for black powder possibly with the idea of our group hosting a game of black powder at this next year s enfilade 2012 historical miniature gaming convention victrix napoleonic british first i must admit that i did not assemble the miniatures one more and probably a very important element in contributing to my napoleonic rekindling was a deal i brokered with my friend dean to assemble my victrix in exchange for a couple boxes of warlord praetorian guard i had recently obtained as part of a foundry roman army deal the plan is to place four miniatures each on 50mm by 50mm bases for use in 24 figure regular sized units for black powder or sharps practice the 48 converted light infantry in the left of the picture below will form the 43rd 52nd light infantry regiments i am unsure which line infantry units the other 48 will represent yet a photo dean snapped of the assembled victrix you can read more about how dean went about assembling the victrix here plastic project and plastic project 1 at the wab corner my plan is to use the minwax dip method which in fact dean used on the praetorian guard i traded him which can be seen here the minwax of choice is supposed to be the tudor satin pictured below left because the dip method leaves figures quite shiny testors dullcote was the recommended solution pictured below right minwax testors dullcote the first step was of course to prime the figures as the brits would have grey and or white slacks i considered priming the figures in one of those two colors and dry brushing highlighting those areas as necessary after a test of each i decided to stick with what i know and went with black my favorite black primer has become one suggested by another local gamer buddy ace hardware s premium enamel black flat spray paint pictured below left ace premium enamel black flat dreamcoat cadet grey after priming black i went ahead and started block painting the grey slacks and bedrolls for light infantry that will have white slacks i will go back over a number of them dry brushing white over the grey before using the dip because i inherited quite a collection of craft paints from my mother in law and wife and because they ve generally worked well for me i ve continued to use and re stock them as necessary for my grey i chose dreamcoat cadet grey by delta pictured above right british centre company british flank company with optional light inf heads pieces close up of light infantry next update the flesh white lacing and straps in my exuberance i ve also put in on a friend s bulk old glory order for a pack of 6 pound guns british generals and a rocket battery pack which was ordered a week ago and amazingly has already arrived which i hope to pick up this weekend my final and last addition to the british will probably be perry s new plastic hussars for the 6 pound guns although i horribly dislike the idea of assembling victrix i was able to obtain a couple extra plastic limbers and artillery crew from another gaming buddy thanks james perhaps i can wrangle dean into assembling these too victrix limbers and artillery crew if i survive this napoleonic project i plan to move on to russians next basing the bulk of the army around either the new warlord plastic russians less assembly or old glory s 2nd edition miniatures huzzah posted by rassilon at 10 28 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels projects wargaming gamemaster s focus on jumble in the jungle a redshift 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