tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39717491433193192942024-02-19T17:06:32.663+13:00VomkriegA blog about boardgaming, wargaming, painting and modelingVomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.comBlogger257125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-22942799011493980462022-07-20T08:47:00.005+12:002022-07-20T08:47:27.086+12:00Horus Heresy: age of darkness in about 3 minutes<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="348" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gn11HYDBOk8" width="485" youtube-src-id="gn11HYDBOk8"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-86496069889047650082022-02-23T08:29:00.006+13:002022-02-23T08:29:43.546+13:00My painted board games<p> A video tour of all my painted board games</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="354" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gGzWdTMCpYU" width="484" youtube-src-id="gGzWdTMCpYU"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-14625527262076170692022-01-26T08:50:00.001+13:002022-01-26T08:50:02.612+13:00Aeronautica Imperialis in about 3 minutes<p> Here is my summary of Aeronautica Imperialis in about 3 minutes</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="369" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wid6LmZAzzc" width="549" youtube-src-id="wid6LmZAzzc"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-51403360735444206222021-06-23T22:31:00.002+12:002021-06-23T22:31:27.192+12:00The top 10 Games Workshop board games<p> Love them or hate them, Games workshop have put out a bunch of board games over the years. Here's my list of my top 10. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="456" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fwWkr_Bnke4" width="549" youtube-src-id="fwWkr_Bnke4"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-26602317588458571222021-06-19T09:20:00.002+12:002021-06-19T09:20:25.379+12:00Magic the gathering in about 3 minutes<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #313a46; font-family: NunitoSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.75px;">Today's recap is one of the most important and influential games of all time, magic the gathering. Love it or hate it, it's impact on the hobby and game mechanics is profound. And board games wouldn't be the same without it</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aj9AlyvlJ5w" width="320" youtube-src-id="aj9AlyvlJ5w"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-81719908083382378372018-09-10T22:41:00.001+12:002018-09-10T22:41:52.120+12:00February's board game reviews - Catching up on posting here<div style="text-align: center;">
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Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-35923924883422121772018-01-31T11:45:00.000+13:002018-01-31T11:45:07.948+13:00Launching a you tube channel - 3 Minute board Games<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, today is a big day for me <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">as it is the launch of my new You tube channel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">3 minute board games is about doing summaries of games in about 3 minutes. There a</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">re a lot of long reviews, play through and how to play videos for board games. But no one is doing short summaries. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">That's our goal, make videos about games in a short time frame. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We will be running a patreon to support this project, pop along and check it out here. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9257332</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, thanks to Vomkrieg team member "the Millarnator" I got an invite to the global release of Weta Workshops first foray into board gaming.<br /><br />GKR:Heavy Hitters. Where the GKR stands for Giant Killer Robots. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The event was packed, with people spilling out of the building and outside and some people had to line up for well over an hour to get their game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's something fundamentally great about seeing a whole bunch of board gamers from all over Wellington just hanging out, talking about games and telling stories while waiting for their turn to go get their game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some interesting people turned up. Shem Phillips, designer of the North Sea series of games and Bethel Woods turned up to grab his copy. Ahmed, who runs counter culture, the excellent local boardgame cafe was there. And I bumped into Dave from Seriously board, one of NZ best online board game retailers as he was loading his car with nearly a dozen boxes for his customers.<br /><br />I don't think he will have any trouble getting rid of them :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, as for the game, it's pretty straight forward. Its about fighting with Giant Killer Robots, and hopefully I will have a review of the game up in the near future. It looks like it will be a blast, but no further comments until we get it on the table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Until then, here's some quick unboxing photos to tide you over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It all depends if Mr Millar lets me near his new toys or not :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, hopefully we can some more photos and a session report up for you. </span><br />
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<br />Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-91811083882030657462017-12-30T22:05:00.004+13:002017-12-30T22:09:06.923+13:00The 5th Annual Kriegy Awards - 2017<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Award time again, and in the usual tradition of spitting in the face of the concept of self appointed people giving out awards and claiming legitimacy i'm doing my own. Why? Because I can be a self-appointed expert as much as the next guy :)<br /><br />Awards for a 5th straight year. That's basically a tradition now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As per usual, the awards are inconsistent year to year, somethings I just play/do more years than others.<br /><br />Oh, and reminder that games can win awards even if they were not published this year. If it's new to me, it's new to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Pass me the lotion, I need some alone time" </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">award</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For best solo game of the year</span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>I added this award last year, and it's steadily growing in importance. I do a lot of solo gaming and have really enjoyed it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've played a lot of solo games this year, and a lot of games that were new to me. But I really want to call out three games in particular who stood above the rest. This War of Mine, Anachrony, and Spirit Island. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All three of those games were top notch for me, but the winner goes to the game with the best solo opponent in a euro game I've played. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anachrony is a beast of a game, a literal and metaphorical heavy weight game. It's worker placement, which is nothing revolutionary in and of itself, but it does worker placement with a neat theme, smooth systems and oodles of replay-ability. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the solo mode pits you against "THE CHRONOBOT" and AI opponent who is a cheating bastard guaranteed to screw you out of moves and places to place your workers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I highly recommend this game to anyone who like worker placement, solo or in groups. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Previous winners: </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">2016: Terraforming Mars</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm not actually a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon trading card games, but I understand CCG and LCGs and the crazy culture that is behind them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Collecting, trading, selling cards, building decks, winning tournaments. I've done a bit of that in the past, and Millennium Blades is the board game of that. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The game is thoroughly meta, as you play characters involved in those tournaments and card collecting, and their is real time card buying and trading, as well as collecting extras and building your collections for extra points. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then, once the trading is done you play through a tournament, where you try to score "ranking points" with your small deck of cards. The game is full of combos and neat things you can do, and it really rewards quick thinking and creativity. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also, the game has a metric butt load of content. You could play this game many many times without really burning through the options or locking on to an "optimal" approach. It's too haphazard and chaotic for that. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2016: Blood Bowl Team Manager: Foul Play</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>2015: Smash Up</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2014: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Android Netrunner</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "The distant future, the year 2000" </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">award</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Not really a new idea as such, but one that seems to be gaining a lot of momentum, and that is solo support apps for games. <br /><br /><br />Asmodee/FFG seem to have clicked to how big the solo gaming community is, due to their descent app, and have created one for Imperial Assault. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHV4g5hMGDviuyo1nUMqMftkaU_5et0B6u9MgDGSsjN_0Uv-CBVlxnujEWaRd86YVG-DVrIfrO4TtTUYWziC2piUkFTpUIe4nX5cmhG962Dqw7BrPE9Ne-fMeAsjd26y5yRtQLHJ0oK9I/s1600/6_heroselect.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHV4g5hMGDviuyo1nUMqMftkaU_5et0B6u9MgDGSsjN_0Uv-CBVlxnujEWaRd86YVG-DVrIfrO4TtTUYWziC2piUkFTpUIe4nX5cmhG962Dqw7BrPE9Ne-fMeAsjd26y5yRtQLHJ0oK9I/s640/6_heroselect.jpg" /></a><br /><br />There are a lot of games out there that could benefit from solo apps, and its not just dungeon crawlers. <br /><br />And there is real money to be made by opening your games to an audience that might have passed them by otherwise. The solo boardgamers group lit up with people buying Imperial assault for solo play alone when the app was released. <br /><br />And I can't imagine that group was the only audience for it. <br /><br />Apps, and solo apps in particular, keep a game fresh, increase their audience, and still require the physical game to play. Seems like smart business to me. <br /></span><div style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Arkham Horror LCG is a great game in a group that gets in character and can roll with the punches that a brutal game like that brings.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We played through the entire Dunwich campaign and it was an absolute blast with everyone have a unique character and deck, their own role to play and their own contributions to the team. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the story was excellent, and while i'm a little worried that it won't have high replay value, the story itself was great fun and involved. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That group is looking forward to doing the Carcosa campaign once that is all out. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Serious games aren't about complexity, they are about the content matter. A game that isn't about wizards, heroes and other escapist tropes. But games that make you think a little about the subject matter.<br /><br />If I had this award last year, it would have gone to Freedom:The Underground railroad. Which is an excellent co-op/solo game with a serious topic that makes people think and reflect on a dark chapter of US history. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But this year, one game in particular made me create this award and got me thinking about mature content in board games and the hobby as art in general.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And that game is This War of Mine</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is not a game for children, or people who throw temper tantrums because the game is unfair. If you are "playing to win" or trying to optimize your game, you are missing the point of this one. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is entirely about the journey, not the destination. It is about having a glimpse at the lives people live inside a siege during a modern war. And in those circumstances, sometimes a bomb just lands on your house and you die. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The game isn't fair, because war isn't fair. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But that is the lesson the game is trying to teach. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In a year where a lot of gaming discussion has been about massive mini-heavy fantasy releases like Kingdom Death Monster and Massive Darkness, I find that the mini game I enjoyed most this year was XIA: Legends of a drift system.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEBeOLujnkZXP_3tRowaamDAQiqw9rJDQG1yNFPaUsRBjwH60ZT6Y0MA3vKbMYLJ0D-as8nvJDDJRUH_WWhVXDK-1mOTCCWyjUg899Xd_HrOMK-3xuPq2QdO4qJi6jbNdIlDKEibHo04/s1600/xia+2.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEBeOLujnkZXP_3tRowaamDAQiqw9rJDQG1yNFPaUsRBjwH60ZT6Y0MA3vKbMYLJ0D-as8nvJDDJRUH_WWhVXDK-1mOTCCWyjUg899Xd_HrOMK-3xuPq2QdO4qJi6jbNdIlDKEibHo04/s640/xia+2.png" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are several reasons for that, but one huge one was that I didn't have to paint a damned thing. Just crack the game open, put it on the table and its done. And it has oodles of neat little sci-fi ships drawing from a lot of different fandoms and sources.<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4RBxVApUJiFxXTMk1icZ8jYQuH8Se5baN-MZxgl2qgxh_AIdwUExwVg8zxZisHKI874v3etYPySrrNMJPxZWTS-2FfgIDw4B_qK8XOKKkhQ8ptIZqds1v0CAs4P3WVh4paSzXtRM76z0/s1600/xia.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4RBxVApUJiFxXTMk1icZ8jYQuH8Se5baN-MZxgl2qgxh_AIdwUExwVg8zxZisHKI874v3etYPySrrNMJPxZWTS-2FfgIDw4B_qK8XOKKkhQ8ptIZqds1v0CAs4P3WVh4paSzXtRM76z0/s640/xia.jpg" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Probably the best time killer game I have, you can just fiddle about mining, raiding, trading, upgrading your ship, taking courier missions and a bunch of other tasks. Good simple fun.<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also, one of the first PC games I ever really got into was Elite, and XIA is pretty much Elite as a boardgame. it's a wonderful sandbox game, where you pick a ship, pick the 2nd star to the left and fly on til morning..... or at least until someone else fires a rocket at you.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And, as an added bonus, the expansion adds in a solo mode which is pretty damned good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mansions of Madness was a flawed masterpiece of a game. A fantastic experience and enjoyable every time we play it, but a complete pain in the ass to set up and play. </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVXjVGzaJrZFmQ2rgH8vn2IQBl_hry71L0PRdCZZMj2JPAuPzH9rBYh0J_r7v7FfFtf7xncn7et6Dd73kxR6wCtCREt062LnoCcETneLcx8onyw6x_RB4yijZkktvMbthkR6gUk0FxfI/s1600/Arkham2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="1069" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVXjVGzaJrZFmQ2rgH8vn2IQBl_hry71L0PRdCZZMj2JPAuPzH9rBYh0J_r7v7FfFtf7xncn7et6Dd73kxR6wCtCREt062LnoCcETneLcx8onyw6x_RB4yijZkktvMbthkR6gUk0FxfI/s320/Arkham2.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The app has completely gotten rid of the Keeper role and the game is now 100% co-operative. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's all incremental improvements and pondering about the game now, with the odd bit of testing. I recently finished doing a massive rewrite of the rulebook and am trying to update all the content to fit the new game. </span></div>
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Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-13820906738866158772017-12-26T21:49:00.001+13:002017-12-26T21:49:14.281+13:00Anachrony - Complete<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anachrony is a beast of a board game, a massive worker placement game that deals with a unique setting in the distant future, time travel, mechs and cults.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, this is one of the first games i've done almost entirely with the airbrush for base colours. And boy did it save some time. Just check the video below</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blue squidy thing has a lot of brush effects and the first time I've ever tried doing a "verdigris" effect on a model. The lower half of the model is supposed to look like worn old copper with that blue verdigris effect, and the top slightly rusty. </span><br />
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<br />Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-590099098882423152017-12-19T14:06:00.000+13:002017-12-19T14:06:12.506+13:00Star Wars Rebellion - Complete<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quick update today on Star Wars Rebellion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rebellion is a great game, one of the best two player lite wargames on the market, and is very comparable to War of the Ring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lot of very small models, so I didn't go too crazy on the details. All I want is for them to look good on the table, not under a zoom lens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Rebels were almost all done in a "brown scale" from a deep brown to beige. Now a lot of rebel units are almost white in the canon, but I wanted the pieces to look like a coherent faction, when opposed to the Imperials who were done in a "grey scale"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I personally think a few painters forget that they need to be game pieces first and foremost, and while painting units accurately is all well and good, it makes them slightly annoying to play with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think I nailed a good contrast between the two factions here. </span><br />
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<br />Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-57339375311482072142017-12-11T17:17:00.002+13:002017-12-11T17:17:15.941+13:00Zombicide - Finale <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of Zombicide is now finished</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so glad I decided to stick with the "monochrome" zombies and only paint the survivors seriously. I feel pity for anyone who spent hours and hours and hours on painted hundreds of disposable zombies, when they just end up looking like a blurry pile of blobs on the board anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was a beast of a job, even with a gazillion short cuts. </span><br />
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Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-41588602064240265182017-12-07T14:41:00.000+13:002017-12-07T14:41:51.132+13:00Scythe - Complete<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, I finally decided the paint something for the first time in..... i dunno.... forever! Almost entirely motivated by the fact I got my airbrush working again, so base coating and undercoating is now rather painless. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I put a poll up on the solo-boardgamers group and asked "what game should I finish off doing", because I have about 10 in partial completion and just haven't finished them off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All airships were base coated using an Airbrush, which made them take less time to paint than one of the mechs. Anyway, enjoy! </span><br />
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<br />Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-37327693512335886442017-07-19T17:51:00.004+12:002020-08-31T13:17:12.180+12:00Red Dust Rebellion - Factions and interactions<br />Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-48272441994753244622017-07-07T22:11:00.002+12:002020-08-31T13:17:18.048+12:00Red Dust Rebellion - A Mars COIN game. <span face=""><br /></span>Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-42692477894997297092017-03-02T22:11:00.001+13:002017-03-02T22:11:52.857+13:00Boardgames are art? What does that mean?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One thing I've been fascinated with lately is the idea of board gaming as an evolving art form. Art forms take time to mature, to develop complex themes and ideas, but I think Board-Gaming is getting there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Boardgames are a unique art form, because it is about creating an experience for players, about evoking certain thoughts, emotions and ideas. Whether that's in a purely intellectually sense in an abstract game like Chess or a purely social sense with games like the Resistance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And i'm not talking about the literal artwork on a game, but the idea of a game as art itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Boardgames can be just a simple toy, but there is more to them than that. Just as Computer games and film explore settings, characters, stories and emotions, so do boardgames. And as an art form, its starting to present mature and interesting themes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Boardgames are a lot like music, an art form that can be recreated by others and each time it's interpretation is influenced by its participants. Just as "I will survive" sounds different when played by Gloria Gaynor or Cake. Two different groups of players will have a different experience each time they play a game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>So what do we get from this art form?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, a kaleidoscope of experiences depending on what games you play. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Historic wargaming can be very intellectually stimulating, as the competition and competitive nature of the game tests your reasoning against other people. But its also a medium for traditional arts, such as painting and sculpting. Add to that the interest Wargamers show in researching the periods they play in to ensure historical accuracy, and you can see the impact the art has on them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fantasy/Sci Fi Wargaming is the same, asides from instead of researching the history, players tend to immerse themselves in works of fiction. And for a lot of people, army selection is a form of artistic expression. People play Space Wolves, for the most part, because they find space vikings cool. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Euro style games tend to focus on decision making, maximizing moves, efficiency and reacting to changes in the board state. These games test us in intellectual ways, and the emotions that come about are normally to do with how well we executed our plans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Games with heavy social elements, like Spyfall, Battlestar Galactica and Coup test our social skills and expose our social dynamics. It's rare that we tell utter lies to our closest friends, but in these games, that is the norm. We get to experience deception and betrayal, misdirection and obfuscation and enjoy it. I can't think of any other time or place where you can do that with friends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And co-operative games explore group social dynamics. How much does one person dominate, do you problem solve as a team, do you defer to others, or do you just "do your thing".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even solo games provide an interesting experience in introspection that's quite unique. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These are broad strokes, and your millage may vary. But if you have played a boardgame, and have at least one story about "the time that....", then the games have impacted you as an experiential art form. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don't really know. Like a lot of art forms, you don't have to delve too deep to enjoy them. You can enjoy music without knowing what counterpoint is or what Phrygian mode sounds like. You can enjoy a movie without a degree in film studies (some might argue its easier to enjoy film then). And you can look at a painting and appreciate it without being able to hold a brush. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But for me, I think i'm more interested in looking at what a game delivers, what experience its going for, and how that impacts on a social group than I ever have been before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And as a result, i've been looking at games with different themes, different ideas and different experiences a lot more than before. But more about that later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like all award ceremonies, prepare to read a list of things picked by self-appointed experts that claim to have more authority on the topic than you do. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In this case me..... oh.... and some of my regular gaming gang who chipped in. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Several awards have been suspended from previous years. One, because i'm playing mostly with my regulars and not doing much community gaming and another because I don't think i read any new RPG books this year. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But there are new and exciting awards to replace them. But as always, we start with.......</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i style="background-color: white;">For model that most made me want to give up painting because anything I do will not be as cool as that.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">While you might not like the art style because it is a little busy, the detail and level of artistry on these Titans is just humbling. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I mean, seriously.... look at that detail work. Ugh, it's just galling to see the level of talent some people have. I've done some pretty average looking banners, and I can write Cygnar lettering pretty well free hand. But that's like smearing crayons on the wall compared to this. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year, it was easily Tabletop Simulator. Not only is it easy to load a game and play with friends, the workshop has allowed virtually every game to end up there in some form or another. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whether it is crushing my doctor friend at Rebellion or playing Terraforming mars solo, or even just exploring games and looking at them. Tabletop simulator has changed how I view the hobby. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a new award, as I've spent a fair amount of time playing solo board games and really appreciate a game that can be played by one. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the past I have played a lot of Arkham Horror solo, Zombicide, Pandemic, XCOM and pretty much any other pure co-op. XCOM won last years boardgame of the year off a strong solo performance as well as good group play.<br /><br />But this year was a surprise for me as the winner is not a co-op. It's a competitive engine building game that becomes a puzzle game in solo mode. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">So, if I was to listen to my player group, the Winner would be Terraforming Mars with 7 Wonders as the runner up. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">But for me, the best competitive Boardgame experience this year was easily Star Wars Rebellion, the first game to come along in years that could dethrone War of the Ring from my "top grand strategy game ever" slot. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Designing a skirmish game has been an interesting experience. And trying to make the game simple enough to play, yet deep enough to be rewarding, while not getting away from it's core design ethos has been a great challenge. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Twilight Struggle on PC is a perfect adaption of the board game. It looks good, has good ambiance, nails the game play perfectly, and the AI is not mug. Sure, you can beat it, but you can't play badly and still come out on top. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year has been a low painting year for me, but i'm finally getting back into it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What has been enjoyable though was building a massive ruined city, spraying it with the airbrush, and then having the lads over for a day to help get it painted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We still have a long way to go before the whole job is done, and I should really stop painting Cthulhu Wars stuff and focus on this. </span><br />
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Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-66894583049151713902016-11-30T23:13:00.003+13:002016-11-30T23:13:50.882+13:00Radlandz Scenery - Step 1 getting some terrain sorted. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, in order to take testing for Radlandz to the next level, I have decided to splash out on some scenery and other goodies to make the game look a lot more professional, and well, more RADLANDZY. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fortunately for me, this was all prompted by a message from a local games supplier saying they had 30% off all battlefield terrain. And after browsing through the massive collection they had, I settled on the <a href="http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/mantic-scenery-and-terrain/sci-fi-ruins/product/battlezones-sci-fi-ruined-quadrant.html">Mantic- Sci-Fi Ruined Quadrant. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's it all assembled below. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It looked like a lot when I was looking at the pictures, but holy cow, once I got it home and opened it I was blown away. SO MANY SPRUES AND PARTS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first thing I assembled, was the three story tower shown on the box. They say it only needs to be clipped together, but that felt a bit bloody optimistic to me as I struggled to get the hang of sticking things together. So the Tamiya plastic cement was deployed and I have no regrets about making the terrain permanent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also picked up a <a href="http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/mantic-scenery-and-terrain/20th-century-brick/product/20th-century-brick-urban-accessories.html">small pack of 20th century terrain bits</a>, shown in orange below. Its a nice little pack with barricades, picket fences, stop signs and other very contemporary bits of terrain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After i felt more comfortable with assembly, I decided to make buildings that looked nothing like the ones on the box cover. I'm personally quite proud of my ruined barn and it should be a nice piece for the board. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is simply stage 1 of 5 planned stages for building the Radlandz terrain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week is stage 2, spray undercoating all the terrain</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stage 3 should happen on Friday and Saturday, and that's where i use my recently repaired airbrush to base coat all the terrain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stage 4 is detail work, and i'm employing the services of my Radlandz testing crew to come around, grab some brushes, and do some details on these buildings. Chances are we wont get them all done in one day, but I hope we really break the back of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stage 5..... well that's a secret :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pretty stoked with this purchase, can't wait to test them out for real. </span>Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-65941799310325433672016-10-30T16:15:00.002+13:002016-10-30T16:24:11.832+13:00The Battle for Axamar <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, this was a three stage engagement, with both ground troops, fighters and the fleet involved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The three missions were as follows. The fighters would screen transports ships as they left the base, the Fleet would wait to hyperspace ambush the imperial fleet as it arrived, and the special forces team would defend the base personnel and take the last transport out. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The stakes were high as any failed mission would impact on the rebels command structure during the next phase. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The rebels were going to be outnumbered in this one, but they had two simple goals. Get the transport off the table and kill the bombers so they couldn't get the next transport off the line. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was forced to deploy randomly, so split my deployment into 6 zones and rolled for where each squadron went. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8 ties with no upgrades, 4 basic intecerptors, and 4 bombers with torpedoes and missiles for transport blasting. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Things started pretty normally, with the rebels attempting to use their concentrated mass of fighters against the bombers and one group of ties before the interceptors and 2nd squad of ties could get in position. (Dr Vox just loves the camera, and yes, hes wearing an armoured hoody)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately for the rebels, the Empire slammed on the breaks in their Tie Bombers and the A-wings, who were expecting them to fly full speed ahead towards the transport, were totally out of position. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This allowed the bombers to punch right through the formation, and while there was some scrappy dogfighting in the grand melee, things did no go well for the rebellion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once through the breach, the lead bombers hit the rebel transport with everything they had. And while the interceptors kept the rebel fighters busy, the second tie squadron crashed in on the other flank. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Caught in a crossfire, the rebels started taking heavy damage, and once through the line, the bombers fled the engagement zone to attack the next transport leaving the surface </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Round one in the Battle for Axamar was a solid Imperial victory, with the rebels losing half their fighters before retreating, and the Empire taking out the Rebel transport and getting two bombers off the board edge. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While the fighters were engaged, the capital ships had a different mission. The Imperials objective was to bombard the rebel base, while the Rebels had to prevent them from doing so, and force them to retreat and get reinforcements before continuing the attack. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Imperial Squadron, led by the Imperial Star-Destroyer "Malice" and it's victory class bombardment specialists. Heading straight for Axamar. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, using "hyperspace ambush" the rebel attack fleet, supplemented by a massive expenditure of favours with Rebel high command to include a Mon Cal cruiser for the fight, were in prime position to exploit the Imperial fleet deployment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is because our leaders get to make a tactics roll, and based on that roll, they can buy upgrades, including flank deployment. In this battle, they had rolled well enough to get 2nd deployment and a flank deployment. Which was huge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Empire decided to break for the planet Axamar and pound it instead of breaking and engaging. They knew they would not be easily able to turn the fleet to engage before the rebels were on them, so it was full speed ahead for the Victory destroyers, while Malice would turn and engage the rebels to buy time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In, what can only be described as some amazing admiral skills, the Rebels were almost always out of firing arcs when the Empire came to shoot, but right within range when the rebels could return fire. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Malice was absolutely mauled by the Mon Call cruiser, yet could never return fire on it until it was much too late. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, the Victory cruisers made it to the planet while the rebels were flanking and gave it a solid bombardment. Damage cards were piling up on the rebel base, and they would greatly impact the next scenario. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This did nothing to save Malice, who could simply not bring her guns to bare on the Mon Cal cruiser, and was ripped to pieces by it, causing the Empire to signal a retreat to wait for reinforcements. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So while this was a major victory for the Rebellion, the personnel on the ground paid a heavy price, and the base took 10 damage card worth of bombardment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As we will see in the next battle, this changed the scenario completely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Imperial troops had landed and the main base evacuated, but the secondary command center, designed to cover the retreat, had been badly hit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the Hangar at the rear of the base, three transports were ready to take survivors away. But no one was moving in the base. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Retrieve as much data and sensitive material as possible from the base (as depicted by the cards on the map)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rescue as many of the survivors as possible. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The base was a wreck, and there were internal fires, smoke, impassable areas, and rubble that would need to be cleared. As the team moved through the base, they would uncover survivors and material. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But they would be on a very short timer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Following them into the base, was every Stormtrooper I could muster and an AT-ST for a laugh (even though it couldn't get inside the base)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As you can see here, smoke and fire was really starting to spread, and the time pressure in this scenario was the real driver. The team had to split up, make calls that included leaving one trapped rebel officer to die in a fire, and rush for the transports. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eventually, the team cleared a path to the transports and fought a rearguard action to slow the Imperials down so their allies could reach the transports. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But overwhelming numbers mean't they could only delay, and once the bases crew were onboard the transports, the assault team bolted and ran for the transports. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Almost all the secure data and base personnel recovered, and two of the heroes were wounded. But it felt very close and tense the whole way through. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Imperial fighters carved a hole in the rebel transportation corps and the fleet had a good day against the empire, while still allowing the Empire to bomb the rebel base. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But in the end, the ground forces managed to pull off a close win and save the rebellion from catastrophe. Still, there will be some rolls in the resolution phase to see just how bad the damage was, and if anyone didn't make it out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-23206869174254074292016-10-17T22:03:00.001+13:002016-10-17T22:03:11.171+13:00Talathen Sector - Round 6 - The Empire Strikes back<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Round six is in the books and we are beginning round 7. The Talathen Sector campaign will end in round 9, which corresponds to when Return of the Jedi happens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Round six is set just before the Battle of Hoth, and imperial probe droids have, while searching the galaxy for the main rebel base, located the Talathen sector base on Axamar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a result, the major focus of this round was evacuating the base before the Empire wiped it out, fortunately, due to good intelligence, the Rebels knew the attack as coming and could prepare. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Recruitment, and some healthy politics</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Probably the most surprising move of this round was the Luxon militia saving all their clout for one purchase, that of Mozza Thun for 32 Clout. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Basra consortium continued its move away from support people to military specialists. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bWLeIj3Sl3_oBxNCadBIPRyUmEacKWw-hxB9VwdztfpxqkN1otMoj8Q2Id3MV7ArkGZP1RJvF5XMJNFfBRER_Be6KTbzytb4QFZUu4z2Pxv-HldA8VmRpsqocDJKK5v2md0mPWZjkCM/s1600/Beryn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bWLeIj3Sl3_oBxNCadBIPRyUmEacKWw-hxB9VwdztfpxqkN1otMoj8Q2Id3MV7ArkGZP1RJvF5XMJNFfBRER_Be6KTbzytb4QFZUu4z2Pxv-HldA8VmRpsqocDJKK5v2md0mPWZjkCM/s320/Beryn.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the political round, several changes were made. X-3P0 was forced to step down after a terrible Alliance phase the previous turn, and was replaced by Mozza. From Slave to Alliance leader in one move. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which of course means they had to be stripped of a combat command. And Airen Cracken, despite an exemplary record as fleet commander was forced to step aside and let the Beast of Luxon, Oleg Thrax assume command. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Major shake-up means the combat roles are now </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the Luxon Militia frozen out of military command and focusing on diplomacy and alliances. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now its worth noting that this phase took place before our epic adventure in Cahn, so notes of a viral outbreak on several worlds in the core system were troubling, but not as troubling as the imminent arrival of an Imperial Armada</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Alliance command</b>, under Mozza, secured enough points on their role to activate all alliances this round. The Red Queen, The Wookies, The Hodda Clan and the Bothan spynet would all be contributing this round. A huge swing from last turns inactivity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many considered this a sign that the shakeup had done its job. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Logistics command </b>stockpiled resources as normal, but hit on several intelligence boosts while trading. Combined with the Bothan Spynet, Rebel<b> intelligence command</b> would have an unprecedented amount to spend this turn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ged'Ruh focused on dropping false leads about the rebellion, shifting eyes away from Nimbala. X-3PO, deposed from Alliance Command, went into deep cover on Talathen VII station. And Sly conducted support missions for the Luxon Militia forces on Luxon, it was probably the only help they would get this turn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>Diplomacy</b> core set about opening a dialogue with Kronos & potential rebels on Korvas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lianna tell spearheaded an operation to convince the administration of Selano that the Alliance had more to offer than the Empire, who couldn't even build a base without it blowing up (we miss you Gax).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A stunning pair of triumphs vastly increased Selano's support of the rebellion, and work orders for the Empire were suddenly delayed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Red Queen also consolidated the Rebellions hold on Nimbala</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Squadron command also had one goal, protect the transports leaving the rebel base. But Lt Telji's squad was also dispatched to investigate rumours that pirates had uncovered the wreckage of a <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Malevolence">Subjugator class cruiser</a> in the boneyard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Ground Command</b> had Besh squad defend the base and hold the line until the last transports escaped, while Del Kern and Cresh squad caused a distraction on Nadir. The Wookies, were once again, fighting alongside the Luxon militia on Luxon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recruitment had a bumper round, gaining an unprecedented bonus to recruitment, while training and R&D enjoyed modest returns, with Hodda and his cartel focused in on the new virus that had appeared. </span></div>
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Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-59842403674371661142016-10-14T17:45:00.000+13:002016-10-14T22:22:32.248+13:00Radlandz - Group Identities <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeH6G9LcaGNGYByZxaUbpM720l7dXDCq5YF9CodJzWRxiBtOBgvaCmf3IVNInkJMFWyFhYV-fstwoLsmcby3U2WgaMzV5nPoUhhkeDtjN50Aghee89RrEQxJPX9JjVILWu8ta-PGDcCM0/s1600/Cover.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeH6G9LcaGNGYByZxaUbpM720l7dXDCq5YF9CodJzWRxiBtOBgvaCmf3IVNInkJMFWyFhYV-fstwoLsmcby3U2WgaMzV5nPoUhhkeDtjN50Aghee89RrEQxJPX9JjVILWu8ta-PGDcCM0/s320/Cover.png" width="228" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e6lf8tdf5i6o8pv/AADGfF7hmMqr9Tq8SnjSTQWwa?dl=0">Version 0.7 of the Radlandz rulebook is available now for anyone who wants to see the changes. The game is tightening up and playtesting, when we have done it, has been solid fun. </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today I wanted to talk about how a roster of figures, a group if you would, will look in Radlandz</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of the defining features I wanted for Radlandz was to give players a load of options of how to customize their groups. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The two traditional approaches to list building in skirmish games are</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Your gang has a set roster and you can pick stuff within your gang. The advantages of this are that each gang has a defined flavour and play style. The downside to this that you get a form of homogeneity, as few options means few differences between individual groups within the same list</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You might have a smaller "core list" of defining feature for your group, but there is a massive pool of other units you can pick up. Opening up lists too much also tends towards homogeneity once people figure out the two or three "good" characters you can get. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Radlandz uses identities, 12 of them in fact, and one identity is always your "core identity", but it can change through the campaign. This core identity defines a lot of your skill list, equipment and characters, but it can be supplemented by additional identities to provide flavour and variety. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It means you can get every available skill and model with one group, but certainly not at the same time, and shifting your groups identity scores and building the facilities to recruit new troops and train new skills costs resources. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>How do identity's guide model selection?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, they are themes, archetypes, styles and concepts rather than prescriptive groups. For example, if you want a group to be a small group of elite power armour wearing baddasses, you pick Mech as your primary identity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This means Mech is a perfectly fine identity if you are playing Space Marines, Sisters of Battle, Brotherhood of Steel, Sky-net Terminators, Killer Robots, or any other concept that fits within the archetype "Big armour smashy"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>How does having multiple identities work?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Only one identity is your core, but you can delve into others. For example, if your gang belongs to a mutant township that is settling down and trying to live civilized. You may want to split points between Mutant and Civilized. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You might want a core group of light-fast moving nomads as your core group, backed up by a few Brutal specialists with over-sized guns and swords. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You will likely only be able to delve into a few identities during a campaign, but they will add flavor to your lists and open up extra options. You can also play with a single strong identity, and spend upgrades improving their core abilities instead. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Can I pick any identity?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Identity scores go from 1-6, for an identity to count as a core Identity it must be at level 4 or higher (and you must start with one identity at this level)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each identity has it's opposite pair, and you cannot have more than 6 points in an opposite pair.<br /><br />For example, A Group with 5 Arcane can never have more than 1 techno, and if they want to increase Techno to 2, must drop their Arcane identity score to 4. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The identities are listed below, in their opposing pairs (nomad vs Civilized for example)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Features:</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Nomad forces are fast moving, lightly
equipped and armoured, and can loot very well. They are also well equipped to
deal with environmental hazards.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWRrh1GeswOL6q0DR79l0h-syhDCNaaIGReVANIrkld84aRU_LFVeEX7hKrL04V2nGUsgWeGwEon-d6fqL6LwGgIwkP66yYbraLxlXAJgWTuR2YFuECS16QrIFosXINxq9srVDFCEBirI/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWRrh1GeswOL6q0DR79l0h-syhDCNaaIGReVANIrkld84aRU_LFVeEX7hKrL04V2nGUsgWeGwEon-d6fqL6LwGgIwkP66yYbraLxlXAJgWTuR2YFuECS16QrIFosXINxq9srVDFCEBirI/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Civilized</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Civilized
groups have settled down and built a place to defend and protect. They are
farmers, builders and engineers<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Pick
civilized if you see your group as regular people who have to pick up weapons
to defend what they have worked hard to protect.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Features:</i></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Civilized forces can field larger
forces than most, and provide more special equipment and support items. A
bigger roster and better gear overcomes any lack in specialist combat
training. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEAr5K12hE9LsiKP6tvCeFo_cZHmVHumDqYflLYS8S66Upr1OqOAzywtNCtOX8bcZ4sD8pb_Rbdvpzjls67MbihXaQO2zPrjN3AFCG3xlzab5sIvdEgy80oF1q8xRGlXS0pME0EoyaJxc/s1600/Rogue-fire-mage-member-of-the-Dark-Cult.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEAr5K12hE9LsiKP6tvCeFo_cZHmVHumDqYflLYS8S66Upr1OqOAzywtNCtOX8bcZ4sD8pb_Rbdvpzjls67MbihXaQO2zPrjN3AFCG3xlzab5sIvdEgy80oF1q8xRGlXS0pME0EoyaJxc/s320/Rogue-fire-mage-member-of-the-Dark-Cult.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Arcane</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Arcane
groups have tapped into some arcane force that exists in the Radlandz. This can
be a magical, religious, mystical, psychic or other worldly power. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pick
Arcane if you see your group as a mystic organization or cult roaming the Radlandz
led by a powerful wizard or priest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Features:</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Arcane forces have access to game-breaking spells and effects. They are also able to use relics and arcane items
easier than most. Arcane bosses and specialists are capable of amazing feats,
but the rank and file Gruntz tend to be poorly trained and equipped. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVmR3Ex_AbGxpzI-v1Fzr9xbdtYWcRmazhaatUC__riXUXMlT7PfVT0BEm7nFZoDWtJt_BY4psswU-cqV705WHrnq368lFcYfDRRiqtkDt5PTsVK1DFwz6ljJTnzaLrqbQMu5h4-OIV4/s1600/tech.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVmR3Ex_AbGxpzI-v1Fzr9xbdtYWcRmazhaatUC__riXUXMlT7PfVT0BEm7nFZoDWtJt_BY4psswU-cqV705WHrnq368lFcYfDRRiqtkDt5PTsVK1DFwz6ljJTnzaLrqbQMu5h4-OIV4/s320/tech.bmp" width="174" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Techno</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Techno
groups are obsessed with technology and gadgets. They have shiny guns and other
interesting devices at their disposal. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pick
techno if you see your group being obsessed with reclaiming lost technology or
hoarders of old world secrets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Features:</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Techno forces have the best access to
specialized gadgets that allow them to pull of unusual moves on the
battlefield. Techno troops have some of the worst stats, but make up for this
with excellent equipment. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3JRbE3YX03tOA5I_jeoYuBqIciLUW3aCx0d5yGymcrnGqItsKIz0glM4Rn5Q9SX05UF7brF73B7ss3PIw_e5sWRHPeg5pXzppwCyAO7YVYKrA-d41z3KmsZt39eaMrHrDY8E8u66JtbY/s1600/mauro-matheus-concept-003-low.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3JRbE3YX03tOA5I_jeoYuBqIciLUW3aCx0d5yGymcrnGqItsKIz0glM4Rn5Q9SX05UF7brF73B7ss3PIw_e5sWRHPeg5pXzppwCyAO7YVYKrA-d41z3KmsZt39eaMrHrDY8E8u66JtbY/s320/mauro-matheus-concept-003-low.jpg" width="221" /></a><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Primal</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Primal
groups have embraced a more primitive lifestyle and a return to nature. Primal
groups believe in spirits, omens and the power of the Radlandz. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pick
primal if you see your group as one that has fully embraced the new world of
the Radlandz and seek to live with the wastes as opposed to trying to rebuild
society.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Features:</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Primal forces are lightly armed, quiet
and fast moving. They have access to many low tech weapons, poisons and traps.
They also have limited access to game-breaking mystic powers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mech</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mech
groups rely heavily on suits of heavy armour and other machines of war and
industry. While others run to battle, Mech forces lumber forward, shrugging off
small arms fire. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pick
Mech if you see your group as a group of armoured knights or elite warriors in
the Radlandz. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Features:</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Mech forces are small but very well
armoured and capable of taking more damage than others </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div>
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groups are obsessed with personal glory and one on one melee prowess. They are
the ultimate hand to hand fighters in the Radlandz. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pick
warrior if you see your group as a warband of raiders and fighters who want
nothing more than to stab people and take their stuff. Or, alternatively, a
warrior cult obsessed with honour and personal prowess in battle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Features:</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Warrior groups excel in melee combat,
but this focus leaves them weak in other areas. They field far fewer guns and ranged support units than other groups. </span></span></div>
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groups are focused heavily on order, discipline and coordinated tactics and
command. They use timing and firepower to suppress an enemy to make them easier
to defeat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pick
martial if your group is a disciplined and structured war fighting unit. They
can be a formal military group, or one that has adopted a formal command
structure in order to survive the Radlandz. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Features:</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Martial groups are expert shooters and
have other abilities that improve their ability to make coordinated attacks and suppress opponents. Their reliance on ranged weapons leaves them under-equipped in melee. </span></span></div>
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groups are no longer normal in some way. They might be mutated humans, mutated
animals, or any other non-human race that has developed in the Radlandz. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mutants are tough and can develop unique mutations that give them special
bonuses. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pick
mutant if you want your group to be tough and resilient to the environment of
the Radlandz as well as a little unusual.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Features:</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Mutant groups are defined by their
mutations, special bonuses that allow them to specialize in specific skill
areas. In general they are poorly equipped, but make up for it with their
mutant skills and general toughness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Shelter</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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groups have escaped the worst of the effects of the Radlandz. They have a
secure base that is sealed off from the outside world, whether this is an
underground shelter, a space ship, or mobile fortress, what matters is that
they are well equipped and secure from the Radlandz. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pick
Shelter if you want your group to be a surviving relic of the past, or an
outside force that has recently arrived in the Radlandz.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Features:</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Shelter groups are well-equipped and
supplied. While they don’t excel at any specific combat discipline, they have
few weaknesses. They also have access to environmental controlling technology and other gadgets. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Covert</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Covert
groups are experts in stealth, infiltration, assassination and other dirty
tricks. They rely heavily on surprise attacks and precision. Covert groups are
reasonably poor in a stand up fight, but if they are fighting that way, it’s
because they aren’t being covert enough. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pick
covert if you want your group to be sneaky and subtle. They could be an order
of assassins, a secret society, or Special Forces. As long as the group favours
subtlety over brute force, they could be covert. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Features:</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Covert groups are lightly armed,
lightly armoured, but gain major bonuses to using cover and avoiding being hit. They can deal a lot of damage, but tend not to be able to take much damage in return. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brutal
groups care little for being quiet or subtle. They bring loud heavy weapons to
the fight and pound their opponents into submission. If the big guns fail, then
big melee weapons are also an option. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pick
brutal if you want to field a force of highly armed and dangerous fighters who
will win the day through application of extreme firepower. They could be </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Features:</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Brutal groups carry bigger and nastier
weapons than anyone else, and have the training to back that up. The rest of
the skill selection is lacking though. Every problem needs to be solved with
“more firepower” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So that's the identity's of Radlandz. An archetype for everyone, and if something doesn't quite fit what you have in mind, you can mix and match identities until it does. </span></div>
Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-72623684251976628392016-10-10T21:37:00.001+13:002016-10-10T22:24:31.712+13:00I think I might start painting again - What to do?<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I paint in fits and starts, I can paint a colossal number of figures in a short amount of time and produce way more painted figures than most painting sweatshops..... for a time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I get seriously burned out and can't even look at a figure. Then I just want to play video games. Until I start looking at my steam screen and going "I don't want to play anything"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a strange circle, but one I have gotten used to. The last project that burned me out was this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I managed to paint a few things after that, but it was really the final straw. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But now, I have the urge to paint again, and I have so many potential projects. So lets run through them (apologies for photo quality, we had to return the nice work camera, but will likely be getting a nice one for the business shortly). I will be scoring them on quality needed, volume, game interest, bonuses and blockers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Quality:</b> Low to medium, my Descent 1st edition figs are pretty average but speedy paint jobs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Volume:</b> Medium. A good number of figures to paint, but a lot of variety. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> Low. Chances of Descent 2nd ed hitting our table soon is low with Imperial Assault and the potential of Seas of Blood 1st ed campaign looming</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bonuses:</b> All the first ed models are painted, and the unpainted figures are just a blot in the box</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> Descent 2nd ed didn't light my fire. I feel Imperial Assault is simply a better game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Volume:</b> Low, 5 figures. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> Low. 3rd ed is out but I haven't even read the core rulebook. Any brain time on miniatures games is going on X-wing/Armada and Radlandz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bonuses:</b> Only 5 figures to finish off everything, and I can use them in Radlandz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> Such fiddly damned models, I think i'll need to re-skill my painting before trying them. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk_ADaKDLs1J-hzmmahAUP2yXZwaP3FdUP7JWSaacy1dGhnNU7J8OEUc_ROObj4SNhA3RXWfUQad66tGPPQ1qDjVj8-2R6N2wT3uoU_efwA7syIMzf-79cwWPLrpKF11YqucqNfYqFb1I/s1600/DSC04885.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk_ADaKDLs1J-hzmmahAUP2yXZwaP3FdUP7JWSaacy1dGhnNU7J8OEUc_ROObj4SNhA3RXWfUQad66tGPPQ1qDjVj8-2R6N2wT3uoU_efwA7syIMzf-79cwWPLrpKF11YqucqNfYqFb1I/s320/DSC04885.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Quality:</b> Medium. I painted my previous Imperial Assault figures to a reasonable standard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Volume:</b> Mid to High. Quite a few figs after I just picked up the last 3 expansions, and Jabba's Palace is coming with 20+ more. Plus any booster packs i pick up.... like I have to get Fett. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> High. We are still in the Star Wars campaign, and even after that Imperial Assault remains a game I want to play more by itself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bonuses:</b> Would look good in the campaign to have more figs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> I have a shed load of pre-painted Star Wars figs that have been doing the job just fine so far. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Volume:</b> Low. 6 dudes only. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> Medium. Spartacus is a very popular game here and a frequent session filler when we are missing a player or we are too tired to play Star Wars (I.e, i haven't written anything)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bonuses:</b> Nice simple job to make a popular game look good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> The figures plastic is really bad, like just terrible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Volume:</b> Low to medium. 12 Figs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> Medium. We haven't played it much recently, but its been popular when we have. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bonuses:</b> I'm 2/3rds done painting them anyway, this was the game i was doing when I finally burned out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> Expansion coming soon, could wait until that comes out and do them all at once. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> Low. I've played 4 games of this, and people were so-so on it. I got a rules tweak from a friend that should fix the biggest grumble people had</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bonuses:</b> Really short job</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> That could sit in the box for a year or two before its played next</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> High. I've played 6-7 games of this since i got the game 3 weeks ago</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bonuses:</b> Star Wars! Also little painted star destroyers could be cool for the campaign.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> The last two games i've played have been on Tabletop simulator. It kinda makes painting the game less appealing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> Medium, another very popular filler game. Probably the most popular one when everyone is really tired and just wants to roll dice for no real reason</span><br />
<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bonuses:</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> These figures are simply gorgeous, and look so good on the table</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> Magnets.... no seriously. I magnetized my other models and stands and cannot find the rest of them. Also, painting skills need to be sharpened. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Quality:</b> High</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> Low. I want to play more, but I've just not had the urge to play it much lately. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bonuses:</b> Most of these figures are at least base coated and probably could be finished off easily enough</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> hard to paint a game you aren't playing much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> Low-Medium. I really like the game, but I feel like it needs a few more of the add-ons I don't have to really come alive </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> I almost feel like waiting until i get more of the game before really getting it back on the table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Volume:</b> High, loads of figures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> Low. This has hit the table once, but it got good impressions. Feel we need to revisit it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bonuses:</b> Its not a game i've seen a lot of painted versions of. So I could almost define what a painted version looks like</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> Its a lot of work, potentially for little return</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Twilight Imperium 3rd edition</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Volume:</b> Mega high</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Game interest:</b> Low. People like the game, but the time commitment is scary. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bonuses:</b> It would look awesome with a painted set. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Blockers:</b> Are you kidding. I did a list like this years ago and it was on there. This is such a big project, many months worth, I don't know if i'll ever get around to it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I honestly have no idea what I will paint first right now. Imperial Assault, Spartacus and a few others are towards the top of the list, and TI3 is probably dead last. I'll see how i feel over the next few days</span><br />
<br />Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-71631876835955816862016-10-05T22:19:00.002+13:002016-10-05T22:19:29.326+13:00The Wrath of Cahn - Part 2 - A Talathen Sector story continued<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok, after the last write up I realized I was about 1/4 of the way through the story. It was a long long tale, so lets summarize the action in as quick a style as possible. So here are the highlights</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Discovery</span></h4>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team were directed to a local medical facility, where they met Jel Ta'leth, a Chiss scientist who was acting as ambassador from the Chiss planet of Kronos</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jel explained that Ithkrall was a reasonable man, more reasonable than Malkar, and that this whole spate of violence makes no sense</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said they were also investigating, and would share information. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He started by giving them the list of people who had been killed, and what their jobs were</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ithkrall's outcasts were apparently living outside the city in some caves</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team split into two groups, one to go talk to the outcasts, and the other to investigate a chemical factory that three of the dead people worked at</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ori and Dr Vox investigated the factory, and looked for a way to distract the personnel there to get a good look in. About that time, an explosion occurred down the road and allowed them access (A double triumph for observing a way in) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The facility was empty very quickly, and they scouted it out, all seemed normal asides from one very secure room they hacked their way into. Inside they found some vials secured in a bio-security safe. They nabbed them. They also downloaded all the data off a computer system for later analysis. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other team flew in their ship to the outskirts, their pilot reporting a "ghost signal" of a ship nearby, but could not confirm, just a fleeting sensor signal every now and then. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They landed, and after a little while, encountered Ithkrall and a small band of outcasts. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ithkrall explained that their faith had major tenants, in order of importance. The second of which was "we do not shed blood", but the greatest of which was "When all the worlds in the devourer's eye are still, the eye will open and pull our souls to heaven. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His actions were the only way he felt he could communicate the evil being conducted by Malkar and his cabal. He wanted attention to draw people to question what was happened, as no one would believe him if he said it openly, and it would have been suppressed immediately. Also, the truth would destroy them. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their plan was to create a virus, introduce it to the systems of the sector, and have it kill everyone on those planets, making the worlds still and heaven open. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team arranged for Ithkrall's people to be moved off-world later, and that they would claim to have "killed him" in order to buy time with Malkar</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team regrouped on the ship and compared notes. They strongly suspected that they had just obtained samples of the virus and the supporting data</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They analyzed the data and it revealed that the virus had already been shipped to most worlds in the sector. Then they remembered a news report from the pre-mission briefing about a rash of deaths on the core worlds. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jel contacted them at this time to inquire about Ithkrall and their meeting. The team informed him of what had happened and he responded with an ultimatum. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the clock</span></h4>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team would have 100 hours to solve the issue, as that would be the time the Chiss Fleet would take to get from Kronos to Cahn and annihilate the city and take any information about the virus by force. He also informed them that his ship would now blockade the planet and anyone leaving would be destroyed. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr Vox said they had samples of the virus and Jel sent a cloaked ship to pick him up from the space port</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rest of the team set about coming up with a plan to uncover the conspiracy, and replace Malkar as leader</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vox and Jel worked on a vaccine for the next extended period of time, having the samples of the pure viral agent and the data allowed them to do this at an accelerated rate </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rest of the team reported back to Malkar that ithkrall was dead and that they were escorting his followers off-world and in to exile. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team then staged another break-in at the facility and destroyed all the stored virus </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This set off an alarm and the Malkar reported that the team was now a public enemy. They donned robs and tried to blend with the crowds. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doran the Luxon found them and hurriedly took them to meet Tallarn, the council member who greeted them at the docks. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They showed Tallarn the information they had recovered and what was really going on. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They formulated a plan to rally the council leadership and to take back the council spire and depose Malkar. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part of this plan was to use the recently returned Pilgrim as a figurehead. The poor kid watched the evidence and very nervously agreed to help over throw the government. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Malkar declared martial law, and revealed additional security forces he had kept hidden. Stun sticks were now turned to kill settings, and his forces swept town searching for the team door-to-door. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr Vox was dropped on the city outskirts with the small batch of vaccines they had put together (10), Doran met him and they evaded security patrols using the sewer network. Doran also donned his battered Luxon uniform for the occasion, and his old service weapon</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The uprising</span></h4>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of the leadership turned out, with their people and a mass peaceful movement of people marched towards the council spires, singing songs of praise and peace, all unarmed, but numbering in the tens of thousands. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Malkars security forces formed a line to defend the spires, armed with energy melee weapons, and a pair of heavy repeating blasters</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They opened fire on the protesters, killing hundreds, but even centuries of pacifism doesn't stop the fact that Trandoshans, even unarmed, are fearsome fighters. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team focused on taking out security personnel and keeping the pilgrim safe. with Inomo using his force powers to bolster the pilgrims confidence.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through sheer weight of numbers, the protestors overwhelmed the security forces and the hevay weapons, but the death toll was considerable. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then a cloaked ship, about the size of a freighter, landed in the middle of the crowd, killing scores more</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A figure emerged, although the team couldn't see them. All they could hear was the sound of a lightsabre and the screams of the dying. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team rushed to engage this figure, who was a Chiss with a mask over his lower face, armed with a red lightsabre, they couldn't land a hit on him. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He seemed interested in Inomo, who fled back into the crowd, while Ana, Dr Vox and Oli tried to shoot him dead. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The crowd moved away from the Chiss while the team engaged him. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pilgrim was raised high up on the shoulders of Tor the largest Trandoshan anyone had ever seen, who listed his skills as "lifting heavy things and moving heavy things"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bolstered by force confidence, the pilgrim said "he is one, he cannot kill us all, we will prevail"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even with his skill with a lightsabre, and the force, he knew he was no match for 10,000 people acting with one mind. And retreated to his ship (which Ana was trying to rig with an explosive charge, but failed)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the evil Chiss vanquished for now, the vanguard of the team, the pilgrim, Tor, Doran, Tallarn and a few others raced for the council spire. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The remaining guards, upon seeing them arrive, lowered their weapons and turned their backs, all the guards in the spire did the same. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Malkar was on the observation platform, but when they arrived two council members through him off the spire and onto the ground below. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These two members were named in the data as accomplices, so were placed under arrest. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pilgrim was placed in charge of the government, and Tallarn as his cheif advisor. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They pledged to do anything to stop the outbreak and to help the rebellion </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ithkrall went into exile, knowing that his sins and inaction would always represent a reminder of these dark days</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jel called off the invasion fleet, and demanded all data pertinent to the virus, it's manufacture and release</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When informed of the Chiss with the lightsabre, he had no idea who that could be, and that his cloaked ship was not one that existed on Kronos records. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He asked that the team meet him in Kronos as soon as possible, so they could help him get to the bottom of the conspiracy, find out who the Sith was, and get the means to cure the virus out to as many as needed it as soon as possible. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was a long story, and a deep story, with some dark themes and epic moments. The mass protest scene, with the players reacting to the deaths of hundreds of innocents was particularly powerful, and, remarkably, so was the "we are one" moment where the rebels helped unite a community against evil.<br /><br />I like shades of grey in my stories, but this was one where the bad guys were truly bad, and the people were truly good. And it was a nice story to tell. </span></div>
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Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-40877131448439840622016-09-27T18:51:00.001+13:002016-09-27T18:51:27.673+13:00The Wrath of Cahn - Part 1 - A Talathen Sector story<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wrath of Cahn
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, it seems like forever since I’ve done an update for
Talathen Sector. The campaign is ongoing, but life has gotten in the way so we
have missed a fair few sessions this year. What we have been doing is the
longest story arc of the RPG campaign to date. We have also started the next
strategic round, and updates will be coming on that, featuring the Rebellions
first crushing defeat and a massive capital ship engagement as the rebels try
to evacuate their hidden base and the Imperial Fleet attacks. All those games are in the books and need to be written up.<br />
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A lot happened in this story, so I will keep it as brief as possible while
conveying the full content of the story as best as I can remember. It was a
longish story, so parts will be skipped.</span></div>
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<b>The Brief</b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cahn is a planet located near a black hole, as a result of
this unusual positioning it has several unique features. First of which is
time-dilation, every day on Cahn is 3 days to the normal galaxy. Now,
interstellar and people like Neil Degrasse Tyson can do a much better job of
explaining the whys of time dilation, this is Star Wars, so it just works. <br />
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Secondly, the planet is in a geo stationary orbit relative to the Black hole.
This means one side of the plant is charred, and the other side is frozen, but
there is a “green zone” across the equator where the population lives. <br />
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Thirdly, the planet is ruled, and almost entirely populated by a religious
order called the Devourer Cult. This religious group worships the black hole as
a deity and despite its name has a reputation for passiveness and charity
works, akin to a group like earths Hari Krishna. They can be found all over the
sector, living in Spartan conditions and helping the poor and needy. What
really surprises a lot of people is that fully 2/3<sup>rd</sup> of the movement
are Trandoshans who formed the colony centuries ago and have rejected their own
cultural mores. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Mission<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ruling council of Cahn has offered to pledge
humanitarian and logistical support to the rebellion if they can solve an
internal political issue for them. A member of the ruling council has gone
rogue and is conducting terrorist operations, but as Cahn has a strict
non-violence policy they cannot retaliate or fight back effectively. They need
terrorists to catch the terrorists, so the rebellion is the perfect answer for
them. <br />
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<b>Arrival</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coming in to land at Cahn city, the only major settlement on
the planet, the team were instructed to hold their flight pattern until another
ship landed. This ship was a small, badly beaten, ancient looking light
freighter, and it landed at the starport safely. The rebels ship landed at the
platform alongside. <br />
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Waiting at the spaceport was around 10,000 people, quietly waiting. The team
thought initially thought it was a welcome party, until the pilot of the other
ship left to rapturous applause. While this was going on, an official came up
to the team and introduced himself as Tellarn. He was a member of the ruling
council and the representative of the local district that included the
spaceport. He explained that the Trandoshan who had just returned was a Pilgrim
that 100 years ago he had left and flown closer to the edge of the black hole
in order to be close to the devourer, and while the journey had taken him less
than a month, 100 years had passed for his community. The man would now be
treated as a holy figure by the community. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were led through the city after the procession had
moved away. Cahn was mostly mud brick buildings done in a rustic style, while
the interiors were modern but modest. One thing the team noticed was that there
were no vehicles or droids in the city, with most transportation being done by
repulsor sleds pulled by people. Tellarn was proud to say that the city has no
unemployment and that people do what is needed, everyone works in one way or
another and the community helps together. The team were pretty weirded out by
what appeared to be a combination of pacifism, Islamic socialism and communism.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were taken to the visitor’s district, the only place in
the city where “out of towners” are housed. It’s a small area dominated by the
guests hotel, a stylishly presented, yet very retro place (think of walking
into a well maintained English manor house). Tellarn introduced the team to two
helpers N’alla, a Twi’lek woman who’s family had emigrated to Cahn some years
ago after being helped by members of the Devourer Cult on Nimbala, and Doran, A
former Luxon fighter pilot who’s fighter hyperdrive had failed during the Clone
Wars and he had crashed here. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr Vox paid special attention to the replacement limbs that Doran
had, as it was high quality work and, as a battlefield surgeon, he was
fascinated to see how they did it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team was left to get comfortable at the hotel before
meeting with the council and asked questions about the culture, infrastructure,
and the nature of the terror attacks and so on. <br />
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Ithkrall was revealed to have been an
idealist and visionary, and both guides were shocked that he had broken one of
the greatest tenants of their faith “we do not spill blood”. Five people had
been killed during the terror attacks, which is more murders than they had had
in the last decade. <br />
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Certain members of our crew had killed more than five people in the last week,
and the level of naiveté, hopefulness and all-round cheerfulness really weirded
them out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They asked questions about the society, why there were no
droids, the justice system and the like. It all boiled down to “we do hard
work, and the community helps those in need, but you are expected to help in
return, if you are beyond help you get banished”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After getting comfortable and unpacking their belongings,
the crew were invited to the mountain in the middle of the city. Cahn city was
built on tiers, sort of like Minas Tirath, but far larger. <br />
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The 2<sup>nd</sup> to last tier heading up the mountain was a massive open
space that had been levelled out and concreted. According to N’alla, almost the
entire city could gather in this place around the temple and listen to the
council of elders speak. It was rare for people to all gather up here, but it
happened a few times for special occasions and momentous decisions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the center of the plaza was the spire that formed the Temple
of the Devourer. It reached high into the sky and was shaped like a tall vase,
fatter at the top and bottom, with a flat roof. Presumably, some form of
observation platform. <br />
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In front of the Spire, the crew encountered the first military looking presence
in the city. Around 20 ceremonial guards, armed with shields and what appeared
to be long poled stun batons. The guards turned as they approached and unbarred
their spears to allow access to the structure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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spire was that it was open in the middle, and that the platform above was
really an optical lens. The devourer, the great black hole, could be seen
through the ceiling in overblown proportions. It made the crew feel decidedly
uncomfortable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ithkrall is a terrorist</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their non-violence religion and lack of weapons make
fighting a terrorist impossible.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rebellion has the expertise they lack and no moral compunctions
about spilling blood</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cahn has great expertise to share and would provide covert
support and help to the rebels</span></li>
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Was Ithkrall a terrorist or the idealist he was originally described as? What is
Ithkrall agenda for their terror attacks, as no one has mentioned motive? Is
this culture for real, or are they secretly very nasty? What is Malkar hiding? <br />
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These answers would come, but the investigation would require a lot of digging
and peeling back a massive sector wide conspiracy that threatened the lives of
every sentient being within 100 light years. <br />
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Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971749143319319294.post-69223846252326811432016-09-10T10:32:00.001+12:002016-09-10T10:52:45.627+12:00Games Workshop and Fantasy Flight Games split<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/9/9/a-new-path-forward/"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's official, GW and FFG will no longer be doing business. </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Considering that FFG/Asmodee have blasted past GW in terms of total turnover in the last few years and the decision of GW to bring back specialist games, i'm not hugely surprised.<br /><br />FFG has been the actual games workshop for Games Workshop for a long long time. And while they have focused on model making supported by badly designed games, FFG have been keeping people who love the settings engaged with really good games.<br /><br />A lot of these games are relatively early in their development cycle. People who stumped up to get Conquest & Warhammer Quest - the card game - will likely bit put out by not being able to continue to expand those games.<br /><br />Forbidden stars will stay a 4 faction game, i'm so glad I didn't buy it yesterday (and I was in store, holding the box, debating it)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For me, Chaos in the Old World is the pinnacle of this relationship. It's dripping in GW's IP and theme, but has the great game design of FFG. It's simply a masterclass in game design and I am so glad I have a copy of a game that is likely to go OOP and stay OOP for a long long time.<br /><br />Blood Bowl team manager is also my favourite "Lite" game, and i'm slightly miffed it won't be getting any more teams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I highly doubt the FFG/GW deal will allow GW to lift all the mechanics and start selling expansions for the games, so this could be the death of these lines. Although "REX" type reskins could happen for some of the games.<br /><br />And looking at GW's most recent attempts at Board Game design, my hopes are not high. Poor mechanics and nice figures don't engage me. Dreadfleet was a terrible terrible game and Warhammer Quest:Silver Tower costs about the price of three decent boardgames in NZ and, asides from the figures, is an average to decent dungeon crawler. But i could also get Descent 2nd edition core set and two expansions for the same price. It also doesn't help that the new Warhammer world is just awful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sure GW do great figures, they are a model company after all and they excel at that. But FFG is a games company, and losing the GW IP means that we have likely concluded a 2nd golden age of GW themed games.<br /><br />The first was GW's glory days as a Games design company, when titles like Space Hulk, Blood Bowl, Warhammer Quest, Fury of Dracula and Heroquest were coming out and were as good as any of the competition. Space Hulk and Blood Bowl still occupy very warm places in my heart and on my games shelf. And boy am I glad that Blood Bowl online is still a thing.<br /><br />It's possible that GW will eventually return to greatness in the Boardgame field, but it won't be immediately, their game development culture has been focused on flash and models for far to long and Game Design is not easy to do well. I personally prefer a mediocre looking game than a pretty one that sucks.<br /><br />Power Grid > Dreadfleet in other words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looks like I have a few expansions for games to procure before they go out of print. Time to finally get "Halls of Terra" for Relic, ugh, so gutted their won't be more Relic, that game was stupid but fun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I highly recommend getting the stuff you want for these games now, as they will go OOP really quickly and will likely not come back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Post Script:<br /><br />A friend of mine brings up the RPG lines and raises the point that GW will likely not develop any replacements. Sad day for WHFRP and Dark heresy fans as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Vomkrieghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104475552979903737noreply@blogger.com0