Gaming Boards

Hi!

in the past weeks I tried to put together some terrain elements and some different gaming boards, mostly focusing on 15mm stuff.
My main goal was to create some nice looking enviroments using only leftover materials.
This is the board I made out of some foamcore and polystyrene, adding wall plaster, sand and few rocks:

The board is made from A3 foamcore sheets. I finished 2 out of 4 planned; in the next pics you can see the new ones together with the finalized/painted ones

And here you can see the final effect with some 15mm minis, all from Ground Zero Games:

Hills can host some important game objectives...

Even if at the moment I only have 2xA3 they still have proven themselves enough for few nice 15mm games :)

At the moment I'm thinking about creating other boards with different materials... stay tuned!

Cheers

Andrea

Five Parsecs from being back!

Hi all!

It's been a long time since I last wrote something on NNL, and I'm so sorry about that. I unfortunately (or luckily) have had lots of things to do... i.e. I now live with my patient girlfriend!

Still, I have TONS of newly painted minis and in these months I tried some very cool rules: I played with my mates terrific Ganesha Games battles (love these rules!), and I found my new paragon in wargaming rulesets: the Fivecore System from Nordic Weasel Games!

Really, this is something I did not expect: with this ruleset and its expansion Five Parsecs From Home I felt something I was missing in miniature gaming since a long time: the feeling of an adventure, story-driven game!

I never played but was a great fan of GW's original Rogue Trader because it was so full of imagination and was all about adventures and quests instead of  revolving "only" around battles... each game had a story, players and NPCs had interesting interactions and backgrounds... and this is exactly what I love of Five Parsecs: Ivan Sorensen brought back this feeling forgotten for a long time in my games!

By now I tryed the game only once with my friend Yuri (he's the one who told me about this great system!) but it was enough to confirm my first impression. I hope to be able to post soon a batrep.

BTW: I will try in the next weeks to post pictures of all the new minis I've done in these last months and be aware... I also discovered the world of 15mm fantasy, so expect to see something soon! :D

Since my last post was about ARC Fleet light recon color schemes (still my favourite sci-fi soldiers out there) I leave you with a couple of pictures of the painting I decided for some of them:

- my SWAT teams will now have a new "blue" look as I did not like anymore my former paintjob, below you see the comparison between new (left) and old (right):

- some special operations squads will now have a new camo I quite like:

All in all, I greet you with a peek to my small 15mm playground so you know I was not jocking when I said I worked on some gaming stuff in the last months ^_^'... I will post more about all my new terrain stuff in the next weeks!

Take care!
cheers
Andrea

ARC Fleet Light Recon color schemes

Hi all,

I recently ordered some great stuff with Yuri from GZG but, when we met to split the order (and have a beer), we decided also to trade some of the minis we already had.

So I now have... 15-16 more ARC Fleet Light Recon from Critical Mass Games!
Just by surfing on this blog you might understand how much I love these minis, in my opinion they are so well proportioned and their uniform is just perfectly fitting my taste.
They remember me a bit Halo's ODST and that is pretty good too!

So, since I will have to paint some more of them (and I'm thinking to order a dozen more and make an army) I made some reference tables to study new color schemes for them, please enjoy :)

Let me know if you like/will use any of them for your minis!

Cheers
Andrea

Song of Blades and Heroes tryouts

Hi all,

and sorry for posting so infrequently in the last months.
Still, me and my gaming buddies are planning some cool things for the next months: in fact we discovered a new brand of rules we all are really IN LOVE with: I'm talking about Andrea's Sfiligoi Ganesha Games rulesets.

We knew about GG but never tried anything before and... damn, these games are really good!
You can really play your game in a couple of hours and the mechanics themselves deliver lot of fun... in fact, while being incredibly easy to manage (a couple of turns to teach players how to play and bookkeeping near to not-at-all), you will spot some very subtle findings able to make your game quite unpredictable: in other words, you need some strategy or you are dead.

At the moment we played 3 or 4 times with Andrea's fantasy rules, and Affro recently bought a copy of Mighty Monsters and Samurai Robots Battle Royale... so you can imagine how we look forward to play again!

Plans for the future:

- other fantasy 28mm games with SoBaH

- a 15mm Sci Fi Project using Flying Lead (I already own a copy, I only think we'll need to trimmer rules down a bit since it is quite dense in our opinion compared with other GG rulesets)

Lastly, I put together some of the -horrible, I admit- pictures taken from one of our last games... please enjoy an example of punished hubris :D

Cheers
Andrea

Not dead yet - and BatRep

Hi,

long time has gone since I wrote my last post because of real life calling... and Skyrim.
It always has a role in procrastination.
BUT... I'm still here and in these months I had some good gaming with my mates Affro, Mr BBocci (if you don't know his masterpieces, you should go to: http://www.artflakes.com/en/shop/matteo-bocci) and Yuri, so my patient girfriend will not hear me telling her about game rules for a while.
Maybe.
Btw: we fought a great scenario prepared by Yuri with the rules of THW CR3 using 15mm minis. The backgound and rules were GREAT, but we had very unlucky dies in our hands and in the end there were not much action.
The plot was about finding/neutralizing gunrunners with a stealth approach and then kick the buyer's a$$ as soon as they appeared... quite fun!
The scenario was full of Yuri's greatly painted 15mm civilians and since we are a bunch of good guys the engaging rules were focused on civilians preservation.

Here are some pics:

Our layout :). Next to us some friends were playing some boardgames.

First building, first room to clear. Paper maps are Yuri's and they may be from Cyberpunk -but not sure, I have to ask him again-.

ME:
"Where are the bad guys? Tell me!"
- roll d6
"I don't know"
"Oh."
- Guys, can I shoot him?
- No. Rules of Engagement. We are supposed to be the good guys.
- Damn.

Mr BBocci:
"Where? Tell me!"
- roll d6
"I don't know"
"Umf."
- Guys, can I shoot these two?
- No. Rules of Engagement. We are supposed to be the good guys.
- Damn.

Affro's team explores the tabletop trying to reveal a PEF

Affro's team gets miserably lost in the swamp

Some people look to Affro's team and think no one will go back home

Affro's team approaches the last shack.
No one from his team came back home (5 Sahadeens inside with a LMG).

However, in the next batrep I'll post you'll see Affro taking his revenge... against me.

Cheers
Andrea

SECRET WARS of Zombieland!

Hi!

further some encouraging feedback I had to my "Sci-Fi dungeon Crawling" free-game SECRET WARS, I'm putting together a small yet hopefully fun expansion: let me introduce you GENCOM: Genetic Commerce.

In the world of SECRET WARS, where the Earth we know is broken and sick, Governments are just representative and what rules the world is the brutal Corporation, big and small conflicts turn up daily... a tragedy for someone but -as it always is- a lucrative business for someone else. 

GENCOM is a new but powerful Company. Born as a medical research institute focused on bio-implants and genetic manipulation, it has quickly become a player in the black market of Bio-Weapons and it is rumored to have connections with some of the Nations which claims independence and aim to undermine the Corporation's hegemony.

And here comes your oppurtunity as a Corporative Cell Commander: the Intellighentias have nothing against infected Zombies, snarling Bio-Hulks or small conflicts which sustain the world's bloody Economy... but GENCOM business is slowly becoming more and more troublesome and time consuming to handle in an official way and the Corporation is not going to tolerate it anymore.

So the matter will be not treated on a meeting table nor in an open conflict, but with the quick and surgical action of a chosen group of Agents.

So stay tuned for the update and let me know if you like the game or not: any comment or review will  be much appreciated and blessed by the Gods of Heavy Metal and Miniatures enthusiasts!

Click the Pic and Download  SECRET WARS from Google Docs 

Cheers,
Andrea

End of 2012's Hero Quest

Happy new Year!

It’s been a long absence but I’m back - and we all are here, despite all Maya’s previsions...

Not much gaming in these last months, still I’d like to share few pics of the nice Hero Quest game me and few  friends had during the night of the last 2012 day!

Since I was very lazy around 2 am, my thanks go to Francesco and his mobile phone..

This is the crucial point of the game: the Heroes have found a Nurgle sorcerer (warhammer fluff is still fantastic fantasy background in my opinion…), coming with a personal guard of Chaos Warriors and a mutated dog (a beast that tore apart -and I mean dead, dead, dead- 2 players before being taken down... ok, here you see him down because of a "sleep" spell, but it woke up the turn after in a baaaaad mood)

 

A Mage summoned Djiin helped a lot in beating the bad guy but in the end the 2 surviving heroes were left just 1 Body Point each.. a very tough but funny game!

For this new year, I’d like to put together a couple of things:

-          Add some scenarios to Secret wars (if anyone tried it, please kindly send me a comment)

-          Maybe -I still don’t know - create a quick and fast conversion to play HeroQuest with WH40k background. I know there is/was Space Crusade –or StarQuest- out there, but it is does not have exactly the same feeling Hero Quest has... (WH40k HQ should in my opinion look closer to a very simplified “Inquisitor” game)

Cheers,

Andrea