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

AGENTS

Hi,

after a nice SECRET WARS tryout with Affro, I took some of my Rebel Minis in order to convert them to be Agents with a design closer to my SW sketch below:






From Left to Right, SW Agents come in 4 categories: Tactical , Medic, Support and Engineer.

I made  with some putty the long coats and converted one of the "Post Apocaliptic Survivalist" adding a heavy weapon. It is quick and fun to make this kind of very simple conversions in 15mm, you really don't have to care much about small details since  it will be mostly the overall look what will count on the table.

At the end, this is the complete selection of Agents... I know the picture is not that good, I'll try to post a new one.
While I'm  quite satisfyied about the Tactical and the Support Agent, and think Medic is ok, the Engineer is to be improved or substituted, since I added no conversions and do not give the character feeling.

If you have any suggestion, let me know!


Download  SECRET WARS from Google Docs 


Cheers,
Andrea

No Nerd's Land presents: SECRET WARS

Hi all,

very busy month at work, still I'm about finishing up NNL free game system, which now has a name: SECRET WARS! It might be not the most original name out there, still it makes sense with the dungeon crawling and cyberpunk feeling of the game... and I quite like it!

while I complete some stat cards and try understand how to put the pdf rules and game aids on my blog (really, if someone has any idea about it... O_o), I'm glad to post here a playtest in which you can start have an idea what will be the game!

Any feedback or comment is welcome,
Cheers,
Andrea

Retake of my Sahadeens

Hi,

just a short post to show a very small change I made to my Sahadeens while waiting for the Rebel Minis order my friends made for my birthday :)
I personally love Sahadeen's look and I like the idea of painting black the inside of their hood, "Nazgul style".
While looking at how I painted them, I thought they were missing something...
So I added a red scarf.
That's all.

I told it was a very small thing... ^_^'
Cheers,
Andrea

BatRep: Battle at the Gym

Hi,

after the great satisfaction I had from playing CR3 intro game with Affro, I repeated yesterday the same "patrol" scenario (same forces involved but different terrain) with Paolo.
Paolo manages the gym I nonchalantly attend and he's a big fan of historical wargaming and a very pleasant person to play with.
We played in the tabletennis room close to the kickboxing training room (where some people were having their lesson!!!)

Please enjoy the... Battle at the Gym!


At this time a lot of very big people with boxing gloves were surrounding us to understand what we where doing... O_O

Two or three of the big guys were at this time quite interested in the battle going on...


After a very short time Paolo had a full understanding of CR3 rules...



and the battle lasted a couple of hours!

After the game Paolo was enthusiast of the rules and he asked me a copy I had on hand of an introduction to Ed Teixeira's system called MG42 (2nd world war scenario).
With the next games I'm planning to start a campaign, I still need to decide with the people involved if it will be in 15mm or 28mm!

Just a note... if we'll play in 15mm I will have to improve Sahadeen's Reputations as they were no match for our Kill Teams!!

Stay tuned!
Cheers,
Andrea

Rebel Minis Z-Hunters

Hi,

below is a pic of 3 (out of 5) of my Z-hunters from Rebel Minis
I'd like to use them as main characters (Stars in THW game system) for my sci-fi games... I think the woman on the right can be a nice mercenary, while the other girl looks like a special agent and I suppose the man with sunglasses to be an hard boiled detective...

Will post more soon,
Cheers,
Andrea

Sahadeen army: ready for tonight game!

Hi,

I finally succeded in painting all my Sahadeen insurgents from Rebel Minis!
The paint job is quite simple, still I think that's enough for 15mm minis.

I'm going to try out tonight Chain Reaction 3 introductive scenario with Affro (have a look on his nice blog here ).

We well play as a couple of squads of hard boiled Light Recon bada$$ (from CMG) patrolling an area where Sahadeens are supposed to have left some forces.
As you can see I painted the bases with different colors as suggested in THW yahoo group so it will be very easy to recognize every guy's Reputation (the main stat in Chain Reaction system).
Red=Rep 5, Black=Rep 4, Green=Rep 3, Yellow=Rep 2.

I will post soon the battle report,
Stay tuned!

Cheers,
Andrea

First of my Sahadeen!

Hello,

I'm working on tons of Sahadeen warriors...
I post a picture of the first tryout: while it is far from being perfect (need some more work) I think this level of detail could be ok for "common" troopers on the table.
About the face under the hood, I'm thinking to cover it in black (just leaving the metal breath mask) and leave it with a "nazgul" feel!

Ps: as for all my 15mm, the base is the most inexpansive: an Euro cent!!!
I will soon post the entire platoon!

Cheers,
Andrea

Rebel Minis Sahadeen and Zed Hunters

Hello,

Finally I find the time to post some more. Today I'd like to show you the minis I received from Rebel Minis (http://www.rebelminis.com/).
I would like to spend some words about them (kind of a short review! :)

First, let me apologize for the grotesque quality of the pictures... my camera does not have such a zoom... When they'll be painted I will ask my -very- patient girlfriend to take some good pics with her kick-a$$ camera and her good talent.

Anyhow, below are the basic Sahadeen warriors, in comparison with an Arc Fleet Light Recon from Critical Mass Games.
The quality of all the minis I received is STUNNING. My bad pics cannot give a pale idea of how nice the models are.
All are dressed with coats, eye/mouth protections, hoods and carry a nice "realistic" rifle with sight. There are 21 minis in 4 poses plus a commander.
And... they fit PERFECTLY the scale of my ARC Fleet Light Recon!!!!! See the picture below!!
They are fantastic together: the impression of having some proud insurgents dressed with a sort of uniform made of clothes only near a light armored soldier is perfectly simulated.
i.e.: their heads are slightly smaller than the AFLR's helmeted head and that's great in my opinion!
They are perfect for the game I was planning to play.


These guys below are from the Sahadeen Gun Team (6 minis). the models are a sniper (that comes with a spotter), a missile launcher guy and a SAW carrier.
All the models are really cool and well done -my favourite is the SAW gunner!- and as above, they perfectly fits their sahadeen friends and the CMG Light Recon troopers.


At last... they're not really sci-fi but I was very curious about these minis.... the zombie hunters!
Five characters with very fine details. From the left: an agile gunslinger girl, a "Lara Croft" style woman -the comparison comes out more for the big breast than for the two UZIs!- a rapper with a shotgun, a mercenary/soldier girl with an MP5, and a fat bald guy with mustaches and a gun (it will be my friend Affro's favourite!).
As for the Sahadeen, they looks just great with AFLR.
These minis can be just perfect in case of need for special characters.
Rebel Minis guys have been so kind to include for free a sample of their Earth Force Marines. The model is the last on the right, and looks very good... maybe my next purchase? Maybe... togheter with tons of their Zombies!! I know they work in partnership with Two Hour Wargames that produce the famous ATZ game... nothing less than good things can come from this relationship!!

Hope to be able to post soon better pictures with painted minis!

Cheers,
Andrea

My brand new "insurgents" are at my home!!!! Unfortunately I'm not.

YESSSS!

My -patient- girlfriend told me (with Skype because I'm on b-travelling) that I received today my Sahadeen warriors from Rebel Minis (http://www.rebelminis.com/sahadeenarmy.html )!
I look forward to see them... I will soon post pictures,

Cheers,
Andrea