Saturday 25 May 2013

MCM ComicCon London 2013

Lottie and I ventured out to ComicCon, our first one, and it was such a blast. The place was packed with tons of people well dressed up from Pikachu through to HellBoy, and everything in-between. Loads of Steampunkers posing around and very nice they looked too. Plenty of stuff to buy and try and loads of meet and greets, photo ops etc. It was great to catch up with old friends and make some new ones too.

Lottie and the Artyfakes Troll

Lottie with Kat & James (The TTN Steampunkers)

Lottie with a Alice inspired Steampunk Girl

Lottie with our friend Tabitha Lyons.

We enjoyed ourselves so much that Lottie wants to get a Link costume and I am now looking at Steampunk apparel so that we can blend in better at our next foray.

Sunday 19 May 2013

Infinity - The Ariadnan Force

Infinity a real blast of a game. Fast, frantic fun. Its a breakneck speed game where you can't afford to look away from the table incase you miss a nice reaction shot. Small scale crew sizes make this an affordable system to play as you can field as few as five models for an effective force.

I play the Ariadnan Force which comprises of the peoples of Earth who left to settle and got cutoff for many years. They comprise, US, French, Scots and Russians and whilst not technologically advanced these guys are mean and pack a real punch with some devastating firepower and some really cool close combat surprises. Also the enemy find them infuriating as they have no tech that can be hacked.

Here is a view of some of my force.












British Para Limited Edition

With nothing on the table to paint at the moment I found this limited edition Warlord Games mini. Its of a British WWII para carrying a wounded comrade and very nice it is too.


Monday 6 May 2013

Some Relics Time.

Well the next month see's a few Relics events. Kicks off next weekend down at TabletopNation with the Tor Gaming Expo day on the 11th. At this event JAg will be running demos, there is a tournament, painting competitions, Worthy Painting will be there too and Joey Berry may well be in town too.

Also at TTN on the 8/9 June there is the Grumpy Old Gamers Convention with loads of demo games to join in and once again JAG will be in attendance with Tor Gaming to run Relics and hopefully the new sports game R:AL (Relics: Armistice League).

So if you can come on down and play some awesome games, meet some great people, buy some excellent figures and if you dont fancy painting them you can always ask me.


Friday 3 May 2013

Cutlass The First Outing

Captain Martin and I decided to play our first game of Cutlass the other night and it was fantastic. We only played a small skirmish with 5 models per side and had them all armed the same but it worked really well to learn the game. The rules are dead simple and the idea of having a different die for each attribute works great too e.g., Combat D8, Dexterity D6.

The game flowed well amongst our new 4Ground buildings but in the end Martins female crew, who he hadnt painted, succumbed to the might of my crew. See told you all painted figures always play better.
A shot of the table set up and a few in game shots. More reports to follow.