After Action Reports from The Front
Behold!
This was 3D printed and can be expanded if the need arises.
It’s currently 24″ x 32″, which is big enough for most of the games I currently play, sports and otherwise.
And in a IDGAF thought, any and all tabletop skirmish games will be played on this surface, regardless of the suggested playing area. Because 36″ x 36″ is a bit big, for me.
Stand by!
So, what’s been going on since last year?
I managed to start that Legendary Kingdoms solo game, but haven’t gotten very far. I hope to continue playing fairly soon.
My crew for Five Parsecs from Home got a little boring, so I’m going to restart the game with a new campaign and a new crew.
I’ve sold off practically all of my Warhammer 40K armies (Guard, Ork, Necron, Marines) to an online store, I have maybe a handful of figures for Kill Team, or…
I’m looking into a newer, miniatures-agnostic system called Fistful of Lead, specifically the Galactic Heroes version, from Wiley Games. This new system will allow me to use whatever miniatures I have laying around and finally have those battles we’ve always wanted to see, like Federation crew vs. Mandalorians.
Okay, maybe battles that *I’ve* wanted to see.
Speaking of miniatures, I’ve been printing them out on my resin printer and have way more than I need for any system.
I’ve also shelved a few games (Car Wars, Battletech, Blood & Plunder, etc) while I try to focus on what I actually want to play between these types and my sports games…
I’ll have it all figured out by the time we reach the Frontier.
*klaxon alert*
What’s that?
The Frontier.
Stand by!
Today in the mail I got a pair of gamebooks that I’ve been looking forward to receiving.
From the website:
An epic, choose-your-own-adventure-style gamebook set in a sandbox fantasy world.
Prepare for an adventure in this huge open-world gamebook series. Legendary Kingdoms is a roleplaying campaign, where you lead a party of adventurers in a world that adapts to your actions. Venture into ancient ruins, pick a side and lead an army into battle, sail the high seas on your own warship, defeat tyrants or bring them to power. Along the way your party will increase in skill, wealth, and renown, allowing them to take on more challenging adventures. Reach the heights of power and you may uncover a dreadful threat to the world itself and go on a mission that spans all six gamebooks in the series.
Book 1: The Valley of Bones takes place in a desert wilderness where tyrant kings oppress the teeming masses in a land strewn with ancient artifacts and ruins. But their grip on power is fragile… and the citizenry is ripe for revolution. It is a land of blood and sand, where civilization is rare and terrible beasts roam freely.
You pick a party of 4 adventurers from 6 pregenerated characters.
Coincidentally, I picked the first 4 in this picture.
From left to right: Sar Jessica Dayne, Akihiro of Chalice, Tasha, Lord Ti’Quon
A paladin, a samurai, a pirate, and a sorcerer. It’s like they knew my favorites to play.
I didn’t choose the druid (Amelia Pass-Dayne, Jessica’s half-sister) or the rogue (Brash).
Now to go over the rules and start adventuring.
Stand by!
You know I really like a game when I decide to get a hardcopy of the rules after getting the PDF version of those same rules.
Found an interesting game a couple of weeks back, an alternate history wargame with 3D printable playing pieces.
World War Tesla™ is an alternate-history wargame by James M. Ward (author of TSR’s Gamma World, Deities & Demigods, and Metamorphosis Alpha) and Thomas A. Tullis, where Nikola Tesla’s more radical ideas such as death rays and force fields have come to fruition, changing the face of a world at war. Giant walking tanks, soldiers with rocket-packs, and flying machines armed with death rays rule the battlefield!
I decided to print a couple of both army’s units:
Or: what other miniatures did Chris buy?
Reading the rules, it looks like I need 3 units per side, minimum. Since I got the Rebel Commandos, I decided to get another Imperial unit.
Always loved the look of these guys since Rogue One.
I also decided that I wanted commanders other than Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, so…
Along with a commander, these expansions come with communications, medics, and vehicle repair units.
Then the ‘character’ bug got me, since I already had Boba Fett, so I got another commander:
And if you have Han you gotta have Chewie…
And then I found one of my other all time favorite Star Wars characters, even though a unit card doesn’t exist for him:
One of these days I may finish painting these minis, and then set up a scenario.
Yeah, didn’t think I’d ever jump into this one either. But I like to paint miniatures, and these have some nice models in the core box.
I don’t intend to get a lot of expansions, the only ones so far are Boba Fett and Rebel Commandos, the former for obvious reasons, the latter because I like the idea of playing with a Rebel Commando strike team.
And apparently I already have a piece of terrain that was designed for this game, the Hunter’s Ship.
Along with .STL files for a landing bay, like on Tatooine.
Maybe I can have a sabotage mission to destroy a prototype TIE fighter…
But yeah, we’ll see if I get around to playing, like I haven’t yet with so many other games.
Stand by!
I bought the 3D files for this ship back in June of 2021.
After about 2 months I stopped printing it for some reason.
In December, after getting a new 3D printer, I started fresh with improved print jobs.
Less than a month later, the Infineon Beetle is finished.
BEHOLD!
