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Legendary Kingdoms: The Beginning

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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!

World War Tesla

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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:

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Legion Update

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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.

Star Wars Legion

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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!

Legion

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Two things:

  1. I’ve come to realize that I enjoy painting miniatures almost more than I enjoy playing table top miniatures games.
  2. I think I found a possible use for the 3D spaceship aka the Infineon Beetle.

That said, let’s see if I fall down the rabbit hole with this one.

 

What Ships are For

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Remember that 3D-printed spaceship that I had started making last year?

I got a new printer late in 2021, and decided to start printing it from the beginning, and the results have been more than satisfactory for me.

The main issue that I had with what I had done last year was the overuse of support material, rendering the printed pieces almost unusable without a lot of work.

I also followed the directions more closely this time, configuring the printer to the optimum settings per the ship creator, and realizing that MINIMUM supports were necessary for printing.

The results as of this morning:

I should have everything finished this coming weekend.

And as of now, I’m still not sure what I’m going to be using it for, primarily.  It can be my crew’s ship in Five Parsecs from Home, but most if not all the game play for that takes place planetside.

In any case, it will be a nice touch of nostalgia around the house, much like it was when I was 12 or so.