New Year, New Gatling Blaster

Long ago I assembled and painted my Forge World Warlord Titan. It was a awesome event in my modeling career. When I got it, the only arm weapon options were: Volcano Cannon. That's it.

More were promised "soon", and in fact the Plasma BigMuthaCannon did come out a few months later, followed by the Huge Honkin' Powerfist. But what I really wanted was a gatling cannon the size of a Warhound. Last year I finally got that. 

In the meantime I had re-done the paint job on my actual Warhound Titan, so I had a Warlord upgrade in mind. A new weapon arm and a little more paint to fall in line with the Warhound.

Tempestus Rex: The Before Picture.

Now it's time to spring into action!  

Next up: Time to...wash?

Let The Forges Be Relit!

Just Not Too Close to the Resin.

 

Happy New Year!

 

Hope everyone had a good Holiday season. Now is the time, of course, for New Year Resolutions.

Yay. I do have a few things I will try and do with this space:

More posts. Everybody says that, but it gets difficult. Still, I shall try.

More posts on subjects other than than 40k. I do love 40K, but it's is not the start and end of my hobby. Just a big chunk of it. I have some projects coming up that will have some substantial gaming tie ins, so I will share them here. Air Combat and Sci-Fi.

See if there is any way to get a few more eyes on this blog. Are blogs dead? I've been told that a lot recently. Many gaming pages have migrated over to Facebook and Instagram. Maybe I will too.  

I have several ideas for ongoing features, I do hope you will hang around.

It's The Year of the Tiger

It'll Be Gr-r-reat!

Big Boss 'ead BBQ Shed

I got my hands on Games Workshop's Big 'ed Bossbunker. It is a nice Orky terrain piece, I think it will look good with the new Ork buildings from Kill Team. It makes a convincing command and/or BBQ bunker. Depending on the day, of course. 

It assembled with ease, and took paint very well. Some days it's hard to paint random and slapdash, yet clever. I think I did okay, we will find out when it goes on the table in a few days for a quick battle.

I have a few more home-made Ork terrain pieces I am working on. I'm going to for that Ork junk-town mek scrapyard feel. 

Go Fling Some Paint

Make it Spontaneous, but Well Thought Out

 

Danger: Sticky Cthulhu

 

This Halloween we played Iello's new release, Sticky Cthulhu!

No. It's not a Japanese tentacle-porn thing.

Mostly not, but it does have sticky tentacles. Oh yes. 

(Sorry for the lack of pictures, but my camera has given up, and I haven't gotten a new one yet.) 

Two to Six Players compete for Mighty Cthulhu's favor by eliminating various creatures that are bothering the Big C. This is done in a fun and very chaotic way: Flinging your sticky tentacle at the target and pulling it back to your clutches without nabbing a pesky Investor.

The target is determined by rolling two dice, one picks the target, the other its color. Then everyone is cleared to fling. You may try and steal from another player, but you may only use the tentacle to do so.

 Herein lays the danger: In our game we had six people flinging wildly at the little cardboard pieces, causing them to fly off the table if not hit squarely. 

And by flying I mean across the room. One made it into the kitchen. Some are still missing.

When two tentacles meet...the players naturally pull back, putting great tension on said tentacles.

One will pull off and snap back at the player with great force. Seriously, someone almost did lose an eye.

The other problem with the game is the target die has the kind of monster on it, but not the shape of piece. Which makes ID'ing the target troublesome. 

So, personal danger, parts that will be lost, kinda confusing gameplay. But it does have sticky tentacles!

Yes, it's fun, but it is a play a few times and done type of game. I can't even sell it on eBay because of the now missing parts...

 

Go Roll Some Dice

With Eye Protection