FWC thoughts

Still keen on FWC with an Epic flavour. So, after a random thought this week, I've thrown together a few formation cards to facilitate the selection of standard companies/squads/etc for a battlegroup.
It's fun thinking up combos for cards, but makes me realise I need to paint up a number more stands.

Big BadaBOOM!

Woot!  I got mail!

My LITKO order arrived yesterday, and I'm nerding out over little bits of plastic (again).

For on table bling during FWC (and other games, I'm sure) I've got myself some 'Smoking Wreckage', 'Medium Artillery' and 'Micro Blast' markers. 

They are very well made, with nice crisp edges (the artillery blasts were actually a bit ouchy as I pushed them onto their bases!).  Some assembly is required, but none of the bits I received had any problems fitting onto each other, and all I had to do was add glue.  I used my Airfix model glue, as I didn't want to risk using something (like superglue) that would fog the plastic.  (I did do a small test area first, just to be sure)

Below is the result of a late evening excitedly gluing.  No fingers were glued together in the making of these markers.

A lot of explosions

And because I am hanging out to use them, here's a small diorama showing the markers 'in action'...

A destroyed Battle Wagon in front of a unit of suppressed Orks, while another two orks are narrowly missed by an artillery barrage. 

Squats tend to tinker, ya know.

Speaking of Squats, I was considering the options available in the list for them and was feeling a bit restricted.  So I figured, ya know - I bet you'd have a hard time convincing a Squat not to re-jig their equipment any chance they could get.

So I got to re-jiggering...

The flamer on the Squat Trike is a nice piece of kit, ignores cover and hits anything in a line for 20cm... but sometimes you don't want to get that close.
Sooo, well, I've got all these Imperial LasCannons just lying around.  How could a short hairy engineer resist the temptation?

Nice!

Now... that covers those that like to reach out and tap something, but what about those that like to clamp on the trigger for some real rock'n'roll?

Heavy bolters for that!

 


Finally, the standard 'Rhino' APC is a bit of a light-weight.  Any Squat worth his steel-cap boots and overalls could see it needs to be up-gunned.  More LasCannons!

Not quite an IFV now, but with a bit more to add to a fire-fight...

 Looking forward to finishing the paint jobs on these and adding them to the Brotherhood motor pool!
  

Waargh!

Just a quick update on the Orks.  

They are coming along nicely, although slowly (as all wargaming projects are at the moment)

Soon the first batch of boyz will be ready to charge out and cause some havoc for the local Squats.

L-R: Gun Wagonz, Gretchin, Boyz, Warbozz, Attack Wagonz, Nobz, NobBozz.

Da Mekboy

Every WaarghBoss worth his teeth needs a Mekboy to look after all the tinbitz and stuff that goes dakka dakka.

So one will make a good HQ stand for my boys.

Here's one underway... (Mods made to a Nob figure)

Da Waaugh Boss

Then I got thinking (while at the sink doing the washing up) "These Nobz and Warboss figures are all very well - but I'm using those as elite infantry and HQ stands, what am I going to do for a CinC?  The Waugh Boss himself?"

I need a big figure, Imperial Xenobiologists all agree that Orks increase in height and muscle mass as they improve their standing in the Clan.  So the CinC is going to be the biggest and baddest...

I got it!  An Ogryn figure - 'ere we go!'   Bigger shoulder pads, bigger gun, heavy brow, ears(?), and a steel lower jaw - so far.  Can I fit more on?

Gunwagonz - score!

So, I'm rummaging around in the boxes under my desk looking for some gap-filler for basing, when I knock a box over and hear a distictly plastic-y sprues noise.  "Whats that?" I thinks to myself, opening the box.
Woo-hoo! A number of Ork Gun Wagons from the old Titan Legions box I've had sitting in the garage for years.  Must have brought them in one night and forgotten about them!  Perfect timing for the new project!

So here we go - I've already put one together and primed it, and this second one is the first of the mods.  They're just not quite lumpy enough as they stand.

So I've added plates, some extra fuel tanks and shortened the gun barrel.

I think the next one will have a change to the roller thingy.  Something toothy...

Kustomizin Warwagonz

Made a few small changes to the warwagons, just so they look more hand-crafted by the Mekboy, instead of coming off a factory production line.

The photo seems to be bringing out more of the brown ink wash than you usually see.  The finished versions don't really look that bronzed.

Ork Warwagon

So how to paint an Orky Warwagon?

Well, I figure first its built all out of sheet metal.

Which then gets rusty.

Which then is handed to a bunch of Orks to paint. They like blue, checks and glyphs.

 Turned out pretty good, I think.

Next ones will have additional panels added.

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Deathskullz

Orkses!

First strip of 6 boyz pretty much complete (maybe a brown wash required?) for my first colour trials.  I'm happy with how they turned out...

Gone with the GW 'Deathskullz' flavour for these boys.  Pretty traditional Orks with a taste for the lucky colour blue.

Coming soon... the prototype paint job for the Boyz' battlewagonz...

Achievement! Picked up a paint brush!

Yowza! Actually managed to put a bit of paint on ...

Orks!

eBay has provided a small amount of Orks to provide another challenge for my Desert Squats, who just want to get on with peacefully strip-mining the resource rich Procyon IV.

Just trying to settle on the colour scheme for the Ork Boyz and their battlewagons. I'm thinking Deathskullz, making blue a bit of a feature colour on them (its a lucky colour for Orks).

This is all part of my plans for solo gaming Future War Commander on a 2 ft square desert scenery board.

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Finally! A game!

A game! Against an adult! Rolling dice and everything!

Probably my only chance in a long time, for a long time, to push lead and roll dice against a gamer opponent (as opposed to the kids, who are coming along well with the dice rolling and miniature moving, but the games are a little simple. I really must put a few pictures of those up here)

So, since they were brand new and freshly painted, I naturally brought along as many favourites as I could cram in the list.

"Is this table tilting to one side?"

Having agreed to something along the lines of "Having detected the planet-fall of the Red Empire dropships, the fiercely independant squats of the Grimsvotn Brotherhood have dispatched their warriors to see off the invaders. Now the vanguards of the two forces encounter each other near a small industrial settlement..."
Battle begins...

The LRRG bikes and trikes race ahead

The Imperials swarmed onto the table, their mighty war engines shaking the ground.
The Brotherhood's Long Range Recon Group (LRRG) strikes out ahead of the rest of the force, hoping to delay the Imperials while the heavy vehicles get into position and the tunnellers deploy.

The Red Empire looms on the horizon...

The Imperial command centre

The bulk of the battle was dominated by artillery exchanges, as the Imperials brought down orbital strikes and used their many batteries of heavy artillery.
The Squat LRRG bears the brunt of much of this and suffers a few casualties as they race across the desert.
The Imperial War Walker engages the three squat Heavy Engines in a vicious exchange of fire. Shields flare and fail violently, but the Walker is out-gunned and in a couple of turns its shields fall to the Leviathan, allowing the Cyclops to administer the final blow with its BFG, "Haldenfyord's Hammer".
The Walker is left a ruined heap of scrap.

Imperials suppressed and the tunnellers emerge

In the centre the squat super artillery piece, "Huge Helga", finally finds range and lands its oversized shells amongst the Imperial infantry.

Judging the time right, the Tunnellers are ordered to the surface, and the Imperial flank is suddenly beset by a full Assault Tunneller battalion.
But disaster strikes! The Imperial FAO is not suppressed, and orders in a devastatingly accurate fire mission. Caught in the open before they could close on the Imperials, the entire battalion is wiped from the battlefield in a storm of metal.

All those guys on the hill... imagine them now gone. Yeah. All of them.

Broken spirited, the LRRG launch a desperate assault but are beaten back as the Imperials rally.
The Heavy Engines are enthusiastic to carry on into the midst of the Imperials and wreak vengance, but acquiesce to commands to fall back to fight another day.

So the Red Empire holds the field, and the squats look like having to fall back to a defensive posture.

Great to have a game after a long hiatus! The squats are great fun, under any situation. The Tunnellers still need some working out though, I'm not sure I used them correctly - both as in did I get the rules right and did I employ them correctly.

Say hello to my littl' friend!

(Coincidentally, 'Scarface' was on tele last night)

More of the Clans big armour. For when your big gunz just ain't big enough!

These beasties need names ... I was reading an article about the volcano in Iceland yesterday and some of those Icelandic names inspire me as appropriate for my squats.
I think my stunties may end up being an offshoot from the (FWC) Macgregor Clan and end up with a more Icelandic/Scandinavian nomenclature.

hmmmm... so above, "Haldenfyord's Hammer"?

Steamin!

It wouldn't be a Squat army without a Land Train, would it? I've gone with the green colour that I'm using as part of the camo on the others, rather than the brown and green camo the other war engines are using. Still with the steel highlights as the others, as that is a theme in the army's scheme. Also have another couple of cars I should get ready for options.

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Big Guns

Another piece for the desert dwarves.

Desert Squats!

Hi ho!
Fresh off the workbench - the 2/6th Brotherhood of Grimfist, Assault Tunnellers.

The Brotherhood
(some new desert terrain in the background)

One of the tactical platoons (with attached Smart Missile stand)

Showing the 3 tactical platoons, 2 assault platoons and HQ

The HQ stand