2014 Painting challenge

Well it seems that at the begining of 2014 I started a slow grow leauge and painting challenge and over 2014 I was painting Abyssal dwarfs. well I just finished my last model and realized I have not shown of the whole army. so I throught I would put up the photos.

King of Perth

well it is time to get ready to play kings of war.

Kings Of War – Perth Western Australia

I will be running a Kings of War Tournament
It will held at
TGA on 24th May 2015
reg from 830 dice rolling at 9am finish around 5pm
three rounds two hours each

There will be a cost yet to be determined .


this event will be

Kings of war V2 beta

2000pts

no allies

Three rounds

Two hour games

With Support from Mantic Games

Best Hobby - this will be for the army that is painted, presented and has the best Character
that means more then best painted it means that that has all the trimmings the display, the fluff and history, the added extras.

Best general-straight up battle points who wins the most points

Best Painted - straight up who has the highest score on the paint matrix

and as tradition for those that play mantic we will have a
wooded spoon for the winner at the wrong end of best general

we will be using the Kings of war Beta rules and amendment document for this event, these can both be found on the mantic forum

amendment doc - https://manticforum.com/forum/kings-of- ... re-posting

with that we will be running a 2000pt army list

and no allies as we are all still getting use to the new rules for our armies.

cost will be about $15-$20 each this may change


please let me know if you are going to attend.

Any other info can be found at my blog.

Justin
Mantic Pathfinder
email firewaterportal@gmail.com

it is dread ball time

This is a league based around an intro to the game. If you are an experience player it still has an opportunity to take new teams to try out.
If you do not have the rules you can down load for free on the mantic website
https://www.manticdigital.com/product/d ... ree-rules/

I also have some team that you can purchase if you need, or if you have models from other range you can use them.



Rounds start April 20th
Each round will be three weeks in length,
Depending on player numbers will determine how long. Must be willing to travelled to Outpost south, as that is the most centre location for both north and south players,
I am looking at 4-6 players for the first league. If we have numbers we will split into two separate leagues a northern and southern just depends on numbers.
This will be an intro league and we will be using seasons 1-3 rules we will not use MVPs in this league.
Dreadball leagues from the season one rule book will be in effect page 51.
We will not be using mvps.
We will start with 100mc for each team
Each round will be a double header one home and one away game in the round. This can be played in one night.
These games can be played at any location or any time during the round.
After you play your round you email the results to firewaterportal@gmail.com.au
Both coaches will need to submit there results, if one player submits then the results I have from them will stand.
If no results are submitted from both coaches you will forfeit the round and both score 0 LP and 0 game points
If you are unable to play this due to life than you can apply to league official for an extension this means you will have to play the game in the next round, (that means two games in next round) this is to done before the end of the round or you will forfeit the round.
You are to keep you own records of the games played as they will be needed at the end of league.

Prizes will be awarded to
Best painted team and themed team
Most points scored by team
And a league winner’s trophy


As the game progresses we will add rules to the package if needed.
We use
Season 1-3 rules
Mantic dread ball FAQ (any conflict with the rules the FAQ takes precedents)

Results needed to returned per game
Score of game
Number of kill
Fan checks scored
Best play vote
Photo of both teams side by side

1	matt
2	Glint.bladesong
3	Advanceop
4	Mr bruce
5	George Tdog
6	Zen Fairborn
	round one	round two	round three	round four	round five
	20th April	11th-may	1st- June	22nd -June	20th July
	1v4	2v6	1v6	5v6	1v2
	2v5	1v5	2v3	2v4	3v5
	3v6	3v4	4v5	1v3	6v4
	prelim final		final
	league standings		winners of prelim
	17th August		31st August
	1v4		1v1
	2v3

welcome to the mountain

well I have been working on the link display for the mine table to use to link the bad lands table to the under ground table.

this is an enterace to the hold.

next up will be detail and then the start of the badlands table.

I worked on the new table

well I have been working on the new  6x4 under ground table. It is based an long unused drawf hold.

up next will be some scatter terrain, and some minning equipment.

I also have been working on the water wffect with some clear resin

gaming table and display boards - my veiw

One of my other parts of the hobby I enjoy is the terrain building.

I just had a listen to the latest Mantic Radio pod cast and would like to say one of my Favs I am a terrain guy and this one is about display boards, well display boards to me are just gaming tables after the shrink ray has been used. 

Display boards should tell a story that enhances the army that is displays; they add character and give context to the army in action.

Well gaming tables should do the same, tell a story, enhance the armies on the table - if a player is going to spend hours to painting those armies then the tables need to finish them off.  Each table should add character to the game and all the fun that can be had.

Five years ago I and a couple of mates started a club in the local area, now there is a whole article on that but not for now. When we stated we had to find terrain and tables for the players to use. Back then I made tables out of whatever I could get my hands on the experimented with building them.

Some were good some not so good but we always had painted tables even back then.

I also had to send my hobby money on the purchase of terrain for the club to use.

In those early days a lot of the tables had themes and character as they were all hand built the tables all had a story to tell.

these are some of the old tables when the club started a deadlands and a first type jungle table

Well one of the things I have ensured I do when I build tables is to make sure they have those elements of enhancing the armies, telling a story and adding character.

There are even times I have been known to build a table; this can take up to 60 hours of work just for an event or campaign. But to me that is what the game is.

                     above is the Castle walls I built for an event, as well as a jungle table for the club held a lustria campaign

I will event write rules for the table to use, these help add character and also help with the fact there may be terrain limitations for units, e.g. if we are playing in a dwarf hold there is only troops on foot (horses do not like the dark), and any model with flight or hover can only walk (ouch I hit my head). These to me are what I like to play on.

With that in mind I have really had to do some thinking about the topic and how do we play the game.  It also got me to thinking about the next project for my terrain efforts.

Those in mind I like to bring at least one new gaming table to life each year. These tables always have theme and character, with the only thing that is generic is the game system, I like to build them so they can be used in multiple systems. How I have a plan this year to build a series of linked tables so that if I would put them all together they will tell a story as well. The tables are always 8x4 allowing for use in larger games or for give the players more room.

This is where I hope to take the next phase of my terrain building, on the plan I hope to take the tables from the mountains to the sea. So when you look down the row of empty tables or join then together you will see the story.

So up first is year will involve a bit of a refit I made a cavern table about three years ago, this is just a basic one I hope to rebuild the table and make repairs to the table to bring it up to what I build now. Then this will lead to an abyssal table next. I am looking to having these finished by May for my Kings of War event – these will be the feature tables for the event.

        The caven table to rebuild.

But thank you for the podcast boys and keep it up I cannot wait for the terrain cast.