Fear the walking dead...

The sun is shining, perfect weather for varnishing and in between work e-mails the odd colour or two on some mini's. This lockedin/working from thing is not to bad at all.

The last batch of Zombie villagers from Fire Forge Games, there should be enough here to generate a couple of extra units but given how the humans carve through them, they are most definitely needed.

I mixed in a couple of village arms to give them a less well armed feel, but imagine the shame of being defeated by a dead peasant hold a bucket or basket.

Next up their live equivalent the 'Beguiled' something else to confront the English and Spanish as they make their way through a plague infested England, sounds a little to real to me.....

Now go wash your hands......

Zombie Pikemen - Antediluvian Miniatures.

Despite the disappointment of missing Hammerhead it's been a pretty good weekend on the brushes.

Plenty of prep on the last of the Fire Forge Games - Forgotten Realms kickstarter, villagers, both live and dead, I also got to finish the last of the recent kickstarter from Antediluvian Miniatures.

More Conquistador in style than Pikemen but I figured they fit and painted up to match the recent output, it gives the bad guys something a little tougher, what they lack in attacking power they will be harder to kill (again).

That's the last from last years kickerstarter painted. It will be interesting to see if they expand this range. The Zombies are a little on the thin side, but they fit in well with the wider collection.

Meanwhile as the paint dried on the armoured zed's I got to work on the last of the beguiled villagers and recently turned. These should be hitting the paint table in the week ahead.

This should give me 3-4 more units for the forces of darkness, which should be plenty for the humans to chop and hack through. After the last encounter we have made a tweak to the Zombie rules to get them to stick around on the tabletop a little longer. Ignoring the excess pins to destroy them, which should tie down more human units whilst not increasing the number of kills the Zombies achieve.

So still plenty to do if we have to spend 2 weeks locked in doors.

In the words of Simon Pegg - "Let's go down Ye Olde Winchester, have a nice pint of ale and wait for this all to blow over"

Stay Safe all.

Dispatches from the front III

Time to upgrade the blog front page as all the Kickstarter's have now landed. 

Just in time for the BBC's adaption of the War of the Worlds, Grey Fox Game's two player card building game landed. Each encounter lasts around an hour and it certainly been the game of the month, although its damned hard for the alien invaders to win although each game came down to the last 4 points.

Talking with fellow board gamers, its good to know that the same mindset stretches across both ends of the hobby when we look to justify the outlay for figures, paint time or board games.

Having played War of the Worlds at least 5 times now in my own mind I have already covered the cost of the game if you measure it in terms of a good meal out or a few pints and a curry.

On the strength of this the War of the Worlds project might get a bit of a make over or at least a couple of bunkers to help protect the earthly defenders.

The models within the Kickstrater are a lovely touch and really bring the game to life, they may even get a lick of paint over the Christmas period.

Meanwhile a couple of days later these fine fellows landed, as with many Kickstarters a number of months late, the will be a great addition to the Elizabethan Zombie Wars.

Although I could have done with swapping the cavalry with more dead villages to plague the land. 

Just the fun of putting the damn things together.

I can see the price justification for plastics but having just replaced some of Perry's plastics in the Haiti range as over prolonged game play they have lost bayonets and swords I think I shall be largely sticking with metals.

E-bay has produced some extra reinforcements for the Army of the Witch Queen which should add some more colour to the Army of Darkness Forces..... more on that soon.  

Right back to the brushes.... those e-bay packages won't paint themselves.