Total Wreckage

This sums it up pretty well, Total wreckage is what was left of my Nova Cats in our game on Saturday.

Mark and Ian with Clan Wolf against David's Capellen and my Nova Cat's. Since David wanted to run his newly painted models, I dropped my light Star of Nova Cat's and Mark split his Clan Wold with Ian running the other half. One star each to run for the game.

We played King of the Hill scenario with the hill being the bridge in the middle of the city, wide open for all sorts of carnage, and carnage it was. 

From the first dice roll Ian was hitting me with criticals all over the place. This game produced the most ever Fire Control critical and so many Weapon damage critical hits it was comical.

 I got pretty well smoked from the start as Ian rolled like a demon on fire.

Jumping on top of a building wasn't my brightest idea with the rolls Ian was making.

The bridge quickly became a grave yard as the massive firepower from both side destroyed most things in a turn or two.

End result was 2 points to 0, loss for us. As 3 of my Star got wiped out and the other two remaining we barely able to stand. David faired alot better than me with only losing one.

Ian was definitely man of the match with his damn Vultures and stupidly good rolls ....

(i'm not sore about that at all;-))

Anubis

After my Jade Falcon defeat last weekend, I've decided to let lose my Nova Cats tomorrow as we get into the Civil War period of Battletech. I finally get to use my Anubis that I've had for about a year.

Small and fast, should be a bit of fun to play.

Will be very interesting to see how it plays out, I'm also using my Battle Cobra for only the second time as well, so the extra special equipment will add a bit more flavor for the game. My full list includes my favorite Phoenix Hawk.

With my birthday present of a turntable earlier in the month, I've been slowly building up a collection of vinyl. Currently listing to my latest vinyl addition: Living Colour: Vivid ,  that turned up this week.

Best concert I've ever been to....a very long time ago.

Rolling Dice ....Finally

Yep, finally I get to roll some dice in our first tabletop game in over 2 months, now that the 

COVID19 lock down has been lessened up.

 Mark, Ian and myself got to play a game of Battletech Alpha strike. Mark chose to be the umpire/rules man as its been awhile since we last played. I rolled out my Jade Falcon vs Mark's new Clan Wolf marshaled by Ian. We just grabbed 10 mechs each randomly and throw them down.

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Mark had made up a great table of a beach side city.

I got a bit gung-ho and my lights got blasted quickly.

We danced around the building both trying to out gun each other

The crossfire in the middle of the table got really heavy

It ended in a close up slog fest with my guys taking heavy casualties. 

So it ended in a good win to Ian.

And a great day to actually roll dice and have human interaction beyond family.

I'm already looking forward to next weekends games

Classic Battletech : Game 2

So this time around I got to create the map for Game 2. We also set out for a 2500 point game and choose our own mechs, At that points level it meant we kept at about 2 or three mechs.

 With Mark going Dragon Combine and me of course going with Free Worlds League.

I managed to find the sheets and Mechs for the game so we are ready to rock.

Hopefully tonight we will get time to crank out turn one.... once I figure out some objectives for the game.

Classic Battletech

Well On Sunday Mark and I got in our very first game of old school Battletech using Table Top Simulator. Mark had setup a classic BT board with some terrain and we each took three random mechs. With both of us using the Steam version it took a couple of turns for us to work out how to lock the sheets and counters down so things didn't go flying all over the place, but once we got that sorted it was very much like play a real tabletop game. Although I did miss roll the dice myself.

It took about an hour or so to get the hang of the navigation and moving around the camera view, but it wasn't painful or frustrating to learn.

Love being about to get down have have a real table top view.

Mark had also put in the full check sheets for the game, although I found it easier just to use my own printed onces.

We tried out the add on sheets for the damage, but in the end found that the good old style pens were actually better and made it feel much more like the old school game.

The first casualty of the game was my Black Hawk which Mark managed to get in a couple of critical hits in the second turn and take out both Gyro's which meant the Black hawk ate the dirt and wasnt able to move after that.

The rest of the was all out battle and I ended up losing as my luck ran out.

A mixed bag.

It's been awhile, which is the way things are these days, to much to do and not enough time. Yesterday was my monthly pilgrimage out tot he  South Auckland Gaming club. Mark and I have been playing a lot of BattleTech of late so blasted out a couple of games with all our new terain we have been printing and designing.

The other guys were play a mix of Lord of the Rings and Congo and 15 mm Hail Cesar. So a real mix of bag of games which is great to see.

 A three way game of Congo looking awesome with Steven's 3D printed huts

Ian and Saul getting into 15mm Hail Cesar game

 

 The rest of the gang getting stuck into LOTR games.

While Mark and myself and a new comer (Matt I think it was) joined in on the Battletech. Mark using his newly resin printed Marik force up against my Nova Cat's.

Mark's King Crab off the resin printer looking awesome, the detail he's getting out of the resin is awesome... a little bit envious

The Nova Cat's light force list came out on top int he first game of capture the flag, and then I changed up to my heavy force in the second game a lost that just. Fun times.

 The terrain making/printing project has grown from a simple plan of wanting a full 8x4 table for Battletech of buildings and cityscape. To include a raised monorail I've designed and printed and now a raised motorway system with led lighting which is still in the design and prototype phase. here's a few of the concept ideas from a few back.

Noe off to see Alita: Battle Angel on the big IMAX screen tonight, so hoping to get some good ideas for more buildings and city stuff, along with enjoying what looks like a good movie from the trailers.

Battletech and 3D Printing

Well its been an age since I posted last. We have been playing Battletech and Hail Caesar of late and I actually finally managed to beat Mark's Romans a few weeks back with my Pyrrhic army.

On the Battletech front my push to build a full 8x4 city table top is continuing. With my recent purchase of a Creality CR-20 3D printer. I'm now well into printing buildings and learning the in's and outs for 3D printing. Which there are alot of. I've approached it as a hobby and expect to have a fare number of failures along the way. Thanks to YouTube, Facebook and internet I've managed to resolve most of my problems pretty quickly.

With all the data out there in the cloud on 3D printing it hasn't been hard to pickup and get going. I'm already at the point have having installed some upgrades on the printer, and have already got my next few upgrades lined up. The biggest challenge was to get the noise level down when it was printing. I've now got it down to around 55 decibels from 65, so simply closing the down to my office keeps the wife happy.

So far I've done a couple of buildings and a bunch of smaller tanks and vehicles.

I also created some radar maps for areospace fighters a couple of months back. Still ahvent got to use them yet in a game but looking foward to it.

Last weekend we were in Wellington and went along to the Weta Workshop with a couple of the lads and did a couple of tours there along with checking out the World War I displays at the museums. It's my second time through Weta Workshops and I was still amazed at what they create. They have even added in a few things about 3D printing since I was there last, which of course I was rather interested to see. They have some seriously awesome printers there.

We were aloud to take photos in the Thunderbird tour. In this first photo, forget about Mr Will May's and look at the background... now wouldn't that be an epic Battletech board.

I'm seriously gonna have to 3D print some of the Thunderbird ships.

 These young fellers just cant help themselves.

 The perspective modeling was awesome.

Heading back out of Wellington Airport we ran into Smaug so I had to stop for a selfie.