Steampunk?

Hoi,

While browsing youtube I found these really cool clips!

Arms race


and


Airlords of Airia

cheers Sander

Odds and ends

Hoi,

While a steady drizzle is washing away the snow outside I tried to make some pictures of some loose ends lying around here on the workbench.

A while ago I bought some very nice Star Wars star fighters from Studio Bergstrom and have finished the A-Wings. I have also finished painting the X-wings but still have the basing to do.
Due to the bad weather I could not get any better pictures but more will follow soon.

I also finished this Dystopian Wars Mansion on an Amera Plastics hill. It can double as an island or hill with mansion on it.

More stuff will be updated when available.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "The Empire Strikes Back" by John Williams

Templates!

Hoi,

Sometimes a friend who has a professional laser-cutting apparatus comes in really handy! I am now the lucky owner of two sets of steampunk naval turning templates:

Great stuff indeed!

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Toxicity" by System of a Down

Dystopian Wars update 3

Hoi,

Work on my Dystopian Wars armies progresses slowly but steadily. Today we bring you the Prussian Empire's Geier bomber. The paint schemes I took from this great site: WW1 Aviation Illustration

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "From the Faithful Departed" by the Cranberries

The Golden Lion

Hoi,

Last Saturday I participated in a great multi-player game of Dystopian Wars at the DUCOSIM Spring Con. JW or Pijlie was taking the role of GM and had devised a very entertaining scenario. 5 players would try to find a treasure located on a central island in an archipelago.

 The treasures was hidden on the Island which held an exotic temple with six tiers, each step would take a token in order to make sure no booby-traps went off.

In order to get those tokens players had to land forces on the other Islands roll a D6 and see what happens. On a 1 you'd find a deserted island and get a token for free, on the others you'd get nasty surprises in the form of challenges. In order to land on the Isles each fleet could carry along Small Tank Tokens and could use it's Marines (Assault Points).

Now as said we had 5 players in no particular order: Gerco playing KoB, Michiel playing EotBS, AM playing the always annoying COA, Robbert playing KoB and me doing the same.

I wanted to try out my Vanguard subs and in the end got to ram one Japanese frigate which was cool but got me into a prolonged fight with Michiel which was too costly in the end.

I landed some troops on an island in order to get a token and lo and behold a mass of prehistoric monsters awoke and attacked me. It took me about 3 turns to get rid of most of them because I had to divide my attention and forces between them and Michiel who attacked me as well. In the end AM killed the beasts off and got the token.

As it happens I was the only one who had actually read the scenario rules up front (and perhaps Gerco whom I haven't actually spoken to all game because he was either on the other end of the table or flashing the bejeezus out of everyone with the flash of his sturginium camera.) and it was at this point I came to the realisation I didn't really need the token to get to the top of the pyramid: if I unloaded all my AP's onto the island and onto the same layer of the temple at the same time it would only coast me 1D6 casualties each time I didn't have a token so I could reach the treasure with a lot of AP's anyway... I have a cunning plan says I..

Meanwhile all hell had broken loose, everybody was shooting at everybody everywhere accept for Gerco who seemed to be sailing along nicely and getting ignored. So to cut the long story short: I got a reasonable amount of forces to the island ( a battleship, 3 cruisers and 3 frigates: carrying 21 AP's) and got the troops to the temple.

 Before this happened I had to roll to see what kind of challenge I would be having: oh dear.. 3 sea-monsters emerged from the depths and I had to get rid of them to earn a token.

In the end I finished off two again with some help from AM and on ahead I went again. AM had an all flyer COA army and got some STT's and thus AP's onto the temple  as well, but I was one step ahead, the race was on!

We started playing around 11.00 o clock and it was now 16.17, the con was about to close at 17.00 so JW decided we'd only play out the race to the top between AM and me. Now in the end we reached the top, I had 13 AP's left and AM 2; guess who won the fight for the Treasure? So I ended up with the Golden Lion and a very nice day as well.

I know I have left out heaps of action and people and their battles but it would take 10 posts to cover the thing decently so sorry chaps!

Thanks to AM for the photo's and the movie, he sent me far more then the ones shown here but again for briefness I left some out. Michiel and I used our own fleets, AM played with JW's COA and Gerco provided his own and Robberts KoB fleets. Terrain was all JW's with some of my buildings added for the events and challenges rolled.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: My son testing his vocal cords... by me and the missus


   

Dystopian Wars update 3

Hoi,

Sorry for all you historics-fans; I've got to post these pictures! I've managed to finish my Prussian Empire Battleship and my Britannian Doncaster bombers. In some days I will also update some more historicals so no worries there!

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Tron legacy, soundtrack" by Daft Punk

Buildings galore

Hoi,

Just a small update today, I finished some more Dystopian Wars buildings. Here are my radar station and fortress. Both are done in a rather darkish colour, since I wanted them to look gloomy and foreboding.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "To Mega Therion" by Therion

Dystopian Wars update 2

Hoi,

The nice guys at Spartan have produced a streamlined version of their rulebook, which naturally I obtained a while ago.This is not a new book like GW is wont to do but version 1.1 which has better diagrams, easier explanations and more eye-candy.  In the special offer I used I was also given the first mercenary model for free. Besides that I bought a squadron of Britannian escorts.

Its a great read, and far clearer then number one to start with!

Great stuff!

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Deep Purple in Rock" by Deep Purple

Dystopian Wars update

Hoi,

Finally I managed to get some pictures of my Dystopian Wars terrain and fleet. I have painted up quite a lot already so here goes:

Several shots of my fleet nearing the safety of the harbour

Land forces nearing the harbour

Close up of the fortress

Cheers Sander

Listening to "Dream" by the Cranberries

Dystopian Wars Battle Part I

Hoi,

Yesterday Pijlie (JW) and I played 2 games of Dystopian Wars and now I'm well and truly hooked!
Not only because I won both games, but mainly because the gameplay is easygoing, far easier than the rulebook implies. These games were a first timer in many ways, they were the first games of 2012, they were my first DW games, they were also the first games little Arthur enjoyed ;-) and they were my first naval games.
JW used the Covenant of Antartica and  was commodore of the Kingdom of Britannia.The terrain is all JW's home-made brew.
I won't bother you with the step by step report but go straight on to the pictures

These pictures are all of the first game, and all mine I do not have JW's pics yet and will post them together with pictures of the second game at a later date.

Cheers Sander

Watching: The Big Bang Theory

Dystopian Wars update

Hoi,

Today I bring you an update of some scenery, a bomber and some ships for my KoB armies.
Some dwellings:

A factory

A finished bomber

Below some WIP shots of some cruisers and a battleship.

Cheers Sander

Birthday!

Hoi,

Well next to Saint Nick and Santa, my birthday has brought me even more Dystopian Wars stuff! I got:
- a dreadnought
- submarines
- another landship
- more buildings
* civilian buildings
* military buildings
* weapons platform
* factory buildings

oh and I also got the beginnings of my Prussian army:
- land fleet
- blimps

What I also like very much is that I got Simon Scarrows "Praetorian" and some Terry Pratchett audiobooks, guess what I'm listening?

greets Sander

Down at the Docks...

Hoi,

As you might have read earlier, Saint Nick and Santa (well actually they are one and the same guy) provided me with some Dystopian Wars scenery. I decided to combine the Amera docks with some of the stuff from the Spartan Games scenery sets and this resulted in the dock-scene you see below.

I provided an underground for the docks in order to add some gravel to the sides of the walls. I then used two of the warehouses and the cranes from the Factory Terrain set and two watchtowers of the Military Terrain set to liven up the place. Then I moved on to two of the small islands I've got. These I intend to use as hills featuring a mansion estate and a fortress for DW. The trees are plastic toothpicks, a tip I got from Pijlie. I am now waiting for my local hobby-shop to get some GW roughcoat spray in store to prime the lot.

Can't wait to get cracking on these!

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Sing Loud Sing Proud" by the Dropkick Murphy's