Monday 21 January 2013
Sorry :(
Hey guys, I know I say sorry a lot in my blog posts, but I am sorry I haven't posted in a while. I have a lot of blog posts in mind and I am getting back into sorting them out. Stay tuned for more.
Thursday 10 January 2013
Goblin Ambush #1
If you didn't guess it from yesterday, today's post is the BGiME Scenario, and my first official battle report. This scenario pits Aragorn against 12 vicious goblins. This is definitely a challenge for Aragorn, as you will see.
Side Note: Because this is in the first issue, I will be playing with the rules that the game has taught me through this issue. This means no might, will and fate, no courage, no trapping, no break limit etc. this will be the same in every BGiME battle report that i do and every scenario from the original rulebooks.
This game has your faithful blogger, Aaron as Aragorn and his brother, Adam as the goblins. We set up as per the scenario and prepared to start the game.
Turn 1
The first turn saw both Aragorn and the goblin archers moving up and shooting, while the rest of the goblins moved towards the ranger. Aragorn gets out his bow and fire at the goblins, the arrow whizzing past a goblin archers head. The archers, seeing the oncoming arrow-fire retaliate with arrows of their own. They open fire, hitting Aragorn in the arm, but not enough to wound him.
Turn 2
Aragorn musters up the courage and charges the goblins head on. Meanwhile, the rest of the goblins charge Aragorn and surround him. Aragorn fights the goblins with ferocity, killing 2 of them. With Aragorn still fighting, and the rest of the goblins moving up, things don't look good for our favourite ranger.
Turn 3
The goblins move closer and closer to Strider. Aragorn keeps chopping through the goblins one by one. While fighting, Aragorn looks up to see his doom coming to him as the rest of the goblins get ready to pour into the fight.
Turn 4
As predicted, the goblins charge and surround the mighty Aragorn. They easily win the fight, but Aragorn manages to block every blow. Strider knows that his strength wont last him long though
Turn 5
The rest of the goblins pile in and challenge the ranger to fight. His strength is failing by the minute, and just as he raises his sword, one of the goblins sliced his chest. things are not looking good.
Turn 6
With only 2 wounds left, Strider seems to be taking a turn for the worst. He works up all his might and cries "Elendil" into the air. Swinging his sword with the ferocity and power of a Dúnedain. He strikes down 2 goblins with ease. Still with 7 goblins to kill, maybe he can charge through the goblins and reach the safety of his encampment.
Turn 7
Seeing their dead companions on the floor underneath their feet fills the goblins with rage. With one fell swoop, they stab Aragorn 4 times in the back, leaving Aragorn dead on the floor. The victory of the goblins did not come without it's casualties.
Verdict: Evil major victory
Adam thoughts: 'Was a pretty good game, but I think not a very fair game. Seeing as how I slaughtered Aragorn, it doesn't look like there is an actual was for aragorn to win'
Aaron thoughts: 'I agree, it is a very hard game for Aragorn to win, especially without might and fate points. For a moment, I really thought Aragorn might be able to win it with the amount of goblins that he was able to kill. Unfortunately, being wounded 4 times in a turn, I cant really argue with that. Good game though'.
Well, I hope you like my first battle report. Come check out the blog tomorrow, where I will be playing as those crazy goblins and see if I can do a better job.
Batman of The Shire
Side Note: Because this is in the first issue, I will be playing with the rules that the game has taught me through this issue. This means no might, will and fate, no courage, no trapping, no break limit etc. this will be the same in every BGiME battle report that i do and every scenario from the original rulebooks.
This game has your faithful blogger, Aaron as Aragorn and his brother, Adam as the goblins. We set up as per the scenario and prepared to start the game.
Turn 1
The first turn saw both Aragorn and the goblin archers moving up and shooting, while the rest of the goblins moved towards the ranger. Aragorn gets out his bow and fire at the goblins, the arrow whizzing past a goblin archers head. The archers, seeing the oncoming arrow-fire retaliate with arrows of their own. They open fire, hitting Aragorn in the arm, but not enough to wound him.
Turn 2
Aragorn musters up the courage and charges the goblins head on. Meanwhile, the rest of the goblins charge Aragorn and surround him. Aragorn fights the goblins with ferocity, killing 2 of them. With Aragorn still fighting, and the rest of the goblins moving up, things don't look good for our favourite ranger.
Turn 3
The goblins move closer and closer to Strider. Aragorn keeps chopping through the goblins one by one. While fighting, Aragorn looks up to see his doom coming to him as the rest of the goblins get ready to pour into the fight.
Turn 4
As predicted, the goblins charge and surround the mighty Aragorn. They easily win the fight, but Aragorn manages to block every blow. Strider knows that his strength wont last him long though
Turn 5
The rest of the goblins pile in and challenge the ranger to fight. His strength is failing by the minute, and just as he raises his sword, one of the goblins sliced his chest. things are not looking good.
Turn 6
With only 2 wounds left, Strider seems to be taking a turn for the worst. He works up all his might and cries "Elendil" into the air. Swinging his sword with the ferocity and power of a Dúnedain. He strikes down 2 goblins with ease. Still with 7 goblins to kill, maybe he can charge through the goblins and reach the safety of his encampment.
Turn 7
Seeing their dead companions on the floor underneath their feet fills the goblins with rage. With one fell swoop, they stab Aragorn 4 times in the back, leaving Aragorn dead on the floor. The victory of the goblins did not come without it's casualties.
Verdict: Evil major victory
Adam thoughts: 'Was a pretty good game, but I think not a very fair game. Seeing as how I slaughtered Aragorn, it doesn't look like there is an actual was for aragorn to win'
Aaron thoughts: 'I agree, it is a very hard game for Aragorn to win, especially without might and fate points. For a moment, I really thought Aragorn might be able to win it with the amount of goblins that he was able to kill. Unfortunately, being wounded 4 times in a turn, I cant really argue with that. Good game though'.
Well, I hope you like my first battle report. Come check out the blog tomorrow, where I will be playing as those crazy goblins and see if I can do a better job.
Batman of The Shire
Wednesday 9 January 2013
Goblinsss
Good evening! This blog post will be about my goblins, as well as a preview to tomorrow's blog update.
One army that i have been working on getting ready for quite a while are the goblins that dwell beneath the mountain in the halls of Moria. Ever since watching The Fellowship of the ring, I always got such an awesome feeling watching all the goblins fighting the fellowship in Balin's Tomb and chasing them through the Chambers of Marzabul. So here they are, ready to take on dwarves and any other intruders who enter the mines.
To paint these, I used the painting guide shown in The Fellowship of The Ring book as I had done a test model and they came out as I wanted them. Sure i added some layers with lighter and darker colours, but that was pretty much the base of it. For those looking at BGiME issues 1 and 20, there are painting guides for goblins. Unless you are really awful at painting and need something fast and easy, I really suggest you don't follow them. If anybody would like a detailed summary of the colours I used, comment below.
Leading my force at the minute is a converted goblin captain, as seen in BGiME #22. He is one of my favourite models in my army, an easy conversion and a great leader (that is until I get the moria goblin command set in finecast).As a side note, sorry my pictures are a little bad, i'm using my brother's iPad and i don't think the macro settings are too good.
To end this blog post, I will leave you with a picture from tomorrow's post. See if you can figure out whats gonna be happening. Anyways, have a nice night and enjoy.
One army that i have been working on getting ready for quite a while are the goblins that dwell beneath the mountain in the halls of Moria. Ever since watching The Fellowship of the ring, I always got such an awesome feeling watching all the goblins fighting the fellowship in Balin's Tomb and chasing them through the Chambers of Marzabul. So here they are, ready to take on dwarves and any other intruders who enter the mines.
Leading my force at the minute is a converted goblin captain, as seen in BGiME #22. He is one of my favourite models in my army, an easy conversion and a great leader (that is until I get the moria goblin command set in finecast).As a side note, sorry my pictures are a little bad, i'm using my brother's iPad and i don't think the macro settings are too good.
To end this blog post, I will leave you with a picture from tomorrow's post. See if you can figure out whats gonna be happening. Anyways, have a nice night and enjoy.
Monday 7 January 2013
My collection thus far
Well, I thought I would give you guys another post today, seeing as the last one was soo bad. This is my collection at the minute (sorry for the bad lighting). As I am collecting every army, there are miniatures here from all across the range. In the future, I will be showing you all of the finished models in my collection in their own posts. So here it is.
BGiME #2: Making a simple ruin
It's really great to see so many views already. Now, I know this is probably the worst blog post in the world, but in order to go through everything, i had to do it at some point, so here it goes. This next terrain piece is from the magazine Battle Games in Middle Earth, issue 2. It took me about half an hour (mostly due to the drying of the glue. Overall, I would not recommend making it unless your friends are coming over in 30 minutes and you need to block line of sight. It's just very weird that they chose to do that terrain piece in that issue, as they revise the idea in issue #6. Anyways, here it is...
Sunday 6 January 2013
WiP Escape from Goblin Town: Terrain
For Christmas last year, like many other hobbyists, I got the Escape from Goblin Town. Boxing day, I ended up playing most of the scenarios in the book and started to paint the terrain. The December edition of White Dwarf came with a very useful article on how to paint the walkways. I used this as a base, but added colours that i own that were pretty close. Anyways, here is the first piece.
Wood
Otherwise, it's exactly the same hehe. To end the blog off, here are the rest of the walkways WiP with the finished one. This week will be my new Blog Celebratory week so every day this week will be a new update. Let me know what you guys think and Enjoy.
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| Finished Walkway |
Wood
- Rhinox Hide Base
- Nuln Oil Shade
- Bestial Brown Drybrush
- 3 parts Bleached Bone, 1 part Bestial Brown Drybush
- Bleached Bone base
- Devlan Mud Wash
- Dark Angels Green base
- Nuln Oil Shade
- Snot Green Drybrush
- 1 part Regal Blue, 1 part Abaddon Black
- Nuln Oil Shade
- Regal Blue Drybrush
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