After our ATDE game we broke out the x wing game. Once again I had the rebels and my friend had the Imperials. My list was Han solo in the falcon and Luke Skywalker in an X wing. The imperials had 4 ace Tie Fighters. Now I'd been told that the list would struggle against the falcon but the points matched (Tie fighters had various upgrades) and I told my friend about this but he insisted on playing the Imperials and I'm sure rebel scum was mentiined in the conversation!
The first few turns were the ships advancing forward each other. The falcon was a test as it's a large model and is a tight squeeze between asteroids and ships.
There was lots of tight manouevring and the 360 degree arc falcon weapon really helped (what didn't was me forgetting skills all the time).
The falcon took some serious damage but Chewbacca my crew member was very handy at repairing and getting me a shield back. Like early on took some unlock hits which ment he had to do less moves so R2D2 could repair a shield. Slowly the rebels wore down the Tie Fighters and won the game.
What I learned was big ships require more concentration when picking a movement template.
I loved the 360 degree weapon but not the 1 agility!!
A brilliant game of X wing and was closer than we thought.
Have a great day folks
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Saturday, 2 July 2016
Millenium Falcon first battle
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
X-Wing Miniatures Millenium Falcon
For fathers day the kids bought me a Millenium falcon to add to my rebel fleet. I was going to wait for the heroes of the resistance pack (milleniun falcon from the force awakens plus poe's black x wing T70) to come out but its ages away yet and impatience over came.
Opening the box you get a leaflet with an extra scenario in and bits explaining extra rules for the big ship (X wing does this a lot with any new ships) and all the cards you will need.
The tokens and cards are great quality with excellent art work and have been popped out and sorted into my x wing storage.
The cards contain a mix of missiles crew cards and engine upgrades.
And last obvously you get a great detailed miniature Millenium Falcon.
Hopefully the Falcon will be in battle this Friday. I'll let you know how it goes!
Game board phase 3
Next up on the game board list of things to do is the roads. One option I'd seen was cork board but I didn't have access to this so undecided to try Poundland cake board. It's about 5mm thick and made up of dense cardboard I believe. It was a nightmare to cut with a craft knife but I eventually cut out the 3 sections I needed. 2 straights and one turn for my 3 urban tiles.
I beviled (I think that's the right word! ) the sides so they slant down and cut into the roads some pot holes and cracks.
Next up will be undercoating and textured paint on.
Monday, 27 June 2016
Trees!!
To add some more greenery to my games I've been looking at getting more trees for wooded areas of terrain. These will come in handy should I get into other games such as bolt action. The cheapest way I know if is ordering some model railway trees off eBay. They come from China but are great for quick and easy woods. This time round I bought 20 trees for £5 with free delivery. They do take a couple of weeks to arrive as they are coming a long way.
I bought 2 different types of trees.
The first is a more fern type tree (excuse my lack of tree knowledge)
These trees are about 4 inches tall. The next lot of trees I bought were a bit wider
Hopefully I will be able to make a couple of wooded areas from these trees. I'm also deciding whether to make the trees able to come out when need to fit models on when they enter the terrain. I'll let you know how it goes! have a great day.
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Been awhile oops!
Sorry it's been so long but I've been working a lot 6 12hr shifts really takes it out of you lol No modelling done this week though I have spent way to much time drooling over bolt action (so expect an army bought at some point thanks to my weak will).
Fathers day has been and gone so happy fathers day to the dads out there. My kids bought me the Millenium falcon for x wing!
I'll try and get a post up with what's in the box. I've bought some stuff to attempt the urban tiles so hopefully they'll be a post up about that as well.
Have a great week!
Friday, 10 June 2016
Game Board Phase 2!!
The next phase is flocking the bits of the board that are going to be the grassy sections (yep I'm getting all the easy bits done first! !)
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| Cratered section |
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| Some rough vehicle tracks |
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| 2 more boards. More uniformly just grassy |
Now payday is arriving soon I can work on the urban rules. I want to add some roads so that will be the next plan. Have a great day folks
Monday, 30 May 2016
Game board phase one!!
I've fancied making a game board for a while now. While helping out with cleaning at our church I discover a rather handy sized piece of wood. I quickly took ownership of it but it was threw away. With my dad's help (me and a saw don't get many straight lines!!) The board was quickly chopped up into 9 1x1 good tiles.
My plan was to be able to move the rules around giving the game board a bit of flexibility. I draw up a plan to have 3 tiles that were urban (so tarmac and road) some just grass and field rules and rather bravely 2 canal tiles! This is to repesent the area where I love Smethwick is right on Birmingham canal network and as that's where my across the dead earth campaign is being fought I thought it would be appropriate.
I sanded the edges of all the tiles so no splinters! Then set to work painting them. The three urban rules were painting a dark grey with sand mixed in to (hopefully) give a tarmac texture. The grassy boards I painted using home made mud paint. I found a tutorial here.
I haven't started the canal sextions yet as i nees some foam board so a teip to hobby craft is in order.
Below are the dried rules I've done.
Hopefully you can see the textures. That's it for now need to wait for pay day before getting the materials to do anything else. Gonna need a lot of flock!!