Terrain Build March 25 2017

Hello All,

Yesterday we had our second terrain build for 2017. With this being Adepticon weekend it is not surprising that the turnout was on the light side. Still we had a better turnout than in some previous years.

10 people is respectable for such a weekend... :)

Anyway- We continued our work on the AoS LOS blockers and completed assembly on all 50 pieces. Some still needed stonework done on them but this was accomplished in short order and all are ready for final trim and paint.

Folks hard at work

Some of the assembled pieces.

During this process there were lots of extra foam chunks that would normally be cast off and thrown away, but with this year's theme of "not a drop is wasted" we will be using the extra to make scatter terrain for 40K. 

Even the foam bits we pinched to make the blasted rock effect is being used for rubble.

Lastly- Since it was such a beautiful day we set up the pavilion and cut up some MDF to make tree bases and water features.

In all it was a productive day and I look forward to our next meeting on April 8th!

Later

RGH

Build Season Starts March 11th!

Hello All,

It almost here! I'm talking about the 2017 Build season! This year we are more organized than we have ever been before (it was not that difficult a feat so hold your applause) and it's a good thing since we have a lot to do. We can use all the help we can get, so if you are interested let me know!

For my first installment of 2017 I would like to start with some build instructions for one of the many projects we are doing this year. Line of sight blockers for Age of Sigmar. Here is the step by step guide for what we are building!

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 These are the instructions for building the 2017 Standard LOS blocking terrain for Age of Sigmar and any other system that needs them.

Materials

1.       2” Foam (Models are on larger bases than they used to be.)

2.       Thin disk (bought at Michael’s)

3.       Glue

4.       Thick Card Stock

5.       Hot Wire cutter (Table top and hand held)

6.       Dull Pencil

7.       Utility Knife

8.       Sharpie

9.        Sand

10.   Paint

Step 1. PREP

Cut out three 6” by 4” rectangles (Try to make them as straight as possible)

Step 2. THE WALS

On two of the 6x4 rectangles. Use the Wire cutter to cut an angle starting 2 to 3 inches along the 6” side going to the 6^th inch of the other side (See Picture below.) You can also angle the edges along this cut to make step 3 easier.

Step 3. THE WALLS

Using your fingers pinch out an irregular pattern on the cut out area (See picture below)

Step 4. THE CORNER

Take the last rectangle and cut it in half longways so that you have 2 pieces 6” by 2” by 2”

No Picture for this one

Step 5. THE CORNER

Take one of these and trim it to 4.5 inches long/tall. Pinch off foam around the top as seen in the picture below.

Step 6. DRY FIT

Put the pieces together and make sure they fit. It should look something like this.

Step 7.  OUTER BRICKWORK

Use the table Hot wire cutter to make lines horizontal to the 6” length 1 “apart and the sharpie to mark vertical lines every  2” to make a brick pattern

Step 8. FINISHING THE BRICK

Use the handheld cutter (Or a dull Pencil) to make the vertical lines

Step 9. THE BASE

Take the disk base and make sure the pieces fit properly. Once satisfied glue them in place.

Step 10. INNER LEDGE

Take the last piece of 6” x 2” x 2” foam and angle it the same was as step 2. Then pinch off foam as in step 3. Once complete glue it in as seen in the pic below.

Step 12. TRIM AND DETAILS

Make (2) 2 .5” x 4”  strips of Card stock and glue them where the walls meet the corner. (Optional) Next make two patterns out of cardstock for corner decorations. I chose a Hammer and a lightning bolt (AoS Theme) or you can leave them blank

Here is what it looks like with models on it.

All that is left is sand paint and flock! I will have instructions for that soon.

Till next time…

RGH

Fawks Hunt- November 5th 2016

Hello All,

Last Saturday I had an opportunity (nay Honor) to play in a narrative/competitive event called Fawks Hunt.   The event was at the Game Vault in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Fawks Hunt was run by Nova Open's own AOS organizer Aaron B. and 1/3rd of the players were Nova Open Staff.

Aaron covered the event at the site Fancy & Lintyan Wars.

Notes on the rules for the event can be found here

Here are my highlights

The first round was a three way Triumph & Treachery battle pitting the forces of Chaos (Nurgle Daemons) (me) against Order (Stormcast Eternals) and Destruction (Iron Jaws.) in this game we were given coins to use for bribes and other forms of wheeling and dealing. 

Round 1

Moving my troops forward

I attempted to use summoning to get my troops down field faster 

Order made their move first gaining the "artifact"
(the main objective of the battle.)

The three forces face off.

Maneuvers 

Here comes the Great Unclean One!

The General of the Stormcast make
to escape with the Artifact

Scrum well underway 

This does not look good for the Stormcast Lord

Last turn of the game.
I could not get the the Artifact in time.

Round 2

Round two was a skirmish using 100 points per player using third party Skirmish rules

I did better in this round than round 1.  I managed to get a win without losing a single model. 

The Board

My Furies looking for clues

The Rest of my team also searching

My opponent- Bloodbound looking around.

The Objective was to find clues that would help someone use the Artifact from round 1. I managed to find the clue first and keep it from my opponent for the rest of the game. 

Round 3

Round three had me facing off against the Destruction player from round one. He won rounds one and two so he had the Artifact and knew how to use it. In this case it allowed him to Teleport once per game to anywhere on the table. He used it to good advantage as you will see. This battle was fought at 2000 points.

Deployment

Dragon Ogres and Bloodletters

Ready to fight!

Dragon Ogres 

Advancing

Chaos Spawn 

The Orruks counter attack

The Ironjaws General uses his Teleport
power to move to my objective.

The Cockatrice and Chimera attack the "Battletoad" 

The Cockatrice and Chimera take the Ironjaw
General to half wounds in one round. 

The "Battle toad" (Ironjaw General) took out the
Chimera with his counter attack. 

Last Turn- I conceded victory to my opponent once he controled
my objective and his own and I had no units that
could get close in the time remaining. 

I did not do so well, but I had a great time anyway. Thank you Aaron for putting this event together. 

Till Next time.

RGH