Give'em Lead 2016: A year in Review

G'day M8's!  2017 is almost upon us, and I thought I would look back t some of the more popular posts from this year.

Christmas Comic Carnival: Fist Kiss a Warhammer Tale

M8's today we trudge on with this merry massacre of blood and gore!

If you missed the previous installments do check them out as well:
 Christmas Comic Carnival: Campaign Game One
 Christmas Comic Carnival: Nazi Zombies vs Chaos Renegades
Christmas Comic Carnival: Robin Hood vs Chaos
Christmas Comic Carnival: Metal Dawn

No on to our end of the year shenanigans!  Vasken is bout to get krunk!

Christmas Comic Carnival: Metal Dawn

G'day M8's!  We continue along on our Holiday Battle tour.  Here we are yet again with a backlogged Monolith Con report.  A rousing game of Rogue Trader.

Be sure to take inspiration from this game, when you are trying to get a brand new copy in person at random rotating Gw sanctioned events around the world.  ;)

If your are just joining us here are the previous installments of this Merry Murderous Marathon:
Christmas Comic Carnival: Campaign Game One
Christmas Comic Carnival: Nazi Zombies vs Chaos Renegades
Christmas Comic Carnival: Robin Hood vs Chaos

Christmas Comic Carnival: Robin Hood vs Chaos

Oh hey fam!  Glad your joining us for the holidays.  If you are just joining us for the Christmas Comic Carnival here are the previous posts:

Christmas Comic Carnival: Campaign Game One
Christmas Comic Carnival: Nazi Zombies vs Chaos Renegades

Here we have another impromptu Monolith Con game I set up in the morning, while everyone was still sleeping.  It turned into a really entertaining quick little game.

Christmas Comic Carnival: Nazi Zombies vs Chaos Renegades

Here we are with the next installment of our Christmas Comic Carnival!!!
If you missed the first one here it is:

Christmas Comic Carnival: Campaign Game One

I have a bit of an obsession with Call of Duty's Nazi Zombies.  No not that new crap!  The original game and Der Reise.  There's nothing like setting up on that cat walk and seeing how long you can survive. Hours if you were wondering....hours! ;)

So as part of the backlog from Monolith con...Saturday morning I set up a quick and easy Zombie scenario to get everyone ready for the rest of the day.

Looking back on it it was pretty rudimentary given that I just slapped it together.  I think though with a couple tweaks this could become a cool recurring scenario to get my zombie  horde out on the table.

Let me know what you think, or if you have any ideas for running zombie games.

Christmas Comic Carnival: Campaign Game One

The campaign has begun!  The first game is played and ready for you in a wonderful comic report.  If you are not sure what I'm blabbering on about do have a look here and here. 

I rolled up a raid and capture for my first scenario.  An unusual character has appeared in the wastes.  A small girl who claims to be from another place.  she meets Vollrath and his band of chaos dwarfs along with Nigel deep in the jungle.  Vollrath is quite taken with this little time traveler and ask her to join his band.

Meanwhile Slaggo Mad Mort's wizard has senses the disturbance, and tells Mad Mort he should go and capture her.  He sets out with a large contingent and tracks Vollrath and Scarlet to a camp in some ancient ruins.  With no where to go Vollrath forms a defense but knows their chances are slim.

Scarlet pulls out a small device and says she will handle it with a wink.  Dreads eyes slam open, where did that voice come from?  "Yo We'n Trble Come Qk!  All she knew was Vollrath and Nigel were connected to this message.  She alerts Vasken to send a releif column into the jungle in search of the dwarf band.

Things are about to get Ka-razy!  Enjoy. ;)

New Unit Deck for Donnybrook

I had some free time this morning so I quick knocked these out.  Hoping to get the game played tomorrow or Saturday depending on how busy I am. ;)

If you hadn't seen this is what I got going on.

Painting Astropolis to populate Graveskul!

I picked up these lovely miniatures from Alex and Igor to fill out my town populace some more.  I think it's fun to have a bunch of townsfolk living their little lead lives out amongst our grand conflicts on the table top.  LOL

First Foray of Full Tilt

Monolith-con comic back log*

Finally got a chance to play Full Tilt, and what better opponent then Ol' Blue with one of his lovely Bretonnians.

The campaign season is upon us!

Well I hope anyway. LOL  With selling my house, moving into a temporary place, and building a new house things are rather cramped at the moment.  A guy can dream though right?

So for a while now I have wanted to run a campaign much like Secundus over at Iron Mitten.  You should really check that out. 

I had settled on using Rick Priestley's campaign system.  He has a version of his go to rules in the back of Warmaster Ancients Armies. 

Heroquest: CrooksQwest!

Here is an awesome Heroquest comic report we played at Monolith-Con, with Captain Crooks Gming via technology.  One of the funnest quest I have ever been a part of.  Do enjoy the read. ;)

*written by Cap'n Crooks, comic by me ;)

Full Tilt: Brutal Paint Job

You might remember I just painted a knight for Full Tilt named Pwnstar Panzerlance.  Well I figured it was time to get him a villain to joust against.

 

 So get ready for everyone's new favorite guy to hate!  Brutal PaintJob!!!!

Snarf Snarf Snarf, Vasken gets a new companion.

Bulldoglopez got me the manticore from the Dieter Helsnicht pack.

Death World Safari

Build up for Monolith-Con

So I have been feverishly working since Oldhammer day to get things ready for the coming weekend.  Monolith-Con or more aptly put Blue and Bulldog coming to the Midwest for a bit of Oldhammering in my basement.  LOL

Oldhammer Weekend Giant Mega Battle Report Extrvaganza

 Zero Twentythree had been discussing bringing his giant only army to Oldhammer weekend.  I jumped at the chance to take on the challenge of facing this mighty horde.

Looks at those stats!  Strength 7's, Toughness 6's, 5-6 wounds! A variety of powerful attack combo's. This was going to be epic, and I was not disappointed.

Read a long with me my friends.  It's is a tale of legendary proportions.  As Black Vasken the Tattered Prince and his Goonie Hordes battle with Big Dick's Giant Gang.

The Scale Creeps HeroQuest Hero Quest Challenge

Brave readers for this Quest you may call me Mentor...if you have made it this far you must have conquered Barak Tor, recovered the Spirit Blade and slain the cruel Witch Lord.   But alas what we feared most has occurred.  The Witch Lord has returned and with him the minions of undeath creep across the land....

The  Scale Creep invited me to take part in their Heroquest challenge.
My love for Heroquest is well known among the Oldhammer community. So do yourself a favor and head over and check out all the posts.

                  

Into the Void

I asked Zhu if he would mind me using the void warriors in a battle report before I sent them his way, he graciously agreed.  So now to figure out the scenario. 

Well Zhu actually sent me a little write up with some ideas from the last post. 
Very kind of him, that. ;)

So after reading through them an scenario begin to form.  Then I found this picture while surfing the net and it all came together.

Void Warriors from another Zhumension

If you don't remember awhile back Zhu was kind enough to make a brand new super cool blog banner for me.  In return I painted up some pre slotta chaos warriors for him.  They are the Void Warriors and they are here to drek shit up!

The Little Giant from Bear Island

From: MARS Minaitures

 

I saw this figure a couple weeks ago, and it really inspired me.  I remembered I had these figures from Hasslefree.  After thinking on it for a little bit I figured with the right headswap I could totally pull it off.

Thrud and the Side Scroll Adventure

Taking some inspiration from Scale Creep I decided to play a side scroll game myself.  Thanks to Captain Crooks Cheetor and Asslessman for the idea.

Up Smoking River: A Donnybrook Comic Report and Review

Tiger Claws action shots!

Had the Claws out for a action photo shoot. Enjoy

Tiger Claws #6

And the leader of our Squad Tiger-Ho!

Tiger Claws #5

The Savage Senketzu

Tiger Claws #4

The mighty Gilthunder

Tiger Claws #3

Here is the ferocious Chokai

Tiger Claws #2

Here we have the indomitable Howzer

Tiger Claw Termies

Multi table battles

Stumbled upon this old article as we do.  Sometimes I skim over these brilliant articles for years with out realizing the gold that they provide.  Anyway it's a brilliant concept.  I know there has been talk about running a 24 hour game at one of the Oldhammer days in the future, which would be awesome in itself.

A weekend day long multitable battle or campaign though for me would be awesome!  Everyone bringing their army, with each battle fought dictating in some small way the final outcome of everyone else's battle.  Could be the stuff of legends!

Quest for Stillmania: Stillmanicvs Crosses the Alps

 

OldWestHammer Battle Report: Kringer don't like people laughing (Historicon 2016)

OldWestHammer  I can see you raising your eyebrows already.  Well the idea came from Saturday morning cartoons and Spaghetti Westerns that I used to watch as a kid.  With my fantasy table I wanted to be able game fantasy and sci-fi on it.  With Bravestarr being one of my favorite cartoons as a child, the idea bored itself into my brain.  Plus my table already had an old west look, so I commissioned some buildings to look pseudo western and there you have it.  A crossover table that fits all my Oldhamma needs be it Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Rogue Trader, what have you.

Space Hulk Battle Report:Venture Hulk (Historicon 2016)

Hello dear readers.  Today I have the pleasure of giving you Venture Hulk an excellent game ran my The MechaniCon Gm'd by Kronos Lee, and Lorenzo O'Branty.  These guys ran one of the best multi player games I have ever been in.  Well enough of me gushing...let's get to the action.  Enjoy!

Warhammer Third Edition Battle Report: The Sword of Omens (Historicon 2016)

Here is mine and Bulldog Lopez's first battle fought across the plains of Historicon on Thu. night.  It was an action packed adventure.  Enjoy!

Oldhammer invades Historicon 2016

So for those of you not in the know me and Bulldoglopez planned to meet up at Historicon for 4 days of rampaging Oldhammer madness!  We lasted three days before we were told to go home.  LOL  Actually more like the 12 hour drive home that said go to sleep Grove!  Doh

A tale of All Gamers challenge on Facebook

So Captain Crooks is running a Tale of All Gamers challenge over on his Herohammer Facebook page.  Reminiscent of a Tale of 4 Gamers.

Space Ork Raider Test Model

 Got some time to try out my test scheme for my Waaagh!  I think I'm going to like it.  It's quick and effective.  The Black Teef led by the biggest baddest among them Skar Toof use black warpaint to daub there faces.  They also paint their teeth black hence the name Black Teef.

 The clan uses the wolf skull as their war totem.

Let me know what you think of the scheme!

Getting prepped for Historicon

I'm about to head East.  So I got busy getting everything prepped and packed.  I'm bringing everything for my Graveskul table, and as many figures as I can get away with. ;)

I think I might be bringing my whole basement!  Historicon doesn't know what is descending upon them!

Thrud and The Black Currant

I got these minis last week with my Zombicide Black Plague rewards.  I knew they were going to be the first ones I painted once I opened the box.  These figures ooze old skool and fit perfect into our Oldhammer culture.

Quest for Stillmania: Interview with Nigel Stillman

I had a chance to correspond with Nigel Stillman.  He graciously let me interview him.  Enjoy!