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Frostgrave, Halo Ground Command and other tabletop minis

@Hellfire, that’s awesome that you use grid less play for scape. That’s how we have play using the rules from my pdf from awhile back. I still play on hexes when I go to the occasional tournament. I think more people would play grid less if they play other wargames as well. I sold off a huge chunk of scape last year but 3D printed it back ten fold. Only card games played at my house currently is a game called exploding kittens. I’ve been recently jumping back and forth painting up various board games and more 3D printed squads for Star Wars legion. I also picked up a few card sets for fallout wasteland warfare that I plan on printing additional models to use to add to my starter set.
 
Still have my Heroscape stuff in a large box -- the group still occasionally play it, but we don't use any of the hexes and just play on a gridless battlefield with measuring sticks -- and I can use whatever terrain I have rather than making it work for the hexes. But for whatever reason, I just haven't convinced myself to sell it despite selling so much other stuff -- perhaps I'm sentimental.

Marvel Champions is great, I love the character driven storytelling -- my wife loves playing it as well, so that adds to the playability for me -- ultimately, Champions pushed Legendary to the "For Sale" list.

I sold most of my collection to a fellow Scaper names Legoboy. He lives in the Chicago area and is a teacher. He has a game club at the school he teaches at for less fortunate kids and has played Scape with them for years. He wanted to add to his collection so more kids could play. I must have posted somewhere that I had been thinking of selling some stuff and he said that if I ever did, if I could give him first crack at it.

He's a great guy and I've played Heroscape with him before and participated in a small tournament he had at the school years ago. So I was for sure going to let him have first dibs.

My wife doesn't like games, so you are lucky in that department. I have everything released so far for Marvel Champions, though don't have Scarlett Witch yet. I have 98 plays in and still haven't gotten to the Wrecking Crew, Kang or Red Skull. Still have Spider Woman, Quick Silver, Hawkeye, Ant-Man and Wasp to try out too. I think I'll be set to playability for quite some time.
 
@Hellfire, that’s awesome that you use grid less play for scape. That’s how we have play using the rules from my pdf from awhile back. I still play on hexes when I go to the occasional tournament. I think more people would play grid less if they play other wargames as well. I sold off a huge chunk of scape last year but 3D printed it back ten fold. Only card games played at my house currently is a game called exploding kittens. I’ve been recently jumping back and forth painting up various board games and more 3D printed squads for Star Wars legion. I also picked up a few card sets for fallout wasteland warfare that I plan on printing additional models to use to add to my starter set.

I picked up an Ender 3 recently to try out the 3d printing stuff. Might have to try printing some stuff for Legion -- I was thinking more along the lines of terrain based on the print qualities I've seen with he Ender.

It does seem that players who have experience with other tabletop war games are more likely to be open to or interested in playing Heroscape without hexes ... that said, most of my recent players have never heard of or played Heroscape so when I show them the rulers, they just take it as is.
 
I sold most of my collection to a fellow Scaper names Legoboy. He lives in the Chicago area and is a teacher. He has a game club at the school he teaches at for less fortunate kids and has played Scape with them for years. He wanted to add to his collection so more kids could play. I must have posted somewhere that I had been thinking of selling some stuff and he said that if I ever did, if I could give him first crack at it.

He's a great guy and I've played Heroscape with him before and participated in a small tournament he had at the school years ago. So I was for sure going to let him have first dibs.

My wife doesn't like games, so you are lucky in that department. I have everything released so far for Marvel Champions, though don't have Scarlett Witch yet. I have 98 plays in and still haven't gotten to the Wrecking Crew, Kang or Red Skull. Still have Spider Woman, Quick Silver, Hawkeye, Ant-Man and Wasp to try out too. I think I'll be set to playability for quite some time.

Pretty cool that Legoboy has a student group.

Understandable that you got rid of the HS stuff. There are so many great games and well-designed ones to boot -- difficult to commit to HS. Plus, for me, I've gotten into Marvel Crisis Protocol and SW: Legion as my go to competitive (albeit I play pretty casually) miniatures games. They've been fun.

And wow! You've got more plays in Champions than I do ... although I do not know how many plays I actually have. King is pretty fun to play against, but I'm looking forward to playing through the campaign mode -- just picked up Scarlet Witch today -- so I plan to try her out (my wife probably will actually -- her favorite character and all).
 
Pretty cool that Legoboy has a student group.

Understandable that you got rid of the HS stuff. There are so many great games and well-designed ones to boot -- difficult to commit to HS. Plus, for me, I've gotten into Marvel Crisis Protocol and SW: Legion as my go to competitive (albeit I play pretty casually) miniatures games. They've been fun.

And wow! You've got more plays in Champions than I do ... although I do not know how many plays I actually have. King is pretty fun to play against, but I'm looking forward to playing through the campaign mode -- just picked up Scarlet Witch today -- so I plan to try her out (my wife probably will actually -- her favorite character and all).

I don't play competitive, but I also dig Legion. Hopefully I can get it played again within a few months.

Marvel Crisis Protocol was super tempting, but I had to hold back. Seems fun with a lot of cool models, though I have heard they can be a pain to assemble.

Let me know how Scarlett Witch is. She seems like she could be fun. I know you had to see WandaVision.
 
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3 of my brothers came out for a mini tournament of rum and bones second tide today. It was a load of fun. We did random crew and hero rolls to see what we would be playing and it was a blast. We swapped the hero characters for each new game. It was a lot of fun trying out a bunch of the characters that we haven’t played before and was a fun challenge. I finished my orc crew of 41 models this last week and am going to knock out the last couple crews I have left to paint along with some smaller mercenary hero boxes. Lots of fun. Hoping to run another little tournament here soon. I’m going to photo shoot all the models I’ve painted for this game. I’ll also put them in to be used as crew figures for Frostgrave ghost archipelago.
 
Sounds fun Trex! Glad you were have to get some good gaming in. The beauty of having a lot of brothers :)
 
Sounds fun Trex! Glad you were have to get some good gaming in. The beauty of having a lot of brothers :)

Yeah. These brothers used to all come out and play games quite regularly for awhile but had got wrapped up enough in their own lives for a bit where they stopped playing. My older brother never has and probably never will play tabletop games, but my younger brothers seem to be back to play for a bit. My one brother has a few teenage boys that are interested in playing as well. The excitement of all the pirate fun got me looking on eBay. I didn’t do the season 1 Kickstarter but got all the hero cards for them in season 2 s upgrade kit. This means all the exclusive models have cards but not minis. I was planning on 3D modeling them all and printing out my own proxies for them all but ended up finding most of them for a great deal so ended up spending a little over a hundred bucks on all those exclusive boosters. I’ll still end up 3D modeling a handful of them but it will be fun. The three big games that they all like besides Heroscape are rum and bones, zombicide, and Star Wars legion so I’m going to crank out the paint jobs for those figures first. I’ve stopped my 3D printing for a few weeks so I don’t keep burying myself and will probably be a little more selective with my printing. I still plan on printing a bunch of models for fallout wasteland warfare and maybe a few more legion ones when I crank it back up.
 
Probably a good idea to take a break from printing. 20k mins might become grounds for family intervention. Lol
 
I started painting my Iron Inquisition set of pirates which look a bit more like Spanish conquistadors. There are a total of 41 models in their crew. Their overall theme is holy conquistadors that punish the enemy and heal themselves . Their deck of cards is one of the most punishing to your opponent. On top of that, in their 3rd ability slot on every one of their hero cards there is a free action, in which most cases is pretty good. To frame it up nicely, about 1 in 8 heroes of all the other faction heroes and mercenaries have a free action, and all 11 of their heroes have 1. This makes them incredibly hard to beat. After painting these guys and 35 models of a Viking crew I’ll just have smaller boosters of heroes to paint for this game. Rum and bones second tide has a really great piratey feel to it. The best it can be described as is a boarding clash of two crews like the pirates of the Caribbean movies. The the crews have their own flavor of play with the tide cards you can play for extra shenanigans and the heroes all do their individual things. How I plan on using them for ghost archipelago would be using the deckhands and bosuns as the grunts and using the different heroes as the heritor, warden, and specialists. With 9 full crews and a stack of mercenary hero boxes, you could use the rum and bones figures for all the crew for everyone’s warbands. Super fun.
 
It’s been a bit since I bought a legitimate legion release since I’ve been 3D printing so much. I was on miniature market browsing a bit and noticed they had the lando and kallus expansions on there for 11 bucks each so I picked them up. I also picked up the Huntsman box for zombicide black plague. It’s basically just about all the stretch goals for the Black Plague Kickstarter that I missed years ago. It was marked down to 60 bucks so I snagged it to go with my extensive collection of Black Plague sets. Also picked up the one big box expansion for my zombicide invader games. @Hahma, I’m not sure if you’ve been following the latest releases but the two transport vehicles coming out look really fun. The laat for the Empire/republic, and the speeder truck for the rebels both look very fun. Being able to transport units up to the front line without them taking any damage will be really great for a bunch of melee units and units that don’t fare as well against longer range gun lines. I’m going to 3D print a few of each of these. I already have the files downloaded and just need to slice them for my printers. I’ve been painting a bunch of my box games like a madman and will probably try to sprinkle in some legion units in here and there will I paint the others to cleanse the pallet between sets.
 
Yeah, I saw the new transports Trex. Pretty cool stuff. I'm sure I'll get them.

Funny thing is that in the Star Wars play by forum RPG that I've been playing for almost a year, my group hijacked an A-A5 Speeder Truck shortly before the model was announced for Legion.
 
Yeah, I saw the new transports Trex. Pretty cool stuff. I'm sure I'll get them.

Funny thing is that in the Star Wars play by forum RPG that I've been playing for almost a year, my group hijacked an A-A5 Speeder Truck shortly before the model was announced for Legion.

Nice. I’m loving the possibilities of speeding melee units and stuff like snow troopers with flamer and frags into battle really quickly without them getting wounded first. Overall really happy with how the new transports work and how you can equip the different pilots on them. Can’t wait to see what kind of crew you can equip the speeder truck with. I’m already looking at using Ryder Azadi on one of them to make it a speed three move transport for part of the time. So far for the laat I like the generic clone and tie fighter pilot for that one. Having a speed 3 laat for empire is great, and the clone one giving an aim and surge to the drop off unit is good too.
 
Just picked up my first ever acrylic inks. I’m trying out a black ink to make my own nuln oil substitute. I’ve made some good washes before using paint but I always lose the pigments in them easier. I’ve been on the fence about getting inks for awhile and decided to go for it. I have been using my own method of army painters quickshade with a mineral spirits wipe method that works pretty well on quite a few different types of models. The thing is with those is whenever you paint a lot of white, it can look less than great with a thicker brown oil based wash. I’m currently doing all my pirate models up this way and they look great, but I have a ton more stormtroopers and clone troopers for legion that I would for sure like to plow through with minimal effort on the wash front. I plan on making a large jar of the black nuln oil substitute and if it works out well, I’ll invest in other colors of inks to make up some great washes on the cheap and possibly my own contrast paint colors. Wish me luck, and if it turns out great, I’ll share my findings. I’ve painted 61 miniatures in the last week and a half and am roughly halfway done with another 13 of them. The nuln oil substitute should speed up the process even further because there isn’t as big of a wait time as the oil based washes for cure time.
 
Very creative Trex. I just use the Army Painter washes unless I'm working on a bigger piece or terrain. Then I've used paint mixed with floor finish. But, I don't paint as many minis as you, so I know that a cheaper alternative (other than pre-made washes) is more necessary.
 
Very creative Trex. I just use the Army Painter washes unless I'm working on a bigger piece or terrain. Then I've used paint mixed with floor finish. But, I don't paint as many minis as you, so I know that a cheaper alternative (other than pre-made washes) is more necessary.

The cheaper version is actually pretty simple. Here’s a YouTube link for one of the creators I watch mainly for terrain fun.[ame="https://youtu.be/6vFcRT2wOh8"]https://youtu.be/6vFcRT2wOh8[/ame]

Basically you would substitute the weaker pigment paints for inks so you can get them thinner but still strong enough for the recesses without staining the models.
 
Cool. I've done the cheaper version but used paint instead of ink. I may have to pick up some ink. Thanks for sharing.
 
Cool. I've done the cheaper version but used paint instead of ink. I may have to pick up some ink. Thanks for sharing.

I got the inks in the other week and they turned out pretty great compared to a paint wash. I test painted 9 stormtroopers with the black ink wash to check it out and it worked pretty well. I decided to take the plunge the other day and picked up a nice hardback set of the core Dungeon and Dragons books off of Amazon. They have some kind of foil covers on them and come with a DMs screen as well. It has the players handbook, the dungeon masters guide, and the monster manual. They are out for delivery today. In the set, they ran at about 91 dollars. Separately through other sites I browsed at the time they were much more. Can’t wait to dive into reading them. I got with my brothers to see if they would want to play it as well as some of my other family members and they told me to give it a go. I have some neighbors that like to play board games with us as well that want to try it. I have plenty of minis, terrain, and dice already so it just made sense to get the manuals. Got my lando and kallus legion expansions in as well as me kicking some of my printers on the other night. I have started printing some of those rebel speeder trucks. I had to cut the model in half to fit it on my print bed . My brother printed me a handful of the big bases for those and the new laat since he can print the bases in one piece on his larger print bed and bases don’t come out as good when they have to be printed multiparty. In return I hooked him up with 93 assorted Heroscape bases I had previously printed for kicks. I’m chunking through my painting backlog pretty well. After my last pirate crew is painted which are a crew of Vikings for rum and bones, I’ve put all the other merc boxes on a randomizer. I’ve done it before, random painting different sets to keep the painting excitement fresh. I’ll probably do the same thing with my other games, or squad sets to keep from painting too many of the same types of troops at once. Lots of fun stuff.
 
That should be fun if you can get people into DnD. The main thing is being able to have somewhat regular sessions, because otherwise people will forget what's going on and such. The group I'm in was playing once or twice per month, depending on schedules, but Covid pretty much messed that up for a while now.

I've been enjoying the play by forum Star Wars Edge of the Empire rpg campaign I've been in for about a year now. Lots of great SW moments. In fact, my group just hired a group of 5 Clone veterans to help us with an assault.

I just ordered a PDF bundle of 2 rpgs for like $26. One is a space themed rpg called Coriolis and supplements, and the other is Tales From the Loop, where you play as kids from age 10 to 15 in the 80's time period. But this has some Sci Fi elements to it because of the scientific inventions and the partical accelerator. Magnetic floating ships, robots, dinos, time travel etc. I am going to be playing that on BGG in a play by forum once everyone gets ready. We're just in the early phase of getting this going.

Here's the link to the bundle, as it has 11 days left.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2021CoriolisLoop

There is a second bundle for the games with more supplements. I got that too.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/CoriLoop2
 

This is definitely a good deal. If I were to do it, I would do the 50.00 set for the three boxes with the book and stretch goals. With all the minis I have already I only really need the book, but for someone looking to jump in that is a great deal. All the sprues can make even more figures if you know how to kit bash them and make extra bits on a printer. I know I 3d printed bodies for both my cultists box and snakemen box and literally doubled the amount of models from them. I'll still keep my eye on it though.
 
@Hahma, lately I've been mocking up all the different terrain pieces for all the specific stargrave and frostgrave scenarios in my 3d programs and printing them all out. I've just about covered everything from almost all the supplement books. I also have been making stls of everything that is star wars legion. I just finished printing out all the new vehicles and figures for all the stuff they just released spoilers for cards for. I've made the max amount of each unit that you can play for a grand army game for all the units that are currently out for all 4 factions. I'm also printing out all the different artisan guild models I've got from being a patreon of them and have some really great models that will work perfectly for warbands for games like frostgrave. I've been doing that while at home getting better from my last bout of pnuemonia. Been also organizing all my hobby spaces around my house.
 
I have been building and painting crews for Stargrave with my wife and three boys. We are combining and converting our crews from many different multiple part kits and old miniatures as well.
 
Dang you're busy Trex!

I have just gotten a bunch of Elder Scrolls Call to Arms minis painted and a few games of it played. Painted Kallus, the Inferno squad and a couple squads of Deathtroopers.

I've been working on the official LAAT ship for a while now. Sub assembly and painting lots of pieces before final assembly and finishing touches. Lots of work to it and I'm not really rushing it. Haven't had a lot of time so just doing what I can bit by bit. Can't wait to get it done.
 
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