AHPC VIII "Ate" - Call of the Wild

The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge Season 8, will commence on 20 Dec!
The call for nominations is out and you can read all about it here: The Eighth Annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

I've signed up for my fourth appearance in this most excellent activity. This year I am aiming for a more modest 500 points to reflect some real life constraints.  Can't wait!

Scoring:

6mm foot figure = 0.5 point
6mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 1 point
6mm vehicle = 2 points

10mm foot figure = 1 point
10mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 2 points
10mm vehicle = 3 points 

15mm foot figure = 2 points
15mm mounted figure, artillery piece or large crew served weapon = 4 points
15mm vehicle = 6 points

20mm foot figure = 4 points
20mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 8 points
20mm vehicle = 12 points

28mm foot figure = 5 points
28mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 10 points
28mm vehicle = 15 points

Bonus Rounds:

'Flight' (January 6th submission / displayed January 7th / voting results January 14th) 

'BFG: Big Freakin' Gun' (January 20st submission / displayed January 21st / voting results January 28th)

'Music/Musician' (February 3rd submission / displayed February 4th / voting results February 11th) 

'Childhood' (February 17th submission / displayed February 18th / voting results February 25th) 

'Monstrous' (March 3rd submission / displayed March 4th / voting results March 11th)

Ice Trolls!

Earlier this year during the painting challenge, I painted up some lovely 90s vintage sculpts of Ice Trolls. I just loved these guys and their characterful faces. So much so that I have now painted up another 8 to bring the collection to an even dozen.

A nasty looking bunch to having bearing down upon you and so much fun to paint.
I'm looking forward to unleashing them on the table soon!

Little Wars Canberra

A few of the club lads climbed into the car today for a road trip to Little Wars Canberra (about 3 hrs each way).  A small show in only its third year, it was nonetheless very welcoming and most enjoyable. Unlike most Australian Cons, this one deliberately has no tournaments or competitive gaming and only participation games (more akin to my experience at Fall In actually).  A great setup that I hope continues to grow in the future.

Great to catch up with Bish of Tiny Tanks (http://tinytanks3mm.blogspot.com.au) who was putting on a game with...well, tiny tanks!, Chris of the Moruya Marauders (http://moruya-marauders.blogspot.com.au) who I havent seen for ages, and talented sculptor Mike Broadbent

Also fantastic to see the ever smiling Nic from Eureka Miniatires (https://eurekamin.com.au) and Drew from Slave2Gaming (http://www.slave2gaming.com).  Bought lots of goodies from each.  Loot confession later (maybe) - here is the eye candy

Striking looking Weird WW1 range in 15mm by Slave2Gaming 

Eureka's "Mad" Maximillion's saloon car - more to follow on that note...


Some of the games:

Command & Colours Ancients with models - great stuff!

Trail Ape's most impressive Hougamont Game using Sharpe Practice 2

An awesome table setup indeed!

Large scale ACW game 

We even got to roll some dice - the four us us participated in a fun and quickly tourney with some homegrown rules.  Great setup with fast furious action!

The boys roll off

The Black Knight Always Triumphs!

Blood and Plunder!

Bish's wonderful looking 6mm Modern game in progress - Fist Full of TOWs III

Bish in Action!

Spanish American War battlewagons in Line ahead formation

Whats a boys' day out without an adult beverage?

Great day out - thanks again to Slowpainter John (http://slowp8nter.blogspot.com.au) for driving!

Kings of War: First Game

My Battle Line is formed

Played my first KoW game this week under the tutelage of club buddy Marty.  We played a big 2 v2 game on my new textured Cigar Battle Mat.  I used my Riders of Doom Dragon Rampant army to build a force for the similarly themed Varangur faction.

John with his wonderfully massive legion of skaven ratkin

The games' afoot!

I found the KoW rules very quick to pickup, though its old style I-go-U-go was hard to get used to again after a long time of not using it!  Its clearly a game about manoeuvre and getting into the right position before engaging.  Refreshingly, it also rewards the use of reserves.

Lines clash!

Disclaimer: This was the first time I've played a "rank and flank" style fantasy game

Dave's lovely new Dwarves in action

The battle in full swing

Overall I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to exploring the system's intricacies more.