Mandatory Year’s End Post

So I couldn’t finish the stuff I planned to finish for this year. Originally I wanted to have a fully painted 35pts Farrow force but I couldn’t get the free time during the holiday I intended to have. So here is a last WIP shot of the Farrow Brigands for this year.

Happy new year to everyone.

Five player mayhem

Last week we had a very nice gaming evening at my living room. Unfortunately we were five player, which in first place led to trying out hexagonal gaming board for three players. The other two played a one on one match on my common gaming table.

The hexagonal board, that is originally the base plate of my daughter’s playpen, was a little bit small in size, so we decided to play a three player free for all with 15 points and mangled metal / tooth and claw rules. I played standard piggie battlegroup (Carver, 2 Warhogs, 1 Gunboar) and the game went really fast. The other two players fielded eStryker with a Stormclad and Ol’ Rowdy and Magnus with a Renegade, a Mule and a Mangler.

Simultaneously there was a battle Circle versus Cryx going on on the other table. This 35 points sized battle also was quite short, so we decided to play something funny after that first gaming round. So we all sat around the common square board, which was thick with terrain, and everyone, including our one spectator, placed a token somewhere on the table but at least 12” apart from another token. After that we rolled dice to figure out the starting order and the players chose one of the token to place there 15 points Battlegroup within 3” of it. This game was so much chaotic and fun that we are going to repeat it once it happens to be five players again.

Let me give you an impression of the games in the pictures below.

3 player game after round one

Pondering Pig

While assembling the Farrow Brigands I tried to mix the different arms and heads to give the unit a more irregular look. By that I noticed that some left and right arm combinations wouldn’t make the weapon fit into the empty hand without bending the arms. This was leading to some interesting poses on some of the pigs of which one is shown here: the pondering pig, still work in progress regarding the painting. In my opinion this fits a band of semi-organized Farrow quite well.

"To shoot, or not to shoot..."