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Our Wargame of the Month series returns this April featuring the fantastic Guild Ball from Steamforged Games!
To help you check out this brilliant fantasy football game we've got a great 10% off wargame of the month special on across the range, excluding the latest releases, and we'll be doing a series of blogs about the game, the guilds and heaps more.
So let's take a closer look at what makes Guild Ball one of our favourites…
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We'd like to welcome a new guest contributor to our Hobbies Blog, Stuart from Tabletop-Terrain.com:, who's a local terrain making genius.
Take it away Stuart…
This tutorial describes detailing and basing a set of Mantic 20th Century Red Brick terrain. Mantic Games produce these plastic terrain kits for a variety of their games such as Deadzone and Mars Attacks.
These kits are great value for money, and the 20th century brick series come with the pieces already removed from their sprues, with a bag of clever connectors which you can use to snap them together without glue. In 15 minutes you can put a whole box together and create a collection of terrain ready for a game. The kits really shine though if you spend a bit of extra modelling time on them, which this tutorial will cover.
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A simple 25mm square bases simply doesn't have that much room, especially once you attach a figure, and once of the downsides of individual basing is that the little details can get lost within the mass of the unit. The best part of basing models as a unit, rather than individually, is that you can go above and beyond just adding texture and vegetation- you can making highly themed bases or creating dioramas within your army.
For systems which require you to remove individual models as casualties unit basing can very problematic during games, which is you will quite often see mini-dioramas aka Unit Fillers in many Warhammer Fantasy armies.
Kings of War is quite different as a massed battle system, in that the rules and game mechanics are specifically designed to favor basing entire units on a single large unit base. This is because you don't have to remove casualties and each unit has a specific footprint and height within the rules. This makes it the perfect system to really go to town with extra details and mini-dioramas for your unit bases.
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As my Welsh Guards are themed upon Operation Market Garden I needed to think of a basing scheme which would suit, as well as being straight forward to apply in order to be ready in time for a tournament.
So having done a little bit of research into the terrain encountered by the British forces during the operation I decided upon a wetlands basing scheme, to represent the boggy polder which was prevalent in Holland off the raised roads.
This also meant that I could use one of Secret Weapon's great Basing Kits, which included almost eveything I needed.
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Over the last month I've been speed painting my first Bolt Action force in preparation for the the Auckland Open tournament this coming weekend. Luckily I had been making good progress as another one day event popped up last weekend which gave me a chance to start playing and get some practice.
After I little bit of playing around with lists I decided on the following Late War British force:
I had started working on this list before our main shipment from Warlord Games arrived so it was designed to use the 10 man Italeri British Infantry plastic set as much as possible. But this wasn't an issue due to its versatility and wide variety of weapons options.
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Welcome to our first Bolt Action blog post!
As I'm itching to get a small Bolt Action force on the table and play my first games I've begun speed painting some British Commonwealth Infantry, which will be the core of my new list.
This plastic kit series is a collaboration between Italeri and Warlord Games, and is a great way to get things started.
So lets go through a quick step by step of painting British infantry to basic tabletop standard.
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Welcome to the first instalment of our new guest writer series, Lessons from the Chief Slave.
Over the coming months we will be re-publishing the outstanding tutorials produced by our friends from Slave to Painting and working together with the Chief on some exciting new projects.
So without further ado lets hand things over to the man himself…
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Throughout November our Hobbies Monkeys have been working furiously to add over 3000 new tabletop gaming and hobby supplies products from our friends at Slave to Painting. And we're thrilled to welcome all these awesome new products to our Hobbies Jungle.
We're also really excited to announce the 2 lucky slaves who each won a $250 Mighty Ape Voucher on our Welcome to Mighty Ape Competition…
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The highlight of Flamescon for a number of people, myself included, was the Dust Battlefield tournament held on the second day. Plenty of local hobbyists have been collecting Dust forces this year and with the long wait for the new tactics card decks and templates finally over it was time to really get the games started with New Zealand's first official Dust tournament.
The core of my list is the Heavy Grenadier Platoon; The Panzers and Flak Boys providing huge amounts of anti-infantry and anti-light vehicle fire power, while the Iron Fists give extra versatility with their command actions as well as their own significant damage output. Plus with damage resistance on all these units they can absorb a substantial amount of firepower themselves.
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The Mighty Ape team would like to extend a warm welcome to all Slave to Painting Customers and we're thrilled to be able to continue to offer the awesome range of tabletop gaming and hobby supplies which the Chief Slave and his team provided, and to take our support of the Australian hobby community to the next level.
Our dedicated Hobbies Category is already the home to many of your favourite brands like Warhammer, Vallejo, The Army Painter and Mantic games and we will also be taking on the rest of the brands which Slave to Painting stocked.
Our team are hard at work behind the scenes getting the new products loaded and arranging the stock transfers and we're looking forward to welcoming all these fantastic new tabletop gaming and hobby supplies ranges to our Hobbies Jungle over the next few weeks.
We'd also like to invite you to check out the rest of our massive Tabletop Gaming and Paints, Tools & Supplies ranges for heaps more oustanding brands like Woodland Scenics, Dust Tactics, AK Interactive & much, much more.
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