Forgot about this...a game of Famine, Sword, & Fire (yes, again!)

A week or two ago, we got together for a 2v2 game of Famine, Sword, & Fire and I forgot to take any pictures.  I snagged these from a friend.

 

Chaos Dwarfs allied with Orcs & Goblins were able to defeat the Bretonnians allied with Tilean Mercenaries.

  

A game of Famine, Sword, & Fire...in the dungeon!

A quick recap of the previous Game #7 of the narrative campaign between my buddy John and I:

Night Goblins had been negotiating with the Chaos Dwarf army, promising to lead them through a long-abandoned Dwarf hold, so that they could attack the Dwarf homeland by surprise.  Learning of this, a warband of Dwarfs led by Mr. Crowley (the hermit mage) entered the Dwarf hold and blew up the lone bridge, stopping the Chaos Dwarfs from entering...spoiling the plan.

 

However, in doing so, the Dwarfs inside the hold were now cut off and surrounded by the Night Goblins which occupied the abandoned Dwarf hold.

 

Game #8: We fast forward a few days and the surviving dwarfs have been cut down to a handful of heroes (seven to be precise, 3x Elite, and 4x Veteran).

 

They are nearing an exit, but need to find some shattered runes to determine which door is the final exit to the surface.  As they near their goal, the horde of Night Goblins catches up with them.

 

End result: 3/7 heroes escaped (locating the missing runes, and then rolling for a random exit door in the dungeon ruins we built up).  Mr. Crowley was slain(?) by many Night Goblin arrows and did not escape so he'll be removed from the narrative for a while, if not permanently.

 

Poor photos included!

 

 

Knocking out Solar Auxilia infantry...

Been in a big "get stuff off my desk" mode for the past few days.  I'm trying to finish up this little epic project as it's something we won't be playing much if at all, so I just want it finished and stuffed in a box.  This is the infantry, leaving me only the accompanying Ogryns.  I'll snag one or two more simple kits and likely be done with this project.

 

 

More 8mm goodies?

Been spending the majority of my hobby time lately working on the rules for FSF (trying to actually produce a game and not let it get stuck in 85% purgatory like most of my projects).  I've been building some stuff in the background, but the only painting I've done recently is some more Legions Imperialis stuff - for some form of epic scale gaming in the future.

 

 PS: Forgot I snagged a sprue of the Malcadors from a buddy, so I whipped those up today as well:

 

 

Still more goblins...

Trying to push through the rest of the goblins...maybe 25-30 more, but making steady progress.  This batch includes more skirmish archer bases and a few heroes on foot.

 

 

Just a few more goblins...

 Been cranking out some more night goblins...still another 30-40 to go!

 

 

The town "in situ".

 Had a few requests to see the town "assembled" so here is a quick table I knocked out.

 

 

A town showed up on my porch.

I was able to sneak an order in with Mark over at Crescent Root Studios.  I'd been hemming/hawing over what to do about terrain and simply decided to go all-in and order a whole town.  It showed up today in great shape!  Everything seems intact, and I'm very pleased.

 

 

'Welcome to Kwik-Squig...how can I help you?'

I picked up a used set of squigs on eBay and painted them up really quickly for my Night Goblin force.

FSF, a glance at components...

I'm to the point with Famine, Sword, & Fire that the 'physical' components are more or less finalized, with only a few more bits/bobs to sort out.

 

This is a picture of the physical components which will ship alongside the PDFs for the rules, etc.

 

 

In addition, I'll likely be making most of the components available separately, in case someone destroys a card or the battle board, or loses tokens, etc.

 

In addition, I've done specific themed combat tokens for my own personal armies and those of my friends, so I'll probably have those available as an option.

 

Epic Tanks for Epic Things

While I've less than zero interest in Legions Imperialis...I've always been a fan of Epic 40K, so Epic 30K is attractive enough.  I found a handful of boxes on eBay for nearly half-off (and they showed up complete, miracle of miracles!)

 

Some of my buddies have painted some minis, so if we find a game to use them in, I'll be happy.  I have a box of Leman Russes left to finish up.

 

 

Fireforge Games Peasants and a maybe-sorta-kinda Civil War project.

I speed-painted a few more peasants for use as "Peasant Mobs" in FSF - a scenario unit.

 

I also finished my first Confederate battalion from Warlord Games's 'Epic' line of Civil War minis.  I havent' decided if this is a project I'll continue to pursue (I picked up a few boxes during a sale several months ago).  They're not hard to paint, but tedious...