Dungeon Baddies...or Heroes?

A couple more dungeon minis in the un-ending wave.

A Reaper metal Wizard who is quite lovely, and a slightly old-sculpt looking skeleton.

The near-disaster giant...

I picked up a Giant Jailer from Reaper recently (in Bones plastic), and chopped of its chain and reduced its weapon to an additional dagger.  I was pretty happy with the sculpt until I primed it.  For the first time I had my Bones go a bit tacky...but I just tackled it anyway with normal paint.

Likewise my dip has...truly gone, but I was too anxious to hold off.  While he looks better in person and in a dungeon than in pictures, this was only an 85% success for me...

Dungeon Playtest: Ageerrrrn.

Had another playtest today of the dungeon crawler.  The hero part was able to find and slay a large monster that was grabbing people from under their garderobes!

Big Booms in Drake's Branch

A three-way struggle today for gang and posse recruitment ended up in a general blood bath...

Shoot N' Skedaddle, custom scenario.

Cool Orc and Crap Snake

I did another two minis for the dungeon crawl yesterday.  Sadly I didn't thin my dip enough for the Snake and it ended up a bit shit...but I'll keep it.

The Orc big boss dude came out a treat.  Really big and imposing miniature, will probably make him a Legendary Encounter of some sort.

Death in the Dungeon: A Playtest

Got together with a buddy today to playtest the early days of the dungeon crawl project.  (Early days: 17 years since the idea was started...)

Ran two small dungeons and had a good time.  Won the first game with one casualty of the four, and the next game was lost with three casualties of the four.  Good time all around.

I had something on my camera lens so it didn't want to focus but I didn't notice until afterwards.  The pics are therefore rather potato phone.

 Late in the second game the Warrior cleverly leads the Stone Golem on a wild goose chase, distracting it while the wounded Dwarf makes a run for the exit.

 The joys and mayhem of playtesting something...so many dice...so many cards and junk!

 Only a few spaces from the exit to the dungeon, the Warrior and Dwarf are set upon by cave spiders.  The Dwarf is quickly cocooned and eaten alive.  The Warrior bashed his way through nine(!) cave spiders and escaped...the lone survivor.

 Confronting a Minotaur and Brigands in the objective room the wounded Dwarf and his Warrior comrade turn tail and run...

 The Heroes flee, leaving the Minotaur stuck at a small single staircase he's unable to climb.  Luckily the Brigands are stuck behind him!  They used this same tactic earlier on a Stone Golem (above left).

While the monsters bellow at the doors, unable to follow, the Warrior (top, in my buddy's hand!) slips out the side passageway and tries to circumvent the Stone Golem, ready to distract it so the wounded Dwarf (moving slower) can make a run for it...

Dungeon Beasties and a Hero

Not overly satisfied with the Reaper Bones orcs I previously painted I stumbled upon some gorgeous metal Orcs from Reaper's "Dungeon Dweller" line, aimed at more classic low-fantasy styled stuff - mostly by Bobby Jackson (rapidly becoming a big fan of his stuff).

Will probably collect more of the range and will pick up one or two more packs of Orcs.  A joy to paint.  I'm still making due with slightly old dip that's wanting to gum up....but...they're Orcs, so dirty is fine.

I also knocked out a single ranger/hero type from Reaper as well (forgot this fella's name).  A nice Tre Manor sculpt.

You may notice I haven't posted a ton in the past two weeks - this is mainly because I've been painting these guys, but also because I've been full-steam-ahead on my dungeon crawl rules project.  I've been spending a ton of time arranging/detailing cards and art, and starting to compile some stuff for further play-testing.

Been really happy with the test prints so far.  A loooong road ahead, but it's encouraging and keeping me interested (hence the sudden burst of additional dungeon minis!).   Dungeon stuff, particularly the small numbers needed is a really nice break from the monotony of Warhammer 40K!