Terrain For Hippos Annual Terrain Compometition: ANNOUNCE!

The Annual Terrain Compometition over at TFH has been announced, along with the usual litany of rules and prizes and the inclusion of an under 18s category. You may gaze upon it's fearful glory here.

A Song of Blades and Heroes: Army pricer

Hmmm... 15 points each for goblins, plus 45 for the leader...
You'd think a powerful mage like me would come up with
a way to make it easier to do an army list...

I have just put together a spreadsheet which can be used to price SBH armies made from models in my collection. We will be using this to help us build our Song of Deeds and Glory warbands, and it is also very handy for working out stand alone army lists. Currently it lists models which I have, and which have official SBH rules printed in the core book or one of the supplements. I have actually got some models which could work for various other things, but for the sake of keeping things simple, I've just included the best match. Also, where there are choices of training level (like elite archers vs. normal archers) I have just listed the price for the basic version of the unit.
You can find the spreadsheet on Google Drive.

A Song of Deeds and Glory

Next week sees the beginning of Campaign Season!
I have acquired A Song of Deeds and Glory, the campaign supplement for A Song of Blades and Heroes. This is a simple, skirmish level wargame which plays very quickly, but allows for a surprising level of versatility. A Song of Deeds and Glory adds rules for recruiting and improving a warband over the course of a campaign, capturing territory, earning money from territories, injuries and death of characters. The great thing is than an SBH game lasts about half an hour, so there's plenty of time to play several games in an evening, or play some other games as well!
I will bring a collection of terrain and miniatures from which we can make our warbands. My collection includes:

• Frogmen
• Samurai Rabbits
• Rather a lot of Goblins
• Orcs
• Ratmen
• Dwarves
• Quite a few Wood Elves
• Egyptian-style Undead
• Chaos warriors beyond counting
• Various large monsters

We will design and recruit warbands on Thursday, set up starting territories etc. and hopefully get a few games in!

July 2015 holiday program: ANNOUNCE!

Oh yes indeed, and you can check it out here.

New developments in floor games: Road Warriors.

I was at Bunnings on Saturday, and they had some cool little wooden car kits, about 8-10cm long. This got me thinking about the next school holiday program, and Mad Max (it's not hard to get me to think about Mad Max), and the inevitable development of a post-apocaylptic death racing floor game. 

Road Warriors is still work in progress, but I can reveal:

• It uses rolled dice for combat results instead of throwing things at one another.
• Movement is governed by a template. Each car has one, and it also governs things like damage, speed and special actions.
• The more damage you take, the slower you go.
• There are currently four car types - Hot Rod, Rally Car, Street Machine and Monster Truck (based on the models available)
• Road Warriors will probably be debuted during the July holidays.

Little Wars Melbourne 2015

Little Wars Melbourne 2015 is just around the corner! On may 31st, Moorabin Town Hall will be stuffed to the rafters with mighty gaming geeks, gaming gloriously!
And Toppy is running stuff!

Over the course of the day, a complete four-game A Song of Blades and Heroes campaign will take place! Will you help Prince Imraldiir of the Blessed Peacock and his sneaky Wood Elves defend their native oak trees against Goblin lumberjacks? Or will you take sides with Bzak Butt-Scratcher, chief of the Flatulent Mountain Goblins and try to fell the trees for your own fell purposes?

• Play over all new terrain built especially for the occasion!
• Play using almost all new figures painted especially for the occasion!
• Roll dice!
• Lead your armies to glory!

Have you ever wanted to cram two (yes! two!) Rampage sets together to play eight-way Kaiju carnage? Or do you yearn to experience Tsuro, or the sweet sweet taste of noshing down on skyscrapers in King of Tokyo? Mad Juzzy the Flutist will be running a table featuring a veritable bonanza of boardgames! Rousing cheers!

Young Brad provides an introduction to role playing, in the form of a stand-along Dice Chucker session set in Harran! Take on the role (and partial costume!) of one of six mighty heroes, and set out on a perilous quest involving skyships, lighthouses, goats and pirates!

• Play over new maps!
• Play using new paper figures made especially for this event!
• Roll dice!
• Learn rules!
• Achieve VICTORY!
• TRY TO KEEP YOUR CLOTHES ON!!

In which Young Brad learns to be a DM.

Young Brad has requested time to practice his DMing skills leading up to Little Wars at the end of the month. So I have hatched a cunning plan. Cunningly.
We are going to run some randomly generated dungeon crawling over the next few weeks. I have developed some encounter and loot tables, and we will use the magic item cards as always. I have also developed some new Dice Chucker V3 character sheets. These have:

• Places to clearly record your weapon's stats.
• Places to clearly record your Armour Level.
• Space to write in any spells or special rules your character has access to.
• More space to write character background and description if you want.