Time To Hit The Beaches!

It is going to be a very busy week in the Studio!

Vader vs the Salami Dumptruck!

This weekend I headed out to my X-Wing gaming venue of choice, TCOW. Dan and I had arrange for a re-match where I would take Vader and some friends up against Horton and Salami Dumptruck!

I had also downloaded a cool app for my phone that lets you build battle reports from still images so I thought it might be a chance to give that a go as well. The results of both (the game and the app) were pretty good, and I definitely learnt some lessons... the main one being to use a decent camera (rather than the one in my phone - sorry for the blurry shots!) and that if Vader is going to get locked up by three Y-Wings with Photon Torpedoes it pays not to run in to things and lose your actions!

It was a great game, although I think I should start thinking about Rebel builds as I cannot seem to stop my ships from running into each other, so running less ships has to work in my favour!

Dan's List
Pilot: Horton Salm, Y-Wing (25)
Upgrades: Proton Torpedoes (4), Ion Cannon Turret (5), R2-D2 (4)

Pilot: "Dutch" Vander - Y-Wing (23)
Upgrades: Proton Torpedoes (4), Ion Cannon Turret (5), R5-K6 (2)

Pilot: Gold Squadron Pilot, Y-Wing (18)
Upgrades: Proton Torpedoes (4), Ion Cannon Turret (5)

My List
Pilot: Darth Vader, Tie Advanced x1 (29)
Upgrades: Squad Leader (2), Cluster Missiles (4)

Pilot: "Backstabber", Tie Fighter (16)

Pilot: "Howlrunner", Tie Fighter (18)

Pilot: "Mauler Mithel", Tie Fighter (17)

Pilot: Obsidian Squadron Pilot, Tie Fighter (13)

Vader gets a little too close and finds three Photon Torpedoes coming his way

Spoiler Alert - Final shot of the game... literally! Who says Obsidian Squadron Pilots cant shoot straight!

Colossus of Sardia?

Okay, so I was going to put up a post today about my slow progress to Battlecry, but my morning visit to TGN stopped me dead in my tracks as Privateer Press announced the coolest thing since the announcement of V3 for FoW :)

Colossals - released July 2012

Of course they also had some info on the RPG that's coming out soon as well.... just waiting for Mike to give in the inevitable and agree to run a campaign for us....

So.... more on the prep for Battlecry tomorrow I guess.

Rankings HQ

Some of my old gaming buddies in Aus started Rankings HQ a number of years ago as a site to managing the rankings of Warhammer and 40K players. Its now grown into a fantastic hobby site with something for everyone. They have recently enlisted Jason Flanzer (of the old Iron Agenda Podcast) to provide regular Warmachine content - check it out, its well worth a watch!