Terrain: Finished jungle boards

First weekend of August is the time for the first games of Ghost Archipelago. And I've done a bunch of terrain to fill a board properly for it. I still have a few pieces I would like to do before the game, but the map is well filled.

So I put everything up, took a few photos and here they are.

Easter Island statue heads. Can be used as various scenario objectives.

A full 3'x4' jungle board setup with a statue circle in the middle.

Some old recycled hills made jungle with a bit of jungle flock. 

Some old 3' cube rock formations made for Deadzone, works well as something looking as ruins.

And by pure chance it all fit neatly into a box! Easy to put this terrain collection away between games. That's not really the case with the some of the other collections. 

Ghost Archipelago: First Crew

First weekend of August I'm finally gonna get my first game of Ghost Archipelago, after playing a lot of games in the Frozen City.

My jungle is all done and now I have adventures to go into it, searching for glory and treasures.

Full Warband
Heritor, Beast Warden, specialists and regular crew ready for adventures. I've been using models from Avatars of War, Northstar, Reaper Miniatures, Games Workshop and some unknown barbarian model.

One thing that was important for me when doing these guys, was to have different races on board - like any good pirate movie. So I've been using 5 different skin tones on the warband.

And for the complete Lego pirate experience, I've made sure to paint stripes on pants, scarfs and vests. Adds a lot of detail for free.

Heritor
The leader of the warband, the descendant of one who found the Crystal Pool. This is my conquistador inspired heritor - Hector Fernandez Rodrigo Gonzales III.

I don't think it's a good idea to bring a hero in a full plate armor into a watery jungle - but I'm going for rule of cool. This model is from Avatars of War.

Beast Warden

This is an old Games Workshop wood elf model, I've cut off his ears. The model has lots of feathers and a bird skull on the staff, so I made him a beast warden. His name is Bright Feather.

Savage - specialist

I can't remember where I have this model from and I don't know who made him, but he's a beast! He stands taller than any other model in the warband, so perfect for a Savage. 

Infantryman - specialist

This is an old Games Workshop Empire soldier. I added a halberd (instead of the spear) and secured it with string and superglue. Also gave him some feathers and accessories in the belt. He's wearing the same colors as the Heritor and served under him in the army - before they went adventuring. 

Bowmen - specialists

These models are pure Northstar plastics from the crew kit - an excellent multi part plastic kit. As with any bow wielding models, I've made sure to add bowstrings to them.

Captain - Crewman

I really wanted to use this cool pirate model from Reaper Miniatures. So I decided that he would be the captain off the ship, and my Heritor have only bought passage. He'll be counting as a regular crewman in the game - unless I can upgrade him to a specialist later on (one that takes a place of a crewman). 

Crewmen

The rest of my crewmen are also made from the Northstar box of soldiers. I'm especially happy with the corsair on the left, such a cool model. I still have 5 crewmen on a sprue, don't know what I'll use them for - but they are definitely good to have.

This Is Not A Test: Peacekeepers vs. Slavers

This is a write up of my first This Is Not A Test game - played a few months ago. Have the second one coming up, which is nice.

I made the below in around in a weeks time of hobby work. The stuff is quickly build and painted. And there's step-by-steps for most of it here.

Scenario
As this was the first time playing for me and my opponent, we did a simple scenario. Scattered some supply tokens on the board and let them be worth 10 bs if secured. There was no wandering monsters or dangerous terrain, as I haven't done any of those for the game yet.

Keep it simple when playing a game for the first time.

Warbands
My warband in the first game, is my team of peace keepers. Out in the wild on regular patrolling, keeping it safer for everyone. Full blog on these guys here.

Fighting against the law was a band of slavers - out there looking for fresh meat. Brutal guys, earning cash in a brutal way. Also made with the peace keeper rules. Full blog here.

Setup
We played on a 3'x4' setup with two giant bombed buildings in the middle. Putting lots of wasteland terrain on the board. Lots of good places to hide and get out of enemies line of fire.

We set up our warbands on the far ends of the tables.

Action shots
Slavers ready to enter the bombed city in search for potential slaves.

A sacrificial lamb, a slave with bomb collar, is send ahead of the team. No need to take care of those.

A peacekeeper sacrificial lamb, sneaking into the city block.

The main road through the board would be where the two warbands clash.

A slave attacking the leader of the peace keepers. After the leader took a wound, the brutal slave master blew the bomb collar, hoping to take out the peace keeper. Fortunately he survived the blast.

Entering main street, ready to fight the big guy line breaker from the slaver team.

The slaver with the shotgun must be one of my favorite posed models. And it's bad for that sacrificial lamb to be that close to a shotgun blast.

The peace keeper outrider took up a sniper position from the star of the game. He couldn't really hit a thing, but he forced the slavers to stay in cover.

Trying to protect the wounded leader, going for an escape through the ruin. The shotgun wielding officer is On Hold! to blast the slaver line breaker if he enters the building.

Really liking the bottle cap counters. They're on the large side of counters, but they look cool and fit the Fallout theme.

Aftermath

The game ended with no clear winner. The slavers drew some great wasteland exploration cards and got a lot of cash. The line breaker lost his life in the game, but there was plenty of cash to re-buy him with the same gear. A single officer also got XP for a new level, adding a bit of value to the warband. 

The peace keepers drew a lot of wasteland encounters, but they managed to fail all the rolls - and ended with very little loot after the game. ... that wasn't cool. So they are at the exact same level as before the game.