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14/06/2015 at 14:27 in reply to: 6mm Eldar #26135

Alexander Wasberg
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Very nice, seems like a well-rounded force!

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13/06/2015 at 22:08 in reply to: 3mm Terrain #26129

Alexander Wasberg
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It’s a great scale to play around with, and cheap enough that you can try it without breaking the bank 🙂

Thank you for the kind words!

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13/06/2015 at 09:02 in reply to: Pico Armor Reinforcements #26115

Alexander Wasberg
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Thanks, I try to make it work 🙂

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09/06/2015 at 09:22 in reply to: 3mm Terrain #25894

Alexander Wasberg
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Thanks 🙂

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09/06/2015 at 09:15 in reply to: 6mm terrain pt.2 #25893

Alexander Wasberg
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Thank you Michael! I do think that the bases, however simple adds to the whole thing 🙂

Thanks Earther!

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08/06/2015 at 07:11 in reply to: 3mm Terrain #25835

Alexander Wasberg
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Only a single 3mm piece today, but its a big one:

A Hoth-style Shield Generator! One of my Solar Bloc tanks is here to give you an idea of the size.

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03/06/2015 at 16:46 in reply to: AB's 6mm sci-fi topic #25616

Alexander Wasberg
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This set looks more and more promising for each post! 🙂

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03/06/2015 at 08:05 in reply to: Infestation; A Clash on the Fringe AAR #25581

Alexander Wasberg
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Thats strange Editor Mike, I hope you enjoyed it sans slideshow though!

@Rules Junkie Jim: Thanks! The game took just under 60 minutes not including the setup time.

It always amazes me how much people in movies act like there aren’t ever any in their own universe. In this case I blame all the cryo-sleep Rhoderic 😉

@Earther and kyoteblue: I aim to please, glad you both liked it!

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02/06/2015 at 10:09 in reply to: Designing 3mm terrain #25506

Alexander Wasberg
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I just put them on top, since the element bases makes it impractical to make space for them. YMMV

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30/05/2015 at 23:36 in reply to: 3mm Terrain #25323

Alexander Wasberg
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Thanks Rhoderic, the finer scales do allow for lost of cool terrain without breaking the bank!

@Thaddeus: These Firestorm terrain bits are really great, You can get so much out of a box!

I hope the postal service get cracking so you can have yours soon, also, thank you for the kind words 🙂

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30/05/2015 at 09:17 in reply to: Limited Edition 6mm Single Figures #25275

Alexander Wasberg
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These look awesome, really characterful. I can’t wait to see the rest!

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30/05/2015 at 09:07 in reply to: WH40K at 3mm Scale? #25274

Alexander Wasberg
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Looking really good! It’s good to know we can use the pumice at 3mm scale as well.

I have to ask, are those marines O8’s venerator PA?

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30/05/2015 at 09:02 in reply to: 3mm Terrain #25273

Alexander Wasberg
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Woohoo, AB is making 3mm stuff. I feel this might make me a poor man.. @AB: Thanks for the speedy deliver of my last order BTW, just started to put things together!

@Rules Junkie Jim: Good work mate, have a cookie, you’ve earned it 😉

I have a few more 3mm piece to share, while I wait for reinforcements from Pico Armor:

Groupshot, sans the piece I finished up this morning.

Landing pad, fully equipped with refueling and servicing capabilities.

Grow-domes, making sure the poor colonists have something to eat, regardless of the often inhospitable climate of partially terraformed worlds.

Last piece is a area defence installation. The guns are multi-purpose, being able to take on atmospheric threats as well as smaller orbital vessels. I plan to build a proper anti-ship installation at some point, but these will have to fill in for the moment.

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25/05/2015 at 07:55 in reply to: 3mm Terrain #24900

Alexander Wasberg
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I hear you, a 3mm Shanty town would be very nice 🙂

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25/05/2015 at 06:55 in reply to: Very Cool – Now, How Can We Play a Game in It? #24898

Alexander Wasberg
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A good find, extremely beautiful craftsmanship!

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25/05/2015 at 06:51 in reply to: 3mm Terrain #24897

Alexander Wasberg
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@Thaddeus Blanchette: Thanks Thaddeus, I’m a fan of your work, you have so much 3mm goodness on your blog! I agree with the single building idea, then we can by bags of the stuff and still have it all look different and interesting.

@editor mike: I have hear the same thing, I really hope that AB makes something like his 6mm stuff, that would be exellent! Thank you for the kind words 🙂

Rules Junkie Jim: I thank you both for the kind words and the sacrifice of some spare minis, hopefully AB will put them to good use!

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24/05/2015 at 06:59 in reply to: 6mm Warbands #24834

Alexander Wasberg
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The rest of the dwarves are in:

Also some reinforcements for the barbarians, to be used for warband and dungeons crawls:

And something completly new, 6mm Demon Warband:

Close-ups of the rest, along with some other stuff are live on the blog:

http://lasersandbroadswords.blogspot.com/2015/05/invading-demons-and-tiny-buildings.html

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22/05/2015 at 07:06 in reply to: 3mm reinforcements #24735

Alexander Wasberg
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I second War Panda’s call, Photos Mr Weasel 🙂

If you feel like sharing how you paint your metal men, sure 😉

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12/05/2015 at 09:39 in reply to: First 6mm sculpts #24042

Alexander Wasberg
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thanks!

As you might have imagined, Lo-Pan from Big Trouble in Little China was the reason I did the far east group 🙂

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10/05/2015 at 08:36 in reply to: Another adventure, more buildings. But different. #23930

Alexander Wasberg
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The Mad Mecha Guy kits are really nice, are the choppers his as well?

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10/05/2015 at 08:33 in reply to: Fantasy playtest #23928

Alexander Wasberg
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In this latest playtest we are back to warband on warband action, but with dwarves this time! Trying out some tweaks and some new rules:

I have some more pics on the blog:

http://lasersandbroadswords.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-fight-over-henge.html

Thanks for looking!

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04/05/2015 at 07:46 in reply to: Playtesting Starstrike #23532

Alexander Wasberg
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My most recent playtest of Starstrike pits two teams of mecha against each other. this allowed me to test the recently amended vehicle rules as well as the points system:

The battlefield:

First blood:

And some close combat:

The full AAR on my blog:

http://lasersandbroadswords.blogspot.com/2015/05/starstrike-playtest-5.html

Thanks for looking!

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29/04/2015 at 23:17 in reply to: Playtesting Starstrike #23232

Alexander Wasberg
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Thanks JozisTinMan, I look forward to seeing your 6mm 🙂

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29/04/2015 at 09:00 in reply to: 6mm Credit Card Terrain #23194

Alexander Wasberg
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Interesting, looking forward to seeing more progress on this 🙂

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29/04/2015 at 08:58 in reply to: My adventures in building buildings #23193

Alexander Wasberg
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looking really good!

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29/04/2015 at 08:56 in reply to: Playtesting Starstrike #23192

Alexander Wasberg
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Thanks! Yeah, the green ones look more striking, the Tan pj from the series didn’t come out as well as I would have liked.

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28/04/2015 at 09:43 in reply to: Playtesting Starstrike #23126

Alexander Wasberg
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While not a playtest post, I thought I’d share the newly finished stars of the next playtest:

The green mecha:

And the Tan Mecha:

The AAR featuring these guys will follow sometime during the week, hopefully sooner rather than later!

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28/04/2015 at 09:35 in reply to: 6mm Warbands #23125

Alexander Wasberg
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A few dwarfs have started to band together;

A few more close-ups on the blog:

http://lasersandbroadswords.blogspot.com/2015/04/stunties-and-some-mecha.html

Thanks!

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20/04/2015 at 07:47 in reply to: 6mm Sword-and-Planet? #22615

Alexander Wasberg
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Rhoderic: I think you have nailed the best pieces I could find as well, so I’d start with some of the simpler vehicles, like the martian empires one; minimal conversion needed there.

I really like the idea of the andrayada guard, I might just try something like that myself at some point 🙂

@AB: yeah Michael, offering to support our habit is helping a lot with the oooh shiny 😉

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18/04/2015 at 06:49 in reply to: Playtesting Starstrike #22450

Alexander Wasberg
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My 4th installment of playtesting Starstrike is now live on the blog, and there are tanks this time!

The Union soldiers attempt a break-through in a rural valley, but Warg Industries have other plans..

A full AAR on blog, with statlines and everything!

http://lasersandbroadswords.blogspot.com/2015/04/starstrike-playtest-4.html

Thanks for looking!

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17/04/2015 at 12:57 in reply to: 6mm Sword-and-Planet? #22302

Alexander Wasberg
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On the issue of balance I think that bows and arrows can easily contend with magical firearms. Obviously firearms tend to be more destructive, but given their relative rarity in such a setting bows and crossbows tends to be much more common and therefore much more economical to field in greater numbers.

So in my mind, a force like the exodites would be fewer in number, with firearms and some meleé weapons as well, all in superior quality to for example a less advanced tribe of locals, who might have a number of bows and assorted meleé weapons, but will be more numerous.

This sort of balances the superiority of better training and gear against numbers, which works fine for big games in my experience. For small skirmish you would most likely have the added layer of different skill levels to help balance things as well.

An arrow fired by a skilled archer is most likely as deadly as a laser-beam fired from a magi-tech gun, barring some cases.

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16/04/2015 at 22:19 in reply to: 6mm Sword-and-Planet? #22260

Alexander Wasberg
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You know you want this, give in and join the hivemind, together we will come up with crazy things!

on a more serious note, I’d probably try using five parsecs or maybe rogue planet. I have considered starstrike as well, using 4 to 5 man units with a few individual heroes on each side.

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16/04/2015 at 10:07 in reply to: 6mm Sword-and-Planet? #22185

Alexander Wasberg
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I thought it sounded vaguely saturday morning cartoon-ish.. And that’s a good thing in my book!

If you wanted to start out at not-eldar exodites vs some sort of lizard or insectmen, you could go with the dark realm kraytonians mixed with microworld lizardmen for saurians (they have some sweet lizard riders as well ), while you have microworld kreen and perhaps some of onslaughts not tyranids as bug people. The exodites could be anything you fancy, depending on how exotic you want them to look. Some different historical humans, maybe with a lizard mount or two could work, as could microworld dark elf models.

I think you are better off starting with a small skirmish for testing 🙂

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16/04/2015 at 07:20 in reply to: 6mm Sword-and-Planet? #22177

Alexander Wasberg
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Well, to be honest I hadn’t thought of it before you mentioned it.. but now I can’t get the idea out of my head! A friend and I was once working on making a 15mm not-barsoom, so I suppose it’s similar enough.

Between the ranges you’ve mentioned you have all the diversity you need to make a number of different civilizations.

Were you thinking this as a skirmish project with a dozen or so models per side, or did you intend a full-on mass battle type thing?

I think that for starters you would have to decide how “true” you want to be to the source material, do you want to re-create barsoom, or do you just want something similar?

Since you got me thinking, an initial plan might be something like this:

let’s start with two factions that’s fairly different from each other maybe some Magi-tech alliance of humans and elves (you can call the elves something else) and a opposing force of very tech-heavy humans.

The Magi-tech faction could be constructed using some microworld elves for mage-characters, you could use some Baccus6mm medieval knights and pikemen/swordsmen for regular soldiers, Onslaught Stygian barges for magical skimmers. You might make some magic-tech crystal/energy rifles from some musket-armed units with a small crystal-like shape at the end of the barrel. The Microworld dark elf riding lizards might fit in this faction as well..

The techy humans can be constructed with baccus6mm SYW or ACW models for most firearms-carrying troops, smiliar era cannons and some Aeronefs from brigade for skimmers. SYW/renaissance pikemen and swordsmen for meleé troops.

This is just a rough idea of the top of my head, but I’d love to discuss this further 🙂

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13/04/2015 at 18:25 in reply to: The Union returns #21991

Alexander Wasberg
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The bases are 2mm thick mdf, bought from warbases.

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13/04/2015 at 00:47 in reply to: Figures we would like to see made? #21920

Alexander Wasberg
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I agree with Mr Average, anything Ma.K! Preferably 6mm since we have the brigade egg-suits that kinda fits the look..

More monsters and characters for 6mm fantasy

Mechs of all shapes and sizes: @Rhoderic

Rhoderic wrote:

A small range of Escaflowne-style fantasy mechs, scaled for 15mm or 10mm or thereabouts.

Yes. Just yes.

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12/04/2015 at 10:12 in reply to: 1200 point French Army for Blucher #21882

Alexander Wasberg
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Impressive, thats for sure!

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05/04/2015 at 08:20 in reply to: Playtesting Starstrike #21417

Alexander Wasberg
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The 3rd game of Starstrike AAR is now live!

A Psion named Kelly tries to escape the clutches of the sinister Cult. I’m also playing on my new gaming tiles for the first time!

Full report on the blog:

http://lasersandbroadswords.blogspot.com/2015/04/3rd-game-of-starstrike.html

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01/04/2015 at 08:59 in reply to: Playtesting Starstrike #21136

Alexander Wasberg
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A 2nd game of Starstrike was played during the weekend, trying out an assymetrical scenario. I wanted to find out how far I could go without breaking it.

A full report is waiting at the blog:

http://lasersandbroadswords.blogspot.com/2015/04/2nd-game-of-starstrike.html

Thanks for looking!

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26/03/2015 at 11:19 in reply to: 6mm Warbands #20580

Alexander Wasberg
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@Rhoderic: Thank you, I’m glad I could inspire someone else! I had a similar issue with 6mm models until Michael of Angel Barracks and Steve of Microworld showed me the light 🙂

Microworld games is my absolute favorite, but Irregular and Baccus has some nice sculpts too!

@Brigadier General: Thanks! 🙂

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