Malk's Wargaming / RPG blog

Edit: After some discussion, it was determined that most of the players weren't interested in that much score keeping.  A more laid back experience was preferred.  Instead I'll be keeping track of teams that reach 15 promethium that retire. They will then be immortalized here on the blog as part of the "Future Cleveland Hall of Fame" The following House Rules are in effect for the Future Cleveland League. Campaign Scoring: The League is running an extended format.  The league will end when a participate has earned 15 team points.  Team points are earned when a team reaches 15 promethium and is then retired.  The player will then create a new team of their choice to continue the campaign. Players are not required to keep the same faction throughout the campaign.

We had our inaugural game day on Future Cleveland this past Saturday.  There is still more work to be done on the board, but it can only grow more impressive.  We also started up our own Future Cleveland Shadow War: Armageddon league. We managed to get in three multiplayer games and had a blast!  The current league standings are below.  Ironically, Kevin, who only played one game is in the lead! Name                           Faction                                  Promethium *Kevin                         Skitarii                                         4 Ryan                          ...

:: Imperial Signals & Communications/Command & Control/Hive Helsreach :: Anomalous Signal/Recieved—REDACTED/ :: Decryption Progress - Decrypted - possible translation errors :: Analyst Astra Militarum/SGT KLEN:: Transmission Forward - Commissar Englert :: Analyst notes - Sir,  as per your request I have begun forwarding the translation to the encrypted address :: You supplied.  I hope whomever is reading these will be able to give us some help. :: BEGIN TRANSLATION:: :/ Data Stream from Egyptian Skynet :/ Analyzing data :/ Phase Shifting Egyptian Skynet to target location :/ Unit Red Death detected :/ ERROR unknown life form signature :/ New designation - life form designated RED BUDDY :/ Data interception :/ Analyzing data :/ Target group designated “Behemoth Buddies” :/ Warning stealth mode failure :/ Egyptian Skynet engaging hostiles :/ Error unit malfuctions in the grid of RED BUDDY :/ Warning! Gauss Fire ineffective against RED BUDDY :...

With the release of Shadow War: Armageddon, I’ve found myself diving head first into the Warhammer 40k universe.  Combined with the soon to be released 8th edition of 40k and a frustration with flat boards for SW:A at our local store I decided to attempt my first custom game board. It was decided the boards would be dubbed “Future Cleveland” after watching some humorous joke tourism videos about Cleveland.  Here's a link to the name's inspiration.   Post apocalyptic industrial areas tend to have things in common after all.  In regards to construction, the boards were made with pink insulation foam glued down to 2x4ft mdf boards.  I made sure to include several level changes to help break up lines of sight. I’ve been generally pleased with how the boards have come out, but the perfectionist in me sees room for vast improvement.   I’ll post future updates with the progress of the board. Step 1: Foam forms glued down Step 2: Sp...

 The Current Roster of Egyptian Skynet Top: White Death, Mr. Blue, Red Death, Mr. Blonde Bottom: Mr. Gray, Mr, Red, Mr. Pink, Mr. White :: Imperial Signals & Communications/Command & Control/Hive Helsreach :: Anomalous Signal/Recieved—REDACTED/::Decryption Progress - Decrypted - possible  :: Translation errors :: Analyst Astra Militarum/SGT KLEN:: Transmission Forward - Commissar Englert :: Analyst notes - Sir, I’ve believe we have cause for concern.  If we’re translating these  :: Messages  even Remotely right, we have a serious problem.  Imperial Guardsmen, Space :: Marines and  Adaptus Arbites are Constantly in battle with various xeno combatants in  :: The underhive. :: BEGIN TRANSLATION:: :/ Data Stream from Egyptian Skynet :/ Analyzing data :/ Phase Shifting reinforcements to Egyptian Skynet :/ Data update - Mr. Blue, Mr. Pink and Mr. Blonde added :/ Analyzing combat data :/ Gray Jerks assigned as priori...

:: Imperial Signals & Communications/Command & Control/Hive Helsreach :: Anomalous Signal/Recieved—REDACTED/::Decryption Progress - Decrypted - possible translation errors :: Analyst Astra Militarum/SGT KLEN:: Transmission Forward - Commissar Englert :: Analyst notes - Sir, more transmissions from the underhive. We’ve also picked up some signals of what :: We believe are Tau signals.   :: BEGIN TRANSLATION:: :/ Warning. Enemy facility detected. :/ Biological race 012445@$% detected. :/ Primary objective located in facility :/ Rerouting Egyptian Skynet :/ Units engaged. Resistance lower than calculated. :/ Enemy reinforcements approaching :/ New targeting programs engaged. :/ Enemy casualties detected. :/ Enemy units have disengaged. :/ Retrieving Resources. :: END TRANSLATION:: :: Imperial Signals & Communications/Command & Control/Hive Helsreach :: PVT. Schmuckatelly/Transmission Forwarded - Sgt. Klen :: Sarge, I’ve got an intercept from...

:: Imperial Signals & Communications/Command & Control/Hive Helsreach :: Anomalous Signal/Recieved—REDACTED/::Decryption Progress - Decrypted - possible :: translation errors :: Analyst Astra Militarum/SGT KLEN:: Transmission Forward - Commissar Englert :: Analyst notes - Sir, we’ve intercepted further transmissions from the underhive.   :: Pvt. Shmuckatelly and I will continue further analysis and forward what we have to you. :: BEGIN TRANSLATION:: :/ Mr. Red has engaged targets :/ Analyzing combat data :/ *$^* Hostile designation - Ballerina Elves. :/ Hostiles have prevented Egyptian Skynet from retrieving primary target :/ Adjusting mission parameters :/ White Death uploading geographic data :/ Analyzing geographic data :/ Adjusting mission parameters :/ Target primary base of operations of Ballerina Elves :/ Egyptian Skynet transported to target location :/ Mr. Red, Mr. White and Mr. Gray reported target engaged :/ White Death ethereal intercepti...

With the release of Shadow War Armageddon, Games Workshops throw back to Necromunda, a whole lot of excitement has perked up at Drawbridge Games.  The store campaign starts at the end of the month and a number of us are getting practice games in to learn the rules before hand. I also tried my hand at making some hive style structures to give to the store. Finally having an excuse to grab some cool looking Necron’s, I grabbed an Immortal box and got them all finished up in a single night last week. I’ve also pulled a number of old games workshop models out of moth balls and intend to get an Ork kill team painted up as well.  But for the first store league I’ll be going with the Necrons. The future format of the posts will have a short fiction write up as well as some shots from the games to give a fun narrative to the campaign. Intro Narrative: Imperial Signals&Communications/Command&Control/Hive Helsreach ::Anomalous Signal/Recieved—REDACTED/::Decr...