Malk's Wargaming / RPG blog

This last Thursday, I helped kick off our Warmachine/Hordes narrative campaign out at Drawbridge Games.  Since attendance had been dropping on Warmachine night, my friend Andrew thought it would be a great idea to get a summer narrative campaign going. After tossing around some ideas, the story of the United Kriels relocating to the continent of Alchiere was chosen. We kicked the campaign off with an Iron Kingdoms RPG mission which set the scene. We had a pretty good turn out as we had double the players of what we’d had in recent weeks.  A narrative campaign was also an excuse to get the Trollblood models I’ve had sitting around done.  I’m slowly building up a Calandra list featuring two units of Champions and a number of warbeasts. Why Calandra?  Dice fixing.  My dice kill me more than not and a warlock which gives me a whole bunch of re-rolls sounds delicious. On to a painting update! Need a rush? Grab an Axer. The ubiquitous Bouncer. A ...

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...