Farewell Wellywood and Welcome on the Big Birthday Bonanza

 

So I was one the Campaign Arbitrators on the Last local campaign. This wrapped up last week. It was great fun but also a lot to manage with Weekly oversight needed from me and Selby. Its like being a player and a DM in DND. Good thing there are two of us able to keep each other in check and Daimon as a tiebreaker who chips in occasionally.

Please feel free to download the Campaign Document here.

The final scenario was a 6 player multi with everyone who had bought a ticket to the game. In short Sean slowly walked around a 4x4 board with his 4" movement Goliaths and eventually after 5 hours was the last one standing as the final attacker blew themselves up with an overcharged plasma pistol. 

Pink Stars = Loot Boxes, Green Bars = Locked Doors
Orange Stars = Sentry Servitors

The scenario can be found here and I have posted a map of the layout above. You can see Wellywoods short overview below with highlights such as seeing me standing about or watching me drop a template on someone elses models (I hate myself for things like this, at least they were not painted so not too guilty).

Daimon who runs Wellywood is leaving the country so that was the last campaign I will be apart of on the channel (unless he comes back to Wellington...) before he left he did an Interview with me and Selby, of which I hate because he didn't tell me my hair was a mess for the entire video...

I may do a skirmish video with him for one last piece of content before he leaves but I am not sure.

Onto the next big thing I am doing a special game of Necromunda for my Birthday. I have roped in some friends and will be doing a 4 player multi. We will be doing Border Dispute but in an effort to reduce set up/packdown, how much I am transporting etc I will be using my Tenfold Dungeon to create a zone mortalis style complex. I will also transport the minis in the Tenfold Boxes. The layout for the game has been settled on, with a nice long map and with gangs starting next to each other but due to the doors will find it easier to attack the player on the opposite side of the board.

I do love making maps.

Here are the Gang Relics, Aim of the Game to keep your relic safe and defile all the opposing gangs relics.

Protect the Precious

3 of the Gangs are ready to go and Necromunda is great for bringing in that RPG part with the narrative aspects so I have given each of the painted gangs a short backstory. Lets hope I can paint the 8 models needed for the last gang in a week, until then they will hide away in secret.

Janus Draik now a rebel lord on the run from the law for his political heresy. Down in the underhive he carves a out a new place to rule aided by his seer, ex house staff and some hired guns. Dragging around his most prized possession: a statue of a Howling Griffons space marine.

'Hyli ⭐' - A gang of skilled tech savvy members of house Van Saar. They honour a hero of ancient terra past. Fitted with tech from the lost ages or experimental new research some few even willing to upgrade themselves. Lead by Glasear who aims to one day eat a fruit from his precious tree, a pleasure few in the hive would ever hope to experience.

The Death Lotus clan is lead by the charismatic Jhor'dan. Able to call upon the gods for inhuman strength and aided by dark powers from Auriok the psyker he and his followers shall take the area. Having planted their flag to stake their claim.

Getting back into Munda

Munda Boards are the Best Boards

 

Well I am getting back into Munda and the thing to do is have a game. I convinced a mate who has always been impressed by the boards but isn't interested in the hobby side or have the time for a full campaign to give it a shot.

Bottomless drops, overlapping walkways

Seeing me as he was mostly interested in the 3D boards I tried to make the most interactive and layered board I could.

Could it get more of a Underhive feel?

And this is the result, 5 layers of Metro Morph stacked on top of the Death Watch Hive Boards. 

He was 1mm outside of flamer template

It took me about 3 hours to set up, and thanks to the layout there are lots of places to climb and jump. As well as the exciting risk of falling off the map as the Death Watch tiles have their own walkways and fall spaces.

Can't control the light and game

The game itself was great, I made a Venators gang and a Chaos Cult and even painted up some new Minis just for this. I even painted up the new dice tray another mate gave to me for Christmas.

Blue'z fa' lucky gitz ya 'ear me an dis 'er dice tray gonna make deese da luckiest dice eva

 I wanted some starting gangs and decided whoever won I would play in the next campaign.

He got Swag

My mate choose the Venators, mainly cause of how stylish Draik was looking. I was quite happy to play with Jhor'dan the new Chaos Leader I had put together.

We did the Border Dispute scenario as its my favorite, aim of the game destroy the enemy relic.

Howling Griffons Statue and a Cool Flag

He won with some smooth moves finding good firing lines in amongst the mess of walkways.

Maybe I could have blocked out more firing lines..

Highlights were when he played a tactics card which let him drop a sump monster tentacle next to my leader then walk off the edge of a the building onto the tile and thanks to the Grav Chute get out unharmed. And when one of my gangers tripped and broke his neck on the same jump 4 or 5 others had made before him.

Winners of the Practice Match
Front - Perseus, Kais, Dale, Darius
Back - Relic, Numeriel, Draik

Losers

Then it took another hour to pack down.  Only after my son had a good half a day playing with it, can't keep the cool toy cities to myself you know. 

Necron Attack

As much as I love this terrain I am not sure the set up and pack down time can always be justified. I had been thinking about this for awhile as I had already found it a strain for 40k set up sometimes and that is mainly making boxes. I started looking into other cheap easy to store terrain options at the start of the year. 

First attempt at a layout

This is when I came across tenfold dungeon, basically is a big box with boxes in it but they are all nice pretty boxes and with some door clippers and wall dividers you can make have a necromunda 2D board or you can flip them all upside down and they are predone 40k terrain boxes.

Enforcers Complex

I did end up using the barricades that come with it for the Big Necromunda battle above and they matched in nicely.

Looks Good

Going forward into the upcoming campaign which wont use the classic Munda Territories instead our arbitrators have cooked up a monster hunt campaign (Sounds pretty good for a Gang called Kurnous's Lance)

The Starting Roster

As you need to have your special weapon ganger in the starting roster and cannot add them in later I needed to rejig the list. The arbitrators approved house rules saying my Venators can dip into the House of Books special stuff as well. So in comes Sir Jonas and The "Accountant" who gets to be a Psyker (as a Navigator should) thanks to House of Shadow. I also gave them the Fixer skill (I guess they are fixing the books) to make sure I have the creds to recruit the rest of the crew. First 110 Creds I earn are pre-spent on hiring Kais again.

"The Accountant"

Paiiiiinting

I don't know why I painted skeletons but I really wanted to paint these skeletons.

I got them trading some bitz down at the club and both were missing arms, I decided however only the shield one needed another arm and got a shoddy knockoff skeleton arm from another bitz trade at the club.

For Painting them I decided to try using a single contrast paint as an all round depth highlight shade over a coloured model, I then went about blocking out a few simple colours till the whole model was painted before giving them a very thick wash of skeleton horde contrast. Surprisingly I feel it works and has made an easy table top look that's nice on the eyes and the whole model being covered in the same contrast gives all the colours a similar blend and gives the model a cohesive feel.

Next up we have the 3 next gangers for the Death Lotus Cult, a witch and his two boys. These were being painted in a logical boring process and I was finding it a bit of a drag. Then I accidentally bought Long Beard grey (well the purchase was intentional, not noticing it was a dry paint was accidental). And for the first time ever just gave my models a good thwacking.

Next up was some fun with Hexwraith flame. First I painted the model in light pastel colours to make sure that it would have some mixture of colours but nothing would be too bold and jarr with the ghostly look.  Once the colours were blocked out it was a heavy dousing in Hexwraith and to finish it off an extra good thwacking with Longbeard.  The other girl was a contrast cover up again, much like the skeletons, this time blocking out the model in dark colours, mixing a small amount of black or dark brown into every paint applied. Finally one thick coat of Shyish Purple.

The fun did not stop, while everyone else is playing around with Non-Metallic Metals I decided to try Metallic Non-Metals. 

And so we have the Doctor, Doctor Who you ask? Well the third doctor to particular.

Did I stop painting you ask? Well no, at this point I was banging them out and on an amazing losing streak in Lol so less of that and more painting.

And so I moved onto my Hive Scum, I get these two fellows free thanks to my Blood Pit. Derek and Rob have been accused of being Trump fans due to their choice of skin tan. Ohh and you know they got a good thwacking!

And last but not least we have the Biggest of Boys the Chaos Ogryn. My son requested I paint him like the box art. So that has been done to the best of my ability by purely looking at whats on the back of the box + some thwack thwack. 

Do you have a Flag?

 

Do you have a Flag? What you mean that burning pile of scrap used to be a flag well in that case it looks like you don't have one and this territory is ours.

When considering Necromunda objectives I wanted something that my opponents could thematically set fire too and so my 'Relic' for my Chaos gang is a flag. And nothing shows your own it more than a flag, I mean ask Eddie Izzard, it was how Britain ruled the world.

This was amongst the very few things I actually painted however it was not alone meet Immeral Thamynn my latest DND character. 

Hes a warlock of the deep and how can you be bound to a primordial god of deep sea beasts without a tentacle, I got this printed originally as my beast lair marker for Necromunda but when making a new character this was too good to miss out on.

There are a few other pieces thats have been progressed but my big nids lost alot of steam when I found my pot of white paint that I cover them in before the wash had dried and I couldn't paint them if I wanted to. I now have some white paint but its not the same one as GW discontinued the one I was using, hopefully it doesnt change the end colours to much. More on this to come.

On a side note as of Monday Aotearoa New Zealand is officially COVID-19 free, with no active or new cases. Yes, We did that. Life can finally take a turn towards 'normality'. To celebrate here is a DND Character I painted for a friend taken at our first session in level 1.

Down the Rabbit Hole - Necromunda Campaign

Tested Necromunda on Blackstone Tiles.

As Vorne gathered the fighting force of the cult outside the access way for they were going to take the Smelting works tonight. They would have to come down in 4 separate groups in the shitty old access elevator. Vorne led the first group down with herself, Ribalt and Reek bearing their Flag.

As Vorne got down to the generators floor she planted the flag before sending Ribalt out in front to scout the area. Not long after her beautiful child led down the next group. Razzle and Sable would be soon to follow with the next two groups. Before they could arrive however gunshots echoed out down the corridor.

Quickly she had everyone fan out down the tunnels, sprinting out in front as she rounded the corner she was met head on. As she parried the first blade with her chainsword before being lost in a swirl of madness as their offhand blade came slicing through. This left her facing yet another assailant with two blades dancing before her. Another parry and visions of horrors untold as she stepped back bracing herself for another round. Fwoooosh. Riegar had managed to catch them both in flamer as she stepped bringing the girl to her knees. The Pit King had small chuckle as he shrugged off the flames before eating a face full of bullets from the rest of her crew rounding the corner. Two swift sweeps of Death's blade and she moved on to find new prey.

All Set Up

Over on the other side of the tunnels Shysaleeeshka was truely a Demon as she ripped through the bounty hunters one by one. Attracted by the blood an access pipe was ripped open as a massive tentacle started hunting for food. Ribalt managed to just make an escape, the others on both sides were not so lucky.

As the bounty hunters called the retreat Vorne smiled, finally the cult had caught a good break. Disheartened however for it seems the day had come at cost as Sibles body was dragged down the access pipe. One unfortunate piece of scum had been left behind and alive. Dragging him back to the flag she drew a ritual circle. As an offering for helping her child grow she gave the scums life and soul over to the changer of ways, he who would lead them to a new world. As an exchange of gifts she was given knowledge, darker more quicker access to the profane arcane skills.

Post Victory Shot

On a side note some of the players have given me some photos of their gang leaders to show some of the opposition I am up against. Below is the Leader of the Tallow Town Compact, the Venator gang I faced in the above scenario.

And here is Kotton Mouth, the Kotton Mouth kids being the only gang with a backstory more messed up than mine.

More on the Kotton Mouth Kids and their owners past gangs can be found below, the Klown Goliaths hes selling are certainly worth a look at, top notch paint job on those joker faces:
https://www.instagram.com/necromundane/

As well as my arch rival in the campaign so far, the Cawdor gang Dustmen and their leader the "Nameless One"

For more of the Dustmen and Bunders other works can be found here:
https://www.instagram.com/bunder.log/

Last but not least here is Ilych Kuznetsov Leader of the Belorusskata Trade Outpost and the rest of his gang.

sebby_brush is the instagram account of the other frequent player but he doesn't have any photos of his gang yet. If you see some genestealer cultists go up then that will likely be his gang or part of it.