Demo's necromunda blog!

[Astraeos]

LOL!!!! I'd have been happy with just the moustache but you've gone above and beyond the call of duty good sir!

[Fawful]

Add some dark blues to the water, that should make it look it bit deeper. Also, that's quite the improvement on Wilders's face . The terrain is coming along nicely.

[Demoulius]

Been a while since ive updated due to lack of time. My new job and my commute mean im abit lacking in time. When I get home im not always in the mood to paint and tinker with the terrain pieces either but heres an update on my progress since last time!

Ive got a new terrain piece (which il show later ) and all terrain pieces have some paint added to them I dident add any blue as I wasent trying to get a water effect going, its a pool of acid hence why its green

I have painted the ground level part and I need to find some way to raise the ground as it were. Currently the toxic waste and groundlevel are on the same height on the base and it looks iffy.... I thought about trying to add a small layer of textured paint to it so that it looks a beach (since I suck at explaining it without using that example) Will have to see what I can make of it...

Ive added a thin layer of gloss varnish to it and imho it completes the effect nicely! When you look at it it somewhat reflects light and water also does that (anyone who spend a sunny day at the beach can confirm that you frequently need sunglasses not to get blinded!)

The pipes are mostly done. I cant finish them sadly as im lacking dead grass to add to my bases! When I went to the GW for the last time I bought some grass but since it was the release of the new 40K rules book he dident hear me say DEAD and just gave me normal grass, which I discovered when I got home... My weekends up until now have also been rather busy but tomorrow ive got a gap in my schedule to go trade the item in for some dead grass batches I also intend to add a dead skeleton to the "beach" of the waste pool

Work on the tower has grinded down to a halt sadly. The other terrain pieces are hogging all the time that ive got available and im still trying to figure out how im going to finish the details that I havent worked out yet Do got some other towers planned however which will be more straightforward in their design and require less details to complete! Ive also *ahum* aquired some more mr.Pringles cans! My family was happy to help me with that!

Like I said up above, ive also added another terrain piece to the batch. It was one of the planned pieces and it came out looking gorgious like the others did! Its really simple really... You take 3 kitchen paper containers (dont know if its called like that in other countries but ok) and glue them to a base, 2 in the buttom and 1 up top. TADDA!!! Youve got 3 empty sewage pipes stacked up, ready to be installed in the ground. Before the underhive caught up with them!!!!

Il post pictures tomorrow, watch this space!

Oh! And after having several games getting called off or people not responding to challenges ive finally been able to arrange a game! This sunday im facing off against Dennis! The concensus among the group is that everyone needs a few more terretories to spice up our income and since I want to introduce my new terrain with a BANG the winner will get a new shiney holestead

[Deffgob]

welcome to the "i dont have any hobby time!" club!

im eagerly awaiting the pictures!

[Demoulius]

Why thank you! Looking forward to enjoying the benefits!

What do you mean there are no befenfits?

[Astraeos]

Y'do know acid is usually clear rather than green? Yeah, science strikes again!
Still, 41st Millennium and all I don't think too many people would be too fussed. Except scientists.

[Demoulius]

Shush you! No bringing RL logic ionto my games off the 40th millenium!

[Demoulius]

MUWHAHAHA SHAMELESS DOUBLE POST!!!

We finaly played over that holestead today and I FINALY got a chance to use my new terrain! HUZAH!

We left the tower out because its to far from finished and without its base any breeze would topple it over, alongside with any models sitting on top did get a chance to use all the other terrain pieces though

Dennis' gang is a pretty awe inspiring sight. Together with my gang the biggest ones in the campaign and with 12 models strong its a pain to counter him on all fronts... We delpoyed the terrain in a mutally agreed fashion. Big solid building, pipes, big ruin and medium ruin in the middle. Rest of the terrain was spread out. Fred (BS4 heavy stubber heavy) decided to sit this one out (if he smells like booze afterward im going to kill him!) so this left me at a somewhat disadvantage. I was missing my heavy stubber. It wasent the first one though so id just have to make the best of it!

I won the dice roll to deploy first. I placed ALex with his grenadelauncher on my right flank. The ruin he was in disintigrated from the first floor up but we decided to still use it, as otherwise our table would have a rather blank space.... He was sitting on the ground level with Jose nearby to aid him should Dennis decide to flank them or use his tunnels near them! In my middle DZ I put Duncan, Dave, Grunt, Shorty, JJ and Leo. On my left I placed Jennie, Max, Bill and Meatgrinder. They would (hopefully) be holding my left flank

Dennis placed both his heavies on opposite ends of his DZ on elevated pieces of terrain. The rest of his gang he devided in 2 groups, one on my left (seemed to be responding to my left group) and one in the middle, safely behind the big solid building. We rolled for first turn, I got a 1 and Dennis rolled a 6

My deployment:


Dennis' deployment:


Dennis first turn was short. His 2 teams moved forward, his heavy stubbers opend fire. The one on my left fired at my heavy with grenade launcher and missed. The one on my right fired at Bill, took one of his 3 wounds off and failed his ammo roll! YEA!!!! Thats easily worth losing 1 wound

Likewise my first turn was rather short. Things moved forward. I fired my grenade launcher at the heavy who fired at him, missed and scattered 10 inches (....) Duncan moved up the ladder and fired at the same heavy but found he was 3 or 4 inches short on range!


Dennis' second turn his heavy, now without ammo climbed down. The groups continued their advance. The one in the centre devided into two smaller groups. Well two groups and an individual... His BS5 bolter guy entered the big central building. Two went to my left flank and two stayed behind the central building.


My second turn I moved my left flankers over to the big ruin Dennis troops were in. I was taking a huge gamble as they were in the open ready to be fired at but I had no cover so had chosen to take a run for it. What little shooting I had I took. Dave fired his plasmagun and fired on one of the new targets from the (previously) central group and put him down. Duncan sniped at Dennis' leader and hit him square in the chest but only managed a chest wound.... My grenade launcher toting heavy liked the new clustered arrivals and opened fire but missed. Leo and JJ together moved to aid the left flank whilst Shorty and Max stayed near Dave. Jose stayed near Alex in case he would be pinned and had to get aid getting up.

Dennis' third turn. He puts a flesh wound on Dave (got me sweating there when he wounded him!) put a wound in Alex and moved up to molest my left flank as well! He had 3 seperate shots all needing a 2 to hit! He rolled his dice and got 3 seperate rolls of a 1 (Thank the Emperor! ) His left heavy (the one with ammo in his stubber) fired at Leo whom I had accidentily placed in a bad spot. He was right in the open (from his heavies point of vieuw) and rolled his dice for shots. He got 4 shots. He needed 4's to hit. And then he got this:


I swear an (gaming)angel must have sitting on my shoulder throughout this turn! The only damage he did was with his BS5 gunner who finaly reached the top of the building and put a bolt shell in Duncan. The shell itself only pinned him though but the resulting fall took a wound off!

My third turn. My left flank moved up, and put 2 of his gangers out of action, pinned the third. My grenade launcher landed square ontop of its target and wounded its bearer but it was downgraded to a flesh wound. Bill fired off at a target and put him out of action. On my right flank my troops were slowly getting back on my feet. Jose ran out of cover to aid them and SHorty likewise surged forward in the hopes of doing something worthwhile (pistol range is abit restricting....)

Dennis' fourth turn. His left flank was in complete tatters! He considered bottling out but his pride prevented this. He moved his right flank up and wanted to do as much damage as possible, perhaps getting lucky and seeing me bottle (I have a far lower LD in my gang troughtout so I can somewhat understand...) He managed to put a wound on Shorty, and I think that was it. His Heavy on the left was out of ammo ontop of a building with no way down (except dropping down...) and his heavy on the right was also without his heavy stubber. He lend his autogun to the fight but to no avail, all he got was that 1 wound. His BS5 dude fired at Jose and only pinned.

My fourth turn. I finished off the 2 fighters on my left flank, put a (flesh)wound on his left heavy and tried to aid my guys on the right. I had the majoirty on the left though so I couldnt do much.

His fifth turn. He bottled out by dice roll but otherwise would have done so voluntarily. Or so he claimed.

I won the game on the third turn when the dice turned themselves on Dennis. I know how terrible that feeling is when the dice abandon you like that! That said, im not complaining! It got me out of a pickle that im not to sure I would have survived otherwise!

So ive gained a Holestead!!!!

Also got some very nice advancements!
-Dave dident get one
-Fred was busy getting piss assed drunk
-Alex got +1BS! woot!
-Duncan got hip shooting! Hip shooting sniper? Hell ya!
-Jose was busy snoozing off so got no advancement
-Leo got +1I from beeing shot in the back!
-Meatgrinder got +1WS for shooting people in the face! Or rather I rolled an +1T advancement and since ive already maxed wounds and toughness on him I could pick!
-Bill was kicking ass and taking names. His stupidity dident cropp up once (his I of 5 dident help him get out of pinning either) but did manage to take someone out of action with 1 shot! Good man!
-Shorty was absorbing fire with his face. No advancement
-Jibberjabber got +1LD. More on this later.
-Max got fast shot. Fast shot with 2 attacks and gunfighter? HELLS YEA!!!! wooooot!!!! 2 shots from each pistol totalling 4 shots if im not mistaken? Think ive read in someone elses log that these stack? If so this guy got ALOT more scary!
-Grunt got +1I. Not bad I guess....

So....Lets examine one particular advancement here. JJ got LD9. Dave is LD8... WE GOT OURSELVES A LEADERHSUIP SHOWDOWN!!!!! HEEHAW!

*coughs* sorry, got some western stuck in my throat... To much red dead redemption....

So we roll to see what chellenge it is and it turns out to be a close combat. Since the desciption reads "you are equipped with knives" we always play it out as double knives. Dennis rolls for JJ I roll for Dave. I got a 6 and Dennis has a 5. I tell him to reroll his 5 and he gets a 3. Total difference between WS, dice rolls and my fumble mean a difference of 4 so I hit him 4 times and wound him 3 times. I then put him to the ground.

Leadership challenge, DENIED!

JJ is also LD9 so he wont be challenging for LD anymore my single injury that ive got was a full recovery

One of the best things (well for me) is yet to come though. Dennis had about 6-7 injuries that he had to roll. He got a chest wound, full recovery, bitter emnity towards my gang and 3 captured results! I capture his leader, a ganger and his juve (first battle)

Woah... Amazing advancements, amazing credits and loot (bought mesh armour for Duncan and stummers), gained a juve from my terretories AND gained 3 prisoners!

Big gang size and only 2 gangers not out action mean Dennis only rakes in 30 credits. I want alot more for his gangers so I know he wont be able to pay that. He also dident think for a second about it as he rolled for rare items and bought flak armor for Dennis (should he ever be freed) so eh...

Next week, rescue mission it is! Were just going have to find out if were battling for all 3 at the same time or spread them out...

[Astraeos]

Needing fours and rolling threes, damn that must've been irritating! I think that thing about shots stacking with gunfighter and fast shot might be true, if so it might be time to consider some nasty pistols for the guy!

[Demoulius]

Yea you should have seen his face at that point. If ever there was an expression that said "I have abandoned all hope" I think I saw it right there...

I took a look at the faq on yakromunda and found this:

Q: I understand that the Shooting Skill Fastshot cannot stack with the Shooting Skill Rapid Fire, but that Shooting Skill Fastshot CAN stack with the Shooting Skill Gunfighter, how is this resolved? [2005]
A: This situation would yield one shot per pistol per Attack Characteristic. Remember that to use the Shooting Skill Gunfighter you must only be armed with pistols and CCWs. An example is a fighter armed with a Bolt Pistol and Auto Pistol, Shooting Skills Gunfighter and Fast Shot, and an Attack Characteristic of 3 would get three shots with the Bolt Pistol and three shots with the Auto Pistol. Each shot is worked out one at a time.

Andy Hall is mentioned in the sources of the anwsers. Dont got my book with me (at work) so I cant check but I think he was one of the authors?

[Demoulius]

Double post again!

Ive decided to name my free juve Jennifer "inferno" Hellis and gave here a handflamer ive also bought another new juve and named him Herman Dietrich. Il be giving him the monocle head, a cane from the officer kit and a simple pistol of some sort (autopistol for now) I intend to give Jennifer a sword at some later point so she can stab and slash the things her (hand)flamer hasent finished yet

No models yet though. My glue is rotten (dont knowh ow else to say it) and every part that ive fixed over the last month has come crashing down yesterday. Im never getting GW glue again, not even if they give it to me for free... And the replacement glue that I bought doesent glue GW plastics.... D'OH!

[Astraeos]

Andy Hall was the head of fanatic for a while I think. But he has worked for GW so I'd take what he says.
Is that the GW plastic glue you're having problems with? I'm surprised, I don't usually have trouble with that one.

[Demoulius]

Head of fanatic and GW employee? Works for me!

It is indeed the GW plastic glue that im having troubles with. Ever since they introduced the new glue pots ive been getting wonky quality GW plastics. A while back I started noticing my buildigns coming apart at the seams, the glue leaving behind a sort of "film" where it was applied and the bond beeing brittle more then anything. I went to the GW, told them my problem and got told alot of people had simular problems. They gave me a new pot and I went back to replair the damaged buildings and models. The first uhm.....25% or so seems to be genuinge GW glue and it works like a charm. What comes after that is the same garbage that caused problems to me before...

Its almost like theyre diluting the glue pots with syrupe or something

That said GW metal glue NEVER Worked for me. Even with a flat surface you were lucky if the bond held together for a given time and it seemed to come apart when you so much as looked at it wrongly

Il share our gangrosters with you guys so you have a better look at how our campaign is progressing

My gang roster: http://www.yakromunda.com/gang/3719/...7-skullbashers gang rating 2943. Currently way ahead of everyone else in terms of rating. Half of my gangrating is XP though where is the biggest difference between our gangs lie!

Dennis: http://www.yakromunda.com/gang/4805/The+smashers Gangrating 1578. Before the last game our gangratings were only 600 apart. After the horrible bad luck Dennis had last game though the difference has grown ever so slightly. Until he rescues his gangers the difference has grown to 1365...

Niels: http://www.yakromunda.com/gang/4384/Mortem Gangrating 1714. (First a small note, Niels hasent updated his profile after our last game, thus what im saying is general info at best) Niels has had some terrible bad luck with his gangmembers, losing his gang leader not once, not twice but four times in total! He keeps replacing losses and whilst his income per turn is high it can only go so far as to keep his gang at 9 man strong. He also keeps buying pricey rare items and what he doesent invite his inventors pull out of their back sides... One of the more well armed gangs in our campaign. Still a difference of 1229 between our 2 gangs.

And last, but certainly not least, Fawful's gang: http://www.yakromunda.com/gang/3853/Divine+Retribution Sitting at a gangrating of 1524. Biggest problem Fawful has are his (to be honest) horrible starting areas. He has one D6x10 terretory and the rest are 10 or 15 credits. He also plays the least amount of games so he has the least amount of XP in our campaign (both game and gang wise) His gang could benefit from some fresh juves but I can understand why he is reluctant with the poor income that he is getting... That said more models allow more strategic play and the shielding of the more valuable members of his gang! Also juves quikly become gangers when your getting around 8 (or more) xp from the underdog bonus. Im thinking 2 games tops to raise them to ganger status. In the meantime they get better stats and/or skills that will better define their roles within the gang You also need gangers to work your terretories, a fact some of the lads seem to forget With his 90+ credits he could buy 3 juves for 75 and stash the rest. First gmae theyre not going to do much anyway... Then after 2 games he has some new gangers that he can find a role for! Thats3x46= 138 gangrating without any weapons added no less!

Il just be playing with the Skullbashers when someone REALLY wants to play against them (like Dennis trying to get his captives back) otherwise il be moving on to a second gang. Mind, im not retiring them. Theyre just laying low in their 10 terretories for the time beeing

[Astraeos]

Yeah, GW superglue isn't always at it's best. To be honest, it seems to work good on stuff that ISN'T GW! My Bushido, Malifaux and Infinity models are glued with it and there doesn't seem to be any trouble there. I think it may have something to do with the metal GW use, I guess the other companies must have their own blends/formulae for it.

[Demoulius]

Quite frankly I dont care... Theyre selling metal glue and it doesent work on their own metal models!

Been "working" abit on the battlereport feature today. (gives a small indication how much ive got to do in vacation time ) and ive added the last battle to Yakromunda. Dident have my sheat with me so missed a few wounds here and there but it was basicly a trial anyway Think il have my laptop handy for every battle from now on. Its so handy as you can instantly add who gets a hit and who does what etc it only takes a few seconds anyway

Heres the link: http://www.yakromunda.com/index.php?...campaignid=499

-NINJA EDIT!!!-

To save any further double post il just edit this one

Update on my terrain!

The airborne pipe is finished!


The sewage pipe need some basing added, other then that finished!


The terrain piece that iven ow dubbed "the work station" needs basing and some details on the computer and such. Other then that finished!


The hut tub, needs some minor details like acid scorch marks, basing and warning signs. Mostly complete though


El Diablo is mostly finished. Base needs work and I want to add some minor details (like a little graffiti demon) to it that will add the finishing touches

Stumbling through my pictures I came across the picture of the gas pipes and to my horror I realised that I had COMPLETLY forgetten about them! Theyre like my favorite terrain piece and I dont renember to use them when the chance arrises I must make amends this sunday!

And finaly a new addition to the family. Theres a special story behind this one that il be able to tell one day. For now the wound is still to deep and the only needed word that il decribe it with is RETRIBUTION!!!

[Astraeos]

I do wonder what GW is thinking these days. My new modelling knife seems good at first, but when I tried to cut with it the blade just pushes back unless I rest whatever I'm trying to cut on a mat first. I might not have it tightened enough (and I thought I had it tight to begin with) though.
Your link just took me to the Yakromunda front page.

[Catferret]

The links worked for me. Have you signed in to Yakromunda?

The GW knife is an accident waiting to happen. I honestly don't know how it passed safety checks with the blade always slipping like that. Get yourself an Excel Knife. Good solid knives those. Plenty styles of blade too. While you're at it, get an Excel heavy duty handle and razor saw attachment. About half the cost of a GW razor saw and you can get replacement blades instead of having to chuck away the whole thing when teeth break.

[Demoulius]

Why are you guys turning my log into a "GW hobby materials suck" rant?

To build on it though...GW knife is indeed hazardous. My previous knife broke off and launched itself through the air landing in a corner of the room. I thanked god that I wasent hanging over my model for a better point of vieuw or id have lost an eye...

The things keep slipping loose and/or keep going into the tool... Far from perfect as you guys say. Theyre not cheap either..

/rant over.

No comment on my terrain pieces?

[Astraeos]

Didn't mean to derail your thread! Guess I'm back to using my old craft knife.
Good work on the scenery!

[Demoulius]

Oh, well at least you dont think its poop

Perhaps il get a more livier response when the grass/mold has been added eh?

Seems the jailbreak planend for this weekend has been called off until further notice. Kinda getting used to that...

Were looking to see if we cant get a garage unit for rent. We intend to all chip in so we have a place away from home where we can all play. We can also use part of it as storage and intend to just keep the terrain there That way we have more space at home for uh... Other stuff and the girlfriends/parents wont complain as much

And it will give some an excuse to leave the house that I feel some need an escape hatch when stepdads show up and such