Why Unit Base Your Army?
A simple 25mm square bases simply doesn't have that much room, especially
once you attach a figure, and once of the downsides of individual basing is that
the little details can get lost within the mass of the unit. The best part of
basing models as a unit, rather than individually, is that you can go above and
beyond just adding texture and vegetation- you can making highly themed bases or
creating dioramas within your army.
For systems which require you to remove individual models as casualties unit
basing can very problematic during games, which is you will quite often see
mini-dioramas aka Unit Fillers in many old Warhammer Fantasy or 9th Age
armies.
Kings of War is quite different as a massed battle system,
in that the rules and game mechanics are specifically designed to favor basing
entire units on a single large unit base. This is because you don't have to
remove casualties and each unit has a specific footprint and height within the
rules. This makes it the perfect system to really go to town with extra details
and mini-dioramas for your unit bases.
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One of our favourite things about Guild
Ball is the variety of different play styles and paths to victory
available. You can win by outscoring your opponent or take a more aggressive
approach by taking their players out of action.
With nine (soon to be ten when the Farmers release) different Guilds
currently in the game we thought we'd enlist the help of a local veteran in
putting together a guide to the strengths and weaknesses of each guild.
So we'd like to welcome in local pundit JS for some guest
analysis. You can also follow him on his blog Guildballnz for more coverage of the local
New Zealand scene and general GB musings & memes.
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Our Wargame of the Month series returns this April featuring the fantastic Guild
Ball from Steamforged Games!
To help you check out this brilliant fantasy football game we've got a great
10% off wargame of the month special on across the range,
excluding the latest releases, and we'll be doing a series of blogs about the
game, the guilds and heaps more.
So let's take a closer look at what makes Guild Ball one of our
favourites…
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Mighty Ape is proud to announce that we will once again be supporting the Star
Wars X-Wing New Zealand Regional Championships for
2015, coming soon to a centre near you!
Read on for all the details about how you can be involved in these great
events…
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As you begin to expand out your Bolt
Action collection you will find that you will begin to move away
from the hard plastic miniatures and vehicle kits and start encountering more
resin and metal miniatures.
So we've put together a quick guide to working with these materials.
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As my Welsh Guards are themed upon Operation Market Garden I needed to think
of a basing scheme which would suit, as well as being straight forward to apply
in order to be ready in time for a tournament.
So having done a little bit of research into the terrain encountered by the
British forces during the operation I decided upon a wetlands basing scheme, to
represent the boggy polder which was prevalent in Holland off the
raised roads.
Step 1: Applying Texture
Firstly I applied patches of PVA glue to most of each base, leaving a few
gaps where water effects would be applied later. I sprinkled a small amount of
larger basing grit and battlefield rocks before dipping the base in the fine
sand from the basing kit.
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Over the last month I've been speed painting my first Bolt
Action force in preparation for the the Auckland Open tournament
this coming weekend. Luckily I had been making good progress as another one day
event popped up last weekend which gave me a chance to start playing and get
some practice.
After I little bit of playing around with lists I decided on the following
Late War British force:
- Second Lieutenant with 1 Riflemen (Regular)
- 2 10 man Infantry Squads with 2 SMGs and LMG (Regular)
- 1 8 man Infantry Squad with 2 SMGs (Regular)
- 1 Light Mortar Team (Regular)
- 1 Piat Team (Regular)
- 1 Reece Carrier with LMG and Anti-Tank Rifle (Regular)
- 1 Cromwell Tank (Regular)
- National Characteristic: Rapid Fire
I had started working on this list before our main shipment from Warlord
Games arrived so it was designed to use the 10 man Italeri British Infantry
plastic set as much as possible. But this wasn't an issue due to its versatility
and wide variety of weapons options.
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Welcome to our first Bolt Action blog post!
As I'm itching to get a small Bolt Action force on the table and play my
first games I've begun speed painting some British
Commonwealth Infantry, which will be the core of my new list.
This plastic kit series is a collaboration between Italeri and Warlord Games,
and is a great way to get things started.
So lets go through a quick step by step of painting British infantry to basic
tabletop standard.
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Welcome to the first instalment of our new guest writer series,
Lessons from the Chief Slave.
Over the coming months we will be re-publishing the outstanding tutorials
produced by our friends from Slave to Painting and working together with the
Chief on some exciting new projects.
So without further ado lets hand things over to the man himself…
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Throughout November our Hobbies Monkeys have been working furiously to add
over 3000 new tabletop gaming and hobby supplies products from our friends at
Slave to Painting. And we're thrilled to welcome all these awesome new products
to our Hobbies
Jungle.
We're also really excited to announce the 2 lucky slaves who each won a $250
Mighty Ape Voucher on our Welcome to Mighty Ape Competition…
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