The long awaited Morrigan figure for Anima Tactics has shipped out to distributors this week, along with the Wrath of Nature. These models are both quite large and stompy. look for them at your friendly neighborhood gaming store soon!
Morrigan, Lady of Space and Time
Last time we talked about the Holy Empire of Abel and a doctrine called The Shield and Spear. I discussed the Shield Doctrine and how to make the best use of your most difficult to damage characters. Today I’m going to talk about how the Empire capitalizes on the position granted by the Shield doctrine with the Spear. (Also tossing out some awesome backgrounds by AT artist Wen Yu Li!)
“A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us.” Joseph Addison
Welcome to the next installment of Hobbyist Tactics!
Painting the Faces on miniatures is often the trickiest part, mainly because of the eyes. It can be very difficult to place the iris in the correct place, or make them the right size. I always used to dread this stage, as I would usually put off the eyes till last as the finishing touch. The Problem with that however, is that when the eyes DON’T turn out first try… it’s very hard to fix them and not damage the face that has been painstakingly painted around them.
Solution? Paint the eyes first!
Welcome back to the Hiring Post. And now, as promised, something nasty.
The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
–John Bright
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Hi everyone. December is a pretty crazy month for everyone, and we are not immune to it. Today’s post will be arriving on Friday instead thanks to an accident involving the writer, Robert Allen (Don’t worry folks, he’s okay.)
Additionally, it’s been decided that deCiphered will be going on a short break over the Holiday weeks starting the 19th to let our volunteer writers celebrate the season with their respective families and friends. I’ll pop in from time to time with some fresh content, but the regular articles will pick up again with Tales from Alamut on January 9th.
Sorry for the delays, we’ve had a good response to the articles and we will be giving our all towards keeping them coming for a long time.
Cheers,
Justin
Hi guys and gals,
Today I will be taking you through board construction and making a Field of Skulls and Pile of Skulls.
Items you need are
Board Construction:
Get your Gatorboard equivalent and the cork tiles you will be using and cut them into 10″ x 10″ sections. For information on Gatorboard or other materials I reference please refer to Part 1 of Circles of Hell.
Tip: When cutting up your material make sure to minimize the work you have to do and also potential errors that may occur by carefully measuring and marking out the sides you will be cutting. Try to make use of the pre-cut edges of the boards, as these tend to be cut very accurately.
Tip: Another handy hint is to make sure all of you board pieces fit together. It can be difficult to cut boards perfectly straight and often you will end up with cuts that are at an angle or slightly off center. No need to throw away these pieces, just make sure you play around with different positions of the board sections so that they all fit nice and snug (I had to turn some of my pieces upside down). Once you have done this mark the back of each section with a code that you understand and allows for quick placement of your sections.
This week we have shipped another wave of Hell Dorado releases to our distribution partners around the world. This wave includes …
Gilles de Rais, Marshal of Hell
Today we have another special guest article courtesy of Beasts of War writer Samuel Poots! Sam is following up on his previous unboxing article about the Jaws of the Deep with a first hand look at Anima Tactic’s deadly Puppeteer: Maria.
There comes a time in every gamer’s life when they must make a choice. Will they fight the righteous fight for Good, upholding the freedoms of truth and justice, or will they strike from the shadowed depths of Evil, sowing seeds of fear and destruction with every blackened footstep?
Okay, maybe it’s not as straightforward as right or wrong, Good or Evil, but the sentiment remains true: Eventually, you have to pick sides.
This is the point where I feel a lot of gamers get themselves into trouble.
Excitement turns into over-excitement, and a few hurried purchases later, a gamer will realize they’re the not-so-proud owners of an army that’s not living up to expectations.
Helldorado is a game that can feature a lot of terrain, and depending on scenario and a player tactics, it can be useful to place multiple pieces of the same terrain element. In this edition of Tales from Alamut I’d like to show you the process I used to make multiple stalagmite terrain elements.
The first decision we need to make: what do we want the stalagmites to look like? You can let your imagination run wild with what to make your stalagmites look like. Ice crystals for an Icy Waste board poured in clear resin, melted wax stalagmites, or tombstones and cemetery statues for a Necropolis board. I used photos of the Stone Forest in southern China as a reference because the rock formations there look very cool. I wanted to make a number of unique master models to make molds out of, and then pour the finished products in resin. It requires a bit of work to begin with, but once up and running you can produce resin stalagmites quickly and in large quantities.
To make the stalagmites, I used an oven bake polymer clay. This meant I didn’t have to wait ages for things to cure or set, just fifteen minutes in the oven, it allowed me to sculpt quite quickly, but you could use self hardening clay or epoxy putty.
Start with conical bases, and vary the heights of these to create a more diverse profile to your terrain elements.
To this base add smaller sausages of clay which you form onto the sides of the cone with a metal sculpting tool to form a sharp ridge, slowly building the forms up until you are happy with the shapes. I ended up with nine unique masters of differing sizes and shapes to mold. (Only one is shown above).
on Boot Camp : Anima Tactics #4 – Play Your Own Game
on Boot Camp : Anima Tactics #4 – Play Your Own Game
on Tactical View 3: Battle Report!
on NMM: an Acolytes’ Struggles
on Tactical View 3: Battle Report!
