Galacteers and Valkeeri by Hydra Miniatures

To All,

The Humans will need to defend their outpost against hordes of Space Rodents and the dreaded Robot Legion. The Galacteers and the Valkeeri are from Hydra Miniatures.

Space buildings by the Miniature Building Authority.

The Valkeeri take position!

The Galacteers ready to go!

More to come....

Stout Smurf vs. Jawaballs.....300 point epic match.

To All,

Yesterday, after digging out from the snow on Saturday, Jawa and  I played a 300 point game that included "Huge" ships. It was really interesting and fun.

I flew a list of mostly named pilots. I know I could have gone all generics and filled the board with  ships but I wanted to see how the named guys(and gals) would do. 
GR-75 - Bright Hope
Wedge Antilles
Luke Skywalker
Airen Cracken
Lieutenant Blount
Bandit Squadron Pilot
Bandit Squadron Pilot
Poe Dameron
Ello Asty

Jawa's Force. Mostly named Tie and First Order pilots. I don't have his exact list, but a lot of synergy going on.

(You can see our placement in the two pictures above.)

Heading into turn 3 I was starting execute my plan. Wedge and Luke, in x-Wings of course, head directly into the swarm hoping to inflict some damage in the first joust while Poe Dameron and Ello Asty come across the front of Bright Hope on the flank. The Z-95 Headhunters are moving down the edge of the board loaded out with cluster missiles in an attempt to take down, or at least put a hurting on, the Imperial Raider with 18 cluster missile shots.

 

Wedge and Luke fire first and cause some hull points, but not enough to take out a ship. (I forgot to use Wedge's ability to decrease defender's agility by 1) Ello took out Howlrunner with Advanced Proton Torpedoes. The Ties  focused fire on Luke and took him down! 

The Headhunters continue to the Imperial Raider

At this point I had hoped that Jawa was going to divert some of his fighters toward the Z-95 but he didn't. He kept to his mission of destroying the Transport. Bright hope is in trouble, and didn't last the round.

 The Headhunters did get off the Cluster Missiles and got 4 hull points into the front section of the  Raider, but it wasn't enough. Jawa gets the victory.

Other shots.

In conclusion, I liked Epic play a lot. I want to tweak my a bit and change strategy, but I'm looking forward to the next game.

First game on new X-Wing Tabletop.....

To All,
Some shots from last night's game with Jawaballs. My first foray into Scum and Villainy and I missed some cards and synergy plays. Plus I flew my Firespray off the board - oops. I'll learn.....

 

 

The board worked out great!!

Custom X-Wing Miniatures Tabletop Play Area -Part II

 

I finished my X-Wing Table. I think it turned out pretty well.

We left off with the table sanded and ready for paint.

 

I used KRYLON primer.

I used 1 1/2 cans to get good coverage. I let it dry overnight.

 

Then 2 cans of RUST-O-LEUM  Textured Metallic spray-paint called "GALAXY."  

I used 2 coats which ended up being 2 cans worth. The 'Galaxy' paint has silver speck in it, so it looks like space/stars.

 

I did clear-coat it with KRYLON Crystal Clear Flat.

 Here is the finished table.

I think I'm going to add some X-Wing Rebel and Imperial symbols. We'll see.

Custom X-Wing Miniatures Tabletop Play Area

To All,

I have decided to build an X-Wing Table Top. Here are the simple steps:

1) I went to Home Depot and bought a 4x8 sheet of Purebond Poplar plywood. When you purchase the plywood at HD they will give you 2 cuts for free, so I had the gentleman cut the 3'2"x 5' section I needed. 

 Here is the board on my sawhorses:

 Here is the X-Wing: Death Star Assault Playmat  on it to give you some scale. I bought the mat from Cotton Jim's Flags. Great prices, great service, fast shipping!

X-wing Tabletop Play Area

I had considered using MDF board, but I had no use for the extra pieces. I'm going to build a birdhouse with the leftover plywood.

2) I wanted to frame the two "player boxes" on each end, so I purchased 6 simple 3/4 inch dowels. They come in 36" sections so I only had to cut the short sides.

 This is the "making sure it fit" layout.

 I used a countersink bit to make conical holes in the dowels so the screw heads wouldn't be exposed.

 I picked up 24  EVERBILT #6 x 1" wood screws

 The long edges are just the 36" dowels laid out, I had to cut the other two dowels into 12" sections for the short edges. I then secured the dowels.

X-wing Tabletop Play Area

Elmer's Carpenter's wood filler to fill the holes....

 ...as seen here.

Then a little sanding with 150 grit sandpaper.

 It awaits paint.

Part II tomorrow.