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Post by Burt on Feb 7, 2016 1:38:53 GMT
Got to a run large game today! 5 Human players (about 6300 pts) and 4 Martian players (about 5800 pts). Scenario: Downed tripod near a town in Northern Ohio caused the town to build a massive wall in hopes of repelling a major extended attack. Today, that attack ensued. Bottom line: With lots of action up and down our 24' x 6' foot table, Martians went down hard. A decided win for the human forces as remaining tripods withdrew after 5 turns to fight another day. Here are some pics:
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Post by loyalist on Feb 7, 2016 2:03:59 GMT
Wow, what a massive battle! Thanks for posting the pics.
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Post by spectre07 on Feb 7, 2016 5:12:09 GMT
Totally epic! Good job
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Post by mikedski on Feb 7, 2016 10:00:42 GMT
How did the overseer tripod perform? Any sun gun action?
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Post by madmorgan on Feb 7, 2016 10:47:51 GMT
Awesome! What a great look and feel for a epic scale game! Did you scratch build the walls and turrets? Were those commerically available 'doors' on the walls? I love the mix of all those terrrain pieces and the use of the quasit huts for barracks. Nice touch with the work in progress on that one wall - well done. Bet those folks living in the quasits would of rather been on the other side of their work! An example for the hobby Burt and so glad you could share with us - AQMF lives because of folks like you.
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Post by Burt on Feb 7, 2016 19:34:41 GMT
How did the overseer tripod perform? Any sun gun action? The Overseer was a fun piece, and this was the first time using it. Here are some observations: 1) Sun Gun is really powerful. Everything burns along a 60" line. My son (who was the player) used it to take out two tanks, one infantry stand , and a field gun in one swipe. 2) The bigger they are, the harder they fall. After a devastating opening move, the nearest human player concentrated all of his fire power on this massive machine. He scored enough hits to force it to go inert for one turn. Therefore it went another full turn of taking punishment with no ability to strike back. Eventual result: Armor was reduced to 1. But it was still alive... 3) In a game this big, the Overseer is certainly intimidating and a force to be reckoned with, but not necessarily a game-changer. The humans still held their own. I am anxious to see how it holds up in repeated onslaughts. |
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Post by Burt on Feb 7, 2016 19:45:45 GMT
Awesome! What a great look and feel for a epic scale game! Did you scratch build the walls and turrets? Were those commerically available 'doors' on the walls? I love the mix of all those terrrain pieces and the use of the quasit huts for barracks. Nice touch with the work in progress on that one wall - well done. Bet those folks living in the quasits would of rather been on the other side of their work! An example for the hobby Burt and so glad you could share with us - AQMF lives because of folks like you. Thanks madmorgan! Walls are scratch built from styrofoam that my buddy had left over from some piece of furniture he bought. I mounted them on two foot floor tiles that I picked up for free from an opened box at the hardware store. It was easy to cut them into thinner strips. The foam was quickly carved with a knife. I coat them all in a glue/latex caulk/black paint/water mixture to help protect them, and then they get painted. The doors are cut out of cheap craft foam that I painted as well and then glued in place over cut out openings in the wall. The flexibility of the craft foam means that the doors can open and close! Adding craft sticks from Hobby Lobby contributed to the "in-progress" look of the end pieces. The hardest part is the carving...and that's not hard, just a bit tedious. Bottom line: so much easier than it might look. The rest of the terrain is collected from super cheap deals found by scouring eBay over the last few years (all the buildings), with door mats and rugs used as fields, scratch built hills and roads, and vinyl "cobblestone" scored from many "after-christmas" sales. |
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Post by madmorgan on Feb 7, 2016 23:07:18 GMT
love it - well done and on the cheap even. congrats on the layout, pics, and the game!
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Post by sputnik on Feb 8, 2016 11:13:08 GMT
Fantastic game and layout, well done.
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Post by scottwashburn on Feb 8, 2016 17:32:21 GMT
Wow! Great looking game! I just got my "Overseer" in the mail this weekend. Don't know when I'll have time to build it. (Probably about the same time I get to my land ironclad  |
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Post by Burt on Feb 8, 2016 18:20:06 GMT
Wow! Great looking game! I just got my "Overseer" in the mail this weekend. Don't know when I'll have time to build it. (Probably about the same time I get to my land ironclad If your "Overseer" is the same model as mine, I found it to be a fairly quick build. I opted to use the base it comes with, complete with the War of the Worlds logo. However, there is a wrecked car on the base that is definitely out of scale. I cut up some craft foam sheets into various rectangular bits and covered it up. A bit of glue and paint, and a new rubble pile was born. Worked great! |
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Post by terrance on Feb 8, 2016 20:04:55 GMT
Really nice. Thanks for sharing.
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