Friday Night - "Bloodrage" Fantasy Boardgame

 Just a few pics of a boardgame Julian, John and I played on Friday - Bloodrage. 

We have played before, it's based on Norse mythology, about which I know nothing, and is the "End Times" of three ages leading up to Ragnarök - or something like that!

The board

Various warbands

Needless to say, I had the Serpents band - all female warriors below!

A couple of "Gods" who were in occupation of two of the provinces

Some of the monsters that may or may not come into play

Julian activated a Troll - in this combat, my leader, backed up by the fleet, defeated the hideous creature!

Julian also activated this Fire Giant who was a bit of a handful to be honest - when he "invaded" a province, he automatically sent all figures already there straight off to Valhalla!

In this instance, a lone female warrior managed to defeat him, though!

The end of the game - counters around the edge keep track of "glory" points gained by winning battles, achieving quests etc - Julian blue in the bottom left won - I was yellow on 75, John was somewhere further back - he really didn't like the game much!

Off to a "proper" wargame at Barrys on Sunday, Back of Beyond using Andrews rules and various different factions - should be fun!

More Ruins......'Cos I Need More Ruins!

Browsing the web - as one does - I came across an MDF terrain company in handily adjacent Australia, with listings in NZ dollars AND relatively benign freight charges. Scrolling through, I spotted a couple of particularly cost-effective packs - of course, I did not buy them immediately - I let the idea germinate and stew away for a few weeks, until last weekend, I pulled the trigger.

And, hey presto, a few days later (the benefits of proximity!) a parcel turned up for me at work.

The original order for a total of eight ruined buildings!

Contents of the package

These are the 3 x 3 story buildings

Very easy to slip together and obviously you can combine the two sides and three floors in any order you like.

With a couple of 28mm figures to give an idea of the scale of the buildings

And as a bonus, here is one of the 4 story buildings!

Now, rather than excitedly slapping on PVA the day the arrived, I had the sense (for once) to pause to think - and I have printed off some 1940's wallpaper in approximately 28mm scale, plus a batch pf brick paper - so I will probably apply this to the mdf before I assemble the buildings, as I believe this will enhance the look of them (although I would not object to using them "as is" - they are pretty nice looking kit! I may even use the mdf as templates to replicate something similar using some of my remaining cork tiles - we shall see!

For anyone interested, here is the site - 28mm Scale Terrain – Dark Castle Terrain   I can see me possibly "investing" in this excellent model at some point

but I probably won't go this far......

Of course, one can never be sure how deep the insanity may run - only time will tell!

Thanks for visiting and extra big thank you to all those who leave a comment!

More Temu "Stuff"

 Some new arrivals and a few pieces I got a few weeks back but did not have an opportunity to post. Let me know if you have had enough of me waxing lyrical about cheap stuff from Temu - I feel some readers may be interested to know what's available out there - but maybe you all know (or dont care?!)

This package arrived on Saturday - the main contents are teh two shown below

Pack on the right is 10 x 200 mm (in height) trees (less any foliage)

Here is the church from various angles

With a couple of figures for scale 

Alongside the Perry church kit - which is of course very nice, but basically twice the price of the new arrival!

It has the potential to have figures placed inside it, too.

The below is something I found for use inside the Stalingrad factory - I ordered two sets and they have been in the queue for two or three weeks

They are listed variously as "28mm" and 1/64 - so possibly slightly over scale - but close enough for background terrain, I think - shown below with a figure to judge the size

I am not an expert on lathes - this looks about right to me?

The drill and saw might be a bit big? Again, I am not an expert - last time I saw any of this type of equipment was high school metalwork classes circa 1976!

Now, these two ARE big - and possibly too modern for 1940's Russia - but I will just hide them somewhere in the building where they don't stand out too much!

The train tracks are great - nice hard plastic and good detail given its really a uber low-cost kids toy! I have painted them up, did some butchery on a couple of the curves, so they head in the opposite direction and even chopped up one curve to create a reasonable (IMHO!) set of points. In a perfect world, there would be 10 straights and four curves - but of course, it is intended to create an oval that a train can run round and round in circles on! All I want it for really is some railway tracks at a reasonable cost - given they were $8 - I might very well get a second pack to obtain more straight sections! Images of the painted track next post - thanks for popping by and I do hope this is of interest!