Cast From Hitpoints

 Guess who is ostensibly back after what, three? Four? Years of not posting on here. A lot changed. I got super busy volunteering with a wargames store locally and even moved house. Said store is now closed while pending a hopeful move to a new location, and my new apartment has a good bit more floor space, which means hopefully more games. Specifically: Solo wargames!  I've already tried my hand at several solo journaling style RPGs, but next to try is my hand at Five Parsecs From Home. So, I've picked up a new table, sized it out to see what kind of space and terrain I'm working with (specifically in 15mm) and rolled up a crew. I'll be working in 15mm for two reasons. One; I'm still unemployed so 15mm is as ever a nice economic solution with still a lot of character (and I have a good few minis in that scale already). Two; while I could fit a 3 foot by 3 foot table in my space, it would be a LITTLE too big to keep set up comfortably, and a 2x2 board feels a lot le...

And here we have the Imperial side of the Wings of Vengeance starter. Went for different armour colours for fighters and bombers but kept the orange squad markings the same instead to show squadrons pulled from different theatres which seemed in keeping with the Imperial Navy. Colours Used Wraithbone Base Metals Leadbelcher Metals Basilicanum Grey over the Leadbelcher Leadbelcher Drybrush Gold Leadbelcher Retributor Armour picked out areas  Agrax Wash Baslicanum Grey for the Thunderbolt Armour Army Painter Ash Grey Drybrush Skeleton Horde for the Bomber Armour Ushabti Drybrush Aethermatic Blue windows Fleshtearers Missile tips Black Templar bomb and missiles Gryph hound orange markings  

 Picked up the Wings of Vengeance starter set for Aeronautica before Christmas, and here are the results of the Ork half of the box. 2 Fighta Bommaz and 3 Dakkajets. Trying to get myself used to "Good Enough" with my painting instead of agonizing over what my hands can't do now. Colours used:   Wraithbone (Base) Talassar Blue (Body) Iyanden Yellow (Panels) Blood Angels Red (Panels) Leadbelcher (Metals) Black Templar (Some details and canopy) Calgar Blue (Drybrush) Flesh Tearers Red (Rokkit Tips) Nuln Oil (wash on the dakkajets to try it) Agrax Earthshade (Washed the Fightas. Think I prefer it to the Nuln)

 Twilight, other than being a movie franchise, also applies to the name of the miniatures game, and a gorgeous one at that. Twilight The World of Anyaral is a delightful little wargame with adorable little lizard people. I got some minis from it years ago one Salute, and since have been messing with them on and off (and repainting them somewhat as I kept lacking that specific inspiration for a scheme). Dusting them off since I moved house, I finally settled on a scheme I like for the Devanu, the outcast former masters of Anyaral and Giant Raptor People. So lets start putting some pictures of them up. The Grishak were done with two coats of Aethermatic Blue, with Akhelian Green down the spine. The beaks and claws were done in skeleton horde, the mouths with Volupus Pink and the eyes with Iyanden Yellow. Finally they were drybrushed with Temple Guard Blue and Ushabti Bone. The Devanu got a coat of Fyreslayer Flesh for the skin, and Gore Grunta Fur for the scale patches. The inside of...

 Prompt 25: What social mores have you forgotten? [ Lose Skill "Carving Wood is Fun" entirely. Experience added to Memory 1, "My Life". Memory 1 is now full.] My time out here in the woods continues like this. I travel out to find food, store it in my larder and keep them fresh long enough to allow me to eat them in my own time. Time passes slowly, like mud. I can feel myself trudging through it but I find it impossible to tell my progress.  Cwenhild stops coming by. At first I'm not sure why, but looking back I can guess. I hadn't even noticed the effect time had been having, while it was as mud to me it was an unstoppable river for everyone else. Little Kenric too. He kept visiting, bringing me gossip and goods and eventually his own children to visit. Then he stopped visiting. The people of my life vanished just like the semblance of civilization I was trying to maintain. I can't tell if one thing started another or the other way around, but with the ...

 Prompt 25: You need new feeding methods. [ Lose Knife Given By My Father Resource, Create Rationing my food stores Skill. Added to Memory 5 ] It would seem the bandits and rogues of the area have grown wiser lately.  Word spreads I suppose, and so many of them not coming back from this area must have caught the attention of the rest of them. Needless to say, food has been... not easy to come by lately. The wild game is still around, as I try to hunt it rarely, but the more of the blood of other people I drink, the less effect that animal blood seems to have on my thirst. An idea strikes me listening to Kenric talk about fishing. I take some of the (stolen, probably) finer (or less soiled) clothes from my previous meals. I wash some of the dirt away in a nearby stream, pull my hair back now far longer than it once was, and wrap a blanket around my shoulders. If the food won't come to me, I shall go to it. I set off, covering ground quickly. Getting far enough away from the for...