Solomon Kane - Expansions
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Board Games - Solomon Kane is a character written by the same author that created Conan, these miniatures are for some expansions for the core game which is a narrative heavy game.
Four Horsemen
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Board Games - Four Horsemen is a co-op game where players try to prevent the Apocalypse. The art and style of the game is very well done. The miniatures are just ok. The detail is a bit soft and the proportions are weird. They look fine painted but are optional as there are standees of the very nice artwork that will work to play the game if you don’t upgrade to the miniatures.
Here’s the description from the publisher:
Four Horsemen is an epic cooperative resource-management and deck-building game where players take up the mantle of legendary heroes to prevent the end of the world. Players will face off against a main demonic foe, and they'll need to utilize their followers to stop catastrophic events, acquire relics, and delay the final ride of the Four Horsemen.
Each asymmetrical hero has their own divine powers and starting deck. Upgrade your deck by acquiring powerful relic cards each turn. Play strategically and choose carefully which relics to play and which to sacrifice to optimize your ability to respond to new events, destroy the demonic horde attempting to overrun the world, and delay the horsemen on their ride to bring about total destruction.
Will your strategy keep the world intact long enough to seal away the demonic entity forever? Featuring gorgeous art on every card, hero and Horsemen minis, and a surprising blend of gameplay mechanics, Four Horsemen is a game where every round brings new challenges. With a large variety of heroes, villains, and events, Four Horsemen has thousands of unique scenarios, meaning no two apocalypses are the same.
Four Horsemen is for 1-4 players and takes 60-120 minutes to play.
Fate: Defenders of Grimhelm
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Board Game - Fate: Defenders of Grimheim is a unique looking co-op game. The cartoonish art style is really fun and the miniatures did a great job capturing the feel of the art.
Here’s a description from the publisher:
Freyja, the Norse goddess of fertility, joins Thor in Asgaard for a wedding along with all the proven warriors from Grimheim. You’re not one of them. Loki, the trickster god, sees his chance to destroy Freyja’s sacred well in Grimheim. Soon, monsters appear from all directions, advancing towards the small village where you are now the only defenders left. Kill monsters to gain experience and upgrade your hero, solve quests to discover weapons and equipment, and stand shoulder to shoulder with your friends against the mighty monsters of Norse mythology. The fate of Grimheim is in your hands.
Fate is a cooperative game where players who take the roles of talented but unexperienced heroes. Together, they defend Freyja’s well against trolls, the dead, and the fire horde monsters approaching from all sides of the game board. Each time a monster enters Grimheim, a town piece is destroyed. All players lose if the town is completely destroyed, but they win if at least Freyja’s Well remains when she returns at the end of the game
Escape From New York
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Board Games - Escape From New York is another board game based on a popular movie from the 1980’s the packaging is very similar to The Thing game I painted earlier this year. I only painted the larger character models for this game because the cops and criminals are really small and are really just tokens in the game.
Under Our Sun
/Board Games - Under Our Sun is a post-apocalyptic themed board game, the miniatures are pretty small but well detailed for what they are. Painting these with contrast paint made quick work of the tiny models.
Here’s a description from the publisher:
Under our Sun is a semi-cooperative, exploration board game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
When a giant asteroid hits the sun, life on earth is suddenly at its mercy. Modern technology is no longer available, and the entirety of the northern hemisphere becomes a desolate hellscape as a result of the ensuing solar storms.
Society’s rules and regulations are replaced by anarchy, and every day becomes a struggle for survival.
As gameplay commences, you will become an integral member of one of the few remaining honorable and socially-minded communities. Players will choose between four unique characters (six with expansions), each with their own strengths and weaknesses, and will head into the wastelands to ensure the survival of the group and fulfill crucial tasks. The game can be played with a fully-cooperative approach, or to make things extra interesting, there could also be a traitor within the group.
Choose one of the missions included in the core box, which are varied according to difficulty, play-time, and strategic approach.
Under our Sun has a turn-based gameplay where each round represents a single day divided into different phases (morning, noon, evening, and night). Explore the area, tile by tile, to trigger events scattered throughout the map. Find precious loot and scavenge for resources to craft unique items in an effort to upgrade both your character and shelter. Engage in life or death fights against humans, animals, or something completely unknown. Adapt to ever changing weather conditions where even the most elementary of tasks results in a fight for survival.
To succeed in this harsh land, players must manage resources, maintain their health, and ensure adequate water supply. Only through collaboration and the use of individual skills, will players be able to achieve survival and reach their ultimate goal (whatever that may be).
Dive into the thrilling and complex world of “Under our Sun,” and become one of earth’s final survivors!
Lords of Ragnarok
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Board Games - Norse mythology with a sci-fi twist do you really need to know more? Lords of Ragnarok is an interesting game that has so really cool miniatures. The massive statues you have to build during the game are well massive. The characters are interesting variations of the traditional depictions.
Mysthea - Fully Painted
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Board Games - Mysthea is a euro game where you manage resources on an ancient planet. It has some really weird miniatures that were pretty fun to paint.
Waste Knights
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Board Games - Mad Max is one of my favorite franchises so it’s cool to see other takes on a similar theme.
Description from Publisher:
Waste Knights: Second Edition is a post-apocalyptic game of adventure and survival for 1-4 players inspired by cult classics of the post-apo movies and set in dystopian Australia destroyed by experiments of a powerful corporation. Each player becomes a rugged hero, travelling through the wasteland, facing unnatural weather and enemies forged in long-forgotten laboratories as well as experiencing adventures full of dramatic choices and disturbing characters.
The game is adventure-based, with each Adventure branching out into a number of Plots revealed depending on the players’ narrative choices. Each plot offers unique game mechanics and stories that can be found in the Book of Tales – some of them are keyed to a particular adventure, some are generic, but all enable the players to immerse themselves in the setting and make decisions that change the world around them.
Each knight (player) has 2 actions at their disposal, which basically enable them to travel around the continent in their Vehicle, explore the area for ever-dwindling Resources (Fuel, Ammo, Meds), or camp in order to repair their Gear and heal Wounds or Radiation. Each adventure additionally offers a number of unique Plot Actions that let the players affect the story and fulfill their goals.
However, the heart of the game are stories. Each playthrough is based on an adventure found in the Guide. Some of them are co-op, others competitive, others still may end with the players grouping around different factions and forced to fight their former friends. The construction of each adventure offers lots of narrative choices guaranteeing high replayability and encompasses unique setup elements so that the basic game can be prepared quickly and the players can focus on the plot, not the rules.
Bloodborne - Tabletop
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Board Games - Bloodborne is a tabletop game based on a video game. I never played the game but it looks like a cool concept. You play as hunters trying to solve a mystery while fighting various monsters.
I’l painted expansions for this previously and finally got around to painting the core game.
The Thing - Fully Painted Terror
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Board Games - The Thing is one of those movies with practical effects that still holds up really well. I remember several board games that tried to play off the whole imposter hiden bad guy theme but none were really miniature games. This one is officially licensed so it has every character from both movies as well as the variations of the monster.
I enjoyed rewatching the film while painting these. The miniatures really capture the feel of the movie.
Raptor Claw Island - Metal Dinosaurs Painted
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Board Games - I seem to have gotten very behind in posting my projects here. I’ve been busy with numerous projects and will try to catch up with the content I haven’t posted. Most of these projects are various board games which are painted to a basic to tabletop standard. Most of the time board game miniatures don’t need much to enhance the experience of the game.
Raptor Claw Island is a game that doesn’t come with miniatures out of the box it uses cardboard standees. It’s part of the Ulaya Chronicles Drowned Earth Miniatures Game and this is a simplified set of rules that serves as an introduction to the larger system.
It’s been quite a long time since I put together metal models and these got me feeling pretty nostalgic for the heft that metal models have. I enjoyed painting these and am pretty happy with the details on the dinosaur models.
ThreeTale - Fairy Tale Adventures
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Board Games - Often I get really odd games that I’ve never heard of crossing my painting table, ThreeTale is one of them. The miniatures are a very odd mix of styles that I for the life of me couldn’t figure out what this game is about. Looking it up on Board Game Geek I can see it has a pretty high rating and and interesting description from the publisher:
ThreeТale is a cooperative adventure game for 3 players who choose their fairytale heroes with stories going way back. Each hero has their asymmetric talents. The gameplay’s a combination of variable player powers in the form of virtues, strategic tile placement and a little bit of dice rolling.
As a team, the tree players go through four phases – Prophecy Phase, Past, Present, and Future.
In the Prophecy phase, three scenarios of future doom are mystically revealed, holding hints to help the players draft their heroes. In the Past phase, every hero gets the chance to develop their stats and talents to be mighty enough to save the world from eternal doom. The heroes’ miniatures move through the tile-built board, thus collecting Virtues, Shevitsa and Speed cubes. They also enter Battles, complete Quests and collect Treasures and Artifacts by drawing cards.
Upon completing the Past Phase, the heroes enter the Present, where it is revealed which of the three prophecies will be fulfilled. Then, the Future comes, knocking on the door. Each Future has its own backstory, inhabitants and win condition. What will it take to save the world? Will you battle a mighty enemy, will you aim to gather lots of precious recourses, or will you simply fight for your own survival? Come and see for yourselves…
—description from the designer
Heroes of Might & Magic - Board Game
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Board Games - It seems that I get quite a few games based on video game properties crossing my painting table. It’s interesting that many of them do a decent job pulling mechanics or theme from the source material to create a different experience.
Heroes of Might & Magic does this fairly well, you have a hero that loots town and fights monsters to move through the various adventures included in each expansion box.
Arkies - Steampunk Mummies and More
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Board Games - Sticking with the spooky theme Arkies is a Steampunk Adventure game that takes place in Egypt exploring a forgotten tomb. The game features a large amount of miniatures that were pretty fun to paint.
Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to play this but the description from the publisher is pretty interesting:
History is full of secrets...
As they explore an ancient Egyptian tomb, a team of archaeologists and adventurers stumble upon a mystery that History forgot. To uncover the truth, they will have to delve deeper and deeper in the pyramids, dodging deadly traps and fighting back swathes of monsters running after them. Has the old Pharaoh placed a curse on this expedition? Should some secrets remain untold? This story is now yours to complete...
Arkeis is a cooperative, story-driven, campaign game with minis set among ancient Egyptian ruins.
Each player takes control of an adventurer as they explore a modular board.
Players have up to two actions per turn: search, move, assist an ally or fight one of the numerous dangers waiting for them in the tombs! The results of their actions can be altered by the equipment and character upgrades they earn during the campaign.
They can push their luck at the risk of being cursed or suffering lasting traumas from injuries!
Each character has their own backpack to store their items (and curses) between adventures.
Each scenario has objectives that the players will try to accomplish during the game to earn rewards in the form of key items and upgrades that influence later scenarios.
It will take a team of skilled players to reveal all of Arkeis’s secrets!
Euthia: Torment of Resurection
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Board Games - Euthia is an open world sandbox game that can be played with 1-4 players. It uses a tile system to generate a new world each time you play so you can take your band of heroes and have a new adventure each time. The miniatures are pretty big and decently detailed.
Season of The Witcher
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Board Games - The Witcher Board Game. Starting off October with an Image dump of the minis from The Witcher Board Game.
Ignite - Expansions
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Board Games - Ignite is a weird little battle game where you track damage by sticking swords in the back of the models. These are a super basic paint job just to make them look a little better on the table.
Robinson Crusoe - Ultimate Edition Miniatures
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Board Games - Robinson Crusoe is a pretty classic game that has released an Ultimate edition that has some really great miniatures. Each miniature has two identical versions that you use on two different boards during gameplay. There is also a really cool shelter model that stacks up as you improve upon your home base.
Robinson Crusoe - Shelter Model
I haven’t had a chance to play but the description from the manufacturer sounds interesting:
Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island is a game created by Ignacy Trzewiczek, the author of Stronghold. This time Trzewiczek takes the players to a deserted island, where they'll play the parts of shipwreck survivors confronted by an extraordinary adventure. They'll be faced with the challenges of building a shelter, finding food, fighting wild beasts, and protecting themselves from weather changes. Building walls around their homes, animal domestication, constructing weapons and tools from what they find, and much more await them on the island. The players decide in which direction the game will unfold and – after several in-game weeks of hard work – how their settlement will look. Will they manage to discover the secret of the island in the meantime? Will they find a pirate treasure, or an abandoned village? Will they discover an underground city or a cursed temple at the bottom of a volcano? Answers to these questions lie in hundreds of event cards and hundreds of object and structure cards that can be used during the game...
Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island is an epic game from Portal. You will build a shelter, palisade, weapons, you will create tools like axes, knives, sacks, you will do everything you can to… to survive. You will have to find food, fight wild beasts, protect yourself from weather changes…
Take the role of one of four characters from the ship crew (cook, carpenter, explorer, or soldier) and face the adventure. Use your determination skills to help your teammates, discuss with them your plan, and put it into practice. Debate, discuss, and work on the best plan you all can make.
Search for treasures. Discover mysteries. Follow goals of six different, engaging scenarios. Start by building a big pile of wood and setting it on fire to call for help, and then start new adventures. Become an exorcist on cursed Island. Become a treasure hunter on Volcano Island. Become a rescue team for a young lady who’s stuck on rock island…
Let the adventure live!
Ghostbusters - Finally playing the board game
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Board Games - After watching Frozen Empire I was able to convince my wife and kids to try out the Ghostbusters board game I got ages ago. When I originally back the game the kids were to young to play so it found its way onto my shelf and finally saw some table time during a Ghostbusters weekend earlier this year,
Mythwind
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Board Games - Mythwind is a unique adventure board game with some very cute miniatures.
From the publisher:
Mythwind is a cooperative & solo "cozy" board game with unique characters, magical sprites, engaging story and an unending adventure.
During the game, the characters are working together to establish and build a new town in the magical Mythwind Valley. They work to achieve various goals by constructing buildings within the town, adventuring throughout the region, navigating relationships with the mysterious sprites who inhabit the valley, and developing their character-specific professions.
As an open-ended game, Mythwind has no distinct conclusion. Although many players may find a natural end point to their game at the conclusion of the story, players can continue to play the game for as long as they would like over as many game sessions as they wish. As players progress through the game, their town will develop and grow, reacting to changing seasons and to the members of the community over time. Progress made can be easily saved using the provided game trays, which offer a quick and easy solution for both tear-down of the current game and setup of future games.
