Game Aids and 15mm Plants

Captain's Blog Stardate 201205.18

I made some playing aids this week from wooden dowels and chips. The dowels are 12” long and are marked off at 8” and 12”. I painted them in Trek colors if you haven’t noticed and they are going to be used as measuring sticks. The chips were made for PEF markers.

My wife got me these and they are appropriately called green fuzz balls. I have no clue as to where she got them.

These were made from funny shaped pipe cleaners that I got at Hobby Lobby.

Incident at Lushacon III

Captain's Blog Stardate 201205.02

Here are some pictures of a three way cooperative 5150 game we got in.

The action took place on Lushacon III, a planet located on the United Federation of Planets / Klingon Empire border.

Strider's Team: Rep 5/Rep4/Rep4



Wedge's Team: Rep 5/Rep4/Rep3



My Team: All Rep 3



PEF #1: 2 Klingons Rep 2

Melee

Wedge's Rep 5 joined in the melee

PEF #2: 3 Klingons Rep 3

PEF #3: 9 Klingons Rep 4

End Results: Strider lost all of his team, I lost one member with the other two running off of the board, and Wedge lost one team member with two surviving.

The Klingons lost a total of 14 Landing Party members.

This is the first game of 5150 Battle Group Acadiana has played, but my second game. The first time I played was over a year ago and it was an AVP game with three inexperienced players (brother and nephew). Strider, who is a new addition to my gaming group, plays the THW games on a reagular basis, so it was really nice having someone help show the ropes.

Sorry for the lack of details on the game. I was trying to learn the rules, so next time I will have more to write down.

On a side note I am trying to make plans to attend Bayou Wars XX in Kenner LA this June and hopefully run a couple of games of either 5150 or Away Team. Strider is planning on running a THW World War II game and Wedge wants to play a game of Colonial Battlefleet.

Domo Arigato Mr Mugato

Captain's Blog Stardate 201204.17




Well Almost. I wanted some rubber suit aliens so I ordered some from Khurasan Miniatures

Also, I had ordered some 1/2 inch rounds from Game Crafters and started basing my miniatures on them.

Borg sighted at sector 001

Captain's Blog Stardate 201204.15

I got the minis in that I ordered from 15mm.co.uk in the other day. I think that it took less than two weeks for the order to arrive.

I also ordered these from Kremlin Minatures at the same time. I received an e-mail from Russ stating that they were air mailed. I am expecting them tomorrow :)

Talk about fast service from both companies!!!

On a side note, a Hobby Town opened up in my neighborhood last week. I an excited because now I am able to buy styrene and other harder to find hobby supplies locally instead of ordering it online. We have a Hobby Lobby, Michael's and a couple of comic book/hobby stores, but nothing that carries modeling supplies like Hobby Town. The cool thing is that the store is about a 10 min walk from the house and is on a fun route for my son and I because we can also walk by the local coulee for an adventure.

Fighter Flight Stands

Captain's Blog Stardate 201204.11

5 stands with dice for $3.00 plus shipping contact furballflightstands@cox.net

15mm Borg Ship

Captain's Blog Stardate 201204.08

My wife was kind enough to give me some time off today while she took care of our sons. As a result, I was able to put together a new gamming board. I still need to paint it up.

I am planning on playing a TOS Borg/Zombie game in the future, so I ordered some Zomborgs from Kremlin Miniatures and some Cyborg Enslavers from 15mm.co.uk to use as Borg.

Battle for Retsae II

Captain's Blog Stardate 201203.15

Got in a game of Away Team in the other night. We played a three way free for all, so I didn't take notes of the game(too much going on), but I did take some pictures.


Retsae II Dilithium Mining Facility

Federation Away Team

Romulan Landing Party

Klingon Landing Party

The Klingon Landing Party moves into position behind a holding tank.

The Federation Away Team maneuvers between two buildings.

The Romulan Landing Party makes a dash for cover.

The Federation Away Team splits into two teams.

Klingon Captain vs Andorian red shirt.

Last man standing.

Carnage among the pipes.