Mounted Bretonnian Sorceress

One of my painting accomplishments last year was this Mounted Bretonnian Sorceress from fifth edition Warhammer Fantasy.

I haven't played that game; however, she worked great as a mounted human spellcaster for my first Oathmark army.

I enjoyed painting up the Lady Monique de Ville, and I used her in many Oathmark battles, where her Sieze the Initiative spell helped my kingdom triumph against their foes.

I accquired this figure a few years back secondhand, from a vendor at MillenniumCon. 

I could have kept her in the blister pack as a collectible or for resale, but where's the fun in that?

She belongs on the tabletop, as do all the miniatures I've bought over the years--and these days, some of them are actually seeing action!

I know it's not perfect close-up, but on the tabletop against my oponents, this casting looks great!

Dice tower/terrain piece

After about two years of watching Youtube crafting videos, I decided to try my hand at making a structure from scratch. I constructed this dice tower from a breadcrumbs can and dollar-store foam board. 

I cut off the top and bottom, then cut three slits at 45° angles to bounce the dice and cut an opening at the bottom. The wood planks surrounding that doorway are just craft (popsicle) sticks. For the stones, I used scissors to cut dollar-store foam board into irregularly sized and shapes stone blocks. Then I took those foam pieces and shook them in a can with real rocks to add texture. 

After gluing on all the foam bricks, I painted it with Black Magic Craft's suggested mix of black paint and Mod Podge to strengthen the build and to protect the foam from the solvents in spray paints. I then sprayed it with a matte black. 

I painted the stonework with overbrushes and then drybrushes of successively ligher shades of gray. Once that was done, I gave the whole thing a black wash, and then I picked out a few stones to hit with some shades I had--green, blue, and brown.

Details included some flocking mixed with white glue to simulate moss, and some store-bought trees and tufts and a treasure chest mini to close off the dice corral. Then an overall spray of matte varnish, and it was done!

The dice corral is a little small, making it difficult to remove more than three dice, but it does its job and I am happy how it turned out.

As you can probably tell, a certain videogame was a major influence for this build.  I plan to use it with Oathmark and other fantasy wargames, but this isn't my last piece of terrain.

Ogre at MillCon

As usual, I ran my Monopolis setup for Ogre at last November's MillenniumCon. This time, however, I had fewer players. Maybe it was the nonstandard time slot.

Anyway, still lots of Ogre-on-Ogre carnage, and I think I even got to roll a few dice myself thanks to the sparse player count.

I enjoy running it, but I'm thinking about doing a differnet sci-fi tank game at the next convention. More on that later.

Scenes from a game of Oathmark

Our group started playing Oathmark last month year, an miniatures-agnostic rank-and-flank fantasy wargame from the creator of Frostgrave.

It's been a chance for me to put together an Oldhammer-style lizardmen army with a bunch of vintage citadel figures, as well as newer castings from Reaper.

My opponents have drafted historical, Lord of the Rings, and the official Oathmark minis to fill out their ranks.

Our matches down at the local game store always draw attention from passersby, and the game itself is fun and easy to learn and play.

Anyone else taken up the Oathmark banner?

Engines pumping and thumping in time ...

Since we finished our first Gaslands race of the evening early, we had time for one more rally, this time with smaller teams: E. Winters Group's Frankenstein, Blues Brothers' Jake and Elwood, and Justice League's Batusi.

I was in Frankenstein, and as usual I tried to take advantage of that vehicles ram. I rolled a total of seven dice against the Batusi, but only scored one hit.

The performace car left us all in the dust, I spun out, and Elwood made it just through the first gate to to weapons hot. Jake, however, was just a smidge short of the line and couldn't shoot at me that gear.

Meanwhile, the Batusi launched a couple of remote-controlled cars that explode if they hit or get hit.

However, that didn't prevent Elwood from setting it on fire, which was enough on top of previous damage to wreck the Justice League car. 

But it wasn't just the Batusi suffering from Elwood's flamethrower--Frankenstein didn't like fire either.

With one hull point left, the flaming monstrosity rammed the Blues Brother, taking both vehicles out.

Just Jake was left running, so the musical siblings won by default. And with that, we called it a night.

Reluctantly crouched at the starting line ...

Yes, it was Gaslands the other night at the game store. With just three of us present, we each took a multi-vehicle team for a Death Race. I was Met At Work (pair of construction vehicles) while my opponents were Notorious RGB (red, green, and blue cars) and Born To Be Wild (the trio of dusty post-apoc jalopies)

As usual, it was carnage right out of the starting gate, with all the racers bunched up. We had a few collisions and gained some hazard tokens as the race began.

Heavy Metal Thunder's crush attack and big tires were a huge help in this race, as the rig didn't pick up hazards driving through rough terrain and could just roll right over other vehicles, like Blue Monday above, which was the first racer to wreck.

The grenades from Notorious RGB resulted in Overkill becoming the next vehicle to get destroyed, right at the second gate and just before the home stretch.

But Who Can It Be Now? soon followed, with an explosion ...

That detonation ended up taking out Green Manalishi as well.

But even though Born To Be Wild still had all its vehicles running, Red Rain was able to streak ahead past the finish line, winning the race.

I'm back, baby!

Hey everyone! It's been awhile--a year-and-a-half, in fact--but the Dreadnought has returned!

Where have I been? Nowhere, really. although 2021 was a somewhat prolific blogging year, I got burned out on it and sucked into miniatures painting and terrain crafting tutorials on Youtube.  

But don't worry; I still managed to get in lots of gaming last year and this. I've been playing Galactic Knights and Gaslands, historicals and boardgames (like Terraforming Mars), old-school sci-fi like MAATAC and Ogre, and in the fantasy genre, (my new favorite) Oathmark.

This also means I've accomplished quite a lot of painting over the past 18 months, and made a few terrain pieces as well. 

I hope to be sharing my wargaming escapades with y'all in the coming months. Thanks for your support, and welcome back to the Super Galactic Dreadnought!

But enough about me. What have y'all been up to?