Useful websites and resources

Terrain making:
Terrain For Hippos (a blog featuring step-by-step easy terrain projects)
Terragenesis (a website about making terrain)
Necromundicon (another website on terrain)

Painting (note: I learned to paint from old magazines, trial and error, I have no idea how good any of these sites are):
How to paint miniatures (basic painting information)
The Miniature Painting Guild (more basic painting info)

Online stores:
Maelstrom (UK based, discoutned and free postage)
Defiant Gaming (Canberra based and very quick)

Warmachine Armies

For our first Warmachine battles, we'll be playing Rhulic Mercenaries Vs. Rhulic Mercenaries (basically a lot of dwarves hitting one another!). I've just recieived a large box containing 20 points worth of Khadorans (basically large angry steam-powered Russians!), and when those are painted, we'll start using those against one of the Rhulic forces.

The armies we'll be using are:

Gorton Grundback controlling a Gunner light warjack, Blaster light warjack and Driller heavy warjack.

Greygore Boomhowler and Co.

Horgenhold Forge Guard

vs.

Durgen Madhammer controlling two Gunner light warjacks, and a Rockram heavy warjack

Hammerfall high shield gun corspe with officer and standard

Herne and Jonne

Both of these forces are worth 16 points, and are nice, small learner type forces. Each player will be part of a team of three and will have control of one element of the army (the warcaster's battlegroup or one of the units).

LSCWC dates and times confirmed.

The Leongatha Secondary College Wargames Club will start on Friday 11th of March at lunchtime in the I Learn centre. It will run every friday during term time (with the obvious exceptions of when Mr. Top is not around)

New games!

This year we'll be introducing three new games right from the start.

First off there's Super Munchkin, a frantic card game of super heroics, back-stabbing and looting. Super Munchkin can be played by up to six people at a time, and many of you young 'uns in Yr.7 will have seen it on camp.

Then there's Warmachine, a steam-powered, magically controlled brutal monster of a table-top battle game. Think Warhammer, but with hug magical robots, lots more guns, and a more intuitive combat system. We'll be playing 20 point games, with three players on each side, one controlling the Warcaster's battle group, and the other two controlling the other units in the army. You can download the quick-start rules here.

Finally, there's Muscle Car Apocalypse, a game of Mr. Top's own design which pits rival gangs of post-apocalyptic desperadoes in heavily customized cars against each other on the highways of the wastelands. Think Mad Max meets Death Race. The rules are still undergoing some development, but there should be extra rules for motorbikes and riding beasts soon! You can download the rules here.

Meanwhile, to whet your appetites, here's some pics of the minis we'll be using:

LSC Wargames Club for 2011

Leongatha Secondary Wargames Club (LSCWC) will be starting again soon!

We will be playing an exciting range of new games, including Warmachine, Super Munchkin and Muscle Car Apocalypse. As always, there will also be painting and modeling events and prizes!

This year things will be a little different - we'll be in a different room now that the primary school has taken over the old West Library. We'll also be running two games at a time - a Munchkin card game, and a table top game. We'll also have a painting and modeling competition somewhere in the middle of the year.

For the moment, the timetable is looking like this:

Term One: LSCWC starts again about Week 5. We'll play Super Munchkin and Warmachine.

Term Two: We'll play Super Munchkin and Warmachine, with some Muscle Car Apocalypse as well.