Long long ago in a Wafflehouse far far away......

We had a playtest of "Where Copyright Infringements Dare!!!", Doctor Merkury's rules for Star Wars like skirmish battles. Doc asked me to set up a table with lots of platforms and walkways that characters could be thrown off of. I spent two hours Thursday night setting up this Bespin inspired table using some old necromunda stuff, some Kenner toys, and scraps of plexiglass. For the record Doc spent most of the game complaining about how there was no cover on the table. There's just no pleasing some people.

We had a light side team and a dark side team with 3 players each. Each player got to wield one force user along with some troops and various supporters. Our objective was to search droids on the board until we found a Jedi Holocron and then get the Holocron to the pickup point on top of the gas storage chambers. Anakin makes the first move scoping out the situation.

The droids move in, "Roger roger"

"Hey Guys! Look at these bitchin' AT-RTs we brought, they should be a ton of help!"

"OH FOR THE LOVE OF YODA!!! The AGONY!!! My flesh is burning!!! The AT-RTs were no help at all! Who would design a vehicle that looks like a chicken!?!? WHO!?!?!?"

Obi-Wan inspects the first droid and finds an explosion in the distance.

An R2 unit guarding the secret entrance to a trash compactor. An invisible trash compactor.

Commander Matt sends his team off to negotiate peace with the clouds.

Anakin starts getting itchy to run down the "Walkway of Doom"

"Where's that fool going?"

"NO ANAKIN! ANAKIN NO!"

"Anakin, be mindful of your surroundings. Reach out with the force, what do you sense? Don't rush into danger. Anger is the path to the darkside. Your rage will be your......you're not even listening to me are you?" ~Obi-Wan

Anakin rushes over to the Trade Federation forces screaming, "I'm the chosen one, bitches!"

An epic lightsaber duel ensues between Anakin and Massage Temptress, "Jedi boy, Jedi boy. You give me ten dolla I give you 'Force Release"

Anakin, considering the possibilities of "Force Release", is struck down, but he did manage to take a bite out of Asaaj.

Ventress regroups with Count Dookie

Grievous shows up out of nowhere with a squad of droids. I seriously had forgotten he was over there. This was unpleasant.

Luckily, clones and Wookies were in position and able to knock out a few of the droids.

Clones fire on Jango Fett as Obi-Wan sneaks by with the Holocron in tow.

Master Samuel L. Windu engages Count Dookie, and wipes him out. "I am motherf*&king sick of this motherf*&king Dookie on this motherf*&king platform"

I never realizd how many Chewbaccas I had

Obi-Wan force jumps up to the top of the Gas storage Tanks, the end is near.

Obi-Wan's clones join him and one more force jump later the game is over.

Good times. This is the first time I've been really excited about a game in awhile. It was cool. I am really looking forward to playing again. Thanks Doc Merkury.

They Call Me MR. GILLMAN!!!

Here is my Creature from 4a miniatures (I think). I need to get my tramp steamer crewman painted....and a tramp steamer built. At the rate I'm going I'm never gonna get any of that stuff done and my wife is just gonna end up putting this in her aquarium to keep the goldfish company.

SUPERS! IN SPAAAAAACE!!!!!

Supers are sent to the surface an meteor fast approaching Earth, to see what they can do. When they arrive on the meteor's surface they find that a team of villians has also landed and that the meteor is not all it seems as it contains remnants of intelligent life as well as the prescence of the OMNI-BOX! Killshot teleports and immediately swipes the Omni-Box, yoink.

A shot of the meteor's surface.

The heroes trying to activate the Omni-Box, despite not understanding it's power.

Gunplay ensues

BRIX lays out Barnabas the Vampire but Brainjob immediately uses his super-mind powers to attack. The first attack is rolled and BRIX manages to outwit Brainjob. "Really Brainjob? You couldn't outwit a 7 foot tall pile of rock?" the Red Devil says. "I'll show you the might of my squishy pink matter!!!" screams Brainjob as he takes a second mental attack and puts BRIX down for the count with an explosive brainjob. "You just got brainjobbed!" says Brainjob. "Don't say that too loud", replies Red Devil

BRIX's final stand

The ground begins to rock around the feet of the supers as the omni-box springs to life and chunks of the meteor burst up under their feet as the supers find themselves on floating shifting chunks of space rock!

Doctor Mekury's face is kind of doing an Event Horizon thing. I must not have had a setting right, all the pictures came out goobly...that's a photography term meaning 'full of goobness'.

Killshot took out Brainjob and then goes to battle with Mum-RA the ever living!

A bunch of Supers gather on one rock to do battle. Ain't no party like a Supers party, 'cause a Supers party don't stop!

Vampire......In space!!!

The good guys sitting pretty on the big rock

Den starts fiddling with the Omni-BOX and accidentally turns himself into the OMNI-CREATURE!!!.......which was ultimately uneventful.

The game was pretty fun. The Rocks would move every few activations and could collide into each other, which did happen once. There were some good suggestions for streamlining things next time so that it's easier to travel across the moving space rocks. Ultimately the villians ended up kind of trapped on one side of the board and we decided to call it a night. Good times.

When a wife builds your battlefield....

So here I was trying to build up the fences for a 15mm post apocalyptic junkyard for hockey mask wearing wastelanders to have shootouts in and I walk away for 10 minutes and my wife turns it into a Bambi sanctuary.

No More Room in HELL!!!!

Last week we had our first playtest of "No More Room in Hell", the new zombie rule set that I'm writing for Iron Ivan Games. The rules are based on Doctor Merkury's "Where Heroes Dare!" pulp rules. Players create Survivors that will have to make their way through the zombie apocalypse. The game will include extensive campaign options that will show the wear and tear that a Survival Party suffers from repeated encountes with the living dead and with unfriendly survivors.

Al searches a building and "finds an explosion in the distance". HA!

Doctor Merkury gets stuck in a tight spot between multiple Zombie Hordes.

"Do you have any rocket pops?"

I don't want to give too much away at this point, the game went pretty well, and we had a lot of fun. The playtest definitely showed some of the things that still need tweaking and gave me some new ideas as well.

I'm a LOOOONG time zombie fanatic and I've really been working hard to try and make this game encompass all the things that I've wanted to see in a zombie game and I'm hoping that zombie fans will REeeeALLY dig this book, it's going to have a lot of flavor and zombie fans will hopefully have a smile on their face when they read this one. I'll keep you updated on the progress. Happy Hunting!

Mongo of the Undead

15mm Post Apocalyptic Zombie Tiles

So I got the idea for these 6x6 terrain tiles while watching Akira with Doctor Merkury, more specifically the tiles with the burnt out cars( I had planned for some time to break up pieces of the Child Guidance building sets for 15mm ruins). The idea came while watching Tetsuo or Toshio, or Yu-Gi-Oh, or whatever the hell his name was blow up big chunks of Neo Tokyo. Anyway, I ordered a bunch of pre-cut MDF boards and started making these up. The cars are all dollar store cheapies. I'm pretty happy with the results. The tiles will fit nicely on my city streets gaming mat that I made and should look pretty cool for my zombie games and post apocalyptic games. In case anyone is wondering the LOTR 15mm fantasy projects will be put indefinitely on hold. I am doing some commission work right now as well as a secret zombie project with Doc Merkury.....more on that later.

Phase I: Good enough

The human fantasy army foot soldiers are finished and next I'll be moving onto the mounted troops. These were block painted and dipped and frankly that's sufficient for me on these miniatures. The pace of this project is going a little faster than I thought so I'm hoping I can keep that going. We'll see.