Crisis 2015 - Phat Cats on tour.... Part one The Airborne Museum

We managed to get back in for Crisis and dragged the AVP Predator temple board along for the ride!

After last year we decided to make more of a weekend of it so this is what we got up to...


Man packing, nice and simple! 

Geek packing lot more kit!! 

So after being picked up by Lee we swung by Rob's place and spotted these kicking around! 

Orc Marines!

And a badly taken picture of an orc infantryman

And we're off! 

After driving down to Dover and staying overnight it was a early start for the stupid o'clock ferry! 

And we head into port greeting the French with a traditional English welcome

A quick stop off somewhere in Belgium I think?

And we go past Antwerp and head towards Arnhem

So we hit the Airborne museum and rather than make a stupid amount of mistakes I'll simply let the pictures do the talking, 

The usual suspects.... 

So after wandering around the museum, which took us about an hour and a half and was well worth the 9 euros, we wandered down to the cemetery. 

So after a very lengthy day and encountering a slight technical problem on the way back we eventually made it to the hotel and got some drinking going, 

Nick threw this into the mix and the evening went down hill from there.... 

So that was Thursday & Friday..   The show on Saturday will come next...

Panzerfaust - Release the Bear! Via the Anarchy!

A couple of weeks ago when I did some play testing with Rob over at Lemington, we got onto the subject of the bigger stuff for panzerfaust.

And this was the result of that conversation....

I even got some "fluff"

"Leutnant Evhȃnz took a last swig of schnapps from his hip flask before turning his back on the burning Gnome mushroom farm and walking back to his unit. The meat wagons had at last caught up with his Panzerkriegtiere troop and the bears were busily devouring the fresh meat. The panzertruppen were busy reloading ammunition and checking the armour to see if any repairs needed immediate action. Evhȃnz second in command walked over to him, “Vell Anton, ze war is almost over, ja?” “So it seems mein freund, ve vill be back in Khâllazdûrin for Hogswatchnacht!” A sudden shout stopped the conversation short. A funker was running towards them. “Orcs! Herr Leutnant! Orcs are coming!” “Verdammt!” exclaimed Evhȃnz. “Mount up now!” The Dwarves sprang into action clambering into the armoured hulls. Guns were loaded, hatches sealed, the meat wagons withdrawn. Leutnant Evhȃnz keyed his radio “Panzer-Bären vorwärts!”

So thats another one kicked off the bucket geek list!

Carn't wait to see what the renders and rules for this bad boy will be, Panzerfaust will end on Sunday evening so if your still pondering wander on over and do the right thing and support a great looking revamp on a classic game, If your already on board I'm certain Rob & Steve send you their eternal thanks!

panzerfauste mechanised warfare

Gates of Antares - The "demo"

About a 18 months ago I was kindly asked my Nick if I would like to do some play testing for a game called Beyond the Gates of Antares.....

I remembered that it was on kickstarter briefly before being pulled, As a system whore I  glady accepted!

So I manged to get involved at the very beginning and managed to get a few playtest games in with myself and Nick hacking through the rules and putting various suggestions forward to Rick with ways that we felt that certain bits of the system could be improved.

Take a moment to re-read that last paragraph.. I was giving feedback to Rick Priestly the bloke who wrote the games that actually got me into wargaming in the first place! quite a surreal thought!!

Myself and  Nick have been trying to sort out a game for a while and finally managed to nail an evening that we could get together!

This would be the first time that we would be playing with the final rule set so was looking forward to the evening,

So we were using the models from the starter set, Initially I thought it was two sets due to the amount of stuff on the table but part way through the game Nick to me otherwise, its a lot of toys!!

I gave Nick the choice of sides and the ghar were his chosen faction, so the poster boys for me!

In my usual "Anton" manner I rushed my troops forwards as the best form of defence is attack! 

However I'm sure these guys didn't think that as they got opened up on and became very popular with the ghar!  however this enabled the rest of the force to move up with the drones floating around the back and taking pop shots at the battle suits

Eventually the guys on my left flank make it to the pad and dug in ready for the impending assault, whilst on my right flank reinforcements formed a firebase to soften up the assault suits

With the suppressed unit as bait the assault unit came steaming round the jungle and got opened up on by the fire teams... 

these guys took an amazing amount of fire!!

 moral checks due to the suppression were taken and Poof they were gone! 

So that just left the battle suit unit who were looking a bit dicey, suppression markers were strewn across the field

The last unit of ghar mad it into combat with the unit on the pad and whupped them and they died a glorious death! 

so with the Ghar nicely placed the concord blazed away at the remaining unit, didn't actually drop any but the amount of suppression was building up.

eventually the weight of fire broke the remaining ghar unit by having double the amount of suppression than the moral, apparently according to Nick with all the demo's he's ran that's never be done! 

So as I was involved at the beginning the rules were fairly easy to pick up and remember, I still love the dice out of the bag, makes you think on your feet and involves both sides rather than one person being out of the game for 10-15 mins.

Now the background has been expanded its a far reach from 40K this will be coming into me extensive gaming collection and will rival warzone with the amount of table time that my sci fix will get!

If your still on the fence and have the funds I'd recommend giving it a crack!

pre order now beyond the gates of antares