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What to do with all your mins!

I believe that the miniatures you bought are yours, not some game systems or company’s. I have mins from GW, Heroscape, Heroclixs, Mantic, ect. I’ve played multiple systems and like them all but sometimes I want to play my own games with house rules, no sense in recreating the wheel. I’ve been playing a spaceship battle game using modified Babylon 5 ACTA, Full thrust and BFG. I divide the hull points by 2 from Full Thrust, added weapons from ACTA and BFG. The setting I’m using is Earth in the latter part of this century. America is now the Federal States of America more of the back story coming later. What do you think about using all of your miniatures? Right now for my Necromunda/Mordehim I’m really feeling the Bloodbound I like the vibe of killer cannibals living in a ruined city.

I’ve been using this America 2050 map to show future hive cities and the high speed rail routes that connect them. The smaller circles are where a hive fleet remains crashed into America. I’m using ‘nids from GW mostly guants and genestealers, with the queen being a hive queen from Aliens. I painted my nids black and highlighted them in metallic silver and gold with the spore mines silver with red highlights. Most people would say ‘hey you can’t paint nids like that!’ I bought them so I can paint them anyway I want. As a fan of Alien and Aliens I first had my guardsmen fighting them on a space hulk. As my game evolved I had them make it to Earth in the late 2019’s and crushed as a threat late 2025. The bug wars forced us to move into hive/mega cities for defense with a few hives still present. But unknown to us the bugs were carrying a parasite a race that was on the verge of being consumed by a hive fleet. The desperate race combined their DNA with the bugs every 1 in 50 bugs born is a reborn remnant of that race now know as the Plague I’m using my Marro miniatures from Heroscape.

The Plague also damaged the DNA of new species the first sign are citizens turning into zombies. A good use for any zombie miniatures I have around. Then they become hybrids crossed with bug DNA and human a good use for my Genestealer Neophyte Squad.

As you can see the sky is open to what you want to do. If you don’t want to spend a ton of money fielding a large army squad base scrimmage games are the way to go. The big companies like GW and others might lose out on a bunch of money from you amassing one large army they gain from you buying a bunch of starter sets! Either way you go collecting large armies or small squads you are now hooked, the beast has sunk it gaming claws in you. I know from personal experience. My next project are these guys.

A how to convert Necromunda to Kill Team.

So let’s pull the band aid off the wound and get to converting some Necromunda stats to Kill Team. Why? Why not? Plus you should be able to use all of your GW miniatures in every game. So let’s get started.

So you can throw away everything but the name, the credit cost and maybe the rule activation 2 from Necromunda and use the Kill Team stats. Easy conversion, if you own both Necromunda and Kill Team books or have resources to all the stats. Just find something close to the original stats and flavor. Also check out Acolyte rules and game. At acolytegame on link tree. If you want to do a more RPG like game with your Kill Teams see stats below.

Starting stats from Acolyte could be used for starting gangsters in Kill Team. No big brain conversions just plug and play. See how it works for you and please let me know.

And until next time remember folks they’re your miniatures play how you want to!

Female Custodians?

Everyone is tripping over female custodes. I’m not, don’t care , they don’t exist in my universe. I don’t care what GW does to the lore anymore. The SJWs can have the lore but not my hobby! Paint the imperial palace in rainbows, don’t care.

#theyreyourmininwtures Remember folks they’re your miniatures play with them how you want!

April 8th, 2024 or 0 A.C. (After contact) or 4.8.51,000,000,000 S.G.C. ( Standard Gaia Calendar).

Last operating Gaian War moon. Image Comet Empire Space Battleship Yamato 2.

So April 8th has rolled around, my birthday to be exact. And guess what that green comet turned into? A frigging moon sized battle station with an accompanying fleet of millions of warships. Today was the day that the Earth stood still!

Portrait of Emperor Augustus Decimus Aelius DCLXVI or 666th. Image by me and AI art app.

Panic, shock, shitting oneself senseless? Yes times a billion. Everything we thought we knew as a race flushed down the toilet in seconds. Our NEW leader Augustus Decimus Aelius the 666th arrived moon sized battle station and a fleet a million plus ships in tow entered Earth orbit around the same distance as Luna.

Americas and other nations secret space fleets and extra solar colonies was exposed, as well as the technology gap the shadow governments had with the masses. A hundred year technology gap? No, let’s say a five hundred year gap. Technology that could’ve made life better for the common man, woman and child only available to the point five percent of the world’s population. Think of the movie Elysium on crack!

From Elysium the movie 2013 Sony Pictures.

All Earth governments went all of a sudden model after Gaian techno-feudal ( which favored the current 1%) and our new religion Neo-Catholicism, no matter what religion you were you are a Neo-Catholic now! What does that mean? Practicing Buddhist? Now you are a Neo-Catholic practicing Buddhist, Southern Baptist? Neo-Catholic Southern Baptist, devout Jew or Muslim? You get it Neo-Catholic before any original religious association. Why? The Gaian Empire had been in contact with the U.N. And Vatican for over a hundred years. A Gaian probe found a rip in sub space that proved that the infinite had became finite in the land or Israel.

So with shock and awe and a brief civil war we went from the United States of America to the Federal States of America. From fifty states to ten federal regions governed by a Federal electoral Count who elects the Prince-elector or President of the Federal States of America for fifty years or death. The common American has become a plebeian a dependent of the state in hours. The lucky, CEOs, celebrities and the like were the lucky ones who were granted minor nobility of Esquire, Gentlemen, Gentlewoman and Ministerialis. Canada and Mexico seeing other world powers grouping up decided to join the F.S.A. No boarders, one common language ( English!), and currency the Federal Dollar. Canada and Mexico retains their current leadership and flags, just now in silver and black. They also continue to have their own militaries under F.S.A. Influence. The new capital of the F.S.A. Is Denver, Co. why? Because it’s equally between Washing D.C. Mexico City and Ottawa. The current Federal President Prince- elector Steven Jefferson ( an American, who would’ve thought?)

Welcome boys and girls to the Federal States of America. Can’t you smell the freedom?

The U.N. Is the world government. A fleet of a thousand ships under the U.N. Banner was revealed, with Cap ships with mass drivers placed over every capital on Earth. And the revelation of a million man army ( cloned soldiers )with A.P.Cs, tanks and other military vehicles. Lead by Secretary-General Planetary-Duchess Magdalene Malloch. Iron Maggie or Her Excellency is the current representative of Earth to the Gaian assembly of worlds.

U.N. Clone Troopers. Image owned by Sine_Fine_Bellie Reddit.

As you can see my personal dystopian game world is coming together. My games take place from A.C. 10 ( 2034.) to Wednesday April 8th 2201, A.C. 177 or around about. I’m currently filling in what happens in between like the bug and the Plastron invasion in A.C. 50 and the depopulation or relocation of 98% of Federal citizens to walled Meg city complexes. Something like the map below.

Mega Cities and bug-Plastron nest. Image America2025 IrvingPINYC.

So I’m finished wagging my tongue. I’m off to enjoy my birthday ( inside.) enjoy the eclipse! And until next time, remember folks they’re your miniatures play with them how you want to!

My two cents on AOS and the GW hamsters wheel.

So I’ll try to keep this short and oh by the way. There will be a post tomorrow on what I’m working on. I’ve been in this game for a long while and I’ve seen this pattern before. So let this old man chime in on the latest GW tactic. GW has “Squatted” the Sig marines and now require players to buy all new models. Surprised? I’m not how many times does a snake need to tell you it’s a snake? GW has said its new mode of business is a new edition every three years. That means the old stuff has to be done away with if you like it or not.

So I ask you are you going to fall it and FOMO? Or are you going to take license and your hobby back? I myself don’t follow the current meta, I do as I please and so should you! Be free, follow the fluff. See the new rules. You don’t have to be a slave to this cycle that’s not going to end. GW has told you that you are going to be on a three year cycle, it’s not going to end. Money is finite and I’m not going to keep wasting it on rules and miniatures I don’t need.!

In ending, it’s your money and your hobby, you can do as you please. But remember they’re your miniatures play with them how you want to!

Adding Carbon 2185 to my 5 Parsecs from home games.

So this is my bi monthly post on things I’ve been working on or musing about. I came across this product Carbon 2185 by chance and bought it on RPG.com. After reading through it I deemed part’s compatible with my version of 5 Parsecs from home and my Kill Team, Necromunda homebrew.

In my upcoming 5 Parsecs game we will be following my protagonist Jon Byzantine a character I use for almost all my games like Ed Texira of the 5150 franchises uses Billy Pink for his games. Jon lives in the mega hive city of OKC or should I say the western gate city of El Reno in the mega building and support for the next level of the mega city building 111. Jon is a proud resident of 111 and with his mates fights kids from other mega buildings in his spare time. Jon also has a crew of thieves and thugs call the Horsemen taken from the Horsemen of Revelation, but there’s more than four of them. The Horsemen venture into other parts of the OKC lower Mega hive know as O.G.L. Or original ground level doing crimes and other gigs for the low level crime bosses.

Members of the Horsemen. Image from the Carbon 2185 rule book.

As we all know every crime spree comes to an end and it did massively for the Horsemen. Jon and his crew stole from the wrong person by mistake or I should say unknowingly. Property belonging to one Lord Leroy Jenkins of the order of the Black Fist a man you never should cross even less steal from. The item in question was a data cube made from a real diamond, worth millions of federal dollars or universal credits. Most of the Horsemen were killed by security forces but Dave aka Crunch and Jon escaped in Jon’s scrap car the Paul Revere back to the district of 111 with a train of enforcers on their tail. Dave had taken a bad hit to his left side and was bleeding bad from his wound even after a slap seal med patch was applied. Jon knowing his friend couldn’t run when they ditched the car leads the perusing enforcers down dirty and crowed alleys of the 111 district. Slowing down long enough to push Dave out to crawl under a trash bin Jon leads the enforcers to a dead end where he surrenders.

Some members of the Horsemen. Image from the Carbon 2185 rule book.

The data cube wasn’t found on Jon or in his car. He said nothing even after being beaten by OKC enforcers, Federal agents and the personnel members of Lord Jenkins household. Bruised but not bowed Jon is brought before a judge who gives him a choice serve a ten year prison sentence in the robot manufacturing plant in northern Alaska or join the Federal Armed Forces. Jon chose the F.A.F. Singed his name and raised his hand and was out of jail on a 48 hour pass until he reported for duty. A duty he was told would be in the Federal Defense Force the Earth bound military of the Federal States of North America which includes Mexico and Canada. Jon informs his family which consists of his Mother, younger brother, his son Jon jr. And his girlfriend. “ Ten years will go by in a blink.” Jon says “ Plus I’ll be sending credits back home to take care of y’all. And will be home around J.J.’s seventeen birthday.” Famous last words.

The Silver and Black flag of the Federal States of America. Image produced by Maurice Spann.

Jon’s post in the F.D.F was changed to the Federal Extra-planetary Forces, in other words off world. Jon’s family was devastated as was Jon but what choice did he have? His service included travel time via sub space wormholes to disputed worlds fighting the E.U., The South American Federation, the Russian-Chinese Hegemony and the Japanese Empire as well as the Bugs, Grays, the avian Alterians, and the Animalistic rat men and wolf shape changers of the Morthan Soldat.

When Jon returned home he is intercepted by one Lord Leroy Jenkins with a job offer, find out who’s supplying high tech weapons to the dregs of O.G.L. And the shantytowns. Jon has no choice again but to accept. So with his Sunbeam pistol, combat armor and a writ from Lord Jenkins as an Investigator he proceeds to ground level and block 111 to find his Mother’s hab burned out by a missile strike, his brother transferred to the Texas Triangle Hive, his girlfriend married to a upper level member of a prominent merchant house and his son missing. After pressing some credits into hands of former friends and associates he finds out that his son has a crew that works for Uncle Dave. Uncle Dave owns several clubs and business he’s also the Dave from the Horsemen, the same Dave with the data cube and who also life was saved by Jon. Let’s just say Dave has some questions to answer and Jon is not asking twice.

So this will be my background for my 5 Parsecs game. I didn’t have or know that there was a gang version of 5 Parsecs and can’t get a copy anywhere. So I’m using 5 Parsecs rules but also using some rules from Carbon 2185 especially the background rules that remind me of the Traveller rpg character creation.

Criminal and Military life paths from Carbon 2185 rule book.

So I’m using this from the Carbon 2185 rule book because Jon was a criminal and a military vet and now he’s an investigator. Might include that life path for my upcoming games. Well enough of my rambling until next time remember their your miniatures and now books play with them how you want to!

So you wanna use your Necromunda mins in Kill Team?

So, you want to use your Necromunda gangs in KT? Easy to convert at least to me. Let’s take the Escher for example. Just look up the Commerite kill team. Use the stats and change up the weapons and there you go. I think with the Goliaths you could use Scout Team stats and maybe even the weapons.

Let me know what you think? Well until next time remember folks they’re your miniatures play with them how you want to!

The New Owners Appear.

comet’s coma, or atmosphere, did have a green glow and sported a shadowy streak instead. (Image credit: Eliot Herman)

So with my thought experiment for a new game world aka fluff. I questioned when would “they “ show up? How about April 8th, 2024. Yeah, Full eclipse across parts of North America and a green horned comet at the same time? Come on man, that would be perfect! The aliens have been waiting for us to acclimatize to their presence but world governments wanting to stay in power dragged their feet on full disclosure and the new bosses are tired of waiting!

So what would that day look like? Oh, I guess an appearance at the UN by the big boss in charge. Everything stops that day and I mean everything! The green comet stops around the distance the Moon is from the Earth and it turns out to be a massive battleship! Thousands of craft all over the world no terrestrial air traffic. The new Boss the Emperor of the Gaea Imperium address the world on how they saved us from the Nephlim who controlled us for 1,000 years, the giants and men of renown. And how we are 300 years ahead of time but had to rebuild after the expulsion of the Nephlim, retrain us humans and reeducate us.

Just a thought. Next post will be combining Necromunda and Kill Team. Until next time remember folks they’re your miniatures play with them how you want to!

My thoughts on a new game.

So I was sitting around watching YouTube and fell down a rabbit hole. The Tartarian Empire, mud flood, Nephlim and ufos. So how can you put all of this together? Easily.

First let’s tie in the Tartarian Empire and the Nephlim. We, humanity was ruled by the Nephlim, giants. Look at all the giant doors built into old world buildings.

We had lords, giants over us on all continents. We built an advanced civilization utilizing free electrical energy. But then “They” showed up and wiped out the giants and our old society by turning our soil to liquid using sonic weapons. Oh they had help from human colabratiors our new overseers. Who doled out technology to bring us up to the society we have today. Yes the civil war happened, Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin, just like most people who were trying to reclaim the lost civilization. We “ Found” old centers of the Nephlim and called them State and County halls. Wondered at the so called world fair buildings.

So basically we lost our original time and dates because of the invasion. The aliens our new lords and masters gave us after a few technological advancements milestones have been reached then they would reveal themselves. Most of the aliens bases are in the ocean, lakes, underground and barren places. wonder why the government is talking about ufos? Why more and more people are seeing them?

So, that’s the gist of it and what I have now. I could Insert the Gaian Empire and its subject races as the new owners of Earth. I’ll have to play around and see how this develops. What rule system should I use? Do I want big ground combat or skirmish? Do I want to include space combat? I’m still working on it. Also it has to be miniature agnostic so I can use stuff from multiple game systems.

Well that’s it for now folks. I pray that all of you have a happy and blessed 2024. And until next time, their your miniatures play with them how you want to!

First born v. True Scale Marines.

Well the time has come folks, the retirement of the old school first born marines. And people are getting salty, real salty! Now I can see why buying, painting and playing with a army that probably cost you thousands of dollars to complete and now nope! That would really twist me off if I play on the competitive circuit, but I don’t.

To be honest folks I really don’t have a dog in this fight. It doesn’t matter to me. I can see why people feel betrayed by GW coming out with rules for first born making you feel like everything going to be ok then WHAM! We’re porting them over to legends buy the new stuff. GW should’ve called the primaris true scale and left it at that. Anyone who played 40K for any amount of time wished the marines were bigger than the Imperial Guards, I’m not calling them buy that new stupid name. Now we got them, they could’ve save all this stupid lore on we invented bigger, better marines that even the Emperor of Mankind couldn’t come up with insert eye roll.

Again I really struggled on commenting about the scale and the retirement of the first born. I will say again GW should’ve pull the trigger from the start! I feel sorry for everyone who invested hundreds if not thousands of dollars in their armies, I know it sucks to feel used and abandoned by a game system and company, a universe you love and now feel like you can’t play in. Wrong! If you like most of us play at home or at our local game shop then it shouldn’t be a big deal. As my motto says they’re your miniatures! Don’t let me or anyone else tell h you how to play with your stuff that you spent your hard earned money on. Well my rant is over. Remember folks they’re your miniatures play with them how you want to!

10th Edition Warhammer 40K and my initial thoughts.

So the hype is out, the boxes have started to arrive at homes and stores, and I didn’t buy it. Why? Cause the rules are free! I’ve got tons a gray that needs to be built and painted, can’t see adding more to my pile. I think the models look great and may get them in the future, but not now.

I’ve watched a bunch of YouTube videos on how to play, batreps and initial thoughts on the new rules. I like what I see so far, like One Page Rules GW has published all the rules free on its website and have even done a how to play. All the information can be downloaded as pdfs and that’s great, for now. GW has said that codexes will be published in the future and that’s how they get you, by tweaking the game play behind a paywall.

I thought GW was going to do something new and breaking with the rules but it’s the same UGIG system and that’s where I think we as gamers can improve the system. How you might say? By using in smaller games alternating turns like Battletech Alpha Strike. If you’re not familiar with the system the losing player goes first by moving a unit, then the winner moves a unit until both sides finish. Then with the losing player shooting then the winner, casualties from both sides are removed at the end of the turn. In my head I can see players jockeying to outflank and outmaneuver each other in the movement phase then shooting each other. No gotcha moments, no alpha strikes, no sitting there taking a beating and removing models until your turn.

I’m planning on giving this a run at combat patrol level where I see this really working. Don’t know if it would work at Crusade or match play? Probably would with some tweaking. Give it a go and let me know in the comments what you think. Well until next time remember folks they’re your miniatures play with them how you want to!