Latest FOW Painting work for Battlefront.

Lots of German winter goodness released this week that i painted for Battlefront.  White on White urggg not my favorite. (Especially when they are blown up to much larger than actual size...)

The big release is the Volksgrenadier Company which has a Sturm and Schutzen platoon in the box..

 GBX72 Volksgrenadier Company (GBX72)





Volksgrenadier Sturm Platoon

Volksgrenadier Schützen Platoon

next up a couple of blister packs.

HMG Platoon (Winter) (GE844)

Mortar Platoon (Winter) (GE845)

Pioneer Platoon (Winter) (GE847)

So there you have it, roughly 3 weeks worth of painting in one hit.

ROME 2 Total War

Im a huge fan of the total war series of computer games as soon as Shogun 2 was announced I knew they would do a second Rome total war game.  I waited and waited and after 2 years the announced Rome 2.

Its still a long way off (Quarter 2 of 2013- so somewhere between May and July 2013) but by god is it starting to shape up nicely as far as graphics and game play go!

This video was just released on Total War Centre - if your a fan of total war you will have been there before if not check it out its full of information and mods to enhance and expand the total war games.

This game play video has quite simply blown my mind! Honestly if they released it now in its pre alpha state id still buy it and play it with whatever flaws it must still have... Roll on the middle of next year where all my miniatures painting will stop and my computer gaming hat will be firmly in place.

This then there is the x-wing miniatures game, Zombiecide, Spartacus and the new 6th edition 40k to keep me occupied but i think ill be watching this video once or twice a week and dreaming right up till the games release. :)

Zombiecide has landed in New Zealand

YAY!!!!!!!!!  it's finally here. Well actually it turned up 4 days ago but ive been too busy to post but ive just finished playing it all day with the lads and it's a massive amount of fun and im all amped about it..

Unless you have been living under a rock you have an idea what Kick starter is and will have heard about Zombiecide (one of the most funded board game/war gaming projects to date). If not, you need to check out:
 http://kiwi-colour-studio.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/kickstarter-goodness.html or the Zombiecide website :http://guillotinegames.com/en/

All the parts promised from the Kick starter project were in the package including a spanky red t-shirt with the Zombiecide logo on the front. The game rules are very easy to pick up; and after playing the tutorial mission (where we kicked total zombie butt) we moved onto the first proper mission, we tried playing it three times in total and we jsut got our butts handed to us. We did discover that we were doing the odd thing slightly wrong (as is normally the case with a new game) but over all the zombies just were too overpowering for us.  The game is extreamly action packed after the first few turns. The more successful you are in killing zombies or collecting objectives the harder the game gets and the brain eating buggers just keep on coming.  It's just as well the game is cooperative because if you weren't all working together you would be eaten in a matter of turns.  Its a really interesting mix between needing to sneak around and committing mass zombie murder.  

Below is a pic of the game in process.

- the zombie hoard approaches!

- The sad demise of unlucky players. (in one turn 5 out of the 6 players died.)

It's been a blast of a day.  Im so amped from playing ive undercoated all of the characters and am going to start painting them.  Watch this space for progress pics.