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Wednesday, February 26, 2020
ICO 2020
Monday, February 24, 2020
Financiación de liquidez
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Finished Minefields
Here's the finished product: a regulation size minefield for Team Yankee.
With the token, on a Cigar Box Battle Mat
Sunday, February 23, 2020
HOTT 52 - Battle 4 - Attack On An'Burkag's Encampment
I fought my HOTT 52 Week 4 battle over lunch today and had a blast! I tried out the Magician unit for the first time. After the battle report, I'll give you my thoughts on this unit and how it plays out.
To create my armies I have tables that represent armies when they're all militia, all regular/professional, or a mix of the two. Regular armies have (more) elements like heroes, magicians, blades and knights. Militia armies have more of riders, warbands, spears and hordes, plus the cleric that sees to the needs of the common folk pressed into service!
This battle, I wanted to mix it up, so I rolled randomly for regular/militia or militia/regular, then rolled to see which exact army was to be used. The human army would be a militia/regular army. The Orc army, led by the War Chief An'Burkag, would be regular/militia.
The orcs were supposed to have Spear x3 and Hordes x2, but I swapped them out for the Orc Shaman as my Magician experiment.
The orcs lined up outside of their camp, howling and cursing at the humans who appeared on the horizon. They anchored their right flank with an impassable hill.
The human commander put her knights and riders on the flanks with the intent of sending the speedy riders to threaten the stronghold or Orc reserves.
The Orc Shaman Oz'turk, seeing the hateful Human Knights to their left, moved over to that flank, preparing foul spells to cast at them. Meanwhile, An'Burkag detailed a unit of Orc Spears to line up with him to prevent the Human Riders from flanking them or attacking their camp!
The Human army rolled down on top of the orc defense and pushed them all back!
Undaunted, the orcs and goblins gnashed their teeth, gripped their cold iron weapons and charged back at the humans, pushing them back!
(It was an amazing story the dice told! Every orc unit on the line recoiled when it was the human's bound, and almost the same in reverse when it was the orc's bound!)
The human knights, seeing a potential trap, charged at the flanking Orc knights. With nowhere to go, the retreating Orc Knights crashed into the melee between goblin and human archers. The unit broke up! Unfortunately, the impetuous Human knights made a mistake in turning to attack the Orc Shaman. When they attacked, they were overcome by his foul magicks!
(In HOTT, if a Knight (Kn) attacks a Magician and suffers a minor defeat in that same bound, they are destroyed! I had to reread that rule several times to make sure I understood it. It's subtle in the wording... if the Magician had charged/initiated contact, then the way the rule reads, the Kn would not have been destroyed!)
The Orcs also protected their rear/right flank, with the Orc spear destroying the light Rider cavalry. The orc line, however, suffered several defeats and began to fragment.
The human army pressed their advantage and pushed the orcs back. Warchief An'Burkag raced to reinforce the line and the Shaman Oz'turk rained spells and curses on both the flanking knights and units in the humans army, but they had little effect.
In the end, the orcs were unable to mount a serious defense and An'Burkag was forced to sound the horns of retreat. The humans marched upon the remains of the camp and burned it all to the ground, celebrating a hard fought victory!
Orcs: 12AP lost, Humans: 8 AP lost.
I rolled quite a few 6 to 1 combat rolls, in favor of the humans, which almost always spells defeat for the orcs. Once the line developed gaps, the bonuses for overlaps from the intact human line spelled the story out. Which was surprising, as the defeats on the flank really blunted whatever advantage I thought the humans would need.
To create my armies I have tables that represent armies when they're all militia, all regular/professional, or a mix of the two. Regular armies have (more) elements like heroes, magicians, blades and knights. Militia armies have more of riders, warbands, spears and hordes, plus the cleric that sees to the needs of the common folk pressed into service!
This battle, I wanted to mix it up, so I rolled randomly for regular/militia or militia/regular, then rolled to see which exact army was to be used. The human army would be a militia/regular army. The Orc army, led by the War Chief An'Burkag, would be regular/militia.
| Humans General/Spear x1 (2 AP) Spears x3 (6 AP) Shooters x2 (4 AP) Riders x2 (4 AP) Knights x2 (4 AP) Blades x2 (4 AP) | Orcs General/Knights x1 (2 AP) Knights x1 (2 AP) Blades x4 (8 AP) Spear x2 (4 AP) Shooters x2 (4 AP) Magician x1 (4 AP) |
The orcs were supposed to have Spear x3 and Hordes x2, but I swapped them out for the Orc Shaman as my Magician experiment.
The orcs lined up outside of their camp, howling and cursing at the humans who appeared on the horizon. They anchored their right flank with an impassable hill.
The human commander put her knights and riders on the flanks with the intent of sending the speedy riders to threaten the stronghold or Orc reserves.
The Orc Shaman Oz'turk, seeing the hateful Human Knights to their left, moved over to that flank, preparing foul spells to cast at them. Meanwhile, An'Burkag detailed a unit of Orc Spears to line up with him to prevent the Human Riders from flanking them or attacking their camp!
The Human army rolled down on top of the orc defense and pushed them all back!
Undaunted, the orcs and goblins gnashed their teeth, gripped their cold iron weapons and charged back at the humans, pushing them back!
(It was an amazing story the dice told! Every orc unit on the line recoiled when it was the human's bound, and almost the same in reverse when it was the orc's bound!)
The human knights, seeing a potential trap, charged at the flanking Orc knights. With nowhere to go, the retreating Orc Knights crashed into the melee between goblin and human archers. The unit broke up! Unfortunately, the impetuous Human knights made a mistake in turning to attack the Orc Shaman. When they attacked, they were overcome by his foul magicks!
(In HOTT, if a Knight (Kn) attacks a Magician and suffers a minor defeat in that same bound, they are destroyed! I had to reread that rule several times to make sure I understood it. It's subtle in the wording... if the Magician had charged/initiated contact, then the way the rule reads, the Kn would not have been destroyed!)
The Orcs also protected their rear/right flank, with the Orc spear destroying the light Rider cavalry. The orc line, however, suffered several defeats and began to fragment.
The human army pressed their advantage and pushed the orcs back. Warchief An'Burkag raced to reinforce the line and the Shaman Oz'turk rained spells and curses on both the flanking knights and units in the humans army, but they had little effect.
In the end, the orcs were unable to mount a serious defense and An'Burkag was forced to sound the horns of retreat. The humans marched upon the remains of the camp and burned it all to the ground, celebrating a hard fought victory!
Orcs: 12AP lost, Humans: 8 AP lost.
I rolled quite a few 6 to 1 combat rolls, in favor of the humans, which almost always spells defeat for the orcs. Once the line developed gaps, the bonuses for overlaps from the intact human line spelled the story out. Which was surprising, as the defeats on the flank really blunted whatever advantage I thought the humans would need.
So.. the Magician unit. Fun! It's basically an advanced artillery unit, being able to launch spells at 3x the distance of shooters, a little further than regular artillery. It does require PIPs though, so it requires a choice to be made between moving a unit or two, or using spells. Unfortunately, out of 4 attempts at a spell, only one had any sort of effect (a recoil), so the results weren't as good as I hoped. I was taken by surprise at the result of the Magician killing the Knight unit, though! I'll remember that for the future.
I don't know how this would have turned out if the Orcs had kept their Hordes and extra Spear unit, but it was a fun element to play with. Now I need to try a Cleric... and I need to buy 15mm human Wizards and Clerics! I don't have any!
PS. If you're curious about my force composition tables, as well as how I conduct my fantasy wargames campaigns, here's a link to my rules. https://drive.google.com/open?id=18CUi40wW6OSm4FhTzdOoH-ct0NxW9jImGyF-okiMOrk
Friday, February 21, 2020
Recent Painting/Basing
Just some recently finished bits and pieces.
3x Panzer IVs with various gun options.
Plastic, Battlefront Miniatures
Fiat Cr.32 "Chirri" for the Nationalists in Spanish Civil War
1:100 by Minairons
It's a cool piece but a little fiddly to put together.
Goblin Pyros for Pathfinder
Reaper Bones
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Attrition, Short Film, Review And Interview
In the trenches of WWI every man had to search deep within themselves to know who they are. Attrition explores the basic premise with a different twist of what if...Attrition was screened at the 2019 FilmQuest film festival (website). It was nominated for Best Director (Kelly Holmes), Best Ensemble Cast, Best Cinematography (Alan C. McLaughlin), Best Production Design/Art Direction, Best Costumes. It won for Best Fantastic Short
Synopsis: A supernatural drama set in the British trenches of WWI. Along with the rest of his platoon, young Private Edwin Childs fears imminent German gas attacks. As the dreaded attack begins, how much will Edwin give of himself in the ultimate act of compassion towards his fellow men?
I recommend Attrition to those who like to explore mankind through a lens of a slightly different reality.
What was the inspiration for Attrition?
Attrition was originally an entry to a competition, and I was the runner up as a writer/director, and then it was developed with producers and our public funder in the UK. I was fascinated by WW1 and the stories told by the men that had a supernatural leaning to them. Attrition can be described as The Green Mile in the trenches, and follows a young naive soldier who is bullied, but he has much more to him than meets the eye, which we discover when the rest of the platoon get caught up in a deadly gas attack. It's the first time I've directed a war film, and this is definitely the largest production that I have done to date.
What project(s) do you have coming up you're excited about?
I'm currently being funded by BFI Network in the UK (our public funder) to do early development on a feature film called Year Of The Heart. Which is a menopausal body horror set in 1968 suburbia. It's a fascinating tale about a woman in her 50s that becomes obsessed with organ transplantation and suffers some very extreme menopausal symptoms that take her obsession to the next level. I also have a dystopian drama set in the very north of Scotland called Pestilencein early development as well about the last ambulance crew standing in the north who have to traverse a Black Plague ridden landscape to save their patient that they feel personally responsible for.
What was your early inspiration for pursuing a career in film?
Indiana Jones. I wanted to BE Indiana when I was a kid and I was genuinely p**sed that I was a girl not a boy. When I was 5 years old I thought I wanted to be an archaeologist so I could be just like him.... Took me a while to figure out that what I really wanted to do was make those sorts of characters and situations. As I grew up Kathryn Bigelow has been a constant source of inspiration and then Guillermo del Toro for his epic creativity.
What would be your dream project?
Gosh, many. Would love to just be able to make the 2 features I have in development at the moment. But one day I want to be making some kickass genre cinema. I'm a bit art house, a bit action, and a large slice of horror and sci-fi. So, anything in those realms would be amazing. I'd adore to make a horror space film, a horror in an asylum, and to be honest there's not been a really great film about the Kraken yet....
What are some of your favorite pastimes when not working on a movie?
I have a small obsession with vintage things...and also horror culture in general, including epic Halloween parties. And I was really into rock climbing until I seriously messed up my neck. I read a lot about magic and weird macabre things. My whole life seems to be attached to cinema in some way, shape or form, so it's difficult to keep a distance. Although my favourite thing really is spending time with my little cat Tilly.
What is one of your favorite movies and why?
Can I give you a list? I can't choose these things, it's a terrible Sophie's Choice situation. I'm just going to tell you what I've been revisiting recently and why. I've been watching Pan's Labyrinth again recently a lot. Although I've seen the film countless times, I'm particularly drawn to watching how del Toro manages to tell such emotional stories, because we even feel for his monsters. I really love that about his work as well has his boundless creative aesthetic, and that's all things I strive to be able to do in my own work in the future.
Find out more about Attrition and Kelly Holmes on the following
FB: https://www.facebook.com/attritionthefilm/
TW: https://twitter.com/attrition_film
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/300498127
Director website: www.kellyholmesdirector.com
TW: https://twitter.com/attrition_film
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/300498127
Director website: www.kellyholmesdirector.com
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A Short Analysis About Gorogoa’s Puzzle Experience
Definitely, the most interesting and thought-provoking game I've played this year was Gorogoa. I experienced the awesome puzzles in the screen of Nintendo Switch and, wow, that was mesmerizing. I followed the whole gaming creative process in social media, but the gameplay surprised me in an epic level.
It's hard to describe the game in few words, but according to the definition from the official site, Gorogoa is "an ingenious, perfectly crafted puzzler". The game creator, Jason Roberts, developed thousands of meticulously detailed hand-drawn illustrations, encompassing the impressive scope of Gorogoa's personal narrative.
Essentially, in the gameplay, you control four quadrants where you must execute a series of zoom in and zoom outs in the images to recombine shapes and create new physical possibilities and structure new scenarios from the most improbable objects. The video below explains the game's main idea:
The great gameplay experience makes me want to write a personal short analysis of Gorogoa (for further consulting in classes) following a model proposed by Tracy Fullerton (2008) in her book Game design workshop.
• Players: single player game; one player against the puzzles
• Objectives: combine patterns to create and recreate scenarios/objects
• General rules: you can point and click in four different quadrants using zoom in and zoom out to connect new possibilities of images
• Resources: colorful images (hand drawn) with a fantasy theme disposed in four quadrants
• Conflicts: how good is your vision and imagination to solve the puzzles
• Limits: four quadrants with limited amount of zoom in/out possibilities
• Results: when you complete a puzzle correctly, the game shows you an animation and a new part of the scenario/narrative to point out your progress
Reference:
FULLERTON, Tracy, et al. Game design workshop: a playcentric approach to creating innovative games. Burlington: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2008.
#GoGamers
It's hard to describe the game in few words, but according to the definition from the official site, Gorogoa is "an ingenious, perfectly crafted puzzler". The game creator, Jason Roberts, developed thousands of meticulously detailed hand-drawn illustrations, encompassing the impressive scope of Gorogoa's personal narrative.
Essentially, in the gameplay, you control four quadrants where you must execute a series of zoom in and zoom outs in the images to recombine shapes and create new physical possibilities and structure new scenarios from the most improbable objects. The video below explains the game's main idea:
The great gameplay experience makes me want to write a personal short analysis of Gorogoa (for further consulting in classes) following a model proposed by Tracy Fullerton (2008) in her book Game design workshop.
• Players: single player game; one player against the puzzles
• Objectives: combine patterns to create and recreate scenarios/objects
• General rules: you can point and click in four different quadrants using zoom in and zoom out to connect new possibilities of images
• Resources: colorful images (hand drawn) with a fantasy theme disposed in four quadrants
• Conflicts: how good is your vision and imagination to solve the puzzles
• Limits: four quadrants with limited amount of zoom in/out possibilities
• Results: when you complete a puzzle correctly, the game shows you an animation and a new part of the scenario/narrative to point out your progress
Reference:
FULLERTON, Tracy, et al. Game design workshop: a playcentric approach to creating innovative games. Burlington: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2008.
#GoGamers
Hard Reset Free Download
Hard Reset Free Download
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Hard Reset Overview
Hard Reset is a First Person Shooter game that has been developed and published under the banner of Flying Wild Hog. This game was released on 13th September 2011. This game is set in the city of Bezoar which is the last remaining human city. Machines have taken the world by storm and have destroyed anything that have come their way. Bezoar is the last hope for mankind. The main character of the game is Major Fletcher who is an Army veteran. In some astonishing turns of event Fletcher has been thrown into a fight between two of the biggest foes of mankind. You can also download Bulletstorm.
This fast paced game has got some majestic graphics and astonishing sounds which will keep the players interested. CLN Modular Assault Rifle and EFF-21 Plasma Rifle are available to the player which can be used to destroy hordes of enemies. Though there are two weapons the player can use but there is an option to carry add ons like rocket launchers and grenades with your CLN Modular Assault Rifle in Hard Reset. Evolve PC Game 2015 is another first Person Shooter game that you can download.
Features of Hard Reset
Following are the main features of Hard Reset that you will be able to experience after the first install on your Operating System
- Impressive First person Shooter game.
- Fast paced action.
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- Majestic graphics.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Subvenciones para empresas
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Thinking About Game Design
I found this excellent graph in @joebaxterwebb's site. It's a synthetic and great game design lesson to think before gaming development. You can read the complete article HERE.
Sure I'll use in my game designing classes next semester. =)
Thanks, Joe for this great content.
#GoGamers
Sure I'll use in my game designing classes next semester. =)
Thanks, Joe for this great content.
#GoGamers
Trollblood Hooch Hauler Model Review
The Hooch Hauler. Personally for me this is a tale of woe and triumph.
Saturday night I returned to my project, this time armed with a healthy pour of some fine Canadian rye whiskey.
To my surprise I was able to push through another three hours of pinning, cleaning, and gluing and was able to complete the model.
Suffice it to say this thing is HUGE! I wanted to see if I could possibly get it even temporarily into the foam for my other 120mm based models and did a group shot for size comparison.
I was incredibly excited by the CID rules, and when I saw the rules stayed as is and we saw the final render I was ready to buy this model day 1.
Then the price hit and while I wasn't expecting to pay so much, I did because I love Trolls and the rules seem like they have a lot of synergy and makes a neat package that slots into almost any caster in the faction. Luckily I had just about the cost of the Hauler left over from selling some of my old GW models and while I expected that to go further in financing new hobby purchases, I took the plunge day 1.
And then the agonizing wait began.
Then finally it arrived....and sat in my house for two weeks in its box.
Basically work was pushing me into a lot of overtime and we had a lot going on with the family that by the time I got my daughters in bed at night (the only time I can dedicate to actually building a model), I was so exhausted that I didn't have the will to start building what is literally the largest and most complex model Privateer Press has ever produced.
This weekend I finally dedicated the time to build it, and it was an adventure.
Friday night I started assembly with a porter at my side. I figured some alcohol would be thematic and help me get through this monster of a model.
I'm not kidding when I say this model is a monster. The modelers at PP did an utterly incredible job so that when it came to where the injection points for the molds on the various pieces went, every single part had the extra flash in places where you would not see it once the model was assembled.
Clearly there was a lot of thought put into the design in terms of model assembly goes. This was absolutely necessary actually, because when it came to extra flash/resin on parts of the model there is an absolute ton of it.
This is what my work area looked like when I called it quits later Friday night, and that's with a good round of initial cleaning already wiped away!
Saturday night I returned to my project, this time armed with a healthy pour of some fine Canadian rye whiskey.
To my surprise I was able to push through another three hours of pinning, cleaning, and gluing and was able to complete the model.
Suffice it to say this thing is HUGE! I wanted to see if I could possibly get it even temporarily into the foam for my other 120mm based models and did a group shot for size comparison.
Model Quality
The quality on the Hooch Hauler is frankly outstanding. I'm not sure if it's because it's a small production run done as part of the new Black Anchor Heavy Industries (ie. produced in house at PP in Washington), or if it's because this is the first production run using the molds - but the details are really good.
The parts of the model you'll see are really well detailed and...absolutely clean, there weren't any mold lines to remove whatsoever. As stated there was a lot of flash and resin to chop off with clippers and a fresh exacto blade, but none of it impacts the model in a aesthetic way. The mold designers at PP deserve a lot of credit, they really did their homework with this.
Assembly
This thing was a monster to get through, very intimidating at over 40 pieces and some parts that definitely want pinning.
That said, I pin a lot of my models because I want to ensure they hold up, but I had to do far less of that with this than I initially thought I would. The designers here really did a fantastic job with almost all of it so that things generally fit together in a tab-in-slot kind of way that didn't necessitate pinning. And they fit! So often things don't line up easily, or you have to pin anyway - but everything came together shockingly well for a model of this size and complexity.
That said there are some pieces where I paused to wonder if it was a necessary trade off or an intense pathological hatred that drove part of the assembly. The drivers seat was definitely a challenge, I ended up pinning into the cushion the driver sits on and then pinning that deeply into the barrel. And then there are the torches at the top. They have a pretty deep slot/tab design, but the bases of them weren't big enough to be able to drill into to attempt to pin them in. What's worse is that they're a necessity so that you can put in the cloth between them, which then serves as the mount/glue point for the troll up top jumping on the catapult to launch the primary gun.
To PP's credit however that part went together far easier than I thought it would. I was anticipating a lot of greenstuff to hold that cloth in place - but it was surprisingly easy. The troll also glued on shockingly well onto the cloth so it went very quickly to get the last bits assembled.
Finally the instructions were very detailed, probably because they had to be for a model like this, but it was greatly appreciated. Overall when I was assembling it, I was generally impressed by how much thought went into making the assembly as easy as it could be for a model this complex.
If this is what Black Anchor Heavy Industries is going to produce quality wise, then they've really hit it out of the park on that front. You certainly have to pay a pretty penny for this model, but the quality you're getting is spot on.
Other Factors
I am hoping that Battle Foam will quickly have a foam tray designed for this model, but it's going to have to be as tall as the Gargantuan foam trays as you can tell from the last picture. If one isn't coming soon I'll probably create something myself for it using some plasticard and foam. Transporting it is going to be a bit nerve wracking until then.
While I think the model is gorgeous, part of me kind of wishes it was a bit more modest. It's huge, and it's detailed, and it's complicated - which is all built into why it's so incredibly expensive. This definitely feels like a project that PP turned over to their artists and just let them push themselves as far as they could go. It's definitely an achievement in terms of design and production, but it comes with such a high cost.
While that sounds awesome, as an engineer I've been around long enough to know the value of having a project manager come in and say "this is great, but you might want to tone it back some to keep costs down."
No one did that at Privateer Press when it came to the Hooch Hauler. They stopped at "it's great" and decided to take a risk selling it as the premium product it is.
Gaming
I should get my first games with the Hauler this week. As it is a Hooch Hauler + Northkin Raiders + Full Krielstone + CA is 45 points, which in Storm of the North is 2 free solos and 15 points away from maximizing your free points allotment. In fact it does the same thing in Kriel Company, once the Hauler is officially added to that theme - but KC is such a terrible theme because of the limitation on "ranged only beasts" that I generally don't want to go down that route list wise. This is a shame because it's the only other theme we have to play our first Battle Engine in, but as it is, I'm not sure what I can get in there to make it work.
I'm very intrigued to play the list with Grissel1 using the package above plus some Long Riders, a Mauler, and a Brawler. Calamity and her fell calls would work very well with the Raiders gun wise or the old yo-yo'ing Long Riders. Beyond that, I think there's a place for this in either Grim, though I'm struggling to pick out exactly what I want in each of those lists.
Conclusions
The Hooch Hauler is definitely worth it if you care about model quality and aesthetics, though the price point is way higher than what I expected to pay for a single model in WMHD. You definitely get your money's worth in the final product, the only thing is questioning whether or not the model should have been made to this size and complexity.
As a product it feels like PP has taken a big risk here. I hope they do well because I love what the company is doing, but I guess we will see if this kind of product is successful for them.
Monday, February 17, 2020
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