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Hey!

So there has been a week or two of radio blackout! We have been -thankfully!- rushed off our feet with getting all these orders out the door, once we have a free minute we have been catching up with real life! (boooo!)

Today we went to a local gaming day, where me and Harry actually got a game of Infinity in, the second game I have ever played of the system! I'm sure Haz will upload some of the images later. It was a fun little game, not only did we play one game, we played two! and on our own terrain that we have been slaving over the past few months The game was based on the typical 'plant the bomb' mode in current video games, so we had up to 6 turns to run up to the radar and plant the bomb, whilst all the defenders were re spawning and lacing in to the attackers with assault rifles and pistoling the dudes in the face when they got too close

Until next time!!

Is it just me or does it say Warmill posted the last message although the message isn't here? Thread broken?

Edit: My message fixed it.

Sounds like you guys got a well deserved rest, keep up the good work!

Been a long time since we've been around

We did something unheard of today and actually played a game! We had a couple of games of Infinity with house rules since we're both noobs at the game, to make it a bit more like Battlefield since that's been our game for a while. We had a bunch of basic guys, a sniper and an HMG each and played Rush / Sabotage, with an antennae array in the middle of a small forest outpost. Defenders were deployed in the compound, attackers were anywhere 6" from the compound fence. Attackers could plant c4 to blow down walls or hack the gate with WIP rolls, and had to get to the array and plant c4 with a long skill WIP roll. Defenders could defuse the bomb with a short skill WIP roll. Anyone taken out would respawn in the next turn, the defenders would spawn in the 3 pod buildings and attackers would spawn anywhere within 6" of the wall.

After a practice game to work out what we were doing and how to play again, the second game was pretty sweet! We played with 5 orders each so play was nice and quick, with a 6 turn limit to get the antennae as the club was getting ready to close up, so the tension was on!

I was defending, and deployed 4 guys in the pods, with an HMG in a small copse of trees and a sniper in a watchtower. Ed deployed his attackers roughly equally around the compound in teams of two. he started by blowing a section of fence so that one team could attack one of the pod spawn points (we decided any pod with an enemy in couldn't be used to spawn). My HMG took one down but as my men rushed to intercept them they were all taken down by defensive fire, including a 6" pistol fight that left my guy on the ground (happened a lot). Another team eventually hacked the gatehouse and came in behind the buildings, taking down my reinforcements as they came out (one of Ed's troops survived 3 bursts from a rifleman, and took him out with reactive fire. The trooper who won the pistol duel rushed the green pod and riddled the poor sniper who had spawned inside, then dodged a shot from my troops into the pod to claim it as his own. The guards took a few down, but they were soon swarming over the walls again.

Eventually Ed's medic made a dash to the antennae in his last turn, having taken all but one of my defenders down, to plant the c4 with his last order. My guys respawned in the pods on the far side of the radar, and I had just 5 orders to get to the array and disable the bomb, but Ed had 2 men on the objective, a sniper watching the approach and an HMG in the woods watching the path I would have to take. My first trooper ran out to duel with one of the soldiers in the open, but got taken down by the sniper behind him. My next soldier took fire from 4 AROs, and didn't stand a chance. With only 3 orders left, I only had 2 troops in the game. One tried to clear the way for the sniper by taking out one of the antennae defenders, but got downed himself, which just left the sniper 2 orders to make a dash for the objective, taking fire from 4 attackers with each move. He ran out of the pod with his first order, surviving several hits. The first move of the last order just let him reach the antennae, but set off 2 AROs which caused two wounds and would kill him after he tried to defuse the bomb. With the last roll of the dice for the last order of the last turn of the game to decide who won or lost, I needed to roll a 13 or under to defuse the bomb on one dice...



It was really nice to actually play a game on our own terrain, and it all worked really well. We could take fences out as they were destroyed, hack the gate and had the roofs off the pods so we could put our respawning defenders in them. it really did feel like a game of Battlefield, with troops spawning, rushing into the battle and getting shot down, C4 going off and defenders trying to spread out before getting plugged by the attackers, and the time pressure of the other guys packing up really ramped up the tension! . Definitely be playing again!

Looked like a nice game warmill! So are you going to start painting up some minis? Trying the hobby for your self?

Hey guys how are those road sections coming along ?

GD

Ha! Time to hobby is a luxury no longer available to us it appears! maybe once we hit retirement xD

But between day jobs, housework and cutting orders and shipping them off, I did find some time this evening to mess about with the roads. I think it must have been late the last time I looked at them, as I couldn't get my head around a few bits that today I was able to just do, so productivity was high!

But anyway, as you will be able to see from the renders I added some colour, yeah OK so its only flat colour, but its a start eh

Also some dragons teath, as singles and a strip of 5.

And also some WIP alien scatter terrain.

WIP regular roads added

Who knows when they'll be out

Ed

edit - pics broke! + more added

Eldar/Dark Eldar buildings! Nice!

Interesting dragon teeth - do you have plans for just some simple, solid (looking) ones? Vis this.

I think your MDF would make such things pretty easy to put together

Everyone makes those though silver!

True, but it is something that I think will fit in well with your current terrain range, and is something a lot of people seem to look for

Maybe a combo of the streetwars fencing resin bits and MDF spikey bits to keep the tanks out!

perhaps its another to add to the list

Do you do any 'unit filler' sized bases?
Around 40 x100mm or 50 x 100mm on 3mm mdf for fantasy units.

DaemonJellybaby wrote:Do you do any 'unit filler' sized bases?
Around 40 x100mm or 50 x 100mm on 3mm mdf for fantasy units.

We could cut some as a custom job, TBH it wouldn't be for a while as we have a grand total of no spare time right now

SO anyone who's tried to contact us will know we've been pretty much off the radar for a couple weeks now, I've been switching jobs at work to try and free up more time for Warmill (real life or toys? Real life or toys?...) and Ed's been having fun with students needing help and freelance work, the end result of which is we've pretty much sent orders out and nothing else recently :(

Our other big time sink at the moment has been getting a whole bunch of terrain painted up, to be used for new box art graphics (there's a few holes in our photo collection) and also catalogue photos for the retailer price list we've been trying to get done since before Christmas! All things going well, we should have price lists sent out to shops around the time of Salute so fingers crossed in a couple of months you should be able to find Warmill products in a whole bunch of shops! Once that job's out the way we'll have some time to get back on designing new products, as that's the real fun side of the business

Salute is also where you'll be able to see this terrain in the flesh, painted by our own fair hands, being used to run demo games of Infinity by Simple Miniature Games, so be sure to pop by and tell Graham how great we are!

Once Salute's out the way, new projects include:
- new themed PUP buildings to expand the range. First up will be a Noodle Bar, cos everyone loves noodles in the future
- Ed's modular low-level and elevated roads as seen above, these are pretty much ready to go and just need detailing applied. We're going to try and get some done for the Salute board if possible, as they're very big and cool!
- a modular facility set, that can be customised with themed modules to be a research lab, weapons factory, prison, power plant, etc etc and would be perfect for interior battles. It'll also be compatible with the PUP walkways
- scatter terrain as seen above, alien-themed relics etc
- finish that stupid Valkyrie conversion set! It's been a project since before Warmill, but got put on hold when I managed to screw up updating the software for my CNC
- a great big hammer that could be good for dreadknight conversions. The master's been machined, we just need to clean up a cast for re-moulding.
- lots more as time allows!

Here's some pics, see you all at Salute!

Harry and Ed

PS Silver we have seen your email, we don't check that address very often! We'll get a reply to you shortly!

Pretty awesome colony table there

How easy is it to reach into the walkways which have another walkway on top? Or can the walls be removed for access?

Also - don't worry about the email - I actually sent it to some random guy who came up first on the email drop down list when I typed in "war" (their stupid surname was alphabetically superior ) and it was a couple of weeks before I realised and sent it out to you. And as you know I work super slowly, so it does not matter

Love the idea of noodle bars - can think of a whole raft of quasi-japanese/chinese future shops that could come from that - those little witch doctor/shaman PUPs etc... thinking about Fifth Element's mix of old school and super futuristic

Take lots of pictures at Salute - especially if you are showing off a potential new game

So how much wouls a table like that set me back?

A big building set, wooo! I'm holding out for that bad boy.

These look pretty awesome.

Hey guys,

sorry not been around as much as we would like - so it is when your snowed under!

That being said - We have a little promotion going on that entitles you to 15% off your order in our online store!

Just add CAKE DAY in the coupon code box in the checkout!

Thanks for being ace guys, keeps us going!!

(thanks to our username being 1yr old on www.reddit.com)

CAKE!!!

Happy birthday WarMill

woo!

Very nice Ice station Zebra layout.

Hey! Its my brother's birthday!

Happy birthday guys, hopefully you will be around for many years to come.

awesomeness

Great job, Bravo!

I would put diod lights in night winter picture, otherwise it looks dead/abandoned

Yeah! We only took the images at night as it took longer than expected to get the thing sorted - which is why its night outside

Congratulations guys and many happy returns to you!

Keep up the great work!

Ong! Love that base man! That is boss!

Love these buildings they are very aliens styled. Went to have a look at ordering some and crapped my pants when I saw the price.

Truffle wrote:Love these buildings they are very aliens styled. Went to have a look at ordering some and crapped my pants when I saw the price.

I hope you mean because it's so reasonably priced. I'm still in awe over how much bang you get for your buck with War Mill.

For just £15 these guys offer a 55 part, 154mm x 100mm x 73mm, beautifully designed building with an interior. What more could a hobbyist want?