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So a little progress. Keep growing the force lol. There isn't much left that's specifically for the USARF, or particularly from Corvus Belli...but I ay do the full Shaso and pick up the dog warriors and antipode assault pack some day. Would be 3 wolf men and 4 wolf monster total. Then I'd have to get the bikers heh.

Right now though I'm just contemplating getting one mercenary to work as the unknown Ranger.

Oh the mods for the Haqq dudes...snake looking guy got a shotgun from wgf survivors, the lady is the wardriver...couldn't find good goggles so I went with an antenna on her pack and a clunky computer box-terminal thing along with a striker style shotgun from the survivors box, and the guy with the huge pack got uhh a huge pack, I think it's from secret weapon. The blackjack ditched the shield for a couple of rockets to represent his DEP.

Progress looking good.

Also stupid Pokemon is a thing . Luckily we are surrounded by churches and other hotspots. My son and I are about to take a walk to catch some more .

Damn you theo! My area isn't so good. Probably a 10-15 minute walk to either of the closest. Got 6-8 on the way to work but I'll only do the 2-3 that are by stop lights and only if I a actually have to stop. Solo cruising stops is suicidal.

The local sculpture park is only 10 minutes by car though and has at least a couple dozen stops and 3+ gyms. Carting both kids around is rough though.

My USARF is growing to baby -warhammer sized, ie a few units and maybe one or two vehicles. Hoping that medge or warpath fire fight work out, really want a platoon sized game.

plus my job at the church (also a hotspot) and the hospital (a hotspot and a gym ). My son and I took a 2 mile walk/hunt this evening and caught so much stuff I ran out of pokeballs. We also toured one of the three cemeteries near us this afternoon which had 6 hotspots and a gym in it. Don't know how kosher that is with everyone, but I believe once I die my soul is departed and my body will get cremated anyways, so I have no qualms about it. If anyone else does I'll depart after apologizing as I know they are visiting a loved one.

I found it funny that a restaurant we went to while our power was out (one I dislike ) has rattattas spawning every few minutes . Not as funny though was the fact that three churches I went to all spawned krabbies .

Also heard the Jefferson barracks park has hotspots at every frisbee golf goal . I might have to finally take up the challenge one of the men from church keeps putting out there.

Damn you're flush with pokestops. The st Louis zoo is supposed to be swamped with stops and you can hit most of them from the tour train thing.

Mate, you just keep trooping on don't you! I am so envious of how much you've got done!

Excellent looking force bud. Got a lot of character.

Looking good.

EDC

Troops look good Grim. keep going!

That's quite a workload you've made for yourself. I'm looking forward to the results.

That is already a really cool looking force, at the rate you are going it will soon be a massive army.

So in total how many different miniature lines are represented in the force? Amazing how they all fit in with each other so well.

Thanks guys

@Thraxas just two. Two Infinity factions (mostly one) and guys from mars attacks. I guess technically two mars attacks things too, soldiers and novas vira but still. Just two companies.

Trying to get this stuff done but I may fall back to a smaller project to complete for this month so I can relax a bit on these guys, too many to try to burn through over one weekend.

Photos!

Photos of what Az? My last entry for the first challenge? Whoops haven't been around the minis or pc since last time stupid summer and kids keeping me busy. I'd you mean smaller project I don't even know what I'd do but there are mini factions in the primed pile.

Gah and Derp. Having had a resurgence of interest in Video Games (Baldur's Gate, that JRPG I've been playing, Pokemon Go, etc), and with the weather being oppressive especially working outside all the time and maybe a couple of other excuses here or there... definitely not gonna make the first month of Az's challenge. I suspect I'll manage them eventually, I fully intend to pay any missed months back by the end of the year but I'd like to get back on track even if it means lining up a smaller Faction/Force for August. I'm not planning to get a whole lot done next month either though because it's about as hot as it gets around here and we're still pretty busy at work.

I'll dig up something to take photos of eventually. I think the Battle systems stuff is gonna be in Colin and Wayne's hands soon and that means shipping in august...maybe have it by september or october on the late side. That'll be fun to set up, photos for days.

Also saw a few kickstarters, getting pretty good at will saves against those though, they must be on a diminishing return scheme like stuns in WoW Dreadball # Whatever isn't holding my interest at all, least of all paying it forward. Reaper has a CAV/Bones one, or maybe it's just supported by reaper dunno, but I think you mostly have to buy groups of things and I just wanted a few if any. Can wait for retail again. Saw that they have an Armored Core board game, it looks pretty damn neat. Basically everyone plays at the same time calling out shots and stacking little damage tokens and allocating energy to movement and guns, a recovery phase handles the things like different weapons and systems cooling down and it looks like there's some variable height, destructible terrain, and campaign stuff. Still not bothered about preordering it though, it looks like it's a solid success though not blowing up like that Dark Souls one did or anything. Virtually guarantees it hits retail where MM is almost sure to pick it up. Regular discount would be worse than KS surely but if it ever hits Deal of the Day? Yeah, not interested in tying my money up in that ahead of time, but damn if I'm not gonna have some teeny little armored cores menacing a city eventually

I've been bingeing on Baldur's Gate a bit too, Grim! Don't make games like that anymore.
I am currently a Level 5 Dragon Disciple (I can breathe fire!) and I will take what is mine in Fire and Blood! #realtargaryen.

Oh be still my beating heart I love Baldurs Gate. Last Christmas with some time off work I ran 7 different characters from the humble beginnings at Winthrops Inn all the way to face my destiny against Melissan. Damn did I put some hours into that.

Bwahaha! Great nerds nerd alike!

Was gonna run a blade, may still, but I just had to roll a dagger mastery kensai. She Chucks daggers rapid fire and they hit like a truck. Helps that I held out for 18/00 when I rolled her up, too long to wait for the strength tome, no armor is lame unless you can preemptive strike things to death . Leaving dual-->thief as an option for bg2. Maybe keep saves so I can run pure kensai, and try the lvl 9 and 13 breakpoints. I'm lazy and impatient so high performance 20something/20something ToB dual strategies make me nauseous. I only consider 13 because thieves level quickly . May leave her all fighter, but thief if I get bored.

AoV sorcerers are great, I'm gonna definitely have a dragon sorcerer if I get around to IWDEE, so hard to find scrolls for wizards anyway plus fire breathing badass.

Archer, you don't do anything small do you? . I'm gonna admit to never making it all the way thru ToB, forget what stopped me back in the early days but crippling rerollitis has kept me from it since the EEs came out. I forgot about the new one beamdog made, Dragonspire or whatever. I'll wait for a sale though .

Just have too much time on my hands. I have yet to get into Siege of Dragonspear, but the reviews concern me a tiny bit. But I have always tried to ignore critics and make my mind up so will need to fire up the computer and take a few of my faithful Bhaal spawn for a run through it.

Been busy and exhausted but got rained out one day so stuff happened.

Great stuff as per usual Grim .

Thanks, had a couple more what et uploaded.

Wow that is amazing. Such an epic scale. Very prison like.

That build is fantastic, can see entire games played inside the thing. As Archer says, it definitely has a feel about it, an atmosphere, really great work.

Thanks guys

I was thinking factory but since I'm moving towards more minimalist with fewer permanent structures on the floor...prison may work too

It's big enough for deadzone, but is part of a 4x4' board. In addition to 7 tiles worth of roads, I'm gonna build two small outbuildings (probably an office and either a storage building or similar), a mystery tile, and two times with just one side of similarly large walls so it can be expanded a bit. Or suggest another large building across the street.

Will have 6 extra tiles too that I'll look at filling eventually.

Very cool build on that factory with the courtyard, grim. Do you plan on keeping that one together permanantly?

Yessir. The Bz tiles aren't glued together but the sections are heavily hotglued to the tiles . You can rotate the tiles for a bit of variety and I'm planning on two extra walls for swapping out.

Once I have enough troops,,,,,LOL! terrain is needed, my own little town of battles. Looking good there Grim, gotta stayed tuned for more!

Cool. The Factory / Prison looks great.

EDC

That's a darn impressive setup. If I had the space, I'd copy, er, emulate it. I'm eagerly awaiting photos of the finished product.