More Tonks!

 

Using my set of tonks, plus Matt's kitbashed tonk, we played a two rounds of four-player games of Tonks.  The experience was enhanced by using these stackable sci-fi buildings for terrain which really fit the part without looking too much like the ruins of the Imperium of Man. 

The first game was drawn out a bit because the random terrain made it rather easy for people to find defensible spots.  The second game got a more interested board, and we reduced the tonks' starting hull points from 5 to 3 to speed things up, but this caused me and Ben's tonks to exit the game perhaps too quickly!

Tonks Factory

 

I made two more tonks for Tonks to get a set of 3, in order to be able to rope people into occasional matches of this extremely casual and fun indie game.

The Red Meanie:

The Grey Ghost:

The Psychic Skull:

All three tonks are 3d prints available on Wargames Vault as downloadable stls for a modest price.

Tonks!

I got to try out Tonks! with Jamie, and can report with certainty that they are fun and very easy rules, with a nice dose of nuance and randomness sprinkled on top.  

If I have one complaint, its that a two person game seems to ultimately devolve into both tonks ("chonky tanks?") across from each other just firing repeatedly as the utility of moving decreases.  For this reason Jamie and I contemplated randomized "partisans" who pop around in the terrain and take pot shots at your tonks, to add the danger of another enemy to the board.  Very fun, very social, very recommend.  

 You can download the Tonks rules for free from 28 Mag: https://28-mag.com/games/

 

Turnipday IX

 

TurnipDayIX, a monthly Turnip28 casual meetup, was a few weeks ago but I have been slow to post up my pics.  Good turnout with 8 players, all of whom played at least 2 games. Four of us stuck around a little longer and played a gonzo 2v2 game on a large board (most of the pics are of that game).  Can't wait for the 10th installment!

An exciting Toff Off between Rob and Matt's generals

"Gone Fishing" and "Chanterelle's Disaster" scenarios underway.

Awesome 3d-printed helmets designed by Jamie.

Procession of Woe on the Scrumford Bridge scenario.

Amazing conversions of Squigs to turnip cavalry by James.

Anna's Knights of Shellwood - I believe these are converted from larger Conquest minis.

 

TurnipDayVIII

 

TurnipdayVIII was a few weeks ago and I forgot to post up about it (the next one is like in a few days!). We had a dreaded odd number of players but we managed to make it work. We also had two new players with some fantastic minis which is always great!

Rob also built terrain for two more scenarios, "the bridge one" and the "mushroom one." I didn't get a chance to try the mushroom one but the bridge one was really fun and challenging. 

July/August has been very busy/distracting/exhausting on the non-gaming life, so I have had very little time for painting or modelling, which I never realized carried as much importance to me as they do. Only now sorta starting to get back into thinking about it again. I have been thankful for the opportunity to play Turnip28 with so many like-minded people during this relative hobby-dry spell.  Its very nice to have actual gameplay pick up the slack when the painting brush lies inactive!

Lost in the Fog Whilst Crossing the Dredge

 

Jamie wanted to play Turnip28 some more, so back to the land of weirdos and mud it was! Notable this time around was we tried to convert two scenarios for a 4' square board to a 3': 'Crossing the Dredge' and 'Lost in the Fog.' The former probably needs a more interested scenario blunder rule, and is also begging for bespoke terrain in the form of a muddy river or slough running across the board.  The latter has an awesome set-up that in typical Turnip28 fashion just makes list-building power-gaming really really counterproductive.  I forget what the third scenario was since we were running out of time and trying to rush through it a bit much...

Jamie played his crabs again. I played the rootshrine. I think the crabs won, mostly, although I think I killed the crab each time...

The Rootshrine, the Wheel, the Belly of the Whale

Managed to play a set of three games of Turnip28 against Jamie. I ran Procession of Woe with my rootshrine for all three games (conclusion: I need some melee-weapon only fodder and brutes). Jamie played Stranglin Harry's Wretched Recruits for the 1st game but the crab cult for the 2nd and 3rd. I won 1st games, and I killed the crab in both games but lost the 2nd and 3rd matches overall.

It was nice to play Turnip outside of context of running the TurnipDay meetup. I think we're going to do it again soon.