TurnipDayXI

 

 

TurnipDayXI, our ongoing monthly Turnip28 casual meetup, was yesterday. We had 10 participants and I had a particularly brutal but funny game of Procession of Woe vs. Lopers of Maudlin Marsh (i.e. stilt-walkers). Forgot to take many pictures, unfortunately.

Butcher Brigade

Finished up these Turnip28 'Butcher Brigade' figures.  These are currently just a thematic set of figs available to Patreon members that I will use as melee fodder in Turnip28.  I think its rumored some specific rules will be forthcoming. 

The kit is 3d printed and multipart so you can put things together how you like.  The two fellas with swords are customized by me with addition of some Warhammer bits. I also added a ton of dried out chestnut tree leaf stems and dandelion roots to represent rooti-ification, covering the joins with some PVA-soaked toilet paper which was painted as raggedy cloth.

I am very ambivalent about the banner. I tend to default to off-white, grey, putrid yellow, or brown sienna backgrounds on my banners, to give them the look of coarse cloth, and the white/blue just seems to... organized... for Turnip28.  The banner is actually already partially repainted, as I tried an off green first but did not like it.  Maybe the snausage should be cut in half... hrmm hrmm.

Interdimenional Jerk Faces

These are some interdimensional jerkfaces / murder hobos that I recently kitbashed. And I love everyone of their lumpy claylike faces and disposition to extreme violence. These are extremely tactile and fun to touch and pickup. They are space marine bodies with the head and backpack removed, a milliput face sculpted onto the chest, and space ork arms and weaponry. The armored scales/tiles are bits of chipboard. 

This is the unit's spellcaster chap (these are for use in a techno-magical skrimish game).  The spellbook is cereal box and post-it paper. 

Particular happy with the little sling sheath thing holding the caster's chopper sword (a piece of cereal box, again) to his hip.

These jerkfaces are good for planet28 or any similar small mini agnostic scifi game.

TurnipDayX: The Wretched War narrative event

TurnipDayX: The Wretched War was a narrative Turnip28 event depicting the war between the cities of Sallow and Gerpe. There were 10 participants. Before the first round, everyone drew a 'Norbert' coin (3D printed Turnip28 currency) from a cup. If the coin had a yellow crown, that player's regiment was hired by the city of Sallow. If the crown was red, they were hired by Gerpe. 

Each table had a different scenario, and each table corresponded to a location on the campaign map. During the round, every six minutes, one of 2 "Great Captains of the Wretched War" would appear and act as an extra Toff for Sallow or Gerpe. These Captains had mutations from the Taster Campaign book. I created unique models for each of these special characters. 

In the second round, the player's are assigned to new locations ("redeployed"), but the War become stagnant, and both sides have entrenched, so each player got to place an additional 12" of cover on thier side of the board. The Captains continued to tour the frontlines. After 2 rounds, the Gerpe army had won 6 games and Sallow 4, so Gerpe broke through and set siege to Sallow itself.

This final game was five games of the 'Into the Breach' played shoulder to shoulder, with the walls making a continuous line of terrain 15 feet long. In this game, the Gerpe Army overran the walls 4 games to 1 and proclaimed, "Sallow had fallen."

Grand Toff trophy went to player winning most games and siezing most objectives. 

Snob Slayer went to player who removed most enemy Snobs. This was actually a tie, so the two players had to toff off to decide the matter. 

Bravest Snob trophy went to player with lowest Grand Toff score. 

Everyone got 3 figures from a pile of Perry sprues, with Snob Slayer getting 6 and Bravest Toff got 12 (b/c clearly they need new recruits).

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/