TurnipConV (Bristol, UK)

Back in November went to Bristol in the United Kingdom to play in TurnipConV. I flew direct to London and themn took the train from Paddington to Bristol. I gave myself a full rest day after the travel day and before the event day, which I used to wander around Bristol and look at old buildings. In particular I sought out the old St. John's Gate which is the last gate left over from Bristol's medieval city walls.  I also took a long walk along the old harbor to see Banksy's lady with pearl earring. 

That night I met up with other early arrivals/locals for the next days event and socialized.

The event was at a massive gaming space in a rather hard to get to part of Bristol. The event was three games and they were 2v2 team games where you were paired with a new teammate each round, so in three rounds you played with 9 people total.

My first pairing put my Procession of Woe in partnership with the each Lovers, and, well, we won, and my regiment was there.

Round 2 paired my Rootshrine with the Lopers of Maudlin Marsh. Our brave alliance had to face off against a dire duo of Feast of Charybardis and the Red Ribbon Society. I honestly thought we would be trounced.  My regiment was completely tabled going into fourth round but we managed to dispatch our opponents crab and thier Lump for the tie !

The third and final round was a bonkers game of my Procession of Woe + a Tod vs. another Tod + Brotherhood of Greed. This game went long with much ridiculousness and almost timed out, but it felt like a fitting end to an amazing day with so many amazing modelers and players. Thanks to everyone I met, I will never forget this!

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).