Turnipday V

A St. Alamei's battery.

TurnipDay V was two weeks ago. I loaned a regiment to a new player and made up for slight shortage of figures for myself by running the St. Alamei's Battery cult.  St. Alamei's thing is that they get rocket launchers, the models for which I have had for quite some time but never really seriously played. The big lesson learned rather quickly was that you should position another unit or a snob (officer) out in front of the rocket launcher in some way - in Turnip28 you must almost always target the closest enemy unit when shooting.  In Turnip28 there is also a preliminary bombardment phase.  In my first game, my opponent also had artillery and did preliminary bombardment first and one of my launchers was his closest target, so I lost one of my four units before the first turn even started (in typical Turnip28 fashion, I ended winning this match, in the end - a Turnip28 game is never over until the last turn).

Ben's turnips

Rob's turnips.

Rob's pig model for the chase-the-pig scenario.

Rob's toff of the Slug's Lament makes a dramatic entrance.

Chase the pig scenario near end of game.

 

Hunt for Bigfoot

I played in the 'Hunt for Bigfoot' Kings of War tournament three weekends ago. This was a three-game, one-day tournament with 10 players.  Hunt for Bigfoot had a rather neat sub-game to it where there were three tokens on each game board that you could pick up if any unit ended up in contact. At the end of each game you exchanged these for tickets and then there was a lottery out of a hat at the end of the day to win a 3d-print Bigfoot miniature that one of the tournament organizers designed.

Here's my Kingdoms of Men battle line: my Renaissance Spanish pike and swordsmen, supported by a pair of stone giants.

Stone Giant mixing it up with Trident Realms forces.

These pegasus knights significantly helped my army's performance.

Spaniards doing their best to slow down this Kraken.

Battle at Brewich Woods (Kings of War)

 

Lets see, the chronicler says "at the hills before Brewich Woods the Dark Dwarves made camp, the armies of Men came forth with the stone giants and both sides clashed the long day, and then each retired away from Brewich Woods under cover of night."

Had a lovely game of Kings of War, Abyssal Dwarves against Kingdoms of Men. Further tweaks to unit selection for Kingdoms of Men makes them more and more viable. Kings of War really is a very very nice set of rules - big historical armies fit in very nicely.

 

TurnipDay IV

Another monthly casual Turnip28 meetup was on Sunday. Two new players added to the festive atmosphere. Great minis all around as always. I arranged the playing areas all in a row, shoulder-to-shoulder, which added to the chaotic look of the proceedings. Usually tough pike blocks getting mauled by the Beast of Bodlin Moor was particularly amusing...

Whelps cavalry

This project was way overdue. I have not done any new figures or units for Turnip28 in ages, as I have been mainly focused on enhancing the terrain experience for this wonderful game.  I've had the donor figures to some cavalry (Old Glory Polish lancers) for ages, so I finally got around to creating this unit of Whelps equipped with black powder weapons.

I suppose part of the delay was that i wasn't 100% sure what I wanted the critters to look like. But I finally settled on "root vegetable with a dopey face" with the addition of a "giant turnip-like root rear end."  These are metal horses with the heads cut off, sculpting with milliput. The little roots/protrusions on their heads are stems from chestnut tree leaves or the dried roots of weeds from the side of the road. The riders' helms are various 3d printed bits.The flag is paper with some foil inside - I hand-painted the design.The pistols are spare arms from Warlord Games ECW cavalry I've had laying around for some time.  The "old sarge" skull on the banner top is a GW tomb kings head I found, with a spare shako on top of that.

 

Banners for Turnips

I made a pair of banner-carriers and corresponding hand-painted banners for Turnip28.  I popped an existing figure off an existing unit of fodder and integrated the bannerman in its place.  Both units are greatly enhanced by this.

If the banners look familiar, its because I previously made them in 54mm back in 2020 or 2021 (if you scroll around in here you'll see them).

 

Stranglin' Harry's Wretched Recruits (Turnip28)

I painted up a unit of 4 whelps for Turnip28.  Whelps are light cavalry in Turnip, and I equipped mine with black powder weapons so they "shoot and scoot."  As with all things Turnip, this does not really make the unit any better than any other of the units (pretty much everything being woefully incompetent)!  I also painted up two banner carriers and integrated them into existing multibases. Then I had two games with Ben and his snail knights on Sunday.  I chose the Stranglin' Harry cult so I could just use my new whelps and my banner-bearing fodder units. I lost 'Wheel of Fortune' and won 'Into the Breach.'  I believe both games were decided on the last turn.  Next up I believe I will get my chaff (skirmishers) up to 4 models (I initially only painted 3, for some reason), and perhaps start on a new Cult-specific model.

Rose City Rumble 2024

 

Rose City Rumble was last weekend.  As I am still a bit of an novice, I lost all my games, but just missed a win (I timed out!) and a tie, so some progress.  From a list point of view, I dropped all my cavalry and took the Monarch with flying upgrade and 3 giants (so four titans).  This gave me some punch ability lacking in prior outings.

During the lunch break most of the armies were on display, so here's other people's armies...

This is a terrain piece and not part of someone's army.

"Goat Town"