Snake Eyes November 2013
Snake Eyes November 2013
Snake Eyes November 2013
ISSUE # 1
NOVEMBER 2013
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club members from my earlier days of gaming and form a like minded group to play games together. No clubhouse but all from home.
been talking about Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and how good it would be to start a game going. That was the catalyst point I guess, as a group of Adventurers were wanting to join straight away. I define Garage Gamers Group as a group of like minded individuals who for whatever reason prefer to play at home locations. I don't want to detract from shop locations understand, but it wasnt for us. We get to enjoy a variety of games, including tabletop and board games, and promote the games that we enjoy.
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Snake-Eyes resurrection
Snake Eyes the newsletter was first created in 1997 as a club newsletter for the Warhounds. The Warhounds or Queensland Miniature Gamers Club, was formed in the previous year to support the gaming community as a not for profit entity. Unfortunately no longer with us today, the club finally suffered its demise under inept leadership decisions at the time. The club newsletter, still under the ownership of its creator went into hibernation. Discussion with early Warhounds club President Glen Taylor in 2013 renewed the impetus of bringing Snake Eyes back to life for what it was created for, as a promoter of gamers and their games. This electronic version of Snake Eyes is the first of what plans to be many, sharing pictures, tips and lists from all over. By the gamers for the gamers...
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StarWars X-Wing
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay BattleCry StarWars X-Wing Old West Zombiecide Axis & Allies
Roleplay is immersive for the players and allows them to expand on their creation of a single entity in the Warhammer world
GarageGamersGroup-The Members
Simon Manchee Sam Corvi Steven Azzopardi George Elliot Zachary Seib Darian Chase Zac Mehta Glen Taylor Tim Prenzler Craig Federoff Sean Federoff Nick Chase Jamie Federoff Courtney Halverson Chris Taylor Martin Dorney Michael Orton Sean OHanlon Abby Federoff Demi Federoff Contact the Editor for more information. See the back page of this publication for contact information. Membership to Garage Gamers Group is free. You can be approached by a member and asked if you wish to join, or turn up and play in one of our games. Locations, dates and times are in this newsletter.
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Miniature Art
When does a good well planned photo or drawing of a miniature make the difference between what you buy? I would say pretty much most of the time. Most sellers use it to their advantage, be it the artwork on the box, the magazines and the posters. The benefit to a gamer is a nicely painted army on a fully painted table of terrain. I see a nice table and want to play on it. I play a nicely painted army and visualize what those colours might look like on my miniaturesor be inspired to go home and paint some more. Not all of the time but certainly a lot. Look at the picture with this article. Definitely Chaos, maybe Tzeentch or Night Lords fighting Tau...if you have either of these armies doesn't it evoke a want to game want in you? Ok maybe it does and maybe it doesnt but...its got you thinking...even if your thought is only why is the blood on his blade red and not blue???
When the mainstream miniature sellers are not in your price range, there
are alternatives
chase and assemble it, game test it, then paint it up and add it to your collection. The added bonus is you will have two armies for when you have a friend come over and you have an army for them all ready to play. Then you get to see how your armies go against each other. Why not swap sides and play both? With this method you can complete your collection in a reasonable time, unlike me ;)
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Picture on left shows Confederate Cav about to charge into Infantry...some artillery hurrying down the road to back up the Johnny Rebs, whereas Union artillery is already entrenched upon the hill
Picture on the right shows the view of the cavalry 2 turns before as they move into position...
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Astorath comes in 5 pieces as a finecast model. These are the body, two wings, the axe and the jump pack. I mention this because they are best painted separately. The wings, I dry brushed with shadow grey. The scrolls on the jump pack I base coated with bone and then ink washed with brown. After that had dried I then drybrushed with bone again. The body is drybrushed crimson over the black, then I applied a mix of crimson and bright orange to lighten the colour. This was then drybrushed over the higher points of armour leaving the darker colour as the shade. The axe was painted using the red and bone method above. The base coat on the blade was ultramarine blue then lightning bolt blue to create the marbled lightning effect. The lightning was highlighted with white and then inked with blue and re highlighted.
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I used bronzed flesh for the face, and inked the face with brown ink. I allowed this to dry, then, leaving the shadowed effect around the eyes, lightened the face using bronzed flesh again. The jumpack was painted identically to the body with the exception of using a layering technique on the red. The scrolls on the body and skulls were coloured with the bone scheme already mentioned. Gold was base coated onto the belt, knee pads, jewellry and pauldron edging, then inked with brown wash and highlighted with shining gold. The blood drop imagery on Astoraths left pauldron was highlighted with an orange/red mix brighter then the armour highlight. Lastly the purity seals on the armour were painted red, and the base and sand were coloured with snakebite leather and drybrushed. I use course beach sand on all of my bases. All in all it was a fun miniature to paint and nowhere near as daunting as I first suspected.
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Dark Heresy is a role playing game set in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium , the decaying dark
future of Warhammer 40,000. Players take the role of an Acolyte in the service of a powerful Inquisitor . Your mission to root out and confront threats to the Imperium , standing with you is the rest of your cell or party made up by other players. The Inquisitor will task your group with all manner of missions and you will encounter mutants, witches, aliens, traitors and even Daemonic powers all while knowing that failure could doom millions of people or more..... Each PC (player-character) has to select a career path (similar to D&D class) which determines your starting gear and skills. Each career has different skills , talents , strengths and weakness. Also there are many alternate career options that you can take as you gain in rank. Once high enough in rank PC's can then ascend to 'Throne Agents' . Where before the PC's were Acolytes following orders, Throne Agents have far more personal power and authority , but the dangers are deeper and a miss step can doom worlds. Dark Heresy is a game of desperate fights , dark corruption , mystery, sci fi horror and consequences . The players work for big important people , and must face horror and death while wielding big guns with big explosions and the whole 40k galaxy as a background.
Zach Seib runs a Dark Heresy campaign every second Sunday at Sams Garage. According to the GGG members that played in the first session, they had a blast, taking down everything Zach threw at them. I get to join them in their second outing, having rolled up a Commissar, and managing to fluke an armoury requisition of a power fist...now I just have to learn how to use it. More on Zachs game next issue.
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15mm American Civil War - Confederate troops part of Glen Taylors contingent...
Two examples of Simon Machins painting, the Ork Stompa left and Battlewagon
One of many to come examples of attention to detail. Pic shows laundry coppers in western laundry building by Martin Dorney see also upper right shows grocery store SNAKE EYES
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GGG or Garage Gamers Group is a collection of gamers with similar ideals about what makes a game fun and how to have fun with it Snake Eyes is the GGG newsletter, available for free to members and selected organisations Phone: 0419 729794 E-mail: garagegamersgroup@gmail.com Facebook: Garage Gamers Group GGG supports a gamers for gamers attitude
Trademark names in the newsletter have been used without permission & only used for promotional purposes for the GGG. They include: Games Workshop & associated trademarks, Milsims, Aliexpress, BattleCry, StarWars X -Wing, War & Peace Games, Avalon Hill, Arkham Horror, Wings of Glory, Flames of War, Zombiecide, Eureka miniatures, Stone Mountain miniatures & AD &D. Picture are the property of the editor & have been used with the permission of members of the GGG. Other pictures have been used without permission but for the same reasons aforementioned above.
(BattleCry) is an American Civil War Avalon Hill game available from various suppliers at a RRP $75
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