Impressions from Horisont Con –Part 2

Here you have some further impressions from Horisont Con last weekend. A jolly good con with a bunch of nice people, solid home-cooked food and an overall friendly atmosphere. My guess would be that around 40-50 people were present at some point during the weekend including a few shops and some bring-and-buy stuff. I’ll certainly come back next year and if I’m not mistaken, my partner in crime, Claus, will do the same.

During the con some would find time to do some modelling and painting.

One of the games played was Hawk Wargames’ Dropzone Commander. A Sci-Fi game with a huge tactical potential and not really my thing. I had a go at a test game which went smooth but the vibe of the game left me somewhat cold.

 

The simple and fun Caveman game hosted by Sune from the Rogue Trader Club in Copenhagen

More Caveman stuff – yes you get to throw things at your opponents!

A game of Lion Rampant – a great set of rules and a great board

Claus (in the red T-shirt) having a crack at the Dread Streets game currently being tested at the Danish Cons by Rasmus Wichmann (pulling his beard)

Dropzone Commander

Also Dropzone Commander

 

Ditto – men from the evil Scourge race

And even more Dropzone Commander

Me (to the left) playing Lion Rampant

 

A pulp game inspired by the movie The Mummy. I can’t remember which set of rules was used

 

More Egyptian fun

A small game based on a bar room fight in a fantasy inn. Absolutely amazing stuff!

Bar room heroes

More bar scenes

 

Bar room brawlers

 

Impressions from Horisont Con 2014 – Part 1

 

 

Here’s a quick, image-heavy post with impressions from this year’s Horisont Con in Odense. Claus and I presented our Vale of the Small Jalous Gods-scenario and managed to play it twice. The first game was a bit rough around the edges but great fun. The second game ran more smoothly and was highly entertaining. The lesson to be learned from this – play-test your scenarios before you run them on a con! Deep wisdom, I know. The con stretched from Friday to Sunday last weekend – Friday consisted mostly of getting settled, chatting and drinking beer, Saturday was a day of hardcore gaming, some more beer-drinking and chatting, whereas Sunday was mostly packing the whole thing down. Altogether Horisont was good fun and I’ll certainly return next year.

In this post you’ll find pics from our scenario. In the Next one you will see some pics from all of the other stuff going on. 

Horisont The Con 2014, representing Oldhammer in DK! (Part 1)

Vale of The Small Jealous Gods at Horisont 2014… The premier alternative mini-gaming con in Denmark…

I’ll spare you on the words in this post and instead just show you all a lot of pictures from this magnificent little con.

First up, our table, oldhammer-wargaming with chaos warbands in the Vale of The Small Jealous Gods….

And yes, our table and Martins minis got a lot of love….

Martin also got the opportunity to try out a game with the Lion Rampant rules

Participants in this table is required to have an academic degree in medieval church history on at least ph.d.-level….  😉

Me and Martin also tried the intro set for Dropzone Commander

This game used the Mummy movie-series as an inspiration, looked great, and seem like a lot of fun..!

Carsten from the german delegation on the con had a fabulous bar-room brawling game with him, that was absolutely stunningly painted

As a small but well-equipped event, the kiosk of course held all the essentials for that you just need on a wargaming con…

Anyway, we had a hell of time at Horisont, me and Martin. There was a really great atmosphere, and we meet some really great people there. We are looking forward to seeing some of them at Hamburger Tactica in February..

Claus

At the altars of chaos – Another WIP picture

Just a quick update: Here you see the four altars which are to stand in the shrines of the small jealous gods who inhabit the vale named after said deities. From left to right you find the altar of Zhutlzzher – Lord of Screams and Spit, Ooeq’occ – Lord of Fumes and Smoke, Hlzyi – Lord of Dryness and Dust and finally Ssanil – Lord of Howls and Itching.

The altars are now on their way to be undercoated. Once they are painted I’ll show you the result.

 

 

 

 

Vale of the Small Jealous Gods – Report after a hard days night

 

There’s now only one week to Horisont Con in Odense where Claus and I will present our Vale of the Small Jealous Gods-scenario. We spent some time this weekend to finish almost all the crucial elements but there’s still a lot to do. It seemed like such a simple thing to do back in August when we began planning this, but quite a few hours has gone into this project by now and there is still more to do. However, most of the work has been fun. Once everything is ready we’ll post a proper presentation of the whole thing.

Here you first of all have a few pics of the board as it looks now. The four small shrines in the center still need some work which Claus is finishing during the week.

 

 

 

I’ll be working on the centerpiece to stand in the middle of the shrines – a large sacrificial mount. You can see a photo of the thing here. It’s obviously a work-in-progress thing at the moment.

The artwork for the introductory text as well as the snakes for the mission cards to be used during the game was also finished this week.

One of the ‘mission cards’ used in the game. The text still needs to be edited but the lay-out is in place

Well, should you be near Odense next week, swing by and make sure to bring your cool-ass warband.

Cheers

Martin

 

Five beastmen looking for trouble

My painting endeavors have been slowed down lately due to work-related travels. However, I have managed to finish this bunch of beastmen. A mix of models painted with no thoughts as to their chaos allegiance. In fact I picked five random colours (blue, brown, reddish purple, pink and a flesh tone) and assigned one of them as the primary colour for each model.

The flesh coloured monkey-man in green armour is a bit interesting. The models is by no means the proudest moment in Citadel history, nevertheless it shows how easily older models were adjusted or reworked into new ones. This is for instance apparent when one compares the monkey-man with his alligator-man cousin (see below) who is a much more coherent mini and thus probably the first to see the light of day.

And if you are wondering who the little purple, skinny chap is photobombing the group shot of old Citadel lead, I can tell you that he is an old Grenadier beastman. I have had him in my leadpile for ages and decided to include him among the beefy Citadel chaps on a whim. To be honest he doesn’t work well with the others; he’s much too small when compared to the Citadel minis, but kind of like the ol’ Grenadier beastman, who has a certain charm to it, so who cares.

 

The alligator-man