Welcome to the Jungle…

In November I participated in the splendid Horison Convention in Odense where Claus and I had brought along a little Oldhammer-scenario entitled Koka Lustria. The name more or less sets the stage.

Here’s the blurp which gives you an idea of the set-up.

This game takes us to the lush jungles of Lustria. Scaly lizardmen have captured the amazon novice Maka who was soon to be initiated as a priestess of the most sacred goddess Rigg. The vile humanoids are planning to use young Maka in one of their hideous fertility rites. Such blasphemy must be prevented at any cost and the fanatic servants of Rigg thus launch a rescue mission to free their sister before she suffers defilement from the cold hands of the walking lizards. A small warband of koka-crazed amazons, led by the most illustrious priestess Tototic, is thus sent off into the jungle to bring back their sister with the support from their pygmy allies. Will they succeed?

So the setup for the scenario is fairly straight forward. An alliance of amazons and pygmies have to fight the lizardmen in order to free young Maka before a huge snake rapes her during the weird fertility rite of the lizardmen. Yep, pulpy stuff, I know. The rules we used were more or less Warhammer 3rd ed. by the way.

This is more or less what the scenario look like. We played the game twice with four gamers each time and two GMs and the pictures come from both games. Sorry for crappy quality of many of the pictures! Thanks to those wo participated. We had a blast.

I’ll upload the rosters and technicalities of the scenario for further inspiration during the weekend.

Cheers

The game table with the ancient lizard temple in the middle

Lizardmen led by the by their snakeman leader

Koka-crazed amazons

Pygmies rushing to the aid of the amazons

Things get into motion

Young Maka captured in her cage while the snake waits for the rites to begin

Troglodytes and dragon newt crawl slowly towards their attacking enemies

 

The dragon newt

Pygmies ready themselves to throw their grappling hooks and scale the temple walls.

The piece of cotton is poison gas released by the dragon newt

More gas

The lizardmen

Giant snake

The pygmies have arrived

The pygmy warlord Mu-Mu his fierce gorilla steed

Amazons and troglodytes clash

More clashing

 

 

Lizard warriors gang up on the pygmy shaman Tiki-Tu

A brave attempt to rescue Maka is finally foiled as the lizards Cath up with Mu-Mu and his gorilla

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. 

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

 

WIP: A chaos champion with a huge head

Howdy. Here’s a little something I want to share with you. It’s a WIP I’m currently working on. A chaos champion randomly created through Orlygg’s “chaos bands made easy” post on his blog. Actually this chap was created very late in Stansted Airport while Claus and I were waiting for our plane, going back to Copenhagen from this year’s BOYL. I rolled the following attributes for this guy: 1: a “crown of toes” (!),2:  a “huge head” and 3: “very fast”. I tried to make the crown of toes work but it didn’t look right and “very fast” is hard to show. I thus ended up with this bobblehead of a champion. The conversion was wickedly fun to do and I’m really eager to get a go at the painting now. Actually he’s already undercoated white and drying while I write this.

He still lacks a name – more on this to come. In fact quite a lot more I think. He’s the first of four champions we created for a little Oldhammer scenario entitled “Vale of the Small Jealous Gods” which we will be running at the Horizon Convention in Silkeborg this November.

We’ll post more about the scenario soon and hopefully we’ll be able to get some of the other “oldhammerer” from Denmark or even the nearby countries to join us.