Cheap Terrain Mat!

I'm going to be running a Combat Storm battle with the squads being run by some members of the Combat Storm Wargames Yahoo Group. So I needed to set up the city in the garage, cause it may be there for a little while. I thought I'd make a mat for the battle, so here it is:

First I grabbed a couple yellow tablecloths from the dollar store....

Then I spread them out and taped them down. Notice the tape on the tablecloth? Thats what happens when you don't cut the bag open carefully...

Then I broke out the spraypaint cans and sprayed on some features like roads and ponds, and threw a couple hills on it....

Then the fun part...I set up the city with buildings, palm trees, walls, sandbags and all that. Once I generate the squads and assign them to the players, we can get this thing started!

Scale Reference for Handful of Heroes

I picked up a couple packs of the Handful of Heroes, thinking I'd paint them up for a superhero game someday (I know, I can get prepainted ones but I never kept track of the clicks, and I don't feel like tracking them all down now...) and thought I'd take a couple pics with miniatures in case anyone wanted to get an idea of scale...

Here are a few: Iron Man, Juggernaut, Spider-Man, World War Hulk, The Beast...Spidey, Iron Man and Beast scale nice with each other, but Juggy and Hulk are way undersized...

Here's Iron Man, a Mega Minis Swat mini, Spidey, a GW Space Marine and Hawkeye...the Swat mini fits in great, man Hawkeye has some long legs...




Here's Venom, the swat, Hulk, Marine, and Juggy. Venom does OK with the swat but the Hulk and Juggy look they need to find some steroids....

Here's the ones I have all assembled: WW Hulk, Gladiator Hulk, Venom, Rhino, Spidey, Iron Man, Original Iron Man, Deadpool, Juggy, Armegeddon, the Beast, Green Goblin, X-Ray, Hawkeye and Black Panther. With the exception of real big guys like Hulk and Juggy, I think they'd all work together. Of course it depends who draws them, like I've seen Venom bigger than Spidey, and then I've seen him Hulk sized against Spidey.

Zhu Zhu Pets Update

Got 45 off the little buggers in tonight, lets see how long they last on the shelves. I texted a customer who came in about 15 min. later and was so happy that she got some for her kids for Christmas...I did my good deed for the day!

Adventures in Dept.07...Zhu Zhu Pets Update

More Zhu Zhu Pets finally arrived! Probably won't be any there when I get to work tonite...I grabbed a white one and gray one for the kids' Christmas just in case. We've gotten plenty of the $10, $15, and $20 accessories (which I thought wouldn't move fast without pets in stock, but not only did they fly off the shelves, some folks come in a fill multiple shopping carts full of them, probably for eBay...).

I just had to...here is Kai-Lan about to meet her maker...

Combat Storm Terminator Game

Arrriight! Time to test the Terminators out in Combat Storm. I sat down and worked out some point values and stats for these bad boys and the results were pretty satisfying....Doug took command of the Soldiers and I controlled the Terminator force. Because of the high Terminator point costs (and smaller table we were using) I didnt use them all. The Terminator force consisted of 3 T-600's, 4 T-800's, and 2 T-1s. The humans consisted of 2 squads of 10 Riflemen, 1 squad of 10 Special Forces, 2 Anti-Armor Troops, 2 Support Infantry, 1 Sniper and 2 Tanks. Originally I was going to use 3 T-800's but we decided the Special Forces could parachute in at anytime during the Human movement phase so I added in the fourth T-800. So for all purposes, against the Termainators add 100 pts. to the Army if using the parachute rule.
The Battle went well, the Humans took advantage of cover and even got too lucky in hand to hand. I made a self-repair rule for the machines, so sometimes when it looked like a Terminator was weak he would recover a few wounds and look good as new in the next turn. In the end of the 5th turn it was almost evenly matched: The Humans had 13 soldiers left and the Terminators had 3, but we counted them as 10 with the wounds they still had left. If the game had gone any longer, the Humans would have probably won, being able to gang up in close combat and the way I roll dice (not so hot) they would have lucked out....
I posted the Stats for the Terminators on the CombatStorm Yahoo group if anyone is interested!

Quick Buildings for Combat Storm

Hey made some quick buildings by taking some boxes that stationary items came in at work, then I taped a couple up, painted on various yellow and brown colors, added some doors and windows with a black marker and BAM! Some buildings to add to my Combat Storm paper ones....

More ZhuZhu Pets

Got a big ol shipment in for my beloved Department 7 at Wal-Mart...these things are going fast. I got a few of them already, I better hit the loan shark so I can get the rest before Christmas....