MA.K Maschinen Krieger (SF3D) Nutcracking

 Okay pre face melting time is over....

Let us proceed to the actual face melting...

Gentlemen, Ladies, it's time to start Nutcracking!!!!!!!!!

...and in closing I will let my very good New Zealand friend have some closing remarks.

"Are You Not Entertained? Are You Not Entertained? Is This Not Why You Are Here?"

MA.K Maschinen Krieger (SF3D) Nutcracker Ballet

 Pre face melting time! The Nutcracker ballet begins!

Seriously though I bring you a work in progress with another model from the Maschinen Krieger line from Slave2game. They just released some more models to the line, and one of those is my super favorite the drone hover tank called the "Nutcracker"! Need one of those pesky enemy powered armor dudes taken care of? Call in the Nutcracker!

That's it for now and as always....

Thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

The secret society meets for a mini con

 While many went to one of our local conventions "Pro or Con" at the Elk's Lodge, my fellow Freemason brothers gathered for our own mini con. We played a miniature game followed by a boardgame. Gruntz (a scifi miniature ruleset) was the miniature game played, and Terraforming Mars the boardgame.

I will present the pre game terrain setup along with some pictures of the fluff and orders given out to players. I will present commentary as the game proceeds along after each group of pictures.

[below pre game setup with some pictures of the SDR units. All Terrain, other than the hill in the upper left corner was considered slow go terrain or rough. Units would be halved moving through these areas, but could move normal if they sacrificed firing to do a double move. The three blue buttons are the debris areas the SDR has to investigate by spending an action while in base contact with them.]

[below you will see the fluff I handed out to players, and then each players orders. The SDR player enters the board, while the IMA player has hidden setup]

[Since all of the IMA units where hidden, the SDR player moved all his units onto the board on Turn 1, he moved these one at time to see if he triggered any ambushes before moving on to next. In fact his third unit moved did trigger an ambush and his Powered Armor platoon got severely mauled. The SDR player infuriated threw the rest of his troops headlong at the ambush site. The two photos below show the end of Turn 1 situation]

[Turn 2 had the SDR player not knowing all the nuances of the rules yet used his turn to try and shoot up the IMA players harden positions. He ended up causing him three causalities but when the IMA player actived this unit, the SDR player found out they had a perk. Combat stimulus drugs and on a die roll of 5 or 6 they would recover. The three causalities turned into one. Excellent rolling! The picture shows the start of turn 3]

[Turn 3 had the SDR player taking two of his walkers and trying to go around his right flank. Otherwise a firefight was engaged in. As the SDR began turn 4 moving his walkers into rough ground the IMA sprung another ambush with his armored car.]

[Turn 5 the SDR walkers and Armored Car exchanged fire and hits where scored by both sides but no critical hits taken. The SDR finally assaulted the IMA defensive position and the IMA's reaction fire was poor and the SDR punched them in the face really good causing them to withdraw and take the position.]

At this point we called the game as it was understood the SDR would only be able to take one of the three positions and did not have enough movement to reach one of the others by the end of turn 6.

My crew really enjoyed the Gruntz rule set. We know we did a few things wrong, and the SDR player more aware of the rule system definitely would have moved his units differently and engage in a different way. The cards that you can get for the Gruntz system (cards allow units to activate in order of higher number on card so play can go back and forth or a player may move a few units before the other player can etc.) really added enough spice to make the game even more interesting. I purposely set the game up this way to help the players get a feel for how to move, shoot, etc. Future games setup like normal in the rules with a few more units for the IMA player will really help the card system shine. 

Well that's it for my report for now. As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

MA.K Maschinen Krieger (SF3D) Command stands

 Ladies and Gentlemen! Are you ready to have your minds blown? Your faces melted? Well without further ado let me rock it out for you. 

I present to you my Commanders for the IMA and the SDR, plus a little something I put together for the IMA. It's a WWII Humber Armored car. One of my favorite vehicles and I felt just fit in for the IMA. I am going to call it the Bushwhacker, and it's gun will be nick named the Kröte Knocker. God I love this shizzle! 

Enjoy the pics!

[below AFS Mk 1 with a British WWII Officer in desert kit}

[below P.K.A.H1 HEINRICH with a WWII German Officer in desert kit]

[below a WWII Humber Armored car that I am going to use in my genre and call it the Bushwhacker]

As always thanks for looking

Cheers

Kevin

MA.K Maschinen Krieger (SF3D) AFS Mk2’s for the Mercenaries

 Howdy there Cowboys and Cowgirls! Ma. K super fan here, aka "Zhodani Commando ". Bringing you some Super Armored Fighting Suit goodness!

I've completed painting up a company of AFS Mk2's for my upcoming game this Saturday using the rules "Gruntz". I've pretty much settled on these rules as my ruleset of choice after some long hard thought. It crosses the T's and dots the I's of all my needs. One of the things I am creating beside stats, is an OOB. Tank platoons are on average 5 vehicles. So I am going with the Gruntz rules of 6 figures for a unit and call that my platoon. So I have 18 figures done (or three platoons to a company). 

I've color coded the backs of the stands as my over 60 decals placed on these bad boyz will not be easily seen by us old men. So the platoons are color coded, and the Sergeant has an added S to the color code for command purposes. 

The following pictures are of 15mm metal scifi from Slave2Game miniatures. The Ma. K universe started way, way back in the late 70's I believe and were 1:20 scale plastic kits. It had a hardcore small fan base, and still does. Slave2game finally brought these wonderful designs to the game table.

As always thanks for looking.

Cheers

Kevin

MA.K Maschinen Krieger (SF3D) 15mm

 Finished my first company for my Super Armored Fighting Suits science fiction genre miniature game, and I have called the unit the 79th Sundowners. I also painted up a platoon of walkers and I have named them the 1st Top hat Death Bringers. I believe that these bad boyz are remote driven or have AI on board, I can't remember. 

This feat gets me to a point where I have enough troops to play for one side. My intent now is to paint the opposition up and I already have some good ideas for the paint schemes.

In the meantime please enjoy the following pictures. The powered Armor suits are called Gustavs and have a laser (I always picture doctor Evils face when I say "laser") in their left arm. The giant walkers have a Gatling canon in their turrets. 

As always thanks for looking

Cheers

Kevin

Battletech:The Dragon speaks

The Captain has left the bunker.... 

I haven't done squat these past two months. I won't bore you with details as to why and yadda, yadda, yadda. 

Been re reading some Battletech novels written by a favorite of mine, Michael A. Stackpole. One of the first books written way, way back when it all started was called "The Warrior Trilogy". All kinds of stuff goes on in this crazy story. One of the intertwining themes is the Kell Hounds (Elite Innersphere Mercenary unit) vs the Genyosha (Elite Draconis Combine unit) and their on going feud with each other. 

Of course it inspired me to paint some mechs up. Hell I haven't played or painted Battletech in over 20 years. But it felt right to do so this past week. Simple, fun, and the damn rules haven't change every two years like some other asinine companies do to make you keep buying their shit. YOU HEAR THAT GAMES WORKSHOP!!! 

So I painted up some of the new plastics from Catalyst Game labs, a battle lance of Genyosha. Where will this take me? Who knows. All I know is that I successfully completed a lance of four mechs this past week. The mechs are in order: Warhammer, Rifleman, Shadow hawk, and the Locust.

As always thanks for looking and maybe I'll see you in another two months;)

Cheers

Kevin