snake eyes november 2013

8/14/2019 Snake Eyes November 2013

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GARAGE GAMERS GROUP

ISSUE # 1 NOVEMBER 2013

Astorath -Blood Angels

Space Marines


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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 want-

ing 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 fromshop 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.

Garage Gamers Group

started like everything else

does, as an idea.

I wanted to game at home,

not have to pack up every-

thing and take it to a shop

to play there. claims Nick

Chase, originator of GGG.

The ideal solution was to

host games at my home. It

meant more work from a

setup point of view, but as

a collector of games and

armies over the years, I

had everything here that I

needed. I just needed the

other gamers. This began

with the occasional game

of Warhammer 40k that

was already being played

here. That and the

boardgame Battlecry. I

thought, wouldnt it be

great to round up some old

club members from my

earlier days of gaming and

form a like minded group

to play games together. No

clubhouse but all from

home.

I had the space, equipment

and games and gaming

aids. I then built 4 more

tables in my garage. I was

ready.

My son Darian, and I had

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 leader-

ship decisions at the time. The

club newsletter, still under the

ownership of its creator went

into hibernation.

Discussion with early War-

hounds club President GlenTaylor in 2013 renewed the

impetus of bringing Snake Eyes

back to life for what it was cre-

ated for, as a promoter of gam-

ers 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...

GGG members in the mid-dle of a session of WFRP...

Garage Gamers Group (GGG)

Snake-Eyes resurrection

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P O I N T S O F

I N T E R E S T :

Garage

Gamers

Group.

What we

are all about

The games

we play

Game re-views

How to

make the

most of ter-

rain

Members

current &

New

Sales page

Members Gal-

lery

Hints & Tips

Contact

SnakeEyes

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P A G E 3

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

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

GarageGamersGroup-The Games We Play

A GGG discussion supported

any miniature based game

could be promoted by the

group. To date the followinglists the games to be played

and currently playing in GGG.

Current games include:

Warhammer 40k


BattleCry

StarWars X-Wing

Old West

Zombiecide

Axis & Allies

Warhammer 40k roleplay

American Civil War

Apocolypse

AD & D

Arkham Horror

Games coming soon include:

Necromunda

Wings of Glory

Flames of War (Open Fire)

Warhammer Fantasy

Mordheim

Axis & Allies WW1 edition

Game Spot-BattleCry

BattleCry is a boardgame

based on historical battles of

the American Civil War. Eachbattle represents an actual

battle including dates and

details and the original out-

come. The game comes com-

plete with hard wearing battle

board, cavalry, infantry, artil-

lery, and generals for both

sides of the conflict. Dice and

tactical cards are included as

are terrain hexes. Game scale

is 1:72 and each game lasts

approximately 60-90 minutes.

seat, as opposed to standing

over an army controlling it as

the unseen commander.

Roleplay is immersive for the

players and allows them to

expand on their creation of a

single entity in the Warham-

mer world, including race,

class, occupations, skills etcet-

era. Thus, working as a group

to help thwart evil in the

GGG started Warhammer

Fantasy Roleplay in April

2013. The gaming sessions are

from the 1st edition of

WFRP, and the group are

currently making their way

through the Empire using the

Enemy Within campaign.


puts the gamer in the hot

Empire and sometimes be-

yond. Sessions are entertain-

ing as the players act out their

characters where necessary,

creating sometimes unex-

pected events, and generally

keep the Gamesmaster on his

toes. Sessions run every third

Sunday from 1300-1700.

Sean Federoff

Nick Chase

Jamie Federoff

Courtney Halverson

Chris Taylor

Martin Dorney

Michael Orton

Sean OHanlon

Abby Federoff

Demi Federoff

Membershipto Garage

Gamers Group is free. You

can be approached by a mem-

ber 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.

Contact the Editor for more

information. See the back

page of this publication for

contact information.

Simon Manchee

Sam Corvi

Steven Azzopardi

George ElliotZachary Seib

Darian Chase

Zac Mehta

Glen Taylor

Tim Prenzler

Craig Federoff

S N A K E E Y E S

StarWars X-Wing


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Miniature Art

P A G E 4V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

When does a good well planned

photo or drawing of a miniaturemake the difference between what

you buy?

I would say pretty much most of

the time.

Most sellers use it to their ad-

vantage, be it the artwork on the

box, the magazines and the post-

ers.

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 minia-turesor 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 think-

ing...even if your thought is onlywhy is the blood on his blade red

and not blue???

your collection. After shelling out

the big bucks to buy it all to find

some of those miniatures are now

defunct. (Chaos Dwarves come to

mind-Ed)

If you stick with the 1-2 army

selection at a time, your purchases

can be more selective which is

better for your painting, gaming

and wallet. Pre select what you

want in your army/armies, pur-

If I had any advice for the collector

just starting out, and something I

wish had of been said to me it is

this...start your collection with

NO MORE than 2 armies. If its

40k its your favourite 2. Same for

Warhammer, Flames of War and

so on. The reason for this, is thatarmies and games get a re release,

usually with nicer looking minia-

tures that you will want to add to

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 rea-

sonable time, unlike me ;)

bourne have at least 10% off on

GW miniatures and more on oth-

er brands. They charge a flat $7.50shipping fee and the miniatures are

shipped as new in box. War &

Peace games in Sydney have a

good range for online ordering

and offer reasonable discounts.

When the AUD was better to buy

overseas The Trolltrader and

Discount Games Store, both on

Ebay are good for a bargain. DGS

sends items out of box but still on

sprue, and you can swap items

after purchase. Mailing can be high

but get a decent lot and its more

likely worth it or order with

friends. Finally Aliexpress online. A

little like Ebay and if you typeWarhammer in the search bar it

will display a list of resin, plastic

and metal miniatures. Most of the

items are resin. These need a little

more work and mailing time is

long but with miniatures at a quar-

ter of the costs of the original its

a bargain. In the next issue of

Snake Eyes I will pass on my best

locations for that elusive out of

date rule book or painting guide

that youve been looking for.

As a gamer for many years, I have

always tried to combat the ongo-

ing conundrum of what you wantverse what youre willing to spend.

I hate the rising costs of minia-

tures and good terrain and rule-

books as much as anybody, there-

fore am quite mercenary when it

comes to the purchase of these

items. I present this column to all

of those gamers looking for that

other option. When the main-

stream miniature sellers are not in

your price range, there are alter-

natives. Milsims

(www.milsims.com.au) in Mel-

Hints & Tips

The Collector is agamer with 24 years

in collectable games

and wargaming...

When the

mainstream

miniature

sellers are not

in your price

range, there

are

alternatives

From the Collectors Vault

S N A K E E Y E S


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Earlier in the year I had the opportunity to join in on a game of American Civil War at member Glen Taylors place. I have had

very lile to do with ACW so this was a rst for me. The gures were 15mm metal range from Eureka miniatures.

Marn Dorney kindly loaned his terrain for the game and my opponent was Chris Taylor, brother to Glen. Chris had played a

lile more than me, however Glen and Marn were the ACW gamers aer all, so they maintained a close hand in the game asrule adjudicators. The ruleset used was one the Glen had purchased online from the author called Command Combat.

The layout was 3 inch foam sheets 6 x 2 feet, with hills and roads modelled onto the terrain. I took command of the Confedera-

cy and Chris took the Union.

The game allows for extra terrain so we both used this to our advantage, adding a

creek, fences and trees to the base layout. The bale direcve was to reach an ob-

jecve in each others deployment zone. Both armed with a mixture of infantry, arl-

lery and cavalry we faced o against each other.

The game incorporates an amount of realism. Arllery unless set up unlimbered must

be moved from the limbered when travelling, to the unlimbered to ulise their eec-

veness so the tacc of when is the best me for this to happen is paramount as the

cannon have a good range. The bale was set in 1861 so most of the weaponry espe-

cially for the Confederates were basic. Command stands must be used to enforce any orders to their maximum eect however

this puts your commanders at greater risk of enemy re. Infantry regiments are very unstable under re and will rout if they

come under too much re. I sent my cavalry across the board only to have them turned back by cannon re, and spent the

rest of the game trying to roll well enough to bring them back into the game as an eecve unit. In the end this was the com-

mon element on both sides however Chris managed a win geng his troops closer to the objecve by end of game.

The game itself plays over 20 rounds. We had managed 7. It was enjoyable though me consuming. It did however give me an

incenve to start collecng 28mm Perry Miniatures ACW so I am happy with that. For anyone wanng to collect 15mm metal

ACW both Eureka miniatures (aforemenoned) and Stone Mountain miniatures have a great range.

Picture on le shows Confederate Cav about to charge

into Infantry...some arllery hurrying down the road to

back up the Johnny Rebs, whereas Union arllery is

already entrenched upon the hill

Picture on the right shows the view of the cavalry 2 turnsbefore as they move into posion...

ACW at Glens Garage


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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 excep-

tion 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 high-

lighted 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 pu-

rity 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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ark Heresy is a role playing game set in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium , the decaying darkfuture 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 play-

ers. The Inquisitor will task your group with all manner of missions and you will encounter mutants, witch-

es, 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 start-

ing 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 Aco-

lytes 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.

"Innocence proves nothing"

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 sec-

ond 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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Members Gallery

15mm American Civil War -Confederate troops part of

Glen Taylors conngent...Western Town at sunset

BaleCry pre bale set up at Craig Federos

Two examples

of Simon

Machins

painng, the

Ork Stompa

le and

Balewagon

One of many to come examples of aenon to detail. Pic

shows laundry coppers in western laundry building by

Marn Dorney see also upper right shows grocery store

A game of Zombiecide in play with the GGG

members...


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S N A K E E Y E S

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It became a challenge to get through

all of the missions in the book but in

the end we did. The Union winning

roughly 40% of them so it has now

set the stage for Nick to take the

Union forces while I return as a

Confederate.

Will keep the group updated asevents unfold.

Hi. I come from an Army background and have

always been interested in some form of tactical

games. As I had never been introduced to varie-

ties of games outside chess and perhaps monop-

oly, these were the only games that I played.

I have always been a lover of history and with

that historical battles. When a good friend ofmine, Nick Chase introduced me to a game of

BattleCry I was hooked. We randomly selected

the sides. I ended up with the Union Forces and

Nick with the Confederate.

The boardgame itself has about 30 missions, all

with historical briefing. The rules suggest that

after each battle that players swap sides and play

the same mission again. We didnt however

and, at my insistence I stayed with the Blues.

Although I have an adequate grasp of tactics, the

game still gave me a workout, with me winning

one in three battles. Each battle usually lasted anhour to 90 minutes, so at most when we did

play, we usually only had time for a few games.

(BattleCry) is an American Civil

War Avalon Hill game available from

various suppliers at a RRP $75

Phone: 0419 729794

E-mail: [email protected]: Garage Gamers Group

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

GGG supports a gamers for gamers attitude

Garage Gamers Group

Members Spotlight - Craig Federoff

Trademark names in the newsleer have been used without permission & only used for promoonal purposes for the GGG. They include: Games Workshop &

associated trademarks, Milsims, Aliexpress, BaleCry, StarWars X-Wing, War & Peace Games, Avalon Hill, Arkham Horror, Wings of Glory, Flames of War, Zombie-

cide, 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 aforemenoned above.

Game of BattleCry set up and

ready to play...

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