Pestilens Party 2017

Gaming Aids

Been getting a load of gaming stuff together recently , mostly because as a new player, I need every bit of help I can get to make my games run smoother and faster and so with that in mind I have put together a nice customised counter set to help me remember rules for my Rotbringers, Nurgle Daemons and Clan Pestilens stuff. I made custom counters for any abilities or effects that last a whole turn, as well as things like Prayers, Spells and Command Abilities, which are all color coded and grouped by shape, so I can remember what the hell it is I'm doing! This is partly down to finding it hard to remember the rules for Plaguemonks as they are so complex to use, but also partly down to being tired when I play games and also being a newbie. I get my stuff from Counter Attack , they do a lot of customizing options for measuring gages, dice, counters etc

http://www.counterattackbases.co.uk/aos-augment-marker-set-set-of-10

 

 

I also use Ben Curry's excellent scenery (and soon the buff dice) which are available here on the TGA.

 

The KR dice case is a nice way to keep everything all together in one set and has a handy card holder on the inset for which I used as a holder for Ben's awesome scenery dice card (listing the rules for terrain) as a handy quick ref guide.

I also invested in a cheap tablet from Amazon, the Lenovo A7-20 is a good little tablet coming in at around £60 , its only 8GB in Memory but you can add an SDcard, which I plan to keep all my DLC on. The 7inch screen size is fine for reading warscrolls off. The App doesn't seem to tilt when horizontal though which makes my cases backstand obsolete , hoping that gets resolved later down the line.

 

Seeing as I am running a pain in the butt horde army,  I figured I had better make some movement trays as well to save time on turn 1 getting into position. I picked these up from an ebay seller Hurlbatgames who make excellent MDF and Plastic movement trays and bases http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/hurlbatgames?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2754

 

I also bought a large metal KR case to transport stuff around as I am headed up to WW for Seeds of Hope and Warlords over the next month or two

J.

 

Edited July 21, 2016 by James McPherson

Managed to get my first ever visit and game in at my local gaming club Exmouth Imperial Wargamers club on Weds, the club has been going in Exmouth for over 15 years and plays a variety of historical and sci fi / fantasy wargames such as Bolt Action, X wing and 40k. We played Gift from Heavens with legacy W.Elves vs Pestilens, was a fun game and nice to meet all the guys for the first time, we were the only AOS game going down but I'm sure the scene will grow there , big ups to Paul for a fun game! So far I'm P:3 W:0 L:3 with Pestilens!

Edited July 28, 2016 by James McPherson

That games club looks really great!  Did you pre-arrange a game or were you able to pop in and find someone to play? 

That looks like a bad ass set up of tokens and terrain dice.

Reaaally jealous!

Your Pestilens is making me want to get my ass moving here.  Pokemon Go has crushed my painting time but as soon as the Beastmen are done we're going hard into Rotbringers and Pestilens!

2 hours ago, Ben said:

That games club looks really great!  Did you pre-arrange a game or were you able to pop in and find someone to play? 

Yeah I'm lucky it's 5 mins from my Mums place in Exmouth where I've been staying while back in England.  Had to pre-arrange on the Facebook group and it took about 2 or 3 weeks to find someone up for a game but I found a great guy to duke it out with so very happy. Once we started other people started saying they will join in soon so hopefully we'll get more games going in future..

More Movement Trays

I had some better movement trays made by a guy called the Laser Cut Architect. I got 2 Plague Furnace bases custom made especially to fit 32 plague monks around the outside and turn it into a movement 14 chariot! And a load of random horde trays (also got some 32mm ones not pictured) He is a really helpful guy who will go above and beyond to make whatever you need, and is extremely fast and great comms, very good experience overall, ok value for money too compared to what else is out there.

      

 

 

 

Edited July 31, 2016 by James McPherson

Do you have a link to LCA's website (does he have one)? Google failed me. 

Edited July 31, 2016 by MiniJunkie

he has a facebook page. Although I haven't been on it yet, he just asked me to post pics when they are all painted up on there. I just emailed him to start with . I had seen someone else post some movement trays they had just bought from him on one of the fbook sigmar pages, so I ripped the photo and sent it to him via email and said "can you make me X amount like this?". He is pretty thorough, will send you a screengrab of his design software before he cuts it to make sure its correct if its a custom job.

I got a game in against @CyderPirate aka Scotty from Rygas on Weds eve n Exeter, which was a lot of fun we had another game of AOS going on next table to us too so looks like AOS is growing a bit at Rygas which is cool too!  First time playing the Escalation battleplan from the GHB which really makes you think about your deployment a lot, 2000pts, Slaves to Darkness Vs Pestilens.

Pestilens pulled it out the bag for my first AOS win, but only with some lucky shooting from the Plagueclaw in turn 2 and sheer weight of numbers. Also the mortal wounds dealt back from casualties rule on a roll of a 6 from the icon of Pestilence seemed to come into play a lot, as did my 6up ward save from the Congregation of Filth formation.

Beginning to wonder if 1000pts better suits the gaming club format , so will start trying those smaller game sizes out next. I have seeds of Hope on Sunday week which turns out is also 1000pts format, so looking very forward to that and AOS open day next wknd!

Edited August 6, 2016 by James McPherson

Great following your return to the game James.  I left the hobby in about 2000 and returned in 2013/4 so had to go through a similar process of rebuilding the hobby station and connections to gaming groups etc.