mantic games – Page 11 – Pimp My Board Game

When I first set out to create my initial boards, I decided to use some 8″x8″ tiles from Fat Dragon’s Capital City papercraft pdfs. Looking through the campaign in Mantic‘s Days Gone Bye expansion for Walking Dead: All Out War, I noticed a few non-city themed play areas and the expansion came with a field-looking paper mat. Since I don’t have any open field paper terrain, I will need to make something else. I would just use that paper mat but it’s all in color and will clash with my theme so I decided to scan the mats and reprint them in black and white.

CNC Progress

By Christian

On January 8, 2017

In General, Resources

This week, I was able to start my CNC machine project. It’s slow going as I’ve never had to assemble anything this complex and so I’m taking my time. I could have opted for the pre-built version but reading up on the kit a bit more, several users noted that it was good to build it yourself so that if things go wrong in the future, you’ll have an idea of what the problem might be. I’m not sure if that will really work for me but the building process itself is pretty cool.

cncparts

Walking Dead Wednesdays: A New Series

By Christian

On January 4, 2017

In General

With all the work I’ve been doing on Mantic’s miniatures game, the Walking Dead: All Out War, I thought I’d start up a little sidebar post series that focuses on this game and other related topics.

I completed painting all 26 walkers from the kickstarter wave 1 shipment before Christmas but only now had time to take some quick shots of them. So here we have, Walker Class of 2016!

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Arrival

By Christian

On November 20, 2016

In General, Technique, The Walking Dead: All Out War

Ah yes, earlier this week my KS copy of The Walking Dead: All Out War came in. All things told, it came in pretty good shape for the way it was packed (I’ve been reading some horror stories on the KS campaign page but it also sounds like Mantic is taking care of those issues pretty quickly).

Terrain Without Color

By Christian

On November 13, 2016

In General, Technique, The Walking Dead: All Out War

This week I worked a bit more on my Walking Dead terrain, specifically the game board. As I discussed in my paper terrain post, I prefer terrain that is quick, usable, and easily stored. Taking my Walking Dead game into the monochromatic world of black and white (b/w) makes printable paper terrain even easier. Also, painting a full game board in b/w seems too tedious for me. It can be done to great effect, however. Just check out this thread on coolminiornot.com and or this one on lead-adventures.de.

from user vikotnik on lead-adventures.de

Cabin Con 2016 Prep part 2

By Christian

On June 5, 2016

In Cabin Con, Conventions, Dropzone Commander, Resources, The Walking Dead: All Out War

So this is the last weekend to get ready for our annual Cabin Con gaming and I’m still prepping material for some games. I’ve been making progress on my components but I’m still pretty behind. I’ll likely need to start scratching things off the list to make sure I can finish the most pressing projects in time.

First up are my Battle Buses from Dropzone Commander for use first in my Thunder Road Skull City variant.

CabinCon 2016 Prep

By Christian

On May 29, 2016

In Cabin Con, Conventions, Resources

In less than two weeks, my friends and I will trek into the mountains and unofficially start off the summer game convention season with our own private little game convention, CabinCon.

CabinCon logo designed by Bret Bays

a pursuit of fruitless endeavors and endless refinements

Tag: mantic games

Walking Dead Wednesday: revising my boards

CNC Progress

Walking Dead Wednesdays: A New Series

Arrival

Terrain Without Color

Cabin Con 2016 Prep part 2

CabinCon 2016 Prep