Sludge - Army update - One more day!

 I have one more day to finish painting my Sludge army and I thought I'd do another update.

I finished the second Line Infantry unit and the Light Cavalry.

Line Infantry

Light Cavalry

Finished Gore Tokens

Here is my army commander who's base needs to be finished but is otherwise done.

Lord Commander Hieronymous Beauregard Excelsior III

Complete Force just some heros and cannon crew need to be painted yet.

Well that's all for now.

Next time I post I will have the whole thing done and hopefully some pics and video from the event.

Until then...

SLUDGE - The Basilisk Empire army update

 I have gotten some work done on my Imperial army!

I have also changed what units I intend to have finished in my army for this weekend's Sludge event.

I am running out of time so I have decided the finished army will have the following units:

- 30 points, Commander, and two bodyguard

- 60 points, Imperial Zouaves - 4 bases with standard and musician and veteran upgrade

- 60 points, Line Infantry - 5 bases with standard and musician

- 60 points, Line Infantry - 5 bases with standard and musician

- 20 points, Chaplain

- 30 points, Imperial Artificer

- 30 points, Imperial Artificer

- 10 points, Arcanist

- 10 points, Arcanist

- 60 points, [Elite] Imperial Crawler

- 20 points, Light Cavalry - 4 bases

- 35 points [Elite, I think?] Field Gun with Veteran Crew

425 points total

Here are the units I have completed:

Chaplain

Gore Tokens

Imperial Crawler

Line Infantry

Imperial Zouaves and a painted cannon in the back.

Entire force so far.

I will do more work on the army tonight and I should have another update before Thursday.  Once I get to the venue I will take some pictures of the other armies and of the battlefields and share them here.  I also want to make some video and maybe either a battle report on the blog or a video battle report or both.

Anyways, I will have more Sludge content soon!

Until then..

SLUDGE - The future of the World Tree will be written here

Next weekend my gaming group will get together for our annual Big Game.  We've modified the format over the years to be more of a con-style event with members of the group running different games throughout the weekend.

This year I plan on playing 4 different games.  On Thursday I will start with Sludge which I will go into more detail below.  On Friday I intend to play Warhammer 30k: Age of Darkness and possibly Necromunda.  On Saturday again 30k and/or Necromunda.  On Friday and Saturday evening probably after 9pm I will be running Heroquest.

So of the above games I am sure that most of my readers have heard of everything except maybe Sludge.

Sludge is a fantasy wargame set on Yggdrasil; The World Tree.  It is a decaying world where branches of the tree have been broken by the overuse of Magic.  The factions of Sludge are stuck in a strange technological world of Black Powder and Magic.

Sean Sutter is the creator of Sludge.  He also designed Relicblade and I am sure other games I am unaware of.

The current way to get the rules is in two magazines; Blaster Vol 3 and Blaster Vol 4. These magazines have rules for multiple games by may different designers in them.  You can get either physical or PDF versions of these magazines on DriveThruRPG (www.drivethrurpg.com).

Here is a link to the official website: https://relicblade.com/sludge

Blaster Vol. 3 has the rules for the game including scenarios and an army list that has units any faction can use.  Blaster Vol. 4 has faction-specific units and some background on the 4 major factions.

One of the really cool things about Sludge is that while Sean has sculpted and sold some miniatures for the game it really is a miniature-agnostic system.  He suggests using historical minis and kit-bashing the factions.

I have been working on building a Basilisk Empire faction.  I have a decent amount of minis assembled and base-coated white.  I also got one unit done and I am working on a second unit.

Here was my recent haul from a game store to begin building the army:

The boxes above included enough models for many many units.

The above were assembled from the boxes I bought at the store minus the one GW fig.

Light Cavalry assembled from the Victrix Bag and the Artillery Box.

The tank kit is from a Chibi-styled WWII tank model kit range.

Painted Imperial Zouaves made from the Austrian Hessians box set.

I will update this blog as I get more models painted and I hope to have 300 points ready by next week's events.  I also want to document the games I play next week in pictures and hopefully get some video also.

Until then..

D-Company Big Game Pictures

The Big Game has come and gone and I haven't posted anything about it until now...


The Imperial Defenders used a novel strategy, since they were out numbered in Power Level points they decided that the only game on Friday that made sense to try and win was the one with the War Hound Titan. 

The other three games the Chaos Attackers won easily because they took way more points to those games.

The game on Saturday was a much more balanced game as far as Power Levels per side were concerned because of the Defender's low usage of points on Friday.

With the built in defenses that the defenders had in the Saturday scenario they were able to take the game.

On to the pics:

Friday

Saturday

It was a really fun time and I am very happy that everyone played.  Even though my team lost, I liked that the Imperial team was able to use the scenario rules and base a strategy off of that.  We didn't do as good of a job as they did and they ended up winning and fittingly so.

Also I added a new link in the D-Company links section on the right side of my page.  Mike has begun a campaign for the year and he has a new blog which details the campaign.  The blog is Called D-Company Campaigns.

Until next time...