Wednesday 28 October 2015

Zomtober: The Long Halloween

Following the success of my last zombie related posted, I'll continue the theme with some prisoners...you know, like in the Walking Dead Season 3...that's totally zombie related!


Okay, okay...I've been painting Batman stuff instead of zombies. These two are the creatively named Prisoners 3 and 4 from the second pack of Blackgate Prisoners. They are versatile fellows, able to work for everybody except Batman, Green Arrow, the Police and limited gangs like the Watchmen and Court of Owls. As they're fairly lost cost in terms of reputation, they are good for filling gaps or bringing a particular skill to the gang, for example, Prisoner 3's Axe brings low cost blood damage which is good for finishing off the injured, and Prisoner 4 has the Bodyguard trait enabling him to literally take a hit or two on behalf of more important models.

I've painted these two in order to be ready for my next Batman event, which it this weekend. It's themed around the seminal Long Halloween story and the focus is apparently more on narrative than tournament play. What's more, it's an escalation event, with the first game being at 200 rep, the second at 250 and the final two being at 300 rep. To help with gang construction, you're also not limited to keeping the same models in every crew.


I've decided to take Poison Ivy to this event for a number of reasons. Firstly, it's my most recently completed crew and I want to give it a run out, secondly I want to run an Ivy crew with Mr Freeze in tow as an homage to the critically acclaimed 'Batman & Robin' in a change to the usual Gotham Sirens theme that may Ivy players run with. Finally, given the event rules and the narrative focus, I felt that it was an interesting idea to switch Ivys during the event as she 'evolves'.

I'm really looking forward to this event as it is being hosted by the same people who ran the UK leg of he Worldwide tournament. Many of the spectacular tables that were on display there belong to them and given the organisation of the actual day, I'd imagine that the day will be really smooth. Most importantly though, is the narrative element. That's the area of the Batman game that I feel sometimes gets overlooked, and something I would like to see much more of.

Given that I've admitted that the Prisoners really aren't for zombie gaming, I felt it necessary to get at least one zombie done, and here he is...


Another Studio Z-Clips model. Not very exciting, but it adds to the horde.

In other zombie news, we're playing Last Night on Earth as part of our traditional Halloween Long Weekend gaming. As yet, the survivors have never survived in any game we've played of it, so we'll see how it goes.

Expect an event report next week.


15 comments:

  1. They are looking good. Nice job. I always find that orange a difficult colour. Yours has come up very nicely indeed.

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    1. I don't do anything clever. It's just old GW Blazing Orange over a white undercoat and washed with Agrax Earthshade. It seems to do the trick.

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  2. Great job dude! Nice to see you include a zombie. Looking forward to your LNOE pictures.

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    1. Thanks. I probably won't photograph that game, as nothing's painted for it.

      I'm hoping to get a game in of my solo 7ombieTV game soon, so there should be pictures of that.

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  3. Second Ivy crew I've heard about today. I like the idea of a series of escalation games, and it's also nice to see games being run that are NOT at 350 rep, which I honestly find to be too high. It's nice once in a while, but the game shines more at 200 to 300 in my eyes.

    Have fun at the event!

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    1. Thanks. Staying below 300 dies force some hard choices, particularly on equipment. I had to redesign my list as I was busy spending $1500, before realising that despite escalating, the cash limit stays the same at $1000.

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  4. Great painting Kieron and you've clearly got painting orange down to a fine art. They look terrific... and tempting.

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    1. Thanks. As I said earlier, I don't do anything clever, but maybe that's the trick... :)

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  5. That's really nice; they hang together really well which is no mean trick when you've got such a wide colour palette.

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    1. Thanks. I actually paint with a really limited palette as I don't mix or blend colours. It seems to work really well on the batman stuff, maybe because it gives a comic book feel. Also, everything in the crew except Freeze is either orange or green, or orange and green, so it's actually quite uniform.

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  6. Very nicely done on both of the Prisoners. :)

    Wishing you good luck and plenty of enjoyment for the narrative games day at the weekend. :)

    And well done for painting another Zombie! :)

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    1. Thanks. I'm interested to see how it plays out differently to regular tournaments. I'm hoping to get my hands on one of the alternate cards.

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    2. I think it should be fun, especially the required mixing up of the lists. Hopefully you manage to snag some cards. :)

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  7. Absolutely wonderful! Good luck at the tourmamrnt, I'm keen to see how Ivy gets on.

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    1. I have no idea how she'll do. However, it is a gang I've never seen lose. I've never beaten Ivy and I won lost the one time I used her. But we'll see. If I was using my Batman crew, I think I'd eat this line up for breakfast... :(

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