To the Strongest Hard copy, explosion graphic resources, track and malaise

Hi All

  Sorry for the wordy title, I've got a lot on my mind.

  My hard copy of To the Strongest came in over the weekend. Simon Miller had a special and threw in some laser cut chits. I've had the PDF's for awhile, but have been sitting on this game for too long. What I envision doing with it is playing out a War of the Roses campaign using the old Avalon Hill board game Kingmaker as a campaign map. My dream was to make it a play by blog, but I don't have period specific figures or recognizable personalities painted up. I'm also not sure if it would be better to try and have participants play on their own and report back or try to live play via video conference. I'm not sure if that would even appeal to people.

  Over on face book people were talking about ipad apps for putting muzzle flashes and explosions into their 40K battle report pictures. I don't own an ipad, but have done a fair bit of photo manipulating for my comic reports in both GIMP and Comic Life 3. Following is a list of resources from deviant art:

http://www.deviantart.com/art/muzzle-flash-stock-pack-2-189572285

http://hq-hq.deviantart.com/art/muzzle-flash-stock-pack-189571261

http://josiahreeves.deviantart.com/art/Explosion-Stock-Set-1-105411546

http://josiahreeves.deviantart.com/art/Explosion-Stock-Set-2-105411660

http://josiahreeves.deviantart.com/art/Explosion-Stock-Set-3-105411939

http://pixelchemist-stock.deviantart.com/art/Misc-Effects-001-70902206

http://frostbo.deviantart.com/art/Fire-effect-PNG-295096844

http://frostbo.deviantart.com/art/Explosion-Render-PNG-272872038

I felt like FrostBo in particular had a lot of good resources on his profile. Lots of useful Photoshop and GIMP brushes that I didn't list here.

The boy ran his first races of the season on Saturday. 3:10 800m and 6:29 1500m just about dead on his average for both races last season.

I've been even more quiet than usual on the bloggisphere as I'm feeling a tad nihilistic at the moment. I'm just trying to soldier on and not let the amount of work undone paralyze me. Right now I've lost my mojo for the painting challenge. I'll try to get it back but I think I'm done with trying to put out bulk units. It was never my forte and the thought of it right now is putting me off painting altogether.

Bye for now.

To the Strongest - updates

Hi All,

Just a quick update on some information about To the Strongest, Simon Miller is releasing v1.1 of the rules soon. There will be a printed copy available and, if you already purchased a digital copy, will get the updated pdf. Pretty sweet.

Another thing that came up in the newsletter was a link to this post from the 1000 Foot General. I have had a similar idea, as the though of marking up my gaming mat seems like a pain. Especially if I want to change grid size or go from squares to hexes and back again. My idea involves washers and velcro dots.

There is also a To the Strongest facebook page here. I had a hell of a time finding it by doing a search on face book. Hopefully this link will make it easier for you.

I'm also halfway through my Talomir Tales battle, sorry Ruarigh. Tereken has had a stroke of bad luck and lost their leader after successfully dislodging the Knights of Treyine from the central hill feature.

I'd also like to welcome two new followers:

Solo wargaming-on a budget! of Solo Wargaming in the UK. Looks like lots of scratch building and maybe even Warhammer 3rd Ed. I need to check this one out some more.

Toturi of Beer & Ink as well as a fellow contributor to A Tale of Several Gamers. He's got some nice looking Dwarf Clansman painted up.

Off to the trenches before yet another day slips by.