Getting ready for; Last Days!

We're about a month away from the release of my friend Ash's first game from Osprey Games; Last Days.

I'm gearing up to play some games ahead of release so I'll save a review until actual release week but I thought I'd just touch on a few things as I dust off a lot of the models I was painting back when I started this blog.

First up Last Days like all Osprey Games I'm familiar with is miniatures-neutral which means you can play it with any models you already have in your collections, or you can go out and cherry-pick all the coolest stuff.  This means for anybody already playing a zombie miniature game you already have everything you need, if you're one of those collectors like me who just buys cool models hoping to one day have rules to use them with you're all set as well.

Back during Ash's first pass at the game the forces were themed (cops, survivors, bikers, etc) so I tended to collect and group my figs that way.  Now you can mix and match as each model represents a trope rather than part of a traditional 'force' of soldiers.

In addition to each player's chosen force you will need a small collection of zombie models.  For anyone who's been into the genre previously this will be a non-issue but for newer gamers there are a ton of options for easy cost-effective zombies to fill out your ranks.  Walking Dead zombies are easily available and great durable figures, Warlord Games produces the old Wargames Factory zombies, even board games have some decent quality zombie figures these days, I've personally used a bunch of zombies from Last Night On Earth.

If there's one piece of advice I would give a new modeller collecting together different zombie and survivor figures it would simply be to base them the same (or at least similarly) so they take on the appearance of one coherent collection.

This is my trip through one old figure case, I plan on painting a few new figs up this week to add in, and hopefully you'll all see a full game review in 3-4 weeks.

-Jay

Every good hero needs a villain (or two)

I have been collecting a decent sized force of superhero figs over the last few years but have struggled to find really good villains outside of the Heroclix line.  The main problem with using well known villains in a superhero RPG is that invariably somebody in the group knows pretty much exactly how to defeat them based on 60-70 years of comic history so even if the main mastermind villain is Apocalypse or Vandal Savage I prefer to have most of the baddies doing the fighting being new or original characters that my player's won't be familiar with.

Luckily Reaper (again their excellent Chronoscope line) and Comfy Chair Games have produced a couple of awesome "brick" type baddies for use in superhero games.  These type of guys don't have very complicated power sets but when you need to punch a hero through a wall or throw a car at somebody they definitely fit the bill.

-Jay

It definitely looks like clobberin' time.

 

This guy looks like he has old-school underwater mines for fists!

(Comfy Chair Games)

 

This guy has nodes for inserting chemical vials all down his back.

(Reaper-Chronoscope)

 

 

 

 

Sometimes you paint figures for a particular game you are planning and sometimes a miniature or two just comes arounf that you have to piant because...well...just becuase.

To that end I present a great representation of Duke Nukem (by Comfy Chair Games) and a Zombie in a giant chicken suit (by Studio Miniatures).

In the next 2 weeks you should be seeing alot more painted Studio miniatures around these parts.

-Jay

Hail to the king baby.....Chicken a la King baby!