Orctober work in progress

I wasn't able to finish these in time, but they are almost there. Some areas still lacking paint, some only lacking the final extreme highlight while some are finished.

Orctober golins

Well, these aren't orcs but Kev Adams goblins. At least it's what I got finished for Orctober. There are some more goblins and an old citadel orc in different stages of completion that hopefully will be finished sometime in November. As always I struggle with the photos, these turned out really dark so tried to fix them in Gimp.

I experimented a bit with some liquitex inks which are _really_ good. Will have to get more of those soon.

Song of Blades and Heroes

I finally gave in and bought Song of Blades and Heroes. I was a bit sceptical the first times I heard about it, as it's so streamlined and uses just two stats. Coming from a GW background where you have a ton of stats, combat means rolling a bucket of dice etc I wasn't really ready. Until now. I wanted to try more lightweight rules which would give me freedom to use any models I want and this was it.

I bought the pdf version and printed it on A3 paper, folded it into a book, trimmed the edges and bound it with two staples.

I was really suprised after reading this, instead of being a 'dumb' game, Song of Blades and Heroes seems really tactical and fun. Activation instead of IGOUGO, a dice-off using just one die (to which the combat attribute and modifiers are added) per combattant for combat and simple rules for routing.

We had a test game with my brother that went really well. Using just 300 points each I went with an 'undead' themed force, while he went with a generic 'human'. Eventhough the game uses only 2 stats per model the special rules where all that was needed to give each force its flavor. This isn't an in-depth review, so if you'd like to learn more just check out the reviews on boardgamegeek instead. But really, its a fun game, easy to learn, quick to play and will only set you back $8, try it out! 

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