Lower Register: models

Exigence - or - Why I Felt the Need to Create this Blog

12 August 2012.

Wow. 6th Edition is here, and I feel like it incorporated many facets of our house rules here are the Lower Register.

Go us. GW, you can have those for free.

Plz look for some updates soon as I try to figure out how my precious BA will fit in to the world of Overwatch and Random Charging distances. Gotta say, so far, I am loving the idea of 5 attacks per Death Company Marine (2 base, 2 for charging, 1 for extra weapon).

-Hax out-

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Why Lower Register? Pedro and I started playing various wargames about five years ago, but found that we just didn't have time to complete standard games. We, along with our limited pool of playing partners, decided that we would become good at skirmish games that we could enjoy on a regular basis. So, over time we amassed a body of experience in Kill Team, Warmachine, Infinity, and other such games. This blog is the natural outgrowth of that experience, and our desire to share it with you all.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Project Ghazghkull Thraka

Pedro here...working on a special project, well not that special but thought I would just document the progress of my painting of the Citadel Finecast Model Ghazghkull Thraka. I dont claim to be the most talented painter in the world so this is as good as it gets for me.

Step 1: Priming the model

Primed in Chaos Black

Step 2: Base layer

All metal: Tin Bitz
Pistons: Mechrite Red and Boltgun Metal
Arms and Face: Knarloc Green
Teeth: Bestial Brown

Step 3: TBD (Stay tuned as I work through this model with more updates!)

Friday, September 16, 2011

Custom Models from Shapeways.com

A quick perusal of Shapeways.com has yielded all sorts of custom possibilities for our hobby. I cannot think that GW is too happy about this development. How long will it be before someone models and uploads a whole sprue to this kind of site? I am sure that Mark Wells is trying to find an attack lawyer as we speak. Hint: Search "28mm" in the shapeways search. Unique results until approximately page 30.

Hey GW, good luck stopping the march of progress!

Intredasting links:

Why, yes, I do believe that there should be a better way to find Cyclone Missile Launchers!

I can think of at least a Thousand uses under the Son for this headdress.

This store's name really speaks for itself: Dynath40k. But there is also some fluff about Legions II and XI having female primarchs. Above are female space marine legs, contra-posto-esque. You'll have to go to the site to see the torsos; they give a whole new meaning to nipple-wing.

These gangers are apparently not for sale, but they deserve a mention for quality.

Wait a minunte, something about this seems familiar.

How about twenty of them?

So, I guess that this is a good example of a side-by-side of the model and the print.

Lower Register Kill Team House Rules

Terrain: Use the normal amount of terrain/buildings/ruins suitable for a standard 6' X 4' playing surface (i.e. 25%), and arrange it uniformly on a 4' X 4' (or even 3' X 3') playing surface. Use at least five pieces of terrain; at least three should block LoS.
Morale Victory: The battle continues until one side has been reduced to half its starting models or less. The player must then take a morale (vice leadership) test at the start of each of their turns; if they fail the test then they lose. Else the battle continues, but the player must take tests on all subsequent turns, with a -1 modifier per test passed. The morale test is always done using the highest leadership value of any of the player’s surviving models.
Independent Operators: All models join and leave units as Independent Characters. In addition, when a model shoots or fights in an assault, it may split its attacks up amongst any eligible targets if desired.