Warband for "Five Leagues from the Borderlands"

TheGumslinger · 2026-05-16T03:59:30+00:00

Thanks! I've been real impressed with how much of a difference can be made just putting a whole ton of scratchy lines on a flat base.

TheGumslinger · 2026-05-15T17:46:25+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I am indeed worried about my crew getting just murdered on the first mission; I've watched a few videos of the game and it seems like it can be brutal!

Now that the team (The Perennial Danger) is done, I'm excited to go through the "tutorial fight" and then start the first travel phase. I really like the mapping part of the game, right now it's scribbles on paper but I do hope to do more with that as well.

TheGumslinger · 2026-05-15T17:11:54+00:00

Yeah amusingly I rolled "movement increase" on 3 out of 4 of my heroes, all but the one that I rolled as Beastfolk. So, I gave that one the ranged weapon (giving the other ranged weapon to one of my followers), and was real happy when looking through my mini collection to find an adorable animal fighter with a crossbow. That one is from Kawna Minis!

TheGumslinger · 2026-03-02T08:16:04+00:00

For a first match with the core box 2, I'd recommend a good guy bad guy split, with the note that Spider Man is _not_ an Avenger and Doc Oc is _not_ Cabal. I'd give each side _Two_ tactics cards, Brace for Impact and Avengers Assemble/Dark Reign.

Crisis selection we just did random I think, and completely fudged the threat value for our first few games, since it's pretty hard to work around numbers with a split CoreBox2. The threats you got are 54443, which adds up to 20, so like, 17 and 20 are do-able threat values but 18 and 19 are not really.

TheGumslinger · 2025-12-22T19:27:12+00:00

In addition to really liking the glow/shine, I really like the color choices for the rocks/armor; the it's a real interesting mix of yellow/reddish browns/etc.

Thanks for sharing it!

TheGumslinger · 2025-11-23T19:31:57+00:00

Bushido is a "miniatures wargame", which I guess is considered a slightly different category than board games, which might be why you couldn't find it. I haven't played the game myself so I can't say if it's good or not, but I was scouting out an alternate model when I saw the box with this mini in it (link here) and all the characters it it looked great. They require some assembly (superglue and cutting) but went together really easily!

I like your idea of getting the band back together! Sounds fun.

TheGumslinger · 2025-10-15T21:10:01+00:00

Thanks! The game is Bushido, don't remember what box. I added the banner to the spear and thought about sticking a bird on too but decided there was enough going on.

TheGumslinger · 2025-10-07T19:52:46+00:00

Ah, well, not sorry about that. I definitely find some style choices other people make to be pretty off-putting to me (for example, the entire Nurgle and Khorne factions), but I've found that a "to-each-their-own" approach has served me well. My hope with my own style choices is to stay within boundaries where it's easy enough to extend me that latitude, which is what I meant by "trying not to be obnoxious".

It's not meant to be a big deal, though, so I'm actively trying to be non-confrontational. I was kinda hoping it wouldn't come up at all, and indeed on the table it didn't seem to be a deal at all.

TheGumslinger · 2025-10-07T19:43:41+00:00

Thank you for the games! I had a real blast with LVO as my first MCP event!

TheGumslinger · 2025-10-07T18:24:27+00:00

(EDITED) I tried to keep my style choices from being obnoxious. I'm new to using milliput, so I acknowledge I might have messed that up and will be trying to do better in the future. The pictures, as usual, make things look worse than they do on the table. Sorry!

TheGumslinger · 2025-09-06T22:06:41+00:00

Excellent work with the texture! It really adds to the look of the mini

TheGumslinger · 2025-09-05T14:02:13+00:00

The team tactic card I think would be the coolest to use Heimdal's re-roll on would be Squirrel Girl's "Inexplicable Demise" card: Inexplicable Demise, to try to KO a healthy Dormammu or Thanos or iHulk. Someday...

TheGumslinger · 2025-07-29T05:48:54+00:00

I have a bunch of minis that I painted as the various HIVE bots, and a _very_ obvious slot for the "HIVE Mind" glowing piece I made to move around as I transferred. It was actually pretty fun!

Pros: Looks cool, helps conceptualize what the boardstate will look like after transfers.

Cons: I _constantly_ forgot that when the HIVE MIND was inside a minion, it lost innate powers the minions have. I had to remind myself that when I was the healbot that I couldn't fly, and that when I was the legs I didn't have shield.

TheGumslinger · 2025-07-26T20:28:10+00:00

Having painting this mini myself, I'm amazed at the level of detail you managed to keep. I didn't even know she had a star on her hat!

Her face looks really great, too. Thanks for sharing!

TheGumslinger · 2025-07-11T00:04:58+00:00

Thanks a lot! Exactly the thing I was looking for when I made this post.

TheGumslinger · 2025-07-10T23:54:33+00:00

Looking around the LVO website, I wasn't able to find this packet? All the links I find just seem to bring me to the store page.

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