It's Time to Cast Your Vote

So all the entries are in for the Strange Aeons AAR Contest by Styx over at Strange Aeons Adventures and it's time to cast your votes. So get going and vote for your favorite entries in both the written and the media category.
The entries can be seen from here

Strange Aeons Video AAR

So for the contest I mentioned before over at Strange Aeons Adventures, I also wanted to do a media AAR. A media based AAR would be a video or slideshow or similar, and I thought I'd go for the video presentation.

The Scenario in the presentation is "The Doomsday Device" in which agents race to disable a doomsday device  and take out the bad guys before the thing detonates. All in all fun scenario to play although we had a very short game.

Anyways, here is is: The Doomsday Device...

For those that are unaware, the music is Let Your Fingers Do the Walking by Sort Sol.

Strange Aeons AAR

Styx over at Strange Aeons Adventures is running this cool AAR contest and so I thought I'd join that. The game we played for the AAR is "The Bad Place" from Shocking Tales 1 (sadly now OOP). Anyways I decided to do the AAR as a journal-like entry with a single picture and the rest as "pencil-drawings". Yes I know it's just a MS Word feature to make it look like pencil drawings, but I thought it fitted the journal style of the AAR. So without any further delay, directly from the journal of a Treshold Agent.

Check out the Q&A

Anatoli over at Anatoli's Game Room put up a  Q&A with Uncle Mike from Strange Aeons. For those interested in Strange Aeons I recommend going through it.

Strange Aeons & UFO Enemy Unknown

Something really neat that's going on these days are discussions of playing UFO Enemy Unknown using the Strange Aeons ruleset. The idea was sprung by MrHarold and the main discussion is happening at the Lead Adventure Forum and I strongly recommend joining the fun.

Most of you probably recall UFO Enemy Unknown as the game where you defend earth against an alien invasion released by Microprose back in 1994 and if not I'm sure this screenshot from will boost your memory.

I myself have just recently reacquired the game through Steam and currently I'm enjoying a good deal of old-school alien annihalation :)

New minis and some painting

Today is a day with several posts as several things are going on that should be mentioned.

After my initial post about the Panzer IV it's time to show off some new minis from Uncle Mike and Strange Aeons.

These little cuties came in the post recently and I'm desperately trying to find the time to do some more painting, however at the moment time is a limited resource :) Anyways, here are the minis.

from left to right these are: Maniac Santa (X-mas limited edition miniature), zombie priest, zombie, zombie bride, another zombie (reminds me of the boomers from L4D2) and in front a zombie dog. So as you can see a lot of zombie goodness.

Another thing I want to show today is some things I just painted up. At the time the pics were taken a liberal amount of devlan mud had been applied to the pieces, so when that dries up they'll recieve a final highlight of some golden nuance.

As the more observant probably have noticed the pieces are from GW's Dreadfleet. And yes, the truth cannot be hidden, at times I'm still a GW fanboy, although I try to limit that to these limited run board games such as Dreadfleet and of course Space Hulk when that was re-released a few years back.

Something new from Strange Aeons

Something very neat coming up for those that are into Strange Aeons. If you go to the Lead Adventure forum you will see that Strange Aeons is going to start up a program of sorts which is lifetime membership of Cult of the Black Goat which will earn you a T-shirt and an annual miniature. I know I'll be waiting anxiously to join the fun and the quest for world domination ;)

For those of you that don't know Strange Aeons, then it is a very nice little skirmish game based around the Cthulhu mythos and the works of H.P. Lovecraft. It basically pits the protagonists which are a group of special Treshold agents against the evil lurkers. Lurkers which may be everything from lowly cultists to demons and things men were not meant to see or even know about. It's fast paced I would say with the option of character development for the Treshold team, allowing them to face more and more sinister creatures. More info can be found and the website and LAF (see the links section).