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Jeff Hiatt Been a gamer and a hobbyist since I was a wee lad. Can't remember a time in my life when it hasn't been present one way or another.

So, I believed I mentioned 40k….

January 18, 2021

Last January my buddy Wayne and I got a booth for the GK Flea Market at the Mountain View store. (Little did we know that this was going to be the last Flea Market any of us would ever attend there).

We are setting up our table there and as we are doing so, a guy across from us along with his wife are setting up boxes and boxes of GW products. He then puts a sign up saying that everything on the table is free.

I had been interested in getting back into it for a while, so I go an ask him about it. He tells me that he has way too much of it and he needs to thin things out so he is just giving it away. I am amazed by this, so I take a starter set and a Deathwatch Overkill set. I give him a few bucks even though he said he wanted none of it. In retrospect I wished that I looked at what he had a little more thoroughly and got a few more things but anyhow I had enough to get started.

I looked at what I had and there were enough Death Guard, Space Marines and Gene Stealer Cultists to get started. I Start looking through eBay which was a first for me in a while. As kind of an aside I decided to pick up Kill Team as well. I picked up a few pieces here and there with an eye to getting my Death Guard Army up to snuff. Got some codex’s and away I went.

While were doing this our landlord decided to raise the rent on our place. At that point we decided it was time to move so all project got put aside for a few months while we packed and found a new place. Fortunately, we found a great new place with lots or space and a great landlord. And then best part of it was that I have a full garage to work in and set up for this sort of thing. We are all super excites to have a place like this where we can entertain and game only to have the world shut down due to Covid.

But with everything shut down it gives us time to unpack and get the house set up now I have the painting area that I have always wanted and a space where I can have my friends over to game.

Maybe this summer we’ll be playing 40k in my Garage….


 

Been a while........

January 17, 2021
Haven't really done much on this page in a bit. I think that it has been nearly 2 years since my last post. Lots of things have happened for us since then. Been playing  lots of board games. Not as much as I would like but we have been doing a bit.

I have been able to acquire some of my Grail games. Some of those include:

There are still a few that elude me. 

On the miniatures side of things did quite a few things:
  • Robotech
  • Du...

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Terraforming Mars – Venus Next Expansion First Impressions

February 3, 2019

The Venus Next expansion for Terraforming Mars was released in 2017 and we only got around to incorporating it into our game. The previous expansion (Hellas and Elysium) got put on the table the day we got it. For whatever reason this one took longer.

This expansion adds a few new elements to the game. On the surface some of them look to be a bigger factor than they actually are. And there are a bunch of little ones that make a more of a difference than you would imagine

New Corporations:

  • I ...

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Less Than Two Weeks to Go!

May 15, 2017
So we did our dress rehearsal yesterday and I think that things are coming along well. I have pictures of it here. We went through it and things went pretty smooth. There was nothing huge that needed to be changed on the scenario rules

At this point there are a few thing that need to be completed prior to KublaCon.
  1. Need to finish painting 
  2. Need to finish the Frigate
  3. Maybe make some more cave terrain
  4. Maybe make some more debris
  5. Put together a checklist and make sure that everything is packed.
  6. Make ...

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May the 4th be with you....

May 4, 2017
Today is Star Wars Day. Last night we did some more play testing. In this case we tested out the asteroid cave portion of the scenario. The Turrets and the AT-AT's worked well. 

Turrets

Due to the recycling nature of the scenario. I added a rule that if a turret gets damaged it can attempt to repair. The turrets are only two hull points with no shield so they were getting taken out pretty easily. So the solution is that at the beginning of the turn for each point of damage the have a red dice i...
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25 Days to Go.....

May 2, 2017
Quite a bit of stuff to talk about since the last update.

Got the Frigate nearly done. 
It is playable now. Still a bit of fitting out to go but we're getting close:

Got Some playtesting done:


and finished up a bunch of Cards:


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35 days to go

April 21, 2017

Spent a lot of the last couple of days putting the Customs Frigate together. Need to balance it out. It feels like it is nice a solid and structurally sound. Here are some pictures:



Also I updated the description of my event with some rules. Here is the link to it


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More Debris......

April 18, 2017

38 Days and counting……..

The clock continues to count down and we are still making progress. Last night I spent a lot of time making more debris pieces.

I also spent a lot of time adding greblies to the engines.

 


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39 Days to go…..

April 17, 2017

Been trying to get in a little work here and there for the KC 2017 Event. The past weekend was one of great progress. I started to get into a groove on a bunch of stuff. It got to kind of a critical mass where the momentum of it start to take over.

Quite a bit of progress happened on the Customs Frigate over the weekend. I got the command section nearly completed. However the thing that is going to be the challenge is going to be the structural portion of it. I ran a single spar through it ...


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Progress on the KC 2017 Scenario

February 27, 2017
I think that I have the scenario mapped out. Will need to get a reality check from My Co-GM's in the next couple of days. Here is what has been created so far:
  • A framework for the scenario special rules has been set
  • The NPC Rebel and Imperial Forces 
  • Generic Lists for Scum Players
  • Generic Lists for Imperial Players
  • Generic Lists for Rebel Players
Things that still need to do:
  • Come up with Stats for and finish building the Hammerhead and the Customs Frigate
  • Build the special table
  • Come up with More Gen...

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