IHMN - Fantasy, an unoffical supplement to In Her Majesty's Name.

I have yet to play my newfound favorite game, In Her Majesty's Name by Craig Cartmell and Charles Murton from Osprey Wargames, but I have read enough of the rules to be nigh on an expert in them.  Enough so that I decided to write a supplement for it called IHMN - Fantasy.

To give you a quick rundown of In Her Majesty's Name, I will simply tell you that it is a very easy to learn Victoriana Sci-fi (or dare I say steampunk) miniature skirmish game.  You make an army (which is called a company) with up to 250 points worth of figures.  Each figure has unique capabilities and flavor.

The nicest part of the game is the rules are so easy to learn, I could teach you them in little under 10 or so minutes, and yet for all this simplicity there is also a richness and depth to what a company can be.

But the thing that sold me the most was the fact that there are rules in the book to create things not covered within it (i.e.: you can make virtually damn near anything you wish within the rules).  More so than this, the writers actually encourage you to take the rules, as long proper credit is given to them and you don't openly re-release their published material or release material for profit, to release your own addition to the rules, be they new and interesting companies, scenarios, complications, or whatever else you can think of.

So without any further ado, here is the link to my own contribute, which will also be available soon on lead-adventure.de under the In Her Majesty's Name thread as soon as my membership is approved.

New Updated version of my Imperial Gua...er Astra Militarum Doctrines

Hi one and all, I just finished my Astra Militarum Doctrines for 7th ed 40k.

Hope you liky. The can be found using the link below.

Imperial Guard Doctrines v2.0

One thing leads to another: My robotics and electronics blog.

Hello out there, I know it has been an eternity since anything has been posted here on this blog.

While I am still an active and adament gamer, I am also an avid and emmerging electronics engineer, espcecially in the field of robotics.

So now is the time to put this shameful little plug for my other blog, Electromancer.

Also, I am slowly and surely working on more game related things.

For example, I have worked on my own miniature tabletop wargame called Starsmashers and a more advanced version of the one page Dead Simple Roleplaying game that can be found on the wonderful page Gawd 'Elp Us Games called Eldritch (working title) and its two supplements, Ascending Past the Mortal Coil which outlines a character's ascencion to godhood and the upcoming Creature Files which acts to add a collection of monsters, foes, and other npcs to the game, to which I will make both avaible here on this blog in due time.

So yeah, here to blog necromancy, and watch this space because things are about to get very interesting.

Work begins on my Fallout 3 mod, The Abominable Doctor Satanicus

Hey, its been a while since I posted anything here.

Anyways, I have begun work on a new and exciting project, a Fallout 3 Pulp Sci-Fi mod entitled the Abominable Doctor Satanicus.

It will feature new armor (mostly re-textured armors and reworked armors from other peoples works, which I will give full credit to them), new weapons, new monsters, and, if I feel confident enough in my modding ability, a new worldspace set on a tropical island on the Equatorial Atlantic ocean.

Please be patient, as I am giving myself a crash course in using the GECK, so this may take a while to complete.

Once it is finished, I will release my work on the Fallout 3 Nexus website.

So watch this space for any future developments...

New Chaos Daemon Kits and Special Character Minis

Awesome news to report,

Here are some leaked pics of the Chaos Daemon minis from Dakka Dakka.

The Changeling


Fateweaver


Plastic Horrors


Plastic Daemon Prince


Plastic Seekers


Khorne Herald on Juggernaut

PLAY AID: New Ork Datasheet and Ork Unit

I made some new toys for orks to play with.

The First is a new Apocalypse Datasheet, the Kustom Mega Force Field Trakk.

The Second is my take on the old (and oft converted) Grot Tank.

Hope you enjoy them.

They can be found on the bottom of the blog.

PLAY AID: Mighty Commanders

I was inspired to write this article after reading the Mighty Champions article in WD350 and figured with the release of the Planetary Empires for WH40k that I make version of these rules for the expansion. Though lacking in originality (I basically took most of the rules as written in the article, omitted certain rules that didn't translate into 40k rules, and modified what was left into 40k rules) it still should prove to be a good analog for Planetary Empires.

I called the project Mighty Commanders (again, not very original, but still quite serviceable for what it is), and you can find it at the bottom of my blog in the 40k Supplemental Rules box.

Cheers,

Mark

I'm REALLY excited to see this mod for Fallout 3

The measurements are in and the findings are shocking...Part III: A Rant

It has come to my attention that some people seem to think that, just because GW and Forgeworld minis are in 28mm heroic scale (or because of some obscure fluff reference), that Warlord Titan minis should be of on the insane proportions of 5ft tall and that my measurements are utterly inaccurate.

Well listen up, because I am about to take you to school. 28mm, heroic or not, is 28mm, period. Furthermore, heroic only applies to the bulk of the minis muscles. Even GW will tell you that, regardless the scale of the mini, the average height of a Imperial Guardsman (never mind a space marine) is 5'8", or the average height of a modern adult male. Thus, (and I dare you to do this and tell me otherwise) taking a tape measure to measure for your self the height of an Imperial Guardsman mini head to toe, you get exactly 28mm.

Now, do you know how big, in millimeters, a Emperor Titan is given the previous calculations I did. I turns out that the Emperor Titan is roughly 1 meter in height, or roughly 1000mm. Given 28mm = 5'8", than 1 meter would equal 205'4" feet in height. Give that a one story building (based on acreage) is 10 feet in height, this would make for a 20 story Titan, approximately.

Given this, a Warhound Titan, at 250mm, would equal or 20 feet in height. A Reaver Titan stands at 400mm or 40 feet roughly.

Chaos gets its Reaver...

Behold the power of Dark Mechanicus!

This is the latest pic of the Chaos Reaver Titan, and it is an awesome beastie indeed.

The measurements are in and the findings are shocking ...Part Deux: The Legs

I know its been awhile since I last posted anything on this blog, but it is not dead...

In fact, I wanted to add on to an older post, "The measurements are in and the findings are shocking...", with another bit of measurement, the height of a Emperor Titans leg from the heel of the foot to the hip. Given most of the illustrations of Emperor Titans to date, in would appear that the height of the leg of an Emperor Titan would be comparable to the height of the torso, ergo the height of the miniatures legs would follow this same ratio. Judging how the height of said miniature would be roughly 3'3" or 39.375 inches, I had to round down this value to 39.3 and divide that by 2 to find that each leg would be 19.65 inches in height, or roughly 1'7", give and take a few decimal points.

Now for my next trick the height of the shin of the Emperor Titan. Again we will take half the height of the leg to find the height of the shin. One half of 19.65 is 9.825 inches.

Now for the width of the feet and the width of the hips. Given the various illustrations of the Emperor Titan you can tell the width of the hips is equal to that of the torso, or 15.75 inches. From each foot to the waist of the titan, you can form a right triangle. Given this information, each foot would be 10 inches wide, and the gap between each foot would be 4.4 inches.

Two more Warhammer 40k Apocalypse Datasheets

Here are two more Apocalypse Datasheets for your enjoyment.

The Blood Knight of Khorne - A Knight class titan dedicated to Khorne.

The Harbinger of Change - A Chaos Baneblade possessed by a Lord of Change.

You can find these datasheets in the My 40k Apocalypse Datasheets Box at the very bottom of the blog.

Your Fiend,

Mark

PLAY AID: Imperial Guard 5th Edition Doctrines

I updated the 4th edition Imperial Guard Doctrines to the new Codex. I also included a few third party doctrines as well.

Check the 40k Supplemental Rules below for the Download.

Today is a day of mourning...

Yesterday at 5 pm a dear family friend had passed away.

George Byers, commonly and lovingly referred to as "Bubba", died of complications of heart surgery while visiting his ex-wife in California. It is not known what memorial and funerary plans there are at the moment.

He was directly descended from John Alden, who first came to America on the Mayflower.

He is survived by his sister, Carolin Byers, and half-brother, Mark Taylor.

George was a carpenter and artist, and had his work displayed in several art galleries in the Bay Area.

He will be dearly missed.

I'm Stooked, NEW REAVER TITAN WEAPONS!!!!! WOOT!!!!!

NEW REAVER TITAN WEAPONS!!!!! HOOZAH!!!!!


I'm as happy as a pig in slop. Now I can add a close combat or melta cannon to a Reaver Titan. YES!!!!! Just what I was waiting for.

Hooray!!!!!

^_^

PLAY AID: Additional Weapons for Emperor Battle Titans

Today I am putting up my first supplemental rules for an existing GW Datasheet, the Emperor Battle Titan.

It is a list of additional weapons it can use. You find it at the very bottom of this blog.

Hope you enjoy this, and good gaming to all.

Your Fiend,

Mark

The measurements are in, and the findings are shocking...A Clarifaction

I feel it necessary to clarify what I meant by the phrase "in real life" in the previous posts. I am simply referring this to mean a real life 40k "28mm scale model" and not the actual fictional depictions of the titans themselves.

Sorry about any misconceptions or misunderstanding this may have caused.

The measurements are in, and the findings are shocking...Part 2: The width and depth of it

Hello again,

Here are some more measurements one the Emperor Battle Titan, this time the width and depth of it. Again we will use the ratio of 10.5:1. In measuring the titan this time was a bit tricky when finding both its width and depth, and I will not bother telling how I found these measurements as it would only serve to confuse you. Instead, I simply tell you what they are according to the datasheet as per the printed copy I have. First the width is 1.5 inches on the sheet. The depth is 1 inch barring the length of the arm weapons. This gives us a width in real life of 15.75 inches (1 foot and 3 3/4 inchs) and a depth of exactly 10.5 inches, minus the length of the arm weapons.

As to the width and depth of the Warlord titan, it is 11 inches in width and 10.5 inches in approximate depth.

Happy Gaming,

Mark

The measurements are in and the findings are shocking...

Given the size comparison in the 40k Apocalypse book of the Warlord titan, I was able to find the exact size to scale size of not only the Warlord titan, but also the exact height of the Emperor Battle titan as well.

You see, I first made measurements of the side by side comparison of a printed copy of the Emperor Battle titan. It so happened that my printer, by some weird quirk, did not print the datasheet as a full page print. As it were, the Warhound titan used as a size comparison example was exactly, for bottom of foot to the very top of the carapace, 1 inch in height. Now the Forgeworld website listed the miniature at being 10.5 inches in height. Using a simple ratio of 10.5:1, I then measured out the height, in inches, again from bottom of the Emperor titan's foot to the height of the vengeance cannon, to be 3 and 3/4 inches in height, or roughly 39.375 inches (just over of 3 feet, 3 inches) in real life.

Now for the really "hard" math. The picture of the Warlord titan and the Warhound used as a size comparison was, from bottom of foot to top of carapace, was 1.5 inches in height and that the Warlord titan was 3.6 inches. No big deal, as I had already calculated the 10.5:1 scale, so who cares about the .5 inches. Given the already established 10.5:1 ratio, the Warlord would measure 2.6 if put side by side on the Emperor Battle Titan datasheet, or 26.5 inches (2'2 1/2")in real life.

And on that bombshell, I bid you all ado.

D-4: The Forbidden Format

This is a film I did in college on a 32 dollar budget. It is rather amateurish, and rather short (59 seconds in length). Anyways, here it is for your viewing pleasure.