OD's SoB Prep Blog

[Old Dwarf]

11/2/14- Early start again although I didn't mean to- I forgot to set my clocks back an hour when Daylight Savings
ended. I used some contour putty on the 6 Night Terror figs & the Goalith to cover some gaps. Then I filed excess
putty off the Harbringer wing connection & the Stranglers tentacles connections.

Then I based up the Stranglers, the Red Bog-Bats & the Red Swamp Slashers ,the 6 Night Terrors & Goalith
will need to wait for tomorrow after I file off any excess putty before I base them.

The hardest figs to base have been the Slashers they are top heavy & have, for their size, small feet
so you need to support them until the glue takes hold. The easiest figs. that need to be assembled
have been the Hell/Bog Bats the wings & tongue just fit in perfectly ( unlike some of the other figs
where I had to modify the connection pegs to get a good fit) they do however require some filing
to remove mold lines.

So that's about all I can do today for SoB except continue to absorb the Rule / Adventure Books
and check out the tiles & markers sheets which I haven't opened yet. I would love to run a
few test games but really don't want to play until the Miniatures are painted.

It's just my quirk but I don't like to play with unpainted Minatures (of course that hasn't stopped
me from enjoying AToE , Gears of War, BL#2 but there the exceptions-my painting backlog is
endless) nor do I like to proxy figs. I have tons of painted figs but there mostly 6,10,20 mm
strand based figs for Battle Games. I do have a large painted collection of LoTR 25mm figs
& WarHammer Quest figs. so I guess I could proxy-but Frodo with a 6 Shooter sort of pushes
my suspension of disbelief a tad too far.

Just checked out the Tiles & various Table Boards- The Tiles are gorgeous (I don't think pictures
do them justice) I noticed that the KO'd Hero Counters seem to be generic man/woman rather than
showing the actual Hero however they do provide Counters for each Hero.

I came across a Frontier Outpost Board & had a WTF moment! Nothing in the Rule Book but
I checked an Adventure Book & it's covered under selling Black Stone (the Outpost Bank is the
only place you can sell the stuff). The depth of SoB is just beginning to sink in; I find it a bit
like Fortune & Glory nothing is really complicated there's just a lot of things to keep track of
during the game. FFP as usual provides lots of "extra" counters for Home Brew stuff but with
so much in the Game it will probably be awhile before I experiment with them.