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December was a short month for the Monday Knights as we only met for three sessions due to the Christmas holiday break. The main event for the month was the Christmas party which involved everyone playing Space Gits. We had 12 players, so we split up across three games. After each game everyone was ranked … Read more
The Monday Knights didn’t meet during the first week of November due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday, but on the second week we held our annual MK Cup DBA Mini Tournament. With ten participants, our 3 game tournament was open to any army from any time period and as a result there was a … Read more
During October we started our Battletech campaign, based on the Hinterlands campaign book recently released by Catalyst Games Lab. The campaign began at Scale 1, meaning that starting player forces have a 3,000 BV limit to choose two Mechs, and well as two free pilot upgrades. Our campaign organiser created a number of contracts that … Read more
There was a lot of OPR: Grimdark played at the Monday Knights during September. We’ve picked this game up recently, with many people being new to the game, led by a few with more experience. It has given some of the older gamers a great opportunity to dust off their old Warhammer 40K collections, put … Read more
July saw the exciting conclusion to our three month Necromunda campaign. Every gang gathered for a final, all-in, free-for-all battle! Nine players engaged across a 6×4 foot underhive battlefield in a scenario devised by our arbitrator. Each player drew random objective cards from several decks based on their factional alignment. Objectives were varied, and could … Read more
As winter sets in and the days get colder, wetter, and shorter, plenty of games and gaming stories were shared every Monday night at the Auburn Bowls club. The third and final phase of our 2025 Necromunda campaign got underway, leading lots of loot, injuries, and laughs. Due to the high injection of funds during … Read more
We kicked off our 2025 Necromunda campaign in March and that continued through April and into May. The second phase of the campaign begun with a multiplayer game with the gangs of Sabotage trying to poison the supplies while the gangs of Control tried to stop them, across a 6″ x 4″ foot table. In … Read more
As is usual for the Monday Knights, there was a wide variety of games played this month. Alpha Strike saw lots of action once again, but with a twist. Players participated in a draft style mini tournament, where each player brought four battlemechs to put into a draft pool and each player took turns to … Read more
This January, as with most January’s at the Monday Knights, was filled with practice for some of the games that were part of CanCon 2025. CanCon is a popular gaming convention for the Monday Knights, with many of us taking the 7 hours drive from Melbourne To Canberra for a long weekend filled with wargaming, … Read more
Towards the end of any year a lot of our members start to focus on the games that they intent on playing at the CanCon gaming convention in Canberra on the Australia Day long weekend in January. As a result, November saw a less diversified list of games being played. We kicked off November with … Read more
The month of August was witness to a great variety of games played at the club, including the conclusion of the current Necromunda campaign, and the beginning a slow-grow Conquest league. With the final games of the planned Necromunda campaign played out earlier in the month, all five players came together again for a final … Read more
As usual there was a large variety of games played the the Monday Knights during July. The highlight was our Battletech tournament. Ten competitors gathered on Saturday 22nd of July for the Monday Knights annual Battletech Auction Tournament. Each participant was given 100,000,000 C-Bills to bid on a mix of 4th Succession Wars era Mechs. … Read more
Our Necromunda: Underhive and Frostgrave campaigns continued in June, along with many other games being played. The Necromunda Dominion campaign kicked into high gear with the Take Over phase. During this phase of the campaign, players are attempting to take control of other players’ territories which were gained in the Occupation phase. Surprisingly, not many … Read more
The month of May saw the beginnings of two campaigns within the club for Necromunda: Underhive and Frostgrave. Other Games included Battletech Alphastrike, Conquest, ADLG, Car Wars and Star Wars Legion
April 2024 saw a fair amount of Legions Imperialis being played at the club. This month saw the debut of a 3000 point game. Otherwise 2000 point games were the most common as everyone builds up their armies. Other staples this month included ADLG (Art De La Guerre), Conquest: Last Argument of Kings, Kill Team, … Read more
A long term goal of mine is to build a tropical island game board for my 28mm games of Star War Legion (Scarif) and Legends of the High Seas. The most obvious part of the landscape of any tropical paradise is palm trees and other lush ferns and bushes. So I set about creating some … Read more
My main motivation for this project was to make a modular 3 foot by 3 foot board for Frostgrave. I’ve played plenty of Frostgrave in the past but I have never had the feeling of fighting in the streets of a fantasy city with the usual gaming mats I use. So this project was aimed … Read more
I recently dusted off my big old box of BattleTech miniatures and opened it to find an assortment of miniatures I had collected over the years, some painted, some partially assembled, but most of them still in their original blister packs. If I was going to assemble, paint, and take these miniatures out to play, … Read more
Who doesn’t like a graveyard setting in their favourite fantasy skirmish game?! I certainly do, so I went about making a few for my current favourite games of Frostgrave and Kings of War: Vanguard. My first step was to find some plastic kit grave stones, since it takes more skill than I have to sculpt … Read more
Frostgrave‘s first scenario is called The Mausoleum, and it requires, you guessed it, a Mausoleum as the central terrain piece. As I am totally into Frostgrave and Kings of War: Vanguard at the moment, and the fact that cemeteries make great backgrounds with fantasy skirmish games, I needed no other motivation to get stuck into … Read more
A while back I had the need for some sacred stones for both Frostgrave and Kings of War: Vanguard. I decided to make two, a rune engraved stone block, and a more elegant obsidian monolith. As with most of my projects I started with one of my favourite materials, XPS foam. For the stone block, … Read more
Buildings are possibly the most useful and versatile pieces of terrain you can have in any 28mm game. If you only have one, it could be the farmhouse in the middle of a field. If you have a few they could be the edge of a town. If you have a lot they could be … Read more
Once again, Frostgrave‘s Ulterior Motives gaves me another opportunity to make some interesting terrain. This time its Arcane Circles. In this post, I’ll show three different types I made. The first is the simplest. Its just two circular pieces of XPS foam glued together. A table hot wire cutter makes it super easy to produce … Read more
If you play Frostgrave with Ulterior Motives, you’ll need a pit. If you play Rangers of Shadow Deep you’ll need some fly holes. I play both, so I decided to make some of these important holes in the ground. For a fly hole or crater I started with a piece of 3mm PVC sheet and … Read more
I recently began playing Rangers of Shadow Deep, a game by Joseph A. McCullough of Frostgrave fame. As with Frostgrave, Rangers of Shadow Deep is full of scenarios that provide plenty of opportunities to make interesting terrain pieces. The second scenario in the core rulebook is set in a forest with some “nest trees”. So … Read more
I say Frostgrave, but this is a generic 28mm pool/well/fountain for whatever tabletop game you’re currently playing. KoW: Vanguard anyone?! I started by cutting out three discs of XPS (insulation) foam on my hot wire cutter. I have a homemade circle cutting jig, which is just a piece of 3mm MDF with a pin in … Read more
My club got onto Mantic’s recent club promo and I was lucky enough to score myself a Kings of War: Vanguard Basilean warband. When I got it home I greedily tore open the box and started gluing figures together. Stopping only occasionally to giggle with glee. The box contains 15 miniatures and multiple copies of their … Read more
Actually, the title is a lie. This isn’t a post about making treasure chests … more like buying treasure chests. Because, why fumble about with craft when you can buy great, affordable, minis from the Wizkids Deep Cuts range. In fact, between the Deep Cuts and Nolzur’s Marvellous Miniatures ranges, you can also replace most … Read more
I’ve always had a thing for Battletech, but I’ve never had a thing for flat, paper maps. So I thought I’d try to make those paper maps more interesting by adding some scenic trees. Whenever I have looked into buying 1/300 scenic trees I was never able to find anything I liked. I did eventually … Read more
One of the things I like about Frostgrave is that it gives you so many opportunities to make stuff. When I started playing, one of the first things I made was a Giant Worm for The Worm Hunts scenario from the original rulebook. After some googling I came across The Sword and the Sprue website … Read more
I recently started playing Gloomhaven, which has me hooked. As with any tabletop game I play, I thought it would be fun to build some terrain for it and help make each game a bit more visually interesting. A simple build to begin with are the damage traps. The Gloomhaven token for damage traps depicts … Read more
