Author Topic: Big Game Hunt on Venus: now with pictures from the battle. (Read 5030 times)

Laughing Ferret · « **on:** July 14, 2011, 02:06:21 AM »

In a few days we're going to have a skirmish game for the Venus campaign, using the Chaos in Cairo rules, slightly modified.

I'm planning on taking pictures and doing up a battle report, but in the meantime here is the background:

The Zoological Institute of Progressive International Taxonomists (Z.I.P.I.T.) is offering a reward for evidence and samples of the flora & fauna of Venus: the bigger and more dangerous the better, as that sort of thing drums up public interest, and therefore, donations.

The lions share of the prize is for evidence of the mythological 'Thunder Lord' of the jungle: a picture would suffice, but bringing back the skeleton would be ideal.

Full rules and details on the blog here: http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2011/07/venus-skirmish-game-big-game-hunt.html

and the battle report is posted later here:
http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2011/07/big-game-hunters-safari-on-venus-battle.html

Belgian · « **Reply #1 on:** July 14, 2011, 09:45:22 AM »

Sounds great and I love the picture!

Mister Rab · « **Reply #2 on:** July 14, 2011, 12:58:15 PM »

Looks like fun! Plus you get bonus pooints for using a picture of Professor Elemental as one of your characters

Sterling Moose · « **Reply #3 on:** July 14, 2011, 03:07:12 PM »

Love the concept, hate the requirement to make organisations in the VSF world have initials that make up stupid words and phrases.

Just me, the proverbial stick-in-the-mud.

Sterling

leadfool · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2011, 10:23:21 AM »

It was a great game. Looking forward to the photos.

Skrapwelder · « **Reply #5 on:** July 16, 2011, 05:42:10 PM »

A few pictures and my own report on the great hunt:

http://rotanddrivel.com/biggamehunt.html

Draniki attack a Clank

The verdant Cytherean wilderness.

Swedish hunters and their native fyrdmen. (Black Cavalier)

Kneemo's ironclad ruffians. (Alfik)

Allan Quartermain and his retinue. (Leadfool)

My Cytherean hunter, known in Fink-Knottle's Newt cadence as Hiss-slap, turn, turn, shuffle, slish-slide, fox trot, which roughly translated is:Shoots father of Yoo.

His trusty spear carrier, Slish-caw! Martha Graham, Fosse, Fosse, Hip thrust, or simply: Two Grools frakking. He is leading a band of Cytherean natives known as Innyrds.

More pictures on the sight. David (Laughing Ferret), our host, has more I'm sure. What a great game this was. He did a great job putting it all together.

Mike

Ray Rivers · « **Reply #6 on:** July 16, 2011, 05:59:15 PM »

Very nice!

Love the terrain and characters especially.

infelix · « **Reply #7 on:** July 16, 2011, 06:10:26 PM »

That looks like such a fun game, love the terrain and the models.

Laughing Ferret · « **Reply #8 on:** July 16, 2011, 11:10:17 PM »

Adding to Mike's pictures & report,here are a few more.

The hunting parties approach the fabled Thunder Valley

But they are not the only ones who hunt in the Cytherian Jungles...

Ambushes occur at every turn

Sven bags his first animal of the day.

But bigger beasts await.

Wonders of the past and technological age match each other up

But there is only one King of the Jungle.

More pictures and long report on the blog here:
http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2011/07/big-game-hunters-safari-on-venus-battle.htm

4 players entered the jungle, each chose a Big Game Hunter, two had clanks with them, all had an assistant or two and soldiers, and the native Parrotman was the only one to show up with askari, who's shields & spears proved quite useful.

Many trophies were taken for the mantle, and in the case of Quartermaine, his prize trophy was carved into a mantle, since he had nothing too impressive to put on one

Zazel · « **Reply #9 on:** July 17, 2011, 12:00:05 AM »

looks like you had a lot of fun and the board is wicked...

Criamon · « **Reply #10 on:** July 17, 2011, 01:48:02 AM »

Very good job!!!!

Chairface · « **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2011, 01:53:21 AM »

Awesome board, pretty minis. Very enjoyable.

Black Cavalier · « **Reply #12 on:** July 17, 2011, 06:29:57 AM »

I must heartly concure with Skrapwelder, Mr Laughing Ferret ran an excellent, both with beautiful & a wide range of monsters, & also a great job stat-ing them all out using the Chaos in Cairo rules.

Each of the hunting parties had a photographer along, so below are the pictures snapped by my Big Game Hunter's camera assistant.

First trophy kill, will look great over the mantle at the club.

Confronted by native aggressors

Second trophy kill, unfortunately there was more gas in this thing than Gladstone, so nothing left to mount.

It's mother attacks

And now it's a family affair

Did get a few pieces from this one, the spine might make a nice walking stick

Then a thunderous roar shook the jungle

Luckily he was more interested in Quartermain than Swedish Buffet

A long shot of the thunder lizard, which is the best way to photograph it

And finally, the most docile and tame of creatures, a Markadon aka "the Bushwhacker"

leadfool · « **Reply #13 on:** July 18, 2011, 08:43:27 AM »

Markadon, hey I resemble that guy.

It was a great game. Even if Quartermain would have done better bringing a weedwhacker then a rifle. I killed 3 fast nasty lizards, 3 or 4 Draniki warriors, wounded a giant Mosquito bug, and killed a dozen walking trees. The Thunder lizard was was in my sights when the Parrotmans shot rang out and got the big kill.

isaanmini · « **Reply #14 on:** July 18, 2011, 10:03:48 AM »

Inspiring........
Please can you let us know where you managed to get the plants with the Berries?
I am also very impressed with the rocky outcrops, did you make them
possibly a show and tell article please.........
Barry

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