Kryomek!

[mrspaceman]

The app is now less of a shambles. I took tea break to fix a few things, but I bet there are still bugs. Same link.

[mrspaceman]

Excellent bash at Kryomek last night. Smaller forces might have been better, so that we got used to the stats of what we had, and got more than 1.5 turns finished!

The mystery of what RC stat the Kryomek vehicles have remains (until someone finds it in the rules). I think the decision to use a warrior's stat is correct, but I'll try to back that up with a rulebook ref when I have a chance to read a bit. Were there any other missing rules?

Also, I'll try adding CBUs, vehicles and buildings to the app before the next game :¬) My class finishes in Decemeber, the first Monday I'm free is 14th Decemeber. Another game then?

[Katie]

Can't find it at the moment... nor can a websearch.

[mrspaceman]

Galvanised from last night's furiously fast, hard fought session, I've bought a few miniatures off eBay: just a handful of ex-display Nexus infantry and a Helcat for a tenner. The seller also has some no-so-ex-display, which I'm thinking of adding to the order to create a couple of squads.

[mrspaceman]

This one: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/382234983529
1 x Helcat (with a bit missing - i.e. custom model)
1 x dreadnought marine (could be part of a SWAT squad)
1 x SWAT with rr
1 x SWAT with gauss rifle
1 x marine with chain gun
1 x marine with light flamer
1 x colonial marine with smg (could be a marine sergeant)

So, a couple more marines and a couple more SWATs and this is a tidy little two squad force with CBU assistance.

The other listings that this seller has are here: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/28mm-Sci-Fi-Figures-Humans-metal-cast-MULTI-LISTING/382246317148

[Katie]

Ahhh... I used to run into Second City at shows in the Midlands. They used to have moulds for a lot of the Grendel resin as well -- they inherited a bunch of moulds for ranges off various places.

[mrspaceman]

I got my new copies of the rule books from them, too.

[dan]

Btw how far did you get before you realised that you hadn't switched on your headlights?

[mrspaceman]

Leaving Histon! Essentially, where the street lights run out and I noticed it was a little dark... They're usually on automatic, but I didn't check and they weren't.

[dan]

Ouch!

[mrspaceman]

Order with "2cg" complete.  For just over £22, I will soon have two squads of infantry and two CBUs:

faction,squad-id,xp,weapon,armour,comment
human,1,elite,"recoiless-rifle",5,"something built in to its right-hand, too"
human,1,elite,"gauss-rifle",5,
human,1,elite,"combat-shotgun",5,
human,1,elite,"gauss-rifle",5,
human,1,elite,"recoiless-rifle",5,
human,2,regular,"sub-machine-gun",9,
human,2,regular,"light-flamer",9,
human,2,regular,"combat-shotgun",9,
human,2,regular,"heavy-flamer",9,
human,2,regular,"chain-gun",9,
cbu,3,helcat,"gauss-cannon,twin-sgm",7,"the second gauss cannon is missing"
cbu,4,helcat,"twin-gauss-cannon,twin-smg",7,


I haven't worked out the points value of these yet. I'm not even sure of some of the particulars of what I'll get.

Incidentally, if you need certain models, 2cg can get you certain models from the blisters, potentially. Need more chain guns? Hit them up.

[mrspaceman]

And, of course, I have a Talos (pictured on the left, as of writing...)

cbu,5,talos,"gauss-rifle,grenade-launcher,twin-light-machine-gun",4,

I might strip this one of its mid-90s paint job, but I should at least base it properly.

[mrspaceman]

Incidentally, the Kryomek large haul is back up (ending in 5 hours): www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Grenadier-Kryomek-Miniatures-and-rulebooks/332417300481
I haven't got the cash for this right now and I don't know if I really need that much Kryomek, perhaps only a few units of helions, a couple of warriors and a warmaster or two. In this haul, if I've counted it correctly, there are: 65 helions, 44 warriors, 7 warmasters, 3 drones, plus some other things (chaos spawn and books).

[Katie]

I had a go at an interactive app (mostly as a reason to learn more AngularJS which I need for another project, and have a play with Material Design as well.)

www.fysh.org/~katie/wargames/downloads/kryo/combat/kr.html

The modifiers don't do anything yet. The various factions/classes do. The buttons can be used to add multiple weapons, click and hold to reset.

The results appear at the bottom including dice rolls/chart areas and outcomes.

[mrspaceman]

This games been waiting for an app for 25 years...then two come along at once.

My intention was to use something like Angular once the prototype had been finished; the process of writing something quick and dirty (my current app is very dirty code) has been an exercise in learning the nuances of the rules. Once the important stuff has been added, the look can be styled and the underlying code refined.

If you want to work on the same code, I wouldn't mind. My code is in a Github project, here: github.com/rjaduthie/kryomek-calculator