Hey hey, looks like I've got another two week team done! So without much introduction, get out your spades and fix your bayonets for the Imperial Toxin Troopers.
Over the next few days, I'll be adding these to backers' libraries.
For those keeping count, that's now 11 strike teams done of a promised 24.
So I am almost.... halfway there.
We'll see how these next few teams go. Once I get to 12 teams I'll be making the 2nd promised combat zone. That is - new terrain!
Next up: Spellbooks and power armor! The Chaos Tinmen Sorcerers.
It took many months to make my last team, so as a sort of confidence building exercise (and also as a test of endurance), I wanted to make another team as quickly as possible. Say hello to the first (of hopefully many) two week teams: The Tinmen Infiltrators!
I will be adding these to backers' libraries in only a few short days! Mostly, I'm just happy this team came together so quickly and looks the way it does. May there be many more!
Next up: Get out your gas masks for the Imperial Toxic Troopers!
Well, it's been a long and frustrating road, much more time-consuming than anticipated. But I have made a new Strike Team. Without futher ado, here are the Star Pharaoh Royal Hexaguard.
As I stated in my last post, the creation of this team was particularly difficult, and took an amount of effort I frankly did not foresee. Especially considering I already have already made an army of Star Pharaohs, this team should have been a breeze, yet it was anything but.
I pledged 24 teams for Port-O-Battle, and this is the 9th. At the pace this is going, I may not be done for years. I wanted to be working on this project for a year at most.
I will start adding this team to backers' libraries shortly. It will also be publically available to the Port-O-Battle store category.
We'll see how the next one goes! up next: Tinmen Tacticool Stealth Squad!
Make sure to join the Star Pharaoh Foundry discord if you have any questions. I plan on merging my 3 discords into 1, so there will not be a Port-O-Battle Discord not long from now.
I apologize for the extreme lateness of this post. Let's get to the meat of it before I launch into any soliloquies. Here is what I have so far for the next Strike Team. There are 9 types of agents, and I've finished... 3 of them, and their variants.
Despot, Guardian, Despot, Guardian, Deadshot.
Caped Despots and their headgear.
2 Lancers and a Deadshot
It's starting to dawn on me, perhaps a little too late, the immense workload to which I have committed. So far, of 24 strike teams to which I have committed, I have only finished 8 of them. The 9th one will be finished soon, but still, these teams are simply taking much, much longer than anticipated.
This team in particular helped me realize just how much work there is still to do. Why? Because I have already made (practically) an entire army of Star Pharaohs, and it's not actually saved me any time making this team. Sure, I had to generate much less geometry than compared to a scratch-built team, but getting the original 28mm Ascended star Pharaohs into their new scale and cramming them into the Port-O-Battle workflow turned out to be a right pain in the arse, just like all the other teams have been.
It's not just a rescale!
When I made Port-O-Bowl, I reached a sort of progress cascade. Each team, no matter how detailed, took much less work than all the previous teams, as I had a big catalog to draw from. Towards the end I would make a team in days that had more detail than the teams from the beginning of the project, which took weeks. I thought Port-O-Battle would be the same way. It's proving not to be the case. Strike teams for Port-O-Battle have so many positionals and weapons variations that no matter how much time I supposedly have saved by doing the work earlier, there is that much more work ahead.
Perhaps I'll reach that progress cascade later, but for now it feels like every new team has to be built from the ground up.
I guess what I'm saying is, bear with me!
During Port-O-Bowl, when it came to light that I would have to print all the promised physical sets myself, I got to work, and over the course of 2024, I got all the sets out, though it took me longer than anticipated.
Looks like that's what I'm going to for Port-O-Battle too. It's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, no matter the challenges.
For questions about progress of Port-O-Battle, feel free to message me on the Port-O-Battle Discord. While it exists, that is, as I plan on merging all my discords to the Star Pharaoh Foundry one.
Apologies for the lack of updates. It has been a busy few months. But I did complete another Strike Force, the Chaos Tinmen Fearmongers. Here they are!
I am going to spend the next few hours delivering this team to backers on My Mini Factory.
Additionally, I've finally decided to make Port-O-Battle available to the public. Previously it was only available to backers. But after getting some legal counsel, I decided it's time for the project to come out of hiding. The page here on Backerkit likely is not going to be made public again, but My Mini Factory is a different story.
There is currently a Black Friday sale going on on My Mini Factory. The code is at the top of the page, and you can get 40% of the whole store. So if there are Port-O-Battle teams you're thinking of getting that you didn't get from the campaign, or maybe if you're thinking of getting into Port-O-Bowl, or even if you want, of all things, some Star Pharaohs, now's the time!
See you next time. Hopefully there won't be a multi-month wait between teams.
