Turm 2023 Report
Turm 2023 is a part of Agram Arena Summer event series organised by UMS "Agram" and Gardens of Hecate in July 2023 in Zagreb, Croatia.
The event started on Friday with an introductionary dinner and drinks. On Saturday, the organizers set up the venue and met the participants for an early coffee before the event itself. During the day, organized lunch was available at a local diner while the aftershow was organized at a local pub.
The Tower City, home for centuries to the yellow-robed necromancers, was hit by a devastating bolt from the sky and reduced to rubble. In the damp caves beneath the deep dungeons of the city dwells their god Vvolos who eats souls and shits gold. You are here to plunder their riches. But beware! There will be resistance from the still surviving Cult of Vvolos: the council of necromancers, with their living and their undead minions. And, you are not the only one coming to Turm to pillage!
The event used the original Forbidden Psalm rulebook, along with scenarios and monsters created by the organizer for the event. The scenarios and monster stats were revealed on the day of the event. Each player played a campaign of FOUR games during the event day. The first three games were encounters against a single opponent, in which the goal is to collect treasure. The player with most treasures collected over three games was awarded the title of Marauder which this year went to Vane Dolenc.
A warband can also make a name for themselves by killing monsters and incapacitating other player characters. The player whose warband made the most monster kills and PC downs in the first three games was awarded the title of Slayer. This year the title went to Miran Bratuš.
The fourth and final game was a battle royale. Each player selected a single model from their warband as their champion, and fought to the death against the other players' champions. The last one standing was the winner and was awarded the title of Triumphator. Miran Bratuš won that prize as well!
Modelling and painting is a massive part of the hobby. It was a point to make sure the warbands looked their best for the sake of making the event as cool as possible. The best painted warband by a single painter was awarded a prize which went to Vladimir Matić-Kuriljev, while the best minis in the event were awarded the BEST OF SHOW award by UMS "Agram". That prize went to the beautifully painted warband by multiple authors (Giacomo Lunardon, Eugenio Gavaretto, Fabio Veronelli, Giuseppe Del Buono, Brian Roussel and Marcello Rizza).
Photos of the miniatures can be found here.
Vane: "Thanks again to our hosts Ana, Marko and the rest of UMS "Agram" for excellent organization and prep, fully featured tables and enemies, perfectly presented scenarios and prizes, and thanks to our new gaming friends Cameron, Luder, Marcello and Vlad for exceptionally pleasant games all day long. It was absolutely lovely meeting you all."
Luka: "What Vane put better than I could, it was absolutely amazing and for someone with no previous tournamet or participatory game experience, the bar has been set exceptionally high for that aspect of the hhobby in terms of organization, hospitality, kindness, sportsmanship, passion, cooperation and allround dedication to this illusive concept of narrative tabletop gaming. It inspired me to get better at hobbying and to seek out opportunirties for more shared experiences with all you wonderful peeps, be it online, or, hopefully soon, in person!"
Cameron: "Thank you all for making my first trip out this special. I loved learning about Croatia and all that it has, as well as how you all found yourself in this hobby. Everyone here was just wonderful, and I hope we can stay in touch and meet again!"
Marcello: "Meeting each one of you, the event, tha chats... was a blast! Thanks to each one of you for being so welcoming and friendly! Thanks again, Ana, for bringin to life such sweet situation!"
Vlad: "Thanks everyone for an amazing experience, it was truly lovely meeting y'all and hopefully there will be more events like this in the future! And huge congrats to Ana for another blazing success and thanks ofr allowing everyone to participate in this truly unique vision of grimdark!"
UMS "Agram" would like to thank our partners and sponsors Gardens of Hecate, Ramshackle Games and Bestiarum Games for making this event possible as well as all the players and participants on the day of the event!
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!
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Science behind Acrylic Paints
- Binders (eng. resin) – form a film – in our case probably pure acrylates, I suspect they are styrene acrylates.
- Fillers – in addition to adding volume to the paint, they also affect the viscosity, coverage and appearance of the dry film
- Pigments – the main division is into organic pigments and inorganic pigments. Inorganic ones are more covering but have less vivid shades, while organic ones are often quite poorly covering (yellow for example) but their shades are vivid and bright
Additives:
- Anti-foam
- Rheological modifiers – affect the behavior of wet paint on the substrate (e.g. spillage) and the behavior of the paint when a force is applied to it (brush, roller, spray, airbrush). Rheological modifiers also include thickeners that affect the viscosity of the paint.
- Dispersants – envelop pigment and filler particles and prevent their agglomeration during standing. Good dispersion of pigment and filler affects the coverage and uniform appearance of the dry film. There are a bunch more but I won't go into too much detail
- Solvent – in this case water.
Contrast paints and speed paints – high pigment content, but not so much that it causes high coverage. They are formulated to spread, not to stay where you put them. The result of spreading is that the paint collects in the recesses, where a thicker film of paint remains than on the protruding parts of the miniature. Where the film of paint is thicker (the recesses), the shade of the contrast paint is more pronounced, unlike on the protruding parts where the film is thinner, which is why the shade is then influenced by the color of the substrate.
Composition:
- Binders
- Pigments
- Additives – all listed above + surfactants that reduce the surface tension of the wet paint film, which is why it flows
- solvent
- I would say they do not contain fillers, or contain very, very little of them
Washes – similar in formulation and behavior to contrast agents, only they have a much lower proportion of pigments, certainly no fillers, a higher proportion of surfactants, lower viscosity, and probably less binders.
If we want to greatly dilute acrylic paint or contrast, it is better to use a product intended for this purpose from the manufacturer of that paint rather than water, because it contains all the necessary amount of binders and additives for that paint to retain its properties.
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U ovom članku, naša Dunja nam otkriva znanost iza akrilnih boja.
Akrilne boje – visoki udio pigmenta i dobra pokrivnost. Ako su dobro formulirane ostaju tamo gdje ih naneseš, ne ostavljaju „brush marks“ i suše se dovoljno sporo da stigneš napravit što želiš na minijaturi a opet dovoljno brzo.
Sastav:
- Veziva (eng. resin) – formiraju film – u našem slučaju vjerojatno čisti akrilati, sumnjam da su stiren akrilati.
- Punila – osim što dodaju volumen boji utječu i na viskoznost, pokrivnost i izgled suhog filma
- Pigmenti – glavna podjela je na organske pigmente i anorganske pigmente. Anorganski su više pokrivni ali manje živih nijansi, dok su organski često dosta loše pokrivni (žuti npr) ali zato su im nijanse žive i jarke
Aditivi:
- Protiv pjene
- Reološki modifikatori – utječu na ponašanje mokre boje na podlozi (npr razlijevanje) i na ponašanje boje dok na nju djeluje sila (kist, valjak, sprej, airbrush). Pod reološke modifikatore spadaju i ugušćivači koji utječu na viskozitet boje.
- Dispergatori – obavijaju čestice pigmenata i punila i sprječavaju aglomeraciju istih stajanjem. Dobra dispergiranost pigmenta i punila utječe na pokrivnost i ujednačen izgled suhog filma.
- Ima ih još hrpa ali neću toliko u detalje
- Otapalo – u ovom slučaju voda.
Kontrastice i speed paints – visoki udio pigmenta, ali ne toliki da uzrokuje visoku pokrivnost. Formulirane su da se razlijevaju, a ne da ostaju tamo gdje ih staviš. Posljedica razlijevanja je skupljanje boje u udubine gdje onda ostane deblji film boje nego na isturenim dijelovima minijature. Tamo gdje je film boje deblji (udubine) nijansa kontrastice izraženija, za razliku od isturenih dijelova na kojima je film tanji zbog čega na nijansu onda utječe boja podloge.
Sastav:
- Veziva
- Pigmenti
- Aditivi – svi nabrojani gore +
- surfakanti koji smanjuju površinsku napetost mokrog filma boje zbog čega i dolazi do razlijevanja
- otapalo
- rekla bih da ne sadrže punila, ili ih sadrže vrlo vrlo malo
Washevi – po principu formuliranja i ponašanju slični kontrasticama, samo imaju puno manji udio pigmenata, sigurno ne sadrže punila, veći udio surfakanata, manji viskozitet i vjerojatno manje veziva.
Ako želimo jako razrijediti akrilnu boju ili kontrasticu bolje je koristiti za to predviđen proizvod od proizvođača te boje nego vodu, jer sadrži svu potrebnu količinu veziva i aditiva kako bi ta boja zadržala svoja svojstva.
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