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My Drukhari have been busy these past few days.
●Game #1 (Sunday, 2k pts) they tore up an Anvil SM force.
In this game a Medusa truly earned her paint - by taking the last wound off a Landraider Redeemer in melee!
Game #2 (Tue eve, 2k pts) Vs all infantry Custodes.
Good game, but we spent more time BSing with each other & a few others than actually playing.....
Where we stopped at the bottom of T3 the Custodes had a 20pt lead on me.
Had we played it out we agreed that that was likely to be the opposite by T5 as my aircraft would take an increasing toll.
But for now, a Custode victory.
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Post by: tneva82
1.5 years since took out sylvaneth. Lost vs ghosts but damn what a game. Back and forth with both sides having chance. But made too many mistakes which cost me units which stopped bt's toward the end.
And boy ghosts are tough when they roll 10"+ charges. Strike last constantly on turns 2 & 3 meant couldn't teleport away losing some units i could have saved. Especially with -2 from charges to boot...
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Weekend roundup time-
The games-
Some house 5th ed 40K
. IA 1 circa 3rd ed guard VS 7th ed knights-
7th ed sisters with 5th ed blood angels allies VS 4th ed space marines-
4th ed/ IA 11 eldar VS 4th ed space marines-
Some classic battle tech-
random generated matchup-
Davion heavy guards tank lance VS 2nd swords of light.-Ajax spam for the win.
Post jihad silliness-
My games-
training game of monpoc GUARD VS Martian menace.
classic battle tech-
10th lyran guard/davion allies facing off against the elite nova cats Alpha galaxy
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
Little 750 pts of Bolt action, USA vs Germany, hold until relieved, USA defended. Germany wins. Was actually playing with a friend in a rough time, so I invited him over for a game, drinks and giggles to cheer him up.
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Post by: ccs
Some Legion Imperialis today.
My Solar vs the SM (Raven Guard).
It was a very bloody fight but the Solar won through basic attrition.
Our 2nd game - we made less rules errors this time than last. 
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Post by: Easy E
Looting and pillaging in Hibernia using Fury of the Northman.
The Vikings try to loot and pillage from Hibernian Irish territory. The Vikings are from Victrix and the Irish are from Wargames Atlantic.
You can read the details and see more pictures on the blog if you are interested:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/03/battle-report-fury-of-northman-looting.html
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Post by: Boss Salvage
Tzeentch Daemons vs Orks (2000 Points)
Played my first game of 10E and my buddy's first game of 40k ever last weekend, took like 9 hours from setup to teardown  Called it at the end of Turn 4 as I pulled very far ahead on primaries - while all his units felt better than mine, I had distracted his super-hammers or bogged them down in the endless goop of horror splitting for long enough to focus on the objective game. Excited for next game, which will certainly move faster 
Also worth noting that my Ork opponent started hobbying on this army last September and has cracked and surpassed 2k painted now. Much respect.
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The valiant forces of the Solar Auxillia lay waste to the Nightlords!
A Solar victory: 55-10.
(And my opponent was even cheating x2! He doesn't own enough stuff to legally field a Reaver Titan AND he put nearly 200 pts more on the table than I did)
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Post by: Shrapnelsmile
 LunarSol wrote:Haven't posted in a little while. Gotten in some Judgement, MCP and Shatterpoint recently:
What is Judgement? That looks really cool
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Warhammer: Old World action last night.
My Beastmen (mostly Minotaurs) vs Warriors of Chaos (Khorne). 2k pts.
Solid Khorne victory.
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Post by: aphyon
Life got in the way again this weekend so we were missing a bunch of players. it ended up being a really early night compared to normal.
Some of the games-
A random surprise group doing some 10th ed 40K
Some MCP games
My games-
MCP
House 5th ed 40K 4th ed black templars VS 3.5 dark angels.
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It's a MOBA inspired game by Gunmeister Games that launched a 2nd edition line by Creature Caster last year. The goal of the game is destroy the big Effigy shrine on your opponent's side of the field using a team of champions. These maps are for 3v3 games, but there's also a larger board for playing the main 5v5 version. There's no hard faction restrictions; you can play whatever 3 or 5 champions you want but you do choose a patron god that gives a playstyle bonus as well as a secondary bonus to aligned characters.
The trick to the game is the Effigy fully heals at the end of the round and is overall pretty tanky and is basically impossible to kill in one go. Defeating enemy champions binds a soul to the champion that got the kill and each bound soul reduces the opponent's Effigy's max HP to zero or to bring it to a point where it can be destroyed. There are also souls that spawn towards the center of the table that can be harvested from objective points to drive engagement. You can get your Effigy's HP back by killing a model holding a soul before they can get it back to their own Effigy and drop it off for a permanent HP reduction. Gathering souls also permanently levels your characters to unlock abilities for the remainder of the game.
The other big mechanic is the inclusion of wild monsters that spawn throughout the game and automatically attack players. You can push enemy models around as a core mechanic and try to maneuver them into the path of an enemy monster, though killing enemy monsters is also useful for gaining levels and earning a fate resource that can be used for dice rerolls and paying for particularly powerful abilities.
It's been a game I've wanted to play since I first tried it out in 2016. A lot of what I liked about Guild Ball with a theme that sticks with me better. It's main issue in the past is just being an extremely expensive line of 55 mm statues. The new creature caster sculpts are significantly more affordable 40 mm line that's made it an easy pick up and one of my top 5 games of the moment. Link to their page below:
https://us.creaturecaster.com/pages/judgement-eternal-champions-the-game
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Post by: Adrassil
We had the game day with the kids today, and after they did some mini-painting, we played a game of Grimdark Future: Firefight. It was meant to be a four-player all vs all, with each team deploying in the corners, but the kids decided it was all vs me. I played as the "Elf Pirates" and only had three units, so I was ludicrously outnumbered, but I managed to make a good account of myself. It was fun, though. The kids had a blast killing me, and it was made even better when one of the kids had his unit fire flamers on my leader, who was surrounded, so he hit the "allies" around him.
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Some MCP with my son.
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Post by: aphyon
Weekend update time-
10th ed 40K
3rd party fantasy game-
AOS-
MCP
classic battle tech-
House 5th ed 40K
3.5 witch hunters VS 4th ed black templar.
4th ed black templar VS 3.5 chaos marines (iron warriors)
My games-
Some MCP, had to give Klaw a try.
then we did a clan VS inner sphere battle of classic battle tech.-
We finished up with an inner sphere battle on(the prone mechs are all dead).
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My final game in our current Escalation League.
My Drukhari vs World Eaters.
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Post by: ced1106
Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales. Scenario pics are of the Orchid Chieftain discovering the steampunk-ish engine room, the previous room overgrown with nasty plants, and the Ravager entering a room with proxied Living Corpses. Too bad Ravager become exhausted that turn. 😛 At least the Orchid Chieftain fulfilled her Personal Quest by finding the widget in the scenario earlier and has retired. Time for more painting for her replacement!
Crimson Scales. Free PnP and miniature .stl's : https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
Wildspire Miniatures : https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848
Archon Caves KS : https://gamefound.com/en/projects/archon-studio/caves
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Post by: Cyel
That is very cool! Good to see some Guild Ball being played
What is the mossy stuff on the statues in th AoS picture? It looks great!
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Post by: LunarSol
Not sure to be honest. Only the top two are my terrain. They certainly did a nice job on that AoS terrain though.
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Post by: aphyon
Weekly update-
Some MCP-
A big bunch of the players were working on building characters and their mechs for a classic battle tech campaign. so not much to see there.
I ran a fellow regular through some N2 infinity-
the first game was a lasiq themed sectorial VS a combined army force.
The second game was the combined army coming out again against a muyib themed sectorial.
then we switched over to some battle tech
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Post by: Easy E
A small Chariot Wars battle in 6mm scale between Hittites and Egyptians.
You can see more photos and read all about the battle on the blog if you are so inclined.
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/04/battle-report-in-strife-and-conflict.html
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Post by: ced1106
More Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales!
If you saw my previous post (same page as this one), you saw the Chieftain and the Ruinmaw make their way into the complex. Chieftain retired, so the Artificer stepped in. Unfortunately, they didn't make it past the hallway. Ran out of mushroom men to proxy the oozes (which kept summoning more copies of themselves), using dice as proxies. The exhausted carcasses of our heroes are in the upper right. 
The creator of the CS game, Addax Games, will have a KS in May for their GH-alike game, ROVE. Hopefully, it won't have oozes.
Mushroom men by Wildspire Games, from their Monster set, available retail.
WS: https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848
Addax: https://addaxgames.com/
More pics: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/103935-wildspire-miniatures-gloomhaven-crimson-scales-thread/
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Khorne 8bound & a Termite drill take the Votanns home objective....
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Post by: aphyon
LOL i see you are also using the mantic veermyn drill for a termite. i use mine with my admech force-
The games this weekend-
Some infinity-
Classic battle tech-
House 5th ed 40K
dark eldar VS iron hands
black templar VS iron hands-
Black templar VS iron warriors
My games- dark angels VS iron warriors-up sized combat patrol scenario from the 4th ed main rulebook-convoy ambush-
Fun game but i got completely wrecked by his CC dread. he raged 3 turns in a row. managed to kill 2 of my land raiders -
Then some classic battle tech-
Steiner VS Davion civil war style- jihad era-improved heavy gauss for the pain.
the Kurita VS Davion medium/ heavy lances-
11 games in all, not a bad day.
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Kharn charges the Imperial Guard.
Extreme violence ensued.
8 attacks, 8 kills.
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Post by: Easy E
I got to use my Order of St. Augustine Martyred SoB Kill Team in our Imperial vs. Chaos campaign.
You can read all about it in the Bonus Material on my blog for the week here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/04/wargame-design-all-sizzle-and-no-stakes.html
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Post by: Just Tony
6th Ed. WFB double header.
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Post by: aphyon
This weekends game night was dominated by house 5th ed 40K.
Iron hands 4th VS tyranids 7th- 2k
imperial guard 5th VS tyranids 7th-2k
black templar 4th VS imperial guard armored company (imperial armor)
Witch hunters 3rd VS iron hands 4th-750pnts
3.5 khorne berserkers VS imperial guard armored company.
then we had some MCP
classic battle tech
and infinity
My games-
MCP-
Did 2 games of city fight for classic battle tech, forgot to take pics of the first game. the first one was post jihad era assault lance on assault lance.
the second was all light mechs. 2 lances VS a mixed clan star of infantry and hovercraft with mech support
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My WE vs Custodes this afternoon.
Kharn charges & kills some Custodes hero.
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Post by: RedSarge
1050pts Lost and the Damned [3rd] vs Daemonhunters [3rd] using 4-6th Edition rules (haven't played since end of 6th)
Only messed up a few things. Result: Draw!
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Post by: aphyon
Excellent RED welcome back to oldhammer.
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Post by: Boss Salvage
So many mutants  Love to see it 
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This weeks updates
starting with some classic battle tech-
alpha strike-
a friend brought his kids (9 and 11) in for a game-training them right
then they were running a campaign scenario-
A little Davion on Davion training match-
The the Davions took on a level 2 comstar lance-
Some house 5th ed 40K
iron hands 4th ed VS 3.5 iron warriors-
Narrow victory to the hands.
Some AOS-
Trees VS chaos warriors-
My games-
House 5th ed- 3.5 dark angels VS 4th ed iron hands-
Victory by objectives for the dark angels.
My last game-some later Jihad era lance on lance action-
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Post by: Just Tony
Classichammer day April edition, a 3000 point match up between my brother Ashley's Dwarfs army and a combined Orcs and Goblins force from John and Carl. Decisive Dwarfs victory using sixth edition rules.
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Post by: Easy E
A game of Hostile Space- Space Mecha combat....
New Olympian Combat Suits escort a transport to Liberty Pointe, but they are ambushed by Unknowns.
You can see the full report on the Blood and Spectacles blog if you are interested in seeing more.
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/04/battle-report-hostile-space-escort-to.html
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Post by: ced1106
More Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales adventuring!
Mini proxies by Wildspire Miniatures, from their Monster set.
Crimson Scales will have a KS in May for their ROVE Gloomhavenalike boardgame!
CS : https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
Wildspire Miniatures Sets : https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln
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Post by: aphyon
The weekend review-
House 5th ed 40K-
4th ed iron hands VS 5th ed dark eldar-
5th Imperial guard VS 4th ed iron hands-
classic battle tech-
My games-
40K
my 5th ed guard VS an allied 4th ed iron hands/black templar list.
Castles in the sky using 3d printed ships from last exile-
2 games of classic battle tech- first agianst comstar and second using my axe lance
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Post by: LunarSol
A pile of random games:
Shatterpoint
MCP
40k
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Post by: Easy E
Some more Hostile Space as the New Olympians raid a pirate base in an asteroid field.....
You can read all about in on the Blog if you are so inclined.....
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/04/battle-report-hostile-space-raid-on-red.html
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Post by: ccs
Scenes from today's Apocalypse 40k game.
On this area of the board my World Eaters took on some Imperial Knights.
My tanks (yes, I bring tanks in my WE lists) blasted the crap out of several Knights.
Wich allowed the Jackls to Mop up.
The jackals wound up bring down a Knight Lancer & then the net turn Canis Rex!
The jackals have earned their paint.
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weekly update-
the games-
Infinity a rather sparse but nice looking table-
Flames of war-
House 5th ed-
guard VS infantry horde iron hands
Black templar VS iron hands-
my games-
House 40K guard on guard action-
MCP-
Classic battle tech-
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Post by: Sherrypie
Some NetEA at the club, my AdMech mauled the greenskins twice over with some dubstep goodness while the Eldar and Tyranids had a go at the demo table.
More pictures:
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Post by: LunarSol
Quick paint job on Moff Gideon's team to get them on the table in time for a Star Wars day game plus a bit of 40k with my new Orks:
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Post by: Adrassil
Last night, I played through my 12th Encounter with my Five Parsecs from Home crew, which is made up of ripoffs of characters from my 40k/Dark Heresy fanfic series Secret War. Attelus' expy is the leader, with expies of Garrakson, Elandria, Dellenger, Adelana, and Torris. The game went well, despite me making some mistakes in the deployment and a few other things. I had to escort a civilian to the middle of the field against some Unity Grunts, also had to help a Person of Interest, which was a success.
From left to right, it's Dellenger, Elandria, Attelus, Adelana, Torris and Garrakson (for context, all Hero Forge minis)
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Post by: ced1106
More excellent shenanigans with Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales!
"Behold! Ze Prestigulous Power Modulator!"
"Oh, how wonderful. Has it (ahem) been field tested to dispose of the required number of enemies?"
"Indeed! Und it has proved effective in debilitating many others!"
"Oh, how wonderful. We need a little more, um 'field testing' at the University."
"Eh???"
"It seems that the League of Amphibious Beings weren't keen on our using their habitat as a heat sink, so have behooved themselves into taking over the Translocation Lab. It's a perfect way to impress the academics of your new invention."
"Fine. Point me to the fiends."
"Ah. There are a few little minor teensy details you should know."
"WHAT details???"
"Their teleportation has somehow made them to immune to Wounding."
"Ugh."
"And Poison."
"UGH."
"And one of them has holed up in the Refractor Assembly."
"Ugh."
"And they seemed to have let the highly secret experimental also Immobilize and Stun-proof golem loose in the Cooling Chamber."
"UGH."
Crimson Scales fanmade Gloomhaven expansion PnP : https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
Enemies from WildSpire Miniature's "Monster Set". : https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln
Additional terrain by Archon.
Wall by WizKids.
Coming soon! ROVE, by the creators of Crimson Scales coming this month! : https://addaxgames.com/
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Post by: aphyon
another weekend of gaming-
Classic battle tech campaign mission-
House 5th ed 40K
My games-
started with some house 5th ed guard on guard rematch action -
Next up were 2 games of MCP, the first at 17 power level and the second at 20.
And finally 2 games of classic battle tech-
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A recent round of MCP
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Will stick the full bat rep in the Battle Reports thread, but for those wanting early access...
https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/05/12/the-armageddon-diaries-game-4-stop-da-stompa/
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Post by: Easy E
Some Kill Team with the Order of St. Augustine Martyred, a Compilation Sister of Battle list.
I added it as bonus content on my most recent blog. Feel free to take a look if you are so inclined:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/05/wargame-design-glimpse-at-my-process.html?sc=1715695299562#c1479537764359180011
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Post by: aphyon
Weekend update-
Some guys were trying out blackout for the first time-
We had some classic battle tech of course-
Some MCP-
My games-
I started with MCP
Then i got 2 classic battle tech games-
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Post by: ccs
Played a great game of Gaslands last night.
Much death & destruction all around the course. But the grand-finale was when the "Shell" carswerved/slide to bring its rear mounted flame thrower to bear on the other 3 active (& badly damaged) cars.
It caused an incredible amount damage.
Incinerating one outrite causing it to explode, wich in turn caused more damage to the other 2. Then we rolled damage for the black car - wich because of the explosion turned out to be just enough. It then exploded - further damaging the truck.
The truck? It ended the phase on fire & at 1 hp remaining.
As soon as it activated on the next phase the fire killed it.
It exploded! Catching the Shell car & dealing the final point of damage to it. Shell did not explode. :(
So the turn ended with nothing but piles of exploded burning wreckage just inches away from the Finnish line.
Technically the game couldve continued with some of the cars re-spawning.
But we decided that since it was pushing midnight, we were all hungry, & the mtg players had just wrapped up & this past turn would be hard to top action wise that this was a great time to call it.
We awarded the Shell car a posthumous victory for causing so much carnage & entertainment in 1 round.
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Weekend game store update-
40k-
classic battle tech-
my games-
MCP-
Infinity-
Classic battle tech
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Post by: Sherrypie
4k of EpicAU's Heresy legion lists, Epic: Armageddon. The Death Guard gives the Iron Fourth a solid whooping, though Perturabo's disciples give a grand exit by driving down the XIV command elements with their final titan-assisted charge.
More pics:
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Some 30k today
An unlikely team of Iron Warriors & Custodes vs the Militia.
Victory: IW/C alliance.
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game night update-
Some AOS
classic battle tech
A bunch of MCP
For me it was some classic battle tech scenario mission.
It was my only game tonight as the person i had the game scheduled with was late.
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Post by: Gimgamgoo
Game of Battletech Alpha Strike with my wife using hex grid rules with an attack roll for each point of damage - hence the multiple sets of coloured dice (more off table).
5th Crucis Lancers:
Battlemaster
Catapult
Wolverine
Commando
vs
1st Sword of Light
Griffin
Thunderbolt
Shadow Hawk
Locust
My 1st Sword of Light were finally beaten when my Locust was taken out by a badly beaten Wolverine.
At the end, my wife asked if I had any more Locusts she could add to her choice of models. I guess its speed made an impact.
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Post by: Necroagogo
Great-looking board! Love the cheeky DeLorean in there too.
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Friday night Gaslands.
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This weekend saw some regulars-
MCP games
Some classic battle tech clan on clan action-
My battle tech games
some civil war era (3067)
Some late 4th succession war era-
Then the most odd one of the night...i got to fight my former tau army i sold a decade ago that just got re-sold to a newer player in our group for our 5th ed games.
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
Game of dreadfleet this afternoon. I got utterly stomped and outplayed by my friend. Was a fun game and was well worth the 30 minutes of bike to get there!
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Post by: LunarSol
Been testing out the Waaagh quite a bit lately. Got in a few games using the War Horde:
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Gloomhaven : Crimson Scales
NIGHT OF THE MURDER CHICKEN
Rethemed a tragic scenario into murder most fowl. The poultry miniature is actually useful in an event card as well, and I'd like to think said chicken got its taste of BLOOD and formed its own tasty cult. Anyway, our two boys encounter the murder chicken (towards the back, near a man-eating plant) the first time, but would fail three times in this difficult scenario!
Enemies, and Wizard and Murder Chicken from Wildspire Miniature's "Monster Set" and "Spellblades and Enchanted Objects" set.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln
Crimson Scales : Free PnP : https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
Plant terrain by Archon.
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That beast has 0 clucks given!
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Weekend update time-
the games-
Bolt action-
House 5th ed 40K
4th ed Tau VS 3.5 chaos-
5th ed crimson fists VS 3.5 chaos-
Succession wars battle tech-
My games-
5th ed guard VS 4th ed iron hands-
then against 3.5 chaos-
The a 150 point game of heavy gear- i was playing CEF-
The a succession wars battle tech game-
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
Hey aphyon, when you say for exemple 4th tau versus 3.5 chaos, do you take lists from the codices as is or are their any tweaks you make?
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 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:Hey aphyon, when you say for exemple 4th tau versus 3.5 chaos, do you take lists from the codices as is or are their any tweaks you make?
I have a topic or two for this for this 
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/789567.page
The short answer
.all of our games are based on 5th ed core rules. however 3rd-7th ed codexes are cross compatible. you pick the codex you feel best represents your army and build it from that codex we have a few house rules fixes/add ons such as using the 4th ed wound allocation system to avoid shenanigans and we added in grenade throwing, over watch and snap fire from 7th ed because we felt is really improves game experience.
The detailed explanation of rules fixes is here-
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/806639.page
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
Gonna give this a read, I was mostly thinking about point costs compatibility as points costs globally decreased over time and i was wondering whether that could influence the game at disadvantage for the earlier codex. When I do this, I tend to align point costs with newer codices as much as possible.
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Post by: Illumini
That titanicus battle is just epic! 40k really does better in that scale with aircraft, titans and hordes of stuff
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1.5k of Legions. The Word Bearers attempt a sneaky beach landing on Death Guard's islands, but have to slink back into the red tides after getting a thoroughly bloodied nose on the now wreckage-filled and burning sands.
Click for pics in spoiler!
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Post by: Shrapnelsmile
 Sherrypie wrote:1.5k of Legions. The Word Bearers attempt a sneaky beach landing on Death Guard's islands, but have to slink back into the red tides after getting a thoroughly bloodied nose on the now wreckage-filled and burning sands.
what a cool looking board, thanks for the pics.
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Thanks Shrap, still occasional beach holidays in the grim darkness of the far future
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Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:Gonna give this a read, I was mostly thinking about point costs compatibility as points costs globally decreased over time and i was wondering whether that could influence the game at disadvantage for the earlier codex. When I do this, I tend to align point costs with newer codices as much as possible.
Its a trade off you can get more "stuff" with some of the newer codexes, but you loose loads of the in-built thematic rules. one of the guys tinkered around with it and after trying to use the 7th ed rules for his guard and marines he decided to go back to using the older editions instead because it better fit the feel of his army. being able to use tank hunter skills/iron fathers for his iron hands or tank hunter/beast hunter shells for him imperial guard etc...
The only universal points cost change we made was basic grenades (krak/frag etc..). the equivalent is free for every faction. as you used to have to pay for them and later editions just included them as standard kit.
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Post by: Just Tony
Fifteen hundred point sixth edition mirror match between damn near identical High Elf and Dark Elf forces. Had we gone one more turn I would have been completely tabled as the High Elf player.
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
First game outside of a few MCP games in 3 years.
A Warhammer the Old World slow grow escalation league has started at my local FLGS.
Starting 750pts, and will go up 500pts every 4 weeks to 2250 points final armies and end in a 'tournament' games day.
I took a varied army to learn the rules with fighting units, archers, a mage and chariots.
The chariots were unbelievable and ran rampant through his army, killing a unit of warhounds, unit 3 minotaurs, a mage on a chariot and then shot a couple more warhounds.
Rolled a double 1 for my main combat unit to hold (the only way I would).
Good to be back but hard learning from scratch with all the changes, but I will pick it up quickly.
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Post by: aphyon
game update time-
House 5th ed-
4th ed tau VS 5th ed guard 2k points (crisis suits are being run as broadside teams of 2)
Game 2 was chaos on chaos action-khorne berserkers VS iron warriors. at 3K points 5 objectives-
We also had the battle tech campaign going but my picture of that didn't turn out.
My games-
A small heavy gear test game. the buildings are the wrong scale as this was the battle tech table for the night but we just rolled with it.
Then it was on to battle tech-
3050 lance on lance action-
3067 lights and mediums do battle-
Then the big action of the night-the main even CLAN INVASION 3050!!
3 lances VS 1 star forced withdrawal on the inner sphere side, clanners fight to the last.
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Post by: Shrapnelsmile
First game of The Old World yesterday. We had a good time. Here some very Impetuous gunners charged chaos hounds, routed them, and ran them down.
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Post by: Sherrypie
5.5k of EpicAU, IW vs. Mech, 10'x4' table. The IV legion pushed aggressively forwards into the robotic boogaloo, perhaps too deep and too greedily even, as their frontline was raked by endless rain of plasma mortars and their Mortis Warhounds blown apart by the massed Ordinatii beams. After four rounds of white-bled attrition, both sides were in broken tatters but the Mechanicum had held firmer. They had won the skies and retained their biggest guns, leaving the Iron Warriors little choice but to eventually concede the field.
Click for more pics in the spoiler!
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Post by: Illumini
Gorgeous as always
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Cheers Illumini, pictured for your pleasure
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Post by: aphyon
Surprisingly no battle tech this weekend-
We had 2 games of store 5th ed 40K- first tau (4th ed) VS iron hands(4th ed) and then the tau had a go at chaos (iron warriors 3.5 ed) they lost the first one and won the second. i forgot to take a pic of the second battle-
The table was eldar maiden world ruins with 3 objectives.
there was a little bolt action-
soviets VS germans
A couple games of MCP
Then a couple games of heavy gear- the first at 100 points and the second bumped up to 150-
The games i got in were 2 games of DUST 1947 the first was Brits VS NDAK at 80 points and the second was a demo/training game putting the Brits up against the German zombies at 53 points-
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Post by: Just Tony
Got two games in a few days ago. Both 6th Edition. Pitched Battle was the second game and Bastion Of The Old Ones was the scenario we played first. Got beat both times due to some really naff rolls.
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Post by: Shrapnelsmile
My first game of Horus Heresy, 1.5 K points, Iron warriros vs. (proxied) word bearers.
It was a really good time, I like the system quite a bit.
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Post by: Gulgog TufToof
Gave Dune War for Arrakis a try. This is kind of what I'm looking for in terms of complexity. A good amount of rules to keep it interesting, but not so many that it's impossible to remember all of the details. First time playing it and we had a ton of fun!
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Post by: ccs
Tonight's 30k game
A force of UM, traitor militia (they were summoning deamons)demons, & Knights.
Vs
The Mechanicum.
Although the Mech had the advantage, it ended in a tie. :(
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Post by: Shrapnelsmile
ccs wrote:Tonight's 30k game
A force of UM, traitor militia (they were summoning deamons)demons, & Knights.
Vs
The Mechanicum.
Although the Mech had the advantage, it ended in a tie. :(
can we see some of the pics of the Militia?
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Post by: ccs
 Shrapnelsmile wrote:ccs wrote:Tonight's 30k game
A force of UM, traitor militia (they were summoning deamons)demons, & Knights.
Vs
The Mechanicum.
Although the Mech had the advantage, it ended in a tie. :(
can we see some of the pics of the Militia?
Sure. Blow the picture up & squint a bit you'll sorta see a blob of them hiding behind the rock formations on the upper right. They are a mix of all types of old Guard figures & of average paint jobs.
There's also the psyker/Deamon summoner (brown coat) hanging out with some UM, just behind the FW Knight next to a red die.
On the objective near the greenish GW terrain piece you'll notice some of the pink horrors that were summoned.
And down on the lower right you'll see a Leman Russ.
Sorry, this is the best pic of the battle.
Other pics, taken later in the game, were A) pretty poor & not worth posting, so got deleted, B) showed even less of the Militia as they were mostly all vaporized by the Reavers gatling blaster.
I think 3 Militia guys ended up surviving.
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Fourth game with my Guard. I won!
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Post by: Just Tony
We had an out of schedule sixth dish in gaming day today, to which I couldn't make it. There were enough people, however, to do two separate games on two separate tables. My brother Ashley played our Skaven against Carl's all-Goblin horde, while Bret's Dark Elves took on John's Orcs and Goblins.
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Some Legion Imperiales this evening.
The Reaver Titan I salvaged for my friend made its debut. (Some details aren't finished yet & not my best paint job ever. But serviceable....)
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Post by: lord_blackfang
First proper campaign game of Dracula's America, the weird west game.
MVP was the Dark Confederacy shotgun guy, who took out two uppity men of colour along with a hostage they took. This will forever be known in the town of Perdition as the Grand Hotel Massacre.
The water tower was essential for surviving our heat wave
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Post by: BrookM
Played five games of Battletech using the introduction rules, I took to the field in the blue one, my friend was the red one. 😉
The first two games really didn't go my way, abysmal rolling on my part, plus some pretty good rolls from my opponent, who in game one pretty much shot my torso out and in the second game blew away my entire right side, disarming me and forcing me to resign.
Come the third game, I bravely decided to set up camp in a forest, much to the annoyance of my opponent, who wanted a straight up fight, but had a much harder time hitting me and after way too much shooting, I managed to win.
Fourth game was more of an open slug match, with us walking around exchanging fire, took forever, but I finally managed to down my opponent.
Final game, here I decided to go all out and take the fight to her, instead of the other way round, trying to be as in her face as possible, which wound up saving me, as running made me harder to hit, paired with about the only really good rolls of the day! This game was over in two rounds, as I managed to land both PPC shots on the centre torso. 🤘🏻
My pilot earned herself a nickname, at first she was called "Crash" mockingly by my opponent because of my rather lacklustre performance, but after the final game, where I charged in like a loon, it took on a whole other meaning.
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Post by: aphyon
Little late on the updates tonight,
We start out with some classic warhammer fantasy battles
Some 5th ed 40K iron hands VS guard-
MCP-
And lastly some classic battle tech
My games-
Some of my ships didn't come in time for my Lyran force so i had to do some proxy work for my aero tech (battle tech space combat) fleet.
Game 1 was against a new player using my clan fleet and the second was against a federated suns force.
My last game of the night was a heavy gear battle. i was trying out some new gear and units CEF VS southern forces.
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Post by: ccs
My Grey Knight fire-support section took part in a training exercise vs a rookie force of Ultramarines (helemed by 2 very inexperienced players.)
It was never in doubt that it'd be a GK victory.
We tried to demonstrate as many aspects of the rules as possible
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
1250pts O&G (Gobbos) vs Chaos.
Slow grow league and 3rd game of WTOW.
Click on the pic for a bigger version.
Vs a fantastic converted army with AOS models which perfectly suit chaos.
Got smashed.
Managed to kill both of his small forsaken units, 1 ogre and 2 knights. He almost wiped me out.
Things learnt:
Impact hits can be generated against a unit that charge me, if I pursued a fleeing unit last turn.
Skirmishes
How to use warmachines.
There is nothing in the rules for what happens when a fanatic moves through another fanatic. I erred on the side of caution and just removed them both like 8th ed, but need look into it further.
Happenings:
Doom Diver: Turn 1 Misfire (Twang)
Turn 2 misfire and fell apart
Bolt thrower missed twice then killed in combat
Failed all but 1 casting roll with 2 level 2 mages.
Passed 1 of 6 dispels
Goblin chariots do work better in units of 3 rather than single models.
2d6 movement is horrendous on the pump wagons, but 4 of them is great, I would never run them as a larger unit due to the unreliability of the mvt.
My night gobbo boss on giant squig rolled 18 on mvt turn 1 and then 3 on turn 2 and failed his charge. :(
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Post by: ced1106
One of the characters has a Personal Quest that requires he shoves enemies into traps, so I'm replaying a scenario that allows him to shove enemies into traps. The other guys are tagging along to keep him from being killed. Sparkboy uses Sparks for card effects, and replenishes them from the dead bodies of his fallen enemies. Perfect excuse to use that Loot 1 card! The Firecat is a proxy for the fire character class, who has a ladder she can climb for various bonus card effects. A ladder from the Mantic Terrain Crate works for dioramas, at least.
Wildspire Miniatures has some deals on Amazon Prime! The Monsters set isn't on sale, but the Heroes and Animals set I've been using for character proxies, animal summons, and some enemy bosses. : https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln
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Post by: Skinflint Games
Apologies if I've already posted this:
Epic scale Star Wars game with all scratchbuilt minis, full battle report here: https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/06/30/may-the-4th-be-extremely-belatedly-with-you-d-day-on-hazzard-prime/
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Post by: aphyon
The update-
Classic battle tech-
battle tech alpha strike-
House 5th ed 40K
Iron warriors (3.5) VS imperial guard (5th)
They actually did 2 games with one win each-
The the iron warriors (3.5) faced off against the black templar (4th)-crusader squads were still inside the raiders and the podding dread and terminators hadn't arrived yet for the templars-super close game, went to turn 7
Then it was Tau (4th) vs a different iron warriors (3.5) player-
My games-
MCP-20 point game- avengers VS X-men-come from behind win for the Xmen at the last second-
Jumped into the 40K battles against loyalist iron hands (3rd) with my assault guard (5th)-
Last one for me was some aero tech fleet combat with fighters this time-
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Post by: ccs
30k today.
We saw my Mechanicum vs Custodes (+ Callidus Assassin.
It ended in a draw.
The highlight of the game being when the Assassin charged into the Skitarri & over the course of 2 fight phases only killed 7/10, and to add further insult/injury, got killed herself.
Only then did the survivors morale break & they legged it for my deployment zone.
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Game update-
Classic battle tech-
Heavy gear-
House 5th ed 40K Guard VS crimson fists.
My games-
A brutal slugfest for Aero tech a little fedcom civil war action, we all finally got all of our stuff in
Then i hopped into a heavy gear game with my CEF force i had loaned out to a friend in the previous game.
Lastly some small clan VS inner sphere battle tech action-
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Post by: Sherrypie
Epic: Armageddon, 3k. The Machine Church met the Tzeentchian hordes of the Lost and the Damned in a battle of thoroughly fumbled command networks and misfortunes, as both sides bled and stumbled forwards hopelessly. Even kicking airman Jones into the empty fuel tank instead failed to get the birds flying. No breakthrough was achieved nor any formations properly destroyed, though the price in blood and oil rose high for everyone on the burning sands. Neither side achieved any real objectives nor was there any meaningful difference between the casualty tiebreakers, ending in a true, futile draw.
Click the spoiler for more pics!
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Post by: ccs
AoS 4e:
My Sons of Behemet vs the Soulblight.
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
1250pts last night Night Goblins vs Chaos rematch.
Got thrashed again, but wasn't a tabling and did get to push back and do better.
Snotling pump wagons were worse than last battle. At 2d6 they are just too random (and slow). Not a single combat on my terms.
Same with the giant squig riding hero. Either rolls massive or nothing. Nothing when you want to do get into combat.
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Post by: Will_Power
Had a chance to run my second playtest of the 10mm fantasy skirmish rules I'm designing (tentatively titled Dekatropik).
Here are some pics of fracas that ensued when the faceless armored warriors of the Wild Hunt took their wyrm, wyvern, and pack of frost wargs on an incursion into the demesne of the Vampire Court of Ir-Salom.
40mm and 20mm round bases, mostly multi-based. 16x16in board. Reactions-based player turn structure. Rules-light, miniatures-agnostic mechanics.
If a 10mm skirmish game may be of interest, please do fill out the playtest form! Will be sharing Alpha rules later in August.
https://forms.gle/j3HdbCjhm7BFdMZh9
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Post by: Cap'n Facebeard
Will_Power wrote:Had a chance to run my second playtest of the 10mm fantasy skirmish rules I'm designing (tentatively titled Dekatropik)
Looks great and very different. How did the hit-and-run not-Chaos force go in the end?
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Post by: Will_Power
 Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Will_Power wrote:Had a chance to run my second playtest of the 10mm fantasy skirmish rules I'm designing (tentatively titled Dekatropik)
Looks great and very different. How did the hit-and-run not-Chaos force go in the end?
Since I was just running a bog-standard kill 'em all sorta game, the twin-headed dragon and wolves with the champions attached were effective wrecking balls, which offset the numbers the Vampires had.
They'd be at a disadvantage in an objectives-holding scenario, but that's the case with every elite list ever.
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Post by: aphyon
Here we go-
Classic 40K-
3rd ed Nids VS Eldar-
Had some friends do a couple planned large 3K point 5th ed games-
The crimson fists used the 5th ed codex, the IG used 5th and the iron hands used 3.5 index astartes.
The first was IG VS crimson fists-
In the second the Fists went against the iron hands-
The last was a test list with the blue marines/tau vehicles "counts as" an Iyanden craftworld wraith list VS a 4th ed black templars list
My games-
Classic battle tech
3rd succession wars fedcom lances (steiner and davion) facing down the clan invasion-
My final game was a house 5th ed 40K game 5th ed guard VS 4th ed black templar-
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Post by: aphyon
Kind of a light turn out this week. had a bunch of players tied up in a big MTG game and some in an RPG. Those of us who did miniatures were doing this
2 games of house 5th ed 40K
.black templar (4th) VS chaos (3.5)
Orks (4th) VS chaos (3.5)
One of the regulars is trying his hand at game design so he was doing some 6MM scale testing of his scifi game under development-
Then there was a classic battle tech game 3rd succession war-
My games consisted of 2 test games with proxies to try out the IJN ninja list. i ran Allied heavy rangers and he first did a mostly infantry list.
Game 2 he swapped out 4 of his ninja railgun teams for 2 of his railgun walkers.
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Post by: Easy E
Some 6mm Chariot Wars using In Strife and Conflict rules from the Wargame Vault. Egyptians versus Hittites.
You can read the gory details on the blog if you are so inclined:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/08/battle-report-in-strife-and-conflict.html
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Post by: aphyon
weekend update-
Classic battle tech-
Warhammer the old world-
House 5th ed 40K
3.5 chaos VS 5th ed necrons-
MCP-
My games-
MCP
House 5th ed 40K
3.5 chaos VS 5th ed salamanders with demon hunter allies.
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Post by: aphyon
This weeks games-
The wild squirl 10th ed 40K
WHFB one page rules style-
Some MCP -
House 5th ed 40K
The templar player was trying out a list with 2 spartan land raiders.
I ended up with 4 games. the first 2 were MCP test runs with asgardian lists to see what i liked.
Then i had my hand at a 40K game with my slamanders and demon hunter allies VS black templar.
We ended the night with a battle tech matchup, i got to use my boat!-
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Post by: ccs
Sigmar 4e today.
2k pts,
Gloomspite vs an unholy alliance of Khorne/Tzeentch.
It was a hard fought battle. And, although the goblins took nearly 95% casualties doing it, the little green runts pulled off a 3pt victory....
Special (posthumous) recognition must be paid to Stikka units #2 & #3. These 40 spear weilding grots kept Skarbrand occupied for 3! Turns. And inflicted a respectable 7 pts of damage to him in the process.
They died on turn 4, but that meant Skarbrand had no hope of getting back into action T5.
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Post by: Just Tony
A shot at the beginning of a 6th Edition game with the Capture scenario, a shot of how it ended, and four shots in the middle to show exactly how devastating Plague was in 1 turn.
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
Thoughts on WTOW so far.
Non super elite/monster infantry is in dire need of something to make them worthwhile. In most battles the front rank is wiped out and I do not even get to fight outside of a character or champion.
25% of the rules could be removed/streamlined and that would make for a much more enjoyable experience. I'm not here to be constantly looking up rules. I want to play the game. Complexity for the sake of complexity is not enjoyable.
How a kid is meant to start playing is beyond me...
Just bring back a magic phase/have all spells in the command phase. Trying to work out which spells to cast when is again, just complexity for the sake of it and very frustrating.
Snotling pump wagons... I have run them in all but 1 game so far, Started with 4, and triet that for several games and have been dropping them more and more and in the last game 1. I rolled 3, then 4, then when I had nothing near me, 11. 2d6 for movement is woeful. Make it 3d6 and have them actually get to be near fighting. Also with the random move rules you can wheel but essentially are always trying to set up 1 turn ahead, then either get charged and smashed, or then fail to impact, or my opponent stops 2 inches away and I get no impact hits. They were great in every previous edition but with their current movement rules, I wouldn't buy them, even at 10pts per model. They are awful.
Cav and flying monsters are where it is at. The movement and impact on charge leaves nothing left for me to do. This even applies to my 5 man spider rider unit with full command that wiped out 2 warmachines, a unit of crossbowmen and tied up a bretonnian knights of the realm unit by hitting it in the flank.
I had played Warhammer Fantasy from 1990 until the end of 8th edition. This is so far, the worst one by far.
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Post by: Just Tony
 Waaagh_Gonads wrote:
Thoughts on WTOW so far.
Non super elite/monster infantry is in dire need of something to make them worthwhile. In most battles the front rank is wiped out and I do not even get to fight outside of a character or champion.
25% of the rules could be removed/streamlined and that would make for a much more enjoyable experience. I'm not here to be constantly looking up rules. I want to play the game. Complexity for the sake of complexity is not enjoyable.
How a kid is meant to start playing is beyond me...
Just bring back a magic phase/have all spells in the command phase. Trying to work out which spells to cast when is again, just complexity for the sake of it and very frustrating.
Snotling pump wagons... I have run them in all but 1 game so far, Started with 4, and triet that for several games and have been dropping them more and more and in the last game 1. I rolled 3, then 4, then when I had nothing near me, 11. 2d6 for movement is woeful. Make it 3d6 and have them actually get to be near fighting. Also with the random move rules you can wheel but essentially are always trying to set up 1 turn ahead, then either get charged and smashed, or then fail to impact, or my opponent stops 2 inches away and I get no impact hits. They were great in every previous edition but with their current movement rules, I wouldn't buy them, even at 10pts per model. They are awful.
Cav and flying monsters are where it is at. The movement and impact on charge leaves nothing left for me to do. This even applies to my 5 man spider rider unit with full command that wiped out 2 warmachines, a unit of crossbowmen and tied up a bretonnian knights of the realm unit by hitting it in the flank.
I had played Warhammer Fantasy from 1990 until the end of 8th edition. This is so far, the worst one by far.
I was cautiously hopeful when it was announced, but after seeing it in person and played I can honestly say that I'm perfectly happy sticking with 6th. The only plus is that they are rereleasing models that I may have missed.
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Post by: Easy E
The conclusion of my slow-burn Hostile Space Campaign....
Almost all the models are scratchbuilds or 3D prints in this report.
You can read all the gory details if you wish here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/08/battle-report-hostile-space-attack-on.html
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Post by: RaptorusRex
I won a game with Dark Eldar the day prior. 40-27.
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Post by: Shrapnelsmile
Carthaginian War Elephants advance, as skirmishers with Javelins run nearby to soften charge targets.
This was a 450 point game (only half the box set).
Game: Hail Caesar Epic Battles by Warlord Games UK
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Post by: aphyon
How to roll a 7 on a D6
Precision dice my wife got me for a previous chistmas present
Pretty dead this weekend with the holiday and all, when i got there a 40K game was being played and some MTG as well as YUGIO card games but all i ended up playing was a pre-planned battle tech game-
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Post by: ccs
4 player 40k game today. BA & UM vs 1 unified Custodes force.
Good game, but ultimately the Marines won by 20some pts. :(
One of the highlights of the game occurred when my Guardian Drone killed TWO Landraiders with 1 shot.
Both Landraiders were down to thier last wound. I shot the pulse blast at the BA Raider. Hit, wounded, failed save, and then exploded. Doing 1 MW to the UM LR. Sadly that one didn't also explode.
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4 player 40k game today. BA & UM vs 1 unified Custodes force.
Good game, but ultimately the Marines won by 20some pts. :(
One of the highlights of the game occurred when my Guardian Drone killed TWO Landraiders with 1 shot.
Both Landraiders were down to thier last wound. I shot the pulse blast at the BA Raider. Hit, wounded, failed save, and then exploded. Doing 1 MW to the UM LR. Sadly that one didn't also explode.
No idea why the pics are upside down.
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Post by: Easy E
The Battle of Kadesh?
I am using my 6mm Baccus models to try to re-fight the Battle of Kadesh. Check in and see if we are even close!
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/09/battle-report-in-strife-and-conflict.html
This probably won't be the last time we try this scenario out.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Interesting that on the last page we had One Page Rules Regiments, WHFB 6 and ToW
Last week I played 2 games of Spearhead, my Gitz beat Ogres and Lumineth
The weird one was a test evening of Flames of Orion, a wip indy 6mm mecha game. It's... pretty basic.
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Post by: aphyon
Weekly update-
40K
Aero tech-
Classic battle tech-
My games
MCP-X-force VS X-men-
Classic battle tech-
medium mech battle-
Clan blood spirits VS inner sphere vehicles.
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It's the Great Onion, Charlie Brown!
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What did that poor carrot do to deserve that fate (picture 2)?
Great-looking board - very atmospheric!
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Speaking of the great onion, had a group come in tonight for a series of games of this-
Then there was some 9th ed 40K
As well as our local battle tech campaign
Then we had house 5th ed 40K
black templar VS iron warriors.
I ended up getting 3 games in with my salamanders and allied deathwatch-
Game 1 was against iron hands-
Game 2 and 3 were a bit odd, as i fought the same army 2 times, but the owner of the army was tied up in a battle tech game and let another regular borrow his army for a bit to test it out. we had a good game but never finished it.
The real fight happened last when the actual owning player threw down for a big fight.
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Post by: Easy E
A re-match at Kadesh!
6mm Baccus Hittites vs. Egyptians on 60mm x 60mm bases over control of the 3D printed Kadesh using In Strife and Conflict rules.
You can read all the gory details on my blog, if you so desire.
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/09/battle-report-in-strife-and-conflict_02055772395.html
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Post by: Sherrypie
3k NetEA. Dark Angels made an attempt at a lightning strike against the Machine Church, but the unyielding purity of steel prevailed and the astartes were scattered onto the streets, slick and glistening with the all-soaking rain of oil.
Click spoilers for more pictures!
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Post by: aphyon
This week was Infinity marathon night. We played a combination N2/ N3 game-N2 core rules with new units/weapons from N3
The table was a 6X4 with 5 objectives-3 liftable and 2 hackable.
Since i was the only one who brought my armies we did a bit of play testing. i ran 2 different versions of combined army as well as a HAQQ general list. then we play tested a military orders list (knights hospitallers) with variations-
I finished off my day with some battle tech-
The other games going on-
40K
Battle tech alpha strike (i didn't get a pic of the second game)
And a couple games of MCP-
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Last week was an infinity marathon, this week was classic 40K
game 1 custodes VS iron hands-
Game 2
3.5 chaos (nurgle) VS 4.0 black templar-
Some battle tech alpha strike-
My games-
3,200 point apocalyptic battle iron hands VS salamanders/deathwatch-
A quick table reset for some clan on clan battletech -
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
Got a quick game of Project Z military Vs biker gang, this evening. Went 12-11 in my favour, I managed to wrestle a last turn victory with a general assault. Was great fun! Played a little dirty in the end... (top photo). I ran away from a fight using one of my abilities to avoid loosing the man that made the difference in the very last close combat!
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Yesterday's game of Dracula's America for our Free State of Perdition campaign. Dark Confederacy soundly beat the Twilight Order in a pure kill points mission, but lost one of their best fighters. Meanwhile, my forever rookie Fodder McLamb is still alive and rocking all four different permanent injuries (this is very impressive because rolling a double of any injury kills you outright).
The other notable thing was a playtest of my own game, a wizard arena deathmatch/basketball sport titled The Floor is Mana, coming soon to a Wargame Vault near you
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Post by: Skinflint Games
2nd Ed Space Marine, 7500pts - Can Warlord Bozzhog triumph against the Blood Angels and their Guard and Squat allies?
https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/epic-smackdown-on-hazzard-prime-7500pt-mega-battle-report/
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Post by: privateer4hire
Alpha Strike at my house today. Capture the space port.
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Post by: aphyon
Weekend in review-
10th ed 40K
3rd ed 40K eldar VS dark eldar
House 5th ed 3.5 chaos (nurgle) VS 4th ed tau-
MCP
Battle tech alpha strike-
Classic battle tech
My games consisted of one, as people coming in late or doing teaching games left me waiting to get in this pre-planned game.
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5k of Epic: Armageddon, Ill Met by Moonlight.
Patrols met under the onslaught of the tyranid invasion and quickly escalated as marching columns started pouring into the city. The situation quickly dipped to Mechanicus' favor, as they got their big guns onto the field and incessantly pummeled the xenos as they tried to escape the traffic jam at their deployment area.
More pics in the spoiler!
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Post by: aphyon
My games tonight-
MCP trying out warlock for the first time-
DUST 1947 demo game allied heavy rangers VS axis fallschirmjager-
and a game of classic battle tech-
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Walked in to this last minute surprise mega game of team yankee-
we squeezed a game of OPR with some classic era 40K minis-
Then there was some MCP-
Then some classic 40K 3.5 chaos plague marines(and ku'gath from the 4th ed demon codex for the LOLs) facing off against 4th ed black templar in our house 5th ed game.
(pappa nurgle shared his love in a smashing victory)
I managed to get in 2 games myself in a big infantry fight with my demon hunter allied salamanders facing the black templar. narrow victory for the boys in black
And a lance on lance classic battle tech fight between davions and kurita forces.
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Post by: Easy E
I have been feeling a bit anti-social lately, so decided to continue a solo-campaign for Under the Martian Yoke.
Things did not go well for my little survivor band, as immediately a Martian Tripod showed up to wreck their morning......
Wow, for a first game back at the campaign; this was a disaster for my survivors! You can read all about it here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/09/battle-report-under-martian-yoke-holed.html
Things went from bad, to worse, to very bleak......
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Post by: Sherrypie
Tragedy in three acts: 3k NetEA Imperial Fists vs. the Machine Church, Reinforce the Right ( GT scenario with three waves of troops and randomised deployment areas). The central firebase of the cog-boys proved too tough to crack for the astartes who arrived far from their main objectives and though the battle hung in balance until the very end, eventually the grand magos led their taxi-deprived and thus slowly stretching column of servitors and priests deep into the enemy rear.
Do note the Fists' Devastators' laudable camouflage exercise "Operation Atlas".
More pictures in the spoiler!
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This weeks games-
MCP-
House 5th ed
5th ed imperial guard armored company VS 4th ed black templar-
The same guard army VS 4th ed Tau-
3.5 chaos on chaos action some plague marines against chaos undivided.
3.5 plague marines VS 4th ed black templar-
My games-
MCP-
Classic battle tech-
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Post by: Just Tony
Today's 6th Ed. WFB matches
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40k today. 2k pts
Imperial Agents (mostly DW) + 2 Warglaglaives vs Khorne Demons & Wardogs.
The Khorne player conceded going into his 3rd turn. Didnt even attempt his shooting phase.
He didn't think he had a shot catching me VP wise (it was only 37/15, my favor). I think he was way underestimating his chances. Both of crippling me this turn & then surpassing me on VPs in turns 4 & 5.
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Tonight turned into a surprise oldhammer 40K night. as several people unexpectedly showed up late-
Game 1
A battle of the fist successors-
crimson fists (5th) VS templars (4th)- the crusader is standing in as a crimson fists standard land raider.
Game 2 was 3.5 plague marines VS 5th ed necrons-
Then the plague marines got to trounce some 4th ed tau-
My games were all battle tech-
The first was a re-match against last weeks Steiner assault lance with a Kurita assault lance-
Then we did some battle tech in space AKA aerotech 2
We finished up with a clan on inner sphere battle-
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40k, UM (9th Co) vs Necrons.
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Bunch of big 4K games in our oldhammer group
Game 1 was a 4K per side iron hands VS black templar battle- so many land raiders.........
Game 2 was the templar player fighting a combined iron warrior/plague marine force. funny to watch especially since nurgles rot affected the other chaos player as well since he was undivided.
There was a 3rd 2K point game of combined chaos forces VS necrons using the forgeworld fall of orpheus tomb world rules. but i was busy with my own game and forgot to snap a picture.
templar won game 1 on a tie breaker and chaos won game 2, but just barely. with only a couple models left for each player on the team.
It took close to 8 hours to get around to the game i was waiting for because the templar player was also my opponent.
We did a battle tech game clan assault star VS a double fedcom assault lance. -brutally close game
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My 1st match in our Heresy League last night.
My fully assembled & somewhat painted Iron Warriors vs a force of mostly painted & partially assembled Iron Warriors.
Victory: Iron Warriors (mine)
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Bit of a late start for me this week, but we still had a busy day-
40K oldhammer wise we had 3 games. the templar and nurgle went at it again, but i don't take any pictures.
then the chaos gods did a bit of in-fighting iron warriors VS plague marines.
then we had some classic battle tech
The new flames of war all tank game- 1950s cold war
Then my games-
salmanders/grey knight allies VS nurgle.
Battle tech mountain fight-
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I'm at work but Classichammer is happening without me...
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After I'm not really sure how many years we got the band back together for a game last Saturday. HH2.0
4 players, 2 teams of two. Word bearers and Space Wolves vs Imperial first and my First Legion.
I took my terrain up to the game. My friends hadn't seen any of it in person yet. We took our time and flipped through the rules for hours while we played. The game went almost 6 hours but it flew by. we had a blast. My team, Imperial First and First legion won the game by one point. I really enjoyed the game and so far the game rules. We're looking to start playing once a month starting in the ne year after the holidays are over. Unfortunately for me I drove 200 miles in total just to play nearly 5 hours on the road. It's going to be rough but I think I can manage. My buddie gave me a Land Raider Spartan, he still has 9 more in his collection. Looks like I'll be painting again after all.
The terrain more or less won up the game. My friends complaint was just that he had no decent fire lanes. Which seems fair to me. I'm happy to adjust in the future but it did help my very very basic list to at least have a decent showing Winning the game was unexpected. Our mission was to get line units into the enemy deployment Zone. Some how we did. The other side fell just a bit short but may have taken it in another round. Really good game and lots of fun hanging out with good friends.
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Tonight my Grey Knights squared off against a brand new Imperial Knights force/player.
2k pts.
I took down Canis Rex (and Hektor), a Paladin(?) & 2/3 Warglaives.
And nearly bracketed the big FW Knight.
My general plan was to kill everything but the FW knight & then out score the foe.
Unfortunately there were a few poor dice rolls that delayed me clearing Rex & the right flank.
Wich ended up costing me precious units.
I didn't win this one, but the game was very very close pts wise.
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Finished my 31st Five Parsecs from Home encounter up against some elite Abandoned. Here are some of my favourite photos of not-Attelus Kaltos after he killed the enemy Unique Individual a Freelancer after said Freelancer took out no-Elandria in close combat which I decided enraged Attelus into charging the guy in vengeance. Elandria survived FYI, she was just injured in the leg no thanks to a re-roll on the injury table because non-Adelana had Medical Training as the re-roll was "death".
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Post by: Just Tony
The first move in a 6th Edition game. Meeting Engagement scenario.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Last weekend I ran Dracula's America demos at a scale modeling convention in my town. Had a few newly finished terrain pieces too.
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Post by: aphyon
Super busy game night.
We had some MCP-
An epic large 10th ed 40K game-
A small introductory game of 40K
classic battle tech ongoing campaign
House 5th ed 40K games-
Templar VS IG-
Nurgle VS iron hands
My games-
Started out with a planned game of DUST 1947 escalation scenario mission ALLIES vs AXIS-
Then i broke out the ADMECH to face off against 3.5 chaos (nurgle)
Then black templar had a go at me-
We ended the night(or in this case next morning) with some classic battle tech-
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Post by: ccs
Today's 40k:
2k Tau vs Imperial Knights.
When railguns & plentiful Seeker Missles are involved its not really a fair fiight.... The Knights were tabled on the bottom of turn 3 & lost very badly on pts.
Below we see an antique Tau Barracuda (on a makeshift flight stand ) wiping out the last Armigar.
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Post by: Easy E
Some more solo-wargaming with Under the Martian Yoke. Things look pretty bad for our small band of Martian Invasion survivors.
You can read up on the plight of this little band of survivors on the blog if you are so inclined:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/11/battle-report-under-martian-yoke.html
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Post by: aphyon
We had this huge flames of war tourney at the store that took up most of the space for most of the day.
After they finally cleared out we had some other games-
classic battle tech.
the battle tech campaign was also going but i was busy with my own games so i forgot to get pictures of it.
Speaking of my games-
some house 5th ed 40K
imperial guard VS admech
chaos VS admech
Then i moved on to a couple battle tech games-
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Today's game of 40k
UM vs Necrons. 2k pts.
Victory: Necrons
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This weeks games-
10th ed 40K
Some warhammer the old world-
some MCP-
And some classic battle tech on hero quest tiles-
My games-
MCP-
classic battle tech-
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Post by: aphyon
The theme of the night was battle tech.
I got in a quick game of house 5th ed 40K admech(7th) VS black templar(4th)
i brought my war hound titan this game, but it never got on the table the basic admech had cleaned things up to the point the templar player decided to run away.
Then we did a little fedcom civil war battle tech game. minor victory for the lyran guards, with one marauder II left on the table at the end.
My force-
.marauder II
.devastator
,night star
.cerberus
The other force-
.marauder II
.night star
.atlas
.gunslinger.
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 Stevefamine wrote:Intro game against my friend James. He hasnt played since 9th so I let him pilot my Tyranids against Iron Hands
Lovely terrain!
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Quick game of 6th Ed. WFB
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Trench Crusade
It's mediocre.
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Post by: aphyon
This weeks games-
some classic 8th ed WHFB-
Classic battle tech campaign-
My games-
House 5th ed 40K-
Iron hands (4th) VS admech (7th)
Davion VS kurita-
Comstar joins up with kurita to face off the clans-
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Post by: lord_blackfang
First game of Man o War
3 way between Empire, High Elves and Dwarfs.
Club president honoured the occasion by dressing as a pirate and bringing rum
(High Elf fleet are freshly painted originals, the player bought them at this year's Spiel; the rest are printed, and the terrain is Dreadfleet. All cardboard is original.)
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Post by: aphyon
An off day for me, as i am normally working fridays as i am on vacation i managed to squeeze in a couple games of MCP
Game 1 against spider foes
And game 2 against the Russian super hero's-winter guard.
More to come tomorrow....including new terrain-
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We ended up with a busy night-this started out with 40K (5th) and battle tech, then even more house 40K 5th ed.
40K 2k tau (4th) VS iron hands(4th)-
Tau(4th) VS iron warriors(3.5). -
Then a bunch of late arrivals turned into a huge apocalypse level 40K game with iron warriors, world eaters, plague marines and thousand sons teaming up against necrons.
We has some players trying out the newest rules for specter operations-
Then we has some classic battle tech
and finally my games-
I started with a planned 65 point MKIII warmchine game with modified(doubled) shooting range attacks.
We did some later era battle tech, but after a 2 turn pummeling, the other player decided to reset and switch from his Davions to his Lyrans-
a much closer game second time around
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Tried Scabz, a Turnip28 themed reskin of Tonks.
About as mediocre as expected as a 1v1 experience, you eventually get into a situation where the optimal move for both players is to stand still and spam basic attack.
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A couple of photos from recent KT games at my place, some are parts of a narrative campaign, some are not.
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On Jan.1st Vulcan He'Stan lead a detachment of his Salamanders against the Drukhari.
It did not end well for him or his brothers.
Victory went to the Drukhari(my 1st Victory of the new year)
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Adeptus Titanicus today! To start off, I aged 5 years when the cat knocked paint water over my cards and terminals.  Tried the Open Engine War cards today and got an absolute gakshow of a scenario, where we could both deploy right up to the centre of the table, and the exact centre was also the sole all-or-nothing objective and the source of an expanding radiation wave that made it impossible to vent reactor plasma. Long story short, absolute lore win, everything died (I run a custom Traitor Legio specialized in self-destructing advantageously) and a Direwolf scout titan ran up to take the objective in the last round.
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That scenario makes me very happy.
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It was a hoot. You see my Warlord and Reaver standing back to back near the front? As soon as there was enough of a gap, the enemy Princeps in a melee Reaver warp-teleported in and stabbed the Warlord. I intentionally detonated it, the blast took out an entirely separate enemy Reaver and damaged my Reaver so bad it died in the End phase - we also had a planetary effect that titans with critical damage take more damage over time - and this blast took out the enemy Princeps Reaver. This was turn 2.
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Post by: aphyon
The week in review-
MCP-
House 5th ed 40K -
4th ed iron hands VS 3.5 plague marines
Classic battle tech campaign on hero scape tiles-
Flames of war-
Hungarians VS italians
My games-
Epic 40K
2k points Iyanden VS guard with titan support-
Monpoc- G.U.A.R.D./green fury VS Martians
And finally some jihad era classic battle tech clan hells horse VS Lyran guards-
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Post by: Pariah Press
Space Hulk 1st edition. My space marines were able to wipe out 30 genestealers, enough to win the scenario!
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Post by: Sherrypie
4,5k of NetEA, Ill Met by Moonlight. The Machine Church gave the eldritch machinefolk a good ol' kicking and repo'd all of their toasters.
Couple more in the spoilers.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Sherrypie wrote:4,5k of NetEA, Ill Met by Moonlight. The Machine Church gave the eldritch machinefolk a good ol' kicking and repo'd all of their toasters.
Lovely. I, too, use downscaled Forbidden Prints terrain.
We took the new update of Turnip28 for a spin
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Post by: Sherrypie
Thanks Blackfang. That Furby remains disturbing
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Not a real busy weekend at the FLGS but we did get some gaming in-
The old TSR battle systems (D&D) using a mix of minis-
MCP-X-force VS spider foes-
House 5th ed 40K
iron hands (7th ed) VS 3.5 chaos
then a rematch against 4th ed iron hands
My games-
Got to break out one of my chistmas presents-a new city terrain mat for infinity-
even got in 3 games of N3/ N3
the first was combined army VS PanO military orders
then we reset and did the military orders VS a HAQQ generalist list and finally we tested a YU-JING HI list VS the HAQQ list.
Then i managed to get some more epic with space marines fighting admech-
And finally some classic battle tech-
Steiner VS Kurita-
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Post by: LunarSol
Had a bit of an explosion in MCP popularity lately. Gotten in a whole bunch of games:
MCP
Infinity has a lot of interest but mostly in the demo/people buying stuff stage. Not a lot of full games of N5 yet
Infinity
A bit of Shatterpoint, but our usual game night for it fell on the holidays
Shatterpoint
And finally, a bit of Judgement which remains my favorite game I'd like to play way more than I do
Judgement
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Popped into the store for a single quick game of Monpoc tonight-
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A very busy day this week at the FLGS loads of oldhammer 40K and other things-
Classic battle tech
MCP-
Now on to oldhammer-
4th ed iron hands VS 4th ed black templar in our house 5th ed games
Then chaos(3.5) tried their hand at trying to dislodge some imperial fist (4th) in a fortress, had to do a bit of proxy work here the primaris tank is standing in as a typhon siege tank, the little missile thing is a tarantula turret. the strong point is 2 bunkers connected by a wall of martyrs defense line with tanglewire/tank trap sections across the front. a proper fight for the sons of Dorn.
Now on to my games-
I also got a battle tech game in at the end of the night but since we started it at like 1 am i kind of forgot to snap any pictures
The rest was All 40K
Upon request i broke out my old 4th ed tyranid assault army list. had to use some heavy proxies as the guy i was borrowing minis from didn't have enough warriors. so all the rippers/hive guard etc were standing in for the job-
The first game was against iron hands (4th)
Then i also went up against the yellow fortress-
And lastly against the other sons of Dorn- black templar (4th) With a crimson fist squad tossed in for the
Much biomass was consumed
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We had another night of Turniping, teaching a new player
Then a random encounter happened, a lady came by wearing a T-shirt saying " MILF: Man I love Furbys"
She did not disappoint
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This weekends games-
10th ed 40K
Flames of war- Hungarians and Italians VS Germans
Some house 5th ed 40K
4K game- 4th ed imperial guard VS black templar-
With some heavy proxies to test out some lists-
Wraith guard 4th ed eldar list VS imperial guard-
5th ed inquisitorial (grey knights) army VS 4th ed black templar.
My games-
Admech 7th ed with warhound support VS imperial guard
A massive 40 point game of MCP-
Some battle tech to round out the night-
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Post by: Gomez
Got in a couple games of Arena Rex after a looooong absence from playing.
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Post by: LunarSol
Definitely a solid game. Haven't played it in a while myself, but those Grind pillars work well for it
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A bit of 40k this week:
A few games of Shatterpoint:
And a few rounds and demos of Infinity:
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Another full day of gaming-
Battle tech-
MCP
House 5th ed 40K
My games-
MCP-
House 40K
Battle tech
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Post by: Commodus Leitdorf
Had a meetup to play some games of 6th Edition over the weekend. Haven't really played WHFB since 2012 so I was super excited! Had lots of fun against a Dwarf list. Game ended in a draw. I'm glad even after all these years I still remember the rules.
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Post by: Easy E
My annual Super Bowl celebration is a game of Blood Bowl on the tabletop.
These were all painted with cheap acrylics from a big box retailer a few years back. You just have to water them down a lot but they are perfectly serviceable.
You can read the results of the game on the Blood and Spectacles blog.
https://www.bloodandspectaclespublishing.com/blog
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Post by: Tyranid Horde
I played against Solar Auxilia for the first time and it was a good game! Keen to play some bigger ones as the small point games have been insanely swingy.
Mission: No Man's Land
Sec: Control the Battlefield
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Played AT again
Finally someone other than me put the work in and printed a full 4x4 table
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Post by: ccs
Played some Bolt Action 3e yesterday.
US Army vs my Germans.
Game ended in a draw.
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This week we had a small warmachine MK 4 event going when i got there-
there was some classic battle tech-
I also saw a kings of war game going but forgot to snap a pic.
My games
I got 2 games of house 5th ed 40K. the first was a 2k point game of mostly infantry and light vehicles- 4th ed black templar VS 3.5 dark angels w/deathwatch. din't get any pics of that game but we reset with full vehicles support and has a bloody little battle.
Then we did a couple classic battle tech games. the first was a vehicle battle
Then i teamed up with some Lyrans for a battle against the clans-
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Classichammer day
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This weeks games-
House 5th ed 40K
3.5 chaos VS 5th ed blood angels
3.5 chaos on chaos love undivided VS plague marines-
4th ed imperial fists VS 5th ed space wolves test list-
MCP guardians of the galaxy VS X-force
Classic battle tech-
My games-
3.5 dark angels VS 3.5 chaos-more plasma and even more plasma-
MCP-
Guardians of the galaxy VS X-men
Classic battle tech-
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Post by: Sherrypie
1200 points Fleet Engagement, the Imperial wedge smashed into a Chaos pirates' encircling trap but eventually battered their way through with the Dauntless squadrons relentlessly staying in the maneuver game until the very end.
Click 'em bigger!
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This weekends games-
Some house 5th ed 40K test games-
trying a hand at chaos. khorne berserker proxy list VS another chaos player-
And then they went again with an iron warriors proxy list (all the rhino hulls were chaos predators)
Crimson fist (5th) VS chaos (3.5)
MCP
Didn't notice this one was blurry midnight sons VS spider foes-
My games-some criminal syndicate facing off against my X-men and friends-
A battle tech games of mostly lights and mediums in a river delta...with boats
Last battle of the night- all assault mechs-
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Played some more Co Op KT21 today.
I confess messing up the killzone this time, the NPOs really cant handle a board with only narrow chokepoints at the middle of the board. Wanted to try the "City walls" style layout again, and have to say, open terrain without chokepoints is kind of a must for the NPO system to work. I doubt you'd have a satisfactory gallowdark mission against NPOs either, unless the forces were way skewed in favour of the NPOs. But given that, some form of Space Hulk *might* still work.. assuming theres enough stealers and doors could be opened/destroyed..
Pro Tip: If you have tokens from both KT21 & KT24, use one set on the other team and another on their opponent. Easy to know which side's tokens are what, even when egaged in melee, because the sets look different
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There was a big battletech event at the store today, with some well known members of the catalyst team. so our group hunkered over in the corner since our battle tech stuff was scheduled for later in the evening.
We started with some house 5th ed 40K
imperial fists 4th ed VS 5th ed imperial guard-fortress fight
Black templar 4th VS the same guard force on the jungle table.
The classic battle tech campaign went for a huge battle royale-
Then my games-
Started out testing a proxied 4th ed eldar list-mostly of the iyanden flavor-wraithguard, wraith lord, pathfinders, warp hunters a hemlock wraith fighter etc...
I also got a regular dark angels battle in with deathwatch going up against the black templar.
I ended the day with a planned clan on clan battle with second line mechs.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Two weeks ago a friend and I drove to Croatia to spend the weekend demoing Turnip28 at their premiere non-historical miniatures convention.
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Post by: Shrapnelsmile
So much good stuff on the table here. Loving these pics.
Did our 2nd game of Old World last weekend, Warriors of Chaos vs. Brettonia with the empire troops splashed in. Seriously good time.
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Some of this weekends games-
classic battle tech
MCP-
My games started with MCP-
Then 2 games of house 5th ed 40K
Game 1 my 3.5 dark angels VS 4th ed black templar.
Then i had a go against 3.5 chaos plague marines-
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A couple fo the regulars have jumped into cyberpunk
Then we got in some DUST 1947 i did 2 games myself-
the first was axis VS allies searching for hidden documents.
My second game was Luftwaffe VS allies fighting over a supply crate.
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Davout wrote:Just like the title says, post up a pic of the last game you played.
I played my first game of 8th yesterday and played another game of AoS
Andros Pyreaus, Chapter Master of the Silver Hammers, after ordering as many heavy weapons as possible to fire upon the Beast of Calth, watched in horror as it refused to fall. The beast, roaring with rage, charged at Andros, who was prepared for this fight. Popping a frag grenade, Old One Eye was staggered enough to swap at the Argentum Angel, but faltered in the last seconds, just barely managing to hit the shield generated by the Iron Halo above his head. Having the chance to fight back, Andros swung his mighty relic Thunder Hammer, the silver hammer, at the beast. knocking it down. Climbing onto the monster, the chapter master wanted to ensure that this monster would be stopped, for now at the least and crushed its head with the blunt weapon. Sadly, as the battle drew to a close, retreats called, and brothers abandoned: Andros's auto-sensors picked up a signature through the gathering smoke of the lost battle, the silhouette of Old One Eye, lurking away to its next battle.
TL;DR Old One Eye charged my chapter master, he killed it. It failed to revive. But in lore, Old One Eye, even when dead, doesn't die.
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Lilith's last stand.....
My base coated Nurgle demons converge on my opponents last 2 models.
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Post by: Cyel
That's a supercool variety of games played, Lunarsol. I would probably make more rules mistakes than actual moves if I wanted to keep so many rulesets in my head at the same time!
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Luckily I learned them slowly over the years and cycle them enough that the mistakes made aren't TOO egregious.
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Cyel wrote:That's a supercool variety of games played, Lunarsol. I would probably make more rules mistakes than actual moves if I wanted to keep so many rulesets in my head at the same time!
LunarSol wrote:Luckily I learned them slowly over the years and cycle them enough that the mistakes made aren't TOO egregious.
LOL
Yep, i started my adventures with wargaming with battle tech in 87, then 40K in 3rd ed......and then when 6th ed 40K happened i started moving into other systems...see my SIG-i play at least 13 different systems, some only occasionally, but they are all great in their own way. keeping them all striaght is pretty easy for the most part, but if there are questions....that's what we have rulebooks for.
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Some old world Goodness, Chaos vs. Brets. We had a fun time with this one.
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Classichammer day at the FLGS
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This weeks games-
classic battle tech campaign is on again-
Some house 5th ed 40K with black templars facing a double force of marines and guard-
My games-some MCP
My menagerie of odd characters up against spider friends-
And a second game against X-men-
And lastly a battle tech game-
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Post by: ced1106
Currently playing a Lasting Tales generic fantasy miniatures campaign.
Our heroes are preparing to loot the dungeon! They also have an objective of something something something but RAW it's easier to go after the unprotected treasure.
Mini's from the Blacklist Games "Fantasy Series I" KS fiasco. These miniatures have been acquired by Wildspire Miniatures and are available retail under their Classics line. WM will be funding a campaign for the "Fantasy Series II" miniatures under their "Relics Reforged" line. Battle System's new Dungeon terrain.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848
Relics: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/wildspire-miniatures/realm-reforged
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Post by: aphyon
Didn't take a whole lot of pics this time,
Some of the games going on-
Classic battle tech-
some warmachine MKIII
MCP-
We were doing a themed 5th ed 40k scenario this weekend-
all infantry and walkers-boots on the ground- no flyers, wheels, tracks or skimmers,
black templar VS chaos-
Iron hands VS chaos-
My games-
My dark angels going at it with chaos.
Then i got in a game of warmachine MKIII
Finished the night off with some clan on clan training for battle tech.
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Post by: Easy E
I managed to play the Battle of Kadesh twice. The Hittites won both encounters but to very different degrees and both sides using very different tactics.
You can read the details on my blog here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2025/04/battle-report-battle-of-kadesh.html
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Post by: ced1106
The Sorceror's Tower : In which we kick glass cannon butt
One problem I have with Lasting Tales are its unprotected sorcerers. Thematically, it makes sense for a sorcerer to be all fight, low defense, and arrogant enough that it doesn't need minions, but RAW, heroes can each attack first before the sorcerer can fight back. The AI doesn't have minions protecting elite spellcasters, so you may want to add this AI rule to keep sorcerers from being blown to bits and stabbed before it has a chance to fight back. This makes the game more challenging, of course.
In any case, the scenario is unique in that it divides the board into four smaller quadrants, as the heroes teleport from one to another, finding the sorcerer's orbs to weaken him (reduce his resistance). Besides the Rogue Wizard, as adversaries, we chose a Vampire Lord (spellcaster) and Wraiths (melee minions). The scenario is tough because the minions spawn on the same quadrant as the heroes -- no walking two feet to get to the fight!
The game starts challenging, with two groups of adversaries on the board. Well, when you've selected two adversary groups, you start the game with all your enemies nearby! Thankfully (?) I thematically set up the board suchthat the Vampire Lord was protecting one of the orbs (so powerful it makes ivy grow upwards!) to capture behind a three-story tower that separated him (no LOS) to the heroes, while the wraith minions went after us. Nothing like combat in the first turn!
After a challenging fight (minions are nasty!), we went after the Vampire Lord. Busting open the door, the wizard threw a lightning bolt at him, then the paladin shimmied down a ladder and punctured him while he was in bat form. Silly Vampire! After obtaining the orb, we teleported into another quadrant with another challenging fight with a bunch of minions, as the paladins became punching bags, while the wizard, who had the Fleet of Foot spell, went after the orb and grabbed a scroll from a treasure chest while she was at it. Clerics are sure good at keeping paladins alive!
The climax of the game was tense, but kinda dumb. Before activating a sorcerer, you roll on its Magic Table. While this works sorta well, the Rogue Wizard chose... Teleport! This moved him closer to us, avoiding all that terrain that was protecting him. No doubt, his arrogance and confidence that his minions on the board would protect him would, well, protect him. One lightning bolt and paladin who had the Hate(Sorcerer) ability later, he found out otherwise.
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Post by: aphyon
Weekend update-
classic battle tech-
House 5th ed 40K
MCP
My games-
House 5th ed 40K demon hunters/deathwatch VS iron hands-
MCP-
Xmen VS brotherhood of mutants
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Post by: Irdiumstern
Been playing a lot of Armoured Clash lately. This was 2k points, Mission Lord of the Manor, Union vs. Crown.
Crown Deployment
Union Advancing
Flanking Bikers
Strafing Run
Heavy Tanks engaging Mechs
The Lone Star flies victorious
Full battle report:
https://atlachsshipyard.blogspot.com/2025/04/armoured-clash-battle-for-hill-fort-2k.html
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Post by: ccs
Tonight's game: (40K) Knight on Knight violence.
Chaos vs Imperial.
It was a good mech brawl & an Imperial victory.
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Post by: aphyon
Update-
classic battle tech-
A little introductory training game for 5th ed 40K very close only 4 minis left on the table at the end. Typhus won the day.
My games-
75 point WM/H MKIII game
A couple games of classic battle tech-
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Post by: Da Boss
Grimdark Future - Word Bearers vs. Crimson Fists. Stupidly forgot my concrete battlemat so it's just on shiny grey table!
Got an early charge off with my possessed:
A tense firefight for the multi-level mid board:
A duel between a Librarian and my kitbashed Daemon Prince (both survived to fight another day!):
Game ended on a draw - three contested objectives and one held by each side.
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Post by: Easy E
Love the walkways on the table. Automatically Appended Next Post: I took my newly painted Anglo-Saxon army out for a spin against a group of marauding Vikings.
All the minis are from Victrix.
You can read the results and see more pictures at my Blood and Spectacles Blog:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2025/04/battle-report-fury-of-northman-battle.html
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