tneva82 wrote:

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Here's a pic from game 3 of the RTT I was playing in earlier today. Our TO allowed my opponent's list despite how...extraordinary it was. This pic shows how it ultimately ended. My Dark Angels, Knight Gallant, and Astra Militarum vs. my opponent's entire army consisting of a single Warhound Titan.

Well guess RTT didn't mind players doing longwinded way of giving up games!

Yeah, the guy went 0-3 with it, but he seemed to have fun. I think I took the Titan down the fastest (2 turns).

 ZergSmasher wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Here's a pic from game 3 of the RTT I was playing in earlier today. Our TO allowed my opponent's list despite how...extraordinary it was. This pic shows how it ultimately ended. My Dark Angels, Knight Gallant, and Astra Militarum vs. my opponent's entire army consisting of a single Warhound Titan.

Well guess RTT didn't mind players doing longwinded way of giving up games!

Yeah, the guy went 0-3 with it, but he seemed to have fun. I think I took the Titan down the fastest (2 turns).

Not surprised. Titans are so lol-bad that taking them is pretty much automatic loss even if opponent doesn't even try to take it out. Pretty much only time you would want to take it is when you need that expensive model that fits into that small space as you literally can't cram more models into the table but still have ~2000 pts to spend!

Lovely model but GW made damned sure it is worthless in game.

 Forgotmytea wrote:
A rather brutal blood bowl game between my Wood Elves and a friend's Skaven. After some brutal blocks including two full-on deaths at the hands of my treeman, the game ended in a 3-2 victory for the Wood Elves.

Yes, Blood Bowl!

I played a game of Rampant Galaxies, which is designed to be a more "Epic" scale game.



You can read all about it at the blog.....
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/09/battle-report-rampant-galaxies-rescue.html

Gangs of Rome, using the "Careless Is" scenario. I had to get my Senator off the table, while my two opponent were trying to beat each other to knocking him out.







Unfortunately, what looked like an easy win turned into a crushing defeat. The Fighter with the Gladiator coin died, so the Gladiator left. He'd been escorting the Senator, so not only was I down two fighters, but my defenseless Senator was stuck, closer to the enemy gang. The rest of my fighters were picked off one by one, and the Senator was brutalised.

Over 300 orks got almost wiped out by de. Surrendered on his 4th with maybe 60 models left. This despite tons of dark lances(i shoot 9 dark lance at boyz. First time heard that!)


But apart 1 kmk and crew plus weirdboy all counts as painted! Some needs eyes and nails and tooths but close enough

GORKA GORKA GORKA!

My cybork bodied* yoof explodes the fuel tank of the enemy truck, scattering the puny morkas all around.

We decided he should only get XP for the penetrating hit he caused, no the 4 wounds the explosion also lead to.


*the previous game the yoof got ran over about 7 times by bikes and the Doc said there was no way of patching him up without a complete rebuild.

tneva82 wrote:
Over 300 orks got almost wiped out by de. Surrendered on his 4th with maybe 60 models left. This despite tons of dark lances(i shoot 9 dark lance at boyz. First time heard that!)

But apart 1 kmk and crew plus weirdboy all counts as painted! Some needs eyes and nails and tooths but close enough

That is some truly random terrain.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Over 300 orks got almost wiped out by de. Surrendered on his 4th with maybe 60 models left. This despite tons of dark lances(i shoot 9 dark lance at boyz. First time heard that!)

But apart 1 kmk and crew plus weirdboy all counts as painted! Some needs eyes and nails and tooths but close enough

That is some truly random terrain.

Well there's only so much terrain to be spread around multiple tables.

Alas too much terrain and bit too much high towers(incidentally killers were the white elf tower and the castle tower. Remove those and I would have had much more dealable situation as I could in theory at least catch them in h2h if I survive and those are pretty much only thing really sticking out). Opponent noted afterwards we should have said "screw it" to GW's latest FAQ regarding assault multilevel stories. As it is I literally could shoot with pistols most of the game. Oh and eat up tons of splinter shots hitting at 78% accuracy wounding on 4+ or hitting 66% times wounding on 2+. Good thing only couple units with those 2+ wounding missiles!

Ran up into one of the worst hard counters locally to my list(and orks as a whole) and that despite his list being geared up to deal with knights! It was not pretty sight. First turn was promising(dark lances took out only 3 KMK which was WAAAAY below average and rest killed just 4 boyz which was super under average) but then he got into rapid fire range and his ice cold dices warmed up to more normal and I was taking up boyz by the bucketload.

The last game I played was a Super Systems 4th edition between the Union of Semi-Professional Heroes and The Black Hearts. This time, the Union was attempting to apprehend the well-known smuggler Buzzard. However, little did they know that the Buzzard was hatching his own plans!



You can read all about it on the blog: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/09/super-system-4th-edition-battle-report.html

Dropped against Astra Miliatrum. Still haven't quite solved my anti-armor problem:



Also, I had a single hellhound eat 600 points worth of shooting. Celestine's aura is surprisingly effective.

Testing out Kill Team this weekend! I built us a nice indoor labyrinth out of my 3D Space Hulk bits and it was a blast. My Death Guard trounced the AdMech twice: first one was a nice, improvised escape scenario where my guys beat the machineboys with a good kick to the head, whereas the second one was a lot more even objective hunt, which ended as a total rout all around, DG just managing to hold on a bit longer in the pile of mounting bodies.

Awesome looking board!

I played some Blood Bowl. My family is really into it at the moment, so I might actually need to finish painting some of my teams...



This is the start of some league play at my household, and you can read the full report here: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/09/blood-bowl-princess-owayanna-tourney.html

Played my first game of our new Kill Team Campaign.

Maybe it was because I went against genestealers, but man does Hellfire rounds seem OP. If I could hit it, I could wound it and my opponent's dice refused to let him survive a flesh wound, only succeeding in two injury rolls. In the end I captured most his models and only lost Borther Generic Marine B, who got bit by a genestealer and then ran away like a baby.



Game was fast, even with the two of us having to check the rulebook on every third rule, we got done in an hour in Turn 5. I look forward to Sgt. Arkhal's continued career in Not Being Shelved with the rest of the reivers.

Awesome!

That is all. I wish I still had my old set. :(

Witch Hunters list (Sororitas, Hereticus Inquisitors, Assassins and Ministorum) vs Death Watch. First time I've fielded a list without metal boxes to hide in. Survived surprisingly well and tabled opponent by end of turn 5.

Few games of fallout wasteland warfare solo against AI super mutants

Pulp Alley using the Star Frontiers RPG as background.

Lil' bit o'Necromunda:

 privateer4hire wrote:
Pulp Alley using the Star Frontiers RPG as background.

That's amazing! Is that a Vrusk and a Dralasite?

I played a game of Rampant Sun on a 3x3 round table.



It was interesting as you could make people fallback with firepower and it was tough to kill them outright.

You can read the details on the blog: http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/10/rampant-sun-battle-report-firefight-at.html?m=1

Deffskullz vs Ultramarines and Grey Knights. Went as most typical ork games do. I ate his infantry while his vehicles killed my troops. We were playing kill points unfortunately, with double points for vehicles and characters. If we had been playing objectives I most likely would have won due to having board control the whole game, but that wasn't the case, and my opponent won. Still a great game, though, since it wasn't an all-out slaughter.

 Lorek wrote:

 privateer4hire wrote:
Pulp Alley using the Star Frontiers RPG as background.

That's amazing! Is that a Vrusk and a Dralasite?

It is. Vrusks and Yazirians are available from Alternative Armies.
https://www.alternative-armies.com/collections/ganesha-games-scifi

They also have a Dralasite model but the one in my pic is a green stuff creation.

Sathar are available from Hydra Miniatures:
http://shop.hydraminiatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=2_56&products_id=195

Got two more games of Kill Team in.

First the forces of Kill Team Secundus ran across some suspicious Tempestus scions for a Terror Tactics mission. Our brand new paintjob got wrecked as they literally charged through my team's ranks with the enemy commander killing three primaris marines with his powerfist, one after the other. We only got one of them, leading to an embarrassment for the emperor and the Permanent Death of my Reiver scout. My Commander caught a serious case of Brooding and had to sit the next mission out.





Hoping to redeem themselves we found more Tyranid Xenos scum. A vicious brawl broke out, with my reivers holding thier own as more and more tyranids joined the melee. I killed the Tyranid leader organism and some grunts, but the lictor managed to squeak out of there with just a single flesh wound. At least no one died and my Intercessor Gunners are getting good at shooing unengaged targets. Some wonderful shenanigans with Reiver movement as Grapnel Luanchers let me mario-jump those tall munitorum container stacks.

Had two amusements of second release yesterday - great fun. My Yderis Craftworld Eldar planning to battle off an approaching Tyranid swarm.

Bit of AT. Knights and that fist reaver dominated my movements too much and i had hard time getting his shields down and my shields up. Reaver in particurar. Then sabotage(we both think that might be too good) made my warlord advance rather than first fire(crap) ruining shooting. I moved other warlord forward to switch role who tries to take his warlord(my objective) also conveniently covering advancing warlord who he got extra bonus. Oh and then advancing warloid moved to make it harder to hit my shieldless reaver. Nice solution even if i say so myself.


Alas i just couldn't finish of anything. Should have tried aimed shots. Especially with warlord vs very damaged head warlord with sunfuryand 6 s4 ordance shots.

Only casualties were mv reaver(darn knights) and my knights. 21-0

Edit: knight group front of warlord and another reaver behind buildieg on left flanking my warlord

More fallout wasteland warfare, co op scenario this time with survivors and super mutants Vs brotherhood of steel and survivors AI. Unfortunately a deathclaw arrived turn 4 and ruined our day

Jamie Shred wrote:
More fallout wasteland warfare, co op scenario this time with survivors and super mutants Vs brotherhood of steel and survivors AI. Unfortunately a deathclaw arrived turn 4 and ruined our day

How are you liking FWW? is the terrain need more than others?

A game of retro Horus Heresy Kill Team, mashing together rules from the WH40k 4th Edition book and HH Book Six. Remember brute squads?

30k megabattle. 19 players came(I think. Didn't make headcount. 20 was supposed, 1 told previous night couldn't come) each with 2.5k. Though first there was tank battle(megabattle was tallarn themed) so 700 pts tank forces in special scenario with special turn order system and random events. My vindicator laser destroyers binked glaive a bit but were taken out by random event of fire raptor gun runs and vanquishers(in retrospect shooting at those would have been better...Would even have taken one out) and sicaran was taken out later as well. 2 tables we lost 0-1 on objectives but other table traitors won 2-0. Yey.

Then main deal. But even here things were bit unusual as there were 2 sideboards for special missions. I got paired with word bearers and had to bring 1000 pts each vs 2000 pts space wolves. We realized mission was going to be pretty darn hard and would be super costly. As survivors would get to join main battle we opted to abandon comm station and kill as much and as vital as possible while keeping casualties light. Alas I failed on that part. Deep strikes sucked so both my regular termi squad and justacaerin went off and I failed 5 2+ saves out of 10 losing 4 of my elite terminators...Holy. 1 dead, 1 wounded would have been average result(and wounds heal for main battle). Lost also 2 jetbikes and 1 regular terminator. We did blow up rhino, 2 some ad mech robots and special weapons from veteran squad(go jetbikes!).

We joined then main battle conveniently on traitor 2nd movement phase so I brought in lone justacaerin(failed to even hit medusa with combi melta and was surrounded by 5 imperial fist terminators and like 6 ogryns...Funny situation), regular tartaros termies with chaplain that took care of some ad mech power fist fielding jump packers before succumbing to T7 ad mech beasties(lightning claws wounding on 6's even with rerolls suck). Also squad of lascannons and autocannons(autocannons and tartaros because I had forgotten to take my knight so had to come up with 440 pts of replacement), 20 tacticals with apotecharion and praetorian of paragon blade nastyness, 10 veterans in rhino and contemptator dreadnought. Veterans drove around firing suspensor missiles or combi plasma(taking some ad mech weirdoes) before rhino was taken out and then this HUGE ad mech robot with 5" marine killing plate hitting dead on. My dreadnought had less of a good time due to bad difficult terrain rolls.

My main accomplishment was on right though where thousand sons needed to take building so I basically helped clear it from some wolves, raven guard jump pack chaplain and then rushed out to tag dreadnought(Think it was iron hand one) and heavy weapon squad of raven guard. Goal was just to keep the dreadnoughtt off the building so killing was less of a priority and with just melta bomb and power fist of sergeant from me(also some melta bombs from iron warrior tac squad and 2 iron warrior terminators) but the sergeant got effective and took it out. So well in fact that the thing blew in face hitting like 30 traitor marines but thanks to poor wound rolling only handful died. Among them the sergeant who caused the explosion...

With this traitors secured 4-2 win. Our of left was collapsed. Those ad mech robots and like dozen dark angel jetbikes were too nasty for our forces there. On right it seems shadowsword was blowing up stuff a lot but guess we did better there than I thought.

 thekingofkings wrote:

Jamie Shred wrote:
More fallout wasteland warfare, co op scenario this time with survivors and super mutants Vs brotherhood of steel and survivors AI. Unfortunately a deathclaw arrived turn 4 and ruined our day

How are you liking FWW? is the terrain need more than others?

Really enjoying it so far. It's played on a 3x3 board and terrain depends on the scenario but if you have enough terrain to play 40k you should be ok.

The Cincinnati Games Workshop store kicked off its Kill Team league campaign last Sunday. Turnout was fantastic, almost too many for the store to handle. My opponent Justin, whom I hadn't met before, was a delight to play against and a perfect gentleman. I had a blast getting in my first game.



In the image above, we see students and faculty from a study group of the Collegium Scientia Mundanus (which is a COMPLETELY LEGITIMATE educational facility of Stygies VIII and IN NO WAY involved with heretical research or theft of archeotech, praise the Omnissiah) conducting routine field observations in a disused Imperial refinery. The field team are shown holding various research instruments, which they are using non-militarily and in COMPLETE COMPLIANCE with the planetary governor's policies, to survey and catalog oxidation rates on the refinery's pipes and storage tanks. To the left, we see two or more indigenous former workers peacefully demonstrating the use of what appears to be a rock drill and possibly cooking implements of some description. Contemporaneous explosions reported in the area were probably heat lightning.

Novokh and Sautekh Dynasty Necrons awakened by the tumult and noise of warp cursed Chaos Daemon engines of the Black Legion and World Eaters, march forth to do battle.

The Chaos filth gets the first advance


aeons old engines spew forth vile smoke to cloud their advance


The Canoptek beasts advance to slay the hordes of berzerkers


Dynastic algorithms are no match for the hel wrought ferocity of these daemons


The Warlord attempts to swat down the filth


was a fun match.

Kill Team: TAU vs GSC



Tau were looking to cause mayhem and raze objectives, but the mining bois got antsy and rushed out to meet the bluies, despite being the defenders. The initial Tau response to the GSC jam was to load the non-leader aberrant with flesh wounds, then start absorbing hammers and rock claws with their soft squishy bodies. However the tables turned on the Cult quite quickly, as the Tau stopped rolling flesh wounds and just took out every griblly who dared peek out of a sewer, including the leader aberrant after a failed charge.

Late game saw the last Cultists with his trusty rock claw call it, after that flesh-wounded-to-hell aberrant was shived with a fire warrior bonding knife <3

- Salvage

L'Art de la Guerre Tournament, Tamil Indians vs. Nikephorian Byzantines



To be honest, I was a little surprised because my Indians, which ranged from about 300 BC to 1300 AD, managed to get into the post 1000 AD bracket of the tournament, so I was facing more Knights and Heavy Infantry than expected.

This game was a loss, since my opponent's cavalry allowed him to quickly redeploy and basically leave 1/3 of my army out of the fight. For a round it seemed like my attack on the right was going to work, but his Heavy Infantry managed to hold against my Medium Infantry and Elephants.

Biggest most crushing and fastest defeat ever. Knew stompa and 2 gorkanauts would lose but i hoped to at least kill something. Well recon scenanirio screwed me and opponenp had 3 dreads with 24" range, 2d3 shots hitting on 2+ with reroll for mortal wounds.

T1 both gorkanauts near dead, t2 both dead, t3 36 wounds to stompa. Killed one dread in return before dying and gave up then with 1 w left after dread blew.

Lol.

L'Art de la Guerre Tournament, Tamil Indians vs. Medieval Germans



My plan actually worked! My opponent decided to dismount his knights rather than throw them against my elephants, so I was technically "faster". I managed to get my lines up to the hill to get a height bonus in combat, and this time the combat grind worked in my favor.

tneva82 wrote:
Biggest most crushing and fastest defeat ever. Knew stompa and 2 gorkanauts would lose but i hoped to at least kill something. Well recon scenanirio screwed me and opponenp had 3 dreads with 24" range, 2d3 shots hitting on 2+ with reroll for mortal wounds.

T1 both gorkanauts near dead, t2 both dead, t3 36 wounds to stompa. Killed one dread in return before dying and gave up then with 1 w left after dread blew.

Lol.

Double Soulburner Contemptors? That's pretty tasty, though a bit bullet magnet-y.

My first 2k AoS game, my Nurgle vs. Allheard BoC. Very enjoyable match despite a poor scenario forcing us into pretty much a straight up kill point fight. Opponent played too timidly and fed me his army piecemeal, so I ended up not losing a single unit while wiping about a third of his army by round 4 when time was called. He managed to summon a free Chimera, I didn't even have to bother and ended up sitting on 29 summon points in the end.

Some more Titanicus, the game flows very well. My legio Favilla crushed the opposition both times, though this might partially stem from my opponent playing for the first time and me being a long time BFG-player. Very similar experiences.

Anyhow, fine scraps they were! The first game saw my midfield brawler titan fall down into the acid lake while my knights took his warlords by surprise and tore their legs off while he couldn't shrug them off. In the second game they got vaporized by overkill Volcano Cannons as the first thing. Funny that

Must build a lot more terrain soon, it's critical (and nice to blow up...)

Deep within an unnamed hive on a backwater Imperial world, a xenos menace has been brewing. The only forces within range to respond are a small band of Grey Knights, returning to Titan after crushing a demonic cult.

Out in the wasteland despicable mutants have been developing a virus bomb to cripple Imperial Rule and finally turn this planet over to the Hive Mind.

Descending to the wastelands outside the hive, 17 heroes of the Imperium to face a horde of monsters.


This was effectively a test game for the Vigilus Weekender, my entire collection comes to 996 points. We played relic (technically not going to come up but neither of us had brought GH 2017), and it was one cracking game of 40k, definitely the best game of 8th I've played. In total I had 17 models, he had 60 inc chimera. I deployed a Nemisis Doomglaive Dreadnought, 4 Paladins and 5 Interceptors. he deployed 30 neophytes, a Magus, a chimera full of half mutants (they had some nasty power drills). He went first and rushed up the chimera to the relic and advanced the neophytes to grab the relic. I rushed up my units to blow up the chimera and kill a fair few of the guys inside. Second turn 27 genestealers appear with a primus who gave them plus one to hit and they charged in. The interceptors fell instantly, the dread lasted till my turn 3 and gave a fairly good account of itself and three of the paladins went down. It was looking like the game was over already on turn two. I responded by deep striking voldus, a generic GM with psilencer and my strike squad. Using gate I pulled out the last paladin on two wounds and left the dread in, then charged in with the GM and paladin, and killed most of the remaining genestealers by start of turn 4 whilst voldus chased the neophytes back to his deployment. The strike squad went down to the drill guys.

By the end of turn 3 all I had was voldus, the GM and one paladin. He still had 4 genestealers, 3 drill guys with a third carrying an icon, 20 or so neophytes and the Magus. with two turns to go it was looking bleak, the neophytes were running like all hell was chasing them and it was going to be a struggle to pin them down before the game ended on turn 5. The other guy said we were at the action movie stage, can our three heroes fight through the horde of extras to save the city? The stakes were high and the odds daunting, but there was hope. Voldus and the GM had gate, so one guy could jump around a turn. So off the paladin pops to his deployment zone to herd the neophytes to the right corner and cut off the left. The genestealers were dispatched with psilencer fire and gakky smite, and a few neophytes fell to storm bolter fire. The chase was on.

The GM dispatched the drill guys and Voldus charged in to the sacrificial neophytes sent to delay me. He smashed a few heads and on turn 4 the neophytes fell back towards their brethren. With laz fire Voldus was knocked down to one wound left having taken damage from rending claws earlier. The Paladin moved close to get gated again to the far right corner to create a pincer. The neophytes had nowhere to run, in front lay voldus and a GM, behind them stood the last paladin. Voldus charged in again, but took a grenade (or lazbolt) to the face and went down. This is the emotional climax of the action film, where the commander falls, the situation looks truly lost, but our heroes dig deep for one last surge of strength.

As time starts running out, with one squad of 9 neophytes in the centre of his deployment zone (the squad voldus charged) and the squad with the relic and the Magus further back towards the right, the paladin 9” away in the back right corner, the dice would really have to fall well for the Emperor’s most dedicated servants to stop the virus bombing. The GM charges in after voldus and cuts down another 3 neophytes, but the paladin fails to charge. The neophytes fall back from the GM into a ruin, and the other neophytes (still with nine men) pass the bomb to the magus and line up in between him and the paladin.

Here we are at the beginning of my turn five, the last chance for our two heroes to save the day and avenge their fallen brothers:


The biggest problem is the spread of neophytes stopping a charge to the magus, but if there’s anything the Grey Knights do well, it’s shooting infantry. Between gakky smite and the psilencer and storm bolter, both squads are halved, a gap opened up on both sides, but there are still neophytes, it’s going to be a long charge to walk around them. The Paladin declares a multi-charge. It’s 4” to the neophytes, but 7” to walk around to the Magus. The dice roll, an 8! He gets inbetween them. Then comes the GM, for him it’s a 10” charge to get around the neophytes in the ruins, but he does have First to the Fray, giving him a charge reroll. He makes it in, there’s still a chance in the very last phase to save the Emperor’s flock! The GM splits three attacks into the neophytes and two into the magus. He smashed down the Magus, but only one neophyte. They have objective secured, if they aren’t eradicated they will hold the relic and all will be lost. Now it comes to the Paladin. With his three brothers being cut down before they could do anything, he has put in a real shift since, and it all rests on him. Three attacks to try and force a moral check. Two neophytes go down, leaving two left. Despite the huge odds against the Grey Knights after letting myself be ambushed, I had managed to get to a situation where the game hinged on a single dice roll in my favour. Having lost 7 neophytes this turn, a roll of one on the moral test was the only thing that could save the GSC. We removed the second neophyte as he had to run, then came the roll. No CP left on either side.

A six! The last neophyte scrambles away from these silver gods who had slaughtered his mutant brethren.


The day is saved, our heroes pull through in classic action movie style, leaving the board looking like this at the end, with only two neophytes left the threat had been neutralised and the virus bomb secured!


Maybe not the best practice for a tournament, but a huge amount of fun and a great turn-around, back-from-the-brink story.

 Sherrypie wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Biggest most crushing and fastest defeat ever. Knew stompa and 2 gorkanauts would lose but i hoped to at least kill something. Well recon scenanirio screwed me and opponenp had 3 dreads with 24" range, 2d3 shots hitting on 2+ with reroll for mortal wounds.

T1 both gorkanauts near dead, t2 both dead, t3 36 wounds to stompa. Killed one dread in return before dying and gave up then with 1 w left after dread blew.

Lol.

Double Soulburner Contemptors? That's pretty tasty, though a bit bullet magnet-y.

Yeah those I think. Bullet magnety didn't really matter when you have ork shooting to face By accident he had pretty much perfect tool against my army. As it is if he had wanted to be really evil he could have simply skited ~24" away from my army and shoot my army to death but he was worried maelstrom cards would be bad and grots would end up winning. Though he was already ahead by points there so not really even that fear. From ~24" no way I COULD do anything(shooting sucks, can't reach him in h2h except rolling double 6 for charge roll with stompa assuming he didn't degrade it first go) and when he's doing ~20 mortals in average per turn(plus rest of the army) I would last in average 4 turns with my walkers even if rest of shooting goes elsewhere...


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 Sherrypie wrote:
Some more Titanicus, the game flows very well. My legio Favilla crushed the opposition both times, though this might partially stem from my opponent playing for the first time and me being a long time BFG-player. Very similar experiences.

Anyhow, fine scraps they were! The first game saw my midfield brawler titan fall down into the acid lake while my knights took his warlords by surprise and tore their legs off while he couldn't shrug them off. In the second game they got vaporized by overkill Volcano Cannons as the first thing. Funny that

Must build a lot more terrain soon, it's critical (and nice to blow up...)

Yeah terrain looks bit sparse compared for example to our last game where there were several buildings that could even block LOS to warlord titan.

Albeit too much is not good either. Too much and warlords go for junk and knights get major boost

tneva82 wrote:

 Sherrypie wrote:
Some more Titanicus, the game flows very well. My legio Favilla crushed the opposition both times, though this might partially stem from my opponent playing for the first time and me being a long time BFG-player. Very similar experiences.

Anyhow, fine scraps they were! The first game saw my midfield brawler titan fall down into the acid lake while my knights took his warlords by surprise and tore their legs off while he couldn't shrug them off. In the second game they got vaporized by overkill Volcano Cannons as the first thing. Funny that

Must build a lot more terrain soon, it's critical (and nice to blow up...)

Yeah terrain looks bit sparse compared for example to our last game where there were several buildings that could even block LOS to warlord titan.

Albeit too much is not good either. Too much and warlords go for junk and knights get major boost

There is never too much, as you can blow it up when it starts to annoy you

In this case there wasn't too much in there because everything is still under construction, game being new and stuff. I'd probably use at least thrice as much to feel good about it, when the collection accumulates.

I played Men of Bronze



Macedonians vs. Spartans as the Macedonians attempt to Desecrate the Sacred site of Apollo.

You can read all about it here: http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/10/men-of-bronze-battle-report-desecrate.html

Kill Team: CSM vs Death Watch vs Orks



First KT three-way, was more fun than expected. As the monkey in the middle, as well as being hyper-aggressive, DW came under immediate and continuous fire, but astounding armor saves saw 3 of the 5 vets survive and the frag cannon hold the central objective to victory. My Beseeched sniper heavy bolter *cough* autocannon *cough* poured four rounds of three wounds into that frag cannon, however the dude saved all 12 of them, thanks to judicious rerolling on the few that made it through. Irritating stuff but well played, power armor.

Meanwhile the Orks formed a dakka bunker and were content to toss rokkits at DW and grots at objectives, while the Chaos boys got their wires crossed and sat on two 1 VP objectives all game instead of pressing for the Ork's lightly-guarded 2 VP one. Doh.

In related news, CSM continue to feel really weak, while at the same time feeling like they have so much potential. 12 points for BS3, T4, Sv3 and transhuman seems legit ... until it hits the table and doesn't accomplish very much

- Salvage

Orks vs dark angels. Not optimized orks(I had warbikes) vs not optimized dark angel gunline. Went 2nd which pretty much killed any chance so was blown to bits but at least 85 stormboyz were fast enough that combined with him sacrificing rhino to get objective and moving tac squad and bikes too far I got into some h2h to roll some dice and not just take casualties. 10-7 for DA. We ran out of time at turn 4.

Ran into annoying issue. 60 of the stormboyz are boyz+3rd party jump packs. Those jump packs are BIG. Especially the ones with fumes coming out. Result: Don't fit to my movement trays...oops. Need new movement trays for these I think. Too bad no time to get for mega battle.

Got a pair of Kill team games in. First fought some Drukhari wyches and had my armor saves acheive near fluff-level of immunity.



Then faced a Death Guard kill team in which his poxwalkers managed to make their injury rolls but none of his marines. That was weird. One of my priamris took not one but two supercharged plasma blasts to the face.

Game of at. Was doing okay dealing with his knights and reaver for loss of reaver on left. Then reaver on right had reactor melt down boom and marlord on left had his near max shields vanish due to reactor issues. Pair of volcano cannons hit taking near death and missiles finished . We didn't bother with vp count as it was clear victory for him. We both had same kill stuff mission and i had warlord and warhound left vs warlord, reaver and 2 warhounds.

edit: Funny note. Last game all 6 turns I had initiave(albeit first turn I was likely to get it rolling d10 vs d6). This game in 5 turn game I won 4 roll offs(d10 vs d10). The one time he won I used my once per game veteran princep personal trait to steal it back! I actually felt bit sorry for him doing that He constantly kept referring the roll off as formality and "for show" since I'll be having it anyway. Sure looked when even rolling 4(on d10) I managed to win it...Generally I just rolled 8's and 10's though.

Albeit it's not all good to have it. It's good in combat FOR SURE but in movement you often might want to move 2nd rather than 1st so it's not that big deal as it might sound(that personal trait is neat though as you can do it on start of any phase so if I want to move 2nd I can let him move and then steal it on shooting phase)

It was a while ago, but I think it's the last game I played:



The purple and turkoiz are (a painted part of) my army.

Old School Chaos All-Stars vs. new Dwarf Giants in Blood Bowl....



At the blog for details....https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/10/blood-bowl-princess-owayanna-tournament.html

Played a 2,000 point game of 3rd Ed. 40K on Saturday, the 20th. It was Eldar vs. Crimson Fists. We forgot the terrain, but luckily the chow hall was left open so we had materials with which to improvise...

Ultramarines vs Tyranids, 700 points, Only War:

Some more Blood Bowl.....



The unpainted team that does best in the ongoing tournament gets painted first!

Read all about it: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/10/blood-bowl-princess-owayanna-tournament_25.html

Legio Victorum vs Legio Mortis with serious knights support.

Knights were all rage tearing down 2 reavers and warhound but losing 9 of them in the process(after losing 6 to shooting). Titans exploding in your face or falling over you is serious occupational hazard! One of my warlord ended up in hairy situation with power fist armed reaver in his face and tearing both of warlords arm guns off...Emergency repairs and normal repairs managed to fix both though and before fist got chance to attack the warlord fired at the reaver point blank despite being hit himself if weapons don't miss! Which they didn't. Took out reaver but caused serious damage to warlord and reaver collapsing on warlords arms caused even more damage. Despite shields being nearly full strenght my warlord was nearly dead...

Elsewhere his warlord had retreated after being nearly crippled by initial salvo so my second warlord was chasing him. Pretty weird my slowest titan ended up in his deployment zone preventing him from scoring his objective. At the end our warlords were trading fire point blank with full repairs. Game ended at turn 5. Wonder if one side would have taken out other...If Mortis warlord would die it would have been massive win. As it is Mortis won and would have won more convincingly if warlord died. But I think it wouldn't die. He could always remove void shield safety valves at times giving him 2+ save(albeit one 1 and shields go out for good).

Bloody good game. 5 games of AT, all have been tight(and this with 365 pts point difference!) and loser has been due to making more mistakes.

More fallout wasteland warfare. Solo scenario against 2 settlers and a deathclaw. Took out the deathclaw in round 4 of 5 to win the game.

I got a couple games of Empire of the Dead in this past weekend with my old gaming group.

We were playtesting a new gang for a friend's annual holiday game, so it was his other homebrewed faction, the Circus, against Santa Claus and his Workshop.

Been a while since I posted in here.

First game of our Shoot N' Skedaddle campaign.


Second game of our SnS campaign...the violent end in a train station.


A game of 40K:


Another larger game of 40K:


And another large game of 40K:

Played a 2k game last Saturday, Marines vs Marines.

My list:

Lias Issodon
Librarian
Lieutenant

10x Reivers

10x Tactical Marines
10x Tactical Marines
10x Intercessors

10x Hellblasters
5x HB Devs
5x ML Devs
Leviathan Dreadnought


His list:

Primaris Captain
Primaris Lieutenant
Primaris Librarian

Primaris Apothecary
Primaris Ancient
Redemptor Dreadnought

5x Intercessors
5x Intercessors
5x Intercessors
5x Intercessors

3x Aggressors
4x Inceptors

5x Hellblasters
5x Hellblasters
5x Hellblasters

Repressor


Initially I wasn't that hopeful going against that many Primaris units, I've always been an advocate of mixed Marines rather than pure-Primaris.

I managed to get first turn, and immediatly the body count went up. Leviathan killed the Redemptor first turn, Hellblasters killed his Hellblasters, who then shot back with the Ancient's ability and killed my Hellblasters. Repressor failed to do anything to the Leviathan, and promptly died next turn, with it's final wound taken by Lias' monstrous Boltgun. Reivers held up the Aggressors enough while his Inceptors wiped out the ML Devs, before they too were cut down by the Leviathan.

Alltogether it was a very exciting game, but I think it was entirely determined by whoever got first turn. The picture shows the progress, I think it was taken around Turn 2. Anything not on the board is a casualty.

Walking Dead- All Out War



You can red my brief thoughts and review here: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-walking-dead-all-out-war-solo.html

First of all: Sweet Zombie Jesus people need to learn to resize their pics in this thread. It's completely un-viewable on my tablet, so I have to use my dinosaur of a PC, and even then some of the pics here are showing up as two whole screens wide!

Second: last game played was a Death race scenario of Gaslands against my dad (who I am teaching, as living next door to my parents will be even better if I can get my father to be a regular gaming partner). Excuse the horrible resolution from my crappy stock tablet camera.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
First of all: Sweet Zombie Jesus people need to learn to resize their pics in this thread. It's completely un-viewable on my tablet, so I have to use my dinosaur of a PC, and even then some of the pics here are showing up as two whole screens wide!

Or use the site's attachment feature which makes it more reasonable sized for viewing and clicking gets you full picture.

 Valkyrie wrote:

Cool lookin' terrain. Got any more pics of the gold Sector Mechanicus stuff?

Game of adeptus titanicus. Yes all enemy titans are facing one warlord about to make charge with power claw too bad it was blind barraged :/ suicide run but reaver on left was carrying vital cargo that needed taking off edge. Alas reaver ignoring his reaver kinda tipped which of my titans carried cargo so after warlord charged warlord backed and turned 90 degree cripling reavers legs and his reaver finished. Warlord didn't even get one last glorious charge as second reaver and warhounds immobilized it.

At rules are great. Extreme skew lists punish you

Last week I threwdown some Bighammer with one of my Kill Team lads, after neither of us had played 40k for a year or so:



1500 points Daemons of Tzeentch vs Biel-Tan Eldar. First time I've used Codex: Daemons - I played a bunch with my DOT in the first few months of 8E using the index - and I'm pretty sure I forgot any of the stuff they added, including the weird combat locus thing. Anyway, we played the simplest maelstrom mission (3 cards a turn), which neither of us had done before and I think both enjoyed quite a bit, as random as that draw can be. Unfortunately it took so long to get started that we only got through 2 turns and sort of vowed to go back to KT for a while

Still cool to get the gribblies out and be reminded I've still got basing and even some painting to go.

AT train has no brakes.

Steel groaned and buildings bowed as legios Favilla and (wip) Astorum clashed over the chem plant's acidic swathes. I got Retrieval, made a bit more awkward by the crew in question chillin' about in the middle of the acid zone (all green parts of the field were Dangerous and we houseruled that also knights can get damaged by it, even if they don't lose movement), he got basic Engage & Destroy. My knights tore through his on right flank and my long range Warlord threw deadly support fire from there over to the midfield, where two brawling Warlords bullied everything smaller they could get in their sights. The Warhounds were my only hope for the actual retrieval, but that dwindled soon as their shields faltered under a hailstorm of bullets and artillery (from both sides, good job in the back boys ) and Echo Dolorum crashed down in flames. The other Warhound, Edax Rerum, managed to get very close to the objective and survive until it had literally EVERY system out of structure points and with three criticals before it blew up too. At this point I had to go for a tabling and had the game ended sooner, I'd have lost on kill points, but as the dice decreed, in the beginning of the sixth turn my buddy conceded with nothing but a battered Warlord left facing almost everything I had.

Hilarity ensued on turn two, as his double fist Reaver got murdered by combined fire, toppled backwards on his Warlord and smashed his Body from full to zero structure points

4-way free-for-all Warhammer Underworlds with the original SCE warband, Goblins, Arcanites and my Nighthaunts representing all 4 Grand Alliances.

The Tzeentch player deployed too far back and turtled too much to score anything, SCE tried to flank me but charged too much and always ran out of models before they ran out of actions, while I just pounded on the poor goblins with impunity and won with 11 glory, with goblins at 6, SCE at 5 and Arcanites at 1.

Finally got another game of Kill Team in. Had to dig through the bottom of the FLGS's terrain box after forgetting my own at home. The result bit me in the butt as we ended up with a mexican standoff. There is roughly a dozen scions in that hut and the reviers can't charge in to get the powerfist wielding leader. The only hope was to circle around the hut to bracket the doorway but the game ended before that could happen. At least it wasn't a loss, but it wasn't a victory either.

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Last week I threwdown some Bighammer with one of my Kill Team lads, after neither of us had played 40k for a year or so:

Spoiler:

I like the old chaos marine in the very front of the picture.

 Albino Squirrel wrote:
I like the old chaos marine in the very front of the picture.

Thanks! There are a good number of 1988 Chaos Renegades scattered throughout the army, with even more waiting for whatever purpose they end up in. Really love those minis, was a pleasure to have an excuse to track them down and slap some blue paint on them. (I'd post better shots of them but I don't think I have any that aren't battle shots!)

Personal grudge match vs dark eldars. Index if there's couple spots at least 1.5" high virtually unbeatable for orks barring maelstrom luck. This time was blowing vehicles to pieces helped by ridiculous luck as he could not kill mek guns at all

6th Ed. WFB game from this weekend.

Orks vs daemons. Bloodletters came and killed. Lootas killed stuff

Street Masters board game.



This was the game ending turn. The Ryu styled guy in the Dragonball gi was the last hero on the board, the other having succumbed to damage from drive bys and getting ganged up on by the goons (who get a bonus for ganging up on already engaged fighters). The boss on the left was whooping some serious butt and the bendy pole guy kept poking him for damage. After the hero had activated, trying to wrest the objective from the baddies, the remaining minions closed in and finished the deed.

BOO urns.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:

Cool lookin' terrain. Got any more pics of the gold Sector Mechanicus stuff?

Here you go, sorry it took a while.

My family Blood Bowl tourney continues....



You can read all about the match here: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/11/blood-bowl-princess-owayanna-tournament.html

Yeah I resize all the photos I post here. Just take 'em into MS Paint and change their size to 45%. Then re-save. Makes everything easier.

 Valkyrie wrote:
Here you go, sorry it took a while.

Thank you!

Actually quite impressed how they work with the AoS tiles.

More Blood Bowl....



https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/11/blood-bowl-princess-owayanna-tournament_22.html

 Easy E wrote:
More Blood Bowl....



https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/11/blood-bowl-princess-owayanna-tournament_22.html

That's cool that your family plays. Really awesome game and cool pictures.


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Today we played another chapter of the Perilous Island campaign from Pulp Alley. We've sci-fyed the setting but otherwise, the rules and everything else are just the same.

Here's a photo of our game:

Finally got my First Game of The OTher Side in. Rant he Lord of Steel and his ultra-shanky spear against by the traitor-engineer Kaylessa and the King's Empire. Almost killed the King's hand only to have the Lord of Steel swarmed by New Wales Boarders



Also took a pic of the two-commander game next to us:

 ChargerIIC wrote:
Finally got my First Game of The OTher Side in.[/img]

Nice! Eventually I'll machine through my Gibbers and try to rustle up my own first game ...

I played Castles in the Sky



The Ottoman League vs. the Balkan League during the Balkan Uprisings. This was the second Battle of Salonica in the war ravaged region.

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/12/battle-report-castles-in-sky-balkan.html

It's not the last game I played, but since it was finally posted on my blog, I took part in a recreation of the "Battle" of Fort Necessity at Fall In! 2018, using Muskets & Tomahawks.







While the British and Americans were able to give a decent fight, the sheer weight of numbers of the French, Canadian and Indian attackers meant the battle ended with the fort's defenses overrun, and Lt. Col. Washington captured.

Game of 6th Ed. WFB played on the 25th of November. Fun had by all

Played another game of The Other Side. Made a lot of mistakes but still whittled down his forces before the Lord Of Steel was left on his own

1700ish points of Engage and Destroy, my legio Favilla crushed the opposing blasphemers.

Full Venator maniple w. a doublefist Reaver and few knights vs. two Warlords, two Hounds and both Questoris and Cerastus banners.

I got to choose the deployment and went with close quarters, trying to get quickly into melee and Inferno range.

First turn all his knights evaporated, either dissolving into the acid pools trying to rush my engines (houserule: knights ignore movement penalties, not the damage from Dangerous Terrain) or by walking into a double-Inferno Cannon shaped trap. Meanwhile my fisty Reaver gets uppity and the machine spirit fires the Warp Missile in response to being shot, stubbing a Warlord's toe. My leader Reaver engages his Warhounds at range, aided by my knights and kick some flamers offline.

Second turn my fisty Reaver makes scary noises and draws about all fire to itself, getting nearly crippled and burning in the process, but buys time for my Hounds to dance towards the flank of the enemy firebase. The front Warlord starts to lose shields.

Third turn the flaming Ruina Superborum jumps over a building and jumps down on a Warhound, piledriving it in half. This results in a plasma explosion that sends the Reaver flying backwards, falling to its doom in the acid pits. The Warlord nearby loses the rest of its shields and eats a hefty serving of lasers immediately afterwards, getting very close to critical. As his forces dwindle and my Hounds draw closer to uncounterable harrying positions, my opponent graciously forfeits the battle.

Hounds, man. Hounds are the best.

Non targetable reapers vaporised all i had.

Bitter fighting between Favilla and Astorum, the Warp Runners getting a very "saved by the bell" victory as the game ended after four turns and I was in the perfect position to claim victory by burning his Warlord's final hit off but alas, the dice denied my Hounds the time to get the kill.

Enjoyable to see a Warlord with a fist duking it out with a red-hot burning fisty Reaver, as well as learning to utilize melta Reavers better with Venator's bonus shots.

Not a lot toy rhinos can do against butcher cannons and Skullreaver.

Squiggoths!


I played Heirs to Empire with a "What If" scenario called Perdiccas at the Nile.....



Read all about the history and the results here: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/12/heirs-to-empire-battle-report-perdiccas.html

Tryin out blackstone fortress.



Fighting against robot enemies and the constant vague feeling that I'm reading the rules wrong.

Traitorous scum retrieved their objective and ran like cowards they are(okay they won with that)

Lancer knights showed their power taking down warlord. Did result all lancers, one(only) loyal lancer and 2/3 traitor questor knights dying as well though when warlord collapsed over them

The Great Samnite War featuring my paper template armies for the period.....



You can read the details here: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/12/conquest-rome-in-italy-battle-report.html

Army of the dead vs dwarves. Initially even. Def8 and him having banner and higher fight kept casualties low for both. Then 2 turns i rolled lots of 6's for fight which turned the tide

Resident evil board game scenario 3A. I made it to the end and saved Marvin but Claire completely ran out of ammo towards the end and spent a couple of turns just waiting for Leon.

3 customers having a massive game of 40k on my 12x6 table.

That is an impressive amount of red!

It was a championship Blood Bowl match for our family tournament.....



Skaven vs. Chaos Chosen. You will have to read the details to see who won!

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/12/blood-bowl-princess-owayanna-tournament.html

Army of the dead against moria goblins. Gobbo courage vs all terror army. Add to that d7/8 and it was rough going to gobbos. Scenario that discouraged bunching up and eased getting stuff out of fury range didn't help and as king got line into shaman and trap and things went downhill fast. Too fast as game ended turn too fast for me to consolidiate objectives. Was killing them too fast and also was too eager to go to combat. Should have just swarmed objectives and let breaktests finish him

More resident evil 2 board game, had to goes at the gator scenario. First failed really early and the second I almost made it but was unlucky with item placement and the Gators behaviour cards.

The Gingerbread Cup was fought between the never-do-wells of Reikland Recruits (ex-criminals all), engineering students of Karaz Azak (sponsored by Ponsse forestry) and the lightning-fast lizards of Quetzla Thunderbolts, proper league superstars on holiday. My lizards gave the newcomers some good bashin' but damn if I just couldn't roll any rerollable dodges all day. Nice to coach new players in, though.

That price though, uff. Our guts will scream mercy for days

Marines started. Casualties t1. 70 grots, 15 lootas, 21 ork boyz...

What's better, Mad Science or Religious Zealots, only one way to find out...

Pulp Alley.

Bladey Lady faces off versus an armed-adillo and a R2-Pew-Pew.

Finally managed to get a game in again. My newly painted Orks fielded a 1170pt game versus my opponent's Thousand Sons Rubic marines and Terminators. After quickly realizing that most of my army couldn't hurt Terminators with All is Dust, I mounted a massive charge at the center and overran the rubic marines and arihman in the center. I didn't have much infantry (still painting ork boyz), but those that were there gave their lives magnificently for the Waaagghh.

Ultramarines vs Orks, 800 points, Open War:

The Intro game for Blucher- Along the Danube:



The French face off against the Austrians using the materials supplied by the Sam Mustafa on his website. See the result and a review of the Blucher rules here:

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/01/battle-report-blucher-along-danube.html

Good job with the print out. I have the rules and the British, Spanish and Early/Late War French cards that came in the Peninsular war box. I'd like to pick up the rest of the faction cards at some point, since they make playing the game super simple and much cheaper than painting miniatures.

Get off my laaaand, Farmers vs Smiths

Riders of rohan went for first outing. Went to combat too fast(i have bows, he doesn't. Thin them a bit...) and initial charge was utter failure. Wasn't helped by terrain causing slight bottleneck along with troll.

Things went to south when with me's went to him and in one turn he killed 6 vs my 0.

When troll killed banner and i was outnumbered things looked bleak with force broken. However troll lost 2 combat rounds and game continued long and suddenly my charges started to work swinging wounds to me. Last turn it was captain vs 3, reqular rider vs 3 and theoden vs 5 plus troll with my charge. Won all killing 6 orcs...

Caused 20 wounds, he spent fate and i killed his big boss. He killed 12 and caused faith spent. Both broken. Win for rohan! Costly one though...

Waiting for my opponent to complete his 1st turn before moving the Repulsor out with it's contigent of Aggressor Marine's On-board

tneva82 wrote:

Spoiler:

Riders of rohan went for first outing. Went to combat too fast(i have bows, he doesn't. Thin them a bit...) and initial charge was utter failure. Wasn't helped by terrain causing slight bottleneck along with troll.

Things went to south when with me's went to him and in one turn he killed 6 vs my 0.

When troll killed banner and i was outnumbered things looked bleak with force broken. However troll lost 2 combat rounds and game continued long and suddenly my charges started to work swinging wounds to me. Last turn it was captain vs 3, reqular rider vs 3 and theoden vs 5 plus troll with my charge. Won all killing 6 orcs...

Caused 20 wounds, he spent fate and i killed his big boss. He killed 12 and caused faith spent. Both broken. Win for rohan! Costly one though...

That troll sure is scary! 3 attacks, auto win if he rolls 6 and splats my poor riders like nothing. And unlike when I played with army of the dead troll can charge at will! I got really saved when twice in a row he rolled 2 as highest allowing me to win. Even caused wound but more than that simply keeping my troops alive!

I think big mistake was T2 all out charge. I quickly realized I should wait until he gets initiave. If he moves out of range fine. I had bows, he didn't. He's not going to do because if he doesn't push in for combat I win by default as I can just pepper him with arrows until game ends! If he stays in my charge range charge. If I win priority move to at least 13" away from him so he can't move twice in row to reach.

Then when he has initiave and allows me to charge(sooner or later he has to do that...)...Well this far I did. But rather than do all out charge I should split my army. About half, maybe bit more charge initial line. Rest stays back. Why? Next round if I lose priority or with me roll off what happened now doesn't happen and I get swamped without charge bonuses...With 2nd wave I can charge the charging infantry reducing outnumbered fights and giving me extra attacks.

Would have lost this game big time if game hadn't continued so much and in the end suddenly started killing orcs left and right. Particularly my 2 heroes suddenly started rampaging. Theoden killing 3 orcs in one turn, Captain another 2...

Final combat with 5+troll vs Theoden was just insult to injury. I would have won game even had I lost and Theoden died(very likely event).

New regalia maniple went against 2 venator. This was deliberate match up as we figure regalia might be particularly tough matchup vs venator(2 here) as venator depends on knocking shields and regalia makes that tough. As demonstrated by needing 5 warhounds with 5 vulcans among them to knock them out!

Game was won by mortis with victorum being too cautious. They neves made dash at retrieving objective and then just had no time. Oops.

DG versus Custodes on a Deathworld

Why is there no terrain on that table?

Irradiated rains of Ager Formosus never cease. The Raptor Scout kill team approached the ruined sector of the old colony mentioned by their in situ contact in the more modern mining colony. Syras Klayde, the scout team communication specialist gestured to the points where his auspex revealed the location of the missing Raven Guard Termninators to the kill team leader, Aevar Moradus. The comm spec frowned as he did this and Aevar knew exactly why. The entire Raptor scout squad did. Those terminator suits were dead center in a kill box with limited escape routes. A perfect place to setup an ambush to the unwary or rash.

The Raptor scouts' mission was to locate, investigate and, if possible, recover the armor and gene seed of the terminators who failed to return several hours ago and assumed dead. The Raptor kill team fortified their resolve and spaced themselves out in fire teams as they prowled into the kill box. Each member hoping that both time and hostile weather forced any would be assassins from this trap. Vykus Vaanes, the heavy bolter operator, even thought to himself, 'Short of terminator armor or possibly Skitarii, none could withstand the constant radiation from the storm to still be watching the sector.' He was only half correct...

There was but a soft, low buzz and crackle of quickly evaporating rain as the necrons of the Nihilakh Dynasty phased back into real space. The Deathmarks' of the small team sensing the immanent detection of their presence by the space marine scouts. Aevar Moradus accessed the situation and determined that scout squad should at least make a single attempt to recover the terminator armor before falling back. It would be several days before the scouts could cleanse there bodies of the radiation they absorbed and the Necron presence was not nearly large enough extinguish any hope of mission success. However, the Raptors had to ensure the Necrons could not cut off their limited escape routes. To do otherwise would mean death. The Raptor scout kill team also had to work quickly as they are already beginning to feel the early signs of acute radiation poisoning. Success or failure, they still had to hump it all the way back to the protective domes of the mining colony.



This was the early part of a Kill Team game featuring Raptor Chapter Space Marines vs. Nihilakh Dynasty Necrons. It ended in a tie as neither side to secure one of the objective markers. The Necrons were going for the scarabs and the Space Marines going for the terminators. Neither side could have an enemy model nearby to capture it and the game was 6 rounds long. Both kill teams had units near objectives, they just couldn't shift the enemy off them to claim them before the end of round 6.

Not quite my most recent game, but a fun 500pt game of Grey Knights vs. Harlequins as part of an escalation campaign.



My Grand Master and a squad of Interceptors showing a Troupe Master what's what.

It was a bloody and brutal affair. Despite their supreme weakness this edition, I've been thoroughly enjoying playing them!

Got a game of Carnevale in last night. Rashaar won with 4 VPs Vs 2 for the Guild.

Favilla vs. Mortis, warhounds for days. This one Mortis cur sure seemed like it was blessed by Nurgle or something, as it alone weathered most of my battleline and threw like 20 2+ Void saves without burning its generators! Argh. Small solace that it eventually died next turn when I got under its shields, as even then it spited me by exploding on the graveyard of smoldering engines.

All the explosions. All of them. This desert is thoroughly glass after this battle.

Last stand.

After single-handedly besting a Carnifex in close combat the game before, my Dreadnought gets ahead of itself and goes head to head with a Necron Doomsday Ark, with disastrous consequences.

Our attempts to travel back in time to Christmas 1993 continue with Marines v Orks in the second scenario from our mini-campaign:

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/cheaphammer40k-2nd-ed-revival-project-game-2-high-ground/




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Our attempts to travel back in time to Christmas 1993 continue with Marines v Orks in the second scenario from our mini-campaign:

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/cheaphammer40k-2nd-ed-revival-project-game-2-high-ground/

Ultramarines vs Necrons, 800 points, Tactical Escalation:

Rohan vs dwarves. Could have autowin but boring way so since drove 120km for tournament let's try fight. However river screwed me a lot. Did get mounted Dain down though(with overkill thanks to tag team). Aragorn without might, fate and 1w left

Got invited over to a friends house where my deathwatch and a friend's ultramarines faced an Ork Goff force lead by Thrakka. We left stratagems out of it, but otherwise introduced them to 8th edition.



In the end, we ran out of marines who could take on Thrakka and he stood alone over a hill of corpses.

Ultramarines vs Orks, 800 points, Strategic Gamble:

Infantry heavy rohan vs moranons. Them wounding twice as often and cavalry charges not being efficient hurt. As did failure to kill either of 2 captains when i got them knocked down with theoden and captain with friends.

Watch that first step, it's a doozy.

My last game of Mordheim, part of a campaign that started this year:



Unfortunately my dice failed me and the Carnival of Chaos won over my Outlaws of Stirwood.

First 40k game in about 2 months. Poor ad mech was rolling very bad while i was rolling like god. First turn sag fired 5 s12 shots hitting 4 nuking armiger and that was just a start...

Mordheim you say! Looks awfully organized and normal for a Mordheim game...where is your mayhem and your clutter! MADNESS!

 Elbows wrote:
Mordheim you say! Looks awfully organized and normal for a Mordheim game...where is your mayhem and your clutter! MADNESS!

Well, it's a table that's spread out over a 16'x4' playing area, so some of the terrain is a little spaced out!

Like in the most recent game:



My range-focused Outlaws don't mind - more chances for critical hits with their bows and arrows!

tneva82 wrote:
First 40k game in about 2 months. Poor ad mech was rolling very bad while i was rolling like god. First turn sag fired 5 s12 shots hitting 4 nuking armiger and that was just a start...

I'm very pleased to see you playing on a table with cohesive terrain.

Grabbed some minis, and played against my sons. This was the first time my youngest played (he’s autistic). Was about 27 PL, Admech (me), vs. CSM (my eldest) vs. Orks (my youngest). We only got in two turns (ran out of time before dinner), but it took the whole afternoon and we were pretty happy with what we did.

Some 6th Edition, like God intended.

Tactical gambit in casual game vs new player. His 2nd turn card draw literally left for all effects impossible goals for rest of game . I improvised rule that he can swap one card to get new but didn't help. Even with -2vp from too many cards and lots of soft playing like 18-7. Without houserule 18-4.

Mordor vs dwarves. I had mission to kill balin, he had to break my army. Was doing okay at start though reckless use of witch king cost me will and might. When 2 dwarves failed terror test allowing king to move had chance. Balin had went vs orc with captain with bunch of dwarves protecting him from fellbeast charge. I used compel to clear a way. Withjust 2 attacks i had chance to get 8 s6 hits but he rolled 6 winning fight.
With 6-7 priority rolls failed in row and wound rolls failing utterly i was killed but broke his force as well so just 1-0 for dwarves

Played a 2k game of my Marines vs Tau. I had used my Knights against this list before and got tabled pretty quickly, so wasn't sure if the Marines could take on the job.

Turns out it was an absolute slaughter. The Leviathan Dread made short work of his Broadsides and Warlord, got very lucky and only took 3 wounds from a Quad-Fusion Coldstar, which was promptly annihilated by my Hellblasters. Lias dropped a number of characters, and my luck with the objectives resulted in me grabbing 8 points in the first turn for an overall score of 11-6.

Orks vs eldar draw. Comedy reward for 30 grots that with da jump tried 2 turns hunt swooping hawks. Did kill 2 but couldn't get into combat to prevent defend, get own secure and defend

I attended Cold Wars 2019 this past weekend and met up with a gaming buddy I hadn't seen for a while, so I got a whole bunch of games in!

Warmaster Revolution Tournament: Dogs of War vs. Tomb Kings


Warmaster Revolution Tournament: Dogs of War vs. Skaven


Warmaster Revolution Tournament: Dogs of War vs. Dark Elves


For King and Parliament


Chain of Command


Carnevale

I look forward to taking a closer look at that Dogs of War army for Warmaster! Good stuff.

I managed to play a game of Aeronautica Imperialis.....



You can read all about it here: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/03/battle-report-operation-hemlock.html

Orks vs blood angels 9-7. Relic sag took out death company dread, vindicator and predator baal. But his librarian took out on his last wound Badruk and 2 smasha guns. Lost one boyz mob by forgetting to bring out of tellyporta. Not that it mattered. Game ended due to time(rookie player so checked rules a lot). Think 5th and 6th would have helped me more as all objectives were in reach and he was spent

Joined a Path to Glory campaign. Any excuse to make more Squigs.

My last game was a 1v1v1 with my 30k Iron Warriors (using 8th ed vanilla space marine rules) vs stormtroopers and genestealer cults. I came in second for victory points but easily killed the most out of the three of us.

400 pts rohan and 400 pts dwarves vs 400 pts moria and the 3 trolls that bilbo met. No big troll was even wounded and even cave troll took doing but we slaughtered enough goblins that they broke and game ended. 4 objectives vs 1. Think for a while objectives would have been 3 or 4 to us but had game continued enough that trolls would cause f(rther holes...leftmost was about to fal'. Captaln vs big troll...we might get their base in return.

9-2 score doesn't reflect how close it was

Here's me getting wrecked last weekend playing my Ynnari/Ulthwe list against GSC for the first time. Turns out I have no idea how to screen properly which means all of my lovely reapers get eaten by Kraken genestealers. For a mere 93 points, the double flamer Wraithlord ended up doing a lot of work though...

Played a game of Urban Manhunt with Highlord Tamburlane and Barzam. We had a blast hunting crims.

Trying out the new x-wing faction;

The final climactic game from the 2nd Ed campaign book, can the Greenskins drive the Deathwatch back or will the xenos fall under the might and fury of humanity's finest?

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/cheaphammer-40k-the-2nd-ed-revival-project-battle-for-the-bridge/

I played Strange Aeons with a 40K twist.....



https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/04/battle-report-operation-hemlock-strange.html

Strange Aeons seemed like a fun fit for some Inquisitorial shenanigans. Turns out, we were right!

Pretty much my eldars first real game

Ratcatchers vs Alchemist, science carried the day 12-4

Great looking board/setup Turnip

 Stevefamine wrote:
Great looking board/setup Turnip

Cheers, keep pondering rebasing the team to match the snow but then they wont match other folks mats #firstworldnerdproblems

Had an epic fallout wasteland warfare session this weekend getting four games in. 2 wins and 2 losses against AI. Here's a few pics.

2nd linked siege breaker game in our ongoing (4 years?) campaign.

Orks vs blood angel/knight/custodian soup. Luck was totally on ork ide. T1 8 s11 shots from sag resulted in 7 hits, 15 mortals and blown knight and that was only the beginning. After his 3rd lone custodian and basic primaris marine were sole survivors

Got some AVP the hunt begins in for aliens day

Above is the end of a simple kill everything mission between the Tyranids and Grey Knights in Kill Team. The Tyranid team was mostly genestealers with some hormagaunts. The knights were what you see plus an incinerator knight. The mission was pretty against the Tyranids who also had a less than stellar team composition. They also never got initiative to work in their favor so once melee finally did happen the Grey Knights charged and picked off the bigger threats before they could counter.

Necrons pretty much wiped out krieg losing only warlord. Doomsday ark floated around vaporizing infantry left and right

Three way fallout wasteland warfare. Survivors Vs super mutants Vs brotherhood of steel. Super mutants and brotherhood BN murdered each other leaving the win for survivors.

KILL TEAM: Heretic Astartes vs Grey Knights vs Tau in Scavenge Supplies



Markers 2 + 4 turned out to be worth 2 VP and 3 was 3 VP, while 1 + 5 were junk, meaning the Tau had a hard push into power armor if they wanted to win. Spoilers: while their shield drones kept them alive, all those breacher shotties couldn't find much purchase. My demo flamer marine decisive shooting for 3 turns in a row (!!) eventually melted most of that flank before he was detonated by a railgun from across the board.

The deciding action was around Marker 3, where the Grey Knights put their elite training up against generic af CSM. Which worked mostly well until a particularly plucky Chaos boi fell back from Brother Daemonhammer and tumbled onto the marker, allowing his buddy with the heavy bolter to ventilate the marauding Knight. The GK tried to return the favor by slamming three of four psybolt stormbolter rounds into the scoring CSM, but I made 3x 4+ armor saves, passed his flesh wound nerve check with a CP and won when the game ended. Good stuff.

First 2k game with necrons vs blood angels. 20-16 win

Tried Kill Team Elites today, it's fun to have terminators again (even if they are totally overcosted and suffer from halved efficiency for those points due to charges happening before shooting...)

Here my dastardly trio of Blightlords try in vain to sabotage vital objectives from ten or so stormtroopers. Funnily enough, volume of damage coming from so few models just isn't enough and the last man standing runs out of time. Second game with only one termie and five plague marines went much better, with only one casualty against a pretty badly mauled scion pile.

What I find most hilarious in our games is that when others play, they always take flesh wounds here and there and eventually somebody crumbles, but when I take to the field both sides just explode. There is no middle ground, just the quick and the dead, transhuman physiology be damned

Three dead knights by the end of T3. Khorne patrol with skullreaver did work.

Last Saturday. 2500pts Chaos (World Eaters + Alpha Legion) v. Dark Angels

I played a Co-op WWII game with my family...



Yes, those are plastic army men..... why do you ask?

You can read more about it here: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/05/battle-report-combat-starring-vic.html

Necron vs blood angels. Made too many mistakes and dice roll was crap. Soon whole army in combat so fall back trusting tomb blades and doomsday ark to win...yep not.

Played a game last night, Knights vs Knights.

We had pretty much identical lists, Loyal 32, Castellan, Gallant and 2 Helverins, although I also went for a Crusader while he took 2x Warglaives and a Callidus. Also my first time playing ITC rules which was an interesting change. I'm the Astorum Knights on the left while he's on the right.

First pic is just before first turn, even the deployment was pretty identical. I got very lucky and took out his Gallant first turn, while his return fire fromt the Castellan dealt with mine soon afterwards. I then focused on his Armigers while my Castellan was able to take his down to 2 wounds.

Second pic is just after the game ended. We got to turn 4 and I was able to pull off a win of 20-19 despite being behind on points most of the time. I was pretty happy with the tactics however, charging the Armigers just to get them tied up and prevent them shooting.

Man of the Match however, has to be my lone Helverin left; he watched as his buddy was destroyed, and still faced down 3 hostile Armigers without faltering, dealing the deathblow to one of them, surviving 3 separate vehicle explosions (the only damage he actually took in the game).

From a recent tournament;


Lost that game by something like 12pts.

Got some more fallout in tonight. First 750 caps game testing some lists out. Pretty easy win for survivors against AI super mutants but I think it would have been close against a human opponent.

This one is called trying to remember how to play blackstone fortress while using a far too small table

Love this thread.
My own share. Hive city board. 2 v2 1250 each. Eldar (ulthwe and Iyanden) vs Marines (Ultra and ravenwing) Only have picks of set-up and first turn. Ended close although eldar won on VP's.
The forces of Ulthwe (sadly, didn't get good pics of Iyandan. You will see a few star pattern paint schemes. that is it and came out great.

Greetings Everyone,

For International Tabletop Day on the 3rd, I was able to get a game of Men of Bronze on the table. Imagine that!

It is a relatively small "ahistorical" battle between Greek Mercenaries and Phillip II's Macedonians somewhere around the Black Sea. Both sides are 22 points for an even pitched battle match-up.

Forces

Greek Mercenaries
1 Elite Phalanx- Spartans
1 Militia Phalanx- Eager Panticapauems
1 Psiloi- Mercenary Greeks
-22 points

Macedonians
1 Macedonian Phalanx
1 Light Phalanx- Thessalian allies
1 Peltasts- Thracian Mercenaries
-22 points



Read the results on the blog....
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/06/battle-report-men-of-bronze-battle-at.html

Eldar vs deathguard.
Misison : narrowing the search

T2 - Hero wave serpent survived a turn of shooting on 1 wound and then landed on top of a ruin as you do...

Our D-Day commemoration game, a slightly odd nerdy salute to the heroes who landed that day but a salute nonetheless! (this is a biggy – grab a beer…)

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2019/06/09/operation-tyrant-apocalypse-earth-aar

Playtesting a new version of dungeon crawl rules...it's only taken 17 years to get something solid and fun.

Did you call the fire department?

800 pts necrons vs custodians(plus assasin ally). Picture after my T1 after nightbringer smoked one custodian and tesla's fried another. After that vindicare caused 7 wounds to nightbringer with lucky shot(wounding on 5+...grumble grumble) and with dda failing to do anything all game it went downhill from there.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Did you call the fire department?

Sneering remarks? How pleasant

There's nothing sneering about that. It was a joke.

Jesus...

Is dakka this humorless these days?

My last game had some fun in it! It was a kind of sort of game of AoS except not because i was playing with my six year old nephew and we kept things pretty casual

Also it was about heroic ogres rescuing turtles from the clutches of evil ghosts



The ogres were triumphant, saving six turtles and only accidentally devouring two.

 amazingturtles wrote:
Also it was about heroic ogres rescuing turtles from the clutches of evil ghosts

Now that's a compelling narrative mission

Save those Turtles!

Boss Salvage wrote:

 amazingturtles wrote:
Also it was about heroic ogres rescuing turtles from the clutches of evil ghosts

Now that's a compelling narrative mission

In all honesty it was a blast. I might turn it into a campaign. A turtle campaign.

Ratius wrote:Save those Turtles!

Have no fear, all but two were rescued from the clutches of the ghosts

Was wiped out tonight by my buddy and his wife in a violent three-sided clash in the Old West (Shoot N' Skedaddle)

Strange Aeons- 40K continues as our "heroic" Throne Agents continue their investigation in the mineworks deep below North Ammoriss.....

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/06/battle-report-operation-hemlock-strange.html

A big 40k game for me. Imperial Guard from Lamb's World are attacked by Bezoan Skitarii in Tensions over Neues Tremo:

Pics from a non-hardcore random-teams tournament last weekend. I brought an all-grot force an unsurprisingly got crushed. But had fun.

Dark Angels vs Black Legion GUO is daemon prince proxy. I am BL. gak Cheap phone picture.

@ hank The Stompa with the googly eyes!
Thats brilliant

 Ratius wrote:
@ hank The Stompa with the googly eyes!
Thats brilliant

Just the expression, the way it's looking at all the kans...

Played a game of Rampant Stars using Mecha as a unit instead of a squad of guys.....



You can read all about it here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/06/battle-report-rampant-stars-mecha.html

Got some Carnevale in earlier this week. Patricians Vs Guild, 100 Ducats and the Guild won 5-4 on victory points despite me killing their entire gang.

So I last played in an Apoc game that was about a critical bridge on Armegeddon. We (the Imperium) Lost on Objectives by the end. We were entirely too conservative and didn't have enough deep striking units.

First picture is bottom of Turn 1. The works invaded our right flank with fliers and warp powers to get on our side. They did some damage before we finally killed them all.


Second picture is towards the end of the game (Turn 4 maybe) where we finally are pushing the bridge but it's too late. Most of my army actually Survived and sadly my Silver Skulls elites never even got into the Action. My Tanks (desert colored Tigers) did some work and my backfield infantry did their job and died to the flankers.

Got some BFG in for a change, spitballed some demo scenarios for an upcoming convention and tried a 600-700 point game where the nids are coming to eat a backwater listening post before it gets a warning off. Good fun, first game the nids crippled and nommed the enemy gunboats off and went to town on the objective whereas the second outing was brutally decided by the admiral Tyrant, who had had enough of this nonsense and singlehandedly ripped 9 points of damage from the hiveship, which then ran into some torpedoes and died blushing in embarrasment.

Demoing some Boltgun Action (40k with alternating actions) while on a vacation. Space Wolves smacked my cultists around like wet potatoes while my deep striking terminators went in to kill their Hellblasters and lost 4/5 guys in the immediate countercharge by the Gravis captain. The last guy survived the whole game though, taking the captain and one lieutenant out while at it

Finally got to get a game in after a fairly long Hiatus. Played another player who also hadn't gotten a game in months and enjoyed the crazy experience of two marine armies facing each other, with all the failure to penetrate each other armor that entails:



My deathwatch deployed and seized the center of the board, sacrificing bikers and intercessors for space and buying time for my dreadnoughts to teleport it. Unfortunatly I 1) forgot two units in reserves and 2) made some rookie mistakes in what I did deploy. My opponent made a pretty good castle with his devestators and his death company (his old marines were blood angels) managed to soak up a lot of firepower. In the end I wasn't able to clear all the death company from my deployment zone and lost of VP. It was good to roll dice again.

I played a dexterity based wargame set in the Old West called High Noon.



https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/07/wargame-design-high-noon-plastic-men.html

A playtest for a dungeon crawl project....this picture, showing a wounded Dwarf and Warrior turning tail and fleeing upon confronting the Objective Room sums up the afternoon pretty well.



Elf: Devoured by ravenous ghouls.
Wizard: Turned into paste by a Stone Golem.
Dwarf: Devoured by spiders only feet from the exit.
Warrior: Drinking himself into a stupor in the tavern...

So much for that party.

Yay. D&D tiles.

I played some High Noon: Plastic Men, Steel Resolve with my family.....



Find out who won the Battle of Fort Ridgely; the Native-Americans or the Troopers.

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/07/battle-report-high-noon-attack-at-fort.html

The story was the Tyranids wanted to destroy this enchanted woodland to increase their biomass while the Necrons wanted to destory this magical forest because they hate all life.

Technically not the last game I played as I played two more game of Kill Team (Primaris (me) vs. Tyranids and Orks (me) vs. Thousand Sons), but I forgot to take more pictures. This was Necrons (me) vs. Tyranids game with a custom mission of each player has two objectives they place along their long board edge but no closer than 3" to the short board edges. First player to have one of their units within 2" of either of their opponent's objective while not having an enemy unit also within 2" wins.

The Necrons won via a the same strategy I use when I play Necrons, overwhelm the enemy with numbers tarpitting them in melee while the extra units are free to capture objectives. The Tyranids couldn't do much damage against my Flayed Ones (center) while my Warriors slowly moved getting RF most times eventually wearing down the Genestealers at range.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yay. D&D tiles.

Pffttt..I'm not going to bust out the "fine China" (read: enough Dwarven Forge for a 6x4 table) for playtesting. I'm not a savage!

That stuff comes later when the game is actually finalized good n' proper...then we get this:

Played some Zone Mortalis!

Played a day full of Betrayal at Calth, trying out a modified version of mission VII with demons spawning all over. This will be a part of a narrative weekend full of imperium vs. tyranids action. First game as written (a brutal, brutal game that ended at the wire when the last brave terminator fell right before almost winning the game) and then finetuning the mission to work with homebrew'd human soldiers mentally enslaved by the hive mind. A tad less than 3:1 ratio seemed to work nicely for weaker troops.

 Sherrypie wrote:
Played a day full of Betrayal at Calth, trying out a modified version of mission VII with demons spawning all over. This will be a part of a narrative weekend full of imperium vs. tyranids action. First game as written (a brutal, brutal game that ended at the wire when the last brave terminator fell right before almost winning the game) and then finetuning the mission to work with homebrew'd human soldiers mentally enslaved by the hive mind. A tad less than 3:1 ratio seemed to work nicely for weaker troops.

I didn't get all the way through the Battle at Calth campaign, but I always wanted to. I thought system was pretty good and well worth expanding. Kinda a shame it didn't even make it into even the next 30k boxed game. Still, I am glad it still gets played.

 Saturmorn Carvilli wrote:

 Sherrypie wrote:
Played a day full of Betrayal at Calth, trying out a modified version of mission VII with demons spawning all over. This will be a part of a narrative weekend full of imperium vs. tyranids action. First game as written (a brutal, brutal game that ended at the wire when the last brave terminator fell right before almost winning the game) and then finetuning the mission to work with homebrew'd human soldiers mentally enslaved by the hive mind. A tad less than 3:1 ratio seemed to work nicely for weaker troops.

I didn't get all the way through the Battle at Calth campaign, but I always wanted to. I thought system was pretty good and well worth expanding. Kinda a shame it didn't even make it into even the next 30k boxed game. Still, I am glad it still gets played.

Can recommend it, mission IV is where the game really starts to shine (two boards, both sides attack on one and defend on the other). It is a shame GW rarely expands beyond the box for these types of games, but hey, Hewitt had to work on Titanicus afterwards ;P

It is a semi-regular game for me, as well as a nice demo game in conventions for people who might not be miniature gamers yet. With the core being as simple as it is, it's also relatively easy to expand on yourself. For an example here we wanted to use some lighter troops than astartes so we thought "let's use my militia as all stats 1 (opposed to the marines' 2) guys with one dice guns that may crit for extra shots, say they fit five in a hex instead of three and have heavy stubbers (ruleswise combibolters) as special weapons" and tried it out a couple of times, in the end concluding that it's better if they are four to a hex and had much fun with 10 marines taking on 28 little guys while the place was swarming with chaotic, milling deathbugs. Had a blast.

A three-way game of Shoot N' Skedaddle...because who doesn't like throwing dynamite at a wagon?

I was spoiled and got to playtest my dungeon crawl again today...despite the doom of the picture the heroes actually triumphed in this one.

Speaking of dungeons (and crawling) - I had the joy of defeating the Hidden Vault this week with my regular Blackstone group. We got through the 8 card approach carrying 4 grievous wounds but still made it through...

Knight hunting with the scorpion.

Final round at an AoS tournament; Legion of Grief vs Skaven.

 Elbows wrote:
I was spoiled and got to playtest my dungeon crawl again today...despite the doom of the picture the heroes actually triumphed in this one.

Spoiler:

Where did you get this lovely tentacle-y beast from?

More Calth, more testing. Mission I but against mortal saboteurs, there's a nice balance between having lots of bodies and those bodies exploding all the time against marines.

Took the daemons out for the first time in months.

Nurglitch wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
I was spoiled and got to playtest my dungeon crawl again today...despite the doom of the picture the heroes actually triumphed in this one.

Spoiler:

Where did you get this lovely tentacle-y beast from?

He's from the Conan boardgame Kickstarted several years ago. Brilliant miniature.

That is the world's bravest (or stupidest) Guardian!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
That is the world's bravest (or stupidest) Guardian!

He died an honorable and gruesome death!

Are you ready for some Blood Bowl!

Skaven Cheez-Ballerz face off against the Ork Skulsmash Reeverz at Freeboota Field.



https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/07/match-report-blood-bowl-skaven-vs-orks.html

Some great pics in this thread and a nice variation of games shown

Bit of a letdown of a game for escalation league. Opponent I had yet to face ever(yey), against death guard I had yet to face period(yey) and opponent is planning to start necron so wanted to see them in action. But we got decapitation strike scenario and it's supposed to be played with defenders(me) having twice the army...which throws spanner with escalation league...We should have tried to talk about some idea to even it up(like I bring more units. I didn't have all my necrons with me but 2x12 warriors and 10 lychguard could have come up easily along with another overlord and 2 extra immortals). And for him it would also be anticlimax to halve his points having painted models for this game...or ask for new scenario.

Anyway we went for it and I hoped to survive enough to use my max advance trait and veil to survive but didn't factor in his 2 flying drones and tank all with twin S6 -1 flamers that due to scenario had 9" between them and my DZ so even deploying on center of the bubble meant all got into range on T1. So I had immortals, tomb blades and overlord with game decided on does overlord live or die. First turn immortals bite the dust. I try to delay crawler with tomb blades charging in(lol) but still next round 4d6 flamer shots killed overlord and I was wiped out before even my reinforcements got to play...

Bleh. Rematch with proper scenario talked in 2 weeks.

 slave.entity wrote:
Knight hunting with the scorpion.

Really love this photo, great to see the Scorpion out there!

In the middle of a thorough thrashing from the USARF, my ninja did manage to damage the Blackjack heavy armour with an exploding arrow then finish it off in melee.

Really jealous of some of these well painted tables and armies - I'm slowly plugging away, probably have my army finished by 2030.

Anyway, my first game in a long time vs my usual opponent - DA v DG. I used my superior manoeuvrability to chase down and kill off any troops, and left his warlord stranded in order to be picked off too - Had to end at turn 3 as we'd run out of time, but I was up on VP and it was only going one way.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
In the middle of a thorough thrashing from the USARF, my ninja did manage to damage the Blackjack heavy armour with an exploding arrow then finish it off in melee.

In reality the Blackjack was hit by a truck and an enterprising ninja got to loot the body (good kill bow ninja)



My last (KT) game had AdMech housing DarkMech (nob klaw spam orks), because radium cancer guns are amazing when they aren't pointed at power armor

First game of 2nd Edition in. . . 20+ years I think. 1,000 points a side, SM vs. Tyranids

Love that table with the old school lichen

A little Arena Rex action...

Set-up: Lupa, Micon, Nero, and Otho on my end, and Atrox, Marcus Furius, Gaius Pallidus, Hermes, and Antaeus on Gomez Jr.'s side.


The action after a couple rounds of movement and feinting: Atrox has dragged Micon into the backfield, Lupa and Marcus are facing off doing almost nothing, while Otho and Nero have charged forward to engage Antaeus.


Here Antaeus has just used his Hip Toss ability to flip spots with Otho and put him on the very edge of the pit (bad planning on my part). The good news is, Nero pushed Antaeus the next round and then followed up so his base was overlapping both his and Otho's - which allowed me to place Otho on the other side of Nero (who can't be pushed, as he's a Titan, making him safer there) and keep him from insta-death.


Atrox is just about to score two Drags from his damage tree here, allowing him to move to the left side of the pit and pull Micon in. That was the first defeat of the match, and happened before Micon could do much of anything.


Here Nero has just gone Wild during a Clear Turn - and unfortunately he ended up attacking his own teammate Otho rather than the two enemies who were also valid targets (dang dice!). Thankfully he only did a couple damage and ended up moving the action a little further from the pit.


And this is the end-stage of the match: Nero puts Atrox out of his misery, Hermes dispatches Otho, leaving Nero vs. Hermes for the Last Men Standing rules. Nero had his whole second card to put into play still and Hermes's Aegis of Fame ability (which makes his opponent have to burn a Favor dice every turn just to attack him) goes out the window when he's LMS, so the end result was almost inevitable but it was still an enjoyable game (as always). I think the way the game is balanced to almost always end up with 1 vs. 1 LMS is fairly genius - we've never had more than a single fighter alive at the end of a match, and things tend to come down to the action being one attack away from a victory for one side or the other.

Loving the table Insectum - namely the blue coloued lichen. Purchased that way or dyed? I was going to do a similar beige+random colour scrub for a table for my buddy. Also been getting the desire to play 2nd lately. Actually considering an alternating activation + handful of 8th edition rules combined with 2nd for a bizarre concoction.

Agreed, that table is looking very nice. A spot of less ubiquitous colour here and there, while being totally harmonious with the rest of the board, brings the place to life admirably.

Should make a field trip to gather some one of these days :I

 Elbows wrote:
Loving the table Insectum - namely the blue coloued lichen. Purchased that way or dyed? I was going to do a similar beige+random colour scrub for a table for my buddy. Also been getting the desire to play 2nd lately. Actually considering an alternating activation + handful of 8th edition rules combined with 2nd for a bizarre concoction.

 Sherrypie wrote:
Agreed, that table is looking very nice. A spot of less ubiquitous colour here and there, while being totally harmonious with the rest of the board, brings the place to life admirably.

Should make a field trip to gather some one of these days :I

Thanks! I finally had to make a board to host games now that I can't regularly make it to the local club. This was my first game on it. I found the lichen in the gardening section of my local hardware store. It's from "Super Moss", specifically called "Reindeer Moss" and comes is a variety of colors, and is pretty cheap.

On Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Super-Moss-21669-Preserved-Chartreuse/dp/B004BFZYXS/ref=pd_cp_201_4?pd_rd_w=CM4GI&pf_rd_p=ef4dc990-a9ca-4945-ae0b-f8d549198ed6&pf_rd_r=AQASJTX30W7JYRNG0CRZ&pd_rd_r=c4c1523e-b2f1-48c5-9453-309e8563515b&pd_rd_wg=Frg0c&pd_rd_i=B004BFZYXS&psc=1&refRID=AQASJTX30W7JYRNG0CRZ

My friend used to play 40K but now plays Infiniti. I play current 40K. 2nd Edition sorta meets in the middle between the two systems. Plus, he has a Tyranid army, but never got to experience the 2nd Ed Tyranid shenanigans at the start of the game. My Dreadnought arrived late to the battle, my Captain held a bitter animosity against the Tyranids, and one squad showed up weary and afraid from a long campaign of fighting against them. Good times.

Plus the usual 2nd Ed stuff. The Dreadnought Assault Cannon jammed and the Captain missed with his Stasis Grenade in my 3rd turn. It went downhill from there.

Keep in mind the old Dreadnought auto-feeding rules!

 Boss Salvage wrote:
My last (KT) game had AdMech housing DarkMech (nob klaw spam orks), because radium cancer guns are amazing when they aren't pointed at power armor

What are those miniatures?

 Insectum7 wrote:
First game of 2nd Edition in. . . 20+ years I think. 1,000 points a side, SM vs. Tyranids

*gasp* Wargear carsds!!!

 Elbows wrote:
Keep in mind the old Dreadnought auto-feeding rules!

I rolled two jams :(

And only 1 hit against the remaining 4 Genestealers. :( :(

Then in cc, my Dreadnought blew up, taking out the other ones.

I remember the days when vehicles used to detonate spectacularly in close combat (and no, not "mortal wounds" within X").

Best story became what we called the "Overly-Enthusiastic Warlock", who charged into combat with a Sentinel, easily blasted it to pieces with his Witchblade, but the explosion wiped out all the Guardians with him.

Whoops!

First game of 2nd Edition in. . . 20+ years I think. 1,000 points a side, SM vs. Tyranids

Oh yeaaaaa.
Was it fun? Ive been meaning to do a 2nd ed game for ages now.

 Ratius wrote:

First game of 2nd Edition in. . . 20+ years I think. 1,000 points a side, SM vs. Tyranids

Oh yeaaaaa.
Was it fun? Ive been meaning to do a 2nd ed game for ages now.

Quite fun! But, ummm, how do I say this . . . It was under controlled circumstances. Mostly basic units, limited psychics, low point count, etc. Sonce my opponent hasn't played it before (though he's quite a competetive player) I'll let him decide how far he wants to go into 2nd Ed bonkers territory.

My army: Captain, Techmarine, two Scout Squads, Tactical Squad, Dreadnought. Most exotic thing I took was a Stasis Grenade. Otherwise bionics, Scanner, little extras. IE, no Jump Pack, Vortex, Blind Grenades, level 4 Psykers, etc.

You need to spend 300-ish points on an Level 4 Inquisitor in Terminator Armour armed with a Nemesis Great Blade and a Psycannon.

They were fun.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
You need to spend 300-ish points on an Level 4 Inquisitor in Terminator Armour armed with a Nemesis Great Blade and a Psycannon.

They were fun.

Back in the day I had a pretty sweet conversion for him Even named him "Euphrateus" because, you know, Tigurius.

Isengard vs rohan that were used as count as for wildmen army. Thematic force so bit soft(foot rohan isn't that hot). Scenario that called off trying to get off opponent edge.


Sides i crushed but center got overrun but casualties high. I got cold blood when i realised i could still lose if his remnants that i couldn't catch held enough for him to walk off board. More than i could with heroic march that got single berserker off. Luckily killed 3 guys in last turn ending game. Odds of him not losing enough for game to end before he legs off small but still surprisingly close he got...

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 slave.entity wrote:
Knight hunting with the scorpion.

Really love this photo, great to see the Scorpion out there!

A primitive mon-keigh war engine trapped like a wild beast. Outnumbered, outgunned, and outmaneuvered... the situation here exudes eldar arrogance.

Bad Moons (me) vs. Blood Angels Scout Snipers

A custom mission where the attacker (Orks) had to capture at least 2 of the 3 objectives (the 6 and 3 objectives are visible in the photo) to win. I decided to lean in hard on the Bad Moons Klan Kultur and went with a bunch of Shoota and Loota Boyz except for Minty the Ork (at the bottom of the photo next to a grot). It proved to be a good game even though I let my two waves get spaced out a little more than I should have. I almost won having captured two objectives and contesting the third trying to apply pressure. However, the Blood Angels shooting finally turned around and their snipers started dishing out mortal wounds. Since I was out in the open to take the objectives the Injury Roll was fatal. I had lost everything but two Orks that weren't anywhere close to the objectives at that point so I conceded. Still a better game than I was expecting since I didn't think an all snipers and a missile launcher scout team was going to have enough firepower.

What I learned was the Boss Nob is worth the 3 boyz he is costing me. He was my MVP each game despite having a bullseye on him. With the Bad Moons Kultur, I don't think Shoota Boyz is bad way to go vs. Slugga Boyz. I am getting more attack attempts overall in with their Assault weapon even it the chance is very poor. I don't really feel like I am lacking from only having 2/3 of the melee of a slugga since it can be fairly rare that a slugga even gets to shoot and not every boy even makes it into melee where Shoota Boyz get at least a round of shooting. In any event, if feels more Bad Moons to have the Shoota Boyz. Finally, I think I might make sure to have at least 1 grot per Nob I bring as that shield tactic is pretty good at getting that power claw to be of some use (though the gnasher squig tactic is well worth saving CPs for). I don't really think Lootas are worth it even as Bad Moons but I am not completely sure of that yet. The 1d3 shots really isn't enough to count on when you are going to need a 6 to hit. I am feeling the squeeze on the number of Ork Boy Gunners as I like having Rokkit Launchas but Big Shootas always seem worth the extra point even if they only prove to be a distraction carnifex.

Next game, I think I am going to double down on Rokkit Launchas completely with Ammo Runts and even a Comms Spanner. Probably a bad idea, but super Bad Moons. I did finish painting my 'Kommando' Nob so I will also be rocking both core rules Bosses as they are often my only really unit to deal with all the power armor I am facing.

Got a quick game of Carnevale in yesterday. Patricians Vs Guild with Patricians winning 2-1.

A bit of Tau on Tau violence. Played the Recover Intelligence mission. I was the white Tau. After turn 1 I had lost both my Pathfinder and my Breacher which were my only AP sources. The Pathfinder had every opportunity to kill a Stealth Suit but couldn't get a 4+ on 3 Injury Dice + a re-roll. I did get to comment that I had switched from Orks to Tau so I wouldn't be hitting on sixes and then proceeded to play this game which required sixes pretty much at all times. Still, was a lot of fun. I thought I lost after the disastrous turn one, but actually managed to tie the game through shear weight of numbers.

Aeronautica Imperialis!- Old Skool

The Imperial PDF were patrolling to sink some Ork subs, but they found more than they bargained for.....



This ended up being a quick and brutal game.....

http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/08/battle-report-aeronautica-imperialis.html

A member of the SJGA ran a game of Contemptible Little Armies at this month's meeting, recreating the Battle of Charleroi.



We got some of the rules wrong so we're planning to replay the scenario, but it was still plenty of fun.

Heard pretty good things about CLA.

Also digging the (needs paint!) Carnevale board up a few. Love me some TT Combat kits. I was going to use their Carneval kits to do an IG regiment homeworld, but ditched the idea.

Don't have any pics of last Thursday's X-wing night but here's some pics of my Gen Con Tourney Win and a Death Star trench run game I played in:





Trench Run!

 Elbows wrote:
Heard pretty good things about CLA.

Also digging the (needs paint!) Carnevale board up a few. Love me some TT Combat kits. I was going to use their Carneval kits to do an IG regiment homeworld, but ditched the idea.

Cheers Elbows, the board will be painted eventually, just working my way through the models first.

 Elbows wrote:
Heard pretty good things about CLA.

Also digging the (needs paint!) Carnevale board up a few. Love me some TT Combat kits. I was going to use their Carneval kits to do an IG regiment homeworld, but ditched the idea.

I enjoyed it! It'd be a great little system if you don't want to do standard trench warfare in the early 20th century although I've some seen some reviews that talk about CLA's trench rules. An Imagi-Nations campaign would be interesting.

Narrative game vs a local Nurgle player. Recently finished a while heap of tealight fire/smoke plumes and really wanted to show them off.
Didn't realise how great they'd look on the table till they were.
Great game.

Small game on the new table. Nurgle vs sororitas 1000pts. https://imgur.com/gallery/LtZCjMk

 Giantwalkingchair wrote:
Narrative game vs a local Nurgle player. Recently finished a while heap of tealight fire/smoke plumes and really wanted to show them off.
Didn't realise how great they'd look on the table till they were.
Great game.

Small game on the new table. Nurgle vs sororitas 1000pts. https://imgur.com/gallery/LtZCjMk

Looking good, Chair

Tried the new Apoc for the first time, though with 6 mm armies. We played a ~250 PL match between Death Guard and Krieg, worked pretty swimmingly. The XIV took hold of the center field, held ground and racked up the victory points while the Krieg kept hammering them with their tanks. Much clamour was had in the middle. A full report coming to the WIP thread later on, got to play a game or two more first today.