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We played another learning game of Necromunda this weekend.
I fielded my Goliaths and he fielded a loaned out gang of Eschers.

Thursday's friendly 120pl my Salamanders vs Jp's Dark angels.

open war deck is getting more and more fun everytime we play it.

30k zone mortalis for the first time. First time against mechanium so whole pile of "they do WHAT"

Jump packing power fist dudes were major pain but last tactical got away in kp which was good. My dread held them nicely after killing 3 in charge but last 2 plus 2 bigger guys came for rematch. Somehow 6 s10 hitting on 3+ and instakilling them got just one. Elsewhere terminators slaughtered chaff but nasty elite beast gave worry but 4++ saved day. Lost due to first blood when my overall useless librarian charged lone fast attak rotor cannon flamer guy and got shot to death. Could have just retreated toward 10 tacticals rushing to help...

Game ended on turn 5 needing 3+ to continue. If continue almost quaranteed draw minimum, win if 2 s10 smash attacks don't kill contempator(3 hs left) before getting killed in return(4 s10 attacks hitting on 3+ is handy)

Game in a local tournament of 12 people I believe? Second round of the tournament after a lost against Alpha Legion (Not anything cheesy, he ran 2 squads of 20 chaos marines, a land raider, a Chaos Drake, etc...). My Dark Angels vs Tau (Broadsides, pathfinders, stealth suits, etc...). A loss, 7-14, basically because nearly all my antitank was plasma and try to destroy a Ghostkeel suit with -2 to hit with plasma
Very fun game, it was anyone game to the end.

2500 point battle between Eldar and Daemons of Nurgle. 8-6 victory for the Daemons.

The First War of the Diadochi using the Heirs to Empire rules. Eumenes of Cardia vs. Neoptolemus the Satrap of Armenia.

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/01/battle-report-heirs-to-empire-forced.html



As you can see, I am not afraid to use some paper templates for a game. 6mm Successor armies are on my "To Buy" list for this year.

Had a nice three games with a quickly built list in a 1.5k tournament:



A fun game with the winner of best painted. I did a pretty good job of taking on his mawlocs, but the sheer amount of threat vectors left my forces overwhelmed with a crumbling flank.



A Dark Eldar player tat started by dropping the most points-intensive model in the tournament - a 400pt Tantula. Unfortunately for him, My plasma inceptors took it off the board before it could even activate. He managed to eek out a victory using the superior mobility of his forces. Primaris Chaplin was a champ, facing the DE incubui and Succubi head on.



For some reason this is the only pic that actually got saved to my phone,despite me taking several. Dual Helldrakes and a demon prince. I was able to obliterate one helldrake and almost finish off the other, but the demon prince managed to wreck my center.

Ig vs black templar. Was turkey shoot but victory going to holder of objective that he started with gave him running chance. As it is if i hadn't rolled 3 and 4 to extend to max length he would have won. As it was i won. Scenario rule of acid rain(-1 to hit in shooting, advance and charge that comes ang goes) kept 2 turns of shooting to minimal especially as cadians had to move to chase object holding characters surrounded by primaris guys who were there just a bullet screens.

Played a 2k game tonight, Ultramarines vs Skitarii/Custodes. Very close game, I almost tabled him yet he won 14-13 on VPs.

Ignore the grey Marine at the bottom, he's just wandered into the wrong game.

My boyz vs IG

My Chaos Soup vs. my friend's Death Guard:

I ended up losing this game due partly to a couple of huge play mistakes on my part, and because we ran out of time while I was down on kill points (if we had finished the whole game I probably would have pulled it out). Still, it was good to try out my competitive list and work some of the bugs out of the system.

Played a few games this weekend, loyalist Death Guard vs. Catachan Guard and goddangit if my Contemptor could stay alive long enough to hit something at once, that would be great. Won the games though, Blightlords really pulled their weight and withstood all the heavy fire for days on end. Days!

Anyhoo, this is 1900ish points in the Chapter Approved scenario with supply drops, termies pushing on.

Some aeronautica imperialis.....



You can read all about it here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/02/battle-report-aeronautica-imperialis.html

Played a game yesterday with my wife. 1000 points of Orcs vs Adepta Sororitas. Deployment zone was 24" on the narrow table edges, Eternal War mission "No Mercy", and boy was that ever true. The middle of the table was a shooting gallery.

Highlights:
She won 9-6.
First Blood wasn't until Turn 3, and Orcs got it.
A 10 sister Retributer squad with 4x heavy bolters and 6x bolters getting the Act of Faith that lets them shoot an additional time at the beginning of each turn and has a cannoness that lets them reroll 1s... fething hell.
2 units of 1x Warcoptas infiltrating from the rear was an excellent diversion. Kopta Rokkits are no joke, either!


Yes, I know half of my orcs aren't painted. They will have to wait until after my HH army and Chaos army are done. Maybe.

Her Sisters are coming along nicely. The one unpainted, unfinished tank in the first picture is an immolator.

Pic of game we are playing right now(stopped for lunch break). Start of turn 2. Baneblade is counting as glaive as we wanted to try out just how nasty it is since it's supposedly so awesome. I might have overloaded on anti-tank stuff despite deliberately not taking pair of knights to march behind(while knights would take d3+1 haywire hits 4++ and 3++ protects and guys behind would be safe). I started game so here on turn 2 with Horus & Justacaerin dropping around and having 10 lascannons and 2 vindicator laser destroyer it went poof. For added misery to Imperium it then promptly scattered right top of custodians taking 2 out, damaging land raider heavily(so it was easily taken out) and so far Imperiums have failed 2 critical charges at 4" and 5". So it looks like Horus is having easy victory. He's also fighting custodian tribute on fairly even basis. 4++ rerollable is nasty but degrading stats means even with fist tribune is now wounding only on 4+ and striking last. If Horus hadn't taken couple wounds from hail of plasma it would be walk in the park. Now one bad round could get him killed.

Also imperial player went on wrong side with his assault squad I think. One on one vs my tac squad I think he's in trouble. I'm fearless due to chaplain and well...I have chaplain and apotechary. War of attrition was on my side especially as I was able to shoot couple guys off. Assault marines are good enough especially with 4 power weapons(2 swords and 2 axes) wounding on 3+'s and 2+'s but 4+ to hit hurts and as said attrition was on my side. Other side had tactical squad without additional CCW or character. That would have been much better.

edit: Well the custodian trooper with power fist type of weapon actually killed the chaplain breaking the deadlock so with the last jump pack marine actually killed off last of sons of horus tacticals in sweep. If that 5" charge hadn't failed things might be different. As it is with 10 lascannons nearby I don't think those have much chance...At least no danger of tacticals reaching enemy deployment zone which is the objective.

edit2: Well Sons of Horus took 6-2 victory. Justicaerin(2vp), bikes and Horus into enemy deployment zone, slay the warlord and attrition. Blood angels only got support squad into deployment zone(2 pts). MVP's were Horus(largely ability to deep strike but of course killing tribune was also big), lascannon squad(8 hull points off glaive, squad of 3 custodians, one terminator, finished off last member of another custodian squad and last assault marine) and jetbike squad with plasma cannons. Handy especially on the crowded table. Nowhere was safe from them.

But it was closer than it might look. As said serious bad luck with Imperium. Had the lone custodian with power fist made charge(5") he could have killed off chaplain which would have altered that area vastly. Then when said lone guy made charge against heavy weapon squad he got hit by 2 lascannon(on 6's), wounded both times and failed both 5++ rerollable. Had he made it and say win combat(not that unreasonable. He has 2 attacks, 3 on charge, hits on 3+, kills on 2+, is hit back on 5+, wounded 5+ and has 2+ save) imperium would have got him and assault squad would have survived so 4 vp's from there so draw. And btw he doesn't even need to KILL enemy. Just needs to stay alive(oh and 2 wounds on him) as we were on deployment zone and nothing could have got there in time.

30k sons of horus vs wolves. Had infiltrating 10 lascannons and seized so hoped i could at least immobilize one spartan. Nope and grey hunters came and for loss of 2 killed 20 tacticals with apotecharioe and my warlord. I fury of legioned and sent 5 terminators. 16 claw attacks, 3 hits, 1 dead. Lascannons failed also stopping land raider with termies that ate librarian squad. At the end herald and last tac squad charged remaing grey hunters and got slaughtered.

I had 2 jetbikes, immobilised sicarian and fleeing lascannon left. He had remnants of one grey hunters, another full squad inside spartan and terminators left.

Too bad he didn't have assault squad with him so we went for 2.5k lists. My 3k list would have had much better chances i think.

Played a game of Necromunda for Twitch with the Yogscast on Wednesday.



More details and better pics in my blog.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/750022.page

Love the drink umbrellas in that scenery set-up.

I played some more Aeronautica imperialis. Varingyr vs. Orks again, the third battle in a four game ladder campaign.



https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/02/aeronautica-imperialis-wall-breaker-on.html

Got in a few games of 2nd edition and some 8th edition this weekend.

Kings of War! specifically my kingdoms of men against ratkin, depicting the rare moment where i actually did something right



Berserkers can do things well if they manage to get to where they need to be.

Escalation League was a 750pt game. My new Zerg bumrushed a thousand sons army and managed to hold for a little while before being wiped out.

Last night my Orks attacking Alpha Legion in 45 PL Campaign. Managed an impressive 11-5 win for the Boyz.

Recently we've been getting into the old Star Wars Miniatures Battles system from West End Games. We're heading to Ghengis Con 41 in Denver tomorrow, so who knows what we'll dive into there.

 Skirmish Wargames wrote:
Recently we've been getting into the old Star Wars Miniatures Battles system from West End Games. We're heading to Ghengis Con 41 in Denver tomorrow, so who knows what we'll dive into there.

looks like a blast, got a couple thousand of those models myself (the wotc ones) havent played the WEG version, is it any good?

It's a pretty solid, straightforward system, despite its age. An award-winner back in the day. Plus the rules are available as free open-source PDFs now, with the blessing of the author.

You can find them at http://www.d6holocron.com/downloads/wegminiatures.html if interested.

Literally the final shot of my last game. Ambush scenerio, I needed to get 1/3 of my army off the table edge to win. This is the top of the 7th round. I’ve already got one squad off, and two more are ready to run when I go (at the bottom of the round) The rest of his army is out of position, having butchered my other forces. All he has left is a 4xLC pred down to it’s last wound. My primaris LT. has a couple of wounds left on him, but isn’t dead yet.

The dice gods smile on the pred, and even though he needs 5s to hit, he lands 3/4 of them. Wounds and armor save follow, and the lieutenant falls. My other unit (Sgt. Chronos in a vindi) rolls off the table edge. I’ve saved 330 points out of a 998 point list. Just shy of victory.

Continuing our narrative campaign...brutal stuff.

Escalation League continues. Haven't won a game yet, but defiently gave Ultramarines a run for their money. After this match I finally understand while the new smite rule is in effect. Hive Tyrants really are giant psychic tanks

My Dark Eldar facing off against some Daemons

Playing this right now. Bazillin blood angels vs smaller sons of horus group but reinforcements coming.

Ba had first turn moving from table edge. Lucky break when snap firing lascannon squad blew sicaran in cover. Now about to be ba assault phase with termies about to charge against squad with ws3 due to hallucination

edit: Blood angels won. Tacticals and praetor cleared their objective easily from terminators. Assault marines cleared the main objective fairly well though I had reinforcements coming but issues began when there was contemptator coming their way. I was by now out of ranged AT and damn hallusination spell sniped melta bomb wielding sergeant from tac squad rushing in(19 S3 hits...Ouch! That hallusination is good tactical sergeant killer since it's 1 S3 hit per other model in squad and those are 20 strong blops!)) so I was basically without ANYTHING that could hurt that dreadnought. I got charge with justicaerin but only one chainfist left that could hurt and alas charge range was low enough that combined with narrow area only it got into b2b contact and thus was splatted out first.

So this was 4 VP's for BA. I had 2 VP's on building I still had and likely would control as my tacticals unleashed fury of legion and with whopping 50 bolter shots killed last 8 tacticals from that hallucination libarian(that had on one turn first hallucinated into my tactical squad resulting in dead apotechary and then psychic scream which killed 6 tacticals. Ouch. Took quite a dent). BA still had 10 support marines with volkite chargers and that librarian but vs squad of 13 tacticals, my warlord beatstick praetor and another squad of 2 tacticals he's hard pressed to survive there in last turn or clear enough to have more models there.Especially as I was in cover so would be striking first if he charges. Particularly handy with the warlord...