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weekend update-

Warmachine game 1

khador VS grimkin-50 points



legion VS grimkin-50 points




We also got a couple classic battletech games-

Game 1 hells horse VS marik



Game 2-
Marik VS davion

Another Thousand Sons cult vs my Talos/Cronos coven in our Crusade.
A solid victory for the Sons, but plenty of damage dealt & xp earned on my end.....

I like the ghostly coloration you have on the 1k Sons. I saw someone do that on a Master of Possession once and thought it was a neat idea.

Fyreslayers 20, soulblight 23. Screwed up on scenario and ran out of battletactics. Those are tricky for these.

Crusading in a four player mash-up. As the Tau and Iron Warriors exchange diplomatic gifts with regards to splitting an Imperial system, the Emperor's Spears launch a desperate attack to cut the head of this snake. Out of nowhere, they are joined in this ambush by the secessionist Echoes of Eisenstein and together the Imperial-adjacent marines destroy the heretic and alien before meaningful bargains are struck.

While the Iron Warriors got a bit of a double-spanking in row from the XIV, they did however discover the famed wisdom of the Panzer of the Lake. Twice they drove their Predator to the shore only to have it blown up by Ancient Hertz' guns, but after all this it did learn to reroll 1's in the future

Hahaha I really love the panzer in the lake.

I like the background for the 4-player crusade game. How did the Emperor's Spears feel about being bolstered by the son's of the XIV Legion?

 The Red Hobbit wrote:
Hahaha I really love the panzer in the lake.

I like the background for the 4-player crusade game. How did the Emperor's Spears feel about being bolstered by the son's of the XIV Legion?

Ha, thanks. Amusingly, as the scenario was about preventing the surprised force from escaping, I deployed my slower forces at the goal stretch as a counter-punch to catch any quicker Tau suits while the impetuous Spears deployed in a close-by pincer to get stuck in. While this worked tactically brilliantly, it also meant that the Spears got absolutely blasted in the attrition while the Echoes lost no units (I did reave through the enemy position with my teleporting terminator veterans after a minute, so not due to mere hanging back either). The Spears' player realized this a bit late in the game, like waaaait a minute...

While we have common enemies, my bitter ghosts of a more enlightened era will likely soon come to blows with the Spears as well, brain-washed corpse-worshipping lunatics as they are. Imperials these days, seeing enemies everywhere...

Sounds like a really fun game, multiplayer is always great when you accidentatlly wind up in an very advantageous situation much to the chagrin of your ally. Cheers!

3 games vs family of father and 2 sons.

Bonesplitters vs kruleboys. Made 2 mistakes and lost priority at rounds 3 and 4 so at start of my turn 4 i had 8 foot orcs left and could score no battletactics. Still there was thin chance to win but gutrippas did exactly enough damage to ensure even if i roll 1 my last battleline runs to battleshock.

Then ogor vs ironjaw. On this extreme matchup round 2 priority was going to be big. Got it, annihilated most of his army and scored 12vp. Then his mawkrusha got stuck in melee and i was able to force double for him which was game over but at least he　killed most of my army.

Third game fyreslayers got their first win. Most of my army got grinded down but got to his objective and was able to block his way to my long enough. In the end boiled down to 2 heartguard berserkers survival. Rest of my army formed protective screen though summoned beast of nurgle had 9" rerollable charge and 2 nurglings even longer. If 2 dies nurgle wins on grand strategy tiebreaker. He failed all 3 charge　rolls...

FLGS update for 12 feb 22

The FOW guys were doing an epic late war battle that was spread across 2 table.






Some of the guys got to use my new terrain and game mat for a battletech matchup




Then i got some action in against ORKS with my mechanicus in one of our retro 5th ed game

22-87 vs necrons in league. Probably could have got 5-7 vp more had we played onward after t3 but whatever.

First game of Tau, and first game in around a year, against my mate's Custodes, 2k.



Being FSE helped invaluably here, the free Markerlights were a godsend with an up-close army like Custodes.

Highlights include the Hammerhead sniping around 500pts of Characters throughout the game, his Achillus Dread failing the charge due to Repulsor Field and getting pounded by the Stormsurge, and my Onager-Enforcer whiffing all 7 of his 4++ Invulnerables and being cut down by the Shield Captain.

Played a rather silly scenario with a rather silly army list. Fun was had, and most importantly, my Tater Titan was able to take the field.



And at the other extreme we have Thulza Dimm, the weirdest of grots.



And here is half of the army they'll have to fight.



And the Emperor's Blondest demonstrate that boyz don't mean nothin' when everyone in your army can fall back from melee and shoot, and when FRFSRF is an aura buff.

What are those minis? Where are they from?

3rd party female guard models, i remember a guy back in 5th who had an al female catachan army with 3rd party infantry.

Fyreslayer vs be'lakor. With slayers having 0% winrate in tournaments in this match up didn't dream of win. With double to them hope of more vp's for league tie breaker went. My turns 2-5 was just trying to keep battleline alive for grand strategy that worked. 11-31

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
What are those minis? Where are they from?

The female guard aren't mine, but I know they were 3d printed via STLs from one of the usual sources.

Hankovitch wrote:
Played a rather silly scenario with a rather silly army list. Fun was had, and most importantly, my Tater Titan was able to take the field.

Thulza Dimm is an outstanding name for a Grot. Great looking Titan!

My Talos/Cronos vs yet another Thousand Sons force....

Fairly recent, just before I'd completed all the spikey spindly bitz.

In one of the other topics a discussion included the fact that many of our fellow gamers only get one game in a month..... i think i would start having withdrawls.

I got 2 games of DUST in this game night and all this other stuff was going on-

Warmachine-
retribution VS menoth



circle VS menoth



DUST

battle of the monsters-

blutkreuz VS Cthulhu



Panzer grenadiers VS Cthulhu



Classic battletech-

Lyrans VS Marik



And

B5 wars - Star Wars

Hapan empire VS the imperial navy.

Khorne vs obr. First time since summer 2020 faced them. Feral foray. Opponent surprised me and didn't have catapult so skarbrand had field day doing 48mw in first combat and proceeding to destroy 20 mortek, 4 flying mean melee guys and harvester.

Got to refuse double on r3 helping with primaries and had enough blood tithe at my t3 to summon bloodletters stealing objective sorting battle tactic issue just in time.

Some Osprey's Men of Bronze. Etruscans vs. Greeks.



You can read the details at my blog:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2022/02/battle-report-men-of-bronze-etruscans.html

Some Drukhari on Drukhari violence.
My Talos/Cronos coven vs a Real Space Raid.

I took plenty of casualties, but for the most part the Raiders stayed hunkered down, and died, in/behind the ruins - forgoing virtually any practical chance of victory.

2 games vs kruleboys. First with fyreslayers. Lost due to running out of battletactics and screwing order. I had effective strategy on primaries but 2 failed bt's by turn 4 and nothing realistic for t5 plus 2 dead monster too much.

Game 2 i got double t2 but had to give up anyway. Had no tool vs kragnos and it plus 3d6 charging troll and sneaky bruteboss wiped floor with my army.

Game night for 2/26/22

We got in some battletech

Purple bird VS davion




Then khador got in a battle against some new everblight minis (or bigies in this case)





Retribution took a crack at everblight in a 25 points game.



Then we had a bloody brawl of 5th ed 40K as the dark eldar (5th) went up against tau (4th)

League game vs mice. End result vas 22 to 23, due to him having painted models. It could've gone way more into my favor, had I managed ("managed" by rolling 3 instead of 2, lolol) to destroy his skaven hole in my deployment t1 (battle tactic + deny to later port in, capture and burn). Also, I would have been able to control the pace if it wasn't for the double turn 'mechanic', which resulted in me having only one priority for whole 5 rounds. But, hey, it's Age of RNG, after all.

umm painted doesn't give points in aos...

Point of view from my deployment zone from the last game of The Barons' War.

51-9 win vs gargants with my kragnos plus trolls.