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I wrote Zone Mortalis for 8th. Play testing commenced through the weekend. More effective flamers and grenades abound, brutal morale penalties, smoke, dark halls and what not. I dig it.
My Death Guard took part in fierce naval fire fight with my pal's Ironically 80's Space Knights, 1000 points per side. Objective: strike in fast and deep, take out their engines and let them die to our big guns. This of course meant that the whole battlefield shook from time to time, metal fell from the ceiling, dust blocked visibility and all that jazz. I started the game by blowing up one of the three targets, rolled forward with my terminators and crushed his first overeager crusader squad between them and the Contemptor. As they clashed with his Ironclad in the middle, my right wing got crushed by his company veterans but bought enough time for one melta squad to come crashing through the locked doors and blast the second engine. His chaplain and champions hacked my auxiliaries apart and eventually avenged Helbrecht, who had been beheaded by my lord midfield, but it was still not enough and in the end his ship had suffered too much for this to count as a victory, even if the boarding party had been slain to the last. VP's went 4-3, slight win for Death Guard.
Had another match too with the same forces, sides reversed. This time there were 5 objectives, there were booby traps all around, Space Knights came creeping in from the air vents, the ship's superstructure ripped apart sending half of the forces left to their deaths, my Lord slew Helbrecht again while simultaneously and ALONE wrestling with a crusader squad, an apothecary, a chaplain and a company ancient. Oh and he casually slew an Emperor's champion too while at it, before finally succumbing after like four turns of bloody melee. VP's 5-4 here for the Space Knights, again very close with the attacking side wiped out in their plunge. In the end of the 7th turn nothing remained on the field except my Contemptor
1000 point game of Konflikt 47, Germans vs Americans in Maximum Attrition. The Germans won 4-1, with the Americans losing most of their infantry and a Coyote light mech, while only managing to take out the Panzer IV-X.
Got a game of AvP in last night custom mission, aliens vs predators. Aliens needed 5 frags and to escape, predators needed to rig the ship to blow and escape. Was good fun but needs some tweaks, the alien player deployed a royal guard and warriors in the predators objective room so predators had little chance of completing their objective.
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my friend want to test the thunder hammer/storm shield/jump pack captain so I obliged and gave him plenty of targets.
End of turn 1
End of the game.
Ended up as 10-6 to the Nids. The thunder hammer captain claimed a carnifex and a haruspex but died to the heavy venom cannons from the harpy and a volly from a unit of warriors with a death spitter and a venom cannon.
4 player game of Gaslands. Only managed to make it through the first gate in a couple hours, but that was mostly due to all of us learning how to play.
Orks Vs Death Guard. Trying out a walker heavy list with Dakka Jet support, a really close game resulting in a win for the Boyz, and a lesson in the dangers of buffed Pox walkers.
60 power level orks, this is the first time I'd played any of these models in 8th, Zhardsnark was just a standard Warboss on a bike for this game. Great fun.
"All their ferocity was turned outwards, against enemies of the State, foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals" - Orwell, 1984
The final battle for the Ork vs Varingyr AI mini-campaign was played. This one was a Pitched Battle scenario from the Airspace Compilation, so the victory conditions were a bit off the beaten track. Led to an interesting game.
iGuy91 wrote: You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
Elbows wrote: You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote: Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming?
Couple weekends ago, My Necron vs his Raven Guard. Wraiths kept pushing into his tanks and he kept backing them up, I used the Chapter Approved Stratagem to keep them alive. I got line breaker with one of the Wraiths in the picture left.
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Got a game in at 1500 pts. I'm still not winning, but at elast this game gave me a clear idea of what I want for my final list:
My final stand, swarming Bjorn and being slaughtered in mass:
Bender wrote:* Realise that despite the way people talk, this is not a professional sport played by demi gods, but rather a game of toy soldiers played by tired, inebriated human beings.
Easy E wrote: Those templates ruled! I made about two tank companieps worth of those, and would show you the PLOG to prove it, but Photobucket ate it.
Photobucket has a LOT to answer for, it ate all Gordy2000's battle reports which were things of great beauty.. a lot of people lost a lot of good stuff through them
Skinflint Games- war gaming in the age of austerity
My wife and I decided to add some spice to our Gates of Antares games and squeeze in games of Silent Death. That way, there's a space battle, then the winner gets a bonus to the next ground battle etc.
We've only just discovered Silent Death, even if it is out of print - although you can still get the pdf books and the minis are still made.
We tried our first game without the nice custom mousepad hex space mat that's due from Deep Cut, so instead played our first short game as Algoryn vs Ghar on the rather lame Starfinder Flip-mat. Those creases are so annoying and the hexes aren't quite as large as we'd like, but a fun game was had.
Silent Death:
Love the game, and kinda wished I hadn't spent quite so much on X-Wing or Attack wing, as this is so much better.
Currently most played: Silent Death, Mars Code Aurora, Battletech, Warcrow and Infinity.
My Tyranids went full bore against Death Watch. My opponent ended up owning the right flank, only to have the objective (comet) landing on the left where all my infantry and support was. By running everything that could over there and sacrificing the rest, I was able to win by scenario.
I've decided to take a week's rest while I assemble/primer/paint models. This was the final game for the escalation league I've been playing in and I had a lot of fun. I wasn't able to get all the painting I wanted to, but I'm still happy with the experience.
Bender wrote:* Realise that despite the way people talk, this is not a professional sport played by demi gods, but rather a game of toy soldiers played by tired, inebriated human beings.
