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A most excellent game of X-Wing at the club this week, my Rebel Combo junk against Separatists, was fairly close in the end especially as Separatists evade dice abandoned him in the midgame but Grievous managed to pop a couple of ships before getting boxed in by Wedge and Jan, which never ends well, final score 200-150(ish) for Rebels (still playing 2.0 as the other player only gets games in once in a Forest Moon)

Fyreslayers vs soulblight. Couldn't kill units, careless regarding gravesites and was forced to go first r3 rather than soulblight getting double so lost 27-19. Could have still won had 3" + redeploy amount charge failed and be able to go first r5. Did go first and 3" redeploy and 8" charge gave win unless i can kill named vampire on zombie dragon. Nope.

Pic from my "Defense of Sol Hexen" narrative campaign I'm running. Homebrew rules written by my buddy for "not Necromunda". 2-3 players per side with 8-12 models each.

First game is Orks launching probing attacks against the outer defenses of a Krieg regiment holding a hive ruin.

As the game progresses, I'm hand drawing each outcome on a piece of poster board to have a fully illustrated campaign map at the end.

Cool stuff, we do something similar with our old school kill teams/combat patrols, but we do not play often enough to keep a campaign going, right now that is alternating back and forth between classic battletech and specter operations every week.


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Quick update, full report later-
just finished another TTS game of hybrid 5th ed 40K- blood angels (5th) VS admech (7th). i helped him write up a list this time for a more well rounded approach, and while brutal he still pulled off a solid win.

Weekend gaming update 4/17/22

lots of battletech

a demo game to teach two new players in a Solaris style battle.



More specter operations-



A second game for one of the new battletech players.



Game 3 of the battletech campaign-leaving port

Some Wars of the Republic from Osprey.....



You can read all about it on the blog.....
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2022/04/battle-report-wars-of-republic-ambush.html

Gloomspite vs nurgle 25-26. Down to can glottkin do 7" rerollable to deny grand strategy.

Post game reaiized that my squig hero movement whose point was to give auto run to trolls for further spearhead unit was not needed and just gave 3" free cgharge to glottkin on my turn so would have needed 10" charge. Even better could have ran summoned trolls blocking charge...i can't stop burn and max objectives anyway...

Vengeful Death Guard forces hound, encircle and capture a hated Iron Warriors captain, siegemaster Aleksy for his insolence in damaging the XIV's shiny new superheavy tank in a previous (botched) attempt to overtake the Death Guard's turf. Despite putting up a fight, the Iron Fourth are eventually brought to kneel before the might of XIV's witchcraft and terminator charges. Captain Aleksy is bagged, interrogated and mailed back home to his commanders in exchange for some pretty lucrative vehicle production deals...

Loath as I am to post anything after Sherrypie’s masterpieces, here’s a few of our last campaign game - an imperial assault on a renegade trench line:



So…many…plague zombies (Poxwalkers)


Sneaky…




There is no hiding from the Emperor’s wrath!


Uh oh….hammer time

 Gordy2000 wrote:
Loath as I am to post anything after Sherrypie’s masterpieces, here’s a few of our last campaign game - an imperial assault on a renegade trench line:

Oy, no selling yourself short on my watch, Gordy! I'm awaiting to see more of that zombie horde over at Battle Reports

First proper game in a couple of years now that I've found a quiet moment to myself. Fallout Wasteland Warfare, simple scenario of Nuka Girl versus the Zetan using the AI system for the latter to get to better grips with the rules and well, to just chuck some dice again. The objective was the Nuka Cola vendo and having played through the "scenario" half a dozen times, it was a battle between glass cannons, the Nuka Cola mascot darting between cover in between shots with her Thirst Zapper, whilst the alien defended its prize.

Catching up on uploading my photos. First game was the start of our Crusade between the Eldar and an approaching hive fleet. Even with 3 starting CP the 2 for Phantasm is worth it to keep my troops away from the hungry bugs. We won the first game but the next two games were rough as you can see by the last stand in the second photo.



We won the first game but the next two games were rough as you can see by the last stand in the second photo. Amazingly Warriors can get up to S8 on their talons which make short work of my Wraithseer.



Also got in some demo games of MechaStellar at our FLGS. We had pre-made armies to let people reenact their favorite moments from Mobile Suit Gundam, the 08th MS Team, and Gundam Wing.



We had them side by side, on the right we had Wing vs Tallgeese and Leos and then later Heavyarms vs Tallgeese and Leos. Rough day for Tallgeese who was defeated both times. On the left we had two bouts of the 08th MS Team where Shiro and company prevailed against the Gouf Custom and Zeon forces.



Finally we had a One Year War (OYW) battle between the experienced crew of the White Base vs the forces of A Baoa Qu. While Zeon outnumbered the Federation heavily our third player was surprised by how much he was able to accomplish with just the Gundam and two Guncannons. Early on it appeared that Zeon would have an overwhelming victory scoring more than double the Federations victory points but that all changed in Round 4.

The Zeon player got too aggressive and ran low on Momentum. This was the perfect time for the Gundam to shine. As Amuro began dispatching Zakus he used the "Tear through the Ranks" pilot skill allowing him to keep slicing Zakus in half with his beam saber. Thanks to his "Fearsome" pilot skill he gained a bonus momentum for each destruction allowing him to keep using the skill. The carnage of this round wiped out nearly every Zaku.

The Zeon player did have his high movement Dom's left and just one Gelgoog who were able to exact revenge and take down Hayato's Guncannon. Kai swore revenge and wiped out a pair of Dom's himself that turn, amazingly killing one with just melee strikes from his fists. The dice were certainly on his side!

What mat is that???

The forest one is from Mats by Mars: https://matsbymars.com/collections/dropfleet-commander/products/hawk-wargames-dropfleet-commander-lake-tabletop-wargaming-play-mat

Great design, we've had it for a few years.

The desert one is from wargame studios: https://warzonestudio.com/gaming-mat-sector-b-12-warhammer-terrain

That one is vinyl, but I've also enjoyed their cloth ones as well.

I got to the game matrix at 2:30 PM yesterday and i am just now getting done putting away everything after i just got home, it is 8:30 am. so i will post more in the appropriate subtopics later. after a nice nap.

There was the large flames of war group there that started earlier in the day. they come in about once a month to run a campaign. i forgot to grab any pics of their games.

I set up a couple tables for games i knew we had planned-

warmachine

.Khador VS Skorne 50 points.




A lance on lance battle between our Marik player and another Kurita player while i was off playing warmachine-



A couple shots of the specter ops group's campaign-





My last game was a clan invasion of an IS outpost. The clanners invading the inner sphere *shocked pikachu face*...nobody saw that coming.

I got the Balin's Tomb game a while back when it was first released.

I pulled it out, along with my old Mines of Moria figures and terrain from a LONG time ago.

Fun little game:

Game start:








Oh No, Dey Gots a Cave Troll!





Frodo done got whacked early on.

I need to work through a few questions.

Just a few days ago I played a friendly 9th edition 40k game, my Chaos Marines against my dad's nids. It was great, the Chaos Marines held the line with a 55-30 advantage in victory points and mostly because of secondary objectives. I took Assassinate and Bring It Down which really ballooned my victory points every time I killed a Hive Tyrant, because he is both a monster AND a character. And I know Tyranid players love their Tyrants, and overall they are dependent on monstrous creatures, at least from my perspective. My Predator took out a Trygon in one go with Prescience and VotLW. Hitting and wounding on 2's, 4D6 damage and I rolled literally just good enough to kill it by getting a 12 with that. The battle was conceited afterwards so it was over at turn 4 with Chaos controlling 4 of the 6 objectives, and the Tyranids had one. Overall, I thought my dad's nids did a terrific job in both the shooting and psychic phase, both my Land Raider and Vindicator were gone by turn 3, possibly even 2. They were hit hard in the first turn and stricken near useless with the Terminators having to disembark early and sell their lives to keep the lead Tyrant in melee so Lord Tarkin could arrive the next turn and fight it one VS one. It did happen, and the Tyrant was slain (it was also the warlord) but it costed 5 terminators and a slew of legionaries to contain it. The whole battle was filled with epic moments, so try to ignore the ghetto table and stuff haha and the quarters are the OBJ's, since we were really not that prepared and the shops were closed so we had to improvise, we just really wanted to play the game.

Edit: The picture in the middle was the one we took at the end when we called it. The other 2 are pictures of our deployments before turn 1.

This weeks Guildball game, Order vs Alchemists, Order squeeked out a 12-10 wins due to a RTFC issue on my part

2nd game with khaine ladies. With 2 glasshammers r2 priority was going to be gold. No double turn and i got rid of enough stuff that with cannon blowing itself up 2 doomwheels can't do enough. After his t3 i would wipe 2 wheels, leave general alive for battletactic and r4&5 just wipe 3 support heroes.

33-13 but double and don't think i would have survived. Doomwheels blows my stuff up.

6 or 7 game losing streak ended.

More battletech, because there is never enough-

Cool board, 3D print is amazing for small scale terrain

 Illumini wrote:
Cool board, 3D print is amazing for small scale terrain

Yeah 90% of that terrain is from steel warrior studio STLs-made for battletech. highly recommended.

The outpost mat if from micro art studio, it is actually for infinity (ariadna) but it makes for a great battetech city/outpost.

I kicked off a Castles in the Sky campaign set in Indo-china. French vs British



For those inclined, you can read about it on my blog.

http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2022/05/castles-in-sky-indo-china-campaign.html

Dok vs soulblight. Little experience with these so was bit worried. Good news is i had no rush to alpha strike so army was able to stay in coherency. Ladies tore through wolves like hot butter.

We had to wrap after r4 but after he won r5 prio it would be 25-15 most likely. He maybe gets 2 vp if he can get 10 of his wolves killed.

Wrapped up 40k league with solid 74-43 win vs orks. Ghaz and stormpa were unstoppable but equally he had little tools against 10 dreadnoughts. I layered over objectives and focused on anything even remotely soft. Getting rid of meganobs turn 1 was also big help. He also failed lots of 9" charges.

Nice terrain and dread army!

20mm fantasy - Orcs v Ratmen https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/a-clash-of-evil-hyperian-wars-battle-report/

 Stevefamine wrote:
Nice terrain and dread army!

Need 4 more dreads for all dread army

tneva82 wrote:

 Stevefamine wrote:
Nice terrain and dread army!

Need 4 more dreads for all dread army

Do tell? how many are you up to? i stopped at 15

10. Made list with 14 and no non-dread model.