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Khorne vs slaanesh. Good armour saves from khorne kept me up in grinding war. Skarbrand took out sigvald, 2/3 slaangor and dropped keeper to 1w. R4 got double and that was it. Though me removing objective r3 gave him chance to get vp's closer than it should have been.

4 way triumph & treachery. Ghosts got win helped a lot by turn orders and my help(me going first r2 helped ghosts, me going first r3 and failing to do 4 wounds to belakor again helped them). Lumineth was 2nd and way behind my gits and legion of first prince in that order.

Super fun but long day at the game matrix-

We had a special made hex board table in the storage room i broke out to the joiy of the battletech hex map players and it got used for multiple games.






The other table set up for 3d terrain also got quite a bit of use for battletech







As well as epic 40K



Other games-
specter operations



And a grand fleet engagement-BFG style

BFG! Awesome!

Got to play more of the Indo-China campaign we have going for Castles in the Sky.



You can read up on it all at the blog if you are so inclined.....
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2022/06/castles-in-sky-indo-china-campaign-v.html

Final game of league. Marking territory vs unkillable chaos warrior swarm(3+ 6+++ vs -2? 5+++ vs mw? How to go through that?). They didn'j kill my guys and as they won r3 priority made me go first and burned objective from me and with help of summoned cultists just swarmed objectives for win.

Bit more playtesting our Hyperian Wars ruleset - Orcs vs Sky Marines



Still working on getting points balancing right!

My son's Tau crushing my Guard in Grimdark Future.

For this weekends game matrix update

the games i was not in-

some classic battletech






specter operations



A warmachine demo game.



Games i was in-

classic battletech has crabs



And the orks get a good krumpin in a 5th ed game of 40K

Played an exceedingly tiny civil war game using one hour wargaming rules. Tiny, but fun.

Lost to Deathwatch

I'm confused. Is there just no terrain on one half of the table?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'm confused. Is there just no terrain on one half of the table?

Ahhh thats the game next to us. We didnt mark off the table edge

Good bye to ghb21. Cos vs seraphon.

Started well enough but t2 skink charge from teleport worked giving 4vp and killing evocators. Then they got double and i failed to get counter double. Add to that magic wreaking havoc and my army just melted.

Without 9" charge would have been very different.

No charge and no double r3? Then it would have been very good for me.

Not rolling higher than 5 for unbinds except the roll i made for lolz when he failed to cast when i rolled 12 didn't help. It was like dices mocked me

I do love my FLGS, here is what was going on at the game matrix this weekend-

First stuff i was not involved in-

battletech on hex maps



On 3d terrain-

A little family feud between comstar and WOB



Specter operations-modern warfare



Game i was actually playing-

Castles in the sky represented by 3d printed last exile ships.



Warmachine-Khador VS Skorne



The next part of our battletech campaign.

More Americans vs French action in Castles in the Sky from Osprey.



You can read all the gory details on the blog:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2022/06/battle-report-castles-in-sky-pseudo-war_0366208745.html

First games with new ghb. Bonesplitters vs cos&sce. Fulminator/demigryph kkight was too much 3+ save to grind down and　20 crossbows had field day. Skaven won vs ironjaw in crazy game where rat ogres saved the day after most of my army died. And sylvaneth over aggroed and after 2 rounds 0-9, most dead and counter double locked the result.

Edit: post game correction. Made big mistake in adding points so adding it up correctly 31-29 win for ironjaws. Skaven first outing loss but at least nearly tabled orcs

This weekends games at the matrix-


Some new victory at sea-



Star wars legion-



Specter operations-



Then the battletech games-








Then my games-

A smallish 800 point or so of our hybrid 5th ed 40K game on tau world-

Dark angels (3.5 mini dex) VS salamanders (5th edition)-




Classic battletech Clan blood spirits VS steel vyper in a strict zelbrigen battle-

Skaven vs skaven ptg with ghb22 scenario. Skaven won

More accurately i did. But bloodpath. Had 14 models left from 74 and he had 1 from 86.

Victory at Sea! Awesome to see it on a table and in action!

 Easy E wrote:
Victory at Sea! Awesome to see it on a table and in action!

Yeah, a new group has started showing up and playing the new version. i still have all the stuff for the mongoose version we still play time to time.

Rematch of skaven vs skaven. This time 2k close to chest.

Round 2 went horribad for me and just ran out of army. With battle tactic failing(8 plague monks buffed up failing to kill like 6 clanrat) and gs going to fail and succeed for him and objectives rolling for him called it after my 3rd.

Helping teach some kids BattleTech at the shop this evening.
A 5 way free for all featuring;
A Blackknight,
An Awesome,
An Exterminator,
Some.... Samurai looking Mech I never remember it's name
& my own Shadowhawk (red dice) - completely out classed, out gunned, & holding its own through 3 hours of play.

In the end, with the Samurai thing, Awesome, & Black Knight all down, it came to the severely mauled Exterminator getting me with a lucky Crit roll.

Just finished our annual Boys Weekend, so had a really good mix of different genres and systems:

Black Sails




Big game of Team Yankee, Soviets vs West German and British Army of the Rhine






Saga, Normans vs the tribes of Britain






A fun little 6-way space shootout game (Planet 27 maybe?) on some glorious home made terrain






And finally a casual game of Aliens

Nice gordy, good to see so many games being played in your community as well.


This week's matrix game night-

Of course there was battletech-







Some specter operations modern warfare



Then the games i actually was in-

A schedules battle against a comstar level 2 crab lance.

All crab all the time.



Then i did a 25 point demo game of warmachine using my khador army split in 2





And finally, the epic ending battle to the battletech campaign we were in.-

Crusade rolled on with games vs necrons and ultramarines with win each. Sanguinary guard rolled over and slaughtered their foes.

As a result they took step closer to madness though...

Captain took down basic marines with ease but ultramarine captain was tougher with 5 rounds before blood drinker emerged victorious.

Khorne vs ghosts round 1 of my tournament. Scenario helped me. Thirsters hugged his army and fought to death while 2 blood reavers ran to backlines scoring 2 battle tactics, grand strategy, 3 objective burning and 2 primary points. Not bad for 160 pts.

Round 2 vs gits. Battlelines drawn scenario was about worst i could have had vs these gits. Had to gamble and get troll hag try and fail to kill skarbrand. Alas no fail, my skullcrushers whiffed and git double r3 ensured total bloodpath.

Round 3 vs cities of sigmar. Game premise simple. I get double, i win most likely. No double, i might kill his army but can't outscore.

No double ever, lost.

People keep telling me that the double turn thing in AoS isn't a big deal, and that anyone who dares raise questions about how unfair it is just doesn't understand the game.

Yet, tneva, whenever I read your AoS posts in these threads, the double turn seems like a really big deal, like, most games tend to hinge on whether you get it or not.

Khorne vs cos it was only thing that gave me chance(otherwise look lists, know winner). Git game it didn't decide game. Just made loss into bigger loss(we rolled priority more for curiosity as we called game already. I was toast. Deader than stone. That game was lost for good on skarbrand gamble that failed). Game 1 3 doubles, 2 for nighthaunt yet i won. 2 previous games no effect. Previous 3 game day doubles didn't change.

Khorne vs that cos shooting castle with cos having less drops is one that double was literally only thing that made game something that wasn't foregone conclusion. Without double winner would have been known instantly. Meanwhile most of my games　past month double been at most lose even harder.

Git game had skarbrand survived(my big gamble. I wanted him to charge in and nearly kill skarbrand. My smaller gamble was for him to ignore him but as he didn't have alternative worthy target less worry but had he ignored skarbrand still not a happy guy as while not as bad as killing skarbrand still bad) i would have killed sloggoth and troll hag(literally no question. Sloggoth literally auto dies no dice roll needed and hag is extremely unlikely to survive . Auto death if skarbrand is left at 1 wound).

This would have been big and at that point git double might not have been deciding and i'm pretty sure then it would have been win despite double. Lucky charge by trolls might save still but without it i should be able to win it.

Skarbrand dead i simply ran out of steam and even if i kill army(i did have 2 bloodthirsters and 3rd ready to come once 1 die) i can't catch up on points.

Double just ensured it's even faster. Can't kill hag so remaing half of my thirsters going to be dead.

Also cos game his near complete lack of screens exposed him to double turn swing. Drop steam tank, add 2x10 screens, i'm going to need kind of miracle to win even with double. Still doable as 2 handed axe bloodthirster can do miracles if he rolls 6's on wound rolls but will require hell of a luck plus double.

One trick skew list that foregoes screens against army that lacks ranged counter threat but has ability to bybass overwatch increases importance of double turn. But of course without double you know winner right away and bit of math you can figure out vp's +-2 accuracy.

Never mind wednesday game where i took out 1/3 of his heavy hitters, got double, got lucky greater plague(firsv 5+ on 1d6, then 11+ on 2d6) yet still got crushed. Yea real strong double turn. Lol.

 Easy E wrote:
Victory at Sea! Awesome to see it on a table and in action!

Naval is very close to taking over in my club, we have Victory at Sea, Dystopian Wars and BFG running now, and Oak&Iron coming too.