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I played in two DBA (De Bellis Antiquitatis) events this past weekend at Cold Wars.



Only won two out of seven, but I'll take that since it was my first time playing and I was mostly trying to get my head around the rules.

 infinite_array wrote:
I played in two DBA (De Bellis Antiquitatis) events this past weekend at Cold Wars.



Only won two out of seven, but I'll take that since it was my first time playing and I was mostly trying to get my head around the rules.

You should post and tell us more in the Historical section of the board. I want to know more.

A couple games from the gentleman's tournament at adepticon. Kept forgetting to take more pictures.


some pro display boards

Tried Heralds of Ruin today, more tomorrow. Took a bit of gentlemanly discussion to find out where the fun balance was (my Death Guard shall not consist solely of deepstriking terminators, your Imperial Guard shall not spam all the plasma in the galaxy etc.) but after a few test matches it was really fun.

Here we have a fierce battle raging over an abandoned hospital site and in the end, after the rattle of bolt and lasfire has died down, bloodied soldiers emerge from the stormed buildings and the lament of those broken fills the air, the XIV legion stands strong and defiant.

More Heralds of Ruin. Had a good evening kicking IG arse with a third fellow butting in with his dastardly Rogue Traders. Firstly the Traders smacked some IG heinies too, while drunkenly trying to get a map to their actual goal and then proceeded to raid the Death Guard laboratories in search of a Doomsday Device. And raid they truly did, for while about 80% of their team was utterly murdered by the Astartes, their swaggering leader made a leap of faith from the highest ledge on the battlefield, slid safely across to the next roof, ordered his voidmaster to grab the thing and the bastards flew to safety while hanging one-handedly from a drone

Afterwards we had to go clear some minor monster problems, perhaps having something to do with the lost device...

Dropped my Codex NonComplaint against an adMech army with a serious if accidental theme of '3s'. Pushed hard only to find out that AdMech doesn't actually suck at melee. Also used flyers for the second time and learned a lot about how the rules interact. I was very proud of my jinking until I realized I couldn't fire any of my weapons....



Also hovering models can be charged by ground units

I ran a quick demo of Arena Rex for a local store owner - Marcus Furius, Otho Mentulus, and Viatrix vs. Hermes, Urbicus, and Tribune. Was glad to get it out on the table again.



I've got everything for the Ludus Magnus faction, so I could get up to a full 5-on-5 fight with a piece of Living Terrain in the center of the table.

Played a post FAQ game with pre-FAQ points. Lots of high point models died quickly to leave a melee based slog between two armies that don't do well at melee

Orks vs dark angels. Due to deployment zones, me seizing and orks simply having tons of models(and I happened to have 2x10 boyz I had planned to mob up but decided instead to use as rear area chaff instead) dark angels had REAL hard time deep striking. Only due to chronical time issue forcing me to skip stuff like measurements gave him 6 terminator sized hole on my backfield to even allow putting them anywhere but his own deployment zone corners...My dakka jet basically invalidated most of his deployment zone! And even lone tank busta nob visible on top left screwed up his deep strike possibilities. Buggy was also used just to block bottom left corner effectively.

Alas due to time issues(2h is really short time to play slowest gw game in decades with orks) we only got my 3rd round(me starting) before time up. Would have been question of can those terminators take and hold objective vs ghazz, 2 boyz squad etc with no help coming(either dead or mired in orks way too far to help anymore)

An updated version of the classic RT scenario 'Battle for the Farm'.

If you're interested, the full report's here.

Are thgose LED marines? Cool!

I forgot to post this Men of Bronze game here;



Historical Persians vs. Greek battle using paper templates.... gasp! Thankfully, the actual model replacements are on the painting table.

Read all about it here: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/04/battle-report-men-of-bronze-ravaging.html

Another Arena Rex game...


5 v. 5 matchup...
Cohort A: Urbicus, Hermes, Acerbus, Micon

Cohort B: Lupa, Gaius Pallidus, Leo, Atrox, Noxius

Leo had an amazing Reaction: Counter Attack move early in the game that scored him NINE successes and doomed Hermes to a much earlier defeat than I had counted on. Thank goodness Urbicus hung in there and kept Leo occupied for the remainder of the match.

MVP goes to Acerbus, the rhino - he trashed Atrox, took out Leo's last few health, and pounded Noxius into the dirt all on his own. He made up for my other gladiators being less than stellar... I already mentioned Hermes getting punked by Leo, but Micon also was totally ineffective on the other side.

Really loving this game the more I play. Sounds like it's going pretty strong at the moment as well.

Our first proper game of AoS at the Shed.

The field. Game was 'Battle for the Pass', with 4 objectives (The Big Tree, Skullvane Manse, Town square, Woodcutter's Cottage).



My Wars of the Roses guys pressed into service as Freeguild with a REALLY quick (4 hours) sculpt of a saddle on a Reaper Bones Griffon to mount a general on.



More Wars of the Roses minis as Freeguild. Archers occupying the Market Hall (but not for long).



Blightkings assault the market hall and throw in a massive 45 hit round... archers didn't last long.



Some Knights arrive to ruin the Plaguebearers day...



General on Griffon messes up the Blightkings shortly before a GUO arrives to lay the smackdown on him.

Fought a thousand point game in preparation for an upcoming tournament. I faced some Index Deathwatch. I'm pretty certain it would have been a very different outcome post-codex:



Totally feth'd up the deep strike and my charge, but still came through by sheer virtue of a 3+ armor save:

Had a 2000 point battle yesterday. The only rule was that every model had to have at least 4 wounds.

Orks defeated my Imperial Guard.







Cheers,

CB

Vulkan and his boy breaking some thousand sons. Yes he lived. He killed the Dreadnought, 3 of the sekhmet and 4 of the blademasters, both infantry units fell back and the blademasters were finished by some terminators.

Battle between Space Marines and Imperial Guard.







Space Marines had several units in reserve and tried to mouse trap the guard as they moved forward. Plan backfired and the Guard beat off all the reinforcements with massed fire and eventually controlled all the objectives.

Cheers,

CB

First round in tournament. Kiiled 2 assasins but he hunkered so i got objectives so 20-16 to him only

Second round. With da jump put pressure to objectives. Resurection gave headache. 11-11 draw

Third round. I killed archon only in game but objectives were good enough and had barely relic with me so 12-12 draw.

A battle in the Great Samnite War using my famous paper Stand-ups!




You can read a full report of the battle on the blog....
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2018/05/battle-report-conquest-rome-in-italy.html

Imperial Guard versus Legion of the Damned Knight and Space Marines with special victory conditions.




Objective was the Knight, which used it's speed to move away from any dangers. Since Space Marines and Legion of the Damned had the first turn they targeted all the Heavy Weapons Squads and wiped them all out.

Although regular infantry reduced the Knight to half wounds in two turns.

Cheers,

CB

I'm a little surprised, embarrassed and disappointed to realise that the last game I played was back in November...



(No, the players haven't shrunk, that really is a very big Valkyrie).

Nurgle vs Nurgle in a desert backwater





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My foot slogging triple Battalion DEldar face off against my friend's Tau.

Dungeons and Dragons, outflanking a pack of Ghouls

My Daughter playing with her orks and pulling from the dead pile.

Apparently Rarity is about to be interrogated by my dead Intero Chaplain.

She still knows her Ork's names and it's very funny. She is 3 1/2 years old and rolls dice and holds templates for me. Though usually she rolls dice then proclaims: I win!

Fought a friend of mine at 2k points using the leaked german deathwatch codex.



His dice betrayed his corvus blackstars pretty badly. One didn't make a single armor roll all game, dying to small arms fire.

Finally getting the handle on how my list works, but damn if going deathwatch for my primaris list isn't tempting.

here'sthe table from my last game,
including a shot from our campaign map.