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My World Eaters vs Necrons this afternoon:

I see i am not the only one who snagged a Veer-myn tunneler to use in 40K games.



The early crew had some flames of war and 40K running when we got there.








Then there was some battle tech-



I did a game of infinity combined army VS HAQQISLAM



The nomad player jumped in to take my place while i set up city terrain for more battle tech games so i didn't get a picture of the action, but it sounded like a really close game.

Then it was battle tech time for me-


First a 2v2 training game to teach using aerospace fighters on ground maps



Then a little inner sphere assault lance tango.



Then finally a clan V clan battle using mostly clan invasion era chassis.

 aphyon wrote:
I see i am not the only one who snagged a Veer-myn tunneler to use in 40K games.

Yep. While it's not as cool looking as the actual FW Termite, it's only about 1/4 the co$t.

Hot game of 6th on our first inaugural Classichammer monthly game day.

The Battle of Ephesus using the Men of Bronze rules. My skumgrod (Ork for favored enemy) and I are playing a campaign of the Ionian Revolt, a Greek vs. Persian campaign prior to the Greco-Persian Wars. Miniatures are all from Victrix Limited.



You can read the battle report on my blog, if you that is something you are interested in.
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/03/battle-report-battle-of-ephesus-ionian.html

Battle System's "Core Space: First Born". BS's Maladum, a dungeon-themed game using the Core Space rules, is currently on KS!

First Born tutorial map, with two crew members.

Tried out the Canoptek Army of Renown against some Orks. It played real nice for a casual game, lots of neat tricks and buffs, but the heavy unit restriction kept it from feeling OP. Won 85-74.

2nd game with newest army. Forgot 3d6 charge from seraphon which put spanner to plans. Then won r2 priority. I thought i was safe from what seraphon can do to me so didn't take double.

First he nukes both my admiral and khemist plus lots of mw's. Forgot that he can cast his spells through other heroes. Oops. Loss of these was huge and big part why i refused double was because i thought these were safe...

Then i forgot he can on 3+ add inch movement to bastiladon. I had measured bastiladon is 29.25" from ironclad so safe. If he gets 3+ he easily nukes ironclad and that i can't survive. He failed...


I really did my best to lose game...banked on getting counter double which i did get which allowed me to nuke kroak(picture from my t3 after kroak removed after entire army fired at it) which sealed game. Another doubie to him allowed him to take out frigate and skywardens but ironclad, 15 thunderers, hero and 2 endrinrigger tabled lizards. 25-14.

Didn't deserve to win playing like an idiot but dices kicked in.

Scene from last nights crusade game, the orbital evacuation. Theme is the Inquisitor and her Custodes contingent are trying to evacuate the Crawlus planet with vital intel, the planets demise is inevitable.

Meanwhile the Cult of Totality has used the pandemonium on Crawlus to summon Balthazar the Tormented to aid the recovery of the forbidden tomes the Inquisitor possesses.

As the Imperial forces retreated to their ships in orbit, Balthazar and his Scarab Occult entourage followed, cutting down multiple squads of Custodes and Sisters of Silence in the process.

FOGN 3rd edition battle report: 1809 Anglo-Portuguese vs 1812 Russian Infantry Corps



This picture is approaching the climax of the battle - My 1809 Anglo-Portuguese at the bottom vs a Russian 1812 Infantry Corps. On the left my cavalry and infantry are about to cross the river, on the right the Russians are about to assault my town.

The battle is using the Field of Glory Napoleonic rules for 3rd edition, that is still in testing.

First games of warcry. Conan the barbarian was cutting stuff. Kroxigor one shotted, nurgle leader likewise.


3-2. 2mirrors lost.

Unfortunately a couple of the games i had planned didn't pan out...so we just played different games

Some of the action-

Infinty



classic Battle Tech





My games-

A training game of infinity-nomads VS combined army




And a few Battle Tech games

Lothlorien vs easterling. Leader kill count scenario. As i couldnn't soften up before combat started struggled to make a dent on easterlings(wounding on 6 sucks) so i got overrun. However Haldir managed to do 4 kills while easterling captain did 2.



Rolling 6's is awesome with fight 6 :]

XIV kicked some IV butt as the Iron Warriors' guns proved insufficient to stop the terminator tide.

Sadly lost our game store. Been hard to get in games, but a little MCP and finally getting to really play Judgement!

Got trashed by orks. They went first so had 1 turn before 5++ waaghing orks crashed in.

Quick game and when i failed to kill ghaz and didn't even kill squig warboss gg. Only 4mw in psychic vs ghaz and makari saved 1. Then only 2 dam in melee vs ghaz and nothing vs squig warboss...that's it with 8 attacks no inv's on ghaz. Lol.

Magnus won't survive vs ghaz and squig warboss and 9 terminators and 3 heroes won't win game either. If any survives ork 3...

First game with khorne. Weird game. Looked like solid loss coming but chosens failing charge, prayers(in particular move), blood tithe(again move) and heavy use of retreat followed by rally.

6 skullcrusher nearly made it t1 charging middle of army but chosens rolling 10/37 6's for mortals killed it. 8mw fine. 10mw killed them. 2+ with +2 to save silly tough.

Game night updates-

star wars legion-



Infinity





HALO



40K apocalypse



specter operations



Games i was involved in-

Teaching a refresher/training game of oldhammer 40k with the hybrid 5th ed rules we use- 3.5 chaos VS 3rd ed iron hands 600 points. turned out to be a tie



Another introductory game 5th ed necrons VS 7th ed admech at 1750, in our hybrid rule set-machine men VS machines. the admech got a good stomping but it was fun.



Then the pre-scheduled battle tech games-

Assault force actions IS mercenaries VS hells horses- tough fight, win for the horse with 3 mechs lost but 7 kills



death commandos VS 2nd swords of light- brutal game-win for the liao-

I played my first ever game of Grimdark Future Firefight yesterday with my partner. We ended up playing three because they were so much fun and very quick.


We definitely agreed I need to make more and more varied terrain, so that there is less line of sight because the carbine orks really shot the pistol and choppa orks to pieces. I'm going to make some wound tokens and activation tokens too this week hopefully to keep better track of things.
Also, I learned the hard way that trying to charge through dangerous terrain is not a good idea lol. Can't wait to play more

Mordor vs minas tirith. Mordor won as somehow boromir kept losing vs orcs or failed to kill.


Then khorne vs nurgle. Khorne herophase movement trickery too much.


My gobbos got crushed by tzeentch. Had slim chance for comeback but losing r5 prio was too much.

Flying boat pirate dwarves vs big waagh. Orcs too eager going first getting slapped hard in melee.

Been getting in quite a bit of Judgement. Absolutely loving it.

Cos vs std.

Was going to fail tactic t1 so made panic charge into therions. This turned big as this resulted in death of therions, sorcerer lord and general and stole home objective.

Multiple screens and steady firepower grinded him down.

2500 p DG vs Mechanicum, tried out two squads of five possessed librarian aspirant with bound daemon brute rules as a mobile melee element running in front of the terminator wall. They did pretty well, reaving through multiple squads of midsized robots and hanging on there causing havoc until the very end of the game where they finally died to darkfire lances. By this time I had thoroughly won on objectives already.

Here's some pictures of the midfield brawl as Scoria and two Domitars attempt to take on the whole world at once (and fail, less than surprisingly)

I got a little caught up in my oldhammer game and missed some pictures of other games-infinity, heavy gear and more classic battletech. but i did manage to get these-








My games- a clan light mech battle-



Teaching how to play protomechs



Our oldhammer game-stormtrooper heavy 3rd ed demon hunters VS 7th ed admech with 3rd ed witch hunter allies. ordo malleus and ordo hereticus having a bit of a disagreement.

Khorne vs slaanesh. Bad scenario for me, probably wrong choice to go 2nd underestimating just how little 27" gap between is, stupid charge with bloodthirster resulting dead general, failed grand strategy, keeper unharmed. Then no r2 double to give fighting chance and no double r3 sealed. I would need to prevent him get any points t4 and t5 and score max myself to win. Too bad to do that i would need to table him t3 which is impossible...

Another round of Judgement:

Been a while since I posted any games (there were games played!)....

Tonight's Sigmar:
2v2 team game.
An elven alliance (CoS High Elves + Idoneth vs Nighthaunt + Bonereapers)

Slow slow game as the Elf players are very inexperienced and this was my 1st time ever trying Bonereapers. Alot of looking things up. And then later realizing you still missed something.
Oh, and plenty of non-game BSing.
Things died, rules were learned, and a good time was had....
Oh, and it was a very marginal victory for the undead.

*Overall? I was not terribly impressed with the Bonereapers. They're just a collection I got awhile back for an absurdly good deal. I figured I might as well finally play them....

One wonders how those forces ended up on an Imperial planet currently under Tyranid invasion.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
One wonders how those forces ended up on an Imperial planet currently under Tyranid invasion.

Oh the how is easy.
My Nighthaunt partner & the High Elf rolled off for attacker/defender.
My partner won the roll & chose us. to be the attacker - meaning the Elf player got to set up the terrain.
Of the several pre-set tables at the shop, the less sci-fi one was in use. So feeling lazy the Elf player pointed to the nearest open one & declared it good enough (yes, the terrain could've been swapped out).
And the Idoneth player? He was running late & got no say in the matter.

Thus ghosts & skeletal constructs battled vintage elves & flying sea life amongst odd looking ruins & spikey alien growths.....

Were you using old or new obr battletome? If old maybe new one helps