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 The Red Hobbit wrote:
Nice! Where are the skeleton models from?

They are GW’s current set for AoS.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Deathrattle-Skeletons-2021

1k pts: My Skaven (Pestilence) vs some Idoneth.
Victory: Skaven

The MVP unit was the Plague Claw. The only time it didn't devastate a target was when I fired it at the Idolon guy (the enemy leader).

The most hilarious fight was the Idolon vs a 4 base rat swarm. He couldn't manage to kill more than 1 base of rats per fight, and they just respawned.....
Meanwhile those Stormvermin kept whittling him down, forcing him to waste effort casting some healing spell. And when the Stormvermin failed the swarms would roll well enough ....
Eventually the Plague Furnace came over & ended things.

 privateer4hire wrote:

 The Red Hobbit wrote:
Nice! Where are the skeleton models from?

They are GW’s current set for AoS.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Deathrattle-Skeletons-2021

Ah gotcha, I don't play AoS but they always have seem to have some well sculpted models.

Agreed. I don’t play AoS either but I needed skeletons so I split a box with a friend since it’s $60 for 20 models.

Got in a round of Judgement and MCP this weekend:

Poseidon's Warriors



3D printed triremes face off in a battle off the coast of Cyprus. This is part of my ongoing Ionian Revolt campaign.

If you want to see more, you can find it on my Blood and Spectacles blog:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/05/battle-report-poseidons-warriors-battle.html

Taught classic Battletech tonight at the shop

Team #1: Hatchetman, Crusader, Orion, Marauder II
Team #2: Scorpion, Crusader, Marauder, Battlemaster

Slow game
(almost everyone was new & had to keep looking up stuff - and no, it doesn't help them learn if the 3 vets were to just tell them eveything.. nope, math needs done, charts need checked, etc. It's how you memorize this stuff .)

No real winner battlewise when the shop closed, though Team #2 was in worse shape (the basic Marauder was beat to Hell).
But everyone had fun & now there's a whole new batch of players who know how to play classic Battletech.

We Were Too Late

Another grim day on patrol. Those townsfolk are sure getting their gold mark’s worth. No mere encounter with a wandering traveler at all. Our objective was to investigate a river on our untrustworthy boat, and we saw smoke in the distance. A campsite of fellow adventurers, perhaps? But we spied as well some horrible carnivorous fiends, and not an uncorrupted man in sight. We got our crossbows ready, as our meager transport bumped aimlessly along the shores of the river…

“Five Leagues from the Borderlands” Meeting Encounter with some Fiends.
Map by Loke Battle Mats, Wilderness Map book. VTT mega-map KS coming.
Campsite terrain by Archon, Elven Woods.
Fiends are Mantic ghouls. Pain to assemble and scrape off mold lines.
Corpses are “Tiny Furniture’s Harvest of War” miniatures. Sequel campaign coming!

Game night update-

Specter operations-



Star Wars legion



I was in my own games (following) so i missed taking pics of the classic BattleTech games going on.


My games-

B5 wars original- Narn VS earth alliance.



Dust 1947-stalingrad night raid



Big 3K 5th ed game of IG VS salamanders.

I played Men of Bronze as we continue to re-fight the Ionian Revolt.



If you are so inclined, you can read the battle report here:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/06/battle-report-men-of-bronze-ionian.html

Big night of MCP with a bonus demo for Shatterpoint

I played a few 200pt GFF games today. I think I need to get better about how to set up the terrain, and maybe make some more, but it was lots of fun regardless.



Also, grots are super cute and fun and when they get of a barrage, very useful. But they really do melt away quickly in combat.

Loads of 40K tonight-

but first some infinity-



Specter operations-





Now on to 40K







I did 2 games testing out some lists against a guard list first a side to side then end to end.

Still got some work to go.

The People's State Liberation Army do battle with the nefarious do-gooders of the People's Front Of Hazzard 237th Freedom Brigade....

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2023/06/12/treachery-at-skalk-point-station-a-future-force-warrior-battle-report/

Some V1 Aeronautica Imperialis....



Orks vs. Imperial PDF in the skies of Ammoriss during Operation: Hemlock.

You can read all about it here;
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/06/battle-report-aeronautica-imperialis.html

Got in a couple rounds of Shatterpoint the other day. Unfortunately my terrain isn't QUITE tall enough officially so I double stacked it. I think it ended up getting in the way so next time I'm just going to houserule it as tall enough for now. It doesn't look too short, at least until Grevious is out:

That terrain looks great. What is it???

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
That terrain looks great. What is it???

Strompost Alpha by Muse on Minis (not a typo, it wasdesigned by a guy named Strom).

It's really designed for Infinity; the building heights are keyed to the silhouettes from that game, but it's definitely a great set that had worked well for a bunch of different sci fi games:

https://www.museonstore.com/collections/sci-fi-terrain

 LunarSol wrote:
Strompost Alpha by Muse on Minis (not a typo, it wasdesigned by a guy named Strom).

It looks really cool. Thanks for the link.

 LunarSol wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
That terrain looks great. What is it???

Strompost Alpha by Muse on Minis (not a typo, it wasdesigned by a guy named Strom).

It's really designed for Infinity; the building heights are keyed to the silhouettes from that game, but it's definitely a great set that had worked well for a bunch of different sci fi games:

https://www.museonstore.com/collections/sci-fi-terrain

Thanks for sharing, it definitely reminded me on Infinity when I first saw it but it still looks quite nice. I could see some Arbites prowling around there.

End of a Contract

A third ride. A third battle. The lord is indeed working us hard for his gold. The adventurers last sent to investigate these ruins and fend off the bandits have not returned. Rumors we have gathered persist that the dead are slowly taking over. Bandits alongside undead suggests more than mere bandits. And rumors also hold of enemy plans or other evidence that will aid us (or at least a more heroic “us”) to take down the threats of this valley.

Painted a whole freakin’ Archon: Encounters: Land of the Giants set for a battle in Five Leagues from the Borderlands. 😛

Map by Loke Battle Mats, Wilderness Map book and Big Book of Battle Mats. VTT mega-map KS coming.
Ruins terrain by Archon, Lands of Giants. Bridge from the Mines half-wall set, and Fantasy Dungeon terrain. Cathedral from Cursed Cathedral and Stretch Goals II sets.
“Squealers” miniatures by RBJ Games
Corpses are “Tiny Furniture’s Harvest of War” miniatures. Sequel campaign coming!
Stone walls by Acheson Creations. May be OOP.
Red-grey ruins by Secret Weapon Miniatures. OOP.
Heroes and Skeletons by Reaper, Bones.

Tonight's theme seemed to be classic battle tech-















My games-

lexington combat group VS second swords of light.





Heavy gear CEF VS southern.





And finally some warmachine MKIII Khador VS Convergence at 50 points.

First game in over a year for any tabletop stuff. A win for my Navy (white/yellow) in a 150 point dogfight.

Nice to see some AI!


We have continued to play the Ionian Revolt using Men of Bronze/Poseidon's Warriors. Today, was the Persians trying to win back cities in the Propontis and Hellespont region.



Ionian troops deploy to defend their crops.

You can read all about it on the Blood and Spectacles blog, if you are so inclined.

http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/06/battle-report-men-of-bronze-re-taking.html

Magnus came, Magnus soaked dark lance, Magnus ate everything.

R4 start in combat with 10 incubi with 1w. R4 end with 1w and wasn't even lucky.

Gargants not army i play often but noticed local store had 0 games by them so rectify. Up against ogor and in sure destruction style quick&deadly.

He traded beastrider to hurt gatebreaker hard along with cannons. My turn killed 20 gnoblars and 4 leadbelcher but gnoblars survlved long enough for warstompa be useless(2 gnoblars...).

No double　so braced for near perfect situation to shoot...but somehow his dice abandoned him and all 3 mega gargants still in working shape.


This too much as i deleted most of his msu. R3 still no double but 6" redeploy and ironguts sitting duck. Counter 7" charge in and ogors tabled.

Love the spikey ball terrain

Spikey ball terrain You mean the purple ball next to gargant? That ain't terrain but purple sun of shyish endless spell

Got it out first time I tried but on turn 3 when game was already in bag so 90 pts that literally did nothing but it was more of insurance if I face chaos warriors or some other army with good saves. As crazy as it might sound those huge gargants don't have THAT high rend so 3+ and 2+ saves can really stump them so purple sun(that worsens saves of nearby units) can be helpful.

Ogors depend on big pile of wounds over high saves though so not exactly optimal spell here.

Yeah I have one of those still on the sprue. I'm somewhat afraid to put it together.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yeah I have one of those still on the sprue. I'm somewhat afraid to put it together.

And for a good reason The thing is nightmare. And me being generally not expert at assembling(one local guy has good time of poking fun at my models...But it's good natured one at least) unsurprisingly it had LOADS of holes. Plenty of greenstuff to fill gaps with liquid greenstuff to try to match the surface texture at least a bit.

Luckily the surface texture being what it is means that after painting it's not TOO bad.

But yeah. That thing is PITA to assemble.