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2 games with tsons. First league game against death guard who made slight deployment mistake that cost him a lot. Going first helped to get to side objectives that gave primaries to me. His terminator group meanwhile alone scored 24/44 of his vp's and zeroed my t3 secondaries. 2 that require holding home when it was partially deliberately given to dg...(figured better there so won't kill my stuff.

73-44

Then up against 10 desolators, 2x5 infiltrators, 6 aggressors and misc stuff. Desolators shot and shot but it was infiltrators that cost me game due to 12" no ds bubble. T2 tried to kill 5 with 5 terminators but failed so not only i was 5 behind primaries he got thanks to them tempting target and area denial for 10vp. So had he failed to get there i would have won actually as i lost by 9vp.

Magnus was funny. First i pass 7/7 inv saves taking just 2 wounds. Hah! I am invincible! Then 6 aggressors charge. 18 attacks hitting and wounding 4+ rerolls and 4+ save. Average is 5 in and i had 2 rerolls. 10 in...then captain took down to 1.

So much for i am invincible...

Soulblight vs gits. His gamble backfired horribly so i got all in charge with blood knight heavy force. Vengorian lord paid off so i deleted huge amount of hammers losing literally no models...

Him keeping priority rolls and lacking charge bonuses vs troll durability meant it was still pretty close 25-20 win.

A bit of Judgement and MCP this week:

On the gaming front, my pal's recently minted Blood Angels stumbled into the wrong neighbourhood in today's ZoMo and got whacked hard by the inexorable XIV.

Blood drinkers against orks. Pretty clear win with msu being name.

Surreal moment t3 when i chose gretchin as oath moment just for wound rerolls(flamers autohit anyway ). Warboss squad still there but still gretchins bigger priority.

Tiny, an unpainted vintage Bloodthirster vs a shiny new DA dreadnought.
End result: 22 damage to the dreadnought.

Isengard vs dwarves.

Started well with dwarves retreating in face of blistering crossbow fire. Then Lurtz's group collapsed and leader faced death which was bad considering scenario.

However lurtz managed to shield keeping himself alive long enough to get a chance to do tactical retreat leaving friends behind. Meanwhile troll got whittled to 1w. Balin got overeager and using heroic combat went in but no heroic strike saw him dead.

We both broke but my leader alive and his dead gave me win.

Tale of how i killed 100+ necron warriors...

Too bad didnt stay dead. T1 took out 10 lychguard. T2 took out monolith. Then i'm stuck in melee. Can't do secondaries. T3 magnus took out ghost ark. T4 reanimator. T5 finally the 20 blob died.

64-81 loss.

Last round up against csm. Fun game though lost solidly. My saving throws were abysmally bad to start. Magnus failing 5/6 inv saves despite 2 or 3 rerolls. Ate cp more to negate damage. Got down to 4 wounds and then died failing 4 3+ rolls. Had 1passed could have survlved...

This also ate cp so 10 terminator blob never got good chance and　using half-measured didn't appeal as cypher makes then psychic bolters 2cp. Add to that 2 units surviving making teleport position hard t2...

T3 they came in and nuked noise marines and abbadon but too little too late. I couldn't survive at objectives so lost on primaries horribly. No help from secondaries either.

tonight was mostly 40K

3 games of 10th edition







4 games of our house 5th edition

3.5 chaos VS 5th ed grey knights



5th ed imperial guard VS 5th ed tyranids (with 3rd ed models)



5th ed imperial guard VS 5th ed grey knights



3.5 chaos VS 5th ed grey knights.



Bolt action



Classic Battle tech




My games

DUST 1947 Cthulhu VS AXIS (bleutkruz/zombies)



40K 5th ed space marines W/allied demon hunters VS 3.5 chaos and a lovely scarbrand model.

Flames of War.
My Italians (tan) vs US Army (green).

Most of the US casualties were caused by my 4 Lancia trucks & their 90mm cannons (large trucks with big guns near my center mass).
My tanks? Couldn't hurt the Sherman's head on. And almost couldn't from the side....

Game ended turn 4 when one of my tank platoons took & held an objective.

Soulblight vs slaves to darkness. we likely mlsplayed the scenario as we went with raw but t2 noticed raw basically makes many armies unplayable. Like this archaon...so either we played deployment wrong by not going rai(we think) or we played wrong by allowing archaon to even play. Raw he wouldn't even get to use him...

After this back to game. He charged in, took out screens. Double and game looked bad. Archaon out of reserve doing 9" charge and dicey. However this allowed cunning pile in move that limited damage.

My turn needing 3 9" charges made them like a champ!

Alas part b of comeback plan and get counter double failed.

However he failed 2 6" charges evening 1 battle tactic failed each. Still 2 ahead primaries...

Then vengorian lord died. Very bad.

My turn gamble. Disallow wards, charge.

My roar failed, his worked, archaon alive and vampire lord on dragon died.

3 units of skeletons, foot vampire and single blood knight not enough vs 2x3 varanguard and archaon...

40k (pure Khorne demons vs SM) this afternoon.

What I'd wanted to field: a mass of Bloodletters backed up by a prince, throne, & a pair of Skull Cannon.
What I ended up fielding: Karnak, 2x10 Fleshhounds, 2x Skullmasters (the mounted hero), & 3x3 Bloodcrushers.
Why the difference? I grabbed the wrong black case on my way out the door.

Fun game. Very decisive Khorne victory though.
My opponent was not very aggressive concerning siezing objectives & I largely pinned him in his DZ.

Sometimes bag god decides on list you play

We continued our Ionian Revolt adventure with the battle of Padasus.


All the minis are from Victrix. If it is your thing, you can read the full report on my Blood and Spectacles blog here: http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/07/battle-report-men-of-bronze-battle-of.html

Tyranid vs death guard. Mvp were 2 tyranofex sporting rupture cannon and super flamer. Each deleted units at ease.

Also all the psychic flamers.

And one of the worst luck with secondaries i have seen for the opponent gave super low score for him.

My friend came over, and we played another game of The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game. Playing a scenario I made of the cultists of Jaroai summoning a Jaroai as Anargrin and his team desperately try to stop it (which was the scenario my BatRep was based on). I set up the map, and I played Anargrin (the dude in the blue shirt) and his merry five-man band of misfits, my friend, the cultists (and his daughter too, but she was only seven and lost interest quite quickly and wandered off). We had fun, but the way I placed the terrain left me at a huge disadvantage; I also lost the deployment roll, which prevented me from having Emilia transform into a werewolf before the game (so she has to use a turn to transform) and stopping Anargrin to go into infiltration mode. It's been a bit of a slog. I already lost my sniper, Raleas. We only managed to finish two rounds, so he's going to come over another day. I have four rounds to kill the summoners, then the Jaroai is released and there's a fifth extra round so the attackers can either run or try to kill it.

Here's a few photos.

I totally space brained it tonight. i was helping 2 different tables learn some games and completely forgot to take a pic of the imperial knights 7th ed fight against the 5th ed necrons.

What i did remember -

the general games-

10 ed 40K



classic battle tech









5th ed 40K



battle fleet gothic

battlefleet Bakka engaging a khorne fleet.




Games i actually played-

classic battletech on the new terrain mat.

clan nova against two augmented lances.



ilclan/republic era lance on lance battle. my tenshi had already died by the time i remembered to take this shot.

Flames of War: Team Yankee game Sunday.

USA vs my Soviets.
Result: draw. (Nobody captured an objective by the time the shop closed.)
The mission used delayed reserves (no reserves possible until turn 3) and we both had horrible reserve rolls then on..... game might very been different if anyone had gotten reserves before turn 5....
Fun game though.

The kids and I played some Grimdark Future: Firefight last night for my weekly gaming club, and we had a blast (Although I didn't get to play for long as another kid arrived, and I gave him my faction, the Ork Kommandoes to play. We only got halfway through the game. It was 2v2. It was Attelus Kaltos from Secret War leading some Imperial Guard Veterans fighting alongside Eldar (which is quite fluffy) VS Chaos Space Marines and Ork Kommandoes. We couldn't finish it, so will next Wednesday! No objectives, just killing.

More gaming happened in Epic scale, as we're all waiting for the Legiones Imperialis to slowly dripfeed into our systems there's always good ol' Epic: Armageddon to smash. Or in this case, orks faces to bash with both hands as the capitol city of Miami V needed defending, twice in a row!

First battle saw the orks thoroughly scrunched against the hot'n'hateful steel of Mechanicum.






The second battle saw an almost unstoppable triple-mob charge pour through one flank of robots, but the day was still carried by remorseless robots marching to the ork home base through a burning channel ripped in the earth by a nova cannon shot from the backfield Ordinatus.

Bolt Action tonight at the shop.
4 players, formed into two teams. 500pts person.

US Army (mine) + US Rangers vs Germans & US Marines.

Victory: US Army/Rangers.

Lol, I suck at taking pics. Trust me, there's supposed to be Bazookas & enemy in those QST 2 pics. Really, I swear!

Game night update-

10th ed 40k







5th ed 40k





classic battle tech



star wars legion



My games-

monster apocalypse



classic battle tech

I hope the Great Houses don't awaken the Necrons!

Today the SMs of the Gray Legion* teamed up with some vintage Tau (mine) to smack the UMs + a contingent of Guard about.

Victory: Team gray.
Though it was a fairly close game right up until turn 5...

My role in this venture was to
A) clear any enemy armor - a task the hammerheads had no trouble doing.
B) exploit openings with the piranhas & stealth suits to do secondary objectives.

Meanwhile, the Gray Marines did alot of the actual fighting.
Especially around the central objective.

First up, big fat table for an all out nid/orks. I set up loads of forest for my brother to wipe it all out with an Apocalypse strategem turn 1



Second of all, meanwhile, I set up that silly pack of boxes with a friend and we got to play a 1000 admech vs genestealer cult (count as with my imperial guard) right on the floor!

That was all 6th edition 40k.

Had three friends over and we played some classic Necromunda.

Had the guys pick the terrain and place it, we used two fully stocked up gangs of twelve models each. Orlocks versus Goliaths










Goliaths ended up with a decisive victory over the Orlocks, but everyone had tons of fun.

Cheers,

CB

Wow, nice terrain!

Game nights keep getting cancelled on me, but got to learn how to pick apart Genestealers with my Deathwatch:

Late night game. Nids vs dg. 85-77. He had no tools to stop monsters fast enough but he hid his vehicles from rupture cannon and 10 termies made center unviable target for nids.