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1k 40k escalation league game today.
Drukhari (mine) vs Necrons.
Victory: Necrons - by quite a bit.
(This opponent & I NEVER have close games. Fun games? Yes. But we tend to alternate claiming extremely lopsided victories....)

Just got in from the game store-

The games-

a couple 10th ed games-





Some MCP



Babylon 5 wars brakiri VS centari



My games-

Some aero tech-



a demo DUST 1947 game-mythos VS axis



a couple clan on clan battletech game-





And to round it out house 5th ed 40K-3.5 dark angels with allied deathwatch facing eldar xenos-

Legions blood angel vs solar auxilia. Good start but they got priority denying me secondary and they got max out so 86-81 for solar.

Lotr easterling vs gondor. Gondor couldn't roll a die to save their life so easy win for easterling. Fighting vs superior fight, winning and killing on 6's consistently made for easy win.

Stormcast vs seraphon. Took quite light list and played ultra aggressively(up against kid i have won previously so while i wasn't trying to lose deliberately i took more gambles to give him good chances to perform with center piece model. Tried to win by objectives rather than tabling) but r3 double and 9" charge succeeding nailed game for the lizards(

3k pt game between Custodes/iKnights vs a Tau/Guard/Grey Knight alliance.

Victory: the T/G/GK alliance. 76 to 40something.
My Tau & Guard partners did most of the heavy lifting combat wise. My GKs, with their movement shenanigans, took care of scoring secondaries.

In the end? The tau player was reduced to 1 Skyray, the Guard player had 1 Demolisher, 1 Vanquisher, and an enraged Tech priest. Me? I lost 4 of the 8 models I started with (a GMNDK, GM x2, & a Brother Captain).
The Knights were tabled & the custodes had Trajan + 4 Custodes holding the far western objective.

More Titanicus goodness at the club. This year started with a bang, as our annual-ish AT mega-battle expanded into a two-day narrative event. I wrote custom missions so that we could first play three rounds of 1v1 games on Saturday where the winning side could dictate environmental conditions for the following round as well as earn some neat bonii for Sunday's all-in brawl.

-- War for the Angel's Grave 3.-4.2.2024 --

An ancient repository of knowledge, a forbidden and sealed esoteric weapon best forgotten or a relic of the broken dream now irrepairably lost? No-one knew precisely what the arcology known as the Angel's Grave held within its confines, but when Warmaster Horus decreed it to be taken, neither did his lackeys question the wisdom of such orders. Under the capricious auspices of the dark gods, god-machines marched into their dropships and hurtled through the blazing voids of the war-stricken galaxy with murder in their hearts...

The traitors slam down on the unsuspecting planet in the dark of night and spread out. From the barely habited outskirts, legios Krytos, Omina and Mortis plunge deep into the planet's infrastructure as the surprised loyalists scramble to face the threat. Legios Solaria, Astorum and Magna jump to hold the line and manage to stem the initial tide despite Krytos wreaking havoc on their communication towers. As the loyalist line refuses to crumble, their reserves in space enter the system and carve a bloody swathe through the traitors' fleet. As burning ships, scrap and satellites fall down on the planet in a rain of fire, the loyalist legios sally forth in a counter-attack to drive the traitors back. This seems to work, securing the defenders a decisive advantage in planetside artillery assets, until for the sudden and totally unforeseen betrayal by the Screaming Skulls! Who'd have thought those guys weren't on our side, absolutely shameful. With this stab in the back, both sides are forced to accept that this conflict will go on for a while and stock up on supplies from the available storages and techno-magi. With reserves from legio Favilla stepping onto the field to plug the hole left by Magna's treachery, the loyalists once more secure the continuing support of the Mechanicum and converge on the final showdown.




Four traitor commanders square against three loyalists with some 30 titans and 20 knights stalking the field. Ultramarines and Death Guard models are there to represent area control over various important objectives on the table as well as the critical supply depots no side can wage war without.










Astorum's supreme loyalist command leaves the supply depot lightly guarded, focusing their knightly allies on the right flank.



Traitors, acutely aware of their tenuous grasp on the planet, guard theirs keenly with the newly arrived Tiger Eyes' deployment.




As the fight begins, deafening roar of war-horns fills the centre as Favilla pushes forwards. Fallen knights are vaporised before their volcano cannons, swatted aside like gnats as more worthy foes approach from Krytos' lines.





On all flanks, forces advance into the fire.




In the middle, Excidium Ultimum and Deus Victrix hear the siren song of the Thunderdome. Two god-machines enter, who will leave?





Fighting intensifies on the flanks, as Mortis reaches one of the habitats in force and knights swarm towards Omina's positions.



Sensing an opportunity, one of Omina's Warhounds sneaks to threaten the loyalist supplies as Krytos' devastating volleys savage the Astorum Warmaster guarding them.




Despite losing its fist to Deus Victrix' fire, Excidium Ultimum saws the upstart God-Breaker in half and casts its broken form down in ruin, almost decapitating Ibn Faruq below with its mass. Glory is fleeting, however, as unabated firepower from most of the Tiger Eyes' battleline causes the injured Warmaster to crash down from its throne all the same.




On the left flank, Solaria's brazen charge cuts deep into the lighter Mortis engines as a column of Ultramarines follows in their wake to wipe out the Death Guard attempting to seize the habitat. Yet with their supplies under threat, it is all nearly futile.




Fighting to salvage the situation, Delictor Profectuum ploughs through Krytos' fire and the wrecked corpses of their comrades towards the supply depot with all systems burning. Perhaps they could have made it, if not for the relentless shelling of Quake munitions raining on them, causing the ground under their buckling legs to undulate like tortured jelly with each booming shot. Valiantly, if desperately, later reserve Cerastoi rush to try and relieve the Ultramarines at any price.



The traitors are similarly pressed, now, with Mortis crumbling before Solaria's advance. Favilla's heavy guns blow out one of Fureans' Warlords nearby and seal the deal as the remaining traitorous knights are slaughtered to the last.



Triumphantly, Krytos' sole remaining Warlord Braccus Rex sidesteps the futile knight charge and guns down the immobilised Delictor Profectuum, trumpeting its ownership of the loyalists' supply depot.

With fires burning all over the broken and mangled countryside, it is eventually clear to the loyalist side that their tactical situation is untenable. While the traitors are trapped and caught stranded in the bigger picture, unable to hold the planet and will soon all be hunted down, on this day they have by the barest of margins bought enough time for their techno-magi to complete their dark purpose at the Angel's Grave itself. For the Warmaster, they cry in the all-consuming ritual flames!

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A very slight Traitor victory after six rounds, 225 to 168 points (with one good turn able to swing 50+ points)! Loyalists killed more and took ground more aggressively, but with their supply lines left basically undefended by the supreme command's strategic blunder, they were unable to capitalise on this advantage, scoring no control points for the whole game after the first round. Not that the traitors had much more luck on that front, with loyalists having more men and machines on most strategic zones after the first third of the game, but that early lead let them coast pretty far. That element certainly brought a good dynamic to the match, with everyone involved until the end and multiple possible game-changing maneuvers hanging at singular dice rolls. If Delictor Profectuum hadn't been slowed down by Quake shell and immobilised ½" too far from the supplies, for example, it could have gone very much the other way. Still loving all of that.

Thanks for reading and happy wargaming!

Nice to see some Dystopian Wars with a campaign!

WOW! That Titanicus battle..... jaw dropping.....



My first wargaming of 2024 was the start of a Kill Team narrative campaign.



The Hand of the Archon takes on some Vet Guardsmen during the Siege Perilous around Powellington.

My Hand of the Archon were fighting for the forces of Chaos, and brought home the first Chaos victory.

You can read some details about the campaign and prep work on the blog if that is your thing:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/02/5-day-challenge-epilogue.html

2k pt 40k today.
Dark Angels vs my Drukhari.
Victory: Drukhari (close game though 57/53)
MVPs? The Razorwings

Thousand Sons v IG

It's been a few days now, but these are definitely photos of the last game I played. We had our first week back with the kids' TT Skirmish game club now that the school holidays are over, and we, of course, played Grimdark Future: Firefight. Two 300-point forces vs two 300-point forces. I played as my custom-made 'Ghostly Ghosts' (Gaunt's Ghosts, obviously No-Gaunt leading Not-Rawne, Not-Larkin and not-Bragg) fighting alongside Future Robots from the Future against Duck Knights and Human Defence Forces led by a Sword Acolyte Custodian another custom-made sheet so we could play with my Blade Master mini. We only managed to get to the end of the 2nd round, but it was a ton of fun. The kids enjoyed it a lot!

the week in review again-

10th ed 40k-





classic battle tech-





house 5th ed 40K





alpha strike-



Now my games-

DUST 1947



B5 wars star wars mod-



classic battle tech-

100pt Flames of War (Team Yankee) intro battle today.
US Abraham's detachment & support vs Soviet T72 detachment & support.

I supplied both forces & gave the new would-be player control of the US.
(My US is easier to play for a beginner & will cause massive destruction to my Soviets. I WANTED him to enjoy devastating my forces, afterall I'm trying to sell him on the game. )
Where we ended?
The US player had indeed caused much damage. And he was happy & sure he was a strong position had the game continued....
I on the other hand knew exactly how fragile his position really was concerning the morale rules.
Future turns could easily have ended in his check morale stages....

A recent game of Judgement and a round of 40k with my newly painted tanks:

Playing a small teaching game with my 9-year old son with a ruleset called Hobgoblin, which is a soon to be released minis agnostic rank n' flank game by the same guy that designed the car combat game Gaslands. We are using minifigures because he loves LEGO and I have been building a multi-army collection with the plan of using it to tempt him into gaming.

So far we have been slowly building a shared Fantasy world using only LEGO minifigures where we are going to use this game Hobgoblin for mass battles, and Age of Fantasy: Skirmish by One Page Rules for....well, skirmishes. I am also looking over several rules-lite games to use for RPG adventures.

Got a game of LOTR SBG in, and thoroughly enjoyed it.


That's a D&D minis Behir doing double duty as a cave drake, and some Oathmark human cavalry Grey Company.

Recent game of MCP:

Had the day off for a quick game of battle tactics-large scale WWII skirmish.

Broke out the Stalingrad table for a little eastern front action-STUGGs panzers and T34s oh my!

Now for the full update-

MCP-





A giant star wars legion team game-



DUST 1947 SSU VS axis zombies



Warmachine MKIII



Classic battle tech-

regulans VS legion of vega




My games-

monster on monster battle royale-monsterpoacalypse-



Epic 40K Iyanden VS guard



First of 2 games of 2nd swords of light VS crucis lancers-

This one went really fast so we reset and went again.



The second game was a fight to the last on both sides-

Finally, others have built enough Legion Imperialis stuff to get a game in!

So, pics of our 1st game. Astartes vs my Solar Auxillia.
Victory: Solar Auxillia (mvp unit = Thunderbolt squadron)

Weather and a funeral cut into the attendance at Classichammer Day this month, but we had a couple of good match ups and fun was had by all.

Pic of our heroes heroically avoiding the BBEG and going after his treasure!
The hulking orange guy near the wyrmling at the top of the board, and the grey guy with the long stick at the bottom are the "heroes".

Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales. Free PnP expansion: https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
Wildspire "Monster Set" miniatures: https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848

Some Legion Imperialis.
Not exactly a "legal" force on my opponents end.
He's had alot of trouble getting additional SM stuff.
So we set this game to 1 legal formation + a Riever.

I fielded 1 legal formation (las tercio) + the pts of the Reaver (I don't have one built yet....) as a tank co. Total pts value = to his.

Fun enough game, I won 12/9

I got into the store a bit late today so i missed the 2 back to back games of 3.5 chaos VS 7th ed imperial knight. apparently the knights didn't fair to well in either game.

Some of the other stuff-

MCP-



Heavy gear-



Warmachine-



battle tech-



My games-

a nail biter to the end 3.5 chaos VS 3.5 dark angels.

chaos wins on objectives 2/1 after we nearly killed each other off.



Dust 1947 SSU vs allies US/UK-



Battle tech game 1-fighting some word of blake super heavies-



Game 2 facing off against the clans with a fedcom strike force-

The forces of the Imperium try to fight off a tyranid attack in an Inq28 / Kill Team game.



It's an inquisitor, a rogue trader, a squat with a plasma gun, three skitarii, a servitor with a grav gun, an astropath, and a missionary

vs.

Five tyranid warriors, two genestealers, and two termagants.

Latest game of 6th

Tonight's clash of titans:
My Drukhari vs a whole bunch of little Chaos Knights.
It was a really good & close game - right up until turn 5 when the Knights gained a small lead I couldn't quite match. They beat me by 11 pts.

Two units tied for bragging rights (& paint!)
●The Succubus took out a damaged Carnivore on a charge.
●A Slythe picked off the final wound of another Carnivore while firing overwatch!

Tson vs ultramarines. Resounding loss.

Got close to lucking out when lancer, 6 plasma inceptor, 2 eradicator and 6 aggressor all buffed up didn't kill magnus. Calgar&aggressor charge 9" succeeded alas.

Had that failed i would have nuked his damage dealers largely and took hold of key objective. And he still needs to deal with magnus now hidden from lancer.

here

The quick weekend update-

these guys did 2 games of house 5th ed 40K-
4th ed space marine codex VS 7th ed imperial knight.



some classic battle tech-





heavy gear



MCP



I was lucky enough to get in the following-

2 MKIII warmachine games against retribution....fighting elves is hard in any game system...darn sneaky knife ears.






And 2 more battle tech games on 3d terrain as it should be-

Had a threeway KT21 Open world game, Mission was 1.1 "Prime Position" from the 2022 Annual. Interecession vs Corsairs vs Legionnaire.

Interecession ended up as team A and won the game 8-2-2. It was my first game playing Corsairs, and they are tricky to play well. I lost too many specialists early on and the rest of the team disintegrated to interecession boltgun fire. Meditating what to switch up for the next game..