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Weekend in review-

10th ed 40K



3rd ed 40K eldar VS dark eldar



House 5th ed 3.5 chaos (nurgle) VS 4th ed tau-



MCP








Battle tech alpha strike-



Classic battle tech



My games consisted of one, as people coming in late or doing teaching games left me waiting to get in this pre-planned game.

5k of Epic: Armageddon, Ill Met by Moonlight.
Patrols met under the onslaught of the tyranid invasion and quickly escalated as marching columns started pouring into the city. The situation quickly dipped to Mechanicus' favor, as they got their big guns onto the field and incessantly pummeled the xenos as they tried to escape the traffic jam at their deployment area.




More pics in the spoiler!

My games tonight-

MCP trying out warlock for the first time-



DUST 1947 demo game allied heavy rangers VS axis fallschirmjager-



and a game of classic battle tech-

Walked in to this last minute surprise mega game of team yankee-



we squeezed a game of OPR with some classic era 40K minis-



Then there was some MCP-



Then some classic 40K 3.5 chaos plague marines(and ku'gath from the 4th ed demon codex for the LOLs) facing off against 4th ed black templar in our house 5th ed game.



(pappa nurgle shared his love in a smashing victory)



I managed to get in 2 games myself in a big infantry fight with my demon hunter allied salamanders facing the black templar. narrow victory for the boys in black




And a lance on lance classic battle tech fight between davions and kurita forces.

I have been feeling a bit anti-social lately, so decided to continue a solo-campaign for Under the Martian Yoke.

Things did not go well for my little survivor band, as immediately a Martian Tripod showed up to wreck their morning......



Wow, for a first game back at the campaign; this was a disaster for my survivors! You can read all about it here:

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/09/battle-report-under-martian-yoke-holed.html

Things went from bad, to worse, to very bleak......

Tragedy in three acts: 3k NetEA Imperial Fists vs. the Machine Church, Reinforce the Right (GT scenario with three waves of troops and randomised deployment areas). The central firebase of the cog-boys proved too tough to crack for the astartes who arrived far from their main objectives and though the battle hung in balance until the very end, eventually the grand magos led their taxi-deprived and thus slowly stretching column of servitors and priests deep into the enemy rear.



Do note the Fists' Devastators' laudable camouflage exercise "Operation Atlas".

More pictures in the spoiler!

This weeks games-

MCP-



House 5th ed

5th ed imperial guard armored company VS 4th ed black templar-



The same guard army VS 4th ed Tau-



3.5 chaos on chaos action some plague marines against chaos undivided.





3.5 plague marines VS 4th ed black templar-



My games-

MCP-



Classic battle tech-

Today's 6th Ed. WFB matches

40k today. 2k pts
Imperial Agents (mostly DW) + 2 Warglaglaives vs Khorne Demons & Wardogs.

The Khorne player conceded going into his 3rd turn. Didnt even attempt his shooting phase.
He didn't think he had a shot catching me VP wise (it was only 37/15, my favor). I think he was way underestimating his chances. Both of crippling me this turn & then surpassing me on VPs in turns 4 & 5.

Tonight turned into a surprise oldhammer 40K night. as several people unexpectedly showed up late-

Game 1

A battle of the fist successors-

crimson fists (5th) VS templars (4th)- the crusader is standing in as a crimson fists standard land raider.



Game 2 was 3.5 plague marines VS 5th ed necrons-



Then the plague marines got to trounce some 4th ed tau-



My games were all battle tech-

The first was a re-match against last weeks Steiner assault lance with a Kurita assault lance-



Then we did some battle tech in space AKA aerotech 2



We finished up with a clan on inner sphere battle-

40k, UM (9th Co) vs Necrons.

Bunch of big 4K games in our oldhammer group

Game 1 was a 4K per side iron hands VS black templar battle- so many land raiders.........



Game 2 was the templar player fighting a combined iron warrior/plague marine force. funny to watch especially since nurgles rot affected the other chaos player as well since he was undivided.




There was a 3rd 2K point game of combined chaos forces VS necrons using the forgeworld fall of orpheus tomb world rules. but i was busy with my own game and forgot to snap a picture.



templar won game 1 on a tie breaker and chaos won game 2, but just barely. with only a couple models left for each player on the team.



It took close to 8 hours to get around to the game i was waiting for because the templar player was also my opponent.

We did a battle tech game clan assault star VS a double fedcom assault lance. -brutally close game

My 1st match in our Heresy League last night.
My fully assembled & somewhat painted Iron Warriors vs a force of mostly painted & partially assembled Iron Warriors.

Victory: Iron Warriors (mine)

Bit of a late start for me this week, but we still had a busy day-

40K oldhammer wise we had 3 games. the templar and nurgle went at it again, but i don't take any pictures.

then the chaos gods did a bit of in-fighting iron warriors VS plague marines.



then we had some classic battle tech






The new flames of war all tank game- 1950s cold war



Then my games-

salmanders/grey knight allies VS nurgle.



Battle tech mountain fight-

I'm at work but Classichammer is happening without me...

After I'm not really sure how many years we got the band back together for a game last Saturday. HH2.0

4 players, 2 teams of two. Word bearers and Space Wolves vs Imperial first and my First Legion.
I took my terrain up to the game. My friends hadn't seen any of it in person yet. We took our time and flipped through the rules for hours while we played. The game went almost 6 hours but it flew by. we had a blast. My team, Imperial First and First legion won the game by one point. I really enjoyed the game and so far the game rules. We're looking to start playing once a month starting in the ne year after the holidays are over. Unfortunately for me I drove 200 miles in total just to play nearly 5 hours on the road. It's going to be rough but I think I can manage. My buddie gave me a Land Raider Spartan, he still has 9 more in his collection. Looks like I'll be painting again after all.

The terrain more or less won up the game. My friends complaint was just that he had no decent fire lanes. Which seems fair to me. I'm happy to adjust in the future but it did help my very very basic list to at least have a decent showing Winning the game was unexpected. Our mission was to get line units into the enemy deployment Zone. Some how we did. The other side fell just a bit short but may have taken it in another round. Really good game and lots of fun hanging out with good friends.

Tonight my Grey Knights squared off against a brand new Imperial Knights force/player.
2k pts.

I took down Canis Rex (and Hektor), a Paladin(?) & 2/3 Warglaives.
And nearly bracketed the big FW Knight.

My general plan was to kill everything but the FW knight & then out score the foe.
Unfortunately there were a few poor dice rolls that delayed me clearing Rex & the right flank.
Wich ended up costing me precious units.

I didn't win this one, but the game was very very close pts wise.

Finished my 31st Five Parsecs from Home encounter up against some elite Abandoned. Here are some of my favourite photos of not-Attelus Kaltos after he killed the enemy Unique Individual a Freelancer after said Freelancer took out no-Elandria in close combat which I decided enraged Attelus into charging the guy in vengeance. Elandria survived FYI, she was just injured in the leg no thanks to a re-roll on the injury table because non-Adelana had Medical Training as the re-roll was "death".

The first move in a 6th Edition game. Meeting Engagement scenario.

Last weekend I ran Dracula's America demos at a scale modeling convention in my town. Had a few newly finished terrain pieces too.

Super busy game night.

We had some MCP-





An epic large 10th ed 40K game-



A small introductory game of 40K



classic battle tech ongoing campaign



House 5th ed 40K games-

Templar VS IG-



Nurgle VS iron hands



My games-

Started out with a planned game of DUST 1947 escalation scenario mission ALLIES vs AXIS-



Then i broke out the ADMECH to face off against 3.5 chaos (nurgle)



Then black templar had a go at me-



We ended the night(or in this case next morning) with some classic battle tech-

Today's 40k:
2k Tau vs Imperial Knights.

When railguns & plentiful Seeker Missles are involved its not really a fair fiight.... The Knights were tabled on the bottom of turn 3 & lost very badly on pts.

Below we see an antique Tau Barracuda (on a makeshift flight stand ) wiping out the last Armigar.

Some more solo-wargaming with Under the Martian Yoke. Things look pretty bad for our small band of Martian Invasion survivors.



You can read up on the plight of this little band of survivors on the blog if you are so inclined:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/11/battle-report-under-martian-yoke.html

Real life has created some inconsistent gaming lately, but here's a bunch of random games that have been popular lately:

Shatterpoint:




MCP:




Judgement:




40K:




Infinity:

We had this huge flames of war tourney at the store that took up most of the space for most of the day.




After they finally cleared out we had some other games-

classic battle tech.



the battle tech campaign was also going but i was busy with my own games so i forgot to get pictures of it.

Speaking of my games-

some house 5th ed 40K


imperial guard VS admech



chaos VS admech



Then i moved on to a couple battle tech games-

Today's game of 40k

UM vs Necrons. 2k pts.
Victory: Necrons

The final showdown of our 6 month Dracula's America campaign, 3 player posses banding together to defend their town from a vampiric invasion.

This weeks games-

10th ed 40K



Some warhammer the old world-







some MCP-



And some classic battle tech on hero quest tiles-



My games-

MCP-



classic battle tech-

The theme of the night was battle tech.








I got in a quick game of house 5th ed 40K admech(7th) VS black templar(4th)

i brought my war hound titan this game, but it never got on the table the basic admech had cleaned things up to the point the templar player decided to run away.



Then we did a little fedcom civil war battle tech game. minor victory for the lyran guards, with one marauder II left on the table at the end.

My force-
.marauder II
.devastator
,night star
.cerberus

The other force-
.marauder II
.night star
.atlas
.gunslinger.

Intro game against my friend James. He hasnt played since 9th so I let him pilot my Tyranids against Iron Hands