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 aphyon wrote:

Thor and Mongoose vs two Demolisher IIs?

I think the tanks were custom jobs they used the demolishers as proxies
Many of the guys like using BV2. while i understand it provides a good framework for mismatched numbers. i prefer to use the basic fixed pilot skills for clan/IS and the 1/1 for same sides or the IS/clan fights of 1.3 to 1 conversion so you can just bring whatever you enjoy playing. rather it be lance on lance, star on star, or 2 lances VS 1 star. i find BV mostly pointless because the crit system exists and i also play with forced withdrawl/safecon rules.

Aside from scenarios or jokes i also do not play with any custom mech designs to prevent players from abusing the game.

Since i have been playing since 1987, and almost constantly for over the last 10 years many of the rules i use or do no use are for speed of game play.
for example-fire as you bear rules instead of an entire declare fire phase that adds extra hours to an individual games play time.

Max tech level 3 rules/charts for vehicles to actually make them viable and encourage their use, max tech ammo explosion rule for more epic explosions. etc...

 aphyon wrote:
Sherrypie...that is an amazing shot!

Thanks!

Given that I had like two seconds to take it while playing and refereeing, I'll take that as a success
There are 20+ like it in the blog report, do have a look.

weekend update-
the other games
classic BattleTech-

Jade falcon VS sea fox



Don't know what this mess was



Star Wars legion



My games-

Started the night off with some epic scale 40K using our hybrid 5th ed rules. with ranges/movement halved and turns doubled to 10.

It was 3rd ed IG armored company VS 7th ed admech. at 2K points on a 4X4 table.



And then a rematch...er i mean weapons test with my fellow clanners (coyote)

Pregame. Mighty general chaos lord on karkardrak calls for chaos gods!

Double 1.

Well i'm undivided. Reroll 1 dice.

And 1.

My general is now spawn.

Insult for injury i didn't have 2nd spawn so got...that thing...as proxy by host

77-51 win vs necrons in league. Maybe could have done bit more gap but whaterer. He can have few points more.

Bloodthirsters mean, khorne stratagems good, daemon save screws necrons a lot and flamers op. Had just 5 and huge impact anyway.

1,500pts Eldar vanguard + superheavy auxiliary vs custodies.

Between wraithbone construct T8 and high AP high damage attacks it was a bit of a blowout. Tabled the golden boys on turn 4 and only lost one lord and 3 wraithblades.

Wraithknight survived but only killed 4 wardens and a shield captain.


A little to the left of the picture is another 4 custodian guard on their home objective and 8 terminators + terminator shield captain in deep strike reserves.

One more chance for local dok win record drop from 100% this year. Not even close though the way dices went i can't lose. I need to make 4 6's save, pass, he needs 3 2+ to wound, fail all, i get 2 saves on 6's damage 3 and pass. Same attack sequence and all game like that. Dices being this style i can't lose.

Battlefleet Gothic, Imperium vs Chaos. We used a modified system that converted the game to a 5cm grid for movement and shooting. It worked really well, making it simple for a 7-player game to finish in a couple hours.

Grids are all the rage again!

Played my first game with TS today, despite having built this force up over 2 years. Played against my mate using the new Guard, armies were roughly:

Me
Exalted Sorcerer on Disk
Sorcerer
10x Rubrics
5x Rubrics
Helbrute
Helbrute
Defiler

Him
Castellan
Command Squad w. Bullgrun Bodyguard
3x Bullgryns
Comissar
5x 10 Guardsmen
10x Kasrkin
2x Bombast Guns
Leman Russ Executioner
Sentinel

I rolled first turn, Psychic Phase was a bit of a whiff, mainly as I completely forgot about Cabal Points, and only killed the Sentinel and a few Kasrkin. His first turn and I lose most of the 10x Rubrics. I did a bit of a Hail Mary and moved the Defiler and Helbrutes towards the centre. Defiler took out the Russ in shooting, wiped out the Kasrkin, his Castellan and Bullgryns. His Command Squad charged the Exalted Sorcerer and luckily he survived.




The key moment was the Exalted Sorcerer surviving, as he then cast Smite and Doombolt on the Command Squad, followed up with Baleful Devolution from the other Sorcerer cast on an 11 thanks to the Capricious Crest, meaning I roll 11 D6, with every 6 causing D3 Mortal Wounds. Suffice to say the squad didn't last long.

It was a very swingy game and he took a fair chunk out my army while being tabled. Here's what I had left.



Running this list and some Tzeench Daemons in a 2k small tournament over the next few weeks. I doubt it'll do as well as looking at the other lists they seem much...sweatier but wish me luck nonetheless!

Game night update

There was a mix of alpha strike and classic BattleTech tonight-










More Star Wars legion-




For me it was all 40K old hammer edition.

we first did a 3,500 point apocalypse level game in epic scale with halved ranges-3rd ed tank company VS 4th ed iyanden eldar......



And finally, a normal sized 2k game of blood angels (5th ed) VS dark angels (3.5 ed).

Open war game. Originally was supposed to be 2vs2 but ork player got sick so after rolling i ended up with reserve deathwath force. Lol. Some handicap playing 2 new armies 1 whose rules haven't even read. Well at least marines...

After vetoes(everybodv got to veto 1 card from open war pulls) twist was -2 psychic rolls no rerolls. Loooool.

Scenario had objective that 1 side(roll off who) moves and from t3 onward score 1 from it and 2 end df game. They won first 4 roll offs so game was me hunting down objectives.


My teleport spell(and cabal points ensuring i auto cast it) was big allowing me to redeploy troops from right toward left where objective got moved.

R5 i finally won roll off securng win as it was middle of my army. 3-1 thus. Losing roll off would have meant 2-1 at best with some chance they could deny it.

I participated in a warhammer Underworlds tournament on the weekend. I took the Exiled Dead. Played agaisnt Ylthari's Guardians, Spiteclaw Swarm, and the new Sons of Velmorn. Each in the typical best 2/3 format. I somehow managed to not drop a single game (won all 6 of my games), and took home one of the new shadeglass trophies.

Tson vs new guard. Had i went second would have been quick defeat(magnus being quite a handicap vs vanquisher) but got 1st turn but still barely won. And opponent forgot exploding 6's on kaskir.

Their shooting super scary. Even after deleting several squads they deleted 10 rubric, 2 terminator, 15/18w from magnus and 6 pink horrors.

T2 deleted huge swathes andd still they come. I learned here　the tanks can shoot out of melee. Whoops. Would have　stayed more out. At least teleport spell(overall big) saved my ass though.

79-69

So do i count my first game with tzeentch as win or loss?-)

We counted points as 19-20. Post game remembered i did have against the odds to do automatic 2 points first time ever i had this left t5...

In any case result good with shooty magic melee vs kragnos, gluttons(-1 to wound shooting) and ironguts that one shots pinks at ease.

Had a rare weekday off so i managed to get in a couple extra games-

Privateer press night this time-

first a good game of monpoc



Then a 50 point game of warmachine MK III

As expected, it was a small turn out for game night, being Christmas eve, many of the normal crowd were away with family so we only had a few games

Specter operations-



Some oldhammer 40K-
custom chapter designed with the 4th ed trait system VS 3.5 dark angels.



And a DUST Christmas special because Cthulhu-

6th Ed. WFB Skaven vs. Dark Elves

New year's game night......all classic BattleTech all the time....and some Star Wars

First a couple demo games of alpha strike-





Then some classic








Then my games-

A game of steiner VS clan hells horse.



Then finally a HUGE by B5 wars standards Star Wars imperial task force VS a rebel squadron.

My last game of 2022.
3025 era Battletech.
My Scorpion + Enforcer vs a Hatchetman/Hunchback team.
Victory: Me.

The Hatchetman was run down & shot to pieces. (pictued)
The Scorpion, suffering 2 engine hits, pushed its luck one time too many the next round trying to kill off the Hunchback & ultimately failed a heat related ammo explosion check. :(
The Hunchback lost both its gyros though....
Leaving my Enforcer in control of the field.

Hmm... never seen anyone put those plastic 'Mechs on hex bases before. Interesting.

 aphyon wrote:

I spy with my little eye, something that isn't a BattleTech mapsheet. It's quite cool.

Any idea where it came from?

One of the guys has a bunch of laminated map sheets both custom and otherwise, not sure where those 2 came from, but i remember them commenting about how hard it was to read the hexes because they were in white text on a mostly white/light blue map sheet.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Hmm... never seen anyone put those plastic 'Mechs on hex bases before. Interesting.

I did that some years ago to eliminate any debates about facings/fire arcs when not playing on a hex map.
It worked. Everybody's hex sides are now equal & the arguments some of the players kept wanting to have ceased.

Decided to start year with army i only played once last year.

Screwed up underestimating frostlord threat range but he got greedy and tried to kill general dragon rather than unit of 2. This resulted in quick death and thanks to good turn 1 won 25-5.

3 mournfangs soloed half of my melee infantry though on my charges as i underestimated first and then had to attack elsewhere for battle tactic.

Alright, time to post some holiday gaming!

Starting with some MCP: Convocation vs the Guardians and Thanos:



Military Orders sought to repel a Shesvasti incursion:



And quite a lot of Mk4 Testing:

Nice! Due to the weather, we could not have our annual, Holiday Total CARnage games. Almost no one managed to make it home for the Holidays.

I was sad on a number of levels.

Tson vs death guard using new points and dataslate. Impact of lack of aoc felt in good and bad. Think i gained more thanks to -2 bolters and 5+ inv saves.

75-36. Got solid lead on primaries thanks to go first, teleport spell and teleport artefact and his secondaries flopped hard. 8 pts from those...

Playing game of keep the cat away from pokey elves...

And losing tzeentch vs lumineth and winning(with luck) std vs lumineth.

Game night update time-

Some team yankee



BattleTech







Infinity



Then i helped demo 2 games of monpoc





To end out the night i got 2 games of X-wing scale with the B5 wars rules set.