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Good looking games, especially the In Country board. Kudos.


A game of Homer's Heroes: Bronze Age Bad Boys:



You can see more photos and read about what happened on my blood and spectacles blog, if you are so inclined:

http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/01/battle-report-homers-heroes-hold-shrine.html

We played Space Weirdos for the first time last Saturday. I took a Star Frontiers force of a human, a yazirian, a dralasite and a vrusk.

Photo shows a mutant pinning down my human and yazirian on the first turn.

76-71 daemon vs dg.

Going 2nd, both 6"charges from deepstrike, be'lakor dying to plague marines counter attack, no warp points r3 etc felt i was screwed but bad engage score(t1 teleport to his rear split his army) and scoring end of turn r5 netting me 8vp eeked close win.

Bloodpath game. R3 finished all but 1 minor hero but plenty of orcs died.

Boarding Action 40k:
Mission #2
Custodes vs my Deathguard.
A good, close, & most importantly fun, game.

Victory: Custodes (25vp) to Deathguard (20vp)

Last week I managed to meet with my mates for a couple 1000 pts games. Lost both due to the stupid Custodes' saves. Their 4+ even against MWs was beyond annoying. First game was a double GSC/Eldar count as VS said Custodes. The second was a threeway free for all with GSC spawning randomly.

First game start. I managed a first turn charge with the Scorpions for a wooping 10 wounds, that my opponent saved except for one.


Second game, my Farseer tries to fry his Magus and fails.


Second game, Hawks vs Locus didn't go well for my troops either.


M.

Some Kill Team this afternoon.
Necrons vs Deathwatch.
It did not end well for the marines....

One Page Rules skirmish on a 4x4 table:

Newly painted Eldar battle line

Sides close in

Banshees sneak a flank attack on the Assault Marines

2 games of lotr. Isengard vs beorlings. Quick massacre not helped that first round of combats lost every single combat. 4 vs 1 no help. Casualties like 10-0.


Then dunedain vs pirates. Closer but merciless shoot own guys in melee to get some rangers wore down. Picture of last charge of Halbarad vs last surviving pirates. Did not　end well.

A bit of a late start for us this weekend. the early birds were 3 large DnD groups. although on the up side we had two completely new battle tech players -



Then i loaned out my monpoc stuff to teach a semi regular how to play.

They only did 1 monster and 13 units this game. Defender X with guard/green fury (that are actually painted this time) support VS tharsis 5 and more martian units.



Then the games i was directly involved in-

A pre-planned clan battle with a twist. My opponent decided to bring lights and mediums...... so i matched him in kind-



The second planned game went to the other end of the spectrum- with the Omega super heavy with lance support taking on 2 tri-pod super heavies and an advanced upgrade banshee.




The final game was a warmachine MKIII 2v2 khador/crucible guard VS menoth/cygnar.

Squiggy gits got beaten by troll gits.

They hit so hard and too tough for squigs. And scuttletide killed 3/5 heroes.

 Insectum7 wrote:
One Page Rules skirmish on a 4x4 table:

@Insectum7 that looks like an outstanding game! Love the board - a beautiful example of the classic 40k style.

Loving the setup, Insectum7!

Here's another Epic: Armageddon batrep:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/808825.page

More MCP:

Khorne & be'lakor vs ba. Tight game. My primary initially sucked but thirster managed to heal just in time to become safe and ran over multiple units. In the end he just ran out of units. 57-50 with both having 0 vp secondary.

A 1k pt AoO game today.
My Deathguard vs a very very new Dark Angels player.
This was far more an extended teaching 40k match than a real game.
It was his 1st game using actual objectives.

Today's lessons were:
How to effectively use Chaplains & Librarians, "Look Out Sir", reserves, & the basic core strats.

Next time we'll add in strats & possibly secondaries.

Game night updates from the matrix, loads of game going on,

some games i was not in-

40k, probably 9th ed but i didn't ask-






A massive battle tech battle using all the toys-



A guard on guard training game armored company VS normal guard.

IG were victorious well specifically the red ones.

The player with the red army had just did a test game of 9th and then learned our 5th ed rule set......lets just say we will be seeing more of him in our 5th ed games.



My fist actual game was a clan on clan battle tech game with the big hitters



The second game was just over 2k admech VS IG armored company-
very close game with the IG coming out on top by 1 point.

Last league game vs slaanesh daemons. Tson secondaries less than optimal, went 2nd and overaggroed losing magnus and half of my 10 termi squad for it causing 27-81 loss :/

A game of Restless Stars using my 40K models during Operation: Hemlock setting.



This was a rather large pitched battle situation as Imperial Troops tried to push Ork forces from the island of Baron's Rest. Of note, those Chimeras are made of cardstock and printed on a Grey Scale only laser printer using stir straws as barrels.

You can read it all here: http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/02/restless-stars-operation-hemlock.html

Rats vs ghosts. Black coach and spirit hosts making short work of claenrats but being able to kill rest and sit on objectives gave a win. Getting doubled t2 hurt but priorities t3&4 gave me huge vp lead

This evenings 40k:
●1st was a 1500 pt AoO game. World Eaters vs Cystodes. The Custodes lost badly.
And the phone only saved one poor picture. :(

●Next was an exciting* game of...... 40k Risk.
(Exciting might be an exaggeration.)
For a moment the GSC (purple) looked like he might gain an insurmountable lead.
Then the Eldar player (yellow) spread himself too thin, getting almost wiped out by the SM (blue).
The Chaos player (red) took advantage of that, picked off the surviving Ekdar, claimed his victory cards & won the game.
And thus 40k Risk goes back onto the shelf, probably to never again be played.

Battle System's Maladum KS starts 3/15, so I figure I'd show off one of their other sets!

Battle System's Fantasy Village set with Ravenkeep's Terra Tiles, with the Lasting Tales (still unreleased) miniature skirmish game.

Maladum is BS's dungeon-themed miniature skirmish game, based on their Core Space mechanics. BS will also have the terrain available, for Frostgrave and RPG's.
Miniatures by Hand of Glory. You can swap their equipment!

Maladum FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/667685361187018
Terra Tiles pre-order: https://ravenkeep.net/collections/terratiles
Hand of Glory : https://www.handofglory.co/

My what a day...walked into the game store to this fun madness (in a good way)



There were 2 large DnD groups playing along with

2 alpha strike tables





and 2 flames of war tables-






I arrived at my normal 2pm and i think it wasn't until 5 or 6 that the tables started to clear out for the late crew.

We then got our fill of classic battletech-








A game of epic proportions of 5th ed guard facing off against 5th ed dark eldar in our oldhammer group-narrow 1 point victory on tie breakers by the guard.




Then the game i had scheduled-

Clanners bid a trial of possession of 1 assault star. all they had to do was get a single mech across the river.....it was a close game, but the might of the lyran alliance blunted the assault-



Did one last late game getting some DUST 1947 the other player wanted a run with the Ctulhu army VS SSU-

We've been playing Grimdark Future/ OPR yesterday. Alien Hives vs. Tao Coalition. Aliens won in the end, despite not having anything to fight that Riptide that fired away every turn.

A very good game today between the World Eaters & Slansh Demons/Belakor.
Victory: WE 69/Slanesh 65.

Many of my World Eaters, including a spawn, earned paint today.

Had friend I havent seen in years play a game yesterday at my place with some of my armies

Always good to re-unite with an old friend over a game of toy soldiers.

 Easy E wrote:
Always good to re-unite with an old friend over a game of toy soldiers.

Yeah we hung out last in my early twenties. He hasn't played since 5th or 6th edition. It was a blast. We skipped Command Points/Psychic Phase and just had a basic 3 objectives all out game. Iron Hands won

Eldar doing what eldar does. Move within 12"(so warpstorm useless), shoot 30-40 shots, teleporth/move to safety.


Struggled to even make contact. Then fire dragons pop out, average 0.75 past saves, he gets 4 and nukes be'lakor lol.


Without mobile firepower tricky to do anything.

Khainites killed vampires. After 2 rounds things were bleak looking on scoring front but double r3 and going for full strength on blood rites i started to mincemeat.

1k vs new face(his 4th aos game).