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 aphyon wrote:
Well they set that one up, not me. of course it was 3rd so there was even less long range fire as they were playing straight from the 3rd ed rulebook army lists.

Then he should'a played regular Eldar! AV14 Wave Serpents.

Had a bit of fun with a two-table megabattle of 30k, with traitors summoning the daemon lord Gra-Bul'Ah (Hung-Ov'Ah for you puntastic anglophones out there) who eventually got banished back into the Empyrean through sheer embarrassment. Fittingly, the player in control of the mighty daemon marshall after it arrived had been similarly hammered a few hours beforehand. Initially my plan was to throw my Death Guard dreadnought-only vanguard into the Blood Angels to die off in the opening moves of the game so I could then concentrate on taking pictures, but as it turned out, my commanding ancient brother was the only remaining traitor model on the ritual table at the end of it all

On the second table, Mechanicum forces struggled over the control of a possessed Warhound titan while astartes forces savaged the Chaos obelisks around the place.



On the ritual table, my dreads took the fight to the Blood Angels while skies rained fire. Ultimately, two chaplains of the Angels united to crack some heads and caused Gra-Bul'Ah to pop back into non-existence not by dying, but rather through combat resolution loss as too many World Eaters died in the same combat for the might daemon to keep up with

Very cool!

From the October Classichammer night...

Vanquard nids vs admech.

Basically ran into objectives and past locking them in their dz. 1 each lictor variant handy midfield holder.

None of my units did spectacular killing but as they just needed to soak firepower just fine. Assimilator took out 4 kataprakts. Onager rolled 7/7 4++ so swarmlord had to take it out. Genestealers couple infantry units and then were flamed to death.

League game. Unending swarm vs necrons. Unsurprisingly only 6 units total dead in the end

Most of game i didn't bother to even attack if i didn't have to.

Kruleboyz vs lumineth. Went okayish 2 rounds though shouldn't have cast -1 attack spell ending up half boltboyz. Double on r3 ended up with too many dead kruleboy's and then scenario hurt primaries.

But big cow died when my monster did whopping 17mw.

Campaign started. Close game with all spiderfang gits vs nighthaunt with gargant.

T2 double for ghosts scared but my general shaman survlved, counter double and killed to the wound.

Win for spiders!

All the mortals against ghosts were murder.

Played some Kill Team with my oldhammer Harlies......



You can see some more photos as bonus content on the Blood and Spectacles blog here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/10/wargame-design-having-pov.html

Got a small (750pt) Sigmar game in this evening.
Some of my Clan Pestilence encountered the new Trug Herd.

My rats got off to a good start VP & damage wise, but then things rapidly went downhill..... :(

Finished my 2nd Campaign turn of Five Parsecs from Home about a crew based on Attelus Kaltos and other characters from Secret War, which was against a Rival Black Ops squad with a Hired Killer. Was a bit nervous about the fight due to their high stats, but the game was pretty one-sided. It was fun!


(This one is my favourite photo I took of the game.)

classic battle tech and 40K were the order of the day-

There was one team yankee table-



then there was all the classic battle tech









A 10th ed 40K game-



A 5th ed 40K game-5th ed crimson fists VS 3.5 chaos iron warriors-



My games-

40K 5th ed-

By request i was using the same list in these 2 games-

game 1

salamanders 5th ed VS imperial guard armored company with allied space marine support. inclusing a terminus ultra-



Game 2

VS 3.5 iron warriors-



Finally a little battle tech fedcom civil war federated suns VS lyran alliance-

Played a 1750pts game of Titanicus at the weekend. A fluffy Atarus vs Mortis game fighting over a few objectives. A total of four catastrophic meltdowns and only one awakened machine spirit!

Finished my third Encounter in my Five Parsecs from Home campaign. The crew were going to look into doing a job for the local government when a rival got in the way. The rival I got at the end of my last encounter. They turned out to be Corporate Security, and it turned out to be only three. So I decided that Attelus' expy; he was in a merc group who third hand worked for a corporation, and at the end of the war of rebellion against an authoritarian government, the members of the crew fought for the rebellion was victorious. Attelus left that group to start up the crew so he could escape for freedom with the help of his friends and colleagues, he faked his death. But now these Corporate goons have heard he's still alive and investigating into it. There were only three poor saps fighting against my six-man crew, so it was a bit of a walkover. I was considering just having three of my crew fight them to make it even, but the pragmatist in me decided no; besides, I want all of my guys to get the exp.

One enemy, the specialist, had a hand flamer, which was pretty scary, but thankfully Dellenger (the guy with the blue armour and camo cloak) It was also a bit of a shame that I rolled it that they would stop their rivalry, as it would've been pretty cool for Attelus' past to haunt him more in the campaign. But it was also good because they no longer have to deal with any rivals...for now, lol.



























The next fight is against seven monsters, Sand Runners, and my Elandria expy cannot take part as I rolled in the Character Scenario that she was too depressed to fight in the next encounter because of the constant bloodshed, which isn't like the real Elandria but oh well. Wish me luck!

Doing some historical air combat in the Korean War using 6mm planes from Tumbling Dice and the White Star/Red Star rules.



This is June 29th, 1950 at the outbreaks of hostilities.

Details on the blog if you are so inclined:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/10/battle-report-white-starred-star-cap.html

Skaven vs slaves to darkness. Wasn't feeling optimistic but vermin lord corruptor basically decided to solo the army. 10 chaos knights, 10 chosen, daemon prince and 7 chaos warrior. Bit of shooting helped but mostly all him.

Fought my fourth encounter yesterday; it was against some 'Sand Runners', which I decided. had taken over a mining facility on the surface of the planet my crew have been in the Space Station of since the first campaign turn, Daviloth. Despite there being seven of them and one of my characters being too depressed to fight, the game was a complete walkover for my Crew. An easy eight credits earned, lol. I used giant spider minis from my old Descent: Journeys in the Dark box, as they were the closest I could find.

4000 pts 3 mech vs 4 mech. Battlemaster got seriously mauled and getting mechs to my rear bad. Got 2 mechs's head near dead but trying to finish off no good. Punches and kicks(from above) failed.

Archer lost gyro and hip and knocked himself unconcious trying to stand up.

Game night review-

House 5th ed 40K at 2K

5th ed guard/allied marines VS 7th ed iron hands



3.5 chaos VS 7th ed iron hands



10th ed game
sisters VS demons



Classic battle tech




My games-

Dust 1947 axis VS allies 150 points



classic battle tech



Warmachine MK III

khador VS a nemo themed convergence force

A game of NOT 40K any edition!



We used the Restless Stars rules to fight an engagement in our Operation: Hemlock campaign. Features some papercraft armored cars, old Necromunda models, some 1st and 2nd edition Orks, and Pink Space Marines.

You can see all the photos and read all about it on the blog:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/11/battle-report-restless-stars-operation.html

Trying out the Wildspire miniatures as proxies for the fanmade expansion for Gloomhaven, Crimson Scales!
If you play Gloomhaven, Crimson Scales PnP is *free*. Looks like a lot of content, but you only need to PnP 30-some cards for the first scenario.
https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/

Monsters and Oni from the Wildspire Monsters set.
Dwarf from the Wildspire Heroes set.
Both available on Amazon!
https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848

Photobox improvised from Loke Battlemat's "The Veiled Dungeon" RPG accessory.

More In Country/INX demos yesterday. Used my newly painted Shanty Town terrain made by Death Ray Designs for Enemy Spotted Studios.









Well placed insurgent SAW team destroyed a Ranger fire team that took cover in a building.

Hey i recognize those wrecked cars from the walking dead terrain box i have.

We had a bit of a veterans day even going at the store before i got there-mostly historicals.

victory at sea/flames of war/team yankee








Some infinity



a couple 10th ed 40K games






Some classic battle tech



blood bowl



Don't remember the name of this one it was a scifi game



The stuff i was up to today-

learned how to play blood red sky



And aeronautica imperialis



The we did a succession wars battle tech game...my opponent forgot his stuff so he barrowed a bunch of my mechs.
As expected there were daisy chained ammo explosions that cleared the area pretty fast.




And a republic of the sphere era game clan VS inner sphere-

 aphyon wrote:
Hey i recognize those wrecked cars from the walking dead terrain box i have.

Yeah, I love those cars/trucks. I use them all the time for various games. Quick paint jobs but I think they look great on the table.

This afternoon an 3k pt alliance of Drukhari (mine), some SMs, & some Custodes waged war on a 3kpt Tau/Imperial Knights force.

It ended up the Tau/Knights force lost 25 -29.
Close game. Fun for all but the Knights player who found himself move blocked by terrain & other models & almost always tied up in melee.

Gamemat.eu and GF9 terrain. Always looks awesome!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Very cool!

Cheers, here's some more

My Ashen Gods kicked some God-Breaker butt yesterday, ~2600 points per side rushing to burn each other's backline objectives while wandering dust clouds blew up in the outskirts. The Iconoclast got checked by a Clawlord, lost all of its shields, was killed by another Warlord immediately afterwards and crippled one of my own Reavers on the way down, but the enemy had by this point already been aggressively outmaneuvered and cornered in their own deployment zone, soon to be torn apart by my demi-Ferroxes ripping into their flanks as they burned all of the objectives without losing any of our own.

Not my last game (as last Wednesday, I played a quick game of Grimdark Future: Firefight and my gaming club but forgot to take photos), But played my 5th Encounter of Five Parsecs from Home, and it was fun. I managed to lure a whole bunch of the enemy into a corridor, then had Not-Attelus throw a grenade into their midst. He hit seven total and killed none of them. I then had Not-Elandria throw another grenade, and she managed to take out two. One because he was Attelus' main target with his grenade, making him already take two stun points, and the other I finally managed to roll a six-sided die four or above, lol. The odds of that must be remarkably low. It was lucky, though, because he was the random target I needed to kill to get me two extra credits due to getting a side job during the campaign turn when one of my characters went exploring. It was fate, I suppose, punishing me for forgetting the enemies (A Brat Gang) had armour, lol.

The game was an easy victory, though. Wanna play my 6th encounter, but been painting my Death Korps of Krieg minis for it, and that was delayed due to being sick for the past few days.

Victory #2 for my Drukhari!
1250 pts, Drukhari vs Blood Angels.
This was a fairly low scoring game 32/12, Drukharis favor.

3 things worked against the Blood Angels in this battle.
1) The BA player couldn't draw a secondary they could achieve to save their life.
2) The BA barely left thier deployment zone.
3) Target priorities- the BA player spent alot of effort trying to destroy my Cronos units. Even after it was pointed out that it's the Talos that're more dangerous

Some more Kill Team with my Voidborn Corsairs.



I talk about the game at the end of a larger Wargame Design post here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/11/wargame-design-we-dont-need-another.html