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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'm sure I've asked this before, but where is that terrain from?

https://www.museonstore.com/collections/sci-fi-terrain

I just googled "pre painted mdf terrain"

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'm sure I've asked this before, but where is that terrain from?

No worries, always happy to plug Muse!

https://www.museonstore.com/collections/sci-fi-terrain

For this Crimson Scales scenario, we had to heal four Infected city guards and archers. Except, if you've played Gloomhaven, you might remember how the random draws from the enemy decks resulted in less-than-brilliant enemy behavior. Well, the city guards and archers, once you heal them and they become allies, use their own enemy decks, so, basically valiantly pew-pewed the enemy for a few points of damage, until they got killed. Or got themselves killed. Y'know, it's better to stay put than walk into a 4-damage trap when you only have 4 life points...

For the city archers, I used the Wildspire Monster set's Kitty Pistoliers, and, for the imprisoned City Guards, I used that as an excuse to paint the Goblin Miners. I guess the plot, then, was less that monsters were infecting the city, than the Kitty Pistoliers ate a bad batch of fish, while the Goblin City Guard Sometimes Deadly Mushroom Picking Festival ran into a few problems.

Crimson Scales, free PnP : https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
Wildspire Monster Set on Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln

As I said in the "So what are you doing today? Hobbywise only" thread I played my miniature TT Skirmish game The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game with my friend yesterday. I played as my five man team of the main characters of the novel series, Anargrin (the elf with the blue shirt), Raleas (the chick with the sniper rifle), Jelcine (the woman who looks like no one will expect her), Wilom (the guy with the trench coat and fiery staff) and Emilia (the werewolf). VS a horde army made up of Jaroaite/Jaroaian Extremists (the Chaos Cultists) fighting alongside a bunch of ganger mercs (The orange Orlock gangers) led by an extremist Priest of Jaroai. It was a ton of fun for both of us, despite it being a walk over for me. The huge contributing factor was my friend's terrible rolling as opposed to my fire rolls. So much so I felt frustration on his behalf. It would've been cool if the game was close as I do prefer to lose a close game than win with a walkover (especially when it's due to dice rolls, but it is a dice game so that is that, really) and it'd been cool if it was close as it's the first time we've played in years and my friend helped a ton with world building the continent of Angara.

It was an objective game as you may see from the photos and I used the simple One Page Rules for objectives (1d3+2 objectives, placed by the players by turns, they're sticky so are held by Units until an enemy Unit captures it, and a Unit needs to stay on the objective until the end of the round to secure it. Anargrin, Emilia and Wilom count as being two units as they all cost over 200 points) There was a problem as Anargrin and most of his team (being highly enhanced beings) are so much faster than the Cultists it's ridiculous, so had a huge advantage to reach the four, quite spread out Objective Markers. So I might make it that there will be on average more objectives so 1d6+3? Or something along those lines so the slower moving units might not be at such a large disadvantage.

Uhm yeah, so playtesting. Playtesting never ends, lol.

Edit: I still find it funny I somehow accidentally painted Raleas to make her look like the pop singer Dua Lipa.

Year started finally. 1st with brand new army bonereapers. Forgot like half the rules and made big pile in mistake so after 3rd round called it.

Then campaign game spiderfangs vs glottkin&co.

It was even worse than expected. Durability zero, killed little(3 models all game...).

Glottking 10" charge killing general sealed the game.

When my biggest units take 12/14 wounds on my charge things are bleak.

14-23. Had priority gone my way r4 18-23. If everything falls to my way 20-23 but that was absolute maximum.

Another slow weekend with real life dragging away many of our regulars....but even so we got a few games in-

MCP-



A learning game of monster apocalypse-



And a big 250 point DUST 1947 game US VS SSU-

Some pics of my Drukhari vs a friend's Custodes.
1500 pts. It was a very hard fought battle.
The Custodes git most of their pts through primaries, the Drukhari though secondaries.
It ended tied at 45/45.

Legions blood angel vs solar aux.

We called it after t2 as he had lost most of his stuff while I had plenty of tanks.

Funnily enough I lost more melee rolls...even vs tanks...

Made stupid move with reaver from behind building when his entire army was first fire...well at least took firepower.

T2 he lost 4/6 of his planes which was pretty bad especially as his tanks been murdered. He learned to mind mechanised charges.

Spectacular moment was acastus firing at building holding 8 tacticals, 4 missile and commander. Came down killing all but commander and 2 tacticals...ouch.

 aphyon wrote:

3.5 dark angels VS 7th ed space marines.

Is that a Landraider Helios with FW spaced armour?

Indeed it is, at one point i owned one of every land raider variant that was available at the time. -Phobos, crusader, Helios, Prometheus, Achilles. still own them all.

On to the game reports-

I was in my own game of classic battle tech so i missed getting pictures of the MCP game, but when i first arrived the FOW group was doing some mid war north afrika.





Then some classic battle tech on hex maps-








my games-

A couple classic battle tech lance on lance fights-

Steiner VS a test C3 Kurita force-



Getting a new guy trained up on 3d terrain rules.
He didn't really have a faction he just grabbed 4 mechs he liked. i ran a mixed lance of my 10th Lyran guards.



And then we played battle tech....in spaaaaceeee-

That's right we got out the aero-tech II a clan warship squadron runs afoul of an inner sphere coalition fleet.



Did a couple games of that and got people hooked already

Ran demos and a tournament for INX: Recon at Siege of Augusta on Friday and Saturday. Had 3 different 2x2 layouts.







As slew more pics in spoiler.

Pack llama!

Painted up the Sanctum Sanctorum to complete a magic criss table for MCP. Got a couple games in and pretty happy with the results:

 Easy E wrote:
Pack llama!

Cry 'Havoc!!' and let slip the Llamas of War!

Just starting this Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales scenario, in which the party accidentally releases a bunch of demons and some Vermling Scouts who have been experimented upon. Whoopsie!

Opening pic shows a lot of enemies. Playing solo, so I get "perfect information" while the game goes up in difficulty (higher level monsters). The acrylic tokens and condition markers show plan out the first turn -- if things turn out right! As before, I'm using the Wildspire Monster set as proxies for the Gloomhaven monsters.

Skullboy will poison three enemies.
Neil deGrasse is going to make his enhanced ranged attack against three opponents, combined with an ability that adds negative conditions.
Chainguy will shackle the flying goblin shaman and smash him into a column.

Reaper thread with more mini pics: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/103935-wildspire-miniatures-gloomhaven-crimson-scales-thread/page/2/#comment-2132351
Wildspire on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln
Crimson Scales. Free PnP download. Requires Gloomhaven. : https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/

Finally finished painting the new enemies for my 11th Encounter. This one was a Raid as during the Post-game of the last Campaign Turn I had bad luck in my Campaign Event and got a new rival that I had to fight in the next Encounter.

I used the storage part of the Starship Vengeance box to represent my ship and made the docking Bay like the one in Footfall from Rogue Trader but also full of shops trying to sell wares to crews docked there, and my big white building was where the dock security monitor the arrivals, etc.

The enemy were vigilantes (and I don't know why they hate my crew so much, yet, they haven't done anything criminal, if anything they've been fighting criminals lol). Despite being one of the weakest enemies I've fought so far, they were the most dangerous by far, lol. Their rolls were on fire 6's, almost across the frigging board. I also lost my new crew member, a Soulless I named Zolcatar, in the 1st round (new model syndrome, am I right?) And Elandria in the last I let Elandria go go down because she had that trait which allowed her to ignore a roll on the Injury Table and Zolcatar because I didn't care, lol. In the first round, I had Attelus, Dellenger, and Adelana pour fire at the Hunting rifle specialist on the right flank but only managed to stun him twice.

In the 2nd round, Attelus killed the sniper. Then, using his Tactical Training, he moved into the big building to go around and flank the enemies as Adelana, Dellenger, and poor Zolcatar drew the enemy's attention. After Attelus killed one, either Dellenger or Adelana cut down another, which caused the leader to run at the end of the round.
When he and Elandria flanked them on the top of the entrance, it was over. Attelus shot down one, then Elandria another, but the last managed to cut her down with his Hand laser before Torris flanked him and avenged Elandria by vaporizing the poor bastard's torso with a deluge of plasma.

I used Zolcatar instead of Garrakson despite him being 10x better (and lent it Garrakson's rattle gun) because I wanted Zolcatar to gain exp, and thanks to a Character Event during the last endgame, Garrakson couldn't gain any experience.

I got Zolcatar using a faction favour and rolled him up, but he wasn't really worth the effort, to be honest, lol. He lived but must spend three Campaign Turns recovering and I don't think I'll invest any credits speeding that along, in all honesty.

Anyway, I rolled a civil war on the instability table as the number reached 15, and I'm considering re-rolling it with a Story Point, but it might be interesting to see how things go down and might be profitable for my crew being mercs (is there a way for the factions to be involved Ivan Sorensen as it'd pretty cool).
Anyway, fun times!

I played another game of Downsync, testing out a new scenario with reserves instead of the normal capture objectives or wipe out the other side scenarios.





The scenario needed a couple tweaks (like a turn limit) but having a third/quarter of the force on a off-table flanking maneuver makes you think, especially when you incorporate the fact that pings are indeterminate units until they are revealed. So it's a balance of attacking and forcing your opponent to reveal their on-table units which removes their options for the flanking reserves, while also having enough of a defense to hold off those reserves.

Just a few games of Kill Team were had at my place. I don't know what made me build winter terrain and jungle based Kasrkin at the same time, because now I want to play using both and they don't match :]

Bunch of stuff this weekend, even got an extra day of gaming in even if it was for only one game.


40K house 5th ed. -

Imperil guard VS tyranids.



iron hands VS DKOK





classic battle tech-



MCP






My games-

Monster apocalypse-tharsis 5 VS legionnaire (proxied by mecha godzilla)



classic battle tech

Inner sphere assault lances fighting in the desert-



Clan hells horse alpha galaxy nova facing off against a blood spirits nova with full unit special rules in play and zellbrigan.

A game of KT this afternoon:
My ork Kommandos vs some Admech.
Victory: Orks.

Last round of campaign done. Pure spiderfang vs lumineth.

Couldn't roll enough mortals to kill big cow. Double gave another chance but still failed. R3 counter double and lumineth can choose what to leave for battle tactics...

Every game of Legions Imperialis looks like the scene in Independence Day with the idiots on the roofs

Fyreslayer vs obr. Turn 2 was bloody. Killed most of his battleline but lost 2 magmadroths and immortalis guard scythed hearthguard.

21-29. 11" charge denied my gs.

1st 40k game of the year. Up against new guy. He got his 1st(out of 3..) armies assembled and partly painted. 1250 nid vs deathwatch.

Many many small units carried the day and when artemis&co failed to kill swarmlord end was nigh.

This weeks games-

MCP-





classic battle tech



House 5th ed 40K

necrons VS iron hands



My games-

house 5th ed 40K dark angels VS imperial guard



The most massive war machine MKIII battle i have every played-138 points per side with 2 warcasters (so add another 51 jack points in there for the totals on my side).





And lastly -clan invasion VS the succession wars.

a mech company VS a clan star.....there is a story there.

Blood angels vs solar auxilia 2000 pts.

We wrapped after t3 as most of solar dead and i had control of every objective. Even his hmme fell when 4 assault marines charged solar infantry, lost(even ogryn failed...), withdrew into objective straight to range of bolters of terminators and next round combo charge and while now marines took casualties solar ran away again.

Skaven vs lumineth.

Stupid deployment mistakes leaving cannons out of range t1 and leaving screen vs double turn. He gets double and somehow i won't get totally annihilated but don't do enough damage and forget 1 charge. 2vp vs 5...

Then no rescue double to bail me out so we wrap it. I have done too little and my army can't survive longer.

Tyranids vs deathwatch. Supply mission worked great and secondaries were easy peacy for unending swarm when one doesn't get much of kill ones...

After my t4 got another automatic 13 from secondaries we called it. 77-12 and they are boxed in hard.

At least artemis resurection was 1 roll he didn't roll a 1...

1k pt 40k game this afternoon.
Dark Angels vs Grey Knights (mine).
Victory: GK 100pts(+?) vs 57. Mission = Servo Skulls - you can score crazy pts in that one.....

One of my two games of Dystopian Wars today, somehow defending the same campaign territory hex against two different Sultanate players.

And the state of the map going into round 3