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Game of Battletech Alpha Strike with my wife using hex grid rules with an attack roll for each point of damage - hence the multiple sets of coloured dice (more off table).

5th Crucis Lancers:
Battlemaster
Catapult
Wolverine
Commando
vs
1st Sword of Light
Griffin
Thunderbolt
Shadow Hawk
Locust



My 1st Sword of Light were finally beaten when my Locust was taken out by a badly beaten Wolverine.
At the end, my wife asked if I had any more Locusts she could add to her choice of models. I guess its speed made an impact.

Last night we had the first test game of Dracula's America, the weird west skirmish game, on a board that came out rather well if I say so myself. Lovely system too.

Welcome to Perdition

Great-looking board! Love the cheeky DeLorean in there too.

Friday night Gaslands.

This weekend saw some regulars-
MCP games







Some classic battle tech clan on clan action-



My battle tech games

some civil war era (3067)



Some late 4th succession war era-



Then the most odd one of the night...i got to fight my former tau army i sold a decade ago that just got re-sold to a newer player in our group for our 5th ed games.

Game of dreadfleet this afternoon. I got utterly stomped and outplayed by my friend. Was a fun game and was well worth the 30 minutes of bike to get there!

Played my last Encounter of Five Parsecs last week. It was a real challenge for me and not-Attelus, and his crew as it was the first game with limited ranges of 9'' due to what I decided was a sandstorm, but if units opened fire, they were fair game to shoot at within weaponry range.

Took some photos and edited them to be like a pict feed from a recent 8k vs 8k Titandeath game with some side games of Aeronautica and Titanicus.

Been testing out the Waaagh quite a bit lately. Got in a few games using the War Horde:

Gloomhaven : Crimson Scales

NIGHT OF THE MURDER CHICKEN

Rethemed a tragic scenario into murder most fowl. The poultry miniature is actually useful in an event card as well, and I'd like to think said chicken got its taste of BLOOD and formed its own tasty cult. Anyway, our two boys encounter the murder chicken (towards the back, near a man-eating plant) the first time, but would fail three times in this difficult scenario!

Enemies, and Wizard and Murder Chicken from Wildspire Miniature's "Monster Set" and "Spellblades and Enchanted Objects" set.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln

Crimson Scales : Free PnP : https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
Plant terrain by Archon.

That beast has 0 clucks given!

Weekend update time-

the games-

Bolt action-





House 5th ed 40K

4th ed Tau VS 3.5 chaos-



5th ed crimson fists VS 3.5 chaos-



Succession wars battle tech-



My games-

5th ed guard VS 4th ed iron hands-



then against 3.5 chaos-



The a 150 point game of heavy gear- i was playing CEF-



The a succession wars battle tech game-

Hey aphyon, when you say for exemple 4th tau versus 3.5 chaos, do you take lists from the codices as is or are their any tweaks you make?

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
Hey aphyon, when you say for exemple 4th tau versus 3.5 chaos, do you take lists from the codices as is or are their any tweaks you make?

I have a topic or two for this for this

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/789567.page

The short answer
.all of our games are based on 5th ed core rules. however 3rd-7th ed codexes are cross compatible. you pick the codex you feel best represents your army and build it from that codex we have a few house rules fixes/add ons such as using the 4th ed wound allocation system to avoid shenanigans and we added in grenade throwing, over watch and snap fire from 7th ed because we felt is really improves game experience.

The detailed explanation of rules fixes is here-

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/806639.page

Gonna give this a read, I was mostly thinking about point costs compatibility as points costs globally decreased over time and i was wondering whether that could influence the game at disadvantage for the earlier codex. When I do this, I tend to align point costs with newer codices as much as possible.

That titanicus battle is just epic! 40k really does better in that scale with aircraft, titans and hordes of stuff

1.5k of Legions. The Word Bearers attempt a sneaky beach landing on Death Guard's islands, but have to slink back into the red tides after getting a thoroughly bloodied nose on the now wreckage-filled and burning sands.



Click for pics in spoiler!

 Sherrypie wrote:
1.5k of Legions. The Word Bearers attempt a sneaky beach landing on Death Guard's islands, but have to slink back into the red tides after getting a thoroughly bloodied nose on the now wreckage-filled and burning sands.









what a cool looking board, thanks for the pics.

Thanks Shrap, still occasional beach holidays in the grim darkness of the far future

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
Gonna give this a read, I was mostly thinking about point costs compatibility as points costs globally decreased over time and i was wondering whether that could influence the game at disadvantage for the earlier codex. When I do this, I tend to align point costs with newer codices as much as possible.

Its a trade off you can get more "stuff" with some of the newer codexes, but you loose loads of the in-built thematic rules. one of the guys tinkered around with it and after trying to use the 7th ed rules for his guard and marines he decided to go back to using the older editions instead because it better fit the feel of his army. being able to use tank hunter skills/iron fathers for his iron hands or tank hunter/beast hunter shells for him imperial guard etc...

The only universal points cost change we made was basic grenades (krak/frag etc..). the equivalent is free for every faction. as you used to have to pay for them and later editions just included them as standard kit.

Fifteen hundred point sixth edition mirror match between damn near identical High Elf and Dark Elf forces. Had we gone one more turn I would have been completely tabled as the High Elf player.

First game outside of a few MCP games in 3 years.

A Warhammer the Old World slow grow escalation league has started at my local FLGS.
Starting 750pts, and will go up 500pts every 4 weeks to 2250 points final armies and end in a 'tournament' games day.

I took a varied army to learn the rules with fighting units, archers, a mage and chariots.

The chariots were unbelievable and ran rampant through his army, killing a unit of warhounds, unit 3 minotaurs, a mage on a chariot and then shot a couple more warhounds.
Rolled a double 1 for my main combat unit to hold (the only way I would).

Good to be back but hard learning from scratch with all the changes, but I will pick it up quickly.

game update time-

House 5th ed-

4th ed tau VS 5th ed guard 2k points (crisis suits are being run as broadside teams of 2)




Game 2 was chaos on chaos action-khorne berserkers VS iron warriors. at 3K points 5 objectives-





We also had the battle tech campaign going but my picture of that didn't turn out.

My games-

A small heavy gear test game. the buildings are the wrong scale as this was the battle tech table for the night but we just rolled with it.




Then it was on to battle tech-

3050 lance on lance action-



3067 lights and mediums do battle-



Then the big action of the night-the main even CLAN INVASION 3050!!

3 lances VS 1 star forced withdrawal on the inner sphere side, clanners fight to the last.

First game of The Old World yesterday. We had a good time. Here some very Impetuous gunners charged chaos hounds, routed them, and ran them down.

5.5k of EpicAU, IW vs. Mech, 10'x4' table. The IV legion pushed aggressively forwards into the robotic boogaloo, perhaps too deep and too greedily even, as their frontline was raked by endless rain of plasma mortars and their Mortis Warhounds blown apart by the massed Ordinatii beams. After four rounds of white-bled attrition, both sides were in broken tatters but the Mechanicum had held firmer. They had won the skies and retained their biggest guns, leaving the Iron Warriors little choice but to eventually concede the field.



Click for more pics in the spoiler!

Gorgeous as always

 Illumini wrote:
Gorgeous as always

Cheers Illumini, pictured for your pleasure

Surprisingly no battle tech this weekend-

We had 2 games of store 5th ed 40K- first tau (4th ed) VS iron hands(4th ed) and then the tau had a go at chaos (iron warriors 3.5 ed) they lost the first one and won the second. i forgot to take a pic of the second battle-

The table was eldar maiden world ruins with 3 objectives.



there was a little bolt action-

soviets VS germans



A couple games of MCP





Then a couple games of heavy gear- the first at 100 points and the second bumped up to 150-






The games i got in were 2 games of DUST 1947 the first was Brits VS NDAK at 80 points and the second was a demo/training game putting the Brits up against the German zombies at 53 points-

Played my 17th Five Parsecs from Home Encounter a couple of days ago. Was a lot of fun and not-Attelus managed to take out four enemies in melee more close combat kills in one encounter than the entire campaign so far. Also I used new more expanded rules posted by Ivan Sorensen and they made the combat more fun and dynamic.

Got two games in a few days ago. Both 6th Edition. Pitched Battle was the second game and Bastion Of The Old Ones was the scenario we played first. Got beat both times due to some really naff rolls.