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My first game of Horus Heresy, 1.5 K points, Iron warriros vs. (proxied) word bearers.

It was a really good time, I like the system quite a bit.

Gave Dune War for Arrakis a try. This is kind of what I'm looking for in terms of complexity. A good amount of rules to keep it interesting, but not so many that it's impossible to remember all of the details. First time playing it and we had a ton of fun!

Tonight's 30k game

A force of UM, traitor militia (they were summoning deamons)demons, & Knights.
Vs
The Mechanicum.

Although the Mech had the advantage, it ended in a tie. :(

ccs wrote:
Tonight's 30k game

A force of UM, traitor militia (they were summoning deamons)demons, & Knights.
Vs
The Mechanicum.

Although the Mech had the advantage, it ended in a tie. :(

can we see some of the pics of the Militia?

 Shrapnelsmile wrote:

ccs wrote:
Tonight's 30k game

A force of UM, traitor militia (they were summoning deamons)demons, & Knights.
Vs
The Mechanicum.

Although the Mech had the advantage, it ended in a tie. :(

can we see some of the pics of the Militia?

Sure. Blow the picture up & squint a bit you'll sorta see a blob of them hiding behind the rock formations on the upper right. They are a mix of all types of old Guard figures & of average paint jobs.
There's also the psyker/Deamon summoner (brown coat) hanging out with some UM, just behind the FW Knight next to a red die.
On the objective near the greenish GW terrain piece you'll notice some of the pink horrors that were summoned.
And down on the lower right you'll see a Leman Russ.

Sorry, this is the best pic of the battle.
Other pics, taken later in the game, were A) pretty poor & not worth posting, so got deleted, B) showed even less of the Militia as they were mostly all vaporized by the Reavers gatling blaster.
I think 3 Militia guys ended up surviving.

Fourth game with my Guard. I won!

We had an out of schedule sixth dish in gaming day today, to which I couldn't make it. There were enough people, however, to do two separate games on two separate tables. My brother Ashley played our Skaven against Carl's all-Goblin horde, while Bret's Dark Elves took on John's Orcs and Goblins.

Super busy in a good way this weekend-


House 5th ed 40K a little bit of 3rd ed and even a little game of 10th









Then there was some MCP-





And of course classic battle tech-









My games-

40K training game 700 points of nids VS imperial guard-house 5th ed.



Classic battle tech clan on clan fight-



And MCP-

Some Legion Imperiales this evening.

The Reaver Titan I salvaged for my friend made its debut. (Some details aren't finished yet & not my best paint job ever. But serviceable....)

First proper campaign game of Dracula's America, the weird west game.



MVP was the Dark Confederacy shotgun guy, who took out two uppity men of colour along with a hostage they took. This will forever be known in the town of Perdition as the Grand Hotel Massacre.



The water tower was essential for surviving our heat wave

Some MCP, Judgement and a LOT of Shatterpoint:

Played five games of Battletech using the introduction rules, I took to the field in the blue one, my friend was the red one. 😉

The first two games really didn't go my way, abysmal rolling on my part, plus some pretty good rolls from my opponent, who in game one pretty much shot my torso out and in the second game blew away my entire right side, disarming me and forcing me to resign.

Come the third game, I bravely decided to set up camp in a forest, much to the annoyance of my opponent, who wanted a straight up fight, but had a much harder time hitting me and after way too much shooting, I managed to win.



Fourth game was more of an open slug match, with us walking around exchanging fire, took forever, but I finally managed to down my opponent.

Final game, here I decided to go all out and take the fight to her, instead of the other way round, trying to be as in her face as possible, which wound up saving me, as running made me harder to hit, paired with about the only really good rolls of the day! This game was over in two rounds, as I managed to land both PPC shots on the centre torso. 🤘🏻



My pilot earned herself a nickname, at first she was called "Crash" mockingly by my opponent because of my rather lacklustre performance, but after the final game, where I charged in like a loon, it took on a whole other meaning.

Little late on the updates tonight,

We start out with some classic warhammer fantasy battles



Some 5th ed 40K iron hands VS guard-



MCP-





And lastly some classic battle tech



My games-

Some of my ships didn't come in time for my Lyran force so i had to do some proxy work for my aero tech (battle tech space combat) fleet.

Game 1 was against a new player using my clan fleet and the second was against a federated suns force.





My last game of the night was a heavy gear battle. i was trying out some new gear and units CEF VS southern forces.

My Grey Knight fire-support section took part in a training exercise vs a rookie force of Ultramarines (helemed by 2 very inexperienced players.)
It was never in doubt that it'd be a GK victory.

We tried to demonstrate as many aspects of the rules as possible

1250pts O&G (Gobbos) vs Chaos.
Slow grow league and 3rd game of WTOW.
Click on the pic for a bigger version.


Vs a fantastic converted army with AOS models which perfectly suit chaos.

Got smashed.

Managed to kill both of his small forsaken units, 1 ogre and 2 knights. He almost wiped me out.

Things learnt:
Impact hits can be generated against a unit that charge me, if I pursued a fleeing unit last turn.
Skirmishes
How to use warmachines.
There is nothing in the rules for what happens when a fanatic moves through another fanatic. I erred on the side of caution and just removed them both like 8th ed, but need look into it further.

Happenings:
Doom Diver: Turn 1 Misfire (Twang)
Turn 2 misfire and fell apart
Bolt thrower missed twice then killed in combat
Failed all but 1 casting roll with 2 level 2 mages.
Passed 1 of 6 dispels
Goblin chariots do work better in units of 3 rather than single models.
2d6 movement is horrendous on the pump wagons, but 4 of them is great, I would never run them as a larger unit due to the unreliability of the mvt.
My night gobbo boss on giant squig rolled 18 on mvt turn 1 and then 3 on turn 2 and failed his charge. :(

One of the characters has a Personal Quest that requires he shoves enemies into traps, so I'm replaying a scenario that allows him to shove enemies into traps. The other guys are tagging along to keep him from being killed. Sparkboy uses Sparks for card effects, and replenishes them from the dead bodies of his fallen enemies. Perfect excuse to use that Loot 1 card! The Firecat is a proxy for the fire character class, who has a ladder she can climb for various bonus card effects. A ladder from the Mantic Terrain Crate works for dioramas, at least.

Wildspire Miniatures has some deals on Amazon Prime! The Monsters set isn't on sale, but the Heroes and Animals set I've been using for character proxies, animal summons, and some enemy bosses. : https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln

Finished my 18th Five Parsecs encounter today. It was against a Rival enemy which were K'erin. Attelus and his crew took them down quite easily, Attelus personally killing two including the power claw specialist and lieutenant, but MVP was Shadrat, the Skulker the new character on the crew who took down two K'erin in melee and both in the same turn with just a Blade, so kickass. Was quite a bit of fun and the crew managed to take the rivals down permanently.

Apologies if I've already posted this:



Epic scale Star Wars game with all scratchbuilt minis, full battle report here: https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/06/30/may-the-4th-be-extremely-belatedly-with-you-d-day-on-hazzard-prime/

The update-

Classic battle tech-



battle tech alpha strike-



House 5th ed 40K

Iron warriors (3.5) VS imperial guard (5th)

They actually did 2 games with one win each-



The the iron warriors (3.5) faced off against the black templar (4th)-crusader squads were still inside the raiders and the podding dread and terminators hadn't arrived yet for the templars-super close game, went to turn 7



Then it was Tau (4th) vs a different iron warriors (3.5) player-



My games-

MCP-20 point game- avengers VS X-men-come from behind win for the Xmen at the last second-



Jumped into the 40K battles against loyalist iron hands (3rd) with my assault guard (5th)-



Last one for me was some aero tech fleet combat with fighters this time-

30k today.
We saw my Mechanicum vs Custodes (+ Callidus Assassin.
It ended in a draw.

The highlight of the game being when the Assassin charged into the Skitarri & over the course of 2 fight phases only killed 7/10, and to add further insult/injury, got killed herself.
Only then did the survivors morale break & they legged it for my deployment zone.

Dracula's America 3-way between Twilight Order, Twilight Order and Dark Confederacy. There may also have been a Graboid involved but the Seraphim made short work of that.

Game update-

Classic battle tech-







Heavy gear-



House 5th ed 40K Guard VS crimson fists.



My games-

A brutal slugfest for Aero tech a little fedcom civil war action, we all finally got all of our stuff in



Then i hopped into a heavy gear game with my CEF force i had loaned out to a friend in the previous game.



Lastly some small clan VS inner sphere battle tech action-

Epic: Armageddon, 3k. The Machine Church met the Tzeentchian hordes of the Lost and the Damned in a battle of thoroughly fumbled command networks and misfortunes, as both sides bled and stumbled forwards hopelessly. Even kicking airman Jones into the empty fuel tank instead failed to get the birds flying. No breakthrough was achieved nor any formations properly destroyed, though the price in blood and oil rose high for everyone on the burning sands. Neither side achieved any real objectives nor was there any meaningful difference between the casualty tiebreakers, ending in a true, futile draw.



Click the spoiler for more pics!

AoS 4e:

My Sons of Behemet vs the Soulblight.

1250pts last night Night Goblins vs Chaos rematch.
Got thrashed again, but wasn't a tabling and did get to push back and do better.

Snotling pump wagons were worse than last battle. At 2d6 they are just too random (and slow). Not a single combat on my terms.
Same with the giant squig riding hero. Either rolls massive or nothing. Nothing when you want to do get into combat.

6 players, 5 games across 3 tables of Dracula's America at the club tonight

Had a chance to run my second playtest of the 10mm fantasy skirmish rules I'm designing (tentatively titled Dekatropik).

Here are some pics of fracas that ensued when the faceless armored warriors of the Wild Hunt took their wyrm, wyvern, and pack of frost wargs on an incursion into the demesne of the Vampire Court of Ir-Salom.







40mm and 20mm round bases, mostly multi-based. 16x16in board. Reactions-based player turn structure. Rules-light, miniatures-agnostic mechanics.



If a 10mm skirmish game may be of interest, please do fill out the playtest form! Will be sharing Alpha rules later in August.

https://forms.gle/j3HdbCjhm7BFdMZh9

Will_Power wrote:
Had a chance to run my second playtest of the 10mm fantasy skirmish rules I'm designing (tentatively titled Dekatropik)

Looks great and very different. How did the hit-and-run not-Chaos force go in the end?

 Cap'n Facebeard wrote:

Will_Power wrote:
Had a chance to run my second playtest of the 10mm fantasy skirmish rules I'm designing (tentatively titled Dekatropik)

Looks great and very different. How did the hit-and-run not-Chaos force go in the end?

Since I was just running a bog-standard kill 'em all sorta game, the twin-headed dragon and wolves with the champions attached were effective wrecking balls, which offset the numbers the Vampires had.

They'd be at a disadvantage in an objectives-holding scenario, but that's the case with every elite list ever.

Here we go-

Classic 40K-

3rd ed Nids VS Eldar-



Had some friends do a couple planned large 3K point 5th ed games-
The crimson fists used the 5th ed codex, the IG used 5th and the iron hands used 3.5 index astartes.

The first was IG VS crimson fists-



In the second the Fists went against the iron hands-



The last was a test list with the blue marines/tau vehicles "counts as" an Iyanden craftworld wraith list VS a 4th ed black templars list



My games-

Classic battle tech

3rd succession wars fedcom lances (steiner and davion) facing down the clan invasion-



My final game was a house 5th ed 40K game 5th ed guard VS 4th ed black templar-