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Kind of a light turn out this week. had a bunch of players tied up in a big MTG game and some in an RPG. Those of us who did miniatures were doing this

2 games of house 5th ed 40K
.black templar (4th) VS chaos (3.5)



Orks (4th) VS chaos (3.5)



One of the regulars is trying his hand at game design so he was doing some 6MM scale testing of his scifi game under development-



Then there was a classic battle tech game 3rd succession war-



My games consisted of 2 test games with proxies to try out the IJN ninja list. i ran Allied heavy rangers and he first did a mostly infantry list.



Game 2 he swapped out 4 of his ninja railgun teams for 2 of his railgun walkers.

Some 6mm Chariot Wars using In Strife and Conflict rules from the Wargame Vault. Egyptians versus Hittites.



You can read the gory details on the blog if you are so inclined:

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/08/battle-report-in-strife-and-conflict.html

weekend update-

Classic battle tech-





Warhammer the old world-



House 5th ed 40K

3.5 chaos VS 5th ed necrons-



MCP-



My games-

MCP



House 5th ed 40K

3.5 chaos VS 5th ed salamanders with demon hunter allies.

This weeks games-

The wild squirl 10th ed 40K





WHFB one page rules style-



Some MCP -



House 5th ed 40K

The templar player was trying out a list with 2 spartan land raiders.



I ended up with 4 games. the first 2 were MCP test runs with asgardian lists to see what i liked.





Then i had my hand at a 40K game with my slamanders and demon hunter allies VS black templar.



We ended the night with a battle tech matchup, i got to use my boat!-

Sigmar 4e today.
2k pts,
Gloomspite vs an unholy alliance of Khorne/Tzeentch.

It was a hard fought battle. And, although the goblins took nearly 95% casualties doing it, the little green runts pulled off a 3pt victory....

Special (posthumous) recognition must be paid to Stikka units #2 & #3. These 40 spear weilding grots kept Skarbrand occupied for 3! Turns. And inflicted a respectable 7 pts of damage to him in the process.
They died on turn 4, but that meant Skarbrand had no hope of getting back into action T5.

A shot at the beginning of a 6th Edition game with the Capture scenario, a shot of how it ended, and four shots in the middle to show exactly how devastating Plague was in 1 turn.

Thoughts on WTOW so far.

Non super elite/monster infantry is in dire need of something to make them worthwhile. In most battles the front rank is wiped out and I do not even get to fight outside of a character or champion.

25% of the rules could be removed/streamlined and that would make for a much more enjoyable experience. I'm not here to be constantly looking up rules. I want to play the game. Complexity for the sake of complexity is not enjoyable.
How a kid is meant to start playing is beyond me...

Just bring back a magic phase/have all spells in the command phase. Trying to work out which spells to cast when is again, just complexity for the sake of it and very frustrating.

Snotling pump wagons... I have run them in all but 1 game so far, Started with 4, and triet that for several games and have been dropping them more and more and in the last game 1. I rolled 3, then 4, then when I had nothing near me, 11. 2d6 for movement is woeful. Make it 3d6 and have them actually get to be near fighting. Also with the random move rules you can wheel but essentially are always trying to set up 1 turn ahead, then either get charged and smashed, or then fail to impact, or my opponent stops 2 inches away and I get no impact hits. They were great in every previous edition but with their current movement rules, I wouldn't buy them, even at 10pts per model. They are awful.

Cav and flying monsters are where it is at. The movement and impact on charge leaves nothing left for me to do. This even applies to my 5 man spider rider unit with full command that wiped out 2 warmachines, a unit of crossbowmen and tied up a bretonnian knights of the realm unit by hitting it in the flank.

I had played Warhammer Fantasy from 1990 until the end of 8th edition. This is so far, the worst one by far.

 Waaagh_Gonads wrote:


Thoughts on WTOW so far.

Non super elite/monster infantry is in dire need of something to make them worthwhile. In most battles the front rank is wiped out and I do not even get to fight outside of a character or champion.

25% of the rules could be removed/streamlined and that would make for a much more enjoyable experience. I'm not here to be constantly looking up rules. I want to play the game. Complexity for the sake of complexity is not enjoyable.
How a kid is meant to start playing is beyond me...

Just bring back a magic phase/have all spells in the command phase. Trying to work out which spells to cast when is again, just complexity for the sake of it and very frustrating.

Snotling pump wagons... I have run them in all but 1 game so far, Started with 4, and triet that for several games and have been dropping them more and more and in the last game 1. I rolled 3, then 4, then when I had nothing near me, 11. 2d6 for movement is woeful. Make it 3d6 and have them actually get to be near fighting. Also with the random move rules you can wheel but essentially are always trying to set up 1 turn ahead, then either get charged and smashed, or then fail to impact, or my opponent stops 2 inches away and I get no impact hits. They were great in every previous edition but with their current movement rules, I wouldn't buy them, even at 10pts per model. They are awful.

Cav and flying monsters are where it is at. The movement and impact on charge leaves nothing left for me to do. This even applies to my 5 man spider rider unit with full command that wiped out 2 warmachines, a unit of crossbowmen and tied up a bretonnian knights of the realm unit by hitting it in the flank.

I had played Warhammer Fantasy from 1990 until the end of 8th edition. This is so far, the worst one by far.

I was cautiously hopeful when it was announced, but after seeing it in person and played I can honestly say that I'm perfectly happy sticking with 6th. The only plus is that they are rereleasing models that I may have missed.

The conclusion of my slow-burn Hostile Space Campaign....



Almost all the models are scratchbuilds or 3D prints in this report.

You can read all the gory details if you wish here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/08/battle-report-hostile-space-attack-on.html

I won a game with Dark Eldar the day prior. 40-27.

Carthaginian War Elephants advance, as skirmishers with Javelins run nearby to soften charge targets.


This was a 450 point game (only half the box set).


Game: Hail Caesar Epic Battles by Warlord Games UK

How to roll a 7 on a D6



Precision dice my wife got me for a previous chistmas present

Pretty dead this weekend with the holiday and all, when i got there a 40K game was being played and some MTG as well as YUGIO card games but all i ended up playing was a pre-planned battle tech game-

4 player 40k game today. BA & UM vs 1 unified Custodes force.

Good game, but ultimately the Marines won by 20some pts. :(

One of the highlights of the game occurred when my Guardian Drone killed TWO Landraiders with 1 shot.
Both Landraiders were down to thier last wound. I shot the pulse blast at the BA Raider. Hit, wounded, failed save, and then exploded. Doing 1 MW to the UM LR. Sadly that one didn't also explode.

4 player 40k game today. BA & UM vs 1 unified Custodes force.

Good game, but ultimately the Marines won by 20some pts. :(

One of the highlights of the game occurred when my Guardian Drone killed TWO Landraiders with 1 shot.
Both Landraiders were down to thier last wound. I shot the pulse blast at the BA Raider. Hit, wounded, failed save, and then exploded. Doing 1 MW to the UM LR. Sadly that one didn't also explode.

No idea why the pics are upside down.

Haven't posted in a while, but I've been playing a few rounds of the new Key Operations scenarios for Shatterpoint. Overall finding them quite fun. Some of the better asymmetric scenarios I've played in terms of feeling well balanced and on par with the competitive game.





Judgement is chugging along. Probably my favorite game I don't get to play enough of:





MCP Remains a stalwart:





and of all things, Infinity has started popping up with the N5 hype:

The Battle of Kadesh?



I am using my 6mm Baccus models to try to re-fight the Battle of Kadesh. Check in and see if we are even close!

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/09/battle-report-in-strife-and-conflict.html

This probably won't be the last time we try this scenario out.

Interesting that on the last page we had One Page Rules Regiments, WHFB 6 and ToW

Last week I played 2 games of Spearhead, my Gitz beat Ogres and Lumineth



The weird one was a test evening of Flames of Orion, a wip indy 6mm mecha game. It's... pretty basic.

Weekly update-


40K



Aero tech-



Classic battle tech-




My games

MCP-X-force VS X-men-




Classic battle tech-

medium mech battle-



Clan blood spirits VS inner sphere vehicles.

Tried the indy folk horror game Verrotwood yesterday, to kill two birds with one stone as I had to set up a slavic folklore themed display anyway for a con.

Bee Cult vs Onion Cult

It's the Great Onion, Charlie Brown!

What did that poor carrot do to deserve that fate (picture 2)?

Great-looking board - very atmospheric!

Speaking of the great onion, had a group come in tonight for a series of games of this-





Then there was some 9th ed 40K



As well as our local battle tech campaign



Then we had house 5th ed 40K

black templar VS iron warriors.




I ended up getting 3 games in with my salamanders and allied deathwatch-

Game 1 was against iron hands-



Game 2 and 3 were a bit odd, as i fought the same army 2 times, but the owner of the army was tied up in a battle tech game and let another regular borrow his army for a bit to test it out. we had a good game but never finished it.



The real fight happened last when the actual owning player threw down for a big fight.

A re-match at Kadesh!

6mm Baccus Hittites vs. Egyptians on 60mm x 60mm bases over control of the 3D printed Kadesh using In Strife and Conflict rules.



You can read all the gory details on my blog, if you so desire.
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2024/09/battle-report-in-strife-and-conflict_02055772395.html

3k NetEA. Dark Angels made an attempt at a lightning strike against the Machine Church, but the unyielding purity of steel prevailed and the astartes were scattered onto the streets, slick and glistening with the all-soaking rain of oil.



Click spoilers for more pictures!

This week was Infinity marathon night. We played a combination N2/N3 game-N2 core rules with new units/weapons from N3

The table was a 6X4 with 5 objectives-3 liftable and 2 hackable.

Since i was the only one who brought my armies we did a bit of play testing. i ran 2 different versions of combined army as well as a HAQQ general list. then we play tested a military orders list (knights hospitallers) with variations-











I finished off my day with some battle tech-



The other games going on-

40K



Battle tech alpha strike (i didn't get a pic of the second game)



And a couple games of MCP-

Last week was an infinity marathon, this week was classic 40K

game 1 custodes VS iron hands-



Game 2

3.5 chaos (nurgle) VS 4.0 black templar-



Some battle tech alpha strike-




My games-

3,200 point apocalyptic battle iron hands VS salamanders/deathwatch-



A quick table reset for some clan on clan battletech -

Got a quick game of Project Z military Vs biker gang, this evening. Went 12-11 in my favour, I managed to wrestle a last turn victory with a general assault. Was great fun! Played a little dirty in the end... (top photo). I ran away from a fight using one of my abilities to avoid loosing the man that made the difference in the very last close combat!

Yesterday's game of Dracula's America for our Free State of Perdition campaign. Dark Confederacy soundly beat the Twilight Order in a pure kill points mission, but lost one of their best fighters. Meanwhile, my forever rookie Fodder McLamb is still alive and rocking all four different permanent injuries (this is very impressive because rolling a double of any injury kills you outright).



The other notable thing was a playtest of my own game, a wizard arena deathmatch/basketball sport titled The Floor is Mana, coming soon to a Wargame Vault near you

2nd Ed Space Marine, 7500pts - Can Warlord Bozzhog triumph against the Blood Angels and their Guard and Squat allies?

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/epic-smackdown-on-hazzard-prime-7500pt-mega-battle-report/

Alpha Strike at my house today. Capture the space port.