I'm not familiar with the AoS endless spells but it looked like a big evil spikey terrain piece from a first glance. Sounds neat

Had a last Apocalypse game to finish 9th. Basically bring whatever you can, this was my humble offering.

Looks like fun, what were the other players running in the apocalypse game?

Some Bolt Action tonight.
My WiP US Army + another players Brits held the field against the Finns.

The MVP of the game was my flamethrower team.
They torched the Finns T34, depriving them of any viable AT capability. This forced the Finns player to concede as he couldn't deal with our armor.

The Cursed Cathedral

The Cathedral called once again, to animate the bones of myself and my fallen comrades. We had assaulted the Cathedral, only to find the bony fate that would beheld us once we fell as well. Tired, desiring even a slumberless rest, not all of us knitted back our bones to obey the needs of the Cathedral. Its prey of flesh was across the river, and we trudged forward, dimly aware of their living, but not of the bolts and arrows that pelted our bodies. The Cathedral even summoned a boatload of undead, led by a Grim Knight, though I saw it fallen first with a well-placed bolt to the head. As we made our way across the river, I saw the boat, the lifeless undead returning to mere lifelessness. As arrows pierced my body, I returned to nothingness as well, free of the Cursed Cathedral.

Map by Loke Battle Mats, Wilderness Map book and Big Book of Battle Mats. VTT and Roll20 mega-map KS right now on KS!
Ruins terrain by Archon. Cathedral from Cursed Cathedral set.
Corpses are "Tiny Furniture's Harvest of War" miniatures. Sequel campaign coming!
Miniatures by Mantic Games.
Debris pile made with cork and sprues! 😄

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Game store update time.

Loads of games happening, forgot to take pictures of the guys playing konflict 47 as i was setting up tables for our games.

Loaned out my allies to boost an army for DUST 1947 for this game-




keeping with the WWII theme,
flames of war USSR VS brits-



classic battle tech-



oldhammer 40K 3.5 chaos VS 5th ed imperial guard.



warmachine MK III legion VS mercenaries.



My games-

Classic 40K 5th ed salamanders VS 5th ed imperial guard.



Classic battle tech clan heavy star VS 2 inner sphere lances.



A little artillery battle-classic battle tech 2nd deiron regulars VS the lexington combat group mercs-



Lastly -classic victory at sea-



british north seas anti-raider force fighting in the pacific for some reason.

Bolt Action and Sword Weirdo’s

Nice photos! Is that the old monk mini from the 3.0 D&D Chainmail reboot?

Blood drinkers vs death guard. 67-69. Secondaries mine but he dominated primaries. 6 terminator and hero pushed servo skull to my zone scoring 33 alone...

And i gave 3 vp to his secondary when gladiator lancer shot his rhino denying it, then rhino blew and killed marine giving secondary. Nooo!

(that literally won him game)

Anti infantry firepower poured 2 turns. Terminators lead charge. Necrons just refuse to die

Ironjaws vs khorne. Bloodthirster and skarbrand died doing nothing but soak attacks but bodycount just ran short for objectives. 8" rerollable charge succeeded also and t4 took wrong battle tactic wh:ch resulted in half hearted attack leaving 20 letters alive

Khaine vs khorne. Jaws of gallet. Made mistake going first. Then was in icky spot give double and lose chunks or take priority and my objectlves burned. And blood tithe used to tag me so primary points were 3 2 1 and for last 2 turns can't while he scores 3 every turn.

R3 bottom 21-10 for sure before factoring in bt's and gs's for r4&5...

I rolled horrible scenarios for both of matches...

Blood angel mechanised force vs death guard. 69-61 win. Hero of match humble tactical squad on rhino scoring all 25 of my primaries baal predator also 10 and took out cultist squad.

Blood drinkers against death guard again. Terminators busy at backlines giving me 3/5 objectives and i focused on non-terminators reducing him to 2 units of terminators. Both almost maxed secondaries but 50-30 primaries flipped. Largely helped by 15-5 post game score.

First outing with nids. 1.5k. We wrapped it after 3 rounds. I'm at lead and death guard nearly tabled with tyranids swarming over every objective.

Key moment on turn 2 unleashing shadow in the warp with terminator blob failing. Allowed screamer killer and swarmlord take them out while plague marines were bombarded.

Swarmlord boss taking out hero and 2 terminators with epic duel.

Had another Killteam game yesterday, and finally grabbed my first win in a Critical Ops "Secure" mission, scoring 14-9. We played for 5 turning points instead of 4 because we were playing on a 4x4' table again, I'd say 5-6 turning points is perfect for this size of board (as long as both teams have a standard 3WHITE movement stat..) and I love the more cinematic feel of a bigger board in Killteam. We added an inch to the objective marker distances (so BLUE instead of WHITE from each other ) to keep em more in scale with the larger board as well.

I got to a great start during the first turning points (My scion gunner killing that pesky ML heretic in one overcharged plasma shot), but then started making dumb mistakes, which almost cost me the game.. Luckily, by the time I started getting beaten, my VP lead had grown large enough to still secure a victory. My funniest operative must have been a Scion comms guy (you might have seen him in my KT21 plog), he had a medikit and was supposed to heal my other operatives, but ended up getting shot a bunch and in the end had to heal himself twice

All in all, a quite enjoyable game. I actually like how the Compendium guard team plays, keeps it simple stupid, so that this game I didn't even forget to use most of my ploys etc

Ran In Country/INX demos at a local shop yesterday. Had two 2x2 set ups.

Weekend update.

classic battletech-





Bolt action-



infinity



40K





My game was only one very large clan invasion scenario for classic battletech.

Avenged! (Sort of)

*thunk*

Scute never did like that his almost-twin brother, Cod, ran off with that "From the Woods" warband, much less that his brother was the only one to die on their watch. Scute's only reminder of his brother was his brother's scarecrows, three rather unwholesome looking things that stood over his unimpressive plot of land. Cod was buried under one of the trees on the farm, next to his scarecrows that he was unwholesomely fond of. And the "From the Woods" warband had the temerity to return, requesting lodging as part of their Ride Patrol. Freeloaders. But, that morning, Scute would feel a little grateful of the warband's presence as they refreshed themselves near the village well, and send arrows and bolts into the attacking robbers, the last of whom fled away, leaving two arrows in his felled fellow townsfolk, and one more in the still-standing scarecrows.

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Trees and rock by Archon. Elven Woods set.
Village terrain by Battle Systems. Village set.
Scarecrows are "Tiny Furniture's Harvest of War" miniatures. Sequel campaign coming!
Miniatures by Reaper.

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This weeks games-
classic battle tech







Big flames of war event-









infinity-



my games-

Some DUST 1947- axis fallshirmjaeger VS mythos



clan invasion first contact- classic battle tech (3 succession wars era mercenary lances VS a clan star)



Then i did a few small games with a player testing out his 3.5 chaos iron warriors VS my 5th ed salamanders. first 500 points and then 1K points.

That FoW event looks huge. I like the two tanks hanging out near the tram car. I guess they were hoping no one would notice them.

And Dust aircraft are so fething weird...

If by weird you mean AWESOME your are correct. the axis planes are all based on the HO 229 flying wing fighter with scifi VTOL capability.

especially compared to the super deformed P-38s and hinds the other factions get

Played some loose holiday KT21, Mission 1.3 from the Nachmund book (alternate narrative terrain layout). I lost the match 10-14 to Legionary, in hindsight should have deployed all my heavy hitters (plasmas & meltas) from the center of my DZ, now they were out of range when the intel was recovered. A fun game nonetheless

Got in a round of Shatterpoint:



Also need to remember to start taking pictures of my 40k games.

Tonight's game:
Salamanders vs all the CTan (& some Lokhusts/Lokhust Lords)

Kind of a slow day at the store this weekend. but there was a bunch of 40K

From 3rd ed



5th ed house version



to 10th




then some classic battle tech



My games

1600 point salamanders VS ultra marines 5th ed



And a small 31 point training game of warmachine MK III

First game trying out Squad Mark's terrain.

Symmetrical L-shaped terrain boards. *shudder*

 aphyon wrote:
5th ed house version

Spoiler:

10 Marines... and a Chaplain. Remind me how many fit in a Drop Pod again?

12 in a drop pod in 5th or one dreadnought...(but everybody who brings a dread spends 50 to use a lucius assault pod).- 35 points with either a storm bolter or missile pod, locator beacon is 5 points extra.

We wound up playing a 3 player 6th Edition WFB pitched battle at Classichammer day this month, with Ashley running a coalition of 2,000 points of High Elves and 2,000 points of Dwarfs vs. Hector's 2,000 points of Beastmen and my 2,000 points of Skaven. The first shot is our mighty lurch forward to start Turn 1, and the second shot is Ashley's last move as well as showcasing mine and Hector's severely depleted forces.

2 games with tsons. First league game against death guard who made slight deployment mistake that cost him a lot. Going first helped to get to side objectives that gave primaries to me. His terminator group meanwhile alone scored 24/44 of his vp's and zeroed my t3 secondaries. 2 that require holding home when it was partially deliberately given to dg...(figured better there so won't kill my stuff.

73-44

Then up against 10 desolators, 2x5 infiltrators, 6 aggressors and misc stuff. Desolators shot and shot but it was infiltrators that cost me game due to 12" no ds bubble. T2 tried to kill 5 with 5 terminators but failed so not only i was 5 behind primaries he got thanks to them tempting target and area denial for 10vp. So had he failed to get there i would have won actually as i lost by 9vp.

Magnus was funny. First i pass 7/7 inv saves taking just 2 wounds. Hah! I am invincible! Then 6 aggressors charge. 18 attacks hitting and wounding 4+ rerolls and 4+ save. Average is 5 in and i had 2 rerolls. 10 in...then captain took down to 1.

So much for i am invincible...

Soulblight vs gits. His gamble backfired horribly so i got all in charge with blood knight heavy force. Vengorian lord paid off so i deleted huge amount of hammers losing literally no models...

Him keeping priority rolls and lacking charge bonuses vs troll durability meant it was still pretty close 25-20 win.

A bit of Judgement and MCP this week:

On the gaming front, my pal's recently minted Blood Angels stumbled into the wrong neighbourhood in today's ZoMo and got whacked hard by the inexorable XIV.

Blood drinkers against orks. Pretty clear win with msu being name.

Surreal moment t3 when i chose gretchin as oath moment just for wound rerolls(flamers autohit anyway ). Warboss squad still there but still gretchins bigger priority.

Tiny, an unpainted vintage Bloodthirster vs a shiny new DA dreadnought.
End result: 22 damage to the dreadnought.

Isengard vs dwarves.

Started well with dwarves retreating in face of blistering crossbow fire. Then Lurtz's group collapsed and leader faced death which was bad considering scenario.

However lurtz managed to shield keeping himself alive long enough to get a chance to do tactical retreat leaving friends behind. Meanwhile troll got whittled to 1w. Balin got overeager and using heroic combat went in but no heroic strike saw him dead.

We both broke but my leader alive and his dead gave me win.

Tale of how i killed 100+ necron warriors...

Too bad didnt stay dead. T1 took out 10 lychguard. T2 took out monolith. Then i'm stuck in melee. Can't do secondaries. T3 magnus took out ghost ark. T4 reanimator. T5 finally the 20 blob died.

64-81 loss.

Last round up against csm. Fun game though lost solidly. My saving throws were abysmally bad to start. Magnus failing 5/6 inv saves despite 2 or 3 rerolls. Ate cp more to negate damage. Got down to 4 wounds and then died failing 4 3+ rolls. Had 1passed could have survlved...

This also ate cp so 10 terminator blob never got good chance and　using half-measured didn't appeal as cypher makes then psychic bolters 2cp. Add to that 2 units surviving making teleport position hard t2...

T3 they came in and nuked noise marines and abbadon but too little too late. I couldn't survive at objectives so lost on primaries horribly. No help from secondaries either.

tonight was mostly 40K

3 games of 10th edition







4 games of our house 5th edition

3.5 chaos VS 5th ed grey knights



5th ed imperial guard VS 5th ed tyranids (with 3rd ed models)



5th ed imperial guard VS 5th ed grey knights



3.5 chaos VS 5th ed grey knights.



Bolt action



Classic Battle tech




My games

DUST 1947 Cthulhu VS AXIS (bleutkruz/zombies)



40K 5th ed space marines W/allied demon hunters VS 3.5 chaos and a lovely scarbrand model.

Flames of War.
My Italians (tan) vs US Army (green).

Most of the US casualties were caused by my 4 Lancia trucks & their 90mm cannons (large trucks with big guns near my center mass).
My tanks? Couldn't hurt the Sherman's head on. And almost couldn't from the side....

Game ended turn 4 when one of my tank platoons took & held an objective.

Soulblight vs slaves to darkness. we likely mlsplayed the scenario as we went with raw but t2 noticed raw basically makes many armies unplayable. Like this archaon...so either we played deployment wrong by not going rai(we think) or we played wrong by allowing archaon to even play. Raw he wouldn't even get to use him...

After this back to game. He charged in, took out screens. Double and game looked bad. Archaon out of reserve doing 9" charge and dicey. However this allowed cunning pile in move that limited damage.

My turn needing 3 9" charges made them like a champ!

Alas part b of comeback plan and get counter double failed.

However he failed 2 6" charges evening 1 battle tactic failed each. Still 2 ahead primaries...

Then vengorian lord died. Very bad.

My turn gamble. Disallow wards, charge.

My roar failed, his worked, archaon alive and vampire lord on dragon died.

3 units of skeletons, foot vampire and single blood knight not enough vs 2x3 varanguard and archaon...

40k (pure Khorne demons vs SM) this afternoon.

What I'd wanted to field: a mass of Bloodletters backed up by a prince, throne, & a pair of Skull Cannon.
What I ended up fielding: Karnak, 2x10 Fleshhounds, 2x Skullmasters (the mounted hero), & 3x3 Bloodcrushers.
Why the difference? I grabbed the wrong black case on my way out the door.

Fun game. Very decisive Khorne victory though.
My opponent was not very aggressive concerning siezing objectives & I largely pinned him in his DZ.

Sometimes bag god decides on list you play

We continued our Ionian Revolt adventure with the battle of Padasus.


All the minis are from Victrix. If it is your thing, you can read the full report on my Blood and Spectacles blog here: http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/07/battle-report-men-of-bronze-battle-of.html

Tyranid vs death guard. Mvp were 2 tyranofex sporting rupture cannon and super flamer. Each deleted units at ease.

Also all the psychic flamers.

And one of the worst luck with secondaries i have seen for the opponent gave super low score for him.

My friend came over, and we played another game of The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game. Playing a scenario I made of the cultists of Jaroai summoning a Jaroai as Anargrin and his team desperately try to stop it (which was the scenario my BatRep was based on). I set up the map, and I played Anargrin (the dude in the blue shirt) and his merry five-man band of misfits, my friend, the cultists (and his daughter too, but she was only seven and lost interest quite quickly and wandered off). We had fun, but the way I placed the terrain left me at a huge disadvantage; I also lost the deployment roll, which prevented me from having Emilia transform into a werewolf before the game (so she has to use a turn to transform) and stopping Anargrin to go into infiltration mode. It's been a bit of a slog. I already lost my sniper, Raleas. We only managed to finish two rounds, so he's going to come over another day. I have four rounds to kill the summoners, then the Jaroai is released and there's a fifth extra round so the attackers can either run or try to kill it.

Here's a few photos.

I totally space brained it tonight. i was helping 2 different tables learn some games and completely forgot to take a pic of the imperial knights 7th ed fight against the 5th ed necrons.

What i did remember -

the general games-

10 ed 40K



classic battle tech









5th ed 40K



battle fleet gothic

battlefleet Bakka engaging a khorne fleet.




Games i actually played-

classic battletech on the new terrain mat.

clan nova against two augmented lances.



ilclan/republic era lance on lance battle. my tenshi had already died by the time i remembered to take this shot.

Flames of War: Team Yankee game Sunday.

USA vs my Soviets.
Result: draw. (Nobody captured an objective by the time the shop closed.)
The mission used delayed reserves (no reserves possible until turn 3) and we both had horrible reserve rolls then on..... game might very been different if anyone had gotten reserves before turn 5....
Fun game though.

The kids and I played some Grimdark Future: Firefight last night for my weekly gaming club, and we had a blast (Although I didn't get to play for long as another kid arrived, and I gave him my faction, the Ork Kommandoes to play. We only got halfway through the game. It was 2v2. It was Attelus Kaltos from Secret War leading some Imperial Guard Veterans fighting alongside Eldar (which is quite fluffy) VS Chaos Space Marines and Ork Kommandoes. We couldn't finish it, so will next Wednesday! No objectives, just killing.

More gaming happened in Epic scale, as we're all waiting for the Legiones Imperialis to slowly dripfeed into our systems there's always good ol' Epic: Armageddon to smash. Or in this case, orks faces to bash with both hands as the capitol city of Miami V needed defending, twice in a row!

First battle saw the orks thoroughly scrunched against the hot'n'hateful steel of Mechanicum.






The second battle saw an almost unstoppable triple-mob charge pour through one flank of robots, but the day was still carried by remorseless robots marching to the ork home base through a burning channel ripped in the earth by a nova cannon shot from the backfield Ordinatus.

Bolt Action tonight at the shop.
4 players, formed into two teams. 500pts person.

US Army (mine) + US Rangers vs Germans & US Marines.

Victory: US Army/Rangers.

Lol, I suck at taking pics. Trust me, there's supposed to be Bazookas & enemy in those QST 2 pics. Really, I swear!

Game night update-

10th ed 40k







5th ed 40k





classic battle tech



star wars legion



My games-

monster apocalypse



classic battle tech

I hope the Great Houses don't awaken the Necrons!

Today the SMs of the Gray Legion* teamed up with some vintage Tau (mine) to smack the UMs + a contingent of Guard about.

Victory: Team gray.
Though it was a fairly close game right up until turn 5...

My role in this venture was to
A) clear any enemy armor - a task the hammerheads had no trouble doing.
B) exploit openings with the piranhas & stealth suits to do secondary objectives.

Meanwhile, the Gray Marines did alot of the actual fighting.
Especially around the central objective.

First up, big fat table for an all out nid/orks. I set up loads of forest for my brother to wipe it all out with an Apocalypse strategem turn 1



Second of all, meanwhile, I set up that silly pack of boxes with a friend and we got to play a 1000 admech vs genestealer cult (count as with my imperial guard) right on the floor!

That was all 6th edition 40k.

Had three friends over and we played some classic Necromunda.

Had the guys pick the terrain and place it, we used two fully stocked up gangs of twelve models each. Orlocks versus Goliaths










Goliaths ended up with a decisive victory over the Orlocks, but everyone had tons of fun.

Cheers,

CB

Wow, nice terrain!

Game nights keep getting cancelled on me, but got to learn how to pick apart Genestealers with my Deathwatch:

Late night game. Nids vs dg. 85-77. He had no tools to stop monsters fast enough but he hid his vehicles from rupture cannon and 10 termies made center unviable target for nids.

Not many game tonight, just some big ones.

a classic battle tech game




A massive 5K per side house rules hybrid 5th ed 40K game i was game master on.

grey knights (5th), imperial guard(5th) and imperial knights(7th). VS iron warriors and word bearers (3.5) and demons (4th).



My own game earlier was a classic battle tech republic era quad madness star VS 2 lance battle-

grey knights (5th), imperial guard(5th) and imperial knights(7th). VS iron warriors and word bearers (3.5) and demons (4th)

How do mixed edition codicies turn out in your games?

I do it sometimes but I feel compelled to adjust point values on 6th edition values.

They combine just fine under our house rules, as 3rd-7th are very cross compatible. all rules must conform to their 5th ed counterparts or they are ignored. for example what is the rule representing? i like to use dune strider(9" basic movement) as an example. it does not exist in 5th, it is trying to represent the units ability to traverse rough terrain. but 5th has fixed movement for all unit types, since extra movement outside those guidelines is not allowed the rule in 5th it is representing is move through cover. the unit in question gains 3d6 (instead of 2d6) take the highest when making moves through difficult terrain.

I have an entire topic to discuss older editions in the general 40K section, and a rules topic in the proposed rules section that covers the fixes we made to use all codexes from 3rd-7th under 5th ed rules. most of it is which rules from which edition work in 5th edition. so it goes

A. 5th edition core rules/USRs
B. fixes to 5th edition via importing rules that worked better in other editions or add flavor to to the game. IE 4th ed wound allocation and vehicle assault rules, 7th ed snap fire, overwatch and grenade throwing.
C. ignoring non-compatible rules like hull points, the extra cost for basic grenades from older codexes (all standard in 5th for free) etc...

The goal is to make the game more fun for all involved.

Yeah, we're doing the same with my pals, just curious how you do it in case there are any useful new ideas i didn't think of! I'll take a look at your dedicated topic.

We go about it quite the same way in fact, however playing in 6th.

For my brother's orks we've actually re-written a word file as a codex mixing all of the 3 to 7th, based on the 4th edition one, each time selecting our preferred itaration of units if it appears multiple times. It was also aimed at helping him a bit as his orks really struggle.

We're also used to play with one codex normally but add in older or newer units, like with my IG I sometimes use penal legions squads that I take from 5th edition codex, using it as is.

What we do is select what we consider the best codex for the faction, but if there is a newer unit...say trygon for tyranids (we use the 4th ed codex) we take the base points costs from the new book then buy all the upgrades and use the rules out of the main (4th ed) codex.

we have found with few exception almost nothing is needed from 6th or 7th ed except the armies that never existed prior, specifically gene stealer cults, knights/admech/skitari (they are the same army afterall GW just split up the books to make more $$$), deathwatch and custodes. obviously all the FW books are used without issues.

codex wise since we are more into making it fit the theme and lore. most codexes we use are from 3rd/index astartes/chapter approved, 4th and from 5th.

My personal collection-3rd
.index astartes-white scars, iron hands etc...
.chapter approved/imperial armor 1-armored company imperial guard
.dark angels mini dex
.demon hunters
.witch hunters

4th
.black templar
,space marines (optional)
.tau
.tyranids
.eldar
.orks

5th
.space marines
.imperial guard
.space wolves
.blood angels
.dark eldar
.necrons

.supplements
.death from the skies
.stronghold assault
.escalation * D weapons are all reduced to S10/AP1 and large blast templates if they are larger for normal game play.

Finally - finally! - played my first game of 10th. Character heavy Dark Angels (my opponent) vs Big Bug heavy Tyranids (me!). It was the first time either of us have played 10th.

Was playing against my oldest friend. We've been friends 30 years this year, and he's the bastard who got me into 40k in the first place.

We had an absolute blast!

10th certain has its problems - some of them quite major issues, like points/list building, characters being useless when not leading units, cover/LOS rules, and psychic powers being really dull - but the reduction in the cognitive load one has to endure compared to 9th is such a massive improvement. For the first two turns of the game I forgot about my Detachment rule. From turn 3 onwards I remembered it every time. The last time I played 'Nids I got to the end of the game and realised there were a half dozen special rules that I had completely forgotten existed for the entire game.

I'll post some pics up soon once I get home, but it was a game that ran for an entire 5 turns (no tabling on turn 2 due to super-duper 9th Ed lethality) and despite the Marines having 5 models on the table at the end of the final turn, it really came down to objectives scored (less than 10 points separated us in the end). I love the missions cards, as they're always getting you to do different things, change your plans, and react to different situations. There were times where I had to give up shooting on units I really wanted to use (Hive Tyrant and Neurotyrant) to ensure that I could score objectives. Had I just gone for the kill, the points I scored off that particular secondary would have put me behind and I would have lost.

Things we learnt:

1. Haruspexes are fething monstrous. One of them ate a unit of Aggressors, and the other his Terminators (after I softened them up with shooting a bit). One survived, on two wounds! I even got to use the tongue attack. Twice! And the Precision ability actually worked.
2. Infernus Marines are terrifying. Yes, part of that comes from the changes to Overwatch, but my opponent put them quite central (you'll see once the pics show up), and they meant that any attempts to get near the centre objective would be tough. Eventually I bit the bullet and went in, but it was quite hard. They're no slouches in melee either, with 3 attacks each.
3. Von Ryan's Leapers are worth every point for that Fights First ability. All of them died in the end, but they allowed me to keep the Infernus Marines from shooting for the middle of the game. They probably would've come out on top if not for...
4. ... the Outriders. Outriders are absurdly hard to kill. We were both shocked by how good they turned out to be.
5. I was worried that Psychophage was a bit of a waste, as for the first three turns they hung back and acted as FNP aura-givers. But after the first Haruspex went down, and I was forced to fall back with second lest it die before I could swing, with the Reapers dead, the two of them had to step up. They're not mainline big bugs, but as a support or mop-up force they're fantastic... unless the opponent has an attached Psyker, in which case they are death incarnate. One of my Psychophages wiped out the rest of the Infernus Marines as they had a Libby with them. Anti-Psyker 2+ plus Dev Wounds is rough.
6. The Lieutenant w/Combi-Weapon might be the oddest duck in that Leviathan box. I included him simply because he was part of the box, but neither of us expected much from him. Dude's a murder machine. Yes, he's fighting his preferred target (Tyranids) and wouldn't be anywhere near as effective against literally anyone else, but because he was fighting Tyranids I could not ignore him. When he very easily wounded my Haruspex, I made a point of singling him out and eating him!

Can't wait for the next game, and I haven't had that thought for a long long time.

Todays battle:
My Tau vs Tyranids. 2k pts.

Finally face some Tyranids her in 10th.
I really had no idea what to expect. (I didn't even know I'd be facing Tyranids)
My Tau prevailed through having vastly more firepower.

Metal sculpts, great!

And some pictures!




More in the Battle Report I just posted.

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
Metal sculpts, great!

Yep, finally pulled out my ages old Tau last week.
2nd time they've been on the table since sometime in 4e.
Never did get around to priming, let alone painting, about 1/2 the force back then. Maybe this time.

I actually played a demo game of Warlord Games Black Seas



The hosts ships were beautiful, but I was not going to paint, base, and rig the ships for myself. I am too lazy for that.

If interested, I have some more pictures and thoughts on Black Seas at the bottom of the blog post:

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/06/wargame-design-thinking-about-naval-and.html

Nid vs chaos knights. Servo skull primary gave flat 0 but even gambit would still have won. Too hard to keep servo skull coming at me.

At least rupture cannon did 20 damage blowing up big knight doing 6mw to 2 wardog each...

Then nid　vs nid combat patrol. I swarmed objectives first and then largely wet towel fighting. Except lone von ryan leaper who rolled 12/12 4+ rolls and i failed 4/6 4++ saves resulting dead warlord

Too bad forgot to take picture from laughing so hard.

Mere 0.02% chance before saves...

Uh, so we played quite a big game…




5 titans, and lord knows how many vehicles and infantry. Last game of a 10-year campaign!

3 GUOs!

I hope there's a detailed report coming with this.

Ha!, yes H.B.M.C., a report will definitely happen. As to when, well I’m about 6 games behind currently with my reports. All in good time!

Wait, 10 years campaign? Tell me more

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
Wait, 10 years campaign? Tell me more

Why tell you when I (as a devoted Gordy goupie) can SHOW you:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/660956.page

King Of Batreps, We Hail Thee

Awesome. I'll take a read of this tomorrow - on vacation so I have got all the time in the world! thanks for linking!

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
Awesome. I'll take a read of this tomorrow - on vacation so I have got all the time in the world! thanks for linking!

No worries, you're going to enjoy it

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Finally - finally! - played my first game of 10th. Character heavy Dark Angels (my opponent) vs Big Bug heavy Tyranids (me!). It was the first time either of us have played 10th.

Was playing against my oldest friend. We've been friends 30 years this year, and he's the bastard who got me into 40k in the first place.

We had an absolute blast!

Can't wait for the next game, and I haven't had that thought for a long long time.

Glad to hear it!

As someone who has regularly played 40k out of obligation, its been very strange to realize I've been choosing to focus on it over other games probably for the first time ever. My biggest fear at the moment is just that it won't survive the codex cycle, but I'm having an absolute blast at the moment.

Daemons vs dg. No be'lakor and couldn't get shadow up made rough game. 3 crawlers wore down gd's at high speed.

Round 1 of tournament. Ba vs gsc. They kept coming and couldn't hold on to no man's land. And last 2 turns had 3/4 unarchievable secondary despite redraw.

But fun game. I killed his army like twice but kept coming back.

Some nice shots since I last looked, especially the clasic munda table and HBMC's Fronteris base.

My last 4 games looked like this



I was at my Alpine summer house with gaming buddies, we had apocalyptic 100-year rains so we squeezed the 8x4 Aldi folding picnic table in the main bedroom with under a foot of gap to each bed.

(it's Dystopian Wars)

I met up with ThePaintingOwl for some games of Grimdark Future Firefight today and it was a blast. He brought Imperial Guards and I brought my Orks. We ended up playing five games in a little less than three hours and had a lot of fun.

Here's a photo of my orks moving in for the kill. At the end of this turn, the then lone remaining guardsman would have killed the final gretchin that would trigger my army to make a morale check. Which of course, they then all failed, causing my whole army to rout! It was a hilarious defeat. I'm sure that guardsman would have some stories to tell back at the barracks.

The game night update-

had some bolt action-




Team yankee



Classic battle tech







40K 10th ed








40K 5th ed

a small 1350 game of orks VS chaos....the chaos player and the blood angels player did a 5th ed game as well but i forgot to get pictures.



My games-

classic Battle tech



A small demo game of B5 wars star wars mod-

X2 carracks with fighter support VS an MC 78 with fighter support.

1st game with sisters in 10th vs death guard as usual. Purge the foe was hard to score and 1 charge from deep strike ruined hold more chance. Killing 5&6 didn't result in kill more either...

Vahl did silly well killing unit of terminators and then soloing the hero and another unit of terminators before nearly chopping crawler.

Miracle dices gave shenigans by the bucketload.

Did you find much use for low-scoring Miracle Dice (1's and 2's)?

My mechanized & armored Grots (1k pts) teamed up with an upstart Ork warboss & his boyz (teammates 1k pts) to go looting.
Entering an area particularly rich in scrap
(Basic mission card: supply drop) the allied greenskins discovered that apparently the fighting here wasn't quite finished as they came under attack by both Ultramarines & Tyranids.... (our opponents 1k/1k pts)

It was a close game. SM/Tyranids:22/greenskin allies:20.
The game was lost on the final turn when the Warboss insisted on chasing down Old One Eye - instead of advancing onto the opponent objective & scoring us 8 more VP - the warboss was the only model that could've reached that objective.... :(

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Did you find much use for low-scoring Miracle Dice (1's and 2's)?

I had big pile of them but a) I kept rolling lower than average b) I first misremembered dialogus rule(it affects only it's unit. DOH! Too blindingly obvious) and then forgot to use to to boot... c) I wanted to keep 3 at hand anyway in case Vahl or triumph dies to bring it up with 3 wounds.

So this game no but had I remembered dialogus rule and put him to retributors would been better and some MD's were always going to be as backup in case Vahl bites the dust. She was wrecking ball I wanted to res if she happens to die just to make opponent panic more when she comes and puts some pain

Also forgetting the +1 to wound stratagem hurts. Could have made difference when Vahl charged crawler alone.

Or tank shock...

Kill the crawler, heroic intervene vs cultists if they come to objective to deny hold more and maybe kill more as well.

So directly no but if distribution would have been ~average it wouldn't have been too bad because dialogus and Vahl backup would have kept all the 1's and 2's useful. Only reason I was having headache with them was that I had silly amount of 1's and 2's with barely any higher ones except toward the end when hospitaler died giving me 4 which finally rolled well.

My Deathwatch got stepped on by some big robots:

That tends to happen no matter which game system you play.

Sisters vs admech. 100-79. Pushed them off center objectives. Got perfect spot to rapid ingress Vahl & co who proceeded to kill 6 haywire things with character, ironstriders, ran to score tempting target, kill breachers and onager.

Finally remembered detachment rule and retributors got good use of crappy miracle dices with dialogus & triumph.

Zero units lost first 2 turns was pretty bad for admech.

Sisters vs mono slaanesh. Daemon chance was t1 when shooting failed to drop kos and had to attack in melee. Had 4+ fight on death succeeded suits likely dead. Instead Vahl & co took out all in her way.

 aphyon wrote:
That tends to happen no matter which game system you play.

I love me some big stompy robots. I actually have knights. I should probably field them more often than I do.

Castles of the Sky game. The rules are from Osprey and the miniatures and from the Brigade Imperial Skies range.



If you are inclined, you can read the full battle report on the Blood and Spectacles blog here:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/08/castles-in-sky-indo-china-campaign-vii.html

We played another game of Grimdark Future: Firefight for the miniature game club yesterday. 2v2, I was playing Orks, which was allied with Chaos vs. Inquisition led by Attelus Kaltos and Karmen Kons from Secret War, and Eldar, led by Farseer Faleaseen of Craftworld Dalorsia also from Secret War. I got my butt kicked with some bad rolls, but the kids had a great time kicking my butt, so it was worth it, lol.

My Grots vs SM
Victory: the Grots. By alot. But still a fun game.

My first infinity game in about 6 months. O-12 v Yu Jing, mission was "supplies".

nice looking table, i just got the last of my 3d printed buildings from corvus games terrain for my table so i will have some infinity goodness up next week.

As for this week, we were packed.

10th ed 40K







5th ed 40K

3.5 iron warriors VS 4th ed eldar



3rd ed witch hunters VS 3.5 iron warriors.



bolt action



team yankee



Classic battle tech





My games

Classic battle tech light lance throw down.



B5 wars star wars mod

Imperial assault ship (played by a 3d printed dreadnought) VS a blockade runner and rebel assault frigate with fighter support.



Whew 11 games, a very good game night.

In today's 3v3 game 3k pts of Khorne demons (+Belakor) attacked an UM/Custodes/Ork alliance of necessity.....
Much blood was spilled and many Skulls taken.
In the end, though they suffered great casualties, the alliance held out long enough for the Warp to reclaim the demonic onslaught. (They won by about a dozen vp :()

Bolt action game, Sectors mission that we played for the campaign. Was pretty much locked in the woods for the whole game but I managed to defend very well against bad deployment and side pick of my brother. He almost tipped the game in his favor in the end, pounding me with a T34. Hopefully, he didn't buy an artillery obersver in his list because otherwise my tightly packed army in the woods would have taken a beating for sure!

While waiting for LI to drop, some 2v2 Epic: Armageddon was had yesterday, as Death Guard legion and their Mech + Guard opponents drew a bloody stalemate. Some 12k points on the board.

Got in a ton of Shatterpoint this week. Only got pictures of the latter two, but really getting a feel on how to control the deck and scenario correctly:

I just noticed how tall Ahsoka is in that game... weird.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I just noticed how tall Ahsoka is in that game... weird.

I'm almost certain she was a proof of concept/test model. She's was a preorder bonus that's being tossed in a regular release later, but her scale and sprue is definitely different from the rest of the line. She's relatively simple and her sabers are a little thicker than the rest as well.

Time for Ze Churmans to show their metal – The League of European Nations take on their erstwhile allies, the Atlantic Alliance!

link

Set up a couple boards for In Country/INX by enemy Spotted Studios yesterday and ran demos/learn to play sessions. Used Rangers vs different flavors of insurgents. Started pretty simple added in smoke and grenades as players got comfortable (happens quickly with these rules).

Weekend game store update-

10th ed 40K games





House 5th ed 40K

imperial guard 5th VS eldar 4th





salamanders 5th VS 3.5 chaos small learning game.





Then the big battle 4K double team game-

custodes 7th/30K and eldar 4th VS chaos 3.5 with a 3rd party brass scorpion-

This was an epic battle, the eldar got worked over pretty hard, but the bikes just would not die-shining spears with farseer on a bike rocking guide and fortune.





A couple epic points-

the custodes dread in a lucius pod dropped danger close behind the chaos defense line and scattered 2" to the the edge of the table.



The chaos lord finished off the eldar superheavy flyer with a close combat assault.



Constantine Valdore showed up, and was boss as expected.

classic battle tech.



My games were all about the Infinity N2 marathon with my 3d printed terrain mostly from corvus. games terrain.

The first game was a djanbazan themed force VS combined army with 2 hackable objectives.






game 2 was a muyib themed force VS combined army. this was just a straight up battle.

Little bit of 40k, little bit of Shatterpoint:

12K Bolt Action game on a 12x6 table a few weeks ago.

 Midnightdeathblade wrote:
12K Bolt Action game on a 12x6 table a few weeks ago.

Fantastic looking table!

Thank you!

Played a fun game of Grimdark Future: Firefight with the kids for my gaming club today. Not-Gaunt's Ghosts and Not-Dark Angels vs Not-Chaos and Infected Colonies. We couldn't finish, so will have to finish it next week.

My club is running a 6th ed Fantasy slow grow league at the moment. Thought I'd join in as I have a bunch of Vampire Counts and I always wanted to try Fantasy, although never got the chance as they killed it off just as I was getting into it.
Long story short, I had my first game the other night against a long time returning playing at 800pts aside. Another, very experienced player was running the match for us taking us through the rules and at its core, it's not nearly as complicated as I always assumed it was.


I actually remembered to take a consistent photos throughout the match for once. I never do for my Heresy games.
Set-up

The undead hosts move forward towards the living. While the handgunners start taking a toll on the zombies and skeletons.


After very narrowly avoiding having his head taken off by a cannonball the Necromancer hurries to join the Zombie unit. (landed an inch behind him)

The zombies move up, pinning the knights in place and after some very tense dice rolls, the Necromancer barely survives.

Help is near at hand though. (off screen: the ghouls have charged the flank of the spearmen)

The black knights and skeletons crash into the flanks of the Imperial knights (off screen: despite dealing more wounds then the spearmen, due to rank and banner bonuses, the Ghouls break and run)

And after 2 rounds of combat the Knights flee and run straight off the board with the black knights in hot pursuit.

The zombies and skeletons move up to destroy the cannon, while the handgunners attempt the hold back the tide.

Having destroyed the handgunners in short order, the skeletons lead by a Wight King set about chasing down the enemy wizard who failed a fear test. (ghouls keep running)

Photo missing
The ghouls ran off the board edge. Skeletons, Zombies and Knights reform. After a vicious combat the skeletons are maimed badly, but in the end the spearmen flee.
The black knights charge the lone wizard, but the wizard holds his ground and manages to kill the Hellknight in single combat.

6th ed fantasy! excellent!


this weeks updates-

house 5th ed games-

7th ed custodes VS 5th ed guard-



The guard player had the tools, but he rolled so many 1s on his wound rolls with demolishers plasma and such.... still a good fight he managed to actually kill 2 custodes squads.

this game was a special scenario bastion assault mission. 4th ed eldar VS 5th ed imperial guard strong point-





40K 10th ed with a great looking 3d printed walker themed guard army from the makers cult-





Some bolt action-



Some solaris 7 arena battles for classic battle tech-



My games-

Late era assault lance battle-



vehicle and battle armor city fight. clans VS inner sphere-

Got in some more Shatterpoint over the weekned. Getting a lot better and preparing for future struggles and having models in position ahead of time. Definitely wouldn't run this specific list again as Anakin, Secondary Obi and Primary Ahsoka all have powerful Force abilities with a high and just don't work well together.

I'm struggling what I think of Primary Ahsoka. All game I feel like she doesn't really do anything, but she was pretty much solely responsible for winning me the game at several points simply by being able to be where she needs to be.

New codex nids vs admech. Got blown pieces worse than I gave back but not a worry as i swarmed into middle objectives and beyond. 5++ r1 and +1 charges r2 gave max value.

Secondaries i got only slight lead but primaries 50-15 for smash win.

Hive fleet Isonade adopted unending swarm and crawled all over objectives. Dg had headache to not screw themselves by surge moves.

I got the 1st turn and managed to win primaries 50-30. Secondaries also solid giving 100-68 game. Toward the end too depleted to prevent 15 primaries.

Recap for this weekend-

house 40K 5th ed-



40k 10th ed-



Classic Battle Tech-



Bolt action-



My games- 2 rounds of infinity N2/N3





A 50 point warmachine MK III battle

Trolls VS Khador-

Got in another round of Judgement last week:

Unending swarm vs admech. I swarmed over objectives and killed what i could but my army is not geared to killing and having faced admech already knew just how irritating they can be. So didn't even try using most of melee to hold them.

Most of heavy hitters died but 91-60 the end result. Purge the foe kept him scoring primaries at least(as planned when i chose that one)

1st game of battletech in long time. Mad cat vs thunderbolt(?) And thug. New for all.

Turn 2 or 3 won priority. Thug came so it was medium range for my longest guns so stood still. Hit with all and caused lucky crit damaging gyro. It spent most of game falling or being prone. Ripped right torso and left leg largely disabling until critted engine 3 times.

Thunderbolt had issues hitting and couple critlcal priority rolls helped. He settled on duel being in forest while i was behind hill. My centei torso got mauled hard(thug got couple solid ppc hits) but he took 1st. We called it game there.

A bit more Shatterpoint:

A Humvee in Star Wars?

Outrageous! *pops monocle*

A night that didn't seem busy turned out to be-

The games-

10th ed 40K





house 5th ed 40K


3.5 chaos VS 4th ed black templar-



5th ed guard (3d printed from the makers cult) VS 5th ed guard double force org with allied iron hands (3rd ed)



Bolt action-





classic battle tech Solaris league-







My games-

house 5th ed 40K

salamanders 5th ed with ordo xenos inquisitor Solomon Lok (couttesy of the anphelon project) and friends from the deathwatch.



Classic battletech-recently got a cronus and had to give it some love on the table.



Then a battle of the less used mechs- IS VS clans



And finally WM/H MK III 50 point battle.

We had our goodbye to Summer game here in Japan. We had a knight vs knight fight and unfortunately I got trounced. Going first with IKs is deadly when you cannot hide.






M.

A few pics of a game of Black Seas a friend & I played Sat. (All models are definitely WiPs):

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
A Humvee in Star Wars?

Outrageous! *pops monocle*

Hehe, yeah. I set up one table for Shatterpoint and the other for MCP, but everyone had new Star Wars toys they were excited to play with so we just made do.

3v3 3000 points of Titans were on the go this weekend. Loads of fun!

I have been playing through the Ionian Revolt using Men of Bronze and Poseidon's Warriors. We are at the climactic battle of Lade, a Naval engagement. The ships are all 3D printed.



You can read the details here:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/09/battle-report-poseidons-warriors-battle.html

Big (Humvee Free) Shatterpoint night last night:

The historical gaming group came in for a big game day of team yankee








This game i never really found out the name of but the table looked great.




Then some classic battle tech.



My games

It was an infinity marathon day.

did 2 games of combined army VS various haqqislam lists.





Then we did a couple games against a panO knightly order army.



Then we did 2 battle tech games-

game 1 steiner VS kurita -late era.



Game 2 nova cat VS hells horse.

My hobby time has recently been taken up by ambitious gamesmastering duties and research, half-painted models languishing forgotten on the painting table, but at least there's been some tabletop time in there. More gaming pictures it is, then! This time it's been a solid weekend filled with a couple of big Titanicus clashes full of nuclear fire and fender benders with our loyalist line taking the cake against a traitorous mutant horde.










Exidium Ultimum got to take a walk in the second game, crushing three Warlords after the scenario forced us into a very aggressive spearhead deployment

From two recent games:
●AoS - Skaven vs Cities of Sigmar with allied giant.
Skaven victory.
●40k - Tau vs Tyranids
Tyranid victory by a large margin.

Played 2 Warhammer Fantasy 6th ed games on Sunday, Vampire Counts vs Empire. Game 1 went back and forth a bit, he had the upper hand most of the game. Mortar crew misfired twice, deviated onto his own unit the 3rd turn, ran away then back turns 4 and 5, then misfired again the final turn. It was made up for by his Volley Gun, which in one volley landed 26 hits and wiped 17 Grave Guard in one go. Vampire Lord spent 3 rounds in a Challenge with the Elector Count, causing no wounds while the greatsords chopped down the skeletons. I kept his Knights occupied with cheap summoned skeleton units faced in ways that made him have to spend too much time turning around to be useful, and my ghouls actually did some damage to the Finally killed the Elector Count on the 5th round of combat, only to poof away away to combat res. I was able to summon/move to contest 2 table quarters and control 2 more, plus some captured banners giving a minor win to the undead.

Game 2 was a Capture scenario, and he just couldn't dislodge the undead from the objective. I killed his wizard early and ran rampant with magic, I was summoning models faster than he was killing them. I think the 20-strong skeletons ended with nearly 50 in the unit, and the 20 zombies ended over 35 strong

Wow! Some amazing looking games as always!

A game of Aquanautica Imperialis- Wet Navy 40K homebrew rules.



The Ammoriss Naval PDF tries to destroy Ork coastal air bases during Operation: Hemlock.

My opponent and I quickly find out that we are a little rusty with these rules!

You can read all about the battle and Operation: Hemlock on the Blood and Spectacles blog:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/10/battle-report-aquanautica-imperialis.html

Age of Sigmar today, final game of our current League.
My Skaven vs the Hedonites of Slanesh.
Victory: Slanesh - by alot.
The Horned Rat was not impressed today....

This weekends actions-

flames of war group-







N4 infinity





10th ed 40K



classic battle tech




My games-
classic battle tech





infinity N2/3

Got a game of Aeronautica in last night. Six people made it to the evening alongside various other systems in play.

Used low flying rules to bring in buildings and tried out a bombing run mission for the first time!




150 points - Navy vs Orks - Bombing Run

Again, I didn't play, but the mini game day for the kids was on yesterday. They played Grimdark Future: Firefight. Only two kids came, but both wanted to play two teams each, which turned out to be Orc Marauders and Future Robots From the Future (a faction I made from the Army Forge Studio app based on some robot minis I have lying around that the kids wanted to play with, it also included a robot character I made in Hero Forge that one of the kids drew a design for then later I had 3D printed, which he was super happy with) vs Havoc Brothers and Cultists and Ghostly Ghosts (not-Gaunt's Ghosts again made by me, which made me internally cringe that Gaunt's Ghosts would fight along side Chaos, but the kid wanted to play them, so...)

Do you have a photo of the Heroforge Robot hero?

I played some Men of Bronze where we wrapped up the Ionian Revolt with the siege of Miletus.



You can read the gory details and see all the pictures on the Blood and Spectacles blog.

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/10/battle-report-men-of-bronze-before.html

A bunch of MCP and a little more Shatterpoint this week:

This weekends game update


The last few weeks we have been hitting infinity and FOW pretty hard at the store. this weekend it wa time to revisit 40k but htat was not all.

Song of ice and fire-





Infinity



team yankee



classic battle tech





10th ed 40K













House 5th ed 40K
1,850 points
witch hunters (3.0) VS iron warriors (3.5).



My games
2k points
salamanders (5th)/deathwatch allies (7th) VS 5th ed imperial guard-guard victory.



1.5K
salamanders 5th ed VS witch hunters (3rd)-salamanders victory.

Nice! Looks like the group has been getting more painted too!

That club seems pretty lively and active! Nice work. I am jealous!

Lasting Tales: Light the Beacons -or- Don't Offend the Local Druid

Battlemap from Loke Battle Mats' "RPG Toolkit: The Long Road".
Miniatures by Reaper, WotC prepaints, CMON wolves, Blacklist Games wolves.
Terrain (beacon) by Mantic

So, for Lasting Tales, a solo skirmish game, you create an enemy force by spending points equal to the total levels of your party. Half can be spent on elite units, so I spend half on elite units. I randomly pick out the Treant, a creature with a Resistance 3, which means most attacks, which are 1d6, won't damage it. I use a Bones I Forest Golem that I painted years ago but never played. Only two guys in our party have crossbows (1d6+2 damage), the wizard has pew-pew-pew at 3d3+1 until he runs out of Power, and the thing has 18 Health. 

We sure have our work cut out for us. On top of the Treant, I generate a nature-oriented enemy force. Minions are typically one-shot kills, but they can outnumber you quickly. A pack of wolves *and* a pack of dire wolves means the monk gets the job of holding off *ten* wolves, at five wolves per two levels spent. Oh, and we also have a Centaur Brave, and a Bear. Because why not make the game harder?

I figure the plotline is that the village encroaching on the forest isn't appreciated by the local druids. The druids have already reduced one set of buildings to ruins, and the villagers haven't taken the hint. The heroes have somehow agreed to fend off Mother Nature by fighting through the enemies and, to get help, securing and lighting the beacon. Way in the background. Way, waaaay in the background.

A thematic setup has the heroes starting at the settlement side, and the enemies on the wilderness side. Of course, the forest is in the middle of board, so the Treant's Woodland trait means it'll start closer to us. And the wolves *and* centaur have the Quick trait, which means they'll clear 2/3 of the board in two turns.

So, yeah. Despite all the detailed terrain on the battlemap, the heroes did nothing but behind the tavern, taking shots at the Treant. The wizard could only pew-pew-pew for so-many turns before his Power went out, while the cleric Blessed the Rogue's crossbow so he and the Fighter could hit the Treant. Including the bear and centaur, that thing took about seven turns of shooting to take down, even when the wizard was slowing it down by distracting it with the Ventriloquism cantrip.

"Lucky" for us, the scenario ended on turn 8. We're nowhere near the beacon (way in the background), much less any further than where we started. You can see how close the wolves were getting by then. Sorry, anonymous town. The druid got his forest back.

More game session pics on the Reaper forums!
https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/102943-five-leagues-from-the-borderlands-and-lasting-tales-the-vale-of-klocke/

Probably last huzah for bonesplitters before tow takes them. Got overrun by glottkin(that charge on my turn ca and force retreat was murder costing units and bt's), crushed by demigryph spam and ran over ghosts helped by opponents attrocious luck(gate breaker fails to kill 6w guy with 6+ ward to say least of bad breaks...).

Prophet zzapped 2 flies, some 5 wounds to glottkin(22mw, guy rolls wards like a champ), 2+6 demigryph and 18w to gate breaker.

Vanquard nids vs death guard. Servo skull/tempting target nightmare vs dg.

Fun stratagems. T1 assimilator out of reserves and 7" charge to crawler. Dead. Denied secondaries twice moving cunningly wlth stratagem and scored capture enemy outpost with t2 reserve into enemy dz due to stratagem.

But got more or less tabled on his t4 so last 2 rounds 39-3 for him for 64-69 loss.

It started a bit slow this weekend but it turned out to be a good turnout.

The games-
10th ed 40K





3rd ed 40K



5th ed 40K



infinity



classic battle tech







My games-

DUST 1947



classic battle tech.

 aphyon wrote:
3rd ed 40K

Spoiler:

I feel sorry for the DE on that table. Talk about open spaces!

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.

 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

Nice Corsairs, Easy!

A few of my recent KT games with me playing some White Scars Intercessors and Slaaneshi "Blooded".

That's a poorly designed version of noughts and crosses there. How can anyone win on a 2x2 grid?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
That's a poorly designed version of noughts and crosses there. How can anyone win on a 2x2 grid?

It is a metaphore for many wargames - the winner is decided in the stage of determining who goes first.

At least it is more conclusive than the classic one where a draw is the default result.

6 players came for triumph&treachery so 2 games 3 each. My std vs seraphon and soulblight.

Prio rolls gave good vp feed for vampires and i got hit by both very inconveniently.

This was my highlight nuking 20 skeleton and 10 direwolves but then zombie dragon came and took my army off.

With army needing charges being tied up sucks. 2 mages blew up on spell attempts. Last 1 on last turn when i could secure 2nd place but boom and tied 2nd. Got crazy and tried tied win... tiebreaker would probably been on soulblight favour.

Played another cityfight campaign game. Renegades against elysians. Air support had a field day against the renegade light armor and dismounts.

Battle report:
https://mandollies.com/2023/11/18/battle-for-vogen-09-drop-troopers

Some Bolt Action last night.
My US Army (white base coat) vs US Marines.
The objective was to retrieve the token in the center of the board & exit it off your own board edge.

My 2nd squad to pick up the token barely managed to avoid being assaulted & had to outrun air attacks (the Marine player kept failing to bring an airstrike on them) - but they made it!

Really the game was all about who got to the center the 1st & managed to survive hell being thrown at them for a solid round. I got lucky.

This winter camouflage doesn't match the green table too well, unfortunately.

Cyel wrote:
This winter camouflage doesn't match the green table too well, unfortunately.

Not the 1st time in history troops were issued the wrong gear....

With the holiday coming up and some various people missing it was a slow day for a Saturday.

there was a single 10th ed game but i was busy and didn't get a pic of it.

then we had a new player trying out his custodes in 5th ed VS guard.



a couple classic battle tech games.





With the other planned games being pushed off to next weekend, i ended up with 3 battle tech games-book ends of the universe. with both a succession wars lance on lance battle where nearly everything died to chain ammo explosions.




to an ilclan battle of hells horse VS snow raven. i forgot to ake many pics of this one.




Then i did a training game for a new player 3070 era for clan on clan action

Finally managed to finish my 6th Campaign Turn of Five Parsecs from Home last night. I had bad luck setting up as I lost one character (Elandria, for the 2nd time) to being too depressed to take part in the battle, and then it turned out two characters (Dellenger and Torris) were separated and off the board until I can roll a 1-2 at the end of a round then they arrive on the edge of my board (which didn't happen until the 3rd round which was too little too late) I was against six enemy soldiers so outnumbered two to one basically the whole game.

I also didn't roll well on the Initiative. But this didn't stop my guys absolutely curb-stomping the enemy. Attelus alone killed three of the six, including the lieutenant, two in close combat. So, he's MVP much? Adelana managed to kill two as well with her Blast Rifle.

The badass trio. From left to right, it's Adelana, Attelus and Garrakson.



The truant duo Torris and Dellenger, and Elandria way back in the background.



MVP! MVP! MVP!

This was just a bog standard game of Forbidden Psalm: The Last War that I played against @gardensofhecate at a local military scale modelers' con on a table by @turbine_mill with a gang of French berserkers I painted the night before. Sorry for the hashtags, but this is what modern crediting looks like. Photos by @turbine_mill

Where did the Combine Strider mini come from?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Where did the Combine Strider mini come from?

Printed free file off Cults3d. I'm amazed it made it back to the cabinet in one piece.

I'm amazed it doesn't break when you breathe on it!

Very cool though.

Only had 4 people show up this time around for Classichammer night, but much fun was still had. Ashley's Lizardmen wound up tabling Bret's Dogs of War, and John's Orcs and Goblins ran roughshod all over my Skaven.

Crazy month has kept me away from gaming, but snuck in a little MCP and got to test out the preview scenarios for Warmachine:

Some more air combat over Korea this week, as we play a game set on Black Thursday, November 21st, 1950.



A dice indicates high altitude, a stand is combat altitude, and no stand is low altitude for flying.

You can see more pictures, read some history, and get a full accounting of the game on the Blog here is you are so inclined:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/11/battle-report-white-starred-star.html

Campaign game all spiderfang vs std.

Quite a lucky win. Without double ever and t2 damage output whiffing hard it was looking super grim for spiderts. However on t4 std he managed to grasp defeat from jaws of victory as somehow therions failed to get 6 wounds past save and 4 chosen failed to do 4 damage to another big spider. 1 dies and mathemathically impossible to win...

Unusual to win with failed gs and opponent scoring theirs. Campaign scenario helped as i got 5-0 extra vp's from empowered objectives(though he got couple hold more as result).

Funny how spiderfangs are objectively bad but i'm on 100% winrate. Small sample size, luck and local meta.

My shaman general went down in blaze of glory doing 18mw and killing off unit of 2 varanguard before dying.

My Eldar ranger/wraithguard vs the GSC.
This was an odd game. Going into turn 4? We were tied 5-5.

Yes, you read that correctly.
This was due to units units dying, units failing battleshock & not having OC when/where needed, contested objectives, and drawing secondaries that just couldn't be achieved.
In the end though the GSC edged out the Eldar 49-35.

After playing Grimdark Future: Firefight with the Kids for my Miniature Gaming Club yesterday and getting slaughtered, I played my 8th Encounter of my Five Parsecs From Home campaign. I was on a new world now that was being engulfed in chaos, which I named Sortath. Attelus and his crew were on a Patron Mission to "Take Care" of some vigilantes who'd made a militia out of desperation to protect their town, but eventually, they became more extreme and became bandits for all intents and purposes. They attacked nearby settlements to burn pillage and steal supplies and would kill anyone who came too close to their town who wasn't one of them. Needless to say, Attelus and his team of veterans absolutely curb-stomped the Militia. I almost felt sorry for them; it was so bad, lol.

ccs wrote:
My Eldar ranger/wraithguard vs the GSC.
This was an odd game. Going into turn 4? We were tied 5-5.

Yes, you read that correctly.
This was due to units units dying, units failing battleshock & not having OC when/where needed, contested objectives, and drawing secondaries that just couldn't be achieved.
In the end though the GSC edged out the Eldar 49-35.

What the...? By any chance you wouldn't happen to have scoresheet showing what secondaries were drawn I would love to see what sort of crazy sequence led to that one

Even when I have been tabled t2 I have usually scored at least some secondaries...

tneva82 wrote:

ccs wrote:
My Eldar ranger/wraithguard vs the GSC.
This was an odd game. Going into turn 4? We were tied 5-5.

Yes, you read that correctly.
This was due to units units dying, units failing battleshock & not having OC when/where needed, contested objectives, and drawing secondaries that just couldn't be achieved.
In the end though the GSC edged out the Eldar 49-35.

What the...? By any chance you wouldn't happen to have scoresheet showing what secondaries were drawn I would love to see what sort of crazy sequence led to that one

Even when I have been tabled t2 I have usually scored at least some secondaries...

I do not.
Even if I had saved the scrap paper we were recording scores on it wouldn't show anything but 2 columns of #s & the final tally. We never bother writing down the source of the pts.
There's no need. These are just casual games amongst friends.

Proxying the Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales mini's with Wildspire miniatures!
https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=wildspire+miniatures

If you have a 3D printer, you can download the CS miniatures (and PnP game expansion itself) *free* from the Crimson Scales game site!

Solo has you playing on hard mode. Barely made it alive. Maybe I should have noticed the 60gp we had at the start of the game we could have spent. 😛
You can buy from Amazon various steampunk cog bits. I recommend getting as small a size as possible. Half the bits I ordered are too large for basing.

Heroes (last two pics) from the Wildspire Heroes set.
Monsters from the Wildspire Monsters set.