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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.