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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.

Bit of a change today. as it was a holiday week i ended up getting in games on Friday night and Saturday.

Fist off the general Saturday games-


battle tech



Historicals



5th ed 40K with 3.5 chaos VS witch hunters, shrine defense scenario




Team yankee



10th ed 40K



Now for my games-

Friday night-

Did a learning game of Xwing MK1

then a B5 wars mod for star wars-boss battle super star destroyer time.



An actual game of B5 wars-narns VS shadows....it didn't go well for the narns but they did manage to kill one of the 2 shadow destroyers.



A game of DUST 1947 with my new 3d printed phaser cannon pershing IIs



A small (850 point) teaching game of 5th ed-dark angels (3.5) VS 5th ed salamanders.

Turned out to be a tie.



and finally some inner sphere on clan action. i forgot to take pics halfway through the battle. at this point the banshee, awesome and cerberus were down on the IS side. and the clanners lost a super nova.

I managed to wrap-up the Indo-China campaign for Castles in the Sky. French vs. British in a custom scenario suitable for the "final battle" of the campaign.



You can read all the gory details if you are so inclined on the Blood and Spectacles blog here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/11/castles-in-sky-indo-china-campaign.html

Yep that is right. Last game that I had was a few months ago playing in a WFB tournament. 6th edition was the game of choice for us.

This past weekend:
Game #1 - 1k pts of my Eldar vs a Tau/Chaos Knight alliance. Ok, technically I had a SW ally. But he wasn't much help.... despite that we still beat the Tau/CKs in a close match vp wise.

Game #2 - my Eldar (2kpts) vs 2k pts of different SW.
Although this SW player lost very badly on VP, he did kill 50% of my army.

We played a 2v2 game of Grimdark Future: Firefight for the kids' miniature gaming club last night. I only got a couple of activations before a 4th kid arrived and took over my team, which was my own faction, Independent Inquisition, led by Attelus, made up of Karmen Kons, Adelana Helgen and Crusader dude, which was fighting alongside the Duck Knights against Havoc Brothers/Cultists and another Independent Inquisition team led by Arlathan Karkin with Inquisitorial Storm Troopers. I decided in this battle, Inquisitor Karkin had turned to Chaos (hence why he's fighting alongside them) and Attelus and his team were sent to put him down.

The kids had a ton of fun, and it was a real battle as they fought over the third objective as there were only three total, and each side controlled one each.

We got locally new guy showing interest to 40k. He's planning custodians but to get feel for 40k borrowed my nids. I took sisters figuring this is simple enough matchup without crazyness like tsons could give.

Tight game. Both could have won but couple keyrolls swung in my favour. In 1k games can be quite swingy.

Castigator's 1st outing was big success.

Poor sister squad had to charge broodlord and 2 stealers...unsurprisingly they died without doing single damage but scored secondary, denied primary and kept them in combat for 1 turn.

Battletech Alpha Strike. My mechs are the ones on fire.