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Trying to get back to multiple games a week. A bit of Judgement, some Shatterpoint on a gorgeous Endor table, a Sith duel and some MCP tutoring:

Game night update

Got some odds and ends

blood bowl



Marvel crisis protocol



Team yankee/specter operations



10th ed 40K







5th ed 40K eldar VS guard-






My games-

Some classic battletech. clans VS inner sphere medium/heavy weight mech battle.




I also did another training game of DUST 1947 but i forgot to take pics.

I continue to play air wargames!

This time we are back in skies over Korea. This time it is April 12th, 1951. This was known as "Black Thursday" to the USAF and led to the suspension of daylight bombing over North Korea for a period. Miniatures are 1/600 from Tumbling Dice and the rules are White Star/Red Star.



You can read all about it, if you are so inclined; on the Blood and Spectacles blog here:
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/12/battle-report-white-starred-star-april.html

Here's pics from the games I played in at Fall In! back in November:


All Quiet on the Martian Front


Midgard (upcoming fantasy rules)


Strength & Honour


Breakthrough (upcoming WWII rules)

Little 500pt escalation league battle.
My Drukhari vs some Chaos Knights (Brigands)
Victory went to the Brigands ultimately.

Wow infinite that's an impressive helms deep terrain set.

Year wrapped with bit of khaine vs stormkeep action.

Stormcast went for high risk charge that...did not end well. Buffed up unit, roar failed and above average roliing kept damage quite low. With dragon dying t2 and double for r3 we wrapped it up.

Stormcast had alternative strategy to smash my backline less buffed unit forming screen reducing threats to big dragon(especially in scenario i get double r3) but that would be risky in vp situation especially if i get double r3. Could end up where he smash my army but lose on vp's.

 aphyon wrote:
Wow infinite that's an impressive helms deep terrain set.

Chris (the GM) did an absolutely amazing job.

Some Bolt Action this evening.
Inexperienced French Partisans & allied Inexperienced/regular Army vs veteran US Marines - and thier newly built Pershing.

The Marines were massacred as they'd invested waaay too much in that tank.
A 400+ pt tank - destroyed by my 60pt flamethrower.

Another odd mix of games for the weekend-

10th ed 40K



several games of MCP





Some classic battle tech-





My games-

We broke out some classic babylon 5 wars with a "chase the arctic" scenario



Then we did a battle tech game because one of the guys wanted to use the Omega-

Played my second Alpha Strike game with my 8 year old. 3x3 map with a lance per side (about 125 points each)

Got to drop the big red line down and play some Warmachine.

Finally got around to fighting the encounter of my 9th Campaign Turn. I haven't gotten around to playing it yet for a variety of factors (One of them is NOT because I've been playing a lot of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, not at all. It's an awesome game so far, FYI).
The Encounter was my 1st Faction Mission for a Secret Organisation on this world of Sortath (which is out of 4). I chose it because I wanted to gain Loyalty as the things you can get from it are pretty cool) For the 1st time, I rolled up non-human enemies, but robots (which is fitting as Sortath has a bustling robot industry). And the mission was to wipe them out. The game was quite fun; there were six of them, and Attelus managed to personally kill three (one with his Auto Rifle, which looks like an Automatic Handgun, and two with his Glare Sword). The game was a bit of a walkover, but I did use two Story Points to re-roll enemy hits, one on Dellenger and one on Attelus. Torris' Plasma Gun was also a lifesaver. I decided the security robots had gone haywire at a power plant in one of the orbital space stations and went on a rampage, killing many workers, but some escaped, including the supervisor who was a member of this Secret Organisation. He reported it to them, and they got in contact with Attelus after hearing how well he and their team did in the mission for the Patron associated with them before it went out of hand, and the robots might've started sabotaging the power plant to explode.
One thing that was strange was having to roll whether they became rivals after the battle, so I decided that the Rival would've been the people who may or may not have taken control of them (which failed, but it would've been pretty cool if I got that group as a rival, so it was a bit of a shame)
I also succeeded in gaining loyalty with the Secretive Organisation, but it so happened to have a Faction Struggle against the Criminal Enterprise, which had a Power of 5, so they lost, and now I'm afraid they might be wiped out before I can get a favour.
Anyway, fun times!

KOW Ambush. Free Dwarfs v. Imperial Dwarfs (the authoritarian squares). I lost, but this was my first game in a while, and the first with the Ambush rules.



Berserkers are cool. 15 attacks on an unwavering Troop, with Thunderous Charge 1? Yes, please.

Rangers got a single kill - a Hunting Mastiff Pack - and did some damage to his Brock Riders. I think these are good, but not 135 pts a Troop good. I think that Shieldbreakers are probably the better bet.

The Ironbelcher Cannon was OK. It didn't really kill any units on its own, but it filled its role of supporting the actual units.

I brought two Regiments of Ironclads, and I feel that was a good investment for 5+ defense.

The latest game I played in was 'O' Group, a battalion-level set of WWII rules.

The scenario was a meeting engagement between a German and an American battalion in Italy, 1943.

Fierce fighting over the orchards outside the town of Persano saw the Germans occupying them with a fair amount of American losses. The fight slowed down as both sides took potshots at long range, then the Germans started pushing on the flanks.

One highlight was a single American platoon hunkering down in a ravine and foiling a German company's attack.

Painted a few more proxies for Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales!
CS is a free PnP expansion for GH. Requires GH components.
The creators of CS will launch their game Rove next year.

The scenario is still aquatic, so went for water-themed miniatures, rather than proxies based on the enemy artwork.

Lizardmen: Guard.
Turtle Cannoneers: Archer.
Frog Riders: Deep Terror. I looked for an aquatic-themed miniature who matched the powers, rather than the artwork, to proxy the miniature, and the enemy has a six-hex (?) straight piercing attack! This fit well with the frog's tongue, although the enemy doesn't actually move. I figure all the other effects of the enemy are from spells cast by the faerie.

Went through this CS scenario three times as solo, which is hard mode. Failed the first time. Succeeded the second time. Went after the treasure the third time. 🥯🥯🥯

Picture shows the alchemy guy valiantly sacrificing himself to take down a poisoned guard, so that the star guy can get the loot. Huzzah!

CS: https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
W: https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln
Rove: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/365670/rove


Full thread on LA : https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=143262.0

Played a game of KT yesterday using an old Battletech map instead of the kt board/3d terrain.

The reason we did this was the shop we played at has a VERY limited amount of 40k scale terrain & almost no place to store it (yet).
And neither of us felt like hauling an extra case of stuff back & forth.
So we tried something more portable.

We also:
Converted all the KT symbols into hexes.
So ○ = 2 hex, etc.

Other than lacking the coolness of 3d it worked just fine.

On this particular map there was a crazy amount of cover. Very appropriate we thought as we were also using the new Jungle rules from WD. (wich are really lackluster btw)BTW.

With the holidays comping up it was a light night for us with people having to head out early or not making it in.

we had a couple people playing MCP, and some classic battle tech





A game of house 5th ed-
iron hands VS eldar





I was in one very large B5 wars game-advanced eath alliance forces VS shadows.

Eath alliance fleet-
.warlock
.tempest
.cronos
.delphi
X4 flights of thunderbolt star fury's

VS
.shadow carrier
.X2 shadow destroyers
.X2 flights of shadow fighters

Next game in our Crusade, fighting off the Daemons emerging from the portal in what was once the world's capital city.

First pic is at the top of Turn 1, second pic is her last remaining model.

A couple of nights ago, I finished my 10th Encounter/Campaign Turn of Five Parsecs from Home. For the endgame of the last Encounter, I rolled for the Campaign Event that an old enemy returns. So, I chose the Corporate Security Rival from earlier, as the corporation he escaped from sent another group to murder them. There were 8 of them, and they had powerful ranged weapons. But the game was a walkover for me. Attelus himself went full John Wick and single-handedly killed four with his Auto Rifle. Two with a shot each in a round. In fact, all the Corpo Goons were dead or ran by halfway through the third round. For the extra roll thingy, I got the side mission "Person of Interest", so I decided to represent them with an old Infinity Police Woman mini. I have no idea how I got a hold of it. Lol, Attelus might've been MVP; it was Torris who got the girl. Fun times!

Oh, and if anyone is interested, I began writing a story about my Five Parsecs crew, who are obviously blatant rip-offs of my Secret War characters. Here's the Google Drive link.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F1Ae4PTOPiCuuMHR17oPwm33TGk9ebyDUNwBvxJ_x6g/edit?usp=sharing

I have been playing a lot of Kill Team. Partially because that is what local players are playing, and also because in our club time we can get a game set-up, played, and completed in a timely manner.

Here are my Corsairs battling some Black Legionnaires and some Grey Knights....



I think I got trounced in this one.

You can see some details at the bottom of the blog here. I start talking about some esoteric design stuff before getting onto the Kill Team bonus content:

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/12/wargame-design-sometimes-i-just-get-so.html

Another pre-holiday light turnout.

So just a few games-

house 5th ed 40K

ultra marines VS iron hands



5th ed ultra marines VS 3.5 chaos



A shadow VS vorlon B5 wars game-



My games-got a run through demo game of MCP-

A little to "fantasy flight" for my tastes but still had fun.



Some relearning aerotech 2, i have had ships for years, just never took them out of the display case.



And finally

6th ed marines VS 7th ed admech 5th ed house rules ....the admech also brought along a warhound titan (3rd ed rules) to counter the land raider terminus ultra.

For Christmas, my party got a present. They didn't die in the scenario! ☠️

This Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales scenario takes place in a flooding chamber. It's a single room, and your heroes have to kill the boss monster. In the game, you use a regular standee as the boss. Boring! So, with the Wildspire Monster set, I used... SHARKNADO BEAR. 🐻 Don't tell him that his miniature is larger than his hex! I also used the Wildspire faeries on toads and D&D Snake miniatures to represent the jumping fast Giant Vipers, and Wildspire Mushroom men for the Lurking Horror monster, which has some spellcasting-like abilities.

GH:CS. Free PnP download for Gloomhaven. : https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
Wildspire. Amazon. : https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848

My Drukhari fought two different Necron battles.
Game 1 on Christmas Eve.
Game 2 on Dec.26

It was a holiday week for me so i managed to get down to the FLGS and get an extra day of gaming in....this time i set up for infinity since i normally don't have the room to bring all the terrain the game needs.

Then we went on to demo some aeronaughtica, and then a bunch of MCP games.

Hot game of 6th. Batrep to be typed up Tuesday

Second day in a row gaming.

had some flames of war and star wars legion groups in-








classic battle tech



marvel crisis protocol




My games-
some house 5th ed 40K

3.5 dark angels VS 7th ed space marines.



Some BFG chaos fleet VS battlefleet bakka.....so many nova cannons

Over the holidays I got a round of Judgement in and a game at our Shatterpoint night:

Some great looking tables there.

Also a plus that it looks like the group is catching up on the painting front too. Really cool to see!

My local group is having a "Project Social" day to help us get more painted terrain and armies.

I'm sure I've asked this before, but where is that terrain from?