Battle Report - Age of Hannibal

 Hello All,

Another club day! Lots of people around today mostly playing Saga, mostly Crusadrs. But Serge wanted to try out Age of Hanibal so we went for that.  My Greeks vs Carthage.

Went fir the random mission, as usual skipping terrain as i set it up and we got:

March column

Unknown length

Fog

Show of force 

So basically survival points, with no shooting or charges over 12" fir the first 3 turns. Bonus for winning fights.

Here's the set up, I have a few spear phalanx ti fend the off flanked by javelins and bows. Facing many elepgants. 🐘 

Both sides advance gotta get close. Javelihs only killed 1 guy so not really what I was hoping for.

Carthage does encirclememt which let's 3 units charge. The warrior cav against the javelins was a push with 1 levy lost, the hearthguard did ok damage but lost half, the elepgants were pretty brutal, killing 6 warriors despite allot of defensive stuff.

I tried to throw javeling and charge the elephants with hearthguards, but didn't get the luck I needed sadly.

The angry elepgants then stomp my 6 remaining hearth into the dirt, not good!

Not really a ton of units left.  Other the elephants I guess hah.

I rest and try to charge the elephants with my warlord, but get denied. Partly desperation anyway.

But the elephants trample me on there own turns their turn anyway. No saga dice for my turn so fame over. Not much reason to do the math as ots pretty clear, but Carthage insisted! So it was about 25-4 for them fir those counting!

Need to work on some better anti-elephant tactics it seems.

As usual a few shots of the other games:

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Saga Age of Magic

 Hello Folks,

Another club day had happened! Yesterday was Saga day with age of magic, and vikings. I took my lizardmen and used them as the Lords of the Wild. 

Ended up facing down Mr. Tod and his great company, using the variant that hates monsters but gets fanatics.

Dud the random mission as ots both fun and easy. I skipped the terrain roll thou and just set up what I had. Anyway we got:

Meeting Engagement

Regicide: games ends when a warlord dies or 6 turns

Fog: can't shoot or charge more then 6 first 3 turns

Subjugation: points for murder! And a bonus for not getting murdered.

Turn 1 for the humans, they are very limited on dice and the fog obscures the long range shots they would like to make. So just a bit defensive.

Lizards spread out and advance, bushing a few javelin out of the woods.

Humans advance up, but the fog is still a big issue. They are getting set up thou.

Lizards trundle forward, some of the skinks run forward to toss javelin at the handgunners, doing good damage a loosing the humans a dice. My cav flank way around the wood 

Human turn again, they fire some shots into my blue skinks, but aren't lucky and only kill a couple. The fanatics charge out into the hard shelled titan, they make a good show of it but end up a bit short and get cut up really bad. The fog stopped the cannon from shooting it whicha6 have been enough, lucky for me 

My turn for action. My cav on the flank move around and massacre the human wizard, but he annoyingly kills 2 of them! My teradyctls try taking put the cannon but he survives. Really lucky with javelin thou and get some good damage in there. I also charge in my warlord beating up yet another unit, but leaving him a bit vulnerable.

Time for vengeance, the hearthguard across the wood easily clean up my cav sadly, they are only goid at killing defenseless w8zards aparently! The human captain tries to finish my teradyctals but somehow fails and dies. Finally the human warlord charges I to my mighty lizard warlord, and manages to kill him off, and survive! 

With regicide thats the end of the game! Points wise I was up a fair bit si a Lizards win. I think attacking in the fog was quite advantageous for me as it blocked allot of dangerous long range fire. But great fun game all the same! Age of Magic is always a goid time.

As usual a few shots pf the other ganes:

Lots of people at the club yesterday, always geat to see!

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - kings of War Vanguard

 Hello Folks,

A few weeks back I managed to get together with Duncan to play and we decided to give Vanguard a try. That is Mantic Games skirmish game. Took me awhile to get this up because of laziness I guess.

I had the cards for the goblins, and used some models from dungeon saga supplemented with GW goblins, to face of against the nightmarish horrors.

Scenarios was capture the plans, the goal is simple - capture the plans to win.

Here's the set up. Plans are likely in the center, but can be in either house also.

Everything moves up, one mawbeast got to the plans, but couldn't check it yet.

Troll coming in to back up the dog.

The plans were the plans, but sadly I giant floating brain killed my dog. No worries thou a goblin was able to take over. Everything then moves up to cover.

Lots of fighting now. The troll tries to smash the brain, and is flanked by the dreaded banshee (resident evil type monster not ghosts type). Goblins fighting pumpkin mem all kinds of fun.

The brain gets smashed but the trolls having a tough time. Meanwhile in the melee the goblin with the plans has sneaked way off.

In the end lots of murder on both sides, but the horrors are never able to recover the plans. So a goblin victory!

Quite enjoyed this game, pretty simple, but with enough going on t9 make it fun. Bound to see more of this. I already picked up the goblin plane!

Also had a breif trip home and amazed to get a few games of age of sigmar. No report but just a few bonus shots.

Thanks;

Mike

Painting - Kruelboyz

 Hello Folks,

Got some more painting done, working away on the new orcs. Got all the basic troops done now, so just the heroes to go!

Man-Skewer Boltboyz:

First up the crossbow orcs. Need at least a few ranges guys to bring the pain. Love that they all have levers to reload their bows, ocr acuracy is important!

Hobgrot Slittaz:

Then of course the orcs need some lil-guys to boss around. So then you have 20 of these goblin dudes with postponed knives and stick bombs.

These were my least favorite of the units at first, but they grow on you honestly. All these guys were surprisingly easy and fast to paint as well, mostly just a few colors and a wash, but quite happy how they turned out.

Anyway thats what I have fir now, hopefully the leaders soon to come.

Bought: 103 

Painted: 160

Total: 57

Thanks;

Mike

Painting - Civil War Cav & Kruelboyz

 Hello All;

Got a bit more painting done, not a ton has been on a diwn turn lately, but with games happening again it's bound to speed up.

Civil War Cav:

First up a few mounted units fir my Civil War force. These guys to allot more effort to get done then the foots guys! But came out pretty cool.

Gutrippaz:

Next up the first unit for a new Age of Sigmar Army, the Kruelboyz Orcs. These were surprisingly easy, the big fancy sheilds make them stand out nicely.

Bought: 103 (kruelboyz)

Painted: 137

Total: 34

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Saga - Vikings

 Hello Folks,

Time for another battle Report! This week is Saga time we got together for a multiplayer game, the one with survival points. Sides were:

Duncan: Norse Gaels

Stan: Vikings 

Me: Natives

Here's the set up, ready fir some nice murdering.

Broderick send his men in to kill half my archers. I sent a group in to the woods were they met some betserkers and mutually destroyed each other.

More of everyone attacking everyone.

Pretty quickly there are more corpses the warriors!

Haeks reduced to 3 men, but they are still very angry.

Vikings get close. Broderick fights them 9ff him self, but is left exhausted.

The perfect time for archery! So my guys manage a lucky hit and the sorcerer is done.

The vikings didn't seem to like that thou and killed my archers.

The Gaels having only 2 men left were not worried and saw off another unit if vikings, very convient for me!

Going into the last round it was very close for me and the vikings, their warriors charged mine leaving us both with 4, then they moved up the warlord to prevent mine from getting an easy charge. But I tossed a few sticks, killed 2 more leaving me up 1 point!

So super close, but very bloody and fun. Good times had by all!

Plan to try Star Wars next time.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Armada

 Hello Folks;

Finally getting back to some gaming! This past weekend headed over to Duncans to try out Mantics new fantasy ship game Armada. We decided to try out the subdue the kraken scenario, basically points for shooting up the kraken, and for sinking big ships.

I took the Orcs to face off against the bassileans. (Paladiny humans)

Here's the set up, kraken in the middle lots of ship ready to attack.

Turn 1 I moved in my small small ships to shoot up the kraken and get some points. Being so close to a deadly sea monster later turned out not the best! The paladins bomb Ship tried a shot but scattered into the kraken, my bomb Ship landed one right on target thou dealing some good damage.

On the left my Smasher kicked it up to full speed to learn how ramming and boarding worked. But they managed to evade for now.

Starting the second turn the kraken went 9n the warpath, dealing a ton of damage to all the ships around. Best to stay away from the beastie. My drill ship was able to successfully ran the basileans bomb Ship however, sending it to the briney deeps.

Unfortunately my smasher failed to do any real smashing or boarding and sailed gently into the opposing fleet. Who promptly shot up the stern crippling my big ship which struck. Not awesome, the withering fire also sunck my blood Runner with the drill.

Somewhere in the mix a second basilean ship went down, but I forget the details, surely somewhat kraken related. My bomb Ship tried to put uo a defense but it was clearly not the orcs day.

Final tally was something like 13-3 for the baslieans, but I think we can agree the kraken was the MVP.

All in all a pretty fun game, very similar to black Seas, but much less serious. The ships are allot easier to finish. Definitely on my list to ecpand out a bit, not sure of that means more orcs, or trying some dwarfs, we shall see!

Great to get a game in again finally as well!

Thanks;

Mike