Tournament Report - Saga Battle of 5 Bridges

 Hello All,

Attend a Saga tournament this past weekend so of course have to do the usual battle reports. I took Skraelings, 4 units of warriors and 2 of levy.

Game 1: vs Romans in Desecration

First game, fighting the romans. Have to murder and destroy enemy objectives to uo your max score.

Turn 1 a few shots here and there some moving but not much action.

More advancing brought out the beaver Totem on my warriors hoping for big attacks next turn.

Of course the rimans the attack that unit.

More warriors pressing in with elk Totem. Rerolling defense must ge good.

A fair amount of trading back and forth, but the romans are doing much better passing saves for objectives!

In the end I can only get 1 desecration. Score was like 19 to 16 or something i forget but pretty close!

Game 2: Bridge Crossing vs Caroligians

Time to cross bridges. Turn 1 the enemy advances a bit.

I put up dome puma and beaver cards, but no other dice to do anything.

Carlogians attack on the right doing good damage, right away costing me a dice.

Remaining archers get eagle Totem and fo some good damage. On the right I advance but no dice to press an attack.

Cav and the merc unit on the right pretty much gut my dice. Made a mistake getting near the mercy, also spent their fatigues letting them go wild.

 

We kept playing but skraeling resistance was put down by then, to few dice to really fight back. Mostly cleaed up but almost got 2 guys accross, hah.

Obviously crushing defeat, 40something to 0?

Game 3: vs Romans in Capture?

Skraeling and romans arrays for battle, 3 points in the middle to capture.

Skraelings advance slow romans do not. BTW where are the Anglo Dane players, what's with all this Cav! Any way major damage to the levy.

But I hit back hard on the warriors, bad dice made me put eagle on some javelin guys but it was okish.

The romans have a strong dislike for arrows it seems. But getting some kills in.

Warlord dies. The skraeling warlord being armor 4(4) for no reason is the only part of thos that really bothers me. Anyway we crush the romans right flank in revenge.

Missing the last picture, but we ended up with like half a  dozen guys left each side.

Victory wise the mathematics phase put ot at 44-37 for the romans or something like that.

Few pics of other games:

Anyway for fun tournament great scenario selection, enjoyed all the games look forward to the next one.

On the Skraeling I don't think they are very good, to slow to fight the top contenders,and the warlord sucking it not great. But still fun to try something different and mess around. Not my style to be sure maybe someone can do better!

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Bolt Action

 Hello Folks,

This past weekend was a club day, got another game of bolt action. British 8th army vs Germans.

Rolled for mission and got:

Seek and destroy

Quarters

Meeting engagement

So murder with troops deploying turn 1 in opposite table quarters.

Here's the end of turn 1, just units moving on really not much shooting. 25lber on the hill, 2lber anti-tank gun looking down the road, infantry spreading out.

Lucky shot from my Artillery took out a German gun almost right away. On the right flank I advanced a squad into a house. On the left I had 2 been carries bring up some small vet squads. That went badly... 1 squad got a FUBAR and ran off the table.

Turn 3 various moving around and shooting. Right flank guys in the house defending against 2 German squads behind the hill. Moving another squad to the fence to support the vets. My crusader git bombed by German Artillery fire and was immobilized, and my humbler was forced back as well.

Turn 4 no huge changes, smaller units on each side are getting killed off, pretty even so far. But German Artillery is now ranged in on my fence guys.

Those fence guys failed to move due to pins and got flattened. With my vets being lost as well things are becoming bad.

In the end the Germans scored a solid victory. I dint think the Artillery platoon is worth it vs mortars and machine guns, but gun to see the models. Hopefully will gave some SAS jeeps painted for next time!

Either wag looking forward to the next bolt action day.

Big Gane of pillage 

Fantastic battles I think

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Cleanse the Tau

 Hello All,

Today was 40k say at Fandom, so of course I have another 3rd ed battle to report on. This time around I decided to take my very old Tau army, probably thd oldest full army I still have. Facing off against the Storm Giants marine chapter.

We decided to do a cleanse mission, always a classic.

Here's the set up, I have my heavy hotting broadside on point, fire warriors to hold the center, kroot and more warriors to flank other quarters, and battle suits to jet around and kill.

I got the first turn, shook the vindicator so is couldn't shoot next turn, killed the rhino and spread out a bit, bringing up my suits.

Giants mostly stay still and fire, but have extremely bad luck, only killing 2 fire warriors.

Next turn for me, broadside get vindicator so 1 problem solved. Then I start chipping away terminators and marines. Still have a dreadnought problem as well.

Still I would say things are going very well.

Couple turns later terminators and dread get a charge into the broadside crushing both. Hmm.

New plan falling back and shooting. Effective plasma fire from the crisis suits gets the terminators, with the exception of the force commander. I brought the kroot out of hiding to get a few shots, and had the blue fire warriors flank the dread, hopping fir a lucky rear shot. Which fails.

Kroot immedatly, both fire warrior units in assaults. Uh not exactly how commander pure tide taught...

Marines with a power fist catch the crisis suits. 

In the end all the tau died, only unit left that could score was the dread. So he claims a quarter, marine victory!

Very fun game, came out quite close despite thd bad start. Force commander was on 1 wound. I could have at least got a draw if I was more careful with the suits at the end. A yway more 40k next month, Time fir more necrons!

Thanks;

Mike 

Painting Update - Desert Rats

 Hello Folks,

Been working on some additions to my new bolt action army to bring up the points so here is all of that:

Here's the full army.

Some carriers and small squads to put in them. Something fast maybe to go get objectives?

Crusader, to cool looking of a tank to not get 1. Annoyingly seems to be 1 of thd few with no plastic kit.

Artillery platoon, annoyingly metal, have already dropped and broke the 25lber once, anti-tank gun is not as bad but still be great from them to have some plastic gun kits.

Finally some officers, medic, observer either monkey and a extra machine gun.

Haven't totaled up thd points but I assume this is enough for a full game maybe a couple options.

Have some Afrika korps to do as well whenever I feel like it!

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - 3rd ed 40k Blood Angels vs Iron Warriors

 Hello Folks,

Today was 40k day at Fandom so more gaming going down. Blood Angels vs Iron Warriors, decided to try out the frontal assault mission in the Blood Angels book. Blood Angels get double points for kills, Iron warriors get regular points for kills and points for surviving.

Here's the set up, Iron warriors deployed to defend, Blood Angels set up with lots of terminators and assault Marines in deep strike reserves. All my Sargeant have teleport homers.

Post turn 1, I achieved my turn 1 goal of killing the vinducator, can't have they around when the deep strikers come in. Iron warriors get my Scouts, a rhino, and to many marines.

Turn 2 I get all my reserves, which is badly needed. Raptors finish off my tactical then move on to assault Commander Dante with 2 guys left.

Dante proves his worth by rolling 5 1s and is then taken to 1 wound.

Fire on my reserves is brutal but i still feel I'm in a good place. The dread died, but he tanked a crazy amount of firepower, and killed 2 tanks so can't really fault the guy.

Assaulting time! Nothing goes particularly well. Even the assault terminators aren't crushing it.

Eventually push through the front line, the Iron warriors terminators dread demon prince and obliterators reform ready fir round 2.

More shooting up of marines.

Round 2 go. Chaos terminators crush my regular terminators, but the 1 assault guy and remanat of an assault squad can take them. Dante is doing mediocre against the demon prince, doing 1 wound I think the first time when has furious charge and is buffed by the priest. Also was hoping my assault boys could 1 round the 5 devistators but no...

I'm not stuck in here with you, your stuck here with me.

The demon prince kills Dante eventually, in the end most stuff is dead. We both have like 300-400 points left, but the way the points work that os a solid Blood Victory.

Leave to the reader to decide if that's fair, bit felt like a draw to me.

Dante did not perform at all, most of my assault troops took to long to do their job. But my shooting was oddly on point.

Anyway plan to try out tau for the next day.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Bolt Action

 Hello Folks,

Games day at the club, finally got around to playing some Bolt Action and trying out the 8th army. Also the new British book is just out so using that as well.

Only have 700 points painted so ding that, rolled for mission and got demolition or something, a base on each deployment zone get a no-vehicle unit there and roll a 4+ to destroy it and win.

End of turn 1, just moving units on. It's a great way to deploy. Both sides are using 2 infantry squads to attack with heavy weapons to defend.

Round 2 the real game starts, my light mortar almost imnedatly rolls a 6 ti land a shot on a German mmg team killing it. Else mostly advancing, German cav pushes up behind a building, and my mmg looses a guy.

Turn 3 things heat up, the German falschimjager squad moves into the open and gets badly shot up, I roll crazy dice German cav assaults my at rifle and easily kills it, but my officer teams assaults back rolls all kills leaving 1 cav left but getting killed. Infantry advances forward.

Turn 4 getting dangerous, Both sides have an infantry unit within striking distance of the enemies base. Matilda is trying to shoot up the German elite troops but they are tough.

Turn 5, fallschimjager get on my objective, and I can't stop them. So only option fir me is to run my squad o  the enemy base and try to Winn the roll off. A German mmg behind the building is on overwatch however. This gets 6 kills! I fail morale and the rest run. Next turn the Germans blow my base.

Very fun game, turn out elite troops are better assaulting objectives then regulars who knew.

Really enjoying bolt action 3, have to paint more stuff and play more games!

Also some pillage happening.

Thanks;

Mike