Battle Report - Marvel Crisis Protocol

 Hello Folks,

Managed to get a game in with Dunxan yesterday, doing some more Marvel stuff. The models are grear fun to paint so it's easy to add a few guys to keep things fresh.

I painted Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Added them to my brotherhood of mutants, Duncan had a random assortment of heroes led by black widow, with winter soldier, an arrow guy, a purple lady and vision.

Mission wise we had rules tokens that are traps you can take over and then they guve you points, and res ones you can collect.

Here's the set up, mystique and juggernaughr left, scarlet witch center, quicksilver and toad right. My starting plan is to use my 2 fast guys to get as many points as early as possible.

Here we are end if turn 1. I'm a bit ahead on points so ots working. New idea becomes drive juggernaught into the enemies face and punch some really hard, hopefully they will feel they have to fight. Everyone else get points. So juggernaught charges in gets lucky and KOs vision.

End of turn 2. This plan worked pretty well, winter soldier is doing some good damage on the flanks thou. Duncan has some really bad rolls and first quite down the juggernaught.

End of turn 3, Duncan gets really unlucky with the arrow guy and failed to flip 1 of my blues last turn, but juggernaught gets crazy lucky and flips a very contested 1 he doesn't deserve. Winter soldier and the purple lady also KO scarlet witch making me drop a red token.  But it's not quite enough to stop me from winning.

At the end we realize Duncan was using points values as hp, so vision probably should have stayed up. This would change everything of course, but eh mistakes haolen still a fun game!

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - 3rd Ed 40k

 Hello Folks,

First gaming day of the year! Back for some classic 40k, this time we are doing 1000 point lists to practice for an upcoming  tournament.

Rescue:

This mission starts you with only troops, so I get a bunch of guardians. The 4 papers have numbers, one of them is the real 1.

Turn 1 I move up and immedatly find it.

Marines start advancing!

Swooping hawks drop in from reserve grenadeing some marines. Also war walkers hiding behind the building.

Marines get some assault guys. Next turn I get Fuegan who walks in and melts 2 of em.

Marines assault the Hawks, but I get lucky on the exarchs power sword and kill their punchy fist. Also a rhino with command squad arrives.

War walkers promptly kill that, as the avatar and his entourage walk over.

Marines bring in a vindicator!

But the Avatar kills the command squad and that about that. A win for the Eldar.

Game 2: Nightfight

Now we have a night fight, basically capture table quarters, plus night fighting rules. Marines deploy first a drop a vindicator dictator front and center. My plan is for the scorpions to go 1 way, storm guardians the other, avatar comes down the middle.

Sadly for the vindicator Eldar go first again. Fuegan sneaks fwd in his lil woods and destroys the tanks cannon, the walkers then finish it.

Command rhino swings left as the assault Marines head fir storm guardians.

War walkers delete the rhino, pinning the command squad.

Assault Marines and the Chaplin start messing up the storm guardians.

Upside down picture, anyway main point if Fuegan vs Chaplain.

Avatar killing the commanders again.

Fuegan rolls poorly and the chaplain gets him. 

Missing the last couple of pictures, but hawks come in and get killed by the chaplain. But reapers and walkers kill a marine squad the avatar mostly gets another but a plasma guy eventually kills him.

Quarters wise the Eldar are ahead claiming g another victory.

Thanks;

Mike

Painting - Waterloo British

 Hello Folks,

Recently got the bug in my ear to paint a little bit of Napelonics not sure why. Anyway decided to do some brits over the Christmas break, everyone loves the nice red jackets right.

Not exactly an army but a good start a least? Couple more units and some cav. Fun projects to do during the break anyways.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Old World Wood Elves vs Empire

 Hello All,

Had the pleasure to play another game with Mr. Nick this evening who is practicing for a big event.

Decided to try out my dragon, gotta get the bug green guy in a game!

We played a mission from the tournament pack, kind of standard battle with table quarters, 2 strategic locations and secret objectives. I took 1 where you had to kill the enemy general.

Here's the set up, I put wildriders on 1 flank, dragon on the other to spread out the threats, infantry in the middle, skirmishers in the woods hoping to mess with artillery.

Empire went first but didn't do much except try to shoot some scouts who used evasive.

I moved up with most no shooting stuff, killed some skirmishing archers. Really want to somehow slip the wild riders past the tank. Which will be impossible if it's aggressive, but ok if it's not since I can use the wood to block my sight.

Empire position sone halberds and the griffon to fight the dragon and shoot sone shots killing a guy or 2 here and there.

Seems like i got excited and skipped some pictures! On the left the wild riders ride past the tank and stood in the open in front of the outsiders. This risk worked out and I only lost half. Then got the empire cav. 

On the left big green charged the halberds, who feed the dragon a priest and I bounced back 2. The griffon then charged in, but ot turns out griffion v dragon is bad for griffons. Now he's feasting on halberds.

I had moved my rangers 1" from the empire big block of spears who now charged. I thought i could win this fight, but only if they did this. Turned out to be a draw due to the griffon standard. Oh also the empire mage blasted my poor dancers off the table.

But then they get flanked by a dragon and treemen. At this point the empire called it. They would have killed my riders probably, so like 500 points for them, I win by some amount.

Anyways fun game. 

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Old World Renegades vs Empire

 Hello Folks,

Played a game of Old World with Nic today, decided to bring my 100 yrs war guys again but this time tried the renegade crowns list out. Not really that much different but maybe a bit better, full plate vs ability to redeem and get the ladies blessing?

Anyway we played some kind of flanking mission with 3 objectives.

Here's the set up, basically solid foot in the center cover by chaff archer units, cav on the flanks, 1 unit of brigands scouted into the tower, other try to chase the outsiders off my flank.

Empire goes first advancing and picking a few kills with cannons.

My turn I shot crossbows at the griffion  doing good wounds, but sadly my big unit of brigands failed terror and got run down. We forgot the griffion could reform after that I guess.

Knights move up a bit out of arc of the griffion, and I try some shooting and magic. Advancing a but slow as I only want to fight the huge empire blob with 2-3 units.

Griffon flies super close to my bombard, who apparently doesn't get grap shot, and keep blinking with cannons. The tank plays with my light cav.

Griffon rats my cannon and in general the empire advance.

Crossbows bring diwn the griffon. In retrospect we had to many guys shooting out of the building. My knights are able to push back some halbreds and do major damage to some falgellants. But might cav fail morale and leave. Oh also empire mage had a second muscat and killed herself.

The big empire block finally charges, but rolls aggressively crap dice, 2 or 3? Heroes got zero kills. My spears  quite lucky. Keeping their crap dice going the empire fully break and get run down. So that's the game.

Win for the renegade, but the empire probably had it of they didn't get ancy and charge. Plus bad luck.

Also forgot the spears have warband and thus impetious, so some mistakes made. 🤷‍♂️

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - 40k Day

 Hello Folks,

Time for another 3rd ed 40k battle Report! This time we have Tyranids vs Imperial Guard, and the mission is meat grinder.

Tyranids are attacking so their troops units get to come back, however they must completely kill the guardsmen to win.

Here's the set up, 65 guardsnen deoyed to defend the emperors territory. Many claws and sharp jawbones ready to eat em.

Tornados advance, not much shooting but get a few guys.

Guards shoot back wounding the hive tyrant, and killing all but 1 ravener and von Ryan's leapers.

Fast tyranids able to get i to combat, but the ws4 drugged up Jordan somethings are annoyingly sticky.

Guard shoot em up, bringing the tyrant to 1 wound, but a plasma gunner blows himself up.

Second wave incoming. A heroic senior officer held out against hormagaunts, only to have a carnifex tap on his shoulder.

Guard in the rocks fight off the last ravener.

Game ends after turn I think 6, only half a dozen guardsmwn cowering in a rock wating for thr carnifex to kill them

But they are there so Guard win!

Very fun game, but came out quite close. I thought it would be more 1 sides. Shows what I know!

Next games day at Fandom, is Jan 10th.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Ludo Outoais Warhammer Tournament

 Hello Folks,

Yesterday was the Ludo convention held yearly on the quebec side, lots of fun last year, so of course I had to attend again.

I took my 100yrs war stuff and used them as  Brettonian Exiles army. Basic story is an army from the hundred years war was transported to the warhammer world magic, now they must fight to survive. 

Note this tournament is not super competitive and has some fun crazy scenarios with special rules that may help or cripple you. I won't be able to rember all the names or rules but will try and give the coles notes.

Game 1: vs Orcs

There were objectives to capture, but murder was the real goal here. Deep in the mines everyone has -1 leadership and the tops of the hills are roof pillars so are impassable.

I set up mainly to hold the center, lights troops deoyed to the tight terrain area.

Orcs com screaming, bit of shooting both sides bug nothing huge fir the first couple turns. Oh except my knight killed some bear boys, but now they have black orcs to deal with. Also allot of failed leadership tests for me in the bad terrain area.

Orcs end up punching through pretty hard. Missed the last picture, but they were able to wipe my army. Pretty disastrous first ho, but fun game honestly!

Game 2: vs Empire

Game 2 was in the desert, the weather here was no effect, except for a spot if quicksand that was instant death. How ever our scenario had an ice storm that had a big negative impact on shooting and artillery, double so he'll blasters.

Arrayed for battle, 2 ice tornados 🌪 seem like trouble, but with all that artillery on the hill they are a blessing.

Advancing behind a screen of brigands, the storm makes it tough but the artillery is getting a few hits in.

Few turns in, my knights have broken through a line of archers and are tearing through the artillery, mean while my foot knights have broken the line. Although allot of knights and most of the brigands had to die to achieve it.

Cleaning up at this point. This game turned out to be a win for me.

Game 3: vs Undead on the Plains (where the rain mostly falls

This game we had some random the made it slightly tough for black powder, but no ice storm, so my lads can handle that. Scenario had units coming from reserve a bit mixed up. Goal as always was to smash the enemy.

A nice juicy hill, and fine field of battle, and the undead split up and coming in piece meal, what could be better?

Almost all my guys came in right away and mostly in the same spot.

Dogs try to eat my cannon guys but narrowly fail. Although ot didn't do much regardless.

Trying to shoot down some pesky summoned zombies. I got 2 hits on the last guy, but he double 6ed h8s regen, that's warhammer baby.

Things are becoming scary.

Brigands prepare to die shooting as the lasy intended.

Lady vampire comes in with grave guard and uses doppelganger? To get like 13 attacks. Impressive but she only kills 1 or 2 knights, that's also warhammer hah!

Many less grave guard, my knights and spears gloriously charge, and my Bowman rain arrows, this is how battle was meant to be. So long as ms. Vampire keeps missing attacks anyway...

My other foots knights with heroic ser Roland somehow kill the big ghouls, and the vampire lasy remains poorly.

Bats save their lady, while my knights clean house in the background. Sadly said archers on the other side are zombies now, but we focus on this side of the table!

In the end this battle was a marginal win for me! But with composition scores applied it seems i didn't win by enough, so the undead claim the morale low ground. Maybe we can all ot a tie?

Very fun tournament, looks forward to next year!

Thanks;

Mike