Painting Update - oh no it's the Cops!

Hello All,

Another small painting post, finished some SWAT guys fir Batman. These are older metal ones I have had on the table for  a couple of years. Plus a few objectives.

SWAT:

Think they turned out ok. The lettering and dark colors were a bit of a problem. Also now notice I forgot 1 guys back so have to fix that.


Objectives:

These bits were allot of fun, all kinds of stuff to grab!

Just about have enough to try a game now.

Pledge Status, 2019:

Bought: 257
Painted: 348
Total: -91

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Clud Day Saga

Hello Folks,

This past Friday we had our Christmas club day. Indian food and battle.

This time around it's more Saga age of Magic. I decided to use my Bretonnian army I painted for Warhammer Fantasy a few years back. Good excuse to get them another game! I used the Great Kingdom board.

My opponent was Lent who had a Hordes army with trolls and various fighters.

We decided to do the Challenges scenario as it's quite fun, and seems quite good for fantasy battles. We picked the following challenges to accomplish:

Mike
We shall die to the last (75% of my guys dead)
We shall leave only widows (no enemy units left with more than 6 guys)

Kent
My fury shall echo through the ages (10 kills in 1 turn)
I will crush you (kill most expensive enemy unit)

I picked die to the last ad it seemed appropriate to Brettpnians, get the Peasants killed to soften things up and the Kinights ride to victory.

Heres the deployment and terrain. Keeping my knights back, warlord to the right, captain on the left with the big banner.

Only 3 duce for me turn 1 so not much action. But the trebuchet fired a rock and the foot soldiers advance a bit.

Hordes come forward a bit, and a magic field appears!

Turn 2, time to activate my archer pincers. I moved both up with we obeys and use enfilade to shoot both. Plus fire another rock and moving out the bait soldiers

Hordes play hard ball on their turn! Lots of charges with the wizard giving extra attacks, sees 1 unit of warriors gone and the other badly beat up. But the big Titan has z good few fatigues.

I tried placing a trebucht rock to kill this guy but failed. Still he was exhausted. I decided to gamble with the Captain. She managed to knock this guy out, and some hiw survived!

Otherwise more shooting. The hordes then repositioned and tried to kill her. Charging in with a warlord! But again she heroically stuck it out, ending exhausted but alive, very nice.

Next go for me, finally time for the knights to get some action. They charge both units of warriors on the left, killing most of them, and keeping 1 guy up. Not bad. On the right I got ready for next turn. I need to get the big knight killing the creatures, without Kent killing them all as that's his goal.

We decided to end it after this turn. The hordes went into clean up mode. Some hearthguard killed the Captain, but she went down swinging and took a few out. Then the Warlord killed the last knight.


Enter the mathematics phase, all told with both had 1 objective good and 1 fail and lots of murder. Sadly I ended up 7 points behind, so the Hordes take the day!

Was a really fun game thou, lots of interesting stuff going on. Was fun to get the Brettonians out again, but man this is a creepily painted army! Things have improved allot over the years!


As usual heres z few shots of other games:

Dinosaurs!

Santas elves fighting Trolls?

Ho Ho Ho

Now that it Christmasy!

Anyway that's the club day, hope everyone had a good Holiday! More action in the new year!

Thanks;
Mike

Painting Update - Heavy Gear & Batman Miniatures Game

Hello Folks,

No gaming thus week but figure it's about time for another painting update. I did a few Heavy Gear models I have had for years for their painting contest. That turned out to be pretty fun so it snowballed into a whole big thing. Pretty much have a new army at this point.

Also started getting into some batman stuff. I picked up the Riddler box on a black Friday sale and really enjoyed painting that as well.

Heavy Gear Plastics:

To start here are the plastic models I did. This is the full plastic starter, almost, for the south. I wasnt to keen on these models when I first got them a couple of years back, but they paint up quite nice.

Fancy Models:

These are resin or metal models. Mostly ones that I have had for years, but I got some new stuff as well after the Jovian Wars painting contest. I entered the back row of models basically. Particularly happy with how the big Naga turned out.

Great models. Here is a link to the contest results. For interest, some nicely painted stuff.

https://dp9forum.com/index.php?/topic/19126-golden-gear-2019-winners-and-honorable-mentions/

Riddler Gang:

This is the Riddler Bat box, basically gives you a full army. They are resin models and not perfect, but paint up easy and look great o think. Only a few colors which makes them fast to do. Also a few terrain bits.

Gordon and Detective:

 Also got the commissioner and ones of his men done. These are older metal models, very nice as well. Not sure which I prefer but both are good. Particularly happy with how the detective turned out. I also have a SWAT guy almost done but he is not nearly that good.

Anyway that's it for now. Should get a few more batman and heavy gear models done before the end of the year. Probably start fresh with something else in the new year!

 Pledge Status, 2019:

Bought: 247
Painted: 334
Total: -87

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Beware of Dragons!

Hello Folks,

This past weekend I got the chance to head over to Duncan's to play a game of Saga, went for Age of Magic again. I expected him to play Undead so I took a Horde of Uruk-Hai, no wizzard this time, deciding to try a war machine instead!

Funny enough Duncan also had a horde, of Dragons!

I looked for a scenario that made sense and ended up with dragons attacking a baggage train.

In this one I have 3 baggage elements to escape across the board, I loose survival points for ones killed or still on the table at the end Duncan looses points for ones that escape.

Here is the set up. Man that's allot of Dragons. I have half my stuff and the second half walks on. I thought allot about how to get enough dice starting to move on. but realized later you could just fo manouvers

Everything in place ready for the onslaught.

Dragons swoop in to breath fire. Immediately the terrain meant to slow my movement starts getting in their way.

Next turn I just advance, sending my Wargs way around the druid circle to protect  baggage over there. War machine is cracking off shots doing a fatigue to dragons here and there.

Dragons get up close and personal. The bronze one tries to eat my elephant baggage but gets driven off. We didn't realize baggage had the unarmed rule but main thing is I lived.

Next turn the wolves make a devastating charge and kill the white dragon! But take 3 fatigues to not die. My Uruks also charge the big black dragon but that turns out I'll advised.

More dragon fire. Mainly breathing on my warriors to chip away at Saga dice. But a few times shooting baggage as well, this turns out ineffective as they are hard to damage with shooting.

Next turn the Troll sees a time to shine and charges the Green. In a mighty battle managed to fell the beast only taking 2 fatigues, not bad. The baggage is moving along so things seem not bad.

Next turn the scaly beasts have other plans and they eat up the tasty camels in the middle, so strike 1 baggage.

But this left the leader and gold d4agon vulnerable. My Wargs charge the metal one first, but frustratingly are 1 hit shy of killing it, and they get gobbled up. But I have my berserkers to save the day, they charge the chimera the brains behind it all. Sadly again 1 hit shy and they are food. But 2 exhausted dragons I guess.

Next turn they try to to more but bad dice and fatigue prevents them from killing or blocking the other baggage. So I dump all my dice in moves and both escape!

This leaves only my guys left as tasty meals, so the dragon start mopping up. Using my Warlord, after the uruk hai charge to death to exhaust him, a third dragon is slain.

The dragons finish thing up snacking on a Troll. Combined fire gives me some fatigues the the metal dragon finishes the deal, just barely surviving himself! Man mot good luck at all.

Survival points wise I have not allot left! But Duncan is looking pretty good. I loose points for the dead baggage going down to -3, Duncan looses a massive 16 fir 2 escaping and goes to -4! So it is just barely a win for me, or maybe a 0-0 tie. Not sure of points can go negative or not!

Either way not exactly glorious hah.

Thanks;
Mike

Team Yankee - Fire Storm Part 2

Hello All,

This Sunday was our club day, once again we are continuing with the Cokd War campaign.

We only had 2 Soviet players vs 3 NATO so I teamed up with Francis to fight Duncan, French  and Canadians vs Ryssian and Poland.

I took more or less my normal French stuff and Francia had a bit of everything Canadian.

Mission is dust up.

The French decided that the Canadians would start on and bear the brunt, leaving them to come later and claim the glory. Do I just had a tank commander and flight of Mirages to start.

Ready for action.

We killed a few tanks but the mostly Poles push back hard.

Next turn the Mirages fly on but fail to range on hmm... allot of Leopards are going down so we are felling pressed for sure. But knocking out T-55s as well.

Bad guys keep the pressure and kill my commander. The M113 TOWs are gone and ADATs being chipped away.

Still no reserves this blood bath is making me nervous.

Only 1 Leopard left now, not good.

And he gets killed.

Finally the French arrive and immediately start to crush the Polish flank. Killing their anti-air unit giving me jets more space. The Hinds then come on but are dealt a brutal blow by the ADATs and AA if the tanks. I think they are being quite over aggresive flying straight in like that instead of picking a few of the end. So only a couple of French tanks go down.

But more T-72s coming as well.

Next turn the French recon vehicles arrive,  I use 1 platoon to support my push and the other heads down to help defend. Looking back probably should have sent both down. Sadly no jets.

Soviets keeping up the fight bug allot of the original stuff is killed.

Next turn the Gazelles come and shoot up the last BMP, leaving the tanks to start pounding the infantry. Our hunting of the T-72s is not going so well thou, they keep making saves.

Rest of the tanks show up. We have a problem now as there are not many thing back there to kill them and they are heading to an open objective.

Mirages cluster bomb the infantry so that objective is now clear, but next turn the Soviet tanks move on the objective. Only 2 French armored cars to tell them no, but the M113s ar2 coming.

The T-72s kill one but the other passes his morale!

He moves to contest but misses his shot. The M113s also move out. All the French tanks move on the open objective. Next turn we can win.

The Soviets kill my recon guy but miss the M113! But sadly they are a quarter inch t9 far to contest. We could have used follow me to get in, but some how we never noticed until to late.

Ah well very close and fun game!


Heres a few shots of what elsexwas going on:

Big Fire and Sword Game

More Canadians. Wonder why they are so popular? Hah

Well that's all for now, have a good one.


Thanks;
Mike