Painting Update - Battletech Clan Invasion Kicksterter

 Hello Folks,

Another small bit of painting. Recently received wave one of the battletrch kickstarter for some plastic models so have been painting them up. Finished the starter box plus 1 bonus model.

Mechs:

First up the 5 mechs you get. I decided to paint them in as the Jade Falcon Clan because green and yellow are cool. Very nice models, much improved over the old metals. Also come pre assembled so very easy to get going. All in all very fun change of pace.

Elemental Battle Armor:

You also get a couple of stands of battle armor. These are kind of my favorite not going to lie, the rocket jumping guys are just fun.

Hellbringer:

Finally I painted up this guy from a salvage box. Mainly for nostalgic reason as o used to use one of these allot back in the university days. My old pal Ron ran a very fun mercenary campaign.

Group shot of course.

I still have like half a dozen more clan mechs, and a unitbof battle armor, but this is enough to get started, so I'll just leave it there for now. More to come once 8 get a game or I guess wave 2 ships.

Pledge Status, 2020:

Bought: 277
Painted: 281
Total: +4 made it into the green!

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Return of the Club!

 Hello All,

The club has returned! This time we are playing Saga: Age of Crusades. I took my Ordenstaat (Teutonic Knights), and ended up fighting martins Crusaders.

We did the random mission, but I just set up the terrain, so we skipped those rolls. The special rule was no special rule, and the mission was Show of Force. Basically survive and get a unit into the enemy deployment.

Here's the set up. I wanted to do a northern crusade so brought some stuff which worked great with the clubs mat.

Crusaders took the initiative and moved up a bit shooting a few arrows. The turcoples started an annoying plan of charging up shooting and falling back.

I shifted everything around a bit, and did the same, a bit less effective.

Crusaders brought the turcoples around the forest to fire on my brother Knights. I used a defensive ability but he still killed 2!

I decided to make a suicide attack with my remaining knights, but had poor luck and only killed 1, so that was a bad call.

Crusaders kept up a hail of fire, really killing off my serfs.

Starting to get a bit desperate being down on saga dice. But I saw able to kill some serfs to get more. I went for a double charge with my remaining Knights that went ok.

Crusaders were able to counter attack pretty well with their own knights however. As you cans ee very few unit left for me!

I decided on a last hurrah! So my warlord charged the annoying turcoples. I killed a few but not as many as I wanted, and my guy was left exhausted and vulnerable. The single knight charge was not very mighty either hah.

As if to add to the indignity the turcoples just shot my warlord down with arrows, no honor with these pagans!

My turn such as it is. Just 1 saga dice but I managed to get a shot off and finish a unit of knits! take that.

Crusaders use their turn to get into my deployment zone, so yeah I feel like it is safe to say they showed me the force!

Final turn for me, my saga dice did not roll a symbol I could use to activate my levy so that was that! We elected to skip the mathematics phase, but I am somewhat confident that the Crusaders won! Was a very fun game thou never the less, great to have the club back again look forward to more!

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As usual here is a few shots of other games going on:

Spring Crusades

Much larger desert crusades. I assume the camels are about to unleash hell.

Also WW2.

Thanks;

Mike

Painting - Iranians Team Yankee

 Hello Folks,

Got another painting project completed. I decided it would be a good idea to do something easy, so looking at my list 9f stuff to do I settled on some Iranians for team yankee, someone has to play the good guys right?

Anyway this went quite well so I got the stuff I had done plus a second wave. Very simple with washes and dry brushing using make up brushes.

Tanks:

First up a full company of cheiftan tanks, carefully selected by the Shah. You can also use some us or Russian tanks, my plan is to mix in my Jordian Pattons.

Cobra Attack Helicopters:

To be honest I mainly have these as they are just in the starter box. But even bad helicopters make this game more fun. They came out pretty cool at least, and didn't break any tail rotors this time!

Infantry:

Actually even managed to get the infantry painted. Usually I just buy them. A fun mix of us and Russian stuff. Normal ride is m113 but I took the btr69 option as wheels are more fun.

Recon:

Jeeps and scorpion tanks, whats not to love. Note I bought the wrong jeeps by accident should have gotten the Israel pack as they have TOW but I decided to not care.

Full Force:

So there you have it whole bunch if Iranians ready for battle. All this only comes to 65 points, but I find this game more fun on the smaller side anyway. Hopefully cam get in a game some day. 

Pledge Status, 2020:

Bought: 277
Painted: 273
Total: -4

Thanks;

Mike