Battle Report - Warhammer 40k 3rd Edition

 Hello Folks,

Another game of classic 40k today, Eldar vs Imperial Guard in the Patrol mission.

I took a seerer council, guardian defenders, storm guardians, striking scorpions, a war walker and a fire prism. Facing 2 tanks and all kinds of dudes.

Here's the set up/turn 1, 2 units of troops not much action just a bit of positioning.

Turn 2 time for reserves, the guard got both tanks and an infantry platoon. I think a few guardians got killed but no big deal.

Reserves for me, walker, tank and space wizards. Guardians take cover behind the pipes and start lasering up infantry. Manage to hide from 1 tank and stun the other.

Next turn the guard have everything but the commanders advancing under a hail of bullets and shells. A tank manages to explode my war walker which is not good. My storm guardians show up but get battle cannoned into oblivion, I rolled lots of 1s for cover saves and have a house rule for the pipes being dangerous.

Next turn, if I can weather the shooting and get some good charges I can turn things around. The scorpions hide from 1 tank, and mine destroys the other.

My plan mostly works, scorpions and seers get the charge, each killing a unit. The seers sweeping advance into another, but I roll a 4 for the scorpions. They are sadly ripped apart by demolition charges.

After this the random turn end came so games over. Points wise the guard are up a few hundred so a win fir them!

All in all very fun game enjoying 3rd edition.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - The Old World - ogres vs beasts

 Hello Folks,

Another battle report from last weekends gaming at Fandom. 1500 point lists to practice for Cangames was the idea.

I took my ogres and ended up playing some beasts with lots of ogre sized models.

Here's the set up, line of big dudes, iron guts in the back with the butcher.

Turn 1 mostly just advancing, but stay still with the leadbelchers to try some shots, all miss.

Beasts advance aggressively more the willing to take a charge.

Who am I to deny them! Ogres with the brushes beat up some minotaur, who roll bad and break, panicking the dragon ogres. Oh dear. Also beat the ogres on the flank.

Both units fail to rally, but a chariot gets my flank killing a unit.

That leaves his flank for the guts to smash and carry into the minotaur.

Minotaur loose and get run down, dragon ogres still can't rally.

So that's that really, very bad luck for the beasts, but risky to put all your eggs in only 2 baskets!

We played a second game that went much better, I lost a bit on points. But only 1 set of pics a day.

We also had a brets vs Empire game

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Battletech

 Hello Folks,

Felt like playing some classic battletech today so headed down to join the battletech day at Fandom.

I was advised to bring a force of about 5-6000bv2 so took a few comstars guys to have some fun.

Mercury

Exterminator

Black Knight

King Crab

Just a kill game

Here's the setup, couple of lances advancing into town to Duke it out.

King Crab lumbering forward, while mercury dashes in for a strike.

Mercury and a spider having a scrum while black knight tries to get in the flank.

Chase goes off around the industrial stuff, but King Crab is able to back up a try a couple of AC20 shots, but no luck. Black Kinght gets some shots I to his rear.

The mercury spider chase comes around full circle, the spider attacks King crab show lands a nice ac20 shot, souder I'd just standing. Black Kight takes heavy fire and falls.

Get right into slugging range, perfect for the Crab who lands a pair of AC20 hits stripping the torso armor from grasshopper. Mercury tried to use his MASC to make a run, but it failed and he went down taking very heavy damage. But exterminator was there dishing it out in revenge.

At this point ran out of time, but it was a fun game. Relatively even still so I guess a draw.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Warhammer 40k 3rd ed

 Hello All,

Time for another battle report, this time playing some classic 40k 3rd edition!

Took my new Blood Angels to fight some space orks, we played cleanse, just capture table quarters nice and simple.

Here's the set up, rhino full of marines to take 1 quarter, scouts and a tank to take another. Terminators to hold diwn the middle.

Orks cone out fighting sending sons killer fans diwn the middle and death choppers around. I stun 1 Kan with my missile launcher, and the predator gets 2/3 if the choppers.

Missed a turn or 2 of pictures, but my marines got over run by the orcs, terminators fought of the Kansas but took heavy damage. Now the warboss is getting ready to charge my leader.

They kill each other in a mighty challenge! And sweeping advance to my tank.

Terminators form a libe to hold off the orcs, while the tank drives ahead and shoots uo the warbosses nobs. Getting to the point where the ork units are all small and morale is becoming a problem.

Orks do some shooting buy fail to rally the nobs, nit much success with the killing either.

Final turns, the Terminators are able to shoot 1 unitvof orks up really bad and charge the other, scouts get the nobs, and the tank finishes the last unit.

Bloody and close game but the marines are able to tough it out and stay on top!

Very fun to play thd old edition again!

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Warhammer Old World

Hello Folks,

Today there was a warhammer event at multi-zone to play some fun games. I got a few games pf the new edition with the new ogres so thought I would toss up a few pics of the highlights. Oh also new army so only have 1000 points painted so that the level.

Game 1: vs High Elves

Scenario is to grab a magic thing in a bird house, so the giant ran uo and grabbed it other covering.

Ogres fighting chariots.

Big fight with Spearman vs the iron guts, bad day to be a Spearman.

Giant smashes puny elf chariot.

Giant has the magic thingy so an ogres winn!

Game 2 vs Chaos:

Lining uo for battle.

Warriors with Mark of nurgle crush the iron guts. I rolled to many 6s.

Giant fighting the super powerful chaos lord. Jumped up and down on him, the died and fell over on him doing the last wounds!

Pretty even at the end but probably z chaos win I sont know.

Game 3 vs Tomb Kings:

Lots of ogres to smash bones.

Butcher casting tooth cracker to gets lots of toughness and slow down the big cat guy.

Meanwhile wrong guys smash up the tomb guard.

But the cat still kills allot, the snake guys were also quote good. A win fir the kings.

Painting Update - Large Lads

 Hello All,

Another painting update. Been working on some sentinels for Marvel, and some Ogres for warhammer.

Here's the army so far, basically the core stuff, ready yo clobber someone.

One unit of Iron guts, 2 handed weapons and heavy armor.

3 units of bulls, just basic ogres.

And a butcher to lead them, the weird wizard of the ogres.

Mixed in with and old Giant and another hero it's a 1k list.

Finally a group of big sentinels. Slowly picking away at Marvel stuff as the mood comes.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Warhammer the Old World

 Hello All,

Had our monthly fantasy day at Fandom, and it was finally tine to try out Warhammer the Old World.

We were playing 1,000 pts, I decided to keep things very simple and go with Chaos warriors, no shooting no magic, just a s8ngle hero and a giant for fun.

Game was just an open battle, pretty much just go murdering.

Set up for battle. Seems like the Chaos warriors outnumber the goblins which is odd, they went fir not 1 but 2 Lords in a thousand point game, which is allowed now.

Goblins move up screening with some prc archers, and with a giant taking point.

I move up as fast as I can with my horsemen getting to the flanks of the giant.

Goblins move the giant to face and not to much else. Shooting out some magic and arrows does a bit of damage.

Horsemen move behind the giant and the rest advances.

Goblins use a spell to move the orcs, that's about it movement wise.

On mu turn the Horsemen charge the archers pushing them back, but taking a casualty. Rest of the warriors press forward.

Giant charges my block of halbreds, he headbutt my hero immediately killing him which felt a bit lame, but I w9n combat and he git pushed back. The chariot charged my giant and got smashed so I turned to face thd goblin wizard.

Berserkers charge thd Goblins, giant chaces after the mage. Berserkers did ok but it's hard to fight a bunch of characters with all kinds of magic items. They lost frenzy.

Grinding thing down. The khorne berserkers got ground down by the goblin death star, after a few turns but killed the bsb at least. My horsemen got the spiders, the halbred warriors killed the giant and turned to fight the gobbos, but not enough time to kill em.

In the end it was a win for the green skins.

In the end the new game is very complicated but seems ok. Wether it's good or not will be up to the community as the army building rules are a bit bad.

Thanks;

Mike