Painting Update - Terrain

 Hello Folks,

Another bit of painting done, this time a terrain set, Land of Giants from Archon Studios.

Nothing crazy, just some broken statues and bits, some arches, and a gazebo? Big Stone head with the vulture is neat.

Basically a quick bit of terrain. 

Bought: 73

Painted: 71

Total: 2

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Force on Force

 Hello Folks,

Time fir another battle report. Playing a test game of Force on Force to see how it works as a cops and robbers game.

I used some Gotham police, and Ducan used walking dead survivors as bad guys.

Set up a town with the different bits of terrain we had and a city mat. Bad guys in the blue hotel with the loot, cops coming in to get it back.

Taking cover and starting some shoot outs.

Teams advancing up using cars as cover, keeping fire on the bad guys.

Detective scopes out the hideout.

Mercenary type cops charge in and arrest the wounded and pinned down baddies.

Converging on the main hotel from 2 directions.

Big battle at the hotel, kind of a drawn out fight with many people wounded, ends up with technically the cops winning. 

Gotham police dlnt mess about!

In the end it worked pretty good. Small teams seemed fine, maybe the morale table and a few other things can be tweaked. We also played at 28mm and didn't change any ranges which also felt fine.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Warhammer Fantasy

 Hello Folks;

Today was another Warhammer Fantasy day at Fandom, had a bunch of people turn out thus time.

I played a game against some orcs and Goblins with the lizards.

Ready for battle, the Orcs have a huge unit of boar boys, with some supports. Big unit if boys and a giant on one side, woods and snotlings on the other. My plan ti softer up the bears with salamanders and hope my unit holds.

Sarus cav beat the orcs, but roll trip 1s for pursuit, sad times. The salmandersdl doing ok damage but nothing crazy.

Boars advance, giant foanks the cav. But somehow manages to loose and roll double 6 on his break test and gets pursued off the board 

Cav cone back and I keep chipping at the boars. My terradons charge the wolf riders but some hiw manage to loose.

Boars and chariots massacre my sarus.

Reposition for another fight.

The Boars roll animosity and it leaves them stuck with their flank hanging for the sarus Spearman. That goes poorly as you'd imagine.

Next turn the fail to rally and flee. Sometimes in warhammer the duce decide you loose now, just how it goes. With their back broken the orcs capitulate.

Few shits of the other games:

Zombie pirates vs goblins!

4 player game euth double high elves vs tomb kings and empire 

But of classic battle tech action

Thanks;

Mike

Painting Update - Star Wars and WFB

 Hello Folks,

Time for a painting update. Been awhile so got a bit done.

Sarus Warriors:

Getting things going I did some reinforcements for the Lizardmen. A big unit of Sarus Warriors with spears.

Salmander:

Some lizard Artillery to spit fire on their enemies. This was a fine cast kit so pretty annoying and a bit messed up but turned out OK.

Magna Guard:

Over to Staw Wars, some elites to guard grevious.

Land of the Giants:

Finally started wiring on some fantasy terrain that came in from kickstarter. Archon studios making some really great plastic kits.

Anyway thats all for now.

Bought: 24

Painted: 53

Total: -29

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Vietnam!

 Hello Folks,

Time for another battle report, I guess getting back into thing after a lazy winter. 

Anyway this week we are trying out another game of Flames of War: Vietnam. I have the PAVN with some extra troops supplied by Stan and a few from Duncan.

Scenario is Up River as Duncan wanted to try out his boats. Basically 5 objectives to Search or Evacuate, which you do by controlling and rolling a 6. Free world has everything in the main River, Vietnam everything in reserve except for an ambush.

River boats with a few squads of infantry puttering along. Plus hueys with the special forces.

My turn I ambushed my tanks thinking to sink Duncans battleship er boat. Only to find the tanks Stan had loaned can't penetrate the boats! Also some local forces on an objective.

Evil Americans heli landed the special forces on 1 objective, and unloaded the boats.

My plan is to bring in smaller platoons to pepper up the US a bit so my real infantry can getting the work done. So HMG nests to keep the special forces honest, and man packed recoiless guns to try the boats. Turns out their special rule against heat weapons is all around not just on the sides... so can't damage them.

Special forces cant get a 6 to search their pbjective, but the boat guys get one near the river.

Then I get my river objective evacuated.

Time to see off the special forces. On the right I try a risky assault but mostly get my guys chewed up.

Have another platoon to come on next turn that is able to do the job. You really need to have very fee us units left even when they are pinned.

At this point we ran out of time. My local forces failed all 6 rolls to evacuate the formally soecial forces objective. We decided to call it a draw propaganda victory for both sides. 1 objective each

Vietnam is turning out to be pretty fun. Need to do a bit more painting at some point, but not really a priority.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Warhammer Fantasy

 Hello Folks,

First battle report of the year! Warhammer fantasy time, we are playing 1000 points, Chaos vs High Elves.

Turn 1, Chaos moving up aggressively, tried to cast a fireball but no luck. High elves firing some arrows kill some Horsemen.

Turn 2, I charge in with the giant and Horsemen, sadly chariot was a bit out. The giant did good killing a few swird master, but got chopped up on the elf turn, same for the horsemen.

Next turn getting my sword and shield guys into a big fight on the left and otherwise moving up. The elves manage to hold.

Time for the chariot to fight, he gets some good damage but the elves annoyingly hold. Would be great to get a fireball in on the swordmasters, but we both have lvl 1 wizards do it's not very likely.

Warriors finally break the seaguard, and in the middle we have a wizard duel! The ekf is actually a fighting hero thou, so not great for me.

Big turn for the elves,  getting lots of warrior kills with shooting, breaking my halbred boys, and killing the mage in the duel! Some good luck sees of the chariot as well so a solid win for the elves.

Thanks;

Mike

Painting Update - Star Wars

 Hello All,

First bit of painting for the new year. We'll most of it technically between Christmas and new years but close enough. Basically got some Star Wars stuff fir Christmas and git to painting.

B1 Droids:

First up more droids. Can never have enough basic troops, well 6 units of these guys now so that might do it? But they are so easy to assemble and paint, withSorastros guide, its pretty fun.

Roger Roger

Trade Federation Tank:

Also painted the big tank. Didn't have many paints home with me so I used contrast which was not perfect, but it turned out OK enough.

That's it for now, not a ton of stuff but a good start for the year!

Bought: 0

Painted: 25

Total: -25

Thanks;

Mike