Painting Update - Old West

 Hello Folks,

Getting ready for cangames so painted up a couple of new western buildings and gangs.

Buildings are the plastic ones from great escape with a few printed signs. Plus the plains Indians, and Conferados.

Also did some Khorne Berserker Bikers.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - King of the Hill

 Hello Folks,

Today was 40k 3rd ed day at fandom so headed down for some gaming, Biel-Tan Eldar vs Stirm Giants. We found a huge hill so decides to whack it down and play king of the hill. Took ot a step further and put a tower on it.

Here's the setup, avatar taking the van, backed up by dark reapers. Fire dragons in a wave serpent taking cover, banshees to go up the path on the hill, and scorpions infiltrated on top on the woods.

I got the first move luckily, serpent advanced, failed to kill the demolisher, but the reaper 3xarch got a glancing hit and rolled a 6 destroying it.

Giants fire back trying to kill the serpent, having dragons fly around is not good for business. They kill my bright lances, but I can still fly.

Dragons hop up and put the hurt on 1 squad, reapers do the same for another and the avatar kills a rhino.

Terminators drop on on the hill and the focus shifts. I have scorpions and banshees woth Jain Zar to fight them off.

The marines get in position and do a bot of shooting. If i can get a charge with most of the banshees alive I figure I'm good, but they will get shot up easy.

Fire dragons come back to say hello, and the scorpions won a charge. Marines command squad and terminators both forced back.

Marines re-grouping shoot up the scorpions.

Marines back for round 2. Flames and bolters kill all the banshees except jain zar.

At this point I guess ot got I teresting and I forgot the pics!

End result jain zar killed the terminators, got cut diwn by the captain, the the dragons melted everything the Marines had left.

Fun game, everything went my way in the start, but the Marines fought it back allot once we got into the tight jungle action!

Hoping to paint some more Chaos for next time.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - By Fire and Sword

 Hello Folks,

Took my Ottomans down to the club today to face off against I think sweedish, and try out the new version of By Fire and Sword.

Long set up but we ended up playing the Raid scenario with me defending, recon wise we ended up with a few disruption each, I had a unit flanking, and the enemy had a pretty forward Vanguard unit.

The whole pregame system is pretty cool, but it's also complicated and takes awhile.

Here's the set up, I have my best units to the left going for a refused flank I guess. But pretty outnumbered. I got the initiative and immedatly charged the enemy's small Vanguard with my deli. But they got 2 hits in defensive fire, I failed both saves, with morale tests and retreated. My siphai did ok thou.

Artillery on the other flank pushing back my units and knocing out their order. My plan is to try the same on the left, but my forward unit has allot of disruption so need to be a bit lucky.

But I am not and start loosing units and get overwhelmed and forced back. Only the deli really fought in the end.

Pretty much all my units dead and the enemy burning the objectives

A fun loss. First game of the new Fire and Sword, I like it better for sure. The whole missions thing and different sized armies is great, it can be quite allot of soecial rules and to many tokens, but it is fun so that's the main thing. Units are fast and hit hard, it's a cav world for sure.

Bonus shot of some fantastic battles. Banshees getting the flank on some fools!

Thanks;

Mike

Painting - Saga 100 Years War English

 Hello Folks,

Finished of my next saga army today, 100 years war English for the Age of Chilvary. Just a box of perry Agincourt English army and a couple of metal guys to be a warlord and knight.

Plan to come back and expand this with sone of the mercenary options, but have to change gears now so that's it for a bit.

Also ended up getting a Mathilda tank fir my birthday and found that fun to paint so did a armored car as well.

Few vehicles for the brits.

Next project is more old west stuff fir cangames, then hopefully some extra saga terrain.

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - Saga Age of Chivalry

 Hello Folks,

Tine to try out the new Saga book. It's meant to work well with Crusades so we did that. I took the English, and Duncan took the Saracens, mission was Capture.

Don't have a full army painted yet but I just used some old brettonians models to fill in. Saracens went all mounted hearth guard, sone bows some spears. I have warriors w8th bows and hearthstone to fight.

Saracens first turn they do a bit of moving up and shooting and moving back, killing a couple of guys.

I advance up using an ability that move close formations of units efficiently, and did some shooting. Pretty lucky thus turn killing 4 hearts in total.

Saracens turn, they charge shattering my mid front unit giving out allot of fatigues, maybe that keeping them close thing is a trap. Almost loose a second unit to boot, but down 2 saga dice is not great.

I try to shoot back and set up my stakes, but it's not great. Warrior shooting once you start taking casualties is not great in my opinion. But I'm hoping the stakes protect my guys a bit.

Saracens capture 2 objectives, ignore my stakes and run down my warlord. Didn't think they would do that!

Able to get a good hit back with my hearths, but I'm not taking away their dice which is a problem. I am at least able to get 1 objective.

Saracens cleaning house.

Absolutely need another objective now to not loose, but tough with 2 saga dice. I try to advance my hearths, but it gets canceled with 2 fatigues. Can't win on the last dice so I toss them into the warlord but no luck.

In the end the bad guys were up by 18 points which is a medium victory according to the tournament book we were testing out.

Fun game thou, but I don't like basing an army around warrior shooting. But have to try more games, there's other boards as well obviously!

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report: 40k Armored Ambush

 Hello Folks,

Time for more 40k action. This week we had 3 players so decided on 2k of guard vs 1k each of orcs and dark eldar. General idea is am armored column being ambushed. 

Orcs want to blow shit Dark Eldar want slaves, guard wants to survive!

Here's the set up, orcs left, dark boys right, Steel Legion in the middle. I was a bit short on points do borrowed a red unit from my other guard army which sticks out a bit.

Turn 1, orxs advance menacingly, dark eldar crack open a chimera, and thd bane blade sends many orcs to orc heaven. Oh an annoyingly my russ got immobilized right at the head of the column.

Turn 2, orcs get into fighting range and start making noise, nothing crazy from the eldar. I was feeling goid so far, squashing orcs, blowing up raiders, as you would.

Turn 3, orcs getting close, charging tanks not really my preference. They kill a couple sentinels putting up some points. But lots get blasted again.

Time for carnage. Orks all up in my stuff sherd you don't really need them to be. The few alive homnclus charge my command squad taking the captain and a few guys as slaves. Also the guy by my chimera. Its getting bad but not dire.

Oh dear, orcs fighting the baneblade, I decided to back over them instead of driving away and shooting them, this kills one. Then thd nibs gets me with a crack grenade and rolls 50 sixes in a row to blow it up!

My sentinel charged in to stomp some warriors, but the talos saved them. Finally the last chimera was destroyed and another warrior group got some good slaves.

In the end the points were approximatly:

Slaves: 9

Tanks Destroyed: 6 (baneblade counts as 3 sorry gimli)

Guard alive: like 3 or 4?

So Dark Eldar win, Mitch McOrkelle in second.

Turned out quite close for some random stuff we cam uo with, very fun game!

Thanks;

Mike

Painting- Ottoman Upgrade Set

 Hello Folks,

Managed to complete the Ottoman upgrade set, this upgrades my skirmish force into a Task Force, few more bits and options that would be nice, but have to wait for the full release when you can pick up individual units.

Here's the added forces, some artillery combat cav lots of good stuff.

First up the hitters, nice bit unit of Siphai, charge in and do some damage.

Artillery!

Levends, a small skirmshing unit to be annoying.

Couple extra deli to bring the small unit to medium.

An Aga, extra commander.

Here's the full Task Force, good variety of units with infantry, cannons, light cav, heavy cav, skirmishers, but of everything. Hopefully that's smart, but only q way yo find out!

Thanks;

Mike