Battle Report - Walking Dead

Hello Folks;

Time for another battle report. A while back I got together with Stan, Duncan and Ed for a zombie game. Was a semi cooperative game where everyone also had a secret objective. Mine was to get some loot back from a biker gang.

Turn 1, I came in from the bottom. Figure I will head towards the close loot and see what happens. Stan had the Grenes on the left and Ed had the prisoners up top. Stan was feeling friendly so started shooting prisoners right away hah.

Fending off some zombies. Pretty much everyone is heading generally to the center.

Starting to investigate rooms. I got some bandages and a clue that my objective was in the hotel lobby.

Running to that middle building now. The Grenes found some kids in the hotel so start consolidating that a bit.

Got into the building and found the bikers. I had assumed they would be zombies, but nope alive and angry!

Luckily the prisoners decided to help out by tossing grenades in the front room.

The guy I'm fighting inside wont die, this has created a bit of a road block!

The prisoners came in to help, 8s that good or bad?

Stan left before this turn, as a parting gift he shot and killed the prisoner leader!

So when we got the mega herd card it obviously went there.

Uh-oh.

At this point the threat maxed out so time to hold down a building.

The Grenes holed up in the hotel. All told everyone got 1 loot. The Grenes got their objective and were safe in the hotel with 1 casualty. I got my objective and was in the gas station. The prisoners had a harder time only a couple of guys survived and they never got their card completed.

Waa a fun game, was great to see the completed hotel and try put some secret objectives!

Thanks;
Mike

Battle Report - Saga Knights vs Saracens

Hello Folks,

Bit behind on posting reports. Anyway last week I got together with Duncan to play a game of Saga Crusades. We didn't have the new battles book yet but played a game using the tables from it that they posted.

The rolls gave us the following.

Terrain - Unknown land
Deployment Zone - Vanguard
Game Length - Under pressure
Twist - Forced March
Objective - Target

Basically everyone starts with some fatigues and you got double points for killing a unit you picked. We both took mounted units, but my target unit was a double sized unit.

We deployed mostly in lines around the watch tower.

First turn for Duncan was removing fatigue and setting up.

I moved up some crossbow guys and shot my target unit. Got real lucky and killed 3!

The Saracens start shooting arrows as well, but are less impressive and only kill 2 knights.

I charged out a unit of knights on my turn and wiped out the rest of my target unit. But lost all my knights as well. Not great but not bad either.

The Saracens did some more real good shooting leaving only the 1 knight. On my turn I charged again and killed some levy. But with my knights gone it was clear that the next few turns would be arrow filled, and my foot would be to slow to catch the Saracens. Under pressure lets you end the game early so I went for that, figure we are looking at a draw now but could get worse.

Duncan shot up another knight with his last few hearth guards, and had s option to charge and shoot or shoot and charged my warriors. I convinced him charge was better first, due to fatigue. Bug I rolled almost perfect. So after making like 7 saves in lost 1 warrior and all the Saracens died!

That was just enough points for it to be a victory for me.

The randoms options we got were allot if fun so the new boom seems great. We both have it now so bound to be more games in the new year!

Thanks;
Mike

The Kings Hall - 2018 - Middle Earth SBG

Hello Folks,

Today I took part in a Lord of the Rings tournament at Multizone which was great fun. Took lots of pictures so as usual I will do a post of battle reports!

My Army:

I showed it before, but here is the army I took, the 3 Trolls + some Wargs.


Game 1: vs Wood Ekves (Sam) in Domination

For those not familiar in this game you have to control 5 points at the end of the game. The black bases in this case. I thought this would go really bad since there are 5 points and I just have 8 models but have to try!

Spread all out to cover ground. My plan is for the Trolls to advance, some WArgs to hold back points, and the Cheiftan to flank around the back.

First couple of turns just moving closer as the Elves plug away. But they are not having much luck.

Turn 3 getting close to the action. The Warg chieftain is really getting back there thou. This was the time for action, Aragorn charged out to face Bill! We both used Heroic Strike and got 10 fight, and the duel roll was a tie! Happy for Bill despite his fancy Elven blade Aragorn lost, Bill went for a 'Mince em' Fine' and rolled very high. End result was no more Aragorn. Good way to start.

After that the rest of the Trolls got into the fight. Haldir tried to put one over on Tom but luck was not on their side today.The Cheiftan lurked waiting for the perfect time to strike.

Next turn the battle raged on. Bert had a good time and pegged an elf with a stone killing him. Other than that some Knigts start playing cat and mouse with my back wargs. The big Trolls were having trouble getting kills for some reason.

Eventually as the turns passed the Elves were getting whittled down badly, and were not getting the Luck to wound the Trolls.

Finally the Elves were done and the game was over. The Trolls were able to dominate 4 points and weren't broken vs the Elves 1 point. So if I remember right it was a 10-2 or something like that.

Game 2: vs One of the Eastern Armies with the Betrayer (Joseph) in Fog of War

On to round 2 this time it's Fog of War around some Gondorian tents.In this mission you have to write down a hero to kill, a hero to protect, and a terrain item to capture. For me it was kill the betrayer, protect Bert, and capture the 1 tent hill. The other side had to protect Betrayer, capture 2 tent hill, and I think kill Tom, but might have that wrong. Lots of bows and posion and sneaky magic to face this time.

Turn 1 the Trolls stampede forward. While the Wargs hang back, was worried about them gettig shot to pieces.

 
Closing the gap, still no wounds for me.

Missed a turn, but as you can see the battle has started. Bert broke left to try and protect a hill, but Bill and Tom are in the thick of it. The Wargs are running over a few guys as well. I lost some fights with tons of attacks but was blessed with luck so just lost a wound on Tom.

More fighting, chipping away at the puny humans. Suladan killed the chief of wargs as well.

This turn was a big one. I forget who started it but the betrayer got in a fight with BIll! Bill called heroic strength and won his fight. Once more choosing to Mince Em Fine and rolling very high, there was a dead Nazgul! Sadly ppor Tom was overwhelmed.

Things quickly got worse. Bill the mighty was brought down! This meant for a critical time, as the game might soon end due to me loosing lots of guys. Bert had fought his way back to the main show and was smashing some guys up thou.

But with my force broken the game did indeed end. I achieved Kill ad Protect, and the Betrayers force got capture the terrain and kill. But with my force broken and theirs not it was a 9-6 loss.

Great game thou, this is a really fun scenario for some reason!

Game 3: vs Gondor in Lords of Battle

Next round, fighting outside the Black Tower of Cirith Ungol. What the Trolls are doing ehre we may never know. Might have the name of this scenario but the idea is you get points for murdering people!

Oh snap they have a bolt thrower that seems bad. But the Trolls are a bit lost of choice so have to run across. Plan for the Wargs is to run around the flank.

Slowly getting there but I am seeing this is going to be a problem.

Next turn the bolt thrower is wounding Bill, and the bows are all on Bert. Bad day to not be Tom. The Wargs are safe thou so there is that.

Next turn, not good. The bolt thrower brings down mighty Bill, and Faramir and his pals kill the chieftain and a couple of wargs with a nice Heroic combat. Wargs are not good at fighting Knights it seems, glad I ran away in game 1 now.

Finally make it into combat, but its bad luck time for the Trolls and they just can't win.

Turns out Gondors lances are perfect for Trolls fighting. They are able to finish me off pretty fast. Tom gave it his best shot but died as well. I think I killed 1 man but it was a total victory for Condor, 12-0.

Game 4: vs Betrayer again in Clash of Champions

This one is all about how many guys your leader can mash. Also our lines ended up starting very close. I can't say how happy they Trolls were to not have to walk across a table of arrows again!

Deployment. Bill getting ready to smash.

Of course we are straight into it. This game the Trolls are on fire winning all the fights and killing guys. The Betrayer and Suladan do a Heroic Combat and kill a Warg sending Suladan right into Bill. The Betrayer had tried to Transfix him but with a little might help Bill passed. Suladan called a heroic strike but rolled terrably, so we were tied in fight. Down to a roll off again. But BIll Won! And as per usually pulled a brutal Mince Em Fine and Sulidan just like that was pie filling.

Next Round I was lucky and got the priority, so Bill was able to catch the Betrayer. Not wanting to be transfixed or posioned any more he again went for a Heroic Strength. He won his fight as well and pulling his favorite trick 'Mince Em' Fine' the betrayer was down. I rolled a 5 or 6 on that every time, this tournament talk about luck! This was of course very bad news for the Betrayers force.

Indeed it wasn't long before the Trolls and Wargs were cleaning up. Most of my Wargs died but overall couldn't ask for better luck. With Sulidan down on turn one and Bill mashing all kinds of guys it was a victory for me. 12-0

Overall the tournament was great fun, was excellent to get some good games of the Lord of the Rings in. The Trolls did much better than I would have thought as well which is always great. Will have to drop in on another Middle Earth tournament at some point for sure.

Thanks to all my opponents and the people who were involved in the organizing, great job.

Bit of a longer post.

Thanks;
Mike

Painting - Wild Wargs & Pirates

Hello Folks,

Small painting update for today. Over the last week I had to paint a few Wild Wargs for a tournament today. But also got some French pirates done for the next big thing.

Wild Warg Cheiftan + Pals:

A Warg boss and a few Wargs. I wanted to play the three trolls and needed something to make up the rest of the points. I thought Wargsxwould be fun and it made sense to me they could meet up in the wild. Quite like the chief standing on a Rohan guys body.

Army:

Here's a shot of my army for prosterity.

French Commander:

I've also been painting some of my blood and plunder guys. Couldn't resist getting started. Here is the French Commander. They have cool wooden textures based. I decided to color code the rims for identification, so French are blue.

French Sailors:

And some sailors, a Rudy bunch. Great models I really like them. Fun to paint which is good as I have lots more.

Longboat:

Also got a boat, mainly in a test to see how fun / easy it was to paint. Actually went quite well so I will get a small ship and some more!

Loaded up:

Pledge Status, 2018:

Bought: 392
Painted: 325
Total: -67

Thanks;
Mike

Battle Report - Game of Thrones

Hello All,

Still catching up on battle reports. Have one more pair for me  but bound to be more in the future of course.

Last Wednesday was a Game of Thrones gaming day. 30 points, I went with the high sparrow as commander to see how that worked.

Game 1:

First game we played the mission with random objective cards. I forget what it's called but you draw cards that have objective you getnpints for completing. Like take an objective or a certain slot on the tactics board. For this battle the Starks had no non-combat characters, which can make it hard to get some of them.

Initial set up, I put one unit to come over the hill and try a flank.

As it turned out i got pretty lucky with the cards. I was able to achieve 2 3 point cards and you only need 8 to win I think. So we never made it out of turn 3. The cards were cool but clearly need some non-combst guys on both sides.

Game 2:

For game 2 we decided to just have kill points. Murder all you can. Tge Stsrks adjusted their list slightly to fit in Eddard so he can do the off board stuff.

Kind of the same set up. Starks have 2 wolves now which gives an activation advantage.

Just a bit of advancing for turn 1.

Turn 2 the fighting starts. My hlaberds having a hard time. The starks had a card preventing their set for charge rule!

Think mix up get worse. My guys on the hill are flanked by a wolf, and he just went die. I got most of my halberd back but now my right flank is taking z pounding from the excellent archers.

Eventually we ran out of time.

No units were killed yet so I guess it's technically a tie. But as you can see the lanisters are taking a pounding! So we decided to call it a Stark win.

Thanks;
Mike