Battle Report - Club Day - Age of Magic

 Hello Folks,

Yesterday we had the next club day! This time its Saga Age of Magic. As discussed in the last post I took my Lizardmen as Lords of the Wild.

Ended up facing Norm and his great company. We played the random mission, I wrote down the rolls but, suffice to say that the objective is murder, you can get a bonus for surviving, and its on the short edges.

Here we are after my first turn. I got full dice but no fancy abilties. So just pressed forwards a bit.

The great ones advaced a wizard and electrocuted 2 of my Sarus Cav which I felt was a bit rude.

So the rest charged out and flattened that guy. Meanwhile the skinks moved up and tossed javelin at the nasty Paladin on the hill. Helped out by my wizzard. Never killed him, but he is now distinctly unhappy.

The kingdoms really ran down my cav, without taking damage even, with the dragon coming up to roast some orange skinks.

The Kroxigor took umbrage to that and pounded the dragon into the dust with their mighty clubs. He just barely survived the first charge so I just went again!

Other stuff kept pressing forward on the men who were to scared to move.

The nasty mounted continued their advance and killed my krocs. But I think they took a few hits this time. Why are these warriors so hard to smash!

The orange skinks will of course seek revenge. Pretty great luck this time so their pointy sticks kill allot!

The kingdoms advance into archery range, time fir shooting.

My turn i advanced on the archers with the blue skinks and shot then charged! Turns out charging levy is not that effective hah! They got driven back hard by the other big mass of cav.

No problem the warlord can fight those boys on his own! Poisoned up his blade and killed like half!

Sadly immediately died next turn. Guess I forgot the pictures after that. But it ended up as a good victory for the humans, they managed more murder on this day!

Other guys were playing a big old battle. Not really sure what's going on in this mess but seems fun!

So that's magic day.

Thanks;

Mike

Painting Update - Lizardmen

 Hello All,

Just a small update today. Painted a few new lizards for the club day. Also as a bonus some Samurai Artillery!

Samurai Artillery:

First here is the cannon. Thought this was a fun model, turned out easy to paint as well.

Sarus Oldblood:

Next up a new warlord option for the lizards. Really I wanted to have a smaller option as I have to ride the bus/train thus time do giant dinosaurs can be annoying.

Razordon:

My thinking here was to use this guy as mobile Artillery. But turns out that is not allowed for lord of the wild. Oh well.

Skinks:

Finally my second unit of skins only had 10 models, so I did 2 more to bring them up to standard.

Pledge Status, 2020:

Bought: 210
Painted: 195
Total: -15

Thanks;

Mike

Battle Report - 40k Tau vs Guard

 Hello Folks,

Had the chance to have another game of 40k. I took my newly painted Imoerial Guard reinforcements, to fight a bunch of Tau.

Used the new 9th edition open wae cards to make a scenario even though we are playing 7th edition.

The objective was destruction, and the twist was a storm which reduces movement of everything by 1", which I felt fit the table. I used the ice terrain, have to beat the heat!

Here we are after my first turn. The deployment was basically me in the corners and tau in a central triangle. Just advanced, with maybe some minor damage. 

The Taubhit back pretty hard, killing a sentinel and damaging my tank but nothing serious.

My turn to fight back. The tank pressed forwards hoping to unload its assault troops with flames next turn but is dangerously in the river. I managed to destroy the pirahana gun ship, and beat up the tau suits a bit, tried charging them with the sentinels, but never made it in. No look with my lascannons on taking out the tank sadly.

The Tau hit back pretty brutally. Killing my tank and most of its guys. Only the primaries payer lived, though wounded. Annoying he froze to death in the river before he could bring his pyromamcy powers to bear!

Starting to loose the ability to strike back now. But my storm troops jumped in via deep strike behind the lines and did some good damage. Plus the sentinels got into combat. Even better I was able to kill the stealth suits in close combat.

The Tau were able to easily kill the elite guys behind their lines, maybe that was a bit risky. And also killed my forward infantry unit.

Still had a couple of turns to play but that pretty much sealed things for the Tau, they win today but the Empire of man always has more grist for the grinder!

Thanks;

Mike

Painting Update - Imperial Guard

 Hello All,

Finally time for another painting update. Got allot done, but got lazy their for a bit so decided to wait until I was done with the Guard and just post it all at one.

Also got some bits of scatter terrain done as a bit of a break.

Senior Command Squad:

Really pleased with how the banner turned out on this one. 

Infantry Platoon:

Next up I have a platoon of basic infantry. 2 squads with a lascannon team,  plasma gunner and sergeant, a support weapon squad of six guys with 3 snipers and 3 spotters, and finally a junior officer command squad. Quite allot of guys!

Primaris Psyker:

Lastly a psyker to cast some magic powers. Another great model, love all their weird wires that are plugged into this guys head.

Scatter Terrain:

Also got Mantic Games latest terrain box kickstarter so to a break to paint up a few bits of that stuff. Mostly scatter terrain for modern / post apocalypse type stuff. But they have some other bits in there as well. Allot of fun to paint up, I am particularly fond of the arm chain dunno why.

Group Shot:

Heres a group shot of all the Imperial Guard stuff I have done now. Moved up from a small skirmish size army to a fully fledged 40k army. So have a few options to play around with now. There of course is more stuff I would like to add, but going to take a bit of a break and work on some other bits. Bound to get back to these guys eventually thou.

Pledge Status, 2020:

Bought: 210
Painted: 185
Total: -25

Thanks;

Mike

Annoyingly Blogger has moved to a new interface. Doesn't seem like they made any improvements just moved things around slightly. But it probably unusable from a phone now, once you start typing you can access the bar to add photos and stuff. Maybe I am just grumpy who knows.

Battle Report - Saga Club Day!

Hello Folks;

The club returns! Everyinecwearing masks and keeping apart, as it should be, but great to  get a club day!

Game of the day was Saga, Age of Vikings. I decided to try some Normans with a bunch of Knights plus some archers and crossbows.

Ended up playing Jeff's Vikings. We did the random roll scenario, but skipped the terrain roll as I just set it up. We ended up with a pretty normal set up for slaughtering points.

Here we are after my first turn, not to much moving due to only having 3 dice.

Vikings advance on all fronts.

Started the action for me. Got pretty perfect saga rolls. The archers used volley fire to start peppering the warriors getting some kills, meanwhile the small knight unit rushes out and wipe out some warriors.

The Vikings move around but dont have a great position for counter charging. But kill half my crossbows with shooting. On my turn I shift them out of the way and charge with the next set of knights, crushing another warrior unit.

Vikings are able to hit back a bit killing some more knights.

I'm able to keep up my plan of archery and charging. The knights fight the levy whose archery is becoming a pain, killing 7, just enough to cost them another saga dice. When the vikings try to charge back I am able to interrupt with envelepoment and move back the knights. Still take a loss t8 the archers thou.

My turn I bring up the next units of knights, but di allot worse and loose most of them. My archers continue bleeding the warriors on the left thou.

More viking shooting kills another pair of knights.

Final turn for me sees a disastrous charge against some hearthguard. Loosing more knights.

The vikings finish the unit with shooting.

In the end I'm ahead in the points, but only by 3 or 4. So it's a win by the Norman's but by no means crushing.

The new Norman's were great fun. Lots of activation abilities, so it's really easy to keep you units moving around and effective. Will have to try them again.

Next club day is Age of Magiv which I am quite looking forward to as well!

Heres a few shots of the other games.

There was a 4th game but I never got a shot of that one. Some people also did a second round.

Was a great club day, fantastic to see everyone again. Really look forward to the next!

Thanks;
Mike

Battle Report - Blood Red Skies

Hello All,

Time for another socially distance game in the sun. This time we decided to try out the new Warlord planes game, it's a pretty simple but fun game with some neat models.

Rules wise kind of standard Warlord game with cards and simolevdice mechanics. Planes landed back have advantage, forward disadvantage, and that is basically how dog fighting works.

Heres the set up. Duncan has 6 Stukas to try and bomb a liberty ship. I have 2 BF109s, near the cloud to escort, and 4 more arriving from the right. Stan the Ace has 4 Spitfires intercepting, and 2 more coming on from the left.

Turn 1 mostly everyone moves forward and climbs. Once Duncan explains how slow Stukas are Germam air command becomes very concerned!

Next turn the bulk of my planes come in from the edge, diving to get into range. They all fire on the Aces wing man, but I only get a single boom (morale chit). But of a mix up in the middle.

Believe this is 2 turns later, bit of a scrum in the middle. Different planes trying t8 get advantage to shoot. I think everyone has 1 plane down?

Next turn, my fighters are building up morale chits 9n the British, but they are getting behind the Stukas which is bad. At least the ace is having a hard time.

Next go the Brits really get on the Stukas, and are able to out maneuver them and build up allot of hits. This forces them to loose on morale so they dive and evade combat.

This leaves the 109s in a decent position, and I'm able to get the last few hits to break the Spitfires.

So at the end of the day the British defended the liberty ship, and shot down 2 Stukas and a 109, for the lose of a single fighter. So a pretty clear victory for Stan.

It seemed to end maybe a bit early, but people were really fading out in the heat, so the timing worked out!

Was a great game good to try out new stuff.

Thanks;
Mike

Battle Report - Socially Spaced Saga, Outside

Hello All,

Got another game in, this time some Age of Magic in Duncans back yard. Have to keep your distance and all the. Luckily no monster blew awayvor got rained on!

Went for 'Changing Plans' I think the battle was called. But basically count slaughtering points end of turn 3, survival end if 5, and conquering end of 6. So a bit of everything.

We skipped the rueps for set up, tossed down some terrain and got right to it.

Oh i was testing out my Lizards with the wild board, Duncan had the draconian horde.

Here is the deployment, scaly beasts all over the place  I guess the sun makes the pictures a bit off, but thems the apples.

Turn 1 the dragons rush in, roast my kroxigor and rudely eat them. But the frost dragon is left exhausted, easy pickings for the skinks. Also my warlord backed up a bit and the riders advanced. Was actually very had to maneuver for me as I lost we better, and have so many levy and monsters.

Of course the dragons are all monsters, so weren't interested in my complaints!

Turn 2, the dragons were very hungry it seems. They ate up my orange skins in the woods, the the big black decided to fight my warlord. I suppose fighting the biggest fanged beasts is how you get to be cheif dragon.

Ended up a bit of a push, but both have lots of fatigues and my turn next.

The pterodactyls know when to fight, si the peck out the black dragons eyes. A big blow for the dragons as they now cant use any advanced abilities at all. The skins kept tossing javelins, the wild's board allows them to ambush and shoot out of any unoccupied terrain which is very nice indeed.

More colossal combats, my warlord is the biggest and need everyone to know it.

Some turns it's hard to activate so not much gets eaten.

But charging left my guy vulnerable and the dragons fire brings him down. I think at this point we did the slaughtering points and I was up a bit.

On my next turn I got lucky dice, so my bastilidon, and setggasarus were both able to down dragons. But my wizards head exploded, so cant win em all.

Getting a bit thin on dragons at this point, but they have a mind to eat one more monster. Survival points now which sealed it for me really.

But the blue and bronze dragons get their tasty treat. I tried charging with my riders, but just missed killing another dragon.

Turned out to to be quite a fun game. Dragons vs dinosaurs is fun who knew right?

Playing outside worked great so bound to be more in the future!

Thanks,
Mike