Posts by MingTheMirthless

  • Friday Night - Dragon Rampant 30pts

    30 Pts either side - a mixed unstable Demonic Force Vs Orcs & Goblins.


    And use of a river, because why not...








    Interesting Events:


    Lesser Warbeasts surviving a hail of skirmish actions on one flank, pushing the units ever backwards, before reducing a scout unit to one solo hero and then pushing the Ravenous Horde and the Leader all the way back to the other corner


    The opposite flank was a stand off between Heavy Riders - due to inactivity of my part eventually thinned by shot after shot (Need to think about which types of units hurt which best)


    The central river caused much to-ing and fro-ing of Greater Warbeasts one one side, Scouts and Infantry on the other.


    The Wizards use of Beserk was lethal - Matt rolling many many damaging hits and rerolls - I seem to recall he activated everyone almost every time. I did not.


    The river then gave advantage to my light missiles thinning out half of Matts force.


    Matt almost sneaked defeat from the jaws of victory assaulting my Elite Foot Leader - causing his units to die, and his Wizard to flee.


    But one final blow landed killing my leader - and the light missiles took a hit and also ran away.


    Fun times.


    Still haven't found the page with the deployment rules. But I did forget to take my meds before i came down Friday. The last hour and the drive home were not ideal.


    I blame the heat.

    Did remember this time to take the extra hits on Weak units (Red ones bleed faster)


    Matt's first victory apparently... Well played!

  • Grey Knights/Inquisition Force

    Haha... The oh so good Space Fascist Xenophobic Zealots?


    IMHO the only 'good guys' are the Exodite Eldar just after an easy life...


    Might work on the Tau-ist techno-communists-thought control force next to ally with the Saurians :P

  • Grey Knights/Inquisition Force

    Finally round to the 'last batch' of The Inquisition - another long term idea.. 32 models to do


    Death Korps of Krieg (Octatius Set)


    Rogue Trader Squad (Kill Team - Rogue Trader full game set - got the boards to look at too)


    Bought a Death Watch Upgrade pack


    Death Watch 1

    Death Watch 2

    Death Watch Termie & Deathwatch Captain


    Lots of odd's n sods parts.. homemade back banner - and a heavy weapon backpack and two heads in the post somewhere...


    Cracking on anyway now.

  • Scenery - Da Mighty F-Ork-Tress

    I've had a copy of Warhammer Siege from new - and this can be used to divide a battlefield literally in two - or claim a corner... plus Da Ultrahmahreenz need a home.


    How many spray can's or can'ts will it take? I dunno.. but there's gonna be a lot of sponge work with red, brown and orange and grey. May just nip to The Range or The Works..

  • Scenery - Da Mighty F-Ork-Tress

    Inspired by the original Might Fortress foam fortress from 1988? And using the Kill Team Octavius bits, lots of foam board.


    Taking a break before adding paper tissue texture and even more 'greeble' bits from the bits box.


    Also need to add some butresses for the removable Toof Gate


    Got quite a few other panels i'm going to back with some Necromunda sprues for further additional platforms.

  • It's Friday Night FireFight... When the dice decide..

    ...Rule 1 Don't take pictures at Fight Night

    ...Rule 2 Don't take pictures at Fight Night


    Game 1 - A straight 5 objective 4 round face off. Mixture of cratered terain and building


    HDF (Psyker/Leader/Veteren/Robots/Recruits - Munitioner Buff, Medical Training Buff, Heavy Armour Upgrades ) vs HDF. (Leader/ORGE/Robots/Infantry - with a ix of Drum & Plasma Weapons). A Battle of low quality versus low quality. It's all about options and a little luck.


    Objectives were well spread. Matt's force secure two objectives on his half, I secured two on mine - with the Crazed Psyker (Company Leader) charging into the enemy half using Searing Burst - spamming wounds on Matt's units. He retaliated with a hail of fire and took the psyker out.


    Trading back and forth - I ended up advancing the recruits up the flank - they soaked up fire and actually managed to do a moderate amount of damage with 6s. However my robots - with Good Shot and Precision buff just kept hitting. Matt's Leader fell, but there wasn't a mass rout.


    My leader and Veteran Medic assaulted the opposite flank unit Matt had on objective.


    Game ended with 2 objective for me, 1 for Matt, and two contested. If Matt had just rolled a little higher his weapons choices would have won out. More shots is more betterer. Except when it's not. I was shoked with how brutal the psychic attacks are.


    Game 2 - Scenario: Attack & Defend - Last Stand.



    Matt was on the defense, after the previous close loss, he chose a sensible deployment around the central L building - not knowing with side the assault would come from. It's a 6 round game with possible redeploy for assaulters units after 1st rout.


    First round shots peppered the defenders, and despite many shots. Not 1 landed on the attacked. Subsequent Psyker blasts caused carnage, attackers fire cause more thinning. Second round if Matt did hit, somehow I defended it all with 5/6s.


    Matt continued to fire, but still the wounds didn't land (!!!) - the psyker and the drum pistol and drum rifle causing more hits. The robots fell, recruits were thinned. But Matt's beret wearing leader went full last man last stand Rambo against almost all my initial force.


    He fell. I have never rolled so well, it would be hard for Matt to roll this badly again.


    This is NOT an easy scenario for the defender. Not one for low quality units! Like Bryan i didn't even get to a redeploy.


    Grimdark Future bigger scale battles are coming. Scenarios add serious variety - maybe a little Fog Of War too?


  • Green Tide.... Aka Fungal Infection Aka "Da Real Ultramahreenz"

    They've earned me spending the summer working on "Da Mighty F-oRK-tress"


    I copied some of dimensions of The Citadel Mighty Fortress is an iconic modular wargaming terrain set released by Games Workshop in 1988.


    Mines only 18 inch square, I only made 4 wall sections not six. but I've got a tonne of bits, and a lot of lessons from Bill Making Stuff/Dan Does that's gonna make it spezhull.


    And I could make two gate wall sections to make it the real size...hmm