Another game of 40K

And so once more to General ballroom's for a game of 40K
Usual drill, me with Orks, Gen. B. with 'Nids and Steve taking over the role of Emperor's Finest from the Gaming Heir.

Gruzzkup began, like in the last battle lurking with his lads in the ruins.

The Fists arrive, ready for some Fisting.

That's a big, bloody fist you have there sir

The gribbly alien swarm decided to run at me this time.

So I sent out some kans to deal with 'em.

A lictor appeared. On the objective.

There now follows two rather unsuccessful "arty" shots of the Lictor.

Hive Fleet Ballroom sent the Broodlords in to deal with the Kans

Whilst further 'stealers ran at the Orks in the ruins.

Soon after this, the game ended.
The Tyranids had largely wiped out the Orks, but at some cost.
So the Marines were able to amble over and park a Dreadnought on the objective and claim the win.

Big Zulu Game

We weren't the only 54mm gamers at Hereward.
As well as our Oppy Wood participation game some other chaps were playing a proper big game of Zulu.
A little bit Hollywood and a little bit historical accuracy, or so they told me.
Anyway, i thought it looked splendid and grabbed some pictures.

Dragon Rampant at Hereward Wargames Show

Also at the Hereward show Andy and Andy were outing on a very splendid looking game of Dragon Rampant.
I really liked the table and scenery and the old school WFB (mostly) figures)

 Skarloc's Wood Elf Archers (I used to have these)

 Wizard on disc

 Metal Skaven in an Andy Chambers stylee

 Wood Elf Attack Chariot. I have owned this model. Twice.

 More ratmen

 More Jes Goodwin elves

I had these elves too (but not the treeman)

Andy's blog is well worth a look if you like this kind of old school fantasy stuff

Oppy Wood at Hereward

James and I wanted to give Oppy Wood at least one more run out before the end of the year.
Fortunately the chaps at Hereward Wargames Show in Peterborough were only too happy to oblige.
So we took the full kit and caboodle with Matt along to help again as well.
Here's the pictures.

As before we took two games to cover the one battle - 12mm as a demo game and 54mm as participation.

We spent too much time talking and running the participation game, so very little of the big game got played - though I did find time to shoot down James' spotter plane!

The chaps at Hereward were kind enough to award us the best game prize.
So Oppy Wood is played 2, won 2 for the show circuit. :)

Orks, Nids and Templars - a 40K game

Stephen was indisposed this week (in fact he was inderNederlands) however it is still the summer holidays here in Nottinghamshire so I had a Gaming Heir keen to get a game of 40K in and General B was kind enough to agree to me bringing him along.
We played the basic 3 way battle from the rulebook (one objective in the middle of the park - random turn order) with 50 Power level armies each.

Up until this point in New 40K (tm) General B's 'Nids have had it all their own way, steamrollering mine and Steve's armies with gay abandon. Let's see how they deal with a 12 year old's Land Raider Crusader...

 Gruzzkup's Ladz lurkin in da ruinz

 Da Killa Kanz lurch out

 The Templars await the onslaught

I won the roll off and decided to make the 'Nids go first.

This left the Gaming Heir worried that he'd be charged on first turn. However my reasoning was they'd not reach him and would then be in the open, in front of his guns.

 Hive Fleet Ballroom rushes forward

I turned out to be right (though only just) and quite a few 'Nids began to be shovelled off as the Crusader blazed away...

 Da Ugly

 High Noon

Facing 'Nids to his front I then decided (as any good Dad should) to attack the Gaming Heir's flank and our Dreads faced off.

Meanwhile, despite more casualties than in any previous game, the Hive Mind came on and managed to contact the Land Raider

 Gribbly gribbly....

At this point however Hive Fleet Ballroom made something of an error. The Genestealers assaulted the tank, whilst the two Broodlords (a big 'un and a lickle 'un) went off to kill five tactical marines. The other way around might have been better.
Inevitable the Marines died horribly, however the 'stealers didn't make much impact on the tank.
Which promptly dropped off High Marshall Helbrecht and his chums, reversed and began to hose them down again.

 Attention Xenos Spawn. We have come for you.

After all the 'Nids were dead attention switched to the centre of the board, where the Orks were now sitting on the objective.

The remaining Genestealers and the late arriving Lictor (I don't like Lictors - or as the Black Templars say Ich nichten lichten Lictors) tried to dislodge the Orks, but some burnin' saw them off.

At this point, with the Templars preparing to drive over and repeat the hosing down tactics on the greenskins we had to call the game over.
The Gaming Heir had (to no-one's great surprise) won.

Hivefleet Ballroom is now revising their tactics, chittering about "something to kill tanks with".

Big thanks to General B. for hosting me and the Gaming Heir - he had a great time (and so did I).

Reaper Bones Brass Bull

Another for the OGAM menagerie - a Brass Bull from Reaper.
Bones makes these sorts of big beasties very affordable and this was very quick and easy to paint up.

The camera seems to have made the steel hooves and horns look far duller than they really are.