Warhammer - Orcs v. Vampires

At last the lockdown eases and we can play face-to-face soldiers once more.
So naturally Stephen and I decided to play Warhammer, the greatest of all the games.

Simple 2k line'em up and go at it 8th edition Warhammer.

Only phone pictures, so sorry about the quality

Somewhere in a corner of the Old World...

Always nice when Stephen pull his rancid purple Ghoulies out.

Looks like he's got some big bloated purple ghoulies these days.

Dead Dogs. I painted these, years ago. They make me sad.

Early on Stephen rolled big on the Winds of Magic and got all excited about casting the big death spell.

Then he rolled lots of ones and it failed. I definitely didn't laugh. Much.

I had three chariots and razzed them straight into Stephen's ghoulies

Sadly the Black Orcs got a face full of giant ghoulie, and nobody wants that.

Zombies came to try and give Stephen a hand with his ghoulies.

While the Black Orcs went down.

The Boarboys meanwhile charged the Dead Knights (helped by another chariot).

The Death Cart slammed in to some of the boys

Finally Gruzzkupp and the Big 'Uns went toe to toe with the Fencing Vampire.

In the end I killed enough Graveguard to pop Zorro Von Carstein, despite him inconveniently chopping Gruzzkupp's head off.

At which point it was all over for the dead guys.

Great to be playing Warhammer again. My dice were quite hot (at least early on) and Stephens were not.

Warhammer is the best of all the games - I wonder why we ever play anything else.

Tlingit against Russians - Muskets and Tomahawks

After several loooong months of no face to face gaming (this post suggests the last time was at the start of October seven months ago!) lockdown eased enough for James and I to get the toys out.

Well, technically James got the toys out all I did was turn up and roll the dice.

James has been collecting Tlingit warriors - a fierce First Nations tribe that terrorised much of the Northwestern coast of North America and came into conflict with Russian settlers. They're a fantastical looking bunch, sporting intricately carved wooden armour.

The scenario we played was one James wrote for Wargames illustrated - the Tlingit surprise a campsite occupied by Alexander Baranov the Governor of Russian America with some of his men and thier Aleut allies.

The Tingit come ashore from their canoes.

The fearsome leaders of the Native Americans. 

Bleary eyed Russians rouse from their tents

The Tlinigt war chief urges his wooden clad warriors on

Under cover of darkness the Tlingit advance on the camp

Alerted the Russians emerge from their tents

As the Tlingit break from the tree line

The dozing sentries snap to life

But the Tlingit open fire before they can react

***A hiatus when I forgot to take pictures***

We rejoin the battle as Tlingit massacre a lone, shaken Russian

Baranov finds himself in a swirling combat

The red Tlingit leader urges his men on in search of captives

Tlingit are everywhere at the defences

Still struggling to wakefulness the Russians give fire

But it does them little good

Laden with captives the Tlingit begin to make their escape

Pausing briefly to try and murder some Aleut

Spotting Baranov trying to make it to the safety of his ship the Tlingit close in

And despite his mail shirt the Russian is knocked to the floor

And with that the Tlingit head back to see with their captives

Lovely looking game and M&T played pretty well - lockdown Zoom games mean we understand the rules fairly well.

James' collection is great - hopefully one day we'll get to play a version of the Battle of Sitka

Barrels

 Making some scatter terrain for underground battles involving dwarfs.

Renedra plastic barrels, Warbases base.
Will also appear in Frostgrave games too no doubt.

War of the Roses archers

A white clad unit of archers for games of Never Mind the Billhooks.

Intended to accompany the white clad billmen from a previous post as part of the Welsh contingent at Mortimers Cross under Thomas ap Gruffyd (or his dad, records are unclear).