On 14Nov09 I attended the GameOnGw Gamesday at The Cage gaming space in High Point, NC. I took my Mordheim Tilean war band and some of my Pulp figures to possibly use in ChuckarooBob's planned Great War game. I packed everything the night before and was halfway to the Cage when I realized I had left my camera so sorry no pictures.
I chatted with the lads until Chuckaroo showed. I got the Italian paratrooper light machine gunners and another Italian paratrooper heavy machine gunners Chuckarro had picked up for me at Fall In. We set up and then played a rousing game of Great War ran by him. It was early war with the Brits verses the Turks. It was a meeting engagement were but the Brit made it to cover and stayed so us Turks had to root them out. I controlled a Turkish company and 2 machine guns. I moved up, set the machine guns and manage to decrew the only British Field gun but then had a platoon of Turks decimated by British grenadiers. My commander charged in to slay the Grenadiers and killed several before the British command charged in and killed him. The Grenadiers went on to charge my two machine guns while the British command watched them go. The last grenadier destroyed one of the machine guns but died in his attempt. British cavalry arrived behind the turkish positions but were beaten off in a vicious close combat. This I left the Turks with a Marginal victory. Chuckaroo played another Great War game but I broke out the Mordheim figures for a couple games.
My first game was against Mike and his Dwarf band. I helped him get his band together and then we played an ambush scenario were by band was spread out all over the table and some off table while Mikes's dwarfs showed up on a random table edge. They showed on an edge near one of my warriors and were in combat by the second turn. Mike proceeded to rapidly put three of my models out of action and I had to start taking rout tests. the dwarfs are just tough as nails and I had to get lucky to put one down. What followed was about an hour of hard core Mordheim, with me making more than sixteen rout tests before I finally failed and bolted.
The next game was a four player game using the pool Scenario. There was a pool with a pile of wyrdstone shards in it in the middle of the table. The goal is to search the pool get the shards and get back off of the table. I took the honor less dog approach and jumped the closet war band, which was Shaun W's Reiklanders, while my heroes made a dash for the pool and searched for shards. I put several of Shaun's guys down and he ended up routing off the table. I found three of the possible six shards and decided that was good enough and left the table so the last two players could fight over what was left.
I had a great time at the games day and look forward to the next one.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Apoc-Eclipse at The TechShop
The Battle begins with The Xenos Attackers taking the first turn.
My stroke of genius, deep striking my vypers, ended with two destroyed by Interceptor guns and one mishap destroying the third one.
A scatter into difficult terrain but it survived.
Imperial backfield with a defence in depth, or they ran out of room to put models.
The Eldar air force buzzes the tower.
My pathfinders before,
And after.
Ulthwe farseers deploy their wraith gate. On a hobby note the wraith gate is made from one half of a 2007 Lifesaver Christmas ornament ball, painted black.
The Manta moves in
the Harlequin jetbikes arrive from the titan mover to storm the Starport.
The Phantom titans arrive via the activated titan mover.
Close Up of the three Amigos.
The Harlequins attack the Dark Angels devastator squad.
The Cloud Strike squadron in the Imperial back field.
The Tau Flying Circus
The Shadow Sword before,
And after the concentrated Xenos fire, with a Coup de gras by A Tempest tank.
Gap left in Imperial defensive line and Space marines after round of heavy Xenos fire.
Star Dragon sees the field for the first time.
Overview from the Imperial side.
Imperial Left flank defenses all but destroyed.
The Wraith lords attack the Star port and put it out of action.
Robert's Reavers buzzed by a Night wing.
Reaver Targets the Dark Phantom.
The Thunderhawk arrives and target the Tempest tank.
The Titanium Duke warhound reinforces the Imperial left.
Baharroth's tempest arrives at the feet of a Reaver titan.
The Harlequins assault the Dark Angels Masters of the Chapter.
Ground view from the Xenos side.
The Harlequins continue to whittle down the Dark Angels masters of the Chapter
The surviving Harlequin troupe master.
The Dark Angels Death Knell formation lands on the star port to contest the objective.
Tau Manta overflies the warhounds Titanium Duke and Strontium Dog
End game Imperial left.
The worst dice roll in the game. Steve rolled seven ones to wound with a heavy flamer shot.
My stroke of genius, deep striking my vypers, ended with two destroyed by Interceptor guns and one mishap destroying the third one.
A scatter into difficult terrain but it survived.
Imperial backfield with a defence in depth, or they ran out of room to put models.
The Eldar air force buzzes the tower.
My pathfinders before,
And after.
Ulthwe farseers deploy their wraith gate. On a hobby note the wraith gate is made from one half of a 2007 Lifesaver Christmas ornament ball, painted black.
The Manta moves in
the Harlequin jetbikes arrive from the titan mover to storm the Starport.
The Phantom titans arrive via the activated titan mover.
Close Up of the three Amigos.
The Harlequins attack the Dark Angels devastator squad.
The Cloud Strike squadron in the Imperial back field.
The Tau Flying Circus
The Shadow Sword before,
And after the concentrated Xenos fire, with a Coup de gras by A Tempest tank.
Gap left in Imperial defensive line and Space marines after round of heavy Xenos fire.
Star Dragon sees the field for the first time.
Overview from the Imperial side.
Imperial Left flank defenses all but destroyed.
The Wraith lords attack the Star port and put it out of action.
Robert's Reavers buzzed by a Night wing.
Reaver Targets the Dark Phantom.
The Thunderhawk arrives and target the Tempest tank.
The Titanium Duke warhound reinforces the Imperial left.
Baharroth's tempest arrives at the feet of a Reaver titan.
The Harlequins assault the Dark Angels Masters of the Chapter.
Ground view from the Xenos side.
The Harlequins continue to whittle down the Dark Angels masters of the Chapter
The surviving Harlequin troupe master.
The Dark Angels Death Knell formation lands on the star port to contest the objective.
Tau Manta overflies the warhounds Titanium Duke and Strontium Dog
End game Imperial left.
The worst dice roll in the game. Steve rolled seven ones to wound with a heavy flamer shot.
Unfortunately the game was called at the end of the third turn When we realized that there wouldn't be enough time for a full fourth turn. So this ended with an Imperial win. I was a little disappointed but i had a good time and saw a bunch of really amazing models.
Some highlights were the Tempests bagging a shadow sword and both surviving their first time on the field, The Phantom titan burning up a whole bunch of space marines and the Ulthwe farseer surviving everything the imperial could throw at them and only losing one model. Some bad highlight was the vyper scattering off table. the Solitaire not making it to the table because of deep strike mishap and the Harlequin bikers killed in the explosion after the wraithlords destroyed the star port.
I can't wait for the next one tentatively planned for March 2010.
Apoc-Eclipse Battle Imperials and Xenos Deployment
Two Of Robert's Reaver Titans.
The table of Imperial reinforcements.
The Tau Ground Forces backed by Eldar Tempests advance on the Left.
The Eldar super Heavies advance on the right lead by the Ulthwe strike force Farseer council on foot.
The table of Imperial reinforcements.
The Tau Ground Forces backed by Eldar Tempests advance on the Left.
The Eldar super Heavies advance on the right lead by the Ulthwe strike force Farseer council on foot.
Apoc-Eclipse Battle Xenos forces
Here are some pictures of the Xeno forces that were field in the game.
First is the scratch built Tau Manta. This thing is huge and made from foam insulation, plasticard and bondo.
Here is the rest of the Tau Air force. Four tiger sharks again all scratch built.
Her is Matt's scratch built Eldar super heavy called the Star Dragon.
The Box O' Harlequins. 60 of them are mine with 10 loaners from MattP.
Part of my Eldar including The Barroth's Tempest Formation with four swooping hawk squads. I brought this with the intent to surprise the Imperial ThunderHawk expected to show.
My Vypers and Harlequin Venoms. I played the Venoms as Vypers.
Matt Jorgenson's long thin line of Eldar.
More of MJ's Eldar forces.
MJ's Seer council conversions and a Saim Haine jetbike squad.
Horde of Wraithlords surrounded by Matt P's transports and Fire Prisims.
Matt P's Phantom titan, Warlock Titan, two Tempests and a Revenant scout titan.
My Phantom Titan and two Tempest super heavies.
Matt's forces after some deployment. The line of troops in the front is fifty Fire Dragons including Fuegan and a pile of Wraithguard.
A classic, the armorcast wave serpent.
First is the scratch built Tau Manta. This thing is huge and made from foam insulation, plasticard and bondo.
Here is the rest of the Tau Air force. Four tiger sharks again all scratch built.
Her is Matt's scratch built Eldar super heavy called the Star Dragon.
The Box O' Harlequins. 60 of them are mine with 10 loaners from MattP.
Part of my Eldar including The Barroth's Tempest Formation with four swooping hawk squads. I brought this with the intent to surprise the Imperial ThunderHawk expected to show.
My Vypers and Harlequin Venoms. I played the Venoms as Vypers.
Matt Jorgenson's long thin line of Eldar.
More of MJ's Eldar forces.
MJ's Seer council conversions and a Saim Haine jetbike squad.
Horde of Wraithlords surrounded by Matt P's transports and Fire Prisims.
Matt P's Phantom titan, Warlock Titan, two Tempests and a Revenant scout titan.
My Phantom Titan and two Tempest super heavies.
Matt's forces after some deployment. The line of troops in the front is fifty Fire Dragons including Fuegan and a pile of Wraithguard.
A classic, the armorcast wave serpent.
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