The End of November sees the club moving along down the Sci-fi alley.

This blog is a bit of a show and tell of club happenings. I always plan on putting more on the blog to promote the club, alas I get involved in real life and the blog takes a back seat. Next year will be better.............one hopes.

The benefit of a small club is the diversity of opinion and choice. 40K has made a real resurgence so much so that I introduced it to the school I am at, but have not played a game at the club itsself. I had to have a new army of course and the cheap beginners boxed sets started my Death Guard force. Great minis as usual from GW but I have not really been into the rot and gore of this most loathsome of the Chaos gods. The kids at school wanted to play marines so I had to be the bad guy, cool. Soon my pretties will make it to the club soon. (maybe pretties is not the right word)

So Age of Sigmar killed off warhammer fantasy in its old form but our club jumped on to Kings of War and the toys still make it to the table for the regular bout of dice throwing. Some of the chaps do play AoS but again it has not surfaced at the club.

Infinity is still a goer and a great game. We tried a bigger table at the End of November games night. 3 sides with 300 points and used the TACO2 system again with some success. Bigger tables really mean more turns I feel but we ran out of time to really give it a proper run. Maybe back to a 4 foot by 4 foot table and 200 points a side.

Wings of Glory is still a staple as Barry not only loves the game but has enough models for the whole club to play if we wanted to.

So enough blather and a quick picture show.

Kings of War ( a fond replacement for WFB )

Baz and the Wings Game from early November

Infinity from early November, hmmm a few cans of spray paint and this will look beyond awesome.

End of November big Infinity game

Another view of the larger than normal table

My Haqqislam, purchased second hand with a view to repaint until I realised I have only one lifetime to paint and play games with and to be honest they are well painted anyway!

Yu Jing a mix of my minis and second hand painted again but controlled by a friend on the night

Mordheim, a venerable favorite that stands the test of time

Nicely painted Necron walker

Destroyers?? this table looks so good with models on it.

Even unpainted minis look great against this mat and the buildings

My Death Guard begin

More nasties to beat the school kids into submission

Owned this for 25+ years sat 3/4 painted for 3 years and a last done, I love the old Mithril Miniatures.

The reason I am having a go at Haqqislam in Infinity, a lovely Odalisqque from the game with the brilliant spitfire gun. oh I painted this one and was quite chuffed how it turned out.

We have one more games night in December as the other night will be too close to Christmas, so if you are around drop in. There will be Pizza too.

Late August down the club, more 40K, Mordheim, Kings of War and my little Infinity table.

'Twas a good turn up at the end of August for the club night and though a few had the remnants of a flu like cold most brought out their toys and chucked a few dice. I did not, the dreaded lurgy got me and my energy was to low. But sitting in on a game of 40K made me appreciate that the games has some very good strong points to it now. I love the whole object element and the use of tactical objective cards. Reminds me a lot of another Sci-Fi game that uses less minis. 40K does seem to play fast and furious and some elements looked very different from the versions I have played and loved but I will be giving it a go sometime soon. So on with the show.

Mordheim board, I think two games happened sequentially.

I have no idea who built it but this Tavern, gatehouse looks the part, just a little undamaged for the ruins of the once great city of Mordheim.

40K, loved the mat for this game evokes a real sense of impending doom.

Nice Buildings too, must ask who makes them.

OK so this was a bit of inspiration for a fellow gamer. Gold airbrushed on, (or silver for the middle miniature), Minitaire Ghost tint magenta again airbrushed and here is the real bonus, a gold sharpie pen to redo the gold outlining of all the armour panels. Clever, and idea stolen. Really like the red too.

40K game I watched, nasty Chaos Tzeench vs nastier Tyrannids. Close combat is huge now and rather brutal. the nids seem to go down in droves and had very little left but the objectives and tactical objective cards gathered throughout the match meant that the nids won.

Once upon a time I would never leave so many expensive models in an enclosed space like this but the game plays differently now.

Tau vs Tau Civil War!!!!!!!!11

Chaos tainted Primarch taking a hit or 13.

KOW

Battle of the beasts in the Kings of War match, treeman alas was turned to kindling.

The look of despondence as you realise that 30+ Tau face you with shotguns and they work very differently now for the Tau!

Khorne demons

My little board for Infinity. This was played at home with a great friend that popped over. Infinity looks so good when the board has lots of buildings even if most of mine are the paper/card ones from all the different sets.

Looking forward to next club night but not sure what to play should I go for a game of 40K, continue with Mordheim and progress my warband or bring out the Infinity toys again. Who knows.

Too long between post, just a club image round up for June and July

Well it seems I am letting the club down a little on updating our comings and goings. So to prove that we have been busy here are some images of people and their toy soldiers in all sorts of scales, sizes and abilities to fly.............or not.

2 X 40K games in June

Some great buildings that smack of Stalingrad

Not Russians but Space Wolves................

Pop the balloon

Actually caught on fire, hydrogen?

Mordheim....an old classic

July and 40K

Grey nasties hiding in buildings again

wings of glory WW11

Chaos demons

WWI and your turn to name the game.

A Mordheim campaign begins.

second of three tables

I used my Ghost Archipelago minis as my warband

Some success tonight but not enough heros to gain much in the way of experience and Wyrdstone

I now hope that the Mordheim efforts may lead to Frostgrave shenanigans but if not the GW just might re release this one too.

It is now April, oh dear I am not really following up on the club now am I?

Life as they say gets in the way of playing, or in my case blogging on behalf of the club. Yet at last I am to attempt a small update. We have had a few good nights and the odd quieter one. 40k is undergoing a real resurgence. The guys are pulling out all stops to keep the minis coming and there are some great little battles that keep happening. The game seems to work well for all 1000-2000 point games which is nice. I am still a little miffed that the Dark Angels book came out so soon after Index Imperium 1 I still have not even used this $40.00 tome of delight. Can't justify the purchase of the next one yet.

X-wing has been the game of choice for the last couple of nights and I had the chance to try out the 8 rookie tie fighters for 100 points combo. Well not really a combo but it plays well as 2 squads of 4 tie fighters. I use micromachine Ties from a few years back as these are the ones I used at school with the kids and I just do not have 8 real tie fighters. I am pleased to say that 8 Tie Fighters has been successful in two games. Woot. I seem to not win often with the Empire unless with other more talented Imperial players but this time success!

40K Nids vs Guard and Others

Ghost vs 8 ties (Ghost ended up ghosted)

 Slave 1 vs 7 Ties, yes ghost actually got 1 (Slave 1 yes you guessed it)

 

Starting to even up a little now but the Scum and Villainy failed to impress the powers of the Empire.

A rather small project i have been working on.

6mm WWII on a Pin Board.