Club Night 21st October

Duncan and I finally got together to play some games of Malifaux, even if I had not managed to paint my stuff yet. It was very much a learning experience and the games were not especially quick and strewn with errors, but the second game we played was for me the highlight as I got some good tactics worked out and everything went quite well.

I managed to use Candy and her run away home ability to grab the objective and leg it and I also used the Dreamer for the first time, and although I will need to refine him a bit, found him easier to use than Pandora and very enjoyable. Using his I can fly ability to rush across the battlefield and then summon a teddy and Lord Chompy Bits straight into combat is some awesome alpha strike ability and makes the force feel very manoeuvrable which always suits my style of play.

Club Night 12th October

Luke and I headed up the club for mid-week game and decided to start an early war axis of attack campaign, with Luke using a Jock Column force and me using a Bersaglieri company. Our first battle was the Jock column attempting a breakthrough. Luke made a brave gamble by keeping his infantry as part of the flanking force and committing just his armour and artillery to the main attack. I used my numbers to surround him as best as possible and keep my armour in reserve.
I used my reconnaissance move to hurry my motociclisti into the town to my rear and occupy it ready to repel the flank attack
Luke through his armour at my forces, but a combination of 47mm gun fire and the amazing pluck of my fearless conscripts in the front line they defeated the first attack.
I then began to hammer the artillery with air power and my own artillery. By now my reserves had started to arrive, but the other element of the jock column appeared to be lost in the desert.
I even was able to launch my tankettes (my new favourite unit along with the mid-war L6 light tanks) against the 25 pounder battery. This proved the last straw and the battered attackers broke.
So the Bersaglieri had been victorious and are now on the attack and ready to push forward to Egypt.

After this shorter than expected game I tried to introduce Luke to Malifaux with a basic game. He took my Lady Justice crew and I tried out Pandora for the first time. And she is touch to play. Initially I seemed to have the edge with my multiple moves and distance spells, but once I got in too close Lady J and her Marshalls did what they do best and dispatched my physically weaker crew with ease.

General musings

I seem to have been a bit slack in posting the last month and a half. Some of this is because I haven't been gaming as regularly, and wont be for a couple of weeks. However I have finally got back into my painting and am working to complete enough of my Blood Angels for the first 400k league game at the beginning of August.

Other gaming coming up will be completing my Malifaux stuff before I end up ordering more stuff over Gencon as we are able to order the limited edition models from the web-store, which is a nice touch from the guys at Wyrd. I also have the latest Dystopian releases for my Prussians and the Helldorado rulebook on order so once these are released I will have some nice new releases turning up, and hopefully inspiring me.

Towards the end of this month I will try to get back in the swing of updating every week after Friday club night. Thanks for hanging in and still reading!We are not far off the 200th post now!

Club Night 22nd June

Chris and I headed up the club to try out Malifaux with his Order of the Chimera under Marcus against my Lady J crew. It was very slow going as we learnt the rules, but brilliant fun, and as a bonus I managed to win both games. I'd like to say due to my brilliance, but with a game like Malifaux, you need to know your crews strengths and weaknesses and Marcus is a bit more subtly and will take more learning than Lady J's simple charge in and hit everything approach!

A longer write up of future games will be posted when I take some pictures and don't leave it so long to write up the games!

Malifaux, Continuing Beginnings

Just a quick post. I have sprayed and washed some of the figures and begun to make a start on painting them.

Edit: Sorry the pics are so blurry!

Terrain Painting 4

I finished the lava/skull cracks. Was surprisingly time consuming, There is a lot of little skulls in there!! Just need to give it a protective varnish and it is all done.

Malifaux - The Beginning

Duncan, the Dell's and I are starting off with Malifaux. It was all Duncan's idea, but it seems to be a good one so we all bought a crew (actually I have bought two, but one is currently out of stock. I have assembled and based the figures for all the guys and then will spray them all and paint my crew and Chris' Arcanists.