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A photo of the beginning of our Away Missions game. There are a set of interlocking boards with artwork on them that looks like rooms on a Federation starship, with the rooms marked with things like "Engineering", "Bridge", "Sick Bay", etc. The Romulans are all in green plastic, and they're closest to the camera with two deployed on the bridge and the other three in Sick Bay. In the middle of the board are the four Klingons in red plastic, all holding bat'leths or various other Klingon weaponry, two are deployed on one Engineering board and the other two are on the second Engineering board (for a three player game you need two core sets, which means duplicated boards). Then lastly blue plastic of the Federation team, three deployed on the second Bridge board at the right and Dr Crusher and Wesley deployed at the far left in the Science Lab and Transporter Room. There are character boards sitting in front of each of us that have the stats of each character on them, and dice and other tokens scattered around the table.

We went over to @oysta@oysta.au's this afternoon for a three-player game of Star Trek: Away Missions! I played the Romulans, @yayKM@aus.social played Chancellor Gowron's Klingons, and @oysta@oysta.au played the Federation expansion that has Captain Picard (in his non-Borg form), Geordi, Troy, and both Dr. Crusher and Wesley.

The final score was 140 to the Romulans, 130 to the Klingons, and only 65 for Picard's team, but that downplays how poorly it started out for Gowron, with him and another character being repeatedly stunned by the Federation phasers. By comparison, the other two Klingons on the other side of the board ended up making short work of both Wesley and Dr. Crusher (though in the case of the latter, only after I had grievously wounded her 😅). The Romulans are fun, they're not straightforwardly combat-ready but with the right cards and positioning you can end up rolling the maximum six dice. I had a few misplays and discarded the wrong card because I had forgotten about another card that I needed to use it with and so incorrectly discarded it, but ah well. Picard's team seems interesting, they're more about diplomacy and giving benefits to their enemies but getting a larger benefit in return as well. Very keen to play more, though we're going to see about tweaking the Gowron deck a bit because there are a lot of skill tests but the Klingons aren't very good at actually succeeding at them...

Posted on 8 June 2026, 19:29

A photo of a wooden tabletop with a handful of cards on it (one for each of the three players). They have old Japanese-style illustrations on them, and the cards are named "Clown", "Soldier", "Wizard", "Priestess", etc.

We went over to @oysta@oysta.au's for some games this afternoon! First was Love Letter which was pretty simple but I quite enjoyed (and apparently there's a Cthulhu-themed version 😈), and second was Ra which is of the "auction" game mechanic variety and it turns out I don't like that type of game and am not good at it. 😅

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Posted on 23 November 2025, 19:46

A photo of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's played on three rectangular boards sitting together in a T-shape, there are tiles marked out with hexes, and the artwork is all dark blue like you're underwater. Closest to the camera are The Wurmspat, three hulking miniatures with two of them in big green armour with pustules and tentacles, and the third in a long dark purple cloak. At the left are The Crimson Court, they have pale blue skin, elegant armour, and red cloaks, with blood dripping from their weapons and the corners of their mouths. And finally at the right are the Shadeborn, four lithe elves in very dynamic poses with very pale skin and wearing deep purple clothing.

This afternoon we went over to @oysta@oysta.au's for a game of Warhammer Underworlds! (The old edition, not the new one: we play infrequently enough that I can't justify buying a bunch more stuff).

I played the vampires of The Crimson Court, @yayKM had the sneaky aelves of the Shadeborn, and @oysta@oysta.au played Nurgle's finest The Wurmspat. The final score was 15-8-8 to The Crimson Court, but @yayKM had quite a comeback and scored five glory right at the end, which would have made for a VERY tight game except I managed to net SIX glory shooting me out in front to 15. 😅 Definitely want to play again sooner than six months from now (the last game we had was in June, oops). And maybe that'll give me some impetus to actually paint the coughtencough warbands I still haven't painted yet. 🙃

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Posted on 3 January 2025, 18:59

A photo of a grey staffie puppy with a white stripe down his chest, standing on the arm of a lounge and desperately looking like he wants to leap down. The photo is slightly blurry because he would not stay still!

We went over to @oysta@oysta.au's for an excellent game of Warhammer Underworlds this afternoon. I decided to simplify things a bit and we just used the Beastgrave/Direchasm era warbands with their stock decks, me with Lady Harrow's Mournflight, @yayKM with Grashrak's Despoilers, and @oysta@oysta.au with the Slaanesh warband The Dread Pagent.

It was VERY tight at the end of the second round, with me and @oysta@oysta.au tied on 11 glory each, and @yayKM not far behind on 8, but I was able to score several objectives and make a couple of kills thanks to some crazy-good rolling, and the final score was me on 17, @oysta@oysta.au on 12, and @yayKM sadly still on 8.

Next time we're going to do an all-Chaos game with @oysta@oysta.au staying with the Dread Pagent, @yayKM using Khorne's Gorechosen of Dromm, and I'll probably use the Nurgle warband The Wurmspat (though now I think about it, maybe this might be a good reason for me to finally finish painting the Tzeentch warband Ephilim's Pandaemonium...).

In addition to Warhammer Underworlds, we met the most adorable staffie puppy named Hendrix, who is only 12 weeks old! 😍 He was SO excited to smell us, and he had his entire snout and part of his head fully inside my shoe after we arrived, haha.

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Posted on 22 June 2024, 18:52