We had our rematch of the Death Guard vs. Tyranids vs. Strike Force Justinian tonight, and because tomorrow is a public holiday we all stayed slightly later and managed to finish the whole game, AND I won 8-7-4! 🎉 (We _did_ slightly fuck up one rule up about injuries and so my Heavy Gunner did better in close combat versus the Space Marine leader than he should have, and ended up killing the leader.) Instead of ten Genestealers, my friend playing the Tyranids took three Tyranid Warriors instead and used, uh... some different type of Aliens miniature for them that looked very cool.
The Death Guard felt extremely thematic, it was just a slow, steady, plodding advance across the battlefield, and they were hard enough to kill that they were difficult to dislodge from the objectives once they were on them. My plasma gunner was my MVP, he only shot three times but each one was a killing shot, taking out two Space Marines and a Genestealer. I also took the dual-plague-knives Fighter for the first time and he did okay, but he _definitely_ served well as an extra close-combat threat beyond just my leader. The Disgustingly Resilient rolls were a lot swingier this game than usual, I either did fantastically well (my Plasma Gunner took nine damage from the Space Marine sniper and would have died but ended up rolling so well he only took four, and subsequently ended up vaporising the sniper in his own activation), or really badly (my Fighter took something like ten damage in his first melee combat and saved NONE of it), with nothing in between.
As with the first game, we had a couple of very cool cinematic moments, my Fighter facing off against one of the Warriors and a Genestealer, and one of the Space Marines shooting at another of the Warriors while one lurked behind him ready to pounce.
Beanie had another dose of chemo today and is currently having a good snooze. We had a blood test last week to make sure this new type of chemo drug didn't knock him around too much, and it didn't, so they used the same dose again and we'll be going back in three weeks for another one.
Another Sunday, another game of Kill Team!
I didn't actually play tonight because I didn't have a great night's sleep last night and absolutely did not have the mental capacity for it, but I DID supply the terrain and it looked absolutely fantastic. It was Plague Bearers vs. converted Skaven Adeptus Mechanicus, but because there were 12 Plague Bearers and 11 AdMech we only got through two turns, final score was 5-4.
We went out to visit @scarydan and their lovely partner today, and brought good ol' Munchkin. Super-close game, we had everyone at Level 9 and @scarydan's partner who had never played before ended up winning!
THE EDGE HIGHLIGHTING IS DONE!
::collapses in a heap::
I didn't even do the "proper" pin-sharp do-it-with-the-edge-of-the-brush thing except for the very lightest highlights at the very end, on the tops of their kneepads and along the edges of the armour in front of their faces, but man that took a while. I only managed to do two each night because it was that tedious, no way in hell would I be doing an entire army like this. Very happy with the results, though looking at the photo it's not super-obvious with the lighting there, but trust me, it is in person. 😅
My left arm is definitely feeling sore now where the jab was so I figured doing my usual elliptical wouldn't be a great idea. Fortunately it's absolutely glorious outside now so I went for a walk amongst the greenery and it was a delight.
Making slow but steady progress on my Intercession ladies. The bit that's REALLY going to slow me down is when I get to doing the edge highlighting on their armour. 😬
I got myself a vortex mixer, no more shaking paint pots like some sort of barbarian!
You push the paint pot down into the middle of the blue silicon on the top of it and SOMETHING inside it apparently goes at 3000rpm and it generates a vortex inside the pot and mixes the paint. It's moving so quickly I can't actually tell what sort of movement it's making. It works incredibly well, though my hand feels weird afterwards from the vibration. 😛 It's pretty small but SURPRISINGLY heavy given its size.