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I picked this up on a whim while we were out at the shops and hot DAMN is it nice, really really smooth!

Posted on 1 August 2023, 20:42

A photo of the board at the start of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all rusty-looking and generally ruined, with several very ramshackle structures. Closest to the camera are my Coirsair Voidscarred, basically lithe space elves in fuchsia armour and turquoise cloaks, at the back right are the Veteran Guardsmen, a bunch of regular human warriors with big overcoats and all wearing gas masks, and at the back left are the Warp Coven, big heavily armoured super-human Chaos Space Marines whose armour is green with gold trim and they've got a very Egyptian feel to them.

We had a three-player game of Kill Team today, Corsair Voidscarred vs. Veteran Guard vs. Warp Coven!

...it didn't go well, I still don't really know what I'm doing with my Voidscarred and I keep forgetting their ploys. 😞 It was fun enough to play, but by the end of the second turn the scores were 10 to Veteran Guard, 4 to me, and 0 to Warp Coven, and there was exactly one miniature left of the Warp Coven which I killed in my first activation of the third turn before he could activate. 😅

We ended up calling it there because there was no possible way I could win. There were just too many Guardsmen to deal with, and like half of my team is short-ranged so several of them didn't even do ANYTHING before they were killed. There was also some spell that the Warp Coven Sorcerer cast in the second turn that utterly fucked me in particular, where nobody gets the extra 2" movement for charges and when you dash you lose 2" of range so you end up being able to dash all of 1". The Voidscarred rely heavily on their free dash, so... yeah.

The terrain we played on was fantastic, but I've decided I prefer the Into The Dark board setup because the first turn is easy (nobody is going to be able to shoot each other because the doors are all closed), and there's no vantage points to worry about either.

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Posted on 30 July 2023, 18:27

A photo of three hunched-over rotting zombies. They've got the usual decaying clothes, but all three have part of the lids of the coffins they were in on their backs, which are attached to them by way of stakes driven through the top of the lid and through their chests. They also have tree roots growing through their bodies.

Each one has a different thing on top of their coffin lid alongside a mound of dirt: the first has a gravestone and candles plus a tree stump, the second has a wooden memorial-looking thing plus tree stump and a crow holding what looks like someone's innards, and the third has part of a metal fence with a skull on the top and roses on it. The bases are all done up to look like fresh wet mud.

More hostiles join the ranks! This time, the first three Deadwalker Zombies. Pretty delighted at how revolting they are, haha.

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Posted on 29 July 2023, 16:05

A selfie of three people sitting around a dining table. There's me, a white man with a red beard and short brown hair, Pete, a white man with slightly longer brown hair and a much larger brown beard, and Kristina, a white woman with short brown hair. We're all smiling at the camera.

A photo of a big bowl of chicken katsu don sitting on top of rice. There's a small glass of sake just visible at the top of the frame.

Japanese for dinner with @[email protected]! Excellent food and excellent company, A++ would dinner again.

I got the chicken katsu don and have been thoroughly enjoying having sake with my Japanese dinners when I have them, it's such a nice accompaniment.

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Posted on 27 July 2023, 20:48

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. Closest to the camera are my forces, the Aeldari (think space elves) in elegant fuchsia-coloured armour, and facing them on the other side of the board are ten heavily-armoured human warrior women in black armour and red cloaks, all with striking white hair.

A close-up of one of the bits of action. One of my Aeldari, who has dark skin with a bald head and a cool top-knot ponytail thing going on and is wielding two nasty-looking pistols, is standing right between two of the Sisters of the Battle, while a third Sister looks on.

And after work, an introductory game of Kill Team for one of my co-workers! He'd never played before so we only got through two turns since I was explaining the rules as we went. Play of the match went to Adrenra Firewinter, my Starstorm Duellist, who ran into the teeth of the enemy and melted the enemy Sister with the meltagun and took the other one down to two wounds remaining. (She in turn was melted by the Sister Superior's combi-melta, but ah well.)

Next time I definitely need to remember to bring one of my own Compendium teams for introductory games though. Might be a good opportunity to break out the ol' Death Guard again.

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Posted on 26 July 2023, 20:37

A photo of painted four miniatures. Two are skeletons that have been clearly executed by hanging from fairly hastily-erected gallows but somewhat creepily they both have one arm up and are pointing at something. The bases look like dirt and have some greeny/brown grass tufts on them. The other two are crows that are standing on top of a ruined column, with a key hanging from their beaks. The bases of these look like some sort of yellow stone and have very dry-looking grass tufts on them.

Also finished tonight are the "mysterious object" markers. I used AK Interactive's "Neutral Earth" texture paint and just put a coat of Ratling Grime on it for the skeletons and Aggaros Dunes for the crows, and they came out looking vastly different despite being the same texture! (And I couldn't resist using some more of my tufts as well.)

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Posted on 25 July 2023, 21:53

A photo of four painted miniatures:
- A vampire hunter with the standard pointy hat and cool dark brown leather cloak holding a shotgun-looking thing, and with many wooden stakes about his person.
- A heavily-armoured warrior woman with white hair holding a large sword in front of her, with the head of a gryphon draped over her shoulders.
- A dwarf with steampunk-looking armour holding an axe and a steampunk-looking gun.
- A priest in long deep rich red robes with a black hood on and a big elaborate, uh... metallic thing on her back that a bunch of strips of fabric are hanging from. She holding a staff and has her hand out like she's about to cast a spell.

Next in my Warhammer Quest painting adventures, the first four heroes! I decided to paint the bases of these VERY differently from the hostiles so they're much more easily distinguishable when on the board. It doesn't really show through very well in this photo but I added the snow sparkle texture paint on top of the snow and it looks so good.

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Posted on 25 July 2023, 19:57

A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of fantasy buildings. There's four hero miniatures at the top (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (three skeletal warriors, three rat swarms, three bat swarms, and a lone vampire with a very long sword).

@yayKM and I played our first proper game of Warhammer Quest tonight! The miniatures were 95% painted (the heroes just need some finishing touches on their bases, and the "mysterious objects" weren't finished yet because I only started them this afternoon), and it looked great.

It was going to be just a "Get used to the rules" sort of game, but we played through a whole game and figured we might as well make it the first real game and we'll continue with the storyline next game. Unfortunately we didn't roll too well on the end-of-game event table and our heroes are all going to be starting the next game with one wound counter already because they were hurt fighting off the undead that were trying to overwhelm the airship that is our mobile base of operations.

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Posted on 23 July 2023, 23:00

A photo of a white non-binary person with black hair and white headphones on, holding a paintbrush and intently looking at the miniature they're painting. They're sitting at my painting table which has a wooden arch with LED strip lighting in the middle, and two levels of storage for my many many paint pots.

And now they asked if they could paint a miniature! I have a ton of primed-but-not-painted miniatures overall but not really that many spare ones as such, but they decided they liked the look of the Tyranid Warriors. I only have three which is exactly what I need for a fireteam in Kill Team, but realistically I’m not going to get around to painting them any time soon, so eh, it's for a good cause.

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Posted on 22 July 2023, 20:38

A photo of a white rectangular casserole dish with tuna mornay in it The top is covered in Panko breadcrumbs that have gone all golden and crispy and it looks amazing. (And it tasted amazing too.)

Awww yissss, made Nagi's tuna mornay with the sixteen year-old and it was GOOOOOOOOD.

I really need to look up how to make white sauce without it taking an eternity though, because jesus christ it was seriously half an hour of non-stop stirring and we ended up cheating and putting corn starch in anyway.

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Posted on 22 July 2023, 20:22