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A photo of (most of) the terrain from the Kill Team: Tomb World box, it's a bunch of walls that all connect together with corner pieces. The designs on the walls have a geometric alien-robotic look, and in many places it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath regular walls that have been damaged or rotted away. It's not Egyptian exactly, but the pillars on the corners of where all the walls connect to each other have that inverted-obelisk design to them. One section has a bunch of Necron warriors (think the un-fleshed machines from the Terminator movies) dormant in their recharging alcoves. The painting I've done is the brown stone that's covering the Necron walls so it looks like the stone is crumbling away and revealing the alien Necron technology underneath.

It's taken a while, but I've now got all of the base stonework done for my Tomb World terrain. 🫠 (The pieces off to the left are the fully-finished test ones I had done previously.)

The stone was definitely the largest job, theoretically it should be faster going now because there's much less left to paint in terms of surface area... various dark green bits like the archways built into some of the walls and a few other pieces, some glow effects, then it's just highlighting those various colours (including the base white of the Necron walls) to make them pop.

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Posted on 14 May 2026, 12:59

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 a set of buildings. There's four hero miniatures at the right (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 two groups of hostile miniatures: a swarm of bats, and Radukar the Wolf who is a vampire and has two big wolf pelts including the heads draped over his shoulders

Our Warhammer Quest adventure continued with @wobin@aus.social tonight, and it was an abject failure, and my brave dwarven warrior Dagnai is now permanently dead and can't be played anymore. 😭

We chose to do a Deliverance journey which in hindsight was a bad idea, but we wanted to try to reduce the fear level. From our previous roll at the end of the last game, Radukar the big bad was going to show up as the second hostile group, and right from the very outset he fucked us up. We've seen him a couple of times before but have managed to kill him before he could do too much damage, but the rolling in this game was absolutely atrocious. Dagnai was attacking some corpse rats and hits on a 3+, and out of four rolls he missed with three of them. @yayKM@aus.social's character was taken out of action twice, and we were unable to stay sufficiently ahead of the gravetide and multiple times where we took two damage from it. We then had two of the huge Kosargi Nightguard show up, and at that point we gave up, there was no possible way we could survive. We rolled on the table at the end of the game as if everyone had been taken out of action, it's on a D12 and on a roll of one anyone out of action permanently dies, and I managed to roll a one for Dagnai. 😭😭

It means I'll need to start from Level 0 with his replacement, Brutogg Corpse-Eater though he'll level up faster assuming we're actually successful in the next mission. 😬 We should probably do a Scavenge journey next instead even though it'll increase fear, so we can get some more gear.

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Posted on 27 April 2026, 19:07

A photo of five adults and one child sitting (okay one of the adults is standing) around a dining table that has a bunch of paints and miniatures on it, all looking intently at what they're painting.

We went over to a friend's place today for a painting afternoon! My goal was to just put a dent in doing the base stone colour of my Tomb World terrain, I had half of one wall left and fifteen of the L-shaped wall connectors. I got the wall finished and two of the connectors, and did half of all the others (as in, one half of the L-shape: because they're a bit tricky to hold by only doing them half at a time it makes it easier to not put your fingers in wet paint). @yayKM@aus.social also painted her first miniature, a Tau Stealth Suit!

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Posted on 25 April 2026, 20:05

A photo of the board at the start of the Spearhead game. The art on the board itself looks like it's covered in moss and grass, with large circular stone markers that are the objectives. On the left are the horde of the Gitz, there are two separate squad of ten little goblins holding all sorts of ramshackle weapons, three HUGE trolls in the middle, one of whom is holding a massive boulder over its head like it's about to throw it, and five goblins riding squigs which are basically round balls of muscle with massive teeth. On the right are the Stormcast Eternals who are _significantly_ fewer in number. They're all heavily armoured, three of them have large angel-like wings and are in mid-air, then there's a squad of five warriors, a wizard, and the general who is riding a massive gryphon.

The reason I was in the office was because I was having an introductory game of Spearhead! It's set in the Age of Sigmar (Warhammer Fantasy) universe and is along the same sort of idea as Warhammer 40,000's Combat Patrol in that you have a much smaller number of units than a regular army of the big game, but it's significantly better balanced than Combat Patrol is. You buy a box and that's the whole army, and the rules are very streamlined.

This game was the goblins of the Gloomspite Gitz versus the Stormcast Eternals, the Gitz won 19-15 thanks to a couple of very poor rolls on the Eternals' part at a couple of critical moments. It was pretty fun, but I'm not going to buy an army or one of the core boxes myself because my Kill Team backlog is so large already and the Spearhead armies are a fair bit larger in numbers than you would have for a typical Kill Team squad. 😅

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Posted on 10 April 2026, 19:47

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. At the bottom left are my Wyrmblade, eight miniatures in industrial dark green armour and carrying shotguns and various other guns, none of which is particularly advanced. If you look closely they're just subtly not fully human, their skulls are a bit too large and their skin is an unnatural pinky/purple, and several of them have three arms. At the right are the Battleclade, which consists mostly of humans that have been lobotomised and turned into essentially robots to do the bidding of the Adeptus Mechanicus. They're dressed in red clothing with black armour plates, and they have all sorts of mechanical implants in them. And then finally at the far side of the board in the middle are the Gellarpox Infected, they're all gross daemon things, four are HUGE mutants that are towering over the other miniatures, then there a number of smaller little things scurrying around at their feet.

We had another one of our three-player games of Kill Team today! I played my Wyrmblade, we also had the Battleclade and a proxied 3D-printed army of Gellarpox Infected. We didn't end up getting through the whole game, but finished turn three and it ended up being a 7-7-1 draw between my Wyrmblade and the Battleclade. Plus we kind of went a bit silly and the Battleclade and Wyrmblade both yoloed themselves into the middle because it was pretty much going to be a bit of a stalemate otherwise.

I continue to thoroughly enjoy playing the Wyrmblade, they have so many tricks up their sleeves and are so nasty when they pop out of conceal to shoot at something. Operative of the match goes to my Kelermorph who single-handedly killed one of the giant 20-wound mutants in turn 1 in one activcation, and my Locus tore the shit out of two units in close combat also in one activation. Additionally actually remembered the "Familiar Territory" faction rule that lets me set up up to a third of my force in hiding, so I don't actually need to put them on the board and can determine at any point before the end of turn two when I want to have them pop out based on what the board is looking like and where I need some additional firepower.

This map was a bit tricky though because neither the Battleclade nor the Wyrmblade had enough speed to get across to the objectives on the other side (hence the meat grinder in the middle at the end just for the fun). The friend who was playing the Gellarpox also didn't know how to play them properly because this was his first time so there were some mistakes made with the initial positioning, and he ended up getting tabled during turn three.

Next time we're going to try doing just a 1v1 but will do the Adversary Ops mode where there are also NPOs (non-player operatives, basically NPCs) who come in and wreak havoc, and we'll have whoever isn't playing in charge of controlling them, sort of a like a DM. Should be really fun, I just need to get around to actually finishing my Tomb World terrain so we can finally play on it. 😅

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Posted on 29 March 2026, 19:51

I have finally, finally played my Wyrmblade squad for Kill Team for the first time! 🎉 And we even made it through the whole game, and I won 7-5! (Though it was one of those good games where even if I'd lost it would have felt fine, it wasn't an absolute one-sided thrashing where none of the dice went my way at any point.)

It was versus the Battleclade which granted are more one of the difficult teams to pilot and both of us were brand-new to our teams. I've never played a horde team before, it was really interesting playing them compared to our usual elites because I was able to play a bit more cagey and had four just bog-standard warriors that were handy for doing stuff or baiting the enemy out but if they died it didn't really matter that much. Lucky roll of the match goes to my Locus who needed to roll three 5+ saves to not die horribly and pulled it off! It also very much turned the tide of the game in that particular room and allowed me a lot more breathing room than I'd otherwise have had. I also managed to absolutely destroy the Battleclade leader with the heavy stubber on my heavy gunner, five attacks on 4+ with Piercing 1 and ceaseless, and after re-rolls they all ended up being 5s or 6s with the exception of a single 4. Beyond that, though, there wasn't a particular single character who really shone and murdered a bunch of the enemy on their own, everyone was pretty solid.

I definitely made some mistakes, I need to remember to keep some of the warriors around my leader so they can be used to throw themselves in front of attempts to kill him, and there were a couple of other things that triggered off the warriors dying or being around other specific miniatures. But having the cards printed out and all sitting in front of me visible so I could glance over them to refresh my memory really helped. They're a really fun team to play, they have so much access to rerolls that I didn't end up using a single command point reroll the whole game.

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Posted on 9 March 2026, 21:18

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. At the bottom closest to the camera are the Shadeborn, four lithe elves in very dynamic poses with very pale skin and wearing deep purple clothing. At the left are the Gorechosen of Dromm, a three-fighter warband consisting of very large meaty-looking warriors in large red armour, one of whom is clearly part daemon because he's hunched over and has MASSIVE arms and huge horns sprouting from his head. And lastly at the right are the vampires of the Crimson Court, who have pale blue skin, elegant armour, and red cloaks, with blood dripping from their weapons and the corners of their mouths.

A closeup photo of the bloody battle at the beginning of round two. All four of my Shadeborn are within one or two hexes of two of the vampires of the Crimson Court, with a third standing just behind them. And behind _them_ are the Gorechosen of Dromm, two within charge range of any of the Shadeborn or Crimson Court, and Dromm himself standing a little further back in the distance.

We were going to have a bad movie night with @wobin@aus.social and another friend, but said friend had to cancel because he was coming down sick so instead we had @wobin@aus.social over anyway and played Warhammer Underworlds instead! (The original edition, not the new one.) I played the Aelves of the Shadeborn, @yayKM@aus.social played the Khorne's finest, the Gorechosen of Dromm, and @wobin@aus.social had the vampires of the Crimson Court.

Man it was a hell of a game, the start of the second round consisted of an incredibly brutal three-way fight between all of us, and the Crimson Court lost all but one of their warriors before the end of that round. My Shadeborn were doing okay, but I lost two warriors during the second round which denied me a couple of objective scoring opportunities, then Sylark was killed during the third round by a ridiculously long-range charge of 8 by the Crimson Court's remaining warrior Vellas von Faine. The Gorechosen only lost a single warrior right at the end (granted they only start with three), taken out by Valyssa of the Shadeborn, and I was able to score two objectives right at the end, which meant that the final score was 8-8-7, with the draw being between the Shadeborn and the Gorechosen! I'm honestly amazed that the Crimson Court managed to get so close with how badly it started for them.

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Posted on 7 February 2026, 23:34

A photo of the box for Kill Team: Shadowhunt. The box shows a photo of a squad of Sisters of Battle (warrior women in black power armour) battling Chaos Raptors (mutated evil Space Marines in blue armour with gold trim wearing big jump packs). The tag line says "Faith versus heresy in the shadow of alien terror".

Aw yiss, guess who has even more plastic to paint!

This is a surprisingly weighty box given it's only got two squads in it, I guess it must be the tokens and books as well.

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Posted on 5 February 2026, 10:51

In the office again today, this time for after-work Kill Team. My Angels of Death vs. the Deathwatch vs. Sanctifiers.

It was one of those games where my dice rolling was just fucked, on multiple occasions I needed 3s to either hit something or or save something, and rolled all 2s. I can't even tell if my game plan was decent or not because the rolling was so shit. I left before the game was finished because my train was coming and I was down to one single miniature left and was not even slightly going to get anything but dead last, ugh. I don't mind losing as long as the game is decent, but this was decidedly not. 😞

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Posted on 2 February 2026, 20:45

A photo of the game board for the full Warhammer 40,000 game. The board itself is red desert, and all the terrain on it is ramshackle Mad Max-esque junk terrain, or stepped hills that have been painted to look like they're in a desert. On the left are the so-called Tyranids (which are actually 3D-printed proxies that look kind of Tyranid-esque in that they're clearly xenomorph-type aliens but for legal reasons are not actual Tyranids) and on the right are the shameful Space Marines.

A photo of the much-smaller game board for the Combat Patrol game. The board itself is grey urban ruins, and the terrain is a mixture of Warhammer 40,000-looking ruined urban buildings, and a set of grey stone ruins that look like it might have come from some sort of fantasy game. On the left are the absurdly heavily armoured golden Custodes, of which there are all of eight in total, and on the right are the mechanical hunched-over zombie-looking Necrons.

Today I went over to a friend's place to hang out and watch a couple of games of Warhammer 40,000! (I have my mind full with Kill Team, plus I absolutely cannot be bothered painting that many miniatures to make a single full 40K army so I'm happy to just observe.)

The first game was a full-sized game of Tyranids versus absolutely shameful Space Marines, they were mostly unpainted and three-quarters of them were held together with Blu-tac. The second was an introductory game of 500-point Combat Patrol for a friend who hadn't played before, Adeptus Custodes versus Necrons, and both games were absolutely one-sided blow-outs. The Tyranids won 29 points to 4, and the Custodes wiped all but three of the Necrons off the board by turn 3, oof.

It's also hilarious how large the boards are versus Kill Team... the cut-down Combat Patrol game which was just two players is still double a regular Kill Team board, or the standard size you'd use for a three or four player game, and the full game board is just HUGE. I used to play 40K way back in the day and know it's a 60"x44" board but the vastly smaller scale of Kill Team has made me forget just how big that actually is. 😅

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Posted on 31 January 2026, 18:58