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A screenshot of a dust-covered black hatchback driving along a road with looming sandstone cliffs behind it.

I was a bit sceptical about the new Forza Horizon 5 DLC, it's a whole proper rally thing. By default they recommend you leave the driving line off and they have the full co-driver giving you directions ("medium right into hard left", etc.) and I gave that a go and man is it fun! I've been blasting around in my rally-spec 1990 Nissan Pulsar (the brown is actually dust, it's black underneath all that, haha).

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Posted on 2 April 2023, 22:11

A photo of a fully set up game board of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all very ramshackle and looks like it's straight from a junkyard.

We had a four-player game of Kill Team today! Turns out I'm pretty shit at playing my team (Imperial Guard) and I barely did anything and got mostly shot off the board. I came third and that was because the fourth guy was having fun just blowing shit up and wasn't actually playing objectives, heh.

Though in retrospect, I don't think the terrain was really set up very well, there was a lack of heavy cover around the deployment zones which meant I had to be bunched up and in conceal to avoid being murdered on the first turn.

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Posted on 1 April 2023, 18:17

A photo of an in-progress five player game of Magic the Gathering, with cards all over a table.

Yesssss, first multiplayer game since COVID hit!

I brought my decks in, and although I only won one of the three games myself, my decks won all three. 💪🏻

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Posted on 21 March 2023, 20:15

A screenshot from Cities: Skylines, looking down a leafy boulevard. The road has two lanes on each side, one regular and one bus lane, and there's a yellow bendy-bus just pulling into a stop at the left. On the right alongside the road is a train station with a whole bunch of people walking down the street and going into the station. On the other side of the train station is a highway, and there's a pedestrian foot bridge crossing over it.

Apart from doing chores, this weekend has been spent almost entirely playing Cities: Skylines on the Xbox. NO REGRETS.

They released a free "remastered" update that brings it in line with the (software) architecture of the PC version, and one of the things that allows is that instead of a maximum of nine 2x2 kilometre tiles in total area, your city can now be a maximum of TWENTY FIVE 2x2 kilometre tiles! Unfortunately the save file format is totally different and so can't be brought from the original game to the remastered version, so I'm having to start from scratch. My biggest city in the old game was about 120k population, I'm at a bit under 19k in my new city now. As always my favourite part is setting up the public transport and watching all the little people go everywhere!

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Posted on 5 March 2023, 20:35

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds board and miniature. The board is covered in hex tiles and the art on it looks like tree roots and the inside of a cave. Closest to the camera are five Skaven (rat-men assassins) in various dynamic poses (one is leaping over a smoke bomb he's just set off), and facing them are three heavily armoured human warriors of Chaos, and a less heavily-armoured wizard who is wielding a staff and looks like she's in the middle of casting a spell.

Mid-week Warhammer Underworlds with @[email protected]!

This time it was me playing the tricksy Skaven, Skittershank's Clawpack, and him playing Khagra's Ravagers. I'd played the Clawpack once before and it went disastrously poorly, but it seems to depend entirely on the cards you draw and when. This time was FAR better, there were lots of fun things to do and we ended up calling it at the end of the second round when I was ahead 13-7 and he had only a single fighter left.

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Posted on 22 February 2023, 22:55

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of an inside of a ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style. On one side are ten heavily-armoured human warriors in light blue/grey armour, and on the other are VERY LARGE Space Marines in orange armour.

First game of Kill Team: Into The Dark! Heavy Intercessors vs. Astra Militarum Scions. Really enjoying this format, it was a hell of a close game, sadly I lost 6-7, mostly due to a couple of mistakes on my part.

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Posted on 26 January 2023, 17:07

A photo of the game board of a Warhammer Underworlds game. The artwork on it looks like a bunch of gnarled roots and it's covered in hexagons that indicate distances. Closest to the camera are Grashrak's Despoilers, six beastmen wielding very crude-looking weapons and wearing not a huge amount of armour. Facing them are Khagra's Ravagers, four very heavily-armed- and -armoured human warriors.

And tonight's Wednesday night gaming was Warhammer Underworlds! Khagra's Ravagers versus Grashrak's Despoilers. The Despoilers were mine, made with the new Nemesis format, and while I won 12-8, I don't think the Tooth and Claw deck is the right one for them, they're a bit too fragile to be wading into combat.

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Posted on 11 January 2023, 23:20

First game of Warhammer Underworlds with the new Gnarlwood rules, Ironsoul's Condemnors vs. the Shadeborn!

I used Battle Mallet's suggested Nemesis deck for the Condemnors because it turned out the one I had put together a while back sucked, and it was very fun, but ended up very one-sided, oops. It was partially due to some lucky rolling on my part, but we called it half-way through the second turn out of three total because I'd wiped out @yayKM's warband entirely and the score was already 9-5. Fighter of the match goes to Brodus Blightblade who single-handedly killed two of the four enemy warriors outright (the first one in the first activation of turn one) and did two out of three damage to a third one that allowed me to ping that third one for an extra one damage to kill him.

I really like the new rule changes for activations specifically, and the Nemesis format is great.

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Posted on 6 January 2023, 21:52

A screenshot showing a hotted-up (pun unintended) red 1970 Datsun 510 driving along a road with rolling sand dunes behind it and clouds in the distance, and the sun blazing down. Just looking at it, it feels HOT.

Another screenshot of the same Datsun 510, this time in a different spot. There a bunch of foliage and palm trees on the side of the road being buffeted by extreme winds, the entire scene is yellow and the visibility is extremely low because I'm in the middle of a huge dust storm.

It's the hot season in Forza Horizon 5, and it feels like I'm driving on Tatooine. And then a dust storm rolled in!

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Posted on 1 January 2023, 22:26

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, it's a sunny day with cobblestone streets and obviously-Mexican buildings, and there's a massive Christmas tree in the middle the section where a road is splitting apart. On the other side of the road is a huge yellow building that I think is a church.

Another screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, showing my red Datsun 510 with big rims zooming along the road in the middle of the desert, there's lots of cactii and scrubby bushes on the side of the road.

Haha, Forza Horizon 5 is getting into the Christmas spirit as well: there's a giant Christmas tree in the middle of the city, and various other places have big candy canes lining the side of the road.

In related news, still having a ton of fun in my hotted-up Datsun 510.

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Posted on 25 December 2022, 22:34