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A photo of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's a board game played on boards with hexagonal tiles, at the right are four flowing spirits in a sickly green colour, at the back are seven ghouls with rotten green-looking skin and fresh blood like they've been feeding, and at the right at four lithe and elegant elves. There's also cards laid out in front of each player, and various dice and tokens scattered about.

We had another visit from @wobin@aus.social today. Beanie barked a bit more than he has previously but it'd been a while, and it was more of an "I'm excited" kind of thing and not "Oh god who is this!"

We played our standard game of Warhammer Underworlds, me playing Lady Harrow's Mournflight (the spirits), Kristina playing Myari's Purifiers (the elves) and @wobin@aus.social playing The Grymwatch (the ghouls) for the first time. Despite a shocking start from @wobin@aus.social, he staged a hell of a comeback and the final score ended up with me on 11, him on 9, and Kristina on 8.

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Posted on 1 October 2022, 17:23

A photo of the board of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team's new box called "Into the Dark". There's a bunch of walls that are incredibly detailed and look almost steampunk, with hulking Space Marines on the right and regular armoured human troops on the left.

In the office for Kill Team tonight! I didn't actually play this game, merely spectated, but it was using the new Into The Dark terrain and missions that were released recently, and it's pretty excellent.

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Posted on 27 September 2022, 19:45

A photo of the initial setup of a game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's a miniatures board game played on boards with hexagonal tiles, closest to the camera are four armoured vampires with pale blue skin and red cloaks, with blood dripping from their weapons and the corners of their mouths, and on the other side are four lithe and lightly-armoured elves.

It's been quite a while but we played some more Warhammer Underworlds tonight! The Crimson Court (vampires) versus Myari's Purifiers (elves), I played the vampires which I realised I hadn't actually played before, and won 10-5 despite a very poor start.

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Posted on 25 September 2022, 22:14

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. It's on a gaming board with a bunch of junkyard-looking terrain, and on my side of the board are six green Death Guard Space Marines looking all gross and mutated.

In news that will shock nobody, the only reason I was in the office today was for after-work Kill Team. 😛 Sadly didn't win this time, it was obvious how it was going to turn out by the end of the third round so we called it.

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Posted on 6 September 2022, 19:40

A photo of a big shiny black wooden board with stars painting on it, with two B-wings, two A-wings, and an X-wing on one side and a TIE Punisher, two TIE Interceptors, and three TIE Fighters on the other.

A photo mid-game close-up with a bunch of the ships all close together facing every which way.

Mid-week gaming was X-wing again, but this time we had TOO much stuff going on! Definitely need to tone it back for next time, fewer ships and fewer upgrades. We only got two rounds in, and nobody actually blew anyone up. It was pretty chaotic, but also fun. On the plus side, my newly-starred board looked fantastic. 😁

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Posted on 22 June 2022, 23:17

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 game board, with painted miniatures and shamefully unpainted terrain that looks like a junkyard on it. (...the terrain itself looks like a junkyard, the fact that it's shamefully unpainted is unrelated to this.)

Tonight's game of Kill Team went very differently from the first one a few weeks ago! I ended up absolutely thrashing the friend I was playing against, 8 victory points to 3, and we didn't end up playing the fourth turn because he was down to one single unit at the end of the third.

Though he kindly pointed out after the game that my deployment was very bad and he held back a bit from just totally destroying my troops on the first turn so it wouldn't be a lopsided game. 😅

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Posted on 21 June 2022, 19:33

A screenshot from the first-person shooter "Marathon 2: Durandal". There's three humans in green jumpsuits holding handguns who are fighting four purple aliens armed with staves, and there's a fourth human who's in the middle of a gruesome death from one of the aliens. The aliens and humans are both quite clearly 2D sprites, though they've been upscaled so they look a bit less awful.

A screenshot from the real-time strategy game "Myth II: Soulblighter". It's a fantasy game, there's a formation of knights with swords and shields, two dwarves, and six elven bowmen all standing on a brown expanse of ground that's in the middle of a village. There's two enemy warriors approaching armed with round shields and swords, and one has just been hit by all six of the bowmen. On the ground there's a bunch of dead bodies with blood scattered around.

Current status: Getting my retro gaming on with Bungie's Marathon 2 and Myth II. So good, I spent SO MANY hours playing these when I was a kid.

(...Is it still retro gaming if it's the original games but running natively on a current machine with high-resolution texture packs? 🤔)

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Posted on 5 June 2022, 20:48

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board setup. There's three individual boards, two are have the artwork underneath looking like deep within a cave and the third looking under it's an underwater cave with lots of blues. At the front closest to the camera are four lithe and elegant aelves, the far side has three diseased Nurgle warriors, and the left has seven gore-covered ghouls.

Another visit from @wobin@aus.social, another game of Warhammer Underworlds! Beanie was really good, we didn't even need to break out the treats to get him to stop barking.

The Underworlds game was very one-sided, Kristina won 12-7-7 and I only scored my last three glory at the VERY end of the whole game.

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Posted on 28 May 2022, 18:23

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 game board, with painted miniatures and shamefully unpainted terrain that looks like a junkyard on it.

We actually finished the game! 😮 I lost, partially because we weren't playing with the extra bits to allow for more victory points to simplify things, but also because there was so much to keep track of I kept forgetting about various abilities. Still, keen for the next game!

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Posted on 24 May 2022, 19:21

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board. The board itself is covered in hexes with the artwork underneath looking like deep within a cave, and at the front closest to the camera are six savage beastmen all yelling and wielding weapons like they're about to charge, and facing them across the board are four lithe and elegant aelves.

We were going to go play some X-wing at a friend's place with my new play board, but he wasn't feeling up for it so Kristina and I played some Warhammer Underworlds instead! Aelves versus filthy goatmen, and despite a strong start, it all fell apart at the end for me thanks to some terrible rolling on my part (and some really lucky rolling on Kristina's), and she won 11-9.

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Posted on 11 May 2022, 21:49