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A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board with miniatures on it. There's also three of my new pieces of terrain: the big skeleton, the giant horned skull, and the crystals.

Played our first game of Warhammer Underworlds with the new terrain! I love it, it adds so much visual interest to the board. (I gave up on the murder-ladies for the moment, I need to tweak the deck a bit, and went back to the Dread Pageant. Ended up winning 15-8!).

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Posted on 21 April 2021, 22:44

A photo of a game of Warhammer Underworlds. The two warbands being played are Lady Harrow's Mournflight, which are ghostly flowing spirit-looking miniatures, and Morgwaeth's Blade-coven, which are lithe aelves wearing not too much armour.

It was spooky ladies versus murder ladies tonight! Unfortunately the murder ladies are now two losses out of two games played. Partially my fault again, they require a lot more careful play than some of the other warbands, and I screwed up placing the objective tokens. Kristina had some very tricksy plays too though, which screwed me over at a couple of points!

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Posted on 17 April 2021, 23:34

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board, consisting of hexagonal tiles. There's a number of miniatures on it, on the far side are the Lumineth Realm-lords, all high and mighty-looking aelves, and on the other is Morgwaeth's Blade-coven who are also aelves but wearing significantly less armour and looking much more feral. One of the Coven is a snake from her waist down.

Another game of Warhammer Underworlds tonight! I played my murder-ladies for the first time (Morgwaeth's Blade-coven) and sadly didn't win. I can definitely see the potential though, and there were some very unlucky dice rolls at a few critical points. They're pretty sneaky as befits aelves, keen to play a few more games with them.

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Posted on 8 April 2021, 22:40

A photo of a 3-player game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all industrial, with lots of pipes and metal structures, as well as shipping containers and cargo crates, and some bridges connecting the various upper levels.

Went over to a friend's place for a three-player game of Kill Team! It was Death Watch versus Chaos daemons versus my Astra Militarum. Very happy with how my guardsmen performed, though I didn't win. We called it after the fourth round, and the Death Watch won despite having only one model left. If we'd gone another round, though, the daemons would have overrun EVERYONE and definitely won.

This was definitely the best-looking board we've ever played on, terrain-wise, despite my larger pieces only being undercoated with silver. My friend has been making lots of terrain, both 3D-printed and built from scratch, and all of his was fully painted, so it really felt excellent to play on. The only thing letting us down was that the Chaos daemons were all only base-coated. :P

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Posted on 28 March 2021, 19:49

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board. The board design is the inside of a cave and has hexagonal tiles on it. The three miniatures on my side of the table are bulky and slow-moving, and the three on Kristina's side are lithe and elegant aelves.

We played another game of Warhammer Underworlds tonight, the vile Wurmspat versus Myari's Purifiers. I was coming first right up until the very last end phase, then Kristina scored two objectives to put her ahead by ONE glory, and she'd killed one of my fighters thus rendering six additional glory out of reach for me!

I'm not sure how I feel about the Wurmspat's current deck, I think I want to make it a bit more mobile and combat-focused.

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Posted on 21 March 2021, 22:32

A photo of a four-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. There's four boards with hexagonal tiles marked on them connected together with plenty of miniatures in the middle of combat.

We went over to a friend's place today and played our first game of four-player Warhammer Underworlds! The two friends who'd never played it before ended up coming first and second, haha. I played the Wurmspat for the first time and lost horribly, the dice gods SHAT on me, both for rolling my own dice and having my successful attacks all defended against. Still had a lot of fun though!

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Posted on 13 March 2021, 20:02

A photo of the board of Warhammer Underworlds mid-game, with miniatures all up in each others' faces.

More Warhammer Underworlds tonight, this time the two warbands from Direchasm, and Kristina won! Funnily enough, though, while the miniatures are fantastic, neither of us were particularly enthused by the actual play style of the warbands themselves, heh. I like casting spells (the Dread Pagent has none) and Kristina likes stabbing things from close range (the Purifiers are too delicate).

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Posted on 5 March 2021, 23:52

A photo taken across a dining table that has a game board with miniatures on it, and various dice and cards and counters scattered around it. On the other side a white woman with short brown hair is sitting with a small scruffy blonde dog in her lap who's sitting upright and propping himself up on her chest while she scritches him.

Kristina and I played Warhammer Underworlds tonight, and Beanie again decided he need to come up and help.

I played The Dread Pageant for the first time, they're interesting! I miss the lack of magic-casting though. I managed to win by one single point, and it was purely luck... if Kristina HADN'T killed Glissete in the very last activation, it would have been a draw!

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Posted on 27 February 2021, 23:17

A photo of our dining room table with a bunch of crummy polystyrene terrain on it but also an enormous landing pad made out of cardboard, and lots of miniatures. My mum, a tall white woman with a very mid-90s short but poofy hairdo, is standing gesticulating at the table with a tape measure.

Another photo of our dining table with terrain on it, but this time I'm sitting beside it looking like I'm demonstrating something while mum watches what I'm doing.

A photo of me, a just-thirteen year-old white boy with short brown hair and a red (!) t-shirt on, looking extremely serious and with my hand in the position that indicates I've probably just rolled some dice.

I've been taking proper photos of my Games Workshop miniatures and posting them to Flickr, mum saw them and emailed to say she was very impressed and that I hadn't lost my touch. She ALSO mentioned that she had photos of me when I was much younger having a Warhammer 40,000 battle with her on the dining room table! She brought them over and I scanned them in and cleaned them up, and oh boy, check out the youth and the serious expression. 😂 There was a date on the back of July 1996, so I was 13!

I'm playing my Eldar, but I think I must have borrowed a friend's what looks like Orks because those miniatures at the far end of the table are definitely not mine!

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Posted on 21 February 2021, 11:24

A photo of the game board of Warhammer Underworlds: Beastgrave. It has a bunch of hexagonal tiles on it, and the two opposing forces are elves that have red hair and backwards-facing goat legs, and a bunch of rampaging beastmen.

A photo of Karthaen's character card with a bunch of upgrades: Great Fortitude (+1 wounds), Great Strength (+1 damage), Eye of Kurnoth (+1 dice to attack actions), Might of Kurnoth (a temporary +1 damage upgrade), and Kurnoth's Mark (grants the ability to re-roll one dice in the defence roll).

Tonight Kristina and I played Warhammer Underworlds: Beastgrave again, this time with fully painted miniatures (🎉), and GOD DAMN it was a close game! She was smashing me by the middle of the 2nd round, my leader was out of action as were two others and I only had two left. I managed to pull off a win though, by one single glory point. Champion of the match goes to Karthaen who was upgraded to be an absolute BEAST and single-handedly took out three enemy fighters on his own.

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Posted on 7 February 2021, 22:15