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A photo of a game of Warhammer Underworlds. There are two rectangular boards with hex tiles on them, the art on the boards looks like the inside of a cave, and there's two pieces of scenery in the two blocked hexes, one is a giant set of yellow crystals and the other is a massive horned skull. Closest to the camera are the four vampires of the Crimson Court, they have pale blue skin and red cloaks, with blood dripping from their weapons and the corners of their mouths. On the other side of the board are the Gorechosen of Dromm, a three-fighter warband consisting of very large meaty-looking warriors in large red armour.

Another game of Warhammer Underworlds, @yayKM took the Gorechosen of Dromm again and after last game I realised that horde warbands really don't work against the Gorechosen so I went for the undead majesty of the vampires of the Crimson Court. It wasn't looking great for the vampires at the end of Turn 2, but a couple of lucky rolls on my part meant the game ended up with none of my vampires dead, all three of the Gorechosen wiped off the board, and I ended up winning 14-8.

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Posted on 17 February 2024, 16:04

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 the xenomorphs from Aliens pretending to be Genestealers, painted in a very dark blue colour. On the left are the six hulking and putrid Death Guard in large military green amour with all sorts of tentacles and demon faces coming out of the armour. On the right side are six Ultramarines of broadly the same shape armour as the Death Guard, but it's a rich blue and doesn't have tentacles and demon faces in it.

A close-up shot of two of the xenomorphs behind a pile of metal crates, on the other side of the crates is the Space Marine Captain in his huge armour, holding a plasma pistol in front of him.

Sunday night Kill Team tonight was a three-player match, Death Guard versus the Space Marines of Strike Force Justinian versus a Tyranid squad of just Genestealers, on the Gallowdark map. My friend who was playing Genestealers actually used the xenomorph miniatures from one of Aliens games and it looked SO COOL having them lurking around inside an old ruined starship! We only got through three turns rather than the full four, the Genestealers won 5:4:4, but it really could have gone any way, and I was in with a pretty solid shot of winning if we'd had time to play the final turn. Most ridiculous moment of the game was one of my regular Death Guard Warriors being on two wounds left, getting smacked in the face for five melee damage from a Genestealer, and rolling FOUR successful Disgustingly Resilient rolls so he only took one wound so he had a chance to hit back and take the Genestealer down from its starting 8 wounds down to 3. There was also a very cinematic moment of the Genestealer leader fighting in close combat against the Space Marine leader (the Space Marine leader got utterly shredded).

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Posted on 4 February 2024, 23:15

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 huge ogre wielding a giant mace, a nobleman with a sword and ye olde-style pistol, a elven woman with long braided hair aiming a bow, and a old man in a robe carrying a staff and some books) plus four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (two separate groups of three bat swarms, a skeleton warrior holding a bardiche, and a very large Mongolian-dress zombie thing with a huge axe).

A closeup photo of the Kosargi Night Guard (the big Mongolian-dressed zombie with the axe) and three of the bat swarms behind him, with all four of the heroes arrayed around it.

@yayKM and I started a new campaign of Warhammer Quest with the last four heroes this afternoon! @yayKM went with the two heavy hitters and so I took Qulathis the Exile and Octren Glimscry who are are much more fragile but can still deal a reasonable amount of damage. We began with a Scavenge journey in order to start gearing up early, there were a few rough moments and some terrible early rolling, but we actually managed to get all four heroes inspired—which we've never done before—and ended up with some good equipment out of it! Lore-wise the location we started out in was the Ven Alten estate, Ven Alten being the family of one of the heroes @yayKM is playing. And pleasingly, with the rest of the zombies and bats fully painted, we didn't need to resort to ANY unpainted miniatures at all!

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Posted on 26 January 2024, 19:26

Had a game of Kill Team tonight, my trusty Death Guard versus the Space Marine Intercession squad. I lost 17-14, but it really could have gone either way. I was let down at the very end by the Death Guard's lack of movement, and I can take solace in the fact that I completely wiped the Space Marines off the board. 😛 I think I might FINALLY make use of the female Space Marine-looking heads I bought almost two years ago (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1966) and put together an Intercession squad myself, because that squad is apparently a pretty good one to use to really get used to the rules (I've played a reasonable amount but just CANNOT keep in my head all the ploys and TacOps, I don't know what it is but I just can't do it).

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Posted on 21 January 2024, 23:09

A screenshot of my Dwarf Barbarian. She has the standard broad shoulders and stockiness that fantasy dwarves typically have, with dark brown skin, brown eyes, and a solid black line of tattoo over her lower lip and down her chin. Her hair is grey/white dreadlocks that are pulled back into a ponytail. Strapped to her back is a two-handed axe that's almost as tall as she is.

I'm still playing my Warlock, but I decided I wanted to start a new character and really just get up close and hit things, so I've made a Dwarf Barbarian. 😁 I cranked the "Maturity" slider up to about half way, so she's a grizzled veteran who has Seen Things.

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Posted on 20 January 2024, 17:07

A photo of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. There's three rectangular boards with hex tiles on them in an inverted-T shape, the art on the boards looks like the inside of a cave. At the left are the five Skaven ratmen of Skittershank's Clawpack, at the right are the three heavily armoured human(ish) warriors of the Gorechosen, and at the top are three heavily armoured green orks.

A closeup photo of one of my little Skaven surrounded by the three orks of the Krushas that are absolutely looming over him.

We went over to @[email protected]'s this afternoon to introduce him to Warhammer Underworlds! He played Morgok's Krushas, @yayKM had the Gorechosen of Dromm, and I played Skittershank's Clawpack, which in retrospect was a terrible choice because the Clawpack inspire by killing enemy leaders, and both the enemy leaders had 5 wounds. I was also extremely let down by multiple poor rolls, and @[email protected] ended up winning at 17-15-5. Definitely keen for another game soon, but I'll definitely NOT be taking the Clawpack again against those two warbands. 😛 One of my little Skaven minions got HORRIBLY ganged up on by all three of the Krushas, he weathered two of their attacks but sadly couldn't make the final one and ended up getting extremely squished.

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Posted on 17 December 2023, 17:33

A screenshot of my character in Baldur's Gate 3. She has dark brown skin, black eyes with purple irises, and tribal-looking dark purple neck tattoo that extends up to right underneath her bottom lip. Her lips are black, and her hairstyle is rich purple dreadlocks but with the sides of her head shaved.

As tradition demands, I spent way too much time in Baldur's Gate 3's character creator. 😁 I'm going a High Elf warlock, the Archfey subclass.

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Posted on 10 December 2023, 17:28

A photo of four 1v1 games of Magic The Gathering going on on a big dining table, with lots of cards laid out everywhere.

Yiewwwww, we had a Magic The Gathering draft of Innistrad at a friend's place tonight, and it was an absolute blast. There were eight of us and we got through three rounds, and I won overall with 2:1 wins for each round. 💪🏻 The setting for Innistrad is a gothic horror one, and it is ABSOLUTELY by far and away my favourite block, so everyone agreed it was fitting that I won, haha. It came out in 2011 and to this day all of my casual constructed decks are from the original three sets, plus the second one that came out a few years later. The flavour levels of all of the cards are just off the charts.

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Posted on 9 December 2023, 23:59

A photo of the board at the start of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is Ork-style and the structures look like like a junkyard and are very ramshackle. Closest to the camera are my Coirsair Voidscarred, basically lithe space elves in fuchsia armour and turquoise cloaks. I was facing Space Marines but you can't see them in the photo because they're all in cover and not visible from this point.

Had another game of Kill Team at @[email protected]'s place tonight. In news that will surprise nobody, we only got through two rounds, and I lost. The first round started well, but it all fell apart in the second. I'm pretty sure the only time I've won with the Voidscarred is when I've played a horrendously imbalanced game against one of the not-very-good Compendium teams. 😕

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Posted on 26 November 2023, 23:14

A photo taken from the side of the board of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all ruined industrial-slash-gothic buildings, on the left are my Death Guard which are hulking super-humans in a somewhat sickly-green power armour and lots of tentacles and pustules and general grossness, and on the right are the Adeptus Mechanicus who believe in the purity of the machine and replacing as much as possible of their biological components with machine parts and such mostly look like robots with cool cloaks on.

(The AdMech were actually custom 3D-printed models that combined the Adeptus Mechanicus with the Skaven rat-men from the Warhammer fantasy universe, and were really very well done.)

First night of a planned fortnightly Kill Team gaming session at @[email protected]'s tonight! There were four of us, one hadn't played before so I played the introductory game with him, sans Tac Ops and equipment. He was playing the Adeptus Mechanicus Hunter Clade, versus my revolting Death Guard. We got part-way through the final turn but called it because I was up 7-4 and he wasn't going to be able to come back from that. He really enjoyed it though, and I'm keen to start playing more regularly so I can actually properly remember the rules (and also learn how my Corsair Voidscarred play, because the miniatures are SO GOOD but I don't feel like I have a good handle on them yet).

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Posted on 29 October 2023, 22:52