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A screenshot taken in Forza Horizon 5 of a bright red 1970 Datsun 510 sedan, it's been lowered and has cool yet tasteful black rims on it, small front and rear spoilers, and it's sitting on a rural-looking road with a bunch of quite dry-looking grass and bushes behind it. The sky is blue with fluffy clouds and you can just make out some mountains in the distance.

Right, it's time for some hooning in Forza Horizon 5 in my hotted-up 1970 Datsun 510. 😁 I put a 1.6L inline-four turbocharged rally engine into it, 224kW all up but it only weighs 807kg so it's such a responsive car to drive.

Posted on 16 April 2025, 18:01

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 gnarled and corrupted roots like you're deep within a cursed forest. 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. Then finally at the right are Lady Harrow's Mournflight, four swooping spirits in sickly green.

A photo of Herax Skullgrinder's fighter card with upgrades on him.

We had @wobin over today for games and a barbecue! We mixed it up a bit and went back to Warhammer Underworlds, me with the Shadeborn (that I haven't played before), @yayKM with the Gorechosen of Dromm, and @wobin with Lady Harrow's Mournflight.

Round one was an absolute shocker for me, I lost both Drusilla and Valyssa to @yayKM's Gorehulk, and she was in a commanding position and it looked like it was going to be a blowout. Things turned around in the second round though, and I managed to kill the Gorehulk and Dromm and not lose anyone else and it was 8-8-2 Gorechosen/Shadeborn/Mournflight at the beginning of the third round. The Skullgrinder Herax was upgraded to be an absolute BEAST, I'm not sure we've had quite this many upgrades on a single character in any game before. 😅

The final score ended up being 12-8-5 to the Shadeborn thanks to an objective that gave me three glory at the end of the third round. I definitely want to play the Shadeborn some more to get my head around them, and really need to get around to painting up both Domitan's Stormcoven and Ephilim's Pandaemonium because they're such cool miniatures.

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Posted on 15 March 2025, 20:34

A photo of the start of a game of Kill Team. The terrain is all ramshackle and looks like it belongs in a junkyard, closest to the camera are the six hulking and pustulant warriors of the Death Guard clan in large green armour, and then on the other side looking almost the complete opposite are ten warriors of the insect-like Vespid Stingwings who have been painted in yellow and have big blue insect wings.

A nighttime photo taken from the 30th floor of our office building, looking not quite directly downwards. There is a tall building directly opposite and some shorter buildings on either side, and you can see the streets quite far below. Most of the windows are lit up, and the train tracks going along George St are visible at the left.

I was in the office today for some after-work Kill Team, took my Plague Marines for their first spin versus the Vespid Stingwings!

It started out well, but I realised that I actually only had two operatives that had unrestricted range weapons (the Malignant Plaguecaster and the Bombardier), and I think I got a bit greedy with them and they were the first two operatives I lost. After that I couldn't recover because all the stuff I needed to shoot at was out of range, and I'd taken the Fighter who has NO ranged weapon at all. He killed one Stingwing and then got pulped. The Heavy Gunner with the Plague Spewer was nasty, but again lacked range, and even the Icon Bearer only had a bolt pistol with an 8" range (in the previous edition he had a boltgun). It also wasn't helped by the fact that the Stingwings' neutron weapons hit HARD. I don't think I used any of the strategic or firefight ploys either, I need to go back and have a better read. We called the game before the end of the second turn, and the Stingwings were already ahead 4-3 and I had only a single guy left.

The Death Guard were still pretty neat though, the Poison token rules are cool and I'm keen to try them again. I ALSO need to paint up my own Stingwings and get them into the rotation because those models are just fantastic-looking. And afterwards, the room in the office that all the Kill Team terrain is stored in had its lights off when we put everything away after the game, which made for an excellent nighttime cityscape shot.

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Posted on 3 March 2025, 20:48

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 left are the Angels of Death in their very large resplendent blue Space Marine armour, and at the right are the extremely ramshackle-looking green Orks of the Wrecka Krew, all with mismatched armour plating on various parts of their bodies and holding all sorts of ridiculously oversized weapons.

The closeup of the moment the Bomb Squig exploded. The Space Marine captain is standing behind a waist-high barricade, his Power Fist held back behind him partially like he's exhorting his squad and partially like he's about to punch something, and he's aiming a plasma pistol forwards. On the other side of the barricade is the Bomb Squig, a red, squat, very round four-legged creature in mid-run that doesn't even come up to the height of the barricade. It has a landmine strapped to its back and a grenade held in its mouth.

Last night we had another of our semi-regular games of Kill Team, I was too brain-fried from work during the week to play myself so I just observed and my other friends did a 1v1 with the full rules and equipment and everything.

It was Space Marines of the Angels of Death squad versus the new Ork "Wrecka Krew" squad, and in typical Orky fashion the Wrecka Krew were hilarious. We only got through two and a bit turns though we played it out partially into the third and man it would have been close. We did the more casual missions where you've got the primary objective and you also get points for killing the other team, which feels a lot better than the previous edition where you would get nothing for killing your opponent's operatives.

The most hilarious moment came when the Space Marines made the mistake of not fully killing one of the Bomb Squigs (they'd gotten it down to 4 wounds remaining but retreated instead of taking another shot to finish it off because it would have them exposed to a very large rocket). The Squig immediately proceeded to run into the Space Marine leader and explode, dealing TWENTY EIGHT damage to him thanks to the close-quarters rule of blast weapons having Lethal 5+ combined with having a surplus of Wrecka Points to convert failed hits into successes. Because the explosives are a Blast weapon, you also need to roll damage against the Bomb Squig itself which meant it ended up taking a good 15 damage or so as well.

In future we're going to try doing a rotating 1v1 each time so we can actually get through games a bit more quickly and also get used to playing with the real rules rather than the slightly cut-down multiplayer ones.

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Posted on 15 February 2025, 23:29

This afternoon we went over to @[email protected]'s for a game of Warhammer Underworlds! (The old edition, not the new one: we play infrequently enough that I can't justify buying a bunch more stuff).

I played the vampires of The Crimson Court, @yayKM had the sneaky aelves of the Shadeborn, and @[email protected] played Nurgle's finest The Wurmspat. The final score was 15-8-8 to The Crimson Court, but @yayKM had quite a comeback and scored five glory right at the end, which would have made for a VERY tight game except I managed to net SIX glory shooting me out in front to 15. 😅 Definitely want to play again sooner than six months from now (the last game we had was in June, oops). And maybe that'll give me some impetus to actually paint the coughtencough warbands I still haven't painted yet. 🙃

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Posted on 3 January 2025, 18:59

We were finally able to get another game of the new edition of Kill Team in tonight! Angels of Death vs. Warp Coven vs. Nemesis Claw. We had to call it after the second turn because my friend who was playing the Nemesis Claw needed to go home and get stuff done, so it ended up being 2-1-1 with the Nemesis Claw out in front but they definitely were not going to have won if we'd played all the way through to the end of the fourth turn. They'd lost two operatives and had two more badly wounded, versus my five left almost all of whom were untouched.

Play of the match went to my leader Sister Sarine, who absolutely VAPORISED the Nemesis Claw's Skin Thief operative in a single shot with her supercharged plasma pistol by way of rolling all five dice as crits. 😁 And the triple Chapter Tactics you get for choosing the Assault Intercessor as leader is SO powerful.

Next I need to get around to painting my Malignant Plaguecaster and Heavy Gunner with the Plague Spewer so I can field a team of my trusty Plague Marines again!

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Posted on 22 December 2024, 23:25

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 are 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 ten skeleton warriors at various points on the board. They're wearing rusty armour and tattered red cloaks, though four are unpainted because I haven't gotten around to them yet. There's also Watch Captain Halgrim in the middle who is attired similarly but is carrying a massive halberd.

This afternoon with @wobin we finished off the next Big Bad in our Warhammer Quest adventures, the skeleton warrior Watch Captain Halgrim!

We were all inspired from the first half we did last time, but even so we absolutely destroyed everything, only to realise right at the end after we'd finished that there is a whole separate event table you're meant to roll on at the end of each turn and the bottom half of that is filled with things like "All the skeletons come back". 😬 So uh... oops! For the next game, it's the same sort of journey as this one (destroy another big bad) and we need to have done both before we get to level up to Level 3. I've made a note to remember the new event table, and it's going to be quite the fight because it's against Gorslav the Gravekeeper who not only hits like a truck but also makes zombies a lot nastier as well, and we'll be facing all ten of the zombie miniatures that come in the Cursed City box.

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Posted on 30 November 2024, 21:40

A screenshot of my Tiefling Barbarian. She's tall with broad shoulders, dark red skin, black eyes, and two short grey horns protruding up and back from her forehead. Her hair is long on one side and shaved on the other, and her neck is completely tattooed in dark blue, with the top of it being a flame motif coming just up past her jawline.

I decided to go back to Baldur's Gate 3, started a new character, and apparently the theme of all of my RPG characters of late is "extremely large horned woman". 😅

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Posted on 26 November 2024, 19:47

A photo of Emelda Braskov, one of the hero miniatures of Warhammer Quest, who is wearing heavy plate armour and holding a massive sword, facing off against four skeleton warriors in rusty armour and tattered red cloaks who are wielding spears and shields. Next to them is one of the "mysterious object" markers, which is a gallows pole with a skeleton hanging on it. The skeleton is clutching at its through where the noose is, and is pointing off to the left with its other hand.

We had @wobin over again for a continuation of our Warhammer Quest adventures, and it went a lot better than last time. This game was a "Decapitation" journey where we're off to kill one of the big bads, it's split into two stages where the first one involves fighting through to find their lair, and the second is actually killing the boss itself. We did just the first stage tonight, and ended up getting almost everyone inspired within the first two turns, which meant we were steamrollering through the hostiles for a while, though our momentum ended up grinding to a halt when @yayKM's warrior was extremely badly wounded taking on a room full of skeletons and had to hang back until we could heal her up. Next time it's going to be taking out Watch Captain Halgrim, the skeleton warrior boss, and nothing except his skeletal Ulfenwatch minions.

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Posted on 9 November 2024, 20:36

A screenshot of my character in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. She's a Qunari, meaning she's tall, broad-shouldered and quite muscular, and has two massive horns that protrude from the sides of her head just above the temples. They curl back and under so they're pointing forwards, sort of like a goat. She has golden rings around them at various points, and has a neck tattoo that looks like a choker, along with another set of square geometric tattoos on her cheeks. Her skin is a dark blue/grey sort of colour, and she has a swath of hair that comes down from in between her horns and over the right side of her face. You can't tell from the angle in the screenshot but that same side of her head has long hair on it behind the horns, and the other side is shaved. In short, she will fuck you up if you look at her funny.

My favourite character in Dragon Age: Inquisition was my Qunari Mage, so I've gone for the same this time around in Veilguard! I love how she just radiates "I do not take any shit from anyone" energy.

(Also, yay fully-controllable photo mode in this game too! Seriously, all games should have that IMO.)

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Posted on 4 November 2024, 22:05