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A photo of a shiny black board sitting on a dining table, it's 3 feet by 3 feet with a lip on each end and a section beyond the lip to put the actual cards on. There's some asteroid tokens in the middle, on one side is an X-wing and on the other are two TIE Fighters.

A photo of the X-wing and the TIE Fighter directly facing each other, with literally a few millimetres separating their bases.

Mid-week gaming this week was X-wing, which I haven't played since 2016 when we played in the office after work with @[email protected] (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/350)! I've got a ton of miniatures but it'd been so long we stripped it back to the bare minimum core set of one X-wing and two TIE Fighters and no upgrades, just to get the hang of things again. We got two games in and both times the Empire won, even though we switched sides. We also had this magnificent moment where the X-wing and one of the TIE Fighters ended up SO CLOSE to touching it was ridiculous. 😂 There's a 2.0 version of X-wing which I'm totally going to pick up, apparently they've streamlined a bunch of stuff and actually moved all the points values off the cards and anywhere that's printed so they can update it as they go to keep power levels in check, and not have sprawling broken things they struggle to control. There was a really interesting interview about everything that's new with one of the co-designers of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Ilk4HYO6Q

Posted on 27 April 2022, 23:22

A photo of the board of a Warhammer Underworlds game. The board has hexagonal tiles printed on it with a blue murky-depths kind of feel of artwork, at the front are three heavily-armoured warriors in gold and dark blue armour (Ironsoul's Condemnors), and at the back are four lithe and elegant aelves (Myari's Purifiers).

Got our Warhammer Underworlds on again tonight! Kristina went back to the aelves and I played Ironsoul's Condemnors. The final score was 10-7 to Kristina, but it was not remotely as close as it sounds, I REALLY need to go in and tweak the Condemnors deck. Lotta suck in it that needs removing.

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Posted on 25 April 2022, 22:20

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team board with home-made desert and ramshackle junkyard-style terrain on it.

A photo of nine six-sided dice, three of them are sixes, two are fives, and there's two twos and two threes.

We played another (partial) game of Kill Team tonight! And for the first time EVER, everything was fully painted. 😮 We only got a turn and a half in thanks to us taking a while to set everything up, but we're definitely getting the hang of it. I was playing Death Guard, and they have a rule called "Disgustingly Resilient" where if they would lose a wound, you roll a D6 and on a roll of 5+ the wound is not lost. It doesn't matter how many wounds, just ANY wound. One of them was attacked and was going to be dealt 9 wounds (out of a total of 12), but my Disguisingly Resilient roll was amazing and I was able to reduce it down to 4. 😂

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Posted on 13 April 2022, 22:44

A photo of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds, a hex-based board game with miniatures and cards. Lady Harrow's Mournflight (four flowing spirits) are at the left, The Crimson Court (four elegant vampires in silver and bronze armour with red cloaks) are at the right, and across the other side of the board are Hrothgorn's Mantrappers (a huge ogre with a crossbow/bear trap launcher, a sabretooth tiger, and four goblins).

A photo of a beef burger and chips in a low rectangular basket.

We had Ben over again today for a Beanie visit and some Warhammer Underworlds. The Beanie visit went very well, we didn't even give Beanie any of his medicine and he'd pretty well calmed down inside of ten minutes! Warhammer Underworlds ended up being extremely close, Ben and I tied for the win on 10 glory, and Kristina got 9! And then we went to a pub near us for dinner and I had a burger and it was excellent. 👌🏻

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Posted on 9 April 2022, 20:50

A photo taken side-on of a Warhammer Underworlds game board with three armoured orks on the left very aggressively positioned towards the middle of the board, and four elegant vampires on the right.

Went over to our friend's place today for some more Wednesday night gaming, this time with me in an advisory position. He ended up winning 14-10, and both warbands were down to a single fighter at the end!

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Posted on 30 March 2022, 23:21

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team board with terrain on it that's all ramshackle and looks like it's part of a junk yard, which has been undercoated in black but has shamefully had nothing else done to it.

We FINALLY got a game of the new Kill Team in! We played without tac-ops or equipment just to streamline things a bit, and only got two out of the four turns done, but it was really good, can't wait to play more.

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Posted on 16 March 2022, 23:26

A photo of the board of Warhammer Underworlds. The art on it is primarily blues and feels like a sea cavern. It's covered in hexagons and there's two sets of miniatures facing each other in various positions: Lady Harrow's Mournflight, a set of four spooky spirits all flowing and painted in a sickly pale green, and Hrothgorn's Mantrappers, a huge ogre with a massive crossbow alongside a sabretooth tiger and three little goblin-looking creatures. There's cards and dice around the board.

Went over to a friend's house tonight for a cheeky mid-week game of Warhammer Underworlds. Despite never having played and being down to one fighter at the end, he won 14 to 11! (Partially my fault, I got a bit greedy.)

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Posted on 9 March 2022, 23:30

A photo of a big boxy stompy green Chaos Dreadnaught being overrun by eight purple, four-armed Alien-esque Genestealers.

My Dreadnaught got, uh, slightly swarmed. (We lost due to not paying enough attention to objectives, though we also didn't actually finish all the turns before my teammate had to get back home so technically it could have gone either way.)

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Posted on 26 February 2022, 15:47

A photo of a table with lots of home-made terrain on it, all either rocky or scrap-looking metal constructs. On this side are Chaos Space Marines, painted in green, next to regular Space Marines which are shamefully unpainted (and also held together with Blu-tac). On the other are Tyranids and Necrons.

Look out, we're playing Warhammer 40,000! Pretty sure this is the first time in seven years...

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Posted on 26 February 2022, 15:15

A photo of the board of Warhammer 40,000: Fireteam with miniatures on it. The board consists of hexagonal tiles and has industrial-looking artwork on it, and the miniatures are five Space Marines (big power-armoured warriors wielding chainswords and bolt pistols) and thirteen Necrons (Terminator-esque robotic warriors with guns but in poses like they're shambling like zombies). There's also tall industrial/steampunk-looking pieces of terrain on the blocked hexes.

We played another game of Fireteam today, this time with fully-painted miniatures, and I added some (not fully-painted) terrain pieces on the blocked hexes for visual interest! Lots of fun, the mechanics and flow are good, but given the mission we did was the introductory mission, I don't understand how the Necrons can possibly win. I guess I'll need to do some research.

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Posted on 6 February 2022, 18:47