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A photo of the game board for the full Warhammer 40,000 game. The board itself is red desert, and all the terrain on it is ramshackle Mad Max-esque junk terrain, or stepped hills that have been painted to look like they're in a desert. On the left are the so-called Tyranids (which are actually 3D-printed proxies that look kind of Tyranid-esque in that they're clearly xenomorph-type aliens but for legal reasons are not actual Tyranids) and on the right are the shameful Space Marines.

A photo of the much-smaller game board for the Combat Patrol game. The board itself is grey urban ruins, and the terrain is a mixture of Warhammer 40,000-looking ruined urban buildings, and a set of grey stone ruins that look like it might have come from some sort of fantasy game. On the left are the absurdly heavily armoured golden Custodes, of which there are all of eight in total, and on the right are the mechanical hunched-over zombie-looking Necrons.

Today I went over to a friend's place to hang out and watch a couple of games of Warhammer 40,000! (I have my mind full with Kill Team, plus I absolutely cannot be bothered painting that many miniatures to make a single full 40K army so I'm happy to just observe.)

The first game was a full-sized game of Tyranids versus absolutely shameful Space Marines, they were mostly unpainted and three-quarters of them were held together with Blu-tac. The second was an introductory game of 500-point Combat Patrol for a friend who hadn't played before, Adeptus Custodes versus Necrons, and both games were absolutely one-sided blow-outs. The Tyranids won 29 points to 4, and the Custodes wiped all but three of the Necrons off the board by turn 3, oof.

It's also hilarious how large the boards are versus Kill Team... the cut-down Combat Patrol game which was just two players is still double a regular Kill Team board, or the standard size you'd use for a three or four player game, and the full game board is just HUGE. I used to play 40K way back in the day and know it's a 60"x44" board but the vastly smaller scale of Kill Team has made me forget just how big that actually is. 😅

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Posted on 31 January 2026, 18:58

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. There are three teams, at the bottom right are my six Angels of Death in their standard large Space Marine armour, painted in blood red with black trim. At the bottom left are more Space Marines, the five elite veterans of the Deathwatch team, which are in the same large armour but all black. Then finally at the top are the extremely alien Necrons of the Canoptek Circle, they're basically machines that are painted in silver and look like they're floating above the ground.

In the office for a game of Kill Team today! We did three-player, which I much prefer over 1v1 because I feel like there's less pressure since your opponents need to split their attention a bit.

It was the new Canoptek Circle and Deathwatch teams from the Tomb World box versus my Angels of Death, and unsurprisingly I came last, final score was 9-6-4 to the Necrons. The Necrons only got two victory points from objectives, everything else was from kills and their regenerating wounds is surely going to get nerfed in the next balance update because jesus christ. I got the leader down to 7 wounds (from a start of 14), and one of the Tomb Crawlers down to 9 (from a start of 21!) and both of them ended up healing all of the wounds later on. It's also worth noting that it ended up basically being the two Space Marine teams pincering into the middle towards the Necrons, so the Necrons were fighting on two fronts and they still ended up winning. The three Necron Warriors were annoying too because they don't count towards getting kills for victory points, and one of them comes back each turn if you kill them!

Granted, this wasn't helped by me forgetting my rules multiple times, and the Deathwatch having two melee operatives that did almost nothing the whole game. 😅 Still, it was overall a fun game though even though I lost horribly, there weren't any streaks of absolutely shockingly poor rolling for anyone.

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Posted on 1 December 2025, 21:16

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

A photo of three miniatures, each of which consists of a swarm of seven little robotic scarab-looking things. Their carapace is a dark bronze colour, and in the middle of their backs is a hemisphere that I've painted such that it looks like it's a dark green gem reflecting the light.

I got the three Necron Scarab swarms done today, and I am fucking STOKED at how well the gems on their backs came out! They look like they're actually glass!

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Posted on 23 January 2022, 22:55

A photo of ten Necron Warriors from Warhammer 40,000. They're robotic and look very Terminator-esque, and are painted in a dark bronze and dark silver. They're all carrying guns, and are in poses very reminiscent of shambling zombies. The bases are done as cracked red earth like it's been extremely dry, and there's one to two little light brown grass tufts on each base as well.

BAM, that's the Necron Warriors from Fireteam fully done! That crackle paint on the bases is so freaking cool, and I love the little dry shrubs as well.

I've still got the three Scarab swarms to paint, but they'll be far faster to do. Then after that, five Space Marines, and that'll be the whole Fireteam box completely finished. 🎉

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Posted on 22 January 2022, 23:17

A photo of a Necron Warrior from Warhammer 40,000. It's a skeletal metal robot-looking thing, but resembling a zombie in that it's looks like it's shambling, and the head is very Terminator-esque and looks like a skull. Its eyes are green and it's wielding a long alien-looking rifle. The base of the miniature is a rich red colour like the Australian outback and all cracked like the earth is insanely dry.

Got my first Necron done! I kept it pretty simple since I have another nine of them to paint. Check out that base, it's this special paint called Martian Ironearth from Games Workshop that cracks as it dries!

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Posted on 14 January 2022, 18:11

I played a game of Fireteam against myself tonight, just to get a hang of the rules. I really like it! It's pretty straightforwards and nice and fast-paced.

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Posted on 3 January 2022, 23:51

A photo of five Space Marines in bare blue plastic. They're all equipped with chainswords and pistols, and are in various dynamic poses.

A photo of ten Necron warriors in bare grey plastic, along with three Scarab swarms. The Necrons are Terminator-looking metal machines with guns, but in very shambling zombie-like poses.

And that's the miniatures assembled! (It's getting a bit ridiculous how many unpainted or just undercoated miniatures I have right now).

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Posted on 30 December 2021, 20:55