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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 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 four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (three zombies, three skeletons, three bat swarms, and a very large Mongolian-dress zombie thing with a huge axe).

We had @wobin over for #WarhammerQuest and a barbecue today! The Warhammer Quest journey type was "Scavenge" so we could get some gear and currency to level up, it was a similar kind of deal to the others where the map is pre-made, but oh my god I don't think I've EVER seen as poor rolling as @wobin had today. At one point he spent all four of his activation dice making attacks without hitting a single thing, and that was rolling the equivalent of a 3+. 😫 I think he made one single attack successfully, and ended up getting wailed upon by a Kosargi Night Guard which mean he had three grevious wound counters and so had to rely on one activation dice and whatever spare Destiny dice we had left. In the previous game we'd upgraded his character with a piece of equipment that let him attempt to recover wounds on a 4+ instead of a 5+, and literally every single role he made for this he failed. We had @yayKM roll two of them, and she made one success and failed the other. Thankfully, nobody ended up dying and we did actually get a good stash of stuff and have some good upgrades for the next game, but oh man.

Posted on 1 October 2023, 22:25

A photo of our back yard, covered in calf-high long grass and weeds. Part of the patio is visible also has a bunch of weeds growing from in between the bricks.

The after photo, same view but with the grass short and neat and tidy and the patio free of weeds.

First job of the long weekend was a VERY overdue mowing of the lawn. It was so long that the bin was completely full from the clippings in the back yard and so I didn't even bother doing the front. Also mowed/whippersnipped the horrendous mess of weeds that's at the side of the house where the hot water system and air conditioning compressor are, where we never go. I started an "Outdoor Walk" workout on my Apple Watch and when I finished it had registered about 1750 active kilojoules after an hour and a half. For comparison my 45 minute workouts on the elliptical are typically around 2000 active kilojoules, so that was a decent effort. ::collapses in a heap::

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Posted on 30 September 2023, 12:36

A photo of six armoured human warrior miniatures. Their armour is a deep brass colour, they're wearing big mag-boots of the same colour, and their clothes are a rich dark blue. The helmets are reminiscent of diving bells except with a cool-looking visors instead of a round viewing port. Four of them have big short guns, one is wielding a huge axe, and the other has a massive shield that's taller than he is, with a viewing port and a slot for his gun to sit in so he can see and shoot while remaining behind the shield.

There we go, the first half of my Breachers are done and fully varnished! I'm such a fan of that Nihilakh Oxide paint for the verdigris effect on the armour, it looks SO good. I've got another seven miniatures to go (a full squad is only twelve miniatures but I'm going to be painting all three gunner variants so I can swap them out depending on the mission) and I'm going to ATTEMPT to get them all batched painted in the one go. Usually my limit is five, so this might end up being split up into two lots, but it'd be good to get them smashed out.

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Posted on 18 September 2023, 21:48

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying in a dog bed that's sitting against a wall. He's lying on his side but has his head jammed up at an angle against the wall, and his facial hair is all munted-looking.

Beanie decided he needed to be in a VERY uncomfortable-looking position as we were going to bed last night.

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Posted on 17 September 2023, 9:37

A photo of partially-painted five armoured human warrior miniatures. Their armour is a deep brass colour, they're wearing big mag-boots of the same colour, and their clothes are a rich dark blue. The helmets are reminiscent of diving bells except with a cool-looking visors instead of a round viewing port. Three of them have big short guns, one is wielding a huge axe, and the other has a massive shield that's taller than he is, with a viewing port and a slot for his gun to sit in so he can see and shoot while remaining behind the shield.

First proper batch of Breachers is coming along nicely!

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Posted on 14 September 2023, 21:52

A photo of our lounge room with our very nice new La-Z-Boy (which I always read as "lay-zed-boy") lounge. There's a three-seater facing a TV that's sitting on a wooden TV stand, and two single chairs. They're a fairly light grey/cream sort of colour which might have been a mistake but there weren't really any others we liked at all when we were looking.

New lounge! 🎉 The thing I'm MOST looking forward to is being able to sit on it for an extended period of time without getting a sore back. Which is very convenient timing since Starfield has just come out, and next month also has Forza Motorsport and Cities: Skylines II launching as well. 😁

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Posted on 9 September 2023, 21:26

A photo of our lounge room. There's a box window towards the middle of the photo with a wooden TV stand and TV in front of it and bookshelf speakers flanking the TV, a round table with a lamp and various doodads in the corner to the left of the TV stand, plus a couple of other little side tables. The middle of the room is completely empty now due to the lack of lounge.

We're getting a new lounge delivered tomorrow (the old one is eight years old and has gone completely saggy because it was a comparatively cheap one) so this afternoon we moved the old lounge out to under the patio to make space for the new one, and MAN does everything echo in here now, christ!

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Posted on 8 September 2023, 14:07

A photo of an armoured human warrior mid-stride, holding a big black gun. His armour is a deep brass colour with verdigris encrusted all over it, he's got big mag-boots of the same colour, and his clothes are a dark blue. His helmet is reminiscent of a diving bell except with a cool looking red visor instead of a round viewing port.

I finished the test miniature for my colour scheme for the Navis Breachers tonight, pretty happy with how it looks! I used that "Nihilakh Oxide" Technical paint for the first time and I love how it makes the armour look all old and worn. I painted the gun straight up Black Legion plus highlights but I think I'll go back to my standard Leadbelcher + coat of something (Nuln Oil or Basilicanum Grey) because it looks far too clean compared to the rest of the miniature now I've applied the Nikilakh Oxide.

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Posted on 7 September 2023, 22:12

A photo of twelve armed and armoured human soldier miniatures assembled and undercoated. Apart from the leader who is (as is traditional in the Warhammer 40,000 universe) not wearing a helmet, all the rest have cool-looking helmets on that are very reminiscent of old diving bell helmets, just with a regular visor instead of a narrow round window. They all have tanks on their backs and pipes leading from them to the masks, and have a variety of guns. One of them has a huge riot-shield-type thing and is aiming a futuristic shotgun through a slot in the top of it.

A top-down view of twelve round bases that the miniatures will be glued onto. They've been painted in a copper colour and the bases are sculpted to look like decking from like a steampunk starship, lots of pipes and things going everywhere, and a few of the requisite skull logos that are a requirement in any Warhammer 40,000 miniature or terrain.

I needed a bit of a palette cleanser (pun not entirely unintended) after painting 32 of the 60 miniatures in the Warhammer Quest: Cursed City box, so I decided to finally assemble and start painting the Navis Breachers from the Kill Team Into The Dark box! (Actually that's not entirely true as it's not JUST the Breachers from the ITD box: I bought a second set of Breachers from one of the people at work who'd bought, uh, one of the boxes that came with two sets of Breachers in it and he didn't need the second set, so I'm able to field a full team without needing to use the C.A.T Unit and the Gheistskull.) The miniatures are temporarily superglued onto the wooden dowels for painting rather than going directly onto their bases immediately because I'm using the very cool-looking "Void War" set of pages that Games Workshop sells instead and need to be able to paint them separately to be able to do the bases justice. The plan is to do a wash over them after what you see here and then a few layers of drybrushing, which I can't do if the miniatures are already glued onto the bases.

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Posted on 3 September 2023, 22:00

A close-up of the final fight of the game. A steampunk-looking dwarf with an axe and a harpoon gun thing is facing off through a doorway against three skeleton warriors and a massive lumbering ogre with a cloak and Mongolian-style fur hat and a HUGE axe. Behind the dwarf is an armoured human warrior with a sword and a priest with a rich red robe and black hood and a big staff.

Our Warhammer Quest adventures continued tonight, and HOO BOY was this one rough, mostly due to having an absolute SHOCKER on the dice rolling! We played a "Deliverance" journey type, the story is that there's an evil all-consuming spell, the Suffocating Gravetide, wandering the streets that you need to outrun, and you need to warn the citizens of Ulfenkarn as you go so they can get inside and stay safe. The token that represents the Gravetide moves along one board section at a time and you need to stay in front of it or else you take two damage, and the board section that it was previously is destroyed along with any hostiles. The board itself isn't laid out ahead of time unlike the other journeys, instead you build it as you go by pulling from a deck and putting the appropriate tile down that's shown on the card along with any hostiles. There's a "Nightfall" token that moves along a track, and if you've taken enough turns and it gets to the end, all of the enemies are empowered and are significantly nastier (it represents night falling and all the undead becoming more powerful). We got fucked on that twice by rolling on the event table at the end of the turn and ending up on the "Move the Nightfall token one further space" and ended up having to fight the empowered hostiles much earlier than we otherwise should have, and we also had two "You don't get any Destiny dice at the start of next turn" results too (the Destiny dice are a pool of extra dice that the heroes can use in addition to their normal activation dice). The "Warn the citizens" bit is an action that requires an activation dice result of 6 so if you've rolled really poorly you might not be able to do it that turn, and to be successful in the mission requires eight warnings. Ordinarily this wouldn't have been too bad, but as I mentioned before we had just dreadful rolls for like everything. As an example, @yayKM rolled five dice that would require a roll of 3+ to be successful attacks, and only succeeded on one of them. There were also multiple really bad rolls on defence AND attempting to heal wounds, to the point that we weren't entirely sure we were going to succeed in the mission without everyone being taken out of action. As it was, we made it by the skin of our teeth, of @yayKM's two heroes one had taken three grievous wounds (out of a maximum of four before you're out of action) and the other had two, and one of my heroes also had two grievous wound counters as well. We had a final fight where we needed to get past a group of hostiles, and JUST BARELY made it by having @yayKM's extremely witchhunter manage to just limp into the final board section and trigger the last warning we needed to end the game. And just as a final "Fuck you", the roll on the very final event table at the end was dreadful too and all the heroes had to discard their treasure cards.

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Posted on 2 September 2023, 22:28