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A photo of the board game board sitting on a dining table. There are separate sections that look like rooms in the Taskmaster house, each with a pile of cards on them: "Living Room Tasks", "Lab Tasks", "Kitchen Tasks", "Garden Tasks", and then two at the bottom that are "Secret Tasks" and "Final Tasks". In the middle are the little self portrait boards that you draw your face on (we were playing in teams of two hence why there are two people on each board).

This afternoon we went over to a friend's place and played Taskmaster: The Boardgame! It's actually surprisingly well done, we really enjoyed it. You definitely need to be playing in a house that's got a bunch of stuff in it though, I don't think it would have worked very well at ours place, haha. Some of the tasks included "Make the smallest sandwich", and a two-part one that started with "Draw an outline of your hand" and then when everyone was done, "Turn the outline into a self portrait". We didn't do any of the "garden tasks" because it was raining, so hopefully next time we play the weather is better and we can see what's involved in those!

Posted on 28 June 2026, 17:54

A photo of five adults and one child sitting (okay one of the adults is standing) around a dining table that has a bunch of paints and miniatures on it, all looking intently at what they're painting.

We went over to a friend's place today for a painting afternoon! My goal was to just put a dent in doing the base stone colour of my Tomb World terrain, I had half of one wall left and fifteen of the L-shaped wall connectors. I got the wall finished and two of the connectors, and did half of all the others (as in, one half of the L-shape: because they're a bit tricky to hold by only doing them half at a time it makes it easier to not put your fingers in wet paint). @yayKM@aus.social also painted her first miniature, a Tau Stealth Suit!

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Posted on 25 April 2026, 20:05

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 bottom left are my Wyrmblade, eight miniatures in industrial dark green armour and carrying shotguns and various other guns, none of which is particularly advanced. If you look closely they're just subtly not fully human, their skulls are a bit too large and their skin is an unnatural pinky/purple, and several of them have three arms. At the right are the Battleclade, which consists mostly of humans that have been lobotomised and turned into essentially robots to do the bidding of the Adeptus Mechanicus. They're dressed in red clothing with black armour plates, and they have all sorts of mechanical implants in them. And then finally at the far side of the board in the middle are the Gellarpox Infected, they're all gross daemon things, four are HUGE mutants that are towering over the other miniatures, then there a number of smaller little things scurrying around at their feet.

We had another one of our three-player games of Kill Team today! I played my Wyrmblade, we also had the Battleclade and a proxied 3D-printed army of Gellarpox Infected. We didn't end up getting through the whole game, but finished turn three and it ended up being a 7-7-1 draw between my Wyrmblade and the Battleclade. Plus we kind of went a bit silly and the Battleclade and Wyrmblade both yoloed themselves into the middle because it was pretty much going to be a bit of a stalemate otherwise.

I continue to thoroughly enjoy playing the Wyrmblade, they have so many tricks up their sleeves and are so nasty when they pop out of conceal to shoot at something. Operative of the match goes to my Kelermorph who single-handedly killed one of the giant 20-wound mutants in turn 1 in one activcation, and my Locus tore the shit out of two units in close combat also in one activation. Additionally actually remembered the "Familiar Territory" faction rule that lets me set up up to a third of my force in hiding, so I don't actually need to put them on the board and can determine at any point before the end of turn two when I want to have them pop out based on what the board is looking like and where I need some additional firepower.

This map was a bit tricky though because neither the Battleclade nor the Wyrmblade had enough speed to get across to the objectives on the other side (hence the meat grinder in the middle at the end just for the fun). The friend who was playing the Gellarpox also didn't know how to play them properly because this was his first time so there were some mistakes made with the initial positioning, and he ended up getting tabled during turn three.

Next time we're going to try doing just a 1v1 but will do the Adversary Ops mode where there are also NPOs (non-player operatives, basically NPCs) who come in and wreak havoc, and we'll have whoever isn't playing in charge of controlling them, sort of a like a DM. Should be really fun, I just need to get around to actually finishing my Tomb World terrain so we can finally play on it. 😅

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Posted on 29 March 2026, 19:51

A photo taken in the middle of a game of Magic: The Gathering. There are four play mats sitting on a dining table with cards all over them.

A photo of my torso, wearing a black t-shirt with artwork of a quite worn stone head on it where the eyes have been dug, and it's not entirely clear if it was originally human or not. Underneath the head it says "Be'lakor" all in capitals with a bunch of extra lines coming out from the "A" and flowing through and around the rest of the letters. Next to the t-shirt I'm holding up the Magic: The Gathering card "Be'lakor, the Dark Master" which has artwork of a demon with horns and massive red wings in mid-flight, holding a massive sword.

Went over to a friend's house tonight for some Magic: The Gathering! This was the 100-card singleton format Commander which I just do not have the mental capacity to make decks for, so I just borrowed decks rather than bringing my own. The first was a zombie deck that had a bunch of my favourite cards from my own regular 60-card strictly-Innistrad-block zombie deck and it was very close in the end, I ended up coming second.

The second game I used one of the very flavourful Warhammer 40,000 crossover decks, the Chaos one which I hadn't played before, and completely coincidentally the commander I used was Be'lakor and I happened to be wearing a t-shirt from the metal band Be'lakor. 😂 (Yes, the band is named after the Warhammer demon, haha.) I also ended up coming second this game, and mostly due to a misplay on my part which let another friend pull out a win.

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Posted on 28 February 2026, 23:25

A photo of the Hero Quest board in all its 1980s glory. The board itself has a bunch of rooms on it, and in about half of the rooms there are things like cupboards or bookshelves or tables, made partially out of cardboard and held together with plastic. The three hero miniatures are visible, all in dark red plastic, along with a handful of heavily-armoured Chaos Warriors. A big Balrog-looking thing is just visible behind a cardboard fireplace.

Tonight we went over to a friend's place and played the original Hero Quest from 1989! We played the introductory mission, and only @yayKM@aus.social's elf made it out alive, my barbarian died fighting a rear-guard action trying to escape, and the Dwayne the dwarf was killed by a Chaos Warrior as he was running away (though to be fair he brought it on himself, we opened the central chamber where multiple baddies were, then Dwayne decided it would be a good idea to go and open another door down the corridor, inside which were another two Chaos Warriors and some demon-gorilla-looking thing as well). My barbarian was able to take out the big-bad Balrog without getting damaged in return, but the weight of numbers of the Chaos Warriors proved too much.

I was going to play the wizard but there isn't any magic in the introductory mission so it would have been kind of pointless because the wizard is otherwise fairly useless in combat. There are apparently sixteen missions in the main campaign so we're going to start on that next time. 😁

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Posted on 22 February 2026, 23:21

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 the game board at the start of the battle. It's all ruined industrial-looking concrete buildings with rusty pipes everywhere. On the left-hand side is my terrain that has on top of the ruins and in various spots down the sides snow that's fallen and collected so it looks extra desolate. At the far-right are my converted all-women squad of six Space Marines clad in huge blood red armour, in the top-left are the six Death Guard who are all hulking and pustulant and gross in green armour, and at the bottom-left are the twelve Ratlings, who are essentially hobbits with sniper rifles.

Went over to a friend's place today for a game of three-player Kill Team, my Angels of Death versus Death Guard versus Ratlings! I would have liked to take my shiny new Wyrmblade but I haven't read the rules for them at all yet so I figured I'd stick with my trusty Space Marines (plus, fewer miniatures).

Two of us have fully-painted sets of the terrain from the Hivestorm box so we decided to break that out for a change from our standard close-quarters Gallowdark map, and we played the "loot" objective, where you once you gain control of the objective marker that's it for the turn and nobody else can take it, which added a whole extra level of tactics to everything. I ended up squeaking out a win, the final score was 6-5-4, but in part because one of the objectives at the beginning of the last turn had my leader, the Death Guard leader, and the Death Guard Icon Bearer all on it waiting to see what the outcome of the imminent fight was to determine who was going to be able to control it. Instead, one of the Ratlings snuck up and used their special ability that allows them to make mission actions (in this case looting the objective) even if the objective is contested, so that meant that neither me nor the Death Guartd could take control of it, so I activated another operative instead and stole the objective that one of the unactivated Ratlings was on! My other objective was far enough away from everyone else that they couldn't get it, so I ended up being able to get two victory points from that and I vaporised the Death Guard Icon Bearer with my leader's plasma gun. She survived the counterattack from the Death Guard leader's plasma gun thanks to some poor rolling on his part, which also meant that he was denied another two kill points, and I ended up coming out on top in terms of kills as well!

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Posted on 18 January 2026, 19:36

A photo of a backyard in-ground pool. There's a man standing in the shallow end with a large splash beside him where a kid has just leapt in, and another kid swimming towards where I'm standing taking the photo. It's sunny and there are hedges on one side of the pool and the pool fence is visible behind it.

A++ chill NYE today. We went over to a friend's place, had a barbecue, splashed around in the pool for a good hour and a half, then had a second barbecue!

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Posted on 31 December 2025, 21:34

A photo of the battlefield at the beginning of the game. It's played on a roughly six-by-four foot play mat that's decorated like grass, and the terrain is almost fantasy-looking, there are some sections of hills and a bunch of various stone ruins. Closest to the camera are the orange-clad Space Marines, including two large walkers (the Dreadnaughts) and a gravtank with a big lasgun on its turret), and on the opposite side are the hordes of "Tyranids", which all look like a cross between crabs and the actual Tyranid models. There are a ton of small ones, and two HUGE ones that a towering over everything else.

A closeup photo of one of the large "Tyranid" units ( I don't remember what it was, but it's all chitin and huge claws and if it was actually alive and real size would scare the fuck out of you) towering over a squad of Space Marines.

Today started with me hopping on the Metro first thing after breakfast to go to Crows Nest to pick up my last two fully serviced and restrung guitars (the Ibanez JIVA10 and the Epiphone SG Standard), then I headed over to a friend's place for lunch (it was tuna mornay and it was gooooooood) and to hang out and watch a game of Warhammer 40,000! It was Space Marines versus "Tyranids", where the Tyranid miniatures were some custom 3D-printed alien crab things. They didn't end up doing the final turn because the Space Marines were already ahead 50-35 and it wasn't going to be possible to bridge that gap.

There was some hilarious dice rolling though, including a squad of 20 Termagaunts firing their Spinefist weapons at a squad of Space Marine Scouts, which involved rolling forty dice. 😂 (The Scouts ended up dead, unsurprisingly.)

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Posted on 8 November 2025, 18:38

A photo of a dining room table with the game board and cards around it. On the very outer section of the board are a bunch of people who have invented something or made scientific discoveries, then directly inside of that is (not in order) their inventions. Then inside THAT is a hexagonal ring that you move around, inside which there is a THIRD section that involves three concentric circles, and the inner two are raised higher on a plastic circular ring that sits inside the middle of the game board. The cards that are sitting next to the board have the inventors on it, then there are smaller cards, some of which you can trade to other players, and the whole thing is just bizarre from a gameplay perspective.

Tonight we went over to a friend's place and played Beyond 2000: The Boardgame! (For the non-Australians, there was a TV show called Beyond 2000 that was a staple of our elder Millennial childhoods, it was basically an educational science and technology show about new technologies and scientific discoveries.)

Apparently at some point someone decided to make a board game out of it, but it was weird. It was part Trivial Pursuit but had all these extra elements as you get further in like being able to steal cards from other players or join forces with them, and they all felt really disconnected from each other, like they'd come up with three different ideas for games but decided they should mush them all together. The facts were interesting but man, we're not going to be playing that again. 😅

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Posted on 5 October 2025, 23:04