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A photo taken from the side of the board of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all ruined industrial-slash-gothic buildings, on the left are my Death Guard which are hulking super-humans in a somewhat sickly-green power armour and lots of tentacles and pustules and general grossness, and on the right are the Adeptus Mechanicus who believe in the purity of the machine and replacing as much as possible of their biological components with machine parts and such mostly look like robots with cool cloaks on.

(The AdMech were actually custom 3D-printed models that combined the Adeptus Mechanicus with the Skaven rat-men from the Warhammer fantasy universe, and were really very well done.)

First night of a planned fortnightly Kill Team gaming session at @[email protected]'s tonight! There were four of us, one hadn't played before so I played the introductory game with him, sans Tac Ops and equipment. He was playing the Adeptus Mechanicus Hunter Clade, versus my revolting Death Guard. We got part-way through the final turn but called it because I was up 7-4 and he wasn't going to be able to come back from that. He really enjoyed it though, and I'm keen to start playing more regularly so I can actually properly remember the rules (and also learn how my Corsair Voidscarred play, because the miniatures are SO GOOD but I don't feel like I have a good handle on them yet).

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Posted on 29 October 2023, 22:52

A photo taken from above the table of a three-player game of Magic: The Gathering, with lots of cards everywhere.

Tonight was Magic at @[email protected]'s! It was Commander format which I'm not the _most_ fond of, but the first deck I played was a Zombie deck which had quite a few cards I was familiar with from the Innistrad block that my own (non-Commander) Zombie deck comes from, and I smashed it. 😁 ZOMBIES FOR DAYS. (It helped that I had an amazing starting hand.) Second game was a win from @[email protected], and third was our other friend so it was nice and even!

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Posted on 8 September 2023, 23:10

A photo of the board at the start of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all rusty-looking and generally ruined, with several very ramshackle structures. Closest to the camera are my Coirsair Voidscarred, basically lithe space elves in fuchsia armour and turquoise cloaks, at the back right are the Veteran Guardsmen, a bunch of regular human warriors with big overcoats and all wearing gas masks, and at the back left are the Warp Coven, big heavily armoured super-human Chaos Space Marines whose armour is green with gold trim and they've got a very Egyptian feel to them.

We had a three-player game of Kill Team today, Corsair Voidscarred vs. Veteran Guard vs. Warp Coven! ...it didn't go well, I still don't really know what I'm doing with my Voidscarred and I keep forgetting their ploys. 😞 It was fun enough to play, but by the end of the second turn the scores were 10 to Veteran Guard, 4 to me, and 0 to Warp Coven, and there was exactly one miniature left of the Warp Coven which I killed in my first activation of the third turn before he could activate. 😅 We ended up calling it there because there was no possible way I could win. There were just too many Guardsmen to deal with, and like half of my team is short-ranged so several of them didn't even do ANYTHING before they were killed. There was also some spell that the Warp Coven Sorcerer cast in the second turn that utterly fucked me in particular, where nobody gets the extra 2" movement for charges and when you dash you lose 2" of range so you end up being able to dash all of 1". The Voidscarred rely heavily on their free dash, so... yeah. The terrain we played on was fantastic, but I've decided I prefer the Into The Dark board setup because the first turn is easy (nobody is going to be able to shoot each other because the doors are all closed), and there's no vantage points to worry about either.

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Posted on 30 July 2023, 18:27

A photo of a grassy backyard with a set of plastic cricket stumps set up, a 6 year-old holding a plastic cricket bat, and a man mid-bowl just in frame at the right. There's a number of other adults and children standing around fielding and just generally watching.

A photo of a raised metal fire "pit" with wood in it and flames merrily burning.

Had a friend's 40th today, highlights have included backyard cricket and also fire.

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Posted on 1 July 2023, 18:33

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team played on two regular boards. The terrain is a bunch of steampunk-looking walls and the boards have artwork on them that looks like the inside of an ancient rusty starship. At the bottom left are my miniatures, nine lithe space elves in fucshia armour and turquoise cloaks. At the top are fourteen just human troopers, and at the bottom left are fourteen essentially also human troopers but all corrupted and evil.

Three player Kill Team today! ...it did not go well for me and wasn't even close. We only got through two turns and I only scored one single victory point right at the end of the second turn. I killed stuff, but my initial positioning was poor and tried to do too much at once, especially since I had only nine miniatures compared to the fourteen of the other two teams. By the end of the second turn I was down to only three miniatures left, the friend in second was down to I think four, and the friend in first still had ten out of his fourteen starting.

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Posted on 21 May 2023, 18:01

A photo of the start of a game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's set on a hex-based board, the art on the board looks like it's bunch of gnarled tree roots. Closest to the camera are the Gorechosen of Dromm, a three-fighter warband of large warriors, and on the other side are Khagra's Ravagers, a four-fighter warband of smaller but more heavily-armoured warriors.

Mid-week gaming this week was Chaos vs. Chaos in Warhammer Underworlds: the Gorechosen of Dromm against Khagra's Ravagers! It ended up being a draw at 10-10, but I was extremely happy with that because JESUS CHRIST @[email protected]'s rolling was on FIRE. I think he saved against every single attack I made for the like the first turn and a half with the exception of one initial wallop from the Gorehulk, but the most ridiculous was me rolling two dice on attack and rolling two crits, and to avoid Khagra dying he needed to roll two crits on defence ...which he pulled off. I guess it makes up for the absolute wholloping I gave him last time (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/2302). 😅

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Posted on 5 April 2023, 22:55

A photo of a fully set up game board of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all very ramshackle and looks like it's straight from a junkyard.

We had a four-player game of Kill Team today! Turns out I'm pretty shit at playing my team (Imperial Guard) and I barely did anything and got mostly shot off the board. I came third and that was because the fourth guy was having fun just blowing shit up and wasn't actually playing objectives, heh. Though in retrospect, I don't think the terrain was really set up very well, there was a lack of heavy cover around the deployment zones which meant I had to be bunched up and in conceal to avoid being murdered on the first turn.

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Posted on 1 April 2023, 18:17

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds board and miniature. The board is covered in hex tiles and the art on it looks like tree roots and the inside of a cave. Closest to the camera are five Skaven (rat-men assassins) in various dynamic poses (one is leaping over a smoke bomb he's just set off), and facing them are three heavily armoured human warriors of Chaos, and a less heavily-armoured wizard who is wielding a staff and looks like she's in the middle of casting a spell.

Mid-week Warhammer Underworlds with @[email protected]! This time it was me playing the tricksy Skaven, Skittershank's Clawpack, and him playing Khagra's Ravagers. I'd played the Clawpack once before and it went disastrously poorly, but it seems to depend entirely on the cards you draw and when. This time was FAR better, there were lots of fun things to do and we ended up calling it at the end of the second round when I was ahead 13-7 and he had only a single fighter left.

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Posted on 22 February 2023, 22:55

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of an inside of a ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style. On one side are ten heavily-armoured human warriors in light blue/grey armour, and on the other are VERY LARGE Space Marines in orange armour.

First game of Kill Team: Into The Dark! Heavy Intercessors vs. Astra Militarum Scions. Really enjoying this format, it was a hell of a close game, sadly I lost 6-7, mostly due to a couple of mistakes on my part.

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Posted on 26 January 2023, 17:07

A photo of the game board of a Warhammer Underworlds game. The artwork on it looks like a bunch of gnarled roots and it's covered in hexagons that indicate distances. Closest to the camera are Grashrak's Despoilers, six beastmen wielding very crude-looking weapons and wearing not a huge amount of armour. Facing them are Khagra's Ravagers, four very heavily-armed- and -armoured human warriors.

And tonight's Wednesday night gaming was Warhammer Underworlds! Khagra's Ravagers versus Grashrak's Despoilers. The Despoilers were mine, made with the new Nemesis format, and while I won 12-8, I don't think the Tooth and Claw deck is the right one for them, they're a bit too fragile to be wading into combat.

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Posted on 11 January 2023, 23:20