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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 right closest to the camera are my six converted all-women Space Marines clad in deep red armour, at the far edge of the board on the right are the very ancient Egyptian-looking space marines of the Warp Coven, and mostly not visible at the left behind the walls are the Nemesis Claw Chaos Space Marines, in fairly bright blue armour and with small red bat-looking wings as decorations in various places.

We were finally able to get another game of the new edition of Kill Team in tonight! Angels of Death vs. Warp Coven vs. Nemesis Claw. We had to call it after the second turn because my friend who was playing the Nemesis Claw needed to go home and get stuff done, so it ended up being 2-1-1 with the Nemesis Claw out in front but they definitely were not going to have won if we'd played all the way through to the end of the fourth turn. They'd lost two operatives and had two more badly wounded, versus my five left almost all of whom were untouched.

Play of the match went to my leader Sister Sarine, who absolutely VAPORISED the Nemesis Claw's Skin Thief operative in a single shot with her supercharged plasma pistol by way of rolling all five dice as crits. 😁 And the triple Chapter Tactics you get for choosing the Assault Intercessor as leader is SO powerful.

Next I need to get around to painting my Malignant Plaguecaster and Heavy Gunner with the Plague Spewer so I can field a team of my trusty Plague Marines again!

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Posted on 22 December 2024, 23:25

We had our first game of the new edition of Kill Team last night!

Only got through two rounds, and we played without equipment—apart from barricades, just to match it from the last edition—but I'm really liking how streamlined the rules are, the new rules for line of sight and cover are SO much clearer now. In terms of actually scoring anything it was a miserable failure on my part, I didn't get anything at all but that was mostly my fault for fucking up my deployment (and I now have a whole new set of chapter tactics I need to remember as well), but that's fine, this was just a "Get used to the rules" game anyway. I am disappointed at how much of a nerf plasma has had though... even when supercharged, my Assault Intercessor's plasma pistol is only 4/5 damage, Piercing 1.

Side note, the Nemesis Claw "You're obscured if you're within one inch of heavy terrain" rule is SO IRRITATING. 😛 At least they can be shot at now, but obscuring still means that you're very unlikely to deal any damage unless you roll really well AND the Nemesis Claw player rolls really poorly.

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Posted on 27 October 2024, 23:39

A close-up shot of a very cramped bit of hallway with three of the Night Lords miniatures all facing one hulking warrior in ornate golden armour wielding a massive spear.

We had our regular fortnightly Sunday night Kill Team tonight, same composition as before (my Intercession squad versus Night Lords versus Adeptus Custodes) but after the previous game we'd decided we'd see about tweaking the map a bit for this game. It's completely symmetrical now and had five objectives instead of three, with two objectives being in easy reach of the middle spot but being harder to defend.

The Custodes ended up in that centre deployment zone, and man it was a fun game! The Custodes all had shields so they were tough as nails (2+ save, 4+ invulnerable save), and two operatives each immediately moved on the middle points and it really felt like they were completely dug in so we had to play cagey and try to bait them out without being murderised in the process.

The funniest point was one of the Custodes charging into close combat with THREE of the Night Lords, unsurprisingly he ended up dying but he did a hell of a lot of damage. Between my Spaces Marines and the Nightlords, we ended up wiping out the Custodes, and it was 5-5-4 at the start of the final turn. I was SO CLOSE to pulling off a win, but the Night Lords ended up pipping me at the last minute with a combination of their special rule of not being able to be shot at if they're within 1" of heavy cover and are in conceal, and an ability that lets them force your one of your operatives to make a dash action. I had two operatives on the final objective, but he was able to push one of them off and because this same character was an icon bearer it meant he counted for more when calculating who controlled the objective, and so he was able to steal it. It was 100% luck because that character happened to be the who was in the right spot at the right time and was JUST able to make it onto the objective by the thinnest of margins. In retrospect I should have moved Sister Dominea up to just block the hallway because it wouldn't have mattered if she was killed in close combat or not and the Night Lords couldn't have gotten past her and stolen the objective!

The final score ended up being 8-7-4 Nightlords/Intercession/Custodes.

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Posted on 21 July 2024, 23:29

A photo taken of a table in the middle of a Magic: The Gathering game with cards everywhere, plus snacks and cups in scattered around. There were six people but the table is large enough that only four people's worth of cards in play fit into the photo.

Tonight I went over to a friend's place for some birthday nerding for him and another friend (both of them born on the same day, just a year apart). We got two six-player games of Magic in, and then probably like an hour of a very silly card game called Muffin Time before the game essentially got reset and we decided to leave it there, haha. I won the first game of Magic, and one of the birthday boys won the second one.

This was "Commander" format Magic where you can only have one single copy of a given card, and the decks are larger (100 cards vs. 60 in a normal deck), and I absolutely cannot brain sufficiently to figure out synergies between that many individual cards to make a Commander deck so I just played with other people's decks rather than my own regular format ones.

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Posted on 29 June 2024, 23:32

We had our semi-regular game of Sunday night Kill Team tonight, my Intercession squad versus a four-man team of Adeptus Custodes versus the brand-new Night Lords squad!

The final score was 3-2-0 Night Lords/Intercession/Custodes, but we ended up calling shortly after the start of the third turn because there were only three objective markers and I couldn't physically move fast enough to contest the two that the Night Lords had. In retrospect we should have put some more objectives down, but the mission we chose had three objective markers on it but with different rules that we decided were too complicated, so we just did a standard "capture the point" type of thing.

Play of the match goes to my leader Sister Sarine, she fired a supercharged plasma pistol shot into one of the Custodes and rolled two 6s, a 2, and 1. I'd taken the strategic ploy that lets you reroll an attack dice if you're shooting at something within 6" so rerolled the 1 for that and scored another 6, then spent a command point and rerolled the 2 and got ANOTHER 6! That SHOULD have been game over for the enemy operative but annoyingly he'd taken a strategic ploy that takes crit damage down to normal damage, and so even though he was only rolling one defence dice because of the AP2 plasma pistol shot, it was still a 2+ save and so he survived on only 3 wounds. ::fistshake::

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Posted on 23 June 2024, 23:13

A photo of a very-terrain-covered pair of gaming boards. The terrain is all industrial-looking rusty ruins and big steam-punk looking pipes. At the left are my Space Marines in very large rich red armour, all wearing no helmets as befits the Rule of Cool and carrying either a chainsword and pistol or a big bolt gun. At the right at the Custodes which are made up two separate groups of one VERY CHONKY fellow in big gold armour with two Sisters of Silence next to them, who are also clad in golden armour but are much smaller in stature. The Sisters are bald except for a ponytail topknot, two of them have glowing blue power swords and the others have regular guns. Finally at far side across the board and barely visible are the Chaos Legionaries who are all mutated-looking and wearing black armour with gold trim.

We had our mostly-regular fortnightly game of Kill Team tonight, and we ended up playing on open board instead of Into The Dark because one of my friends was in a rush to leave and forgot his set of terrain (you need two sets to play more than two players). It was my Intercession squad versus the Talons of the Emperor versus Chaos Legionaries, and we only got part-way through the third turn before we had to call it primarily because it took long enough to set up all the open board terrain that we started later than usual. 😛 It was a fantastic game though, I didn't win but the final score was 6-5-5 to the Legionaries and I absolutely would have won if we'd gone all the way through to turn four.

The Talons of the Emperor team was two Adeptus Custodes and four Sisters of Silence, and despite the Custodes being terrifying with a 2+ save and 18 wounds AND one of them having a 4+ invulnerable save, it turns out if you manage to put ENOUGH firepower into them they'll go down. This also wasn't helped by my friend being extremely aggressive with them and thinking that they'd be hardier than they actually ended up being! I managed to put 8 wounds into the one with the storm shield in one attack in the second turn thanks to some very excellent rolling from Sister Lucena with her "Doom Bolter" (our nickname for the Bolt Rifle + Vengeance-Class Scope + Reclusiam-Blessed Bolts equipment combination).

When we finished, the Talons of the Emperor were down to only two Sisters of Silence and the Chaos Legionaries had only two miniatures left, all of them very wounded, but I still had three of mine left, two of whom were completely unwounded: Sister Lucena with her Doom Bolter, Sister Ephestri with the auxiliary grenade launcher, and the half-wounded Sister Genevane who continued her streak of being awesome by accounting for Legionaries' leader and psyker. Though to be fair, my Assault Grenadier Sister Decimica deserves the bulk of the credit for taking out the leader because it was her krak grenade that took him down to two wounds, and it WOULD have killed him outright except the Legionaries had used the Mutagenic Flesh strategic ploy that reduced non-critical damage on every attack dice by one!

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Posted on 26 May 2024, 23:37

A closeup of my Death Guard Fighter, who is wearing hulking green armour with a HUGE toothed mouth in his chest armour going across his whole abdomen and chest and wielding two plague knives, facing off against one of the xenomorph "Warriors", which is down on four legs and looks like it's about to pounce. To the side is a smaller xenomorph more upright behind a set of ammo crates.

A close-up of a Space Marine aiming his boltgun (complete with a 3D-printed muzzle flash weapon effect) at one of the Tyranid Warriors, while a second one lurks just around the corner behind him.

We had our rematch of the Death Guard vs. Tyranids vs. Strike Force Justinian tonight, and because tomorrow is a public holiday we all stayed slightly later and managed to finish the whole game, AND I won 8-7-4! 🎉 (We did slightly fuck up one rule up about injuries and so my Heavy Gunner did better in close combat versus the Space Marine leader than he should have, and ended up killing the leader.) Instead of ten Genestealers, my friend playing the Tyranids took three Tyranid Warriors instead and used, uh... some different type of Aliens miniature for them that looked very cool.

The Death Guard felt extremely thematic, it was just a slow, steady, plodding advance across the battlefield, and they were hard enough to kill that they were difficult to dislodge from the objectives once they were on them. My plasma gunner was my MVP, he only shot three times but each one was a killing shot, taking out two Space Marines and a Genestealer. I also took the dual-plague-knives Fighter for the first time and he did okay, but he definitely served well as an extra close-combat threat beyond just my leader. The Disgustingly Resilient rolls were a lot swingier this game than usual, I either did fantastically well (my Plasma Gunner took nine damage from the Space Marine sniper and would have died but ended up rolling so well he only took four, and subsequently ended up vaporising the sniper in his own activation), or really badly (my Fighter took something like ten damage in his first melee combat and saved NONE of it), with nothing in between.

As with the first game, we had a couple of very cool cinematic moments, my Fighter facing off against one of the Warriors and a Genestealer, and one of the Space Marines shooting at another of the Warriors while one lurked behind him ready to pounce.

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Posted on 31 March 2024, 23:45

Another Sunday, another game of Kill Team!

I didn't actually play tonight because I didn't have a great night's sleep last night and absolutely did not have the mental capacity for it, but I DID supply the terrain and it looked absolutely fantastic. It was Plague Bearers vs. converted Skaven Adeptus Mechanicus, but because there were 12 Plague Bearers and 11 AdMech we only got through two turns, final score was 5-4.

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Posted on 17 March 2024, 23:12

A close-up shot of two of the xenomorphs behind a pile of metal crates, on the other side of the crates is the Space Marine Captain in his huge armour, holding a plasma pistol in front of him.

Sunday night Kill Team tonight was a three-player match, Death Guard versus the Space Marines of Strike Force Justinian versus a Tyranid squad of just Genestealers, on the Gallowdark map. My friend who was playing Genestealers actually used the xenomorph miniatures from one of Aliens games and it looked SO COOL having them lurking around inside an old ruined starship!

We only got through three turns rather than the full four, the Genestealers won 5:4:4, but it really could have gone any way, and I was in with a pretty solid shot of winning if we'd had time to play the final turn. Most ridiculous moment of the game was one of my regular Death Guard Warriors being on two wounds left, getting smacked in the face for five melee damage from a Genestealer, and rolling FOUR successful Disgustingly Resilient rolls so he only took one wound so he had a chance to hit back and take the Genestealer down from its starting 8 wounds down to 3. There was also a very cinematic moment of the Genestealer leader fighting in close combat against the Space Marine leader (the Space Marine leader got utterly shredded).

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Posted on 4 February 2024, 23:15

Had a game of Kill Team tonight, my trusty Death Guard versus the Space Marine Intercession squad. I lost 17-14, but it really could have gone either way. I was let down at the very end by the Death Guard's lack of movement, and I can take solace in the fact that I completely wiped the Space Marines off the board. 😛

I think I might FINALLY make use of the female Space Marine-looking heads I bought almost two years ago and put together an Intercession squad myself, because that squad is apparently a pretty good one to use to really get used to the rules (I've played a reasonable amount but just CANNOT keep in my head all the ploys and TacOps, I don't know what it is but I just can't do it).

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Posted on 21 January 2024, 23:09