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A photo of a bunch of kids plus some adults playing in an in-ground pool in a backyard.

Excellent NYE thus far, good weather for a pool party and throwing water balloons.

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Posted on 31 December 2022, 16:10

A photo of a game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's a miniature-and-card-based game played on boards with hex tiles on them. On the board were my warband of six armoured skeletons, four spooky ghost-looking things, four lithe elves, and three lightly armoured humans alongside a big S&M-looking goat-man.

Mid-week gaming this week was a FOUR-player game of Warhammer Underworlds! Unsurprisingly we only got through one round, but one of the players hadn't even played before. I managed to eke out a win on 8 glory, and Kristina came back from nowhere to finish on 7.

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Posted on 26 October 2022, 23:19

A photo of a game of Magic: The Gathering at its final conclusion: me having attacked with 20 2/1 creature tokens (14 of which have Vigilance) and a 3/4 Lifelink and my 3/3 commander, and him with a single 2/2 creature.

We went over to a friend's house tonight to play the new Magic/Warhammer 40,000 cross-over decks that Wizards of the Coast released and man they're fun. (The fun levels were definitely increased by me absolutely stomping him on three occasions, though the fourth game was a lot less one-sided). They did such a good job of combining the two, and the artwork on all the cards is magnificent and extremely 40K.

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Posted on 19 October 2022, 23:32

A photo of a big shiny black wooden board with stars painting on it, with two B-wings, two A-wings, and an X-wing on one side and a TIE Punisher, two TIE Interceptors, and three TIE Fighters on the other.

A photo mid-game close-up with a bunch of the ships all close together facing every which way.

Mid-week gaming was X-wing again, but this time we had TOO much stuff going on! Definitely need to tone it back for next time, fewer ships and fewer upgrades. We only got two rounds in, and nobody actually blew anyone up. It was pretty chaotic, but also fun. On the plus side, my newly-starred board looked fantastic. 😁

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Posted on 22 June 2022, 23:17

A photo of a shiny black board sitting on a dining table, it's 3 feet by 3 feet with a lip on each end and a section beyond the lip to put the actual cards on. There's some asteroid tokens in the middle, on one side is an X-wing and on the other are two TIE Fighters.

A photo of the X-wing and the TIE Fighter directly facing each other, with literally a few millimetres separating their bases.

Mid-week gaming this week was X-wing, which I haven't played since 2016 when we played in the office after work with @[email protected] (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/350)! I've got a ton of miniatures but it'd been so long we stripped it back to the bare minimum core set of one X-wing and two TIE Fighters and no upgrades, just to get the hang of things again. We got two games in and both times the Empire won, even though we switched sides. We also had this magnificent moment where the X-wing and one of the TIE Fighters ended up SO CLOSE to touching it was ridiculous. 😂 There's a 2.0 version of X-wing which I'm totally going to pick up, apparently they've streamlined a bunch of stuff and actually moved all the points values off the cards and anywhere that's printed so they can update it as they go to keep power levels in check, and not have sprawling broken things they struggle to control. There was a really interesting interview about everything that's new with one of the co-designers of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Ilk4HYO6Q

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Posted on 27 April 2022, 23:22

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team board with home-made desert and ramshackle junkyard-style terrain on it.

A photo of nine six-sided dice, three of them are sixes, two are fives, and there's two twos and two threes.

We played another (partial) game of Kill Team tonight! And for the first time EVER, everything was fully painted. 😮 We only got a turn and a half in thanks to us taking a while to set everything up, but we're definitely getting the hang of it. I was playing Death Guard, and they have a rule called "Disgustingly Resilient" where if they would lose a wound, you roll a D6 and on a roll of 5+ the wound is not lost. It doesn't matter how many wounds, just ANY wound. One of them was attacked and was going to be dealt 9 wounds (out of a total of 12), but my Disguisingly Resilient roll was amazing and I was able to reduce it down to 4. 😂

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Posted on 13 April 2022, 22:44

A photo taken side-on of a Warhammer Underworlds game board with three armoured orks on the left very aggressively positioned towards the middle of the board, and four elegant vampires on the right.

Went over to our friend's place today for some more Wednesday night gaming, this time with me in an advisory position. He ended up winning 14-10, and both warbands were down to a single fighter at the end!

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Posted on 30 March 2022, 23:21

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team board with terrain on it that's all ramshackle and looks like it's part of a junk yard, which has been undercoated in black but has shamefully had nothing else done to it.

We FINALLY got a game of the new Kill Team in! We played without tac-ops or equipment just to streamline things a bit, and only got two out of the four turns done, but it was really good, can't wait to play more.

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Posted on 16 March 2022, 23:26

A photo of the board of Warhammer Underworlds. The art on it is primarily blues and feels like a sea cavern. It's covered in hexagons and there's two sets of miniatures facing each other in various positions: Lady Harrow's Mournflight, a set of four spooky spirits all flowing and painted in a sickly pale green, and Hrothgorn's Mantrappers, a huge ogre with a massive crossbow alongside a sabretooth tiger and three little goblin-looking creatures. There's cards and dice around the board.

Went over to a friend's house tonight for a cheeky mid-week game of Warhammer Underworlds. Despite never having played and being down to one fighter at the end, he won 14 to 11! (Partially my fault, I got a bit greedy.)

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Posted on 9 March 2022, 23:30

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