Star Trek - line 'em and blast 'em!

We (I) haven't played Star Trek Attack Wing for ages .... But it made a return to the table - sort of like ST:Discovery returned the series to the telly - I like STD (finarr finarr), it makes Star Fleet grey and ambiguous and more interesting than some of the other series. 

Steedo and I picked 100pts each and went head to head with Star Fleet and the Klingons. Steedo went for Janeway and Voyager along with a Galaxy class and Excelsior - one good captain and a couple of rubbish ones. I went for a K'tinga, a Negh'var and a Vor'cha with middling captains and photon torpedoes!

Starting positions ...

The Klingons cloaked and the Vor'cha flanked around the planet - the Feds rushed forward - probably tweeting "we come in peace" messages ...

Which didn't last long as Janeway opened up! But the Galaxy class was put out of action in a turn! Not destroyed but the weapons were out of action and if she fired the critical hit card would be flipped - thus taking hull points to zero! The K'tinga wouldn't be able to cloak as the shields were destroyed.

A bit of fancy flying and the Negh'var is getting a bit of a slap!

Move flying about and the Voyager and the Negh'var exchange fire!

The Klingons think they have voyager in the crosshairs - but it is the Negh'var which is destroyed! 

Insert Klingon swear word here! The K'tinga is chipping away at Voyager. Effectively each side has lost a ship - all the Galaxy class can do is fly about.

The manuvering continues and the Vor'cha de cloaks to add the coup de grace on the Excelsior - the fuzzie photo is to replicate the de cloaking and is in no way reflective of the poor photography seen across this blog!

A few more a exchanges - chipping away at Voyagers hull (finally putting the Galaxy class down - an act of mercy really). Voyager also managed to take out the K'tinga - but she was an honourable ship and it was a good day to die!

The Vor'cha finally destroys the Voyager and that bitch Janeway - victory to the empire. 

It was a fun pick up game - the first time out for the voyager and the K'tinga - both need a repaint. Like most things we should play this more - some of the ship stats don't quite match the ships from the series - the Vogayer is more powerful than a Galaxy class ....

Steedo and I reckon we need to play with more cards and less ships .... Probably in another. 2 years then ...

Live long and prosper 

Morts

A Dark Lord and making stuff

We I have managed to paint a Reaper Bones Lich Lord for any game I feel like really.

A nice figure and I think it look good - probably better in the plastic rather than the picture which highlights my limitations as a painter ....

On the left I have also been playing with green stuff to attempt to make a mirror for Galadriel (aka an objective marker) with the aid of an acorn cup. The idea is to have the bowl (acorn cup) grown out of a tree ... It is still a work in progress. 

On the right is the basis of a wardrum for the Hobgoblin kings of war army. It is going to have wheels ( must have some realism as it would be rather heavy to lug around a battlefield). Still some way to go with the skin and decoration.

Got to have something to do on the long winter evenings......

Morts

Dark Warriors

Managed to get these painted - a mixture of very old Chaos Warriors and Frostgrave Cultists (Knight and Templar) and a couple BTD Saracens as Evil elite soldiers for Kings of War (could be used as Soul Reavers in an undead army) or Dragon Rampant.

Pretty pleased with these.

Morts 

For Halloween .... Well almost

Managed to paint 12 skellies for Dragon Rampant, KoW or Frostgrave. 

Some Eureka Hoplite ones

Some Mantic ones

I wine with the damaged and dirty shield design. 

To be honest I found painting the bits of fabric a bit of a pain - just 12 more to go and 12 zombies and the undead are finished apart from leaders and stuff. 

Morts

DBA 3 - Game Report

Well the last game of DBA we played was in September 2015 .... Which is a pity as it is a good game. 

DK popped over for a quick game of DBA 3 ... It wasn't quick as we hadn't read the rules and chatted a lot while playing - in fact we thought this might have been our first game of DBA 3 (it was our second). 

This time it was DK as the Camilian Romans versus my good self as Syracuse. The Romans were the attackers and for the first time we used the Littoral waterway rule allowing the me to put 2 units in reserve (nice). 

The initial deployments and end of the first turn. 

The game started very slowly for two reasons : 

1 We were trying to get an advantage with the Bad Going protecting the flanks. 

2 Both of the Generals were on the opposite side of the battlefield (the hill)  to where we did the most of the tactical moves - now costing 2 pips due to the distance. 

The light troops clash on the waterway side of the battlefield. The generals face off by the hill - which is all they did for the entire game. 

First blood to the Romans as they took out the psi, but this was balanced with aTriai eliminated. 

With two elements destroyed on each the game was in the balance. 

The battle lines continued to clash backwards and forwards especially over by the waterway and woods. I kept managing to break up DK's battle line but was unable to score enough to kill an element!

Then DK would roll a good pip dice and move everything back!

A flank attack on a lone element of spears ....

And a frontal assault on my artillery (which had already repelled one attack) were enough to get the final two elements DK need for the win!

I have to say I really enjoyed getting DBA to the table once again - the game plays well and makes you have to deal with all sorts of tactical choices. The game felt very close and but for some dice rolls I could have won. 

There is something nice about the simplicity of a 1 vs 1 game (although this can be teams) which doesn't make your head hurt like the 3-5 player games where you have to worry about if I do this what will X,Y and then Z do (I thinking Risk here).

Morts

Half-term break.

Well the half-term break started very well with a 12 hour gaming session about DK's to celebrate another step closer to 50. A number of games played including Rhino Hero, Codenames, Table football, Capital Lux, Red Planet, Concordia and a couple of games of pool at the local. The main event was the 11th game of Rsk Legacy (only 4 games to go) which DK won, as a birthday treat. I haven't won in ages and have been the player who attacked in the last three games for the win - got to change the strategy. 

Had a good 12 mile hike around Exmoor (mainly in the rain) where we saw a majestic stag - sorry no picture as  my phone was in my rucksack. 

Also got some painting done but namely the bedroom and ensuite ..... But managed to squeeze in some important stuff in the form a Reaper Bones Purple Worm .... Ooo er misses and some Dwarf Spears.

Got to varnish and base now - got to decide if I do the dwarfs on 20mm squares or 25mm rounds. 

Morts

Trying to get things done.

Work is busy as usual but I am trying to find time to paint stuff - although this is difficult to do at times. 

In recent weeks I have completed my 10th Abbots Way walk across Dartmoor and I have reports to write soon. 

I have managed to play 7 Wonder Duel and win a game at lunchtime at work. Although this was a test game so weather it really counts I done know.

Painting wise I have prime coated some Dwarfs, Skeletons and Zombies .... For Frostgrave, Dragon Rampant and Kings of War fun - although playing a game would help with the fun element as well.

I have managed to get some werewolves done. 

2 Reaper Bones and a metal North Star Frostgrave mini. Not a bad job on these - got some basing to do now! More for the forces of the undead!

Morts