COVID and Kill Team play through

I had arranged for Steedo and Tiger King to come over last night for a play through of Kill Team 2021 - finally! I had watched some play throughs and was pretty sure that I had a fair grasp of the rules. The teams were picked - Space Marine Intercessors and the recently painted Eldar Rangers and Dire Avengers. 

Ready to go!

Anyway the better half who has had a bit of a cold/cough for a day or so thought she’d better take a COVID test for work. And typically after missing it for two years (and the rather generous isolation periods etc) she was positive! I’m not (currently) but it meant the game was called off. Bugger!

Anyway after a bit of bimbling I thought I might as well just play through the rules to get a handle on basic stuff before playing a proper game with real opponents. I decided to ditch the tac-ops section and the command points as I felt that it would be a little weird playing those elements solo. The teams were reduced as it was just to get a handle on the basics - so 2 Dire Avengers and 2 Rangers versus 3 Intercessors. 

After deployment and first moves - everyone started with conceal orders so it was just moving forward - on the start of the 2nd turn (pictured above) everyone got a engage order - and the firing started. I also read that the Rangers can fire with a conceal order with the silent trait of their rifles, which will be useful. 

The marines trying to flank the Eldar - who were doing well with the shooting. I was enjoying the allocation of Defence dice against hits - with the impact of critical hits being potentially nullified. I think I got the till about mortal wounds wrong as I think they are automatically assigned even if the critical hit that caused it is removed by the defenders dice saving throw. 

Into the third turn and 2 marines down and the 2 rangers down - some of the shooting can be lethal for models with only 8 or 9 wounds . The lady marine and the one of the Dire Avengers are both wounded, but they fight on.

In this round the Intercessor charged into the uninjured Avenger and pommels him to death with his fists - 2 critical hits got through and inflicted the 8 wounds to put him out of action. 

The final turn and it was down to who won initiative - and for the 4th time the Eldar did … the Intercessor was cut down in a hail of fire. 

So a made a few errors, but on the got into the flow of the game pretty well - I don’t think this is a game that I would play solo again - there are too many interactions needing an opponent. 

Hopefully soon a game against real peeps. Might have a Chaos Space Marine and Necron Kill Teams completed by then … or more likely not. 

Morts 

Light infantry for Maurice

As a break from painting stuff for Kill Team - which I must have a trial game of soon - I thought that I would paint some 15mm light infantry for the Maurice forces. 

For the Russians 

I think that these are actually Turkish renaissance troops ,but I thought they looked close enough to Strelsi to stand in as light troops for the forces of the Tsar in imagination games. 

For the Swedes I have used Prussian Freight Korps. 

Grey coats and yellow facings. Not my best work - I might go back and increase the highlights …but as these are only proxy units for the rules rather than true to the period I’m not sure. 

Will be interesting to see how light infantry play in Maurice. 

Morts 

Dire Avengers - Kill Team

The Dire Avengers part of the Aldari (Eldar) Kill Team have been completed (apart from the tufts and varnish). 

The leader - Exarch. 

The avengers - pretty nice figures, not doubt these will be replaced by GW soon. If I am honest there are too many little details on these and I think I have missed a few of them, but I am not likely to be going back and paint them in. 

So I have the Chaos Space Marines and cultists to paint. I also need to source some Necron Deathmarks or Immortals or Flayed-ones to complete a number of Kill Teams. 

Just have to play a few games now. 

Morts

Chaos Space Marines for Kill Team

I was away at the biggest youth adventure event in the country at the weekend - saw some helicopters …

Anyway a great weekend - got a bit sunburned.

But this meant that I had to miss the local wargames show… DK did however go and I asked if he could get some Necron Deathmarks and some Chaos Space Marines - at a reasonable price for Kill Team.

He managed to find these five nasty dudes.

The bottom 2 appeared to have grey knights heads on them. 

So I had a rummage in the bits box and found a couple of Chaos Space Marine head from Blackstone Fortress. 

I think that these look better with the new heads. 

The search for the Deathmarks will continue. I am still working on the Dire Avengers … hopefully soon. 

Morts

Still busy

So thing 1 and thing 2 were returned to university in the last week. While we were dropping off thing 2 in Reading I thought that I would pop into a couple of games shops - Eclectic Games which was a good looking store  - there were plenty of board games and a huge selection of D&D miniatures. I didn’t stay long as I thought I would investigate Model Wargaming Shop Reading (Reading Model Supplies) - which was a 20 minute walk from the town centre - and was unfortunately shut/non-existent - which was a tad disappointing to say the least. I was hoping to pick up some second hand Necrons or Chaos Space Marines, but to no avail. I will see if DK can get some at a show in the near future. 

I also popped into the Warhammer shop - but it is too pricey for me. I did pop into a local games shop and pick up some contrast paint - my previous experience has not been good with Cygor Brown, just too dark and not enough contrast. This time I pick up Maglor Purple for a try on the Eldar Dire Avengers. 

This is the current state of the miniatures - there seems to be a pretty good contrast with this colour - I did a bit of Zenithal undercoating by dry-brushing. 

Off to the moor this weekend and a return to work on Monday. 

Morts 

Dwarf with Crossbow - Confrontation

Apart from some varnish and some grass I have painted Dwarfs with crossbows for Confrontation’s comical Dwarf faction of Tir-Na-Bor. 

These are quite nice to paint - although I find the design rather comical and jarring when compared to some of the other factions. But it works with the comedy goblins I have. 

I have decided to sell off the DBA armies I have in 28mm, due to lack of use and the fact I have gone in on the Onus Kickstarter with Steedo, so really done need the duplicates. 

I think I would like to do DBA in 15 or 10 mm with more figures on a base so that each base looks like a unit. 

I will post images of the DBA armies as I take pictures for their sale.

Morts 

Griffin Spearmen - painted. And the moor.

In amongst the hiking and work I have managed to paint some rather old Griffin spearmen for Confrontation. 

Still need to put the grass on the bases. I do find the Confrontation stuff a challenge to paint as there are so many little details on them. I will do a showcase of all the painted Griffins at some point soon. 

I have also been out on the moor again - a really good weekend for it (a bit cold on Saturday night mind you)!

The view from Little Mis across to Kings Tor and beyond. 

Ingra Tor (I’m pretty sure). 

Yes Tor and High Willhayes

Kes Tor. 

Hopefully more updates soon - but the better half has plans for the house …

Morts