Posts Tagged ‘Battle Reports’

Strange Aeons demo game AAR

Posted on June 18th, 2013 under , . Posted by

Anatoli

Anders at our club asked me to demo the game since he was thinking about making a companion thing out of it for his Trail of Cthulhu RPG games – or something like that. So I dusted off some of my old demo game notes and profiles from a few years back a…

By Fire & Sword: pictures from demo games

Posted on June 15th, 2013 under , . Posted by

Anatoli

I ran a couple of demo games down at the club last weekend, introducing the game to Magnus, Johan and Christian. Johan and Christian have already bought into the game through kickstarter and are awaiting their stuff to show up, Magnus is thinking about…

Battle: Kommander Strakhov, Lord Arcanist Ossyan

Posted on June 14th, 2013 under , , , , , , , , , . Posted by

Seth obliged me with a 25 point game wherein I tested out my Highlander list. He, however, did not play the Highlander, so you might find the battle report a little skewed. Anyway, my Highlander list was a Strakhov one with Conquest, Gun Carriage, Ba…

Star Wars X-wing: Den of Thieves AAR

Posted on June 14th, 2013 under , . Posted by

Anatoli

Ran a demo of X-wing for David down at the club, we played through the 3 starter scenarios using the 1 starter set, then moved on to play a large 100 points battle – and finished by playing the “Den of thieves” scenario that is included  with the …

NUTS Big Hurt Campaign Scenario 5 – Video AAR 3/3

Posted on June 12th, 2013 under , , , . Posted by

Did we succeed and rescue the girl? Did we fail? Those are the questions you probably have as we reach the third and final instalment of Scenario 5 of the Big Hurt Campaign. Well let me not leave you in suspense any longer. Here is the final episode: Of course, this wargame campaign would not [...]

NUTS Big Hurt Campaign Scenario 5 – Video AAR 2/3

Posted on June 12th, 2013 under , , , . Posted by

Sergeant Jones and his men continue their fight to save the wounded Belgian informant in the second video in the NUTS Battle Report series.
Here they get into a fire fight with the sniper, but who will emerge victorious?
You’ll have to press play…

NUTS Big Hurt Campaign Scenario 5 – Video AAR 1/3

Posted on June 11th, 2013 under , , . Posted by

Now that I have started to get the hang of my video editing software, I thought I’d have a go at doing the next instalment of the NUTS Big Hurt Campaign in a video format. Doing a wargaming AAR in a video format proved quite challenging. Not so much in the setting up of the [...]

Battle: Vladimir Tzepesci the Great Prince of Umbrey vs. Ravyn Eternal Light, 50 points

Posted on June 11th, 2013 under , , , , , , , , , . Posted by

Seth and I played a game where I fielded the Prom King against his Ravyn.

I didn’t have the second unit of Uhlans yet, so I fielded it as a standard list wherein I built around Vlad3, Fenris, Doomreavers, Drago, and Conquest. The list just kind of w…

Battle Report – Dark Elves vs Empire: Battle One

Posted on June 8th, 2013 under , , , , , , . Posted by

I smell a battle comingLord Xanthus looked at his small warband and grinned: The small human village would bring him enough slaves to refill the flock in his mines. The only thing between him and his slaves were those pesky human soldiers who readied t…

Descent 2nd ed: Campaign games part 1

Posted on June 7th, 2013 under . Posted by

Anatoli

Well, having owned Descent 2nd edition for quite a while now I still had not played through the entire campaign. So a couple of days ago I mustered the energy to post a notice at the club about running a full campaign over the next couple of weeks – th…

Battle: Supreme Kommadant Irusk vs. Skarre Queen of the Broken Coast, 50 points

Posted on June 5th, 2013 under , , , , , , , . Posted by

It’s been a year, but I played my Heavy Armor Battalion list against Lauren Fahey’s epic Skarre list with predictable results.

I say predictable because I forget basic things like, oh, making Tactical Supremacy moves at the end of the turn with the …

Vikings Invade Las Vegas: NATC Day 3: The Final Wreckening

Posted on June 4th, 2013 under , , . Posted by

Laughing Ferret

So this is it.  Last Day of the North American Team Championship for Blood Bowl.But it’s not over until Fat-Elvis sings. Three more games left.  On the final day teams add their last 2 additional skills: 1 doubles, 1 regular.I added my second…

IMPACT part II

Posted on June 3rd, 2013 under , , , . Posted by

Hoi,Here it is; the much awaited sequel to my IMPACT convention coverage. I’ll try an attempt to report the battle JW and yours truly fought on the day. We’d decided early on that we would be doing an 7YW game. JW proposed to do an Imaginations game: m…

By Fire & Sword: Ambush AAR

Posted on June 2nd, 2013 under , . Posted by

Anatoli

Despite difficult schedules Andreas and I managed to squeeze in a game of By Fire & Sword this Saturday.

For a change, the Polish skirmish force was weaker than the Swedish detachment:

Polish 1650-66 Skirmish list: 9FSP

Colonel: 4 command points…

Vikings Invade Las Vegas: NATC Day 2 Games Report: The Pummeling

Posted on June 2nd, 2013 under , , . Posted by

Laughing Ferret

Continuing on with the coverage of the North American Team Championship of Blood Bowl, 2013.If you missed Day 1 or the Pre-event coverage, just go back to the two previous updates to catch up.The first proper night out in Vegas mostly consisted of walk…

Battle Report: Chaos Marines vs Grey Knights

Posted on June 1st, 2013 under , , , , , . Posted by

Thor

I have not done one of these in a long time but now that I’m coming out of my funk it’s time to toss one up. Anyway, on Wednesday I faced off against Grey Knights in a practice game, for … Continue reading →The post Battle Repo…

Vikings Invade Las Vegas: NATC Day 1 Games Report: Day of the Elves

Posted on June 1st, 2013 under , , . Posted by

Laughing Ferret

Continuing on from the last update’s coverage, we come to Day 1 of the NATC where the Fjord Furies, Norse Dwarves, and their brave compatriots of the West Coast Chaostriches readied to face the squads fate would throw at us.The way pairings worked was …

Video Tutorial: NUTS World War Two Wargaming Complete

Posted on May 31st, 2013 under , , , . Posted by

Those of you following the blog will know we’ve been posting a NUTS video tutorial up, with a couple of videos ever day. There are five videos in the series and they show you how to play this World War … Continue reading

NUTS WW2 Skirmish Wargame Tutorial – Video 5/5

Posted on May 31st, 2013 under , , , . Posted by

Hi again everyone. Well here we have the final instalment of our NUTS tutorial video series that teaches you how to play this World War Two wargame from Two Hour Wargames. In this video we are going to look at … Continue reading

NUTS WW2 Skirmish Wargame Tutorial – Video 4/5

Posted on May 31st, 2013 under , , , . Posted by

The battle continues as the US soldiers do their best to storm the farm and prevent the Germans from bringing their MG42 into play. The Germans continue to hold out, redeploying their weapon in the hope of dealing death through … Continue reading

NUTS WW2 Skirmish Wargame Tutorial – Video 3/5

Posted on May 30th, 2013 under , , , . Posted by

Things are certainly warming up with the ongoing battle for the house as we continue our series of tutorial videos that explain how to play the World War Two skirmish wargame NUTS. We have shown turn sequence, firing, reactions, morale … Continue reading

NUTS WW2 Skirmish Wargame Tutorial – Video 2

Posted on May 30th, 2013 under , , , . Posted by

Hi everyone, we are continuing our NUTS tutorial series of videos right here, with the action moving along after one US rifleman was shot. Remember, the World War Two scenario being used for this wargaming tutorial is Scenario 1 from … Continue reading

NUTS WW2 Wargame Tutorial – Video 1

Posted on May 29th, 2013 under , , , . Posted by

I’ve done quite a bit of posting about NUTS, the World War Two skirmish wargame from Two Hour Wargames. I am currently playing the Big Hurt campaign which is chronicled on this blog, as well as having offered up a … Continue reading

Fountain of Souls – Post Event

Posted on May 26th, 2013 under , , , . Posted by

For some reason, the Fountain of Souls had very few early signups, leaving the event in limbo as to would it run or not.  We had only 4 confirmed attendees a week ahead of the event.  As a result, the normal cog trophies were not a viable prize due to their high cost not being […]

Fountain of Souls – Gameplay Gallery

Posted on May 26th, 2013 under , , . Posted by

On 25th May, we had our first story encounter for Malifaux: the Fountain of Souls.
Due to odd numbers, I had to play on the day, so there isn’t that many pictures of the event.  I know some of the other players might have photos.