HotT Battle

 

Well last night down at Britt's we played a HotT game, as the norm Britt wrote the report and i took the pictures.

The King is dead. But hours ago King Trantos headed the Chivalry of Aquilonia in battle against the Undead Hordes that have recently erupted from the wilds of Pictland. Now ‘The Golden Lion’  banner of Aquilonia flutters at half mast in memory of our gallant dead. The Undead Hordes were triumphant! 

   The battle started well.  While greatly outnumbered, our Bossonian longbows destroyed the Giant Rat behemoths on our left flank as the pride of Aquilonian chivalry smashed the Undead Swordsmen and drove them from the central hills. Even the Mercenary Riders on the right stood up to the Undead Knights like heroes and pushed them back. But our brave King was too bold, and while he almost killed the Undead Lord in single combat on the central hill, King Trantos was eventually forced back and slain. With his death, the fighting spirit left the Aquilonian Army. Prince Stanos rallied the men as best he could, but the battle was lost. He regrouped the men at Halliffia Pass. There would be other battles with these Undead Hordes, and next time Aquilonia would be avenged!

   Greg & Trent’s 28mm 72 point  Undead Hordes faced my Aquilonian army tonight in a very beautiful and exciting ‘Hordes of the Things’ battle. A group of 4 hills diagonally bisected the battlefield with a small forest on the far edge of each flank. Greg was the defender and deployed his Undead Hordes and Graveyard Holdfast as my Aquilonians with Knights, Riders, Spears & Bowmen moved forward in 3 hosts to destroy them.  There was heavy fighting across the battlefield, with heavy losses. My Knightly King just kept winning, and advancing after combat. I’d have liked to pull him back, but there was nowhere to do so. Finally he was forced back with no where to go. The Golden Lion banner was seen to waver, and then go down, surrounded by Undead Hordes. Many of his companion Knights had met a similar fate, and the loss of the King spelt the end of Aquilonian fortunes in this battle. There would be others, next Monday to be exact! See you guys then as Aquilonia tries to redeem its tarnished honour! Great game tonight and good fun. Greg & Trent deserved their victory.

Anyway enjoy and may the dice roll high for you.

Regards

Greg

Battletech Report

 

Well finally got a game in on Monday night with Britt, any ways he wrote the report and i took the pictures.

   Greg & Trent arrived at 7PM for our much delayed Battletech rematch. It turned out to be a Halloween horror story of its own as “Trent’s Terrors”, a  200 ton Merc force employed by House Davion, attempted to defend Carson’s World from a similar force of ‘Sharp Shooters” from House Marik.

Trent’s Terrors:  Cicada, Zeus, & Awesome.

Sharpshooters: Atlas, Two Hunchbacks.

   The battlefield was a long valley with a stream on either side with a tall promontory called Patch’s Peak on the northern end. It was here that Trent’s Terrors deployed, with the Sharpshooters coming in from the south.

   As the Sharpshooters advanced up the valley, with the Atlas in the lead, the Terrors dispatched the Cicada down the eastern flank under cover of a light wood there. This forced the Sharpshooters to peel off one of the Hunchbacks (Grey Ghost) to reverse and deal with this threat. This proved a much tougher assignment than envisioned!  Both the Atlas & the other Hunchback (Blackie) now began to take damage from the Zeus & Awesome atop Patch’s Peak and in wooded cover, but suffered only lightly though they did no damage in return.  Grey Ghost got some solid hits into the Cicada’s Centre torso, but return PPC fire proved deadly as two critical engine hits rendered Grey Ghost “walking wounded”. A charge attack was easily avoided as well. The main column of the Sharpshooters moved on, seeking cover at the base of Patch’s Peak, but this proved only moderately effective. Both sides scored some telling damage on the other.

   The Cicada, seeing the wounded Hunchback no threat to the defenders on the Peak, raced to rejoin its friends. But Grey Ghost still had some teeth, if no legs and a lucky shot at the departing Cicada caused an ammo explosion that was both beautiful and horrible to behold.

   Back on top of the Peak, things had gotten ‘up close and personal’. The Black Hunchback & Atlas ascended to the top and the dirty business of point blank firing took its toll. Blackie lost its AC20, and a lot of armor.  Even the Atlas was taking hits at an alarming rate. But the Awesome keeled over from hits, and then the Zeus, fighting heroically to the end, at last fell to the Atlas.

   Victory, but a very costly one. Neither Hunchback would be operational again without extensive repairs, and even the mighty Atlas had shed as much armor as it had left. With a toast of respect to their fallen foes, the Sharpshooters shambled north to claim their prize.

   Excellent nights gaming Greg & Trent. Most enjoyable.

Any ways may the dice roll high for you

Greg

REST OF THE DW STUFF

 

Well manage to paint the land forces and specials for DW, so on with the show

THE SPECIALS FOR THE FSA AND EotBS

land forces FOR THE FSA AND EotBS

hope the dice roll high for you.

Greg

Warmachine 2 player box starter

 

Well I have manage to paint the start forces from the two player box set( I brought the other forces from EBay since Dean took the Menths). Any ways on with the show.

Khador forces

Menoth forces

I will pick up a few other items for the forces but that will be later on, after a few games with the above forces. May the dice roll high

Greg