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Stargrave - Cloudy with a chance of plague

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  Background Several colony worlds have suffered from an outbreak of sickness. This disease is highly contagious, and planetary governments are trying to implement lockdowns and movement restrictions and curfews to contain the spread of the disease. However, a large number of independent spacer crews have ignored these restrictions and are moving around as normal. Some have even made planet fall on infected planets to rescue high paying passengers. Medical teams have identified that the mineral Pyrethium is a key catalyst in the making of a vaccine. However, this mineral is rare. A search of survey and exploration archives have identified that deposits or Pyrethium were identified on the planet Tranzilor. The planet Tranzilor Tranzilor was the scene of sustained and intense fighting during the last Great War. Many parts of the planets are now burn scarred by weapons of immense destructive power. Worse, widespread use of biogenetic weapons left long lasting scars on the sc...
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Hobby Update - The Road to Adepticon part 3

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I am playing in the Saga age of Chivalry event at Adepticon. Of course, this meant I needed a new army and the new army book along with the appropriate Saga dice. I'm taking an English Army, based on the Lewes and Evesham battles during one of England's many civil wars.  This models are made from the Wargames Atlantic Medieval peasants. You can make them with more farm implements for a real horde or with more sensible weapons. The Warlord and Hearthguard are from Footsore miniatures Barons War range. Here is an overview of the army. I have 5 points of warriors and 1 point of Hearthguard. The Warlord and his bodyguard. Some of the archers. I have enough for 3 units. Some more archers and some of the spearmen. The Wargames Atlantic models take paint well and I used contrast paint for several of the colours.
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Kill Team - why you should always worship Nurgle

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 My second league game was against Matt and his chaos cult. So, chaos worshippers were assured of winning this one. We were playing on Bheta Decima. I thought this was the best terrain for me to face a lightly armoured melee team on. I replaced the Grenadier with the Heavy Gunner for this game. Looking at the map I decided to send one operative to attack the far objective, this would force the cultists to allocate a significant number of bodies to ensure thy kept control of this objective. In the end they allocated four cultists. This left 9 to fight 5 marines. I sent the heavy gunner to attack this objective via the overhead gantry I allocated the Icon Bearer and Warrior to the home objective supported by some Razor wire to block charge lanes. This gave the Icon Bearer the easiest path to get over the halfway line and cast contagion for free in turn 2. I allocated the Plague Caster, Champion and Fighter to the central objective. Unless the cult made a serious push for the objectiv...
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Kill Team - the Pustulent 7

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Between League games I got in a bonus game against Lance and his circle of Necrons. Again, the Heavy gunner was benched. The mission was Intelligence, where you tap the objectives to put points on them and once they have points on them you can pick them up. The operative in control of the objective at the end of the game scores it for their side. Here we are ready to storm the neutral objective. The Warrior and Plague caster are supported by the Bombardier. I have put down a free ploy of cloud of flies to make it even harder to shoot the plague marines. Here is the view of the Necrons opposite my warriors Here are the marines on the other side. And the Necrons opposing them. The Plague Marine fighter moves forwards and secure the near objective. The Champion, Bombardier and Icon Bearer move to threaten the central objective. The poor Deathmark is facing off against half the Plague Marine team. The Warrior and Psycher have made it to the neutral objective. The Deathmark opposing them ha...
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