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Armageddon - Repelling the Goblin raiders

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Here we have the band of brave adventurers. We have Harry the Hammer, Sir Luke the Lionheart, Croman the Barbarian, a Cleric, a Wizard and a Warlock. We used D&D rolls to generate the stats of the characters and then used the characteristic modifiers to convert to Rangers of Shadow Deep style attributes.  Here is the peaceful and sleepy village of Dunny on the Marsh The Goblins have surrounded the village and are trying to herd everyone into the middle so they can collect their tribute. The Heroes or at least some of them are entering through the trees at the bottom. Battle is soon joined with the Rat Goblin tribe and the heroes. Sire Luke leads his lionhearts into the fight while most of the villagers flee from the goblins, Harry and Croman have fought their way through most of the nearest goblins. More goblins arrive but find themselves enscorcelled with a magical sleep spell. As the Heroes close in the last two surviving goblins flee cackling threats. The Heroes have tracked...
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Adepticon - Saga - not all one way traffic.

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It turns out there were 4 English armies in the Saga event and there were at least the same number of Swiss. The Swiss were widely regarded as a powerful faction. This mission was about holding 3 objectives across the center line of the table. The strategy is about where to concentrate your force and where to put only a small amount of effort. The initial effort goes well the spear warriors move up and drive back one unit of Swiss. One the right flank, things don't go quite so well. The Swiss unit stomped over and kicked my warriors back from the objective. It wasn't all one way the Swiss were down from 10 to 6 warriors. If I could kill off some mroe they would not be a scoring and I could get back the objective. The Swiss counterattack throws back the English Warriors, My Warlord chased off the Crossbowmen, The English Heathguard advance to take up the attack. We go in and beat up the Swiss but bounce off. My archers are hiding behind stakes and shooting at the Swiss opposite ...
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Adepticon - Saga Age of Chivalry

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  On the Thursday I played in the Saga Age of Chivalry event. This is the latest set of rules, so I needed to paint a new army. I had some Wargames Atlantic medieval peasants that I needed to paint so my army is made of those and some dismounted knights from Footsore miniatures. The English army is influenced by longbows and has plenty of shooting abilities. In the first game I was playing the internet famous RodgeRules. He was organising the event so I wondered if I was considered the most unreliable attendee. Rodge was using Germans so heavily armoured Knights and infantry and a unit of peasants with Crossbows. Here is most of the English army. The 2 D terrain was surprisingly immersive. It also solves the problems of models falling off and its very easy for the umpire to bring to an event. Here are some of ze Germans. A Warlord, mounted knights on barded horses, some foot hearthguard and some foot warriors on the other side are more knights and the peasant crossbows. Here is the...
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Adepticon - Stargrave

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 I was using my Dr Who themed warband at Adepticon. These were inspired by the Episode, Day of the Daleks. I have the Dr a Time Walker and the Aristocratic Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, some unit troopers a time traveling resistance fighter and the St Trinians hockey team. All these models are Crooked Dice. Here are some shots from an adjacent table. This is an interesting layout with the buildings on one side and the vegetation on the other. I think this is what Real Estate agents call a semi-rural aspect. Although after these battles, property values will be down significantly  This was a 4-player game, and the participants seemed to know what they are doing. They were using the Side Hustle cards as well as trying to complete the mission. I'm not sure what range of models this team is from, but they look nice. Here is the Dr and Co. We have laid down a protective forcefield to protect the advance. Alice has run forwards to grab one of the objectives just as fast as her littl...
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