The Daemon's Claw

One of the other large events we had at call to arms was the ancient wargaming event DBMM. This has been a popular period for the Warlords for as long as I can remember.  These are big armies with a lot of figures and some larger models like wagons, elephants or artillery.  This army even brings its own food trucks to the battle.

We played a second mission, this time the Tau attacking an Imperial installation. The Tau have some great looking planes and even look like a SciFi faction rather than WW1 or 2 planes with more skulls. This is the Tau Strike Force. I was the escort command of three fighters. Its hard to escort bombers that are faster than you. The Tau have giant railguns and ion cannons. The Tau models are Alans and they look very nice. These are the Imperials, they have loads of planes and ground defences. I was used to ground defences being a bit rubbish in first edition but these were quite dangerous. The Tau mission was to blow up two of the three buildings. Alan's attack wing splits out to the right and drops down to altitude 1. Zane's squad swings left and I stay high in the middle because the Thunderbolts look a bit more dangerous. We start mixing it up with the Thunderbolts and it looks like one has already gone down. Alan's group is engaging the Lightnings and a Thunderbolt Zane

Russell was running his Team Yankee WW3. These games look spectacular with huge swarms of Helicopters buzzing about. Russell was using his East Germans. This is their base area, you can tell because its full of Russian built AFVs. This is the NATO defenders base area, you can tell because its full of Warshaw Pact Frontal aviation. Some more great looking tables packed full of armoured vehicles. Some

 They go upty up up and downty down down. (usually in flames or scattered over a wide area) Thomas, Alan, Richard and I played a coupe of games of Aeronautica. This isn't a game we have payed in a long time so it was a great chance to play a different game. Many of us have nostalgia or a large collection of models from the first edition. The first mission had some noble Imperial flyers ambushed by some vile Orks. Here are the Imperial pilots on patrol, this is a mixed formation of Lightnings and Thunderbolts. The Imperial pilots are preparing their break turns. Sneaking up behind the Imperial are a multi coloured horde of Orks. Beware of the Waargh in the sun. The Thunderbolts have cranked around into a hard turn. On reflection this was a rookie move, I should have broken long and used a half loop to turn about and have more distance between me and the Orks. I did manage to climb above the Orks, where they could not easily follow. This also saved me from a number of hits The lighti

Last weekend the Warlords held our annual convention Call to Arms. We had about 115 participants playing in a number of different events and participation games. This year the Saga tournament has 12 people. This was divided into two pools of 6, each pool playing either Age of Crusades or Age of Vikings. Here are some photos from that event. The games looked like a mix of skirmishing, especially with Irish and Welsh and some axe to the face games with Pagan Rus and Vikings.     

I played another game of the Alien TTRPG with an international online crew. We completed the mission but the got completely screwed over by our boss. Very Alien. I have also been painting some Star Wars Imperial Assault models. Here are some Wampa Ice Creatures, these could be useful for both Stargrave and Frostgrave. Here are some Imperial Snow Troopers. I have been trying to paint white using different base colours. the cloth I painted using Deck Tan and Ivory. The armour I painted using a white grey base. Trying to make different whites represent different materials. I also painted the two Wampas using the same different formulas for a slight variation.