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Post by Baldie on Feb 13, 2021 9:52:59 GMT
Happy Birthday! Another swing of the scythe of time as you shuffle closer to the end of the mortal coil. Please ensure you only use artificial candles on your cake, We must all do our bit to stem global warming! Is the elephant running out?
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Post by Baldie on Feb 13, 2021 8:45:01 GMT
..nobody wished me a happy birthday today. (It’s bad enough that I didn’t receive any Valentine's Day cards this year...yet again...) Congratulation Stevie, you have allowed yet another year fall through the hour glass as you battle on towards the inevitable end. Still we may all get to meet in Gaming Valhalla where both players win, there are no unpainted figures and dice have six sixes. I for one am also interested in seeing how they handle the rules for rossing the river styx.
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Post by Baldie on Feb 12, 2021 21:51:02 GMT
...so ban Xyston and other oversized minis... ...or have Xyston only tournaments... (“I didn’t invent oversized figures”) I will be very interested to see you try to ban this oversized figure
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Post by Baldie on Feb 9, 2021 21:32:47 GMT
However if I was to what would I buy
I like the Museum miniatures wagon looks good but not the figs Medus/Alternate swivel gun looks great. Is it a case of mix and match of stuff?
What you fine people think?
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Post by Baldie on Feb 9, 2021 21:03:24 GMT
Cheers for hosting the games today Mark
Post Mongol Samurai vs Hussites
Game 1 I played the Samurai and decided to forgo the choice of the double cav general pincushion option. I had not played with or against the Hussies before so was excited for the game. Mark slaughtered me.
Game 2 I got to play the Hussites. This time Mark made me believe I could win by allowing some of his lads to get popped by bow fire from the wagons. This however was to lull me into a sense of adventure and daring do just before he capped my General for a glorious Samurai victory.
Brill games may even hav a pop at hussites as they are so different toowt else I have.
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Post by Baldie on Feb 6, 2021 7:50:59 GMT
Khaine will be pleased.
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Post by Baldie on Feb 5, 2021 21:28:11 GMT
Should roast his chitlings
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Post by Baldie on Feb 4, 2021 21:36:25 GMT
Started watching the chat, enjoyed it and will listen to rest whilst painting. Really two chums chatting should be in a cosy pub, sitting in Chesterfield chairs with a brandy to hand but these are difficult times.
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Post by Baldie on Feb 4, 2021 21:28:11 GMT
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” as they say... ...but I do dislike rulesets that use a bucket of dice that are dumped on the table. I’ve seen some rules where there were more dice on the wargames table than figures! (Ok, an exaggeration perhaps, and I’ve been told a billion times not to exaggerate )Tokens for me I have seen games played with buckets of tokens and markers for everything. Figures inhaling, quick put on a token. Unit looks right, token I am thinking what to do, not without a bloody token your not Selecting a token, but you dont have the token to say you can collect a token All this of course pales in comparison to those criminal minds who are prepared to roll different dice in different size and colour. If 20 Empire Crossbowmen are firing there should be 20 16mm square sided opaque dice to hand, preferably in a colour matching the look of the army. Soviets should have red shock/ pin dice DAK Yellow, Wermacht black etc Glitter dice where you can barely make out the pips NO
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Post by Baldie on Feb 4, 2021 19:01:05 GMT
DBA Amazing quick play game to smack out four or five games on a club night. Sitting at a tourney you win great, you lose and fifteen min later you are playing again so go for a stroll round the bring and buy. Awesome to build armies for as only 12 elements so you can even do a force you would not be interested in doing a DBMM sized game. Clearly I love it
DBMM only played once, enjoyed it and will play more but never went near pre battle set up. Weather, supplies, dirty back stabbing plots etc. As I understand it the 100 point mini games play like DBA but different outcomes if you are attacker or defender each phase
Lart Amazing game but has more planning of division placement flank attacks, ambushes etc and units have wounds so heavy coog with armour stick around longer than skirmish troops. It has evades, retreat from combat and Psiloi with ranged weapons. I really like it but one or two games a night max. Sitting at a tourney getting three games a day you feel the mental workout
Impetus 2 I am only about 6 games in so not started on the dtrategems etc but I really like it and it plays differently enough to everything else that it feels like a different game. Shooting is much more powerful in this than anything else I have played and I think a LH archer force would have a decent chance of a win on a big enough board. I also play it in 6mm which looks great.
To the strongest, def no expert as only played a few games. Seems simpler to me, with the grid I think it would be great at a show, you remember those right, cos you can play a mass army and move em around simply to get a decently timed game in. I am not a fan of grid movement myself.
Hail Ceasar, love this to and is a simple game.
Milites Mundi only had one game and did not like it though this may have been because loss of one unit on my flank and like a wave I lost about six units. We may have played it wrong of course.
SAGA again an awesome game but obs alot different as it is a skirmish game. Makes my heed hurt sometimes trying to think of a cunning use of battle board whilst trying to work out how will use their board to ruin my day.
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Post by Baldie on Feb 2, 2021 19:00:00 GMT
That seems a reasonable amount of snow for sure. Good luck with the Vikings I am part way through basing up enough for a Lart force, a chum painted em for me and mighty fine they are too.
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Post by Baldie on Feb 1, 2021 12:47:50 GMT
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Post by Baldie on Jan 30, 2021 21:55:11 GMT
Ok so after a wait of about two and a half years I have finally done another report for you tube. Those of you who have become accustomed to the cinematic delights of Tony and his chums be prepared this production is more like an Ealing Comedy than a Warner Bros Block Buster It is however one of the most enjoyable games of DBA ish I have ever played More to follow hopefully youtu.be/8xIqemTW_0o
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Post by Baldie on Jan 30, 2021 13:53:47 GMT
Superb game with a few twists tonight. Intend to do a full report this weekend. ...and no teasers as to who the combatants were? Me and Terry
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Post by Baldie on Jan 30, 2021 9:58:07 GMT
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