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Wednesday, 12 July 2023

An epic Ork and Space Marine Battle

 This game was really a trial game to test out our house rules. Below is the line-up, we weren't to phased about points, we just wanted the game to progress enough to test out our house rules.

Initial line up across the board

Ork horde starts it's charge.

View from the Ultra Marine ranks

Mega Nobz charge directly through the centre.

Ork Horde and Warboss move up the right flank with a Deffdread in support.

Captain on the hill gives the scout snipers the go ahead to fire. 
Left flank horde attack gets devastated with sniper fire.

Right flank horde attack gets whittled down by the tactical squad and then finished off by sniper fire to follow the other horde. All in all, the scout snipers are very effective at distance.

Mega Nobz continue their charge.

Finally, a bad Ork dice roll

Tactical squad splits into 2 sections to join the Terminators to deal with the right flank

After the Tactical squad and snipers deal with the right flank horde, the Terminators now face the might of the Mega Nobz (hoping for good dice rolls).

It was not to be! Another bad Space Marine dice roll!

Followed by a rather good Ork dice roll! This was the way the dice tended to go.

The Deff Dread joined into support the Nobz. The Ironclad Dreadnought joins in the battle.

And another anything but a one, delivers two ones!

Deffdread on Dreadnought. The Dreadnought triumphed.

The final battle on turn7. The Orks triumph and kill the Space Marine Captain. At this point, the Orks had lost two hordes and the space marines had lost their tactical squad and Terminators as well as their Captain, leaving the wounded Dreadnought and Scouts. An Ork Victory.

Tuesday, 6 June 2023

Remembering D Day - If we don't remember them, who will?

D-Day 06 June 1944 -Lest we forget!

Normandy landings

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Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Some older 20mm gaming pics

This is one of the first games I played when we were still using 20mm. 
It was a North African battle.
For the full battle report see the featured pages 20mm battle report pdf
 All terrain is scratch built and figures were a combination of Airfix and Revel.
The station was modelled on the El Alamein station
The table was constructed of modelled tiles with added features
such as the oasis and the house for added detail
The water in the oasis was made from layers of varnish.
 The palm trees were made from pipe cleaners and thin painted cardboard leaves.
The reeds are pine needles coated with resin
Three Panzer II's move into firing position
German Afrika Korps section taking cover behind a low wall
British 8th Army section finding cover to return fire
Bren Gunner taking up position
British light Vickers tanks outflanked by two Mark III's
German advance through the Oasis
The nice thing with the 20mm figures was the detail and the Airfix and Revel desert figures were really lovely figures to work with. The downside was the space to play a big battle and 15mm gives more options from a space point of view,