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evilstu 5 years, 10 months ago.
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Two SSU Walkers done and a Lavrentiy Beria tank (a man introduced to the USA by the USSR as “our Himler”).
Got a surprise today when my Battlefield Accessories MDF Middle East Terrain arrived in the post.
Two Small buildings, One large one and a compound which will do nicely for my Sudanese Wargaming next year.
@evilstu thankfully there is a big bottle of Gorrila Wood Glue sitting waiting for the project to start, photographs will come as I get time to build it.
Got some hobby Christmas present from friends at the Club last night, including Chewie and the Wookies, time to pull some arms off! Guess they will hit the build table fairly soon.
In terms of last night I played Legion against one of my best mates, we had a blast although we did get a couple of rules wrong. It looked bad for the Imperials at one point as my Airspeeder ran rampant across the back of his AT-ST and hosing his stormtrooper. Luke charged into combat with Vader, who showed him how weak he was in the force – although this did keep Vader from the rebel trooper. Han on the other side of the board was scaring stormtroopers away. However, the AT-ST (which is were we got one of the rules wrong) was dealing massive damage to my main squads. At the end I had very little left but there was enough to force a draw. I was going to take pictures as the battle progressed but only managed to take one at the end of the first turn and a close up of my Airspeeder (I need to paint the rear guns and varnish to finish it off).
Whelp, I’ve had a bit of a banner set of deliveries turn up this morning hobby-wise, plus a copy of Myke Cole’s The Armoured Saint which I keep hearing good things about that’ll be burnt through tomorrow no doubt 😉
So I have some painting already planned for today, then tomorrow morning the Biostrip will be put to good use reclaiming some minis picked up on the cheap (including one of the old metal Venerable Dreadnoughts that still has a certain something over the plastic kit to my mind, as great as that kit is itself…), a bit of priming to prep other projects, and I may add my TAK to that pile as I’ve finished building the Strelok K-9 team this morning….
Work on monday, but should be a shorter shift as we’ve de-camped ops off-site and there is no night work going out with little inbound stock to worry about 🙂 . Otherwise I’m going to relish the first 2-day Christmas break I’ve had in who knows how long to chill, maybe catch up on some podcasts, a bit of reading (still 10 books to get through before the 1st for my reading challenge – 94 down!), probably spend far too much time on the Facetime watching my niece & nephew go mental opening prezzies 😀
So on the off-chance I don’t get back on here before Tuesday, I hope all of you have a very Merry Christmas, good fortune for the New Year, and thank you for keeping me engaged in the hobby and the community through these threads. It has been very much appreciated, you utter bunch of madcases 😀
So. Last night’s star saga session was a bit of a mixed bag. The players enjoyed it but as the Nexus player (the GM) it feels really one sided. So much so that I have passed feedback to Mantic about it. We played three missions and by the end of thd third mission I hadn’t managed to even come close to hitting the victory conditions. The Nexus always seems to have a victory condition of “cripple x heroes” which is basically just take them out of action. The problem is that in almost every situation the heroes roll 3-4 times the number of dice that minions roll and on a turn by turn basis they have more activations. As the nexus, despite having more models available you activate less of them AND they’re significantly less effective. Compared to its predecessor, Dungeon Saga, I have to say it felt far to easy for the heroes. It even got to the stage where the heroes where actively ignoring the bad guys because, quote, “we can take their attacks”
Hobby on hold now for a few days. But doing my best to start getting into the festive spirit
Cheers
@jodain that’s issues 15 to 18 came in today. Came with (respectively) the Biologus Putrifier, Primaris sprue containing 2 Intercessors, 2 Hellblasters and 1 Inceptor, another container sprue, and the last one was a play mat plus pots of Rakarth Flesh 7 Mephiston Red. 15 & 16 are probably the best value, £7.99 for a character and the same for 5 Astartes. Looks like next week is Lord Felthius and the Blightlord Terminators, so another character and three elite troops. I’m tempted to order an extra issue for conversion fodder….
Got the bases drybrushed & edged on the Knights, so barring stuff ican come back to later (like transfers) these two are pretty much done I’d say 🙂
and put a bit more work into the Wolves:
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