Rumble with the brambles

So this is new to me, Rachel actually ASKED to play Warcry. Well actually she wanted to play a game with me either this or Shadespire which we haven't played that I sometime so the rules are getting a bit fuzzy now... Guess we should play that again too... Oh well too late. 

Where was I? Oh right! Rachel initiated a Warcry game with me! I have been doing a bit (okay a lot)of hobby sprawl into the basement so I can paint while watching TV or hang out with Rachel as she plays Animal Crossing. Maybe this is how Rachel gets me to clean up the table in the basement...... Either way, clean table and WARCRYYY!!

Those dastardly Khorne Hounds were at it again! Always burying their bones, the blood of their fallen enemies tainting the grounds, making it impossible for any new life to ground. The sylvaneth had enough, they needed to seek out the bones and burn them, teaching their bad doggies that this was their territory!

Rachel had made her list up of 3 dryads, 2 tree revenants, and two bow and one sword kurnoth hunters.

I had the same list as the last game. Four  Flesh hounds, and three bloodletters. (Need to paint the bloodcrushers so I can add them)

Buying only the rules for Warcry, I don't have the cards that are used for setting up terrain, picking deployment, objectives and twists. Those are all in the rule book so I am cheap and just roll dice to determine what our game will be.

This time, our deployment was the unseen blade, both our shields would be setup 12 " away from each other in the center of the map. Both our daggers and hammers would come in round 2  from opposite sides of each other's.

Rachel won the roll for the objective so she was the attacker, her goal was to take out 3 of 6 objectives before the 3rd round. With 9 fighters compared to my 7 I knew I had to act quickly to make sure her Dryads didn't run off to burn objectives.

First round I took the initiative, using a quad roll to do a RAMPAGE! Getting a bonus move and attack as well as my normal move and attack. I rushed one of the dryad, needing two attack rolls to finish it off, also getting in close to the Kurnoth Hunter so it couldn't just shoot twice.

First blood, but the hounds needed to protect their bones.

The second dryad ran over to the objective, later burning it.

Bloodletter could only get close with two moves, but not enough to contest the objective.

The other letter ran over to the far tree to hold that objective.

At the start of round two reinforcements show up on opposite sides of the battlefield, I think I won initiative again. I had to double check with Rachel about the Tree-revenant's ability, they can teleport out of combat up to 5" away from enemies anywhere on the battlefield. Yikes! I sent my bloodletter to attack, but it survived with 2 wounds left!

Khorne daemon getting distracted by combat, typical.

So close, the revenant teleports away, missing both attacks with it's talons. The second tree- revenant would later teleport onto two objective..... The leader of the pack  (vroom vroom) charges a dryad (and the Kurnoth Hunter)., preventing it from holding another objective... off camera in the corner of the ruins.

Shhh sneaky emo boy is hiding

Rachel moved her dryad that had burnt the objective the previous turn into combat with my flesh hound.

Bloodletter joining the fight, note the two unguarded objectives in the top right.

The flesh hound wanted to finish the fight, which would prove my down fall.

My fleshhound and a bloodletter from the turn 2 reinforcements hold the kurnoth hunter in the center to prevent it from capturing the objective.... also getting a bit too into combat.

Rachel advanced her Dryad to the objective and waited, the Khorne dog falling for the bait, trying to remove it from the objective. I think it survived with 3 or so wounds.

Oh right, the Kurnoth Hunter with the sword!

Rachel moves in to discipline the bad dog.

The game ended with Rachel jumping her tree-revenant between the two unguarded objectives I mentioned before, if I didn't focus on combat so much, I would have moved one of my flesh hounds closer to the objective to at least contest it. Guess the dogs will need to find more bones....

"BURN BURN BURN!" Rachel cries upon victory.

Welp! That ended quicker then I thought, most of my turn consisted of hunting down dryads so they couldn't run off to capture objectives. It might've work better if I just sat on the objectives to get her to remove my units. Then her bows would have been shooting twice and that's not nice. Now that we know the rules a bit better this game didn't take too long. Using the terrain I just painted was nice, but I think I'll need to make some scatter terrain for some of the denser boards they have on the cards.

Coming Soon!

I have some D&D models have I have been chipping away at, getting close to being done. One of my friends asked to do a Warhammer 40k game of 2000 points, so I'll probably write that up sometime next week.

Didn't stop to think if they should

It was a bit rainy for a few days so I was able to convince Rachel to play some Dinosaur Island with me.

I bought it as a Christmas gift two years ago. The game can be played as a short, medium or long game. Whenever we played we would pick a short game and as soon as we figured the mechanics out the game was over. It didn't help that we would also get distracted with out SHINY games between playing it. 

This time, we played a short game that we paused as I had to work in the evening. We picked it up the following day and played a medium game right after. It's kind of an engine building game, but not as much as wing span or Scythe. So you'd think I'd be better at it. Right?

My board at the end of the first game, Life..... finds away.

The first game Rachel won by about 13 points. She had a few tourists eaten, but she is a clever girl.....

Rachel pointed out that I accidentally dressed for the game.

The second game we played, Rachel decided to let her visitors get eaten, letting her security slide to capitalize on the large points of having more exciting dinosaurs. I still played it safe. We were about 2 or so points different in the end.

We started to use toy dinosaurs laying around for meeples.

Hooligans jumping to the front of the line and not paying, they also don't get eaten first.

End game shot of Rachel's board for the second game, I think.

Only two points between us!

Glad that we pulled this game out, we were going to pull out Scythe, but Rachel wants to finish off the figures she has been working on and get me to help her clean coat them. Each game is different, with plot twists, objectives and specialists varying each play through.

I haven't been painting a whole lot lately, Rachel picked out some of her extra bits and I made a couple objective markers for her Sylvaneth for the next time we play Warcry. Reading about the Sylvaneth, they seek out soulpods to recruit the souls of old warriors from the World-That-Was, or even Alarielle's dreams, hopes and loves. I figure these soulpods could take any form.

Soulpod objective markers.

More terrain to come, I started the classic first DIY corner terrain a few years ago as well as a Pringles can watch tower (which hopefully will make an appearance on this blog in the near future). Both have sat half completed in my hobby room, till now! 

Lizards for scale! HA!

Did you see that?

Oh? guess it was nothing....

Three pieces of Sector Imperialis, I am calling them done. Looks good for the tabletop which is good enough for me. The photographer was a bit more focus on close ups of the battle instead of the terrain. 

Skitarii fighting off some Harlequin, while the cameraman breaks the fourth wall.

Doubt this would end well...

The kill team board was folded in half, looks like I would need another larger piece of terrain and one or two more smaller ones to fill up a board. I do have a few projects on the go now, finally got my orders from across the pond. (they were ordered in MARCH) I planned to use one order for my D&D session, but hopefully they can be used later.

Coming Soon!

More Terrain? Secret Projects? Maybe Jon will actually paint a damn Necromunda gang? Who really knows?

The Thorn Queen braves the sun

Excited to be finished with the Azyrite Townscape. I bought it after playing our first game of Warcry as I didn't really have any good fantasy terrain. This also got me in the mood to start painting the original Kill Team Starter Terrain (you know the one with Skitarii and Genestealers.... came out two years ago...)

Professional shadow casting

Stormsire Cursebreakers slinging some spells.

I used a pretty quick effect on the ruins, basing them black then dry brushing on Kabalite Green with less emphasis on the lower bricks, then a dry brush of screaming skull. I might need to use this on some of the 40k terrain. 

Really like shooting in the natural light, makes all the colours very vibrant.

Coming Soon!

More terrain! I have the Kill Team stuff sitting on the paint desk right now. Might as well get enough terrain painted to do Kill Team on, I definitely have enough with the starter, death world and half of a STC Ryza-Pattern Ruins from Theta-7 Expansion of Kill Team. Should have a good table worth of terrain if I get through it all.