Penticton

   In an effort to spend quality time with Rachel's mom, her family booked a trip together to Penticton. Rachel's sister has a house there with her family. I was nice to have other kids for Rosalind to interact with. Cousin One is a 4 year old with a plethora of energy (what four year old doesn't?) and Cousin Two is 6 days younger then Rosie but isn't yet walking. 

    

    We drove to Edmonton to catch the plane to BC for $50 each way, how crazy is that? I sure wish Regina had direct routes like that! Not that I'm much of a flyer. I have a fear of highs, which is all fine on an airplane as long as I am not falling out of said aircraft. I actually do enjoy looking out the window and seeing all the mountain ranges and lakes and bonkers flat prairies when we land back in Alberta. 

    Before this year and last year,  I had only been to BC once. When I was 10, my family drove to Vancouver. We spent time at the Butchard Gardens, rode a ferry to the island and rented a cabin in Ninaimo, BC. There was also some visiting of Uncles and Great Aunts throughout the trip.

    In Penticton, there are bike lanes all around! Electric bikes are fairly common on the paths. I originally thought that took away from the experience, the point of a bike is to be fit and go places right? I wasn't thinking of major health problems as you age or whatever the case. Electric bikes assist those who need it and the more bikes on the road the better the infrastructure, hopefully. Some people are opposed to the bike lanes, on the board walk, there was a lady with a bristle board complaining about the bike lanes in small print. Who are you talking to? The tourists? Like that's going to change anything!

    Anyways! Bikes are great PERIOD. Rachel and I did manage to get some board games in with some of the family. We played Five Tribes, which we both haven't played, and Wingspan. 

    Five Tribes I had hear was good, and it is. I think the "worker placement" part of the game is a great change of pace for the traditional pick what you want to do type games. Instead you pick up any group of works on a tile and spread them out like bread crumbs from the original tile. On the last tile you pick up all the same coloured meeples as the last meeple in the line. Each colour is a different action to play out. Rachel beat me by 2 points with the other players being about 20 and 40 points more, not too bad for our first times.

    Wingspan is one of the only board game that Rachel's sister will play. We had some odd end of game bonuses, like Birds looking Right. Which I focused almost exclusively on throughout the game. Rachel won, of course, but the scores were 105,106, 107 and 111, the 107 being mine. That's only one more round of laying eggs or one more bird! Crazy! The copy of Wingspan also had 3D printed token holder and bird house action selection markers, linked for the Wingnuts out there. I might've sent those files to my local library that night to be printed so they would be ready when I returned home.

    We went on hikes through the forests, one which had a stream running parallel to the path. Swam in the lakes, and took in a farmer's market as well as visited family and such. 

So proud of her stick!

Discovering puddles on our morning walk

    There was a lot of down time for me during the evening, as I would stay and watch Rosalind so Rachel could visit with her family more. This meant that I surfed eBay quite a bit, and found a listing for some Imperial Guard Sentinels. Four Sentinels for the price of one new one.... ish. They aren't in the best shape, after putting in an offer and getting it accepted, I thought maybe these were metal Sentinels not described as such in the listing. They arrived a couple days ago and wasn't the case. 

    Sentinels are one of my favourite vehicles from the Imperial Guard line. I owned one sentinel before buying this lot so now I have 5! These would make for a good combat patrol, scouting out the frontline for the heavy support. Seeing as I picked up Sly Marbo for the previous edition of Kill Team and the store reopening/ support independent model, the Catachan Colonel. I think building a small Catachan force might be in my future if new models from GW come out or I find decent 3rd party miniatures.

    The weekend I got back from BC, I was able to go to a Warcry Tournament at our local GW store. Got three games in with my Slaanesh Daemons, with an ally of Vasillac the Gifted. 

Setup all original starter set Warcry Terrain

    The first round, I was paired against a warband made up of units from the Cursed City box. The blood born vampires, the one perched on ruins on it's base, were able to keep up with Slaansesh speed wise and did some good damage. The ogre was very tanky, taking them out wasn't an option. I mainly went for the objective of getting units off the board, but should have taken out more of his warband to deny him points. Lost the first round.

    I had a buy for round two. Third round I won, as it was a game of keep away against slow orcs. Due to a poor decision of activation, I almost lost the treasure which would have costed me the round. Silly me didn't take pictures, oops!

   At the end of the day we had a battle royal with 500 pts each with five players. Victory went to the warband that was holding the treasure at the end of round four. The other Slaanesh player brought Fiends which are able to climb, unlike my mounted Seekers. Letting him escape over terrain and leaving me in the dust.

View from my starting area

    Death and order had a bit of a grudge match in the opposite corner of the map, mostly due to how slow they both were. 

    This tournament has gotten me excited to keep playing Warcry, even if there is rumoured to be another version coming out this summer. And based on the turn out, two chaos, one order, two death and two destruction warbands) I want to start a Cities of Sigmar flavoured warband. There is a lot of variety and customization that can be added to the warband. A crew from Hammerhal Ghyra might have Stormcast Eternals of the Hallowed Knight or Anvils of Heldenhammer variety or Sylvaneth to aid them, where as the Aqshy might have Ironweld Arsenal at their disposal. What about Anvilguard? Under morathi's control the Daughters of Khaine and Black Arc Corsairs would fit in nicely. Lots of choices! I picked up some Freeguild guard and Crossbowmen from Varagesale for cheap to start with, all I know is this project could get wildly out of hand! I am already looking at the Demigryph Knights longingly.....

Next on the Hobby Desk!

    I plan to join the Season of Scenery Challenge started by Dave Stone which starts on July 1st and runs to August 31st. In the last week of June, I have been finishing up miniatures that were an inch away from finish. Chaos cultists from Blackstone fortress, Metal Slaanesh Fiends and of course continuing with the Character of the Month Challenge, which I am really behind on! I have May finished, just need to post it with a story and June's character is getting close to being done too.

Paths to Glory 3rd Edition Campaign

    With 3rd edition coming out, my friend Michael, wanted to run a paths to glory campaign. Something gentle for us to get used to the new rules - also keeping it open for new players in the area to jump in and learn. 

    We would start in August at a 600pt Vanguard list increasing monthly, September Warband 1k, and by October have a 1500pt Brigade. For August I played one game, a beginner game with Xander. I built my list around cavalry, Bladebringers, Seekers and Daemonettes (for the batteline tax). The Bladebringer  Herald on Exalted Chariot, was 60 points too expensive, so I went with the Bladebringer Herald on Seeker Chariot. Just squeezing into the list at a hefty 190 points! 

    Sslithian Luxsion could feel a ripple in the atmosphere atop of her exalted chariot. There was something stirring in the Realm of Ulgu, their search for their Lord of Excess was communicating to his loyal servants. "Our search is nearing an end." Daraetha Heartslake, the Heartseeker, affirmed to the leader of the Pining Thrust. Sslithian smiled, "Don't be so eager to reach the zenith of our journey so quickly. Ghur is such a wretched place, full of creatures that are blemish on life, murdering and eating, no grace or finesse." Looking over the vegetation littered clearing, kruleboyz camped out gorging their selves on weak prey, no thought or reasoning to their slaughter, she felt the yearning call of her master. His need for overindulgence, massacres, debauchery, idolizers and Sslithian would give all that her master desired, and it wouldn't be a quick death for these fowl foes.

Battlepack

Xander rolled off to see which mission we would be playing, I don't recall the name, and don't have the core rules (only the smaller version - which doesn't include battlepacks or the path to glory rules) But the objective was for the attacking player to get half their force to their opponent's deployment zone. After rolling of for roles, I won and chose to be the attacker. 

Forces

Pining Thrust - Slaanesh

Sslithian Luxsion - Bladebringer Herald on Exalted Chariot (190 pts)

Daraetha Heartslake - Seekers x 10 (300 pts)

Terashon Mhal'Pr'athis - Daemoettes (110 pts)

Total - 600 pts

Da Pale Boys - Kruleboyz

Killaboss on Great Gnashtoof  (200 pts)

Gutrippaz (180 pts)

Hobgrots Slittaz (95 pts)

Man-skewer Boltboyz (120 pts)

Total - 595 pts

    On the initiative, Slaanesh won, also choosing to go first, like the greedy daemons they are. Seekers and Daemonettes advanced up the flanks, they they both could run and still charge later in the turn.

First round setup

Seekers quickly close in on their prey.

    

    Seekers move at 14" and they get to roll 2D6 instead of D6 for their run, making it super easy for them to sprint right across the board in the first turn and charge! Unlike all my other units, the Chariot could instead retreat and charge on the same turn. I moved it up, because caution is for chumps, and my daemonettes, bless their good intentions, tried to tie up the Gutrippaz. 

Chariot hiding till next turn.

    My Seekers and my Daemonettes had charged into battle on the same turn, choosing to attack first with the Seekers, meant that the Daemonettes fought after the Gutrippaz. These cruel orks tore them to shreds with their 6's to hit cause mortal wounds. Xander had rolled 9!? 6s on his first swing. Yeouch! The remaining single Daemonette didn't roll a 1 on her mortal test to blink back more daemons into existence. I forget if she survived for a turn or not, as Depravity Points are based on how many models less a unit has, in this case 9 points! 

    The Seekers did some damage, suffering a couple loses, by the bottom of turn 1, I had around 20 DP. At the end of next turn's movement, my hero could summon one unit to the battlefield. To put this into perspective, a Keeper of Secrets was worth 12 Depravity Points. Lucky for Xander, I am poor and don't own a Keeper, so instead a unit of 5 Seekers were spawned.

Turn 1 Orks

       Gutrippaz charged into combat with the Chariot, lucky for her, there was WAY less 6s being tossed around. Striking hard at the orks, but they were tough at two wounds a piece. Sslithian slaughter close to half before running away, summoning Seekers the next turn.

    As always when I have the choice of winning a game or asking myself What Would Slaanesh Do? I retreated from one battle only to CHARGE right back into the remaining Boltboyz and Hobgrots on the opposite flank hoping to fight with the big bad Killaboss too!

I believe the wounds were counting up, otherwise this would have been more silly.

    Sslithian's chariot bounded over the uneven terrain, tearing up dirt and foliage as it crossed to meet the Killaboss. The Gnashtoof growled as the Seekers neared, gnashing at one of the front mounts. Sslithian cracked her whip across the Killaboss' chest. Furious, the savage ork ignited his jagged boss-stikka, flames licking the air around it. His wide swing toppled riders from the Chariot, sending it off a deep ravine. Shaken, the crew gathers up the Seekers, and the mistress to fight another day. Sslithian felt she was off her game, maybe she was more excited then she let on to see Slaanesh back in the mortal realms again.

    With only one unit reaching the opponent's deployment zone - they need to be 9" away from enemies and stay for one turn if I recall. We didn't count summoned units as part of half of my army, but either way I would have needed 2 units to stay alive for a turn in Xander's side.

    Clearly, that did not happen. But it was fun playing the hedonites, glass cannons for sure.

Next on the Hobby Desk

    I haven't had another chance to play in the Path to Glory campaign, Rachel had a minor surgery at the beginning of August. Which meant no bending or like picking up a 15lb baby, pretty hard when you breastfeed a baby several times a day. Rachel is doing much better now. I have a bunch of painting to show off, and also a bunch of purchases from over the summer.

What's this? There's colour everywhere!?

    My painting habits have gone WiLdlY out of control! I started out painting some Rising Sun, Koi Clan Bushi. Finishing most of the ones I was working on, I moved on to making some animals for PrimeEVO. Then switched to Warhammer terrain as I was cleaning out my hobby hole, and back and forth. What!? Dwarves? WHO INVITED DWARVES!? 

    This was also over a month or so, with baby, work and a good smattering of video games to distract me. Heck it took me like a week to actually take pictures of the stuff I finished, wearing a baby while shooting photos near the natural light, does not good bedfellows make. So without further a due, here is my showcase of mostly random stuff I have been tossing paint on.

    These Sector Fronteris Environment terrain were from the Theta-7 Acquisitus Kill Team box. They popped onto the paint table after I cleaned up my hobby desk, noticing how little work that needed to be done to them to get them onto the table. The Tech-priest has been completed for my Crusade last year, the 3 ruststalkers are primed, don't think the Infiltrators are off their sprue yet. Eventually, I'll get around to making a Kill Team out of them. No plans to make full units for 40k, so might just do two Infiltrators.

Front

Back

    Besides Slaanesh models this year, Blackstone Fortress figures are hitting the table. In heavy doses of FOMO and wanting to support Comic Readers at the start of the pandemic. I picked up Escalation, then Ascension, and The Dreaded Ambull (the latter being from Dragon's Den as it was sold out in Regina) throughout the lock down.

    Escalation will be prioritized first, being filled with sweet miniatures and required for Ascension. The Ambull was painted with contrast paints, for a quick paint job. 

    All the Escalation kit has been assembled, the Crusader being the first to be painted.

    Besides battling rival tribes in PrimEVO, the primatives will take on deadly prehistoric beasts for the betterment of their tribe, using their bones, meat and fur for survival in the wild.

Prehistoric Deer

    I went the cheap way with these figures, buying them from toy stores instead of an actual hobby store. Scale might be a bit off for some but whatcha going to do? Could be fully grown or infant age.

Generally in PrimEvo, before setting up, players would determine a size of a herd of deer, mammoths, etc. I felt that I could still do this, but add some variety of what herbivores were around, instead of just all deer. Prehistoric mammals would all be mostly around the same watering hole. 

Ground Sloths were all made in China.

    I decided a Macrauchenia would be the closest looking mammal for the "elephant", which in fact is actually thought to be a relative to a llama. Guess I should have checked what it might be before painting it like an elephant. 

A couple more deadly hunts.

    And what's a prehistoric skirmish game without some deadly creatures to maim your tribes? The woolly mammoth, is definitely a youth, I'll need to find a much older (and larger) parental unit. 

    A few more prehistoric mammals, and dinosaurs are on the workbench. Would be nice to get several more painted up to really fill out the table. The Zulu tribesman from frostgrave might work for a rival tribe, might as well get paint on them too! 

    While putting off this blog update, seriously, like a month since I had opened this post!? , I have painted up a few more models, a Lord of Pain is now ready to take to the battlefield.

sorry about the quick pics.

    I did paint a couple dwarves for Song of Blades and Heroes but I'll post them once I get the warband finished off. Why do fantasy vikings, when you can do sci-fi vikins? While procrastinating on dwarves, my accidental eBay purchase arrived. I can bid on this, clearly, I won't win it, right? Awhile ago, I had picked up some Grey Hunters for possibly making into a Kill Teams with possible options for gun loadouts. Terminators would really be cool to add to a Kill Team as well would they? Anyways, here I am, 4 Space Wolves Terminators richer, only one painted for Kill Team so far.

Brother Brand "Fiery Torch", Brother Manning, and Brother Steinar

Brother Amund - Leader

The crew ready to cleanse a derelict Space Hulk 

    I painted up all the fun weapon loadouts first, it just squeaks into a regular list of Kill Team at 99 points. I don't really have a Commander to add to this warband, as most of the options are Primaris marines which would look a bit tall to their elderly brethren. The Terminators that remain all have boltguns with chainfist or power fist and don't have as much Space Wolfie-ness to them. That is, till I add a pelt with greenstuff or find bits.

    Now why do you have your Space Wolves Kill Team on a Space Hulk board? Well, a bit of a long story, as went down three or four rabbit holes, then through a swamp and past grandma's house to end up here. I started by looking up Stormtonnian models as I was debating on buying one of the older starter sets after buying Sorrowmourn Choir. Anyways, I found, Tears of Envy's blog, which might make me want to collect some Stormcast for kitbashs, maybe do some chaos stormcast too? 

    After looking back in the blog, I found some amazing looking Space Hulk 3D terrain, mostly kit bashed from several other terrain kits. 3rd party custom rules also were on my mind as well, like adding different chapters, factions and the like into Space Hulk. This will definitely be a long hole to dig myself out of.

Oh yeah, reading to Rosalind is the other hobby of mine I have been working on.

Next on the Hobby Desk

    Time to finish up the dwarves? I have will eventually pick up the new rule book for Age of Sigmar. That might wait till August when GW announces the new smaller starter sets. Part of the reason for my frantic hobby habits, might partially be due to not getting games in, might need to fix that.

 

Baby's Arrival

     Well, guess I didn't have the motivation to post this before the baby arrived but you know how it is. The anticipation before a new nugget comes to the house is a bit of a whirlwind. Are we prepared? Do we have everything? How are the cats going to react to the tiny human? Is the Bladebringer of Slaanesh done? Okay, well, that last one might've been fairly low on the priorities. Rachel needed some affirming that, yes, we are as ready as we ever will be to become parents. This will be our Trial by Fire.

Rosalind in her classic sleepy pose.

    Rosy is now 10 days old. We have learned more and slept a lot less. We are thankful for all the generous friends that are reaching out and offering us support and food. This is much appreciated, if it wasn't for covid, our transition to parenthood would be way different. Relatives coming and going, lots of hands to hold and snuggle the baby. Always surrounded by loved ones, but for now we have each other and daily stroller walks with friends and family. Different, but we will feel supported all the same.

    While, I am positive the baby will enjoy our hobbies as much as we do, for now, we will enjoy them for her till she can hold a dice or brush...

Bladebringer Exalted chariot of Slaanesh

    In the Age of Myth, Heralds of Slaanesh were assigned the task of concealing daemonic blades all over the Realms. It was not enough for the heralds to only transport the weapons, they yearned to wield the blades in combat. Chariots were fashioned with a multitude of blades, allowing the operator to deal out maximum amounts of carnage on the battlefield.

Final two Slaves to Darkness Endless Spells

    The Eightfold Doom-Sigil empowers Chaotic units around it, while the Realmscourge Rapture slows down enemy units while damaging them. They now join the Darkfire Daemonrift, completing the Endless Spells I have and the only faction specific ones. (the last ones I bought were the Malign Sorcery)

When a Daemonic rift opens, you run the other way.

Next on the Hobby Desk

    This weekend is the release of Cursed City, and as much as I would love to run out and grab it. I still have 3 expansions of Blackstone Fortress to paint. (Dreaded Ambull, Escalation and Ascension) It has only seen the table a handful of times, and looking at the figures I am definitely interested in continuing to do both. But who knows, maybe that cheap Dreadfleet I saw at my local shop might mysteriously pop onto my workbench?!
    

    

Dread Pageant on Parade

    With the rapid approach of the parenthood coming at us full speed, I convinced Rachel to play some Warhammer Underworlds with me. This readers, might be the last game for awhile as we will be knee deep in diaper changes and sleepless nights! Okay, maybe that's a bit dramatic. This gives me a chance to play with the Dread Pageant now that they are painted. It also increases the chance of the Myari's Purifiers being painted by Rachel, as she always comments about how nice the models look once we start playing. 

Rachel (unseen 37 week baby bump under the table)

    Rachel picked me to place the board first, I chose one with no lethal hexes because I guess I am nice. While Rachel decided on one that had 3 clumped together. At first I thought the extra lethal hexes could be joined to them, like a grand canyon you'd have to see to believe! With a quick rules read, this is not the case, all hexes need to be separate. Which is good, I think the Ylthari's Guardians are still a bit bum hurt from all the falling they did last game.

    For the roll off to see who went first, Rachel and I ties, so we rolled again with the assumption that Rachel still got the extra critical for the roll for finishing placing first. She wanted me to go first, to get me in closer for her spell attacks.

My starting objectives.

    The Dread Pageant is all about giving or receiving damage to get inspired. Once 6 wounds on all surviving fighters on the board have been placed, the member just needs to finish an activation to be inspired. My first turn would be completing the Endless Revel, then the other two objectives would fall in place as they came up. Ylthari's Guardians need to remove wounds to become inspired, something which was a bit hard for Rachel as the starting deck only had 2 healing items in it. Ylthari makes it a bit easier to inspire, critical hits on a spell attack will remove wounds (even if she has none).

Glissete, the best a man can get, charges in to miss completely at the leader.

    While I don't believe charging head long into combat will be the best strategy for this warband, it would be in my benefit to get some damage on the table, the objectives also fell in line with the tactic as well. Glissete is quite weak, only having two wounds. She is always on guard, rolls of shields are successes. On Rachel's turn, Skhathael toddles up to Glissete, but his leafy heart isn't into the swing and misses as well. Before starting the game I did read an objective called Bloodless Skirmish, scoring it on the third round if all fighters are on the table, maybe I should have picked it up if this was how the game was going to go.

Glissete and Skhathael stare off, fuming with disappointment.

    Betwix turns, I played Dark Desires on Rachel's Leader, giving her a move token. This turns out to be a silly move as Ylthari was within 3 hexes of range for her spells anyways. D'oh! No take backsies in this game, Rachel plays for keeps now. Vasillac drove his spear into Skhathael, finally blood was drawn and Slaanesh was pleased.... for the moment. Following up, that bloodshed, Ylthari casts The Reaping on Vasillac, wounding for 1 point of damage, inspiring her with a critical in the roll. Oh yes, more wounds please! Rachel power step, she used Last Guardians, placing a guard token on her leader.

If only I moved to the objective.

    Hadzu charges into the fry, shooting an arrow of desire into Skhathael with 2 support on him! BIG OL' MISS! That's it, you're off the team Hadzu! Ahnslaine shows Hadzu how it's done, wounding her for one damage. Wrapping up round 1, Slakeslash and Gallanghan moves up from the back of the board.

Slakeslash scoffs at your objectives!

    I scored Endless Revel at the end of the turn, upgrading Vasillac with Strength from Pain, adding 1 damage to his attack actions while he has a wound. Rachel played Domain Denied, scoring one glory for "denying" your enemy objectives, clearly I need to make that more of a priority next time. Going into the second round tied 1:1

Round 2

    Rachel rolls well, picking to go first because why not? Ylthari was shaking in her branch skirt, that Slaangor didn't look all too friendly. But The Reaping missed it's make this time. Slakeslash wasn't all too pleased with being missed at, charged into Ylthari and Ahnslaine, scoring a hit on Ahnslaine to for 2 damage, taking the total wounds on the board to 6! Hehehehe Slakeslash inspires, you thought he was trouble before with his 5 wounds? What about an increase to movement for the lumbering beast? I score Excess of Gluttony for being adjacent to two enemy fighters. Now I just need to keep the wounds on the board. I spend the glory on, what else? Upgrading my Leader with Swift as Desire, adding 1 movement when unwounded, but 2 when he was wounded. 

Slakeslash shows off his might to Ahnslaine.

    Poor one shot Hadzu, he wasn't long for this world, and yet, he had the most easily pronounced name. I will miss him dearly. Skhathael advanced, toppling the archer with a decisive blow. First blood goes to Rachel! To be fair, killing isn't really what the Dread Pageant wants, they prefer the drawn out suffering instead. I believe at the end of round 1 I had picked up Beautiful Deaths, a duel objective for keeping three members of the Dread Pageant alive AND killing off 3 of the opposing warband. This would net you 6 (the number of slaanesh of course) glory! With Hadzu being all but useless this match, I don't think that would happen.

At least I will leave a beautiful corpse.

    

    With Excess of Paramountcy still in hand, I ran my very swift leader ,now moving at 7 hexes, over to an enemy objective. And while I was there, I might as well strike Gallanghan in the back for more wounds! But Gallanghan was surprisingly ready for this attack! His reaction allows him to bounce back damage if he gets a critical hit on his defense. BUT Vasillac ALSO has a reaction that triggers on the damage deal step, choosing to heal or deal damage to himself. I chose to heal, as at this point, only Glissete was the only one uninspired and she already had a wound on her. With 6, maybe 7 wounds on the board now, Vasillac inspires. Gallanghan had a few upgrades on him, can't recall which, I used Sword-Shatterer on, the only member of my warband it seems, my leader. This would give me a chance to remove an upgrade from an enemy after an attack action.

Learning from my mistake of last round.

    Ahnslaine tries to finish off Glissete, but her gaurd came in handy, shrugging off the attack. She charges in to finish off the wounded Ylthari guardian. Glory was used to upgrade Slakeslash with a Sadistic Goad, which increases in damage for every wound on the enemy fighter. Probably not very helpful at this moment as most of Rachel's fighters only had one or two wounds left on them. Gallanghan strikes Glissete in the back to let her know how it feels, but she defends. With all my fighters tired or out of action, I used my final action to pick up an objective card.

Glissete takes Ahnslaine out of action.

Round 3

    My note taking gets really sloppy as we get closer to the end of the game. I just get too into the game! We were 4:2 at this point. Rachel casted Pangs of the Great Lack, Glissete would suffer 1 wound, taking her out of action for the end of round 2. We couldn't find rolls to find the difference between suffer and dealt, so Glissete didn't roll a defense dice for this damage. 4:3

Start of round 3

    Slakeslash slashes at Ylthari with his massive blade, removing her from the skirmish, freeing up the objective. Rachel played a bunch of gambits during this power step, I didn't take notes of them, I believe one made my movement a bit slower, but even with 3 move it was easy to get around. Oh I remember! She put a move token on Slakeslash, legitimately denying the objective to me. Excess of Idolency was in my hand, I just needed two objectives.

Skhathael's turn to lay the beast low.

Skhathael moves in to strike, I don't think it hit. Vasillac would move beside Slakeslash for support? Guess it didn't really matter where Vasillac was. Gallanghan was struck by the Leader, driving him back without damage. Gal retaliates, wounding him. On my last two turns, I picked up objectives hoping I might have one that was already completed. If only I was so lucky.

    The final score was 6:3 for the Dread Pageant. Rachel had Vengeful Revenants, scoring 2 points for taking 2 enemy fighters of out action and only having one out yourself, in her hand when Vasillac was on the objective. If she used her standard attack instead of the Enraged Spite, which uses more swords but less accurate she might've scored that. Another one was if we had remembered to drive back Slakeslash into a lethal hex instead of attacking Vasillac, for another point for taking him out of action. 

This was much better then our last game, it was much closer in points. With Rachel doing some post game analysis, or shoulda woulda coulda-ing, we might see more of Underworlds on the table!

Next on the Hobby Desk

    Not that it will be on the hobby desk, but the baby should be coming next week sometime! I do have some finished painting to show off, these Slaanesh models are going to be a pain to transport around when that becomes a thing again with all their whips whirling about. I have some metal Fiends on table now which are a breath of fresh air after the delicate Seeker chariot.