Epic – Sad Teacup Games

As often comes to happen, life gets in the way. So I missed some posts I had wanted to make (generally keeping to my previous formula of my Monday bloodbowl and my Wednesday showcase of old paintings) due to generally being tired out from the heat (alright, it’s nto THAT hot, but I don’t do well in the heat) and work in general. So here’s this weeks updates in brief;

Monday night is bloodbowl night.

Monday saw my usual outing for a game in the league. This time it was my Necromantic team Vs High elves. I wasn’t too confident going in to this one. I know my opponent is a very good bloodbowl player and, well, it’s elves. I tend to struggle against the high agility teams. Not to mention the pile of inducements I was giving him!

First half started well, I maintained some control of the ball, and dice seemed to be in my favour. At first at least. What started off well soon turned in to some full on elf action and whule the game was very enjoyable, it ended in a 4-0 loss for me. Pesky elves.

As the league is slowly starting to wrap up and I still have many more games I need to somehow squeeze in, today I had a second Bloodbowl game. This time it was my Khorne Vs Wood elves. More elves! I again expected another loss. I’ve not really played wood elves before and I know them to be very tricky to pin down. And since I’ve not necessarily done well with the Khorne so far, I figured this might be a quick game. And it was a rather quick game in that it was oiver a lot quicker than my usual games.

A win! In a stark contrast to how my games usually go, the dice gods had decided to very confidentally sway the game in my favour. I rolled so many knock outs this game it was absurd. And an unfortunate take root roll meant the treeman stayed out of the action for a very severly outnumbered wood elf team. 2-0 to me, and a huge boost to my morale this league! This monday’s game is booked still too, but another friendly coming up 🙂

Speaking of bloodbowl, since this league is wrapping up, I’m slowly starting to decide which teams I might consider running next season. Considering Chaos dwarves…

Other painting projects this week. I had the urge to paint some of my epic Pike and shotte, so made a start on a unit of the Scots Covenanters pike and musket unit.

And then, when I was too tired for details, I’ve been priming a whole lot of Epic Napoleonic. Hoping to have this bunch fully painted for when I start a campaign with a friend. This is all the stuff needed for “The action at Thuin” start to the Hundred days campaign supplement

That’s been my week of wargaming. I still have stuff in the pipeline. 5 parsecs I’m working on my crew and the terrain for the first mission. Once it’s done the weekly updates will roll out!

I never do ask, but what’s been on your work in progress table? What games have you been playing?

Until next time 🙂

This week on way back When’sday we’re going to look at Epic Waterloo!

I really got into tiny models this year. There’s just something about a table full of ranks and ranks of tiny models that really does amaze me. So since I found someone locally willing to play through the game I set myself to painting some up for a game….

…And didn’t finish. I underestimate just how long it would take to paint hundreds (and i mean hundreds) of tiny French and Prussian troops.

The ones I did finish though I honestly think came out looking so nice.

So how did it play? It was a long game, especially for a small number of units. Mostly becasue we were both new to the game. There were a lot of moments where we were just looking up rules, or confused as to what we should be doing. But all in all, it was a very enjoyable game system! Easy to learn, but difficult to master. That’s for sure. I look forward to playing more in the upcoming weeks, and since I now have the Hundred days supplement, it might just become a campaign….

Until Next time! 🙂

Until Next time 🙂

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