The Daemons have been Driven Away!

The Empire is saved!

The Empire/Daemon series ended tonight with a 4000 pointer, and a clear victory for the good guys.

Although it certainly didn't start way.  My turn one saw the loss of Faustus, my Level IV wizard, a unit of hand-gunners and the Helblaster.

Turn Two and my Flagellants, two Cannons and the General's Griffon all vanished.

But like all good Warhammer games, things started to turn around.  It began with my Greatswords taking out Prof. Elf's Hounds.   Then it just got better.

P.S. - The Kid's idea for some psychological warfare to scare away the Daemons.

It worked.

5th Edition Warhammer

Bursting with near-crazed excitement I played a game of 5th Edition last night.  I feel that the poor 4th and 5th takes on Warhammer Fantasy always get overlooked by us Warhammer freaks.   This is a shame really, because it is a blast to pull out and play with the chunky, goofy sculpts of that period.  Plus that was when being a character really meant something!  And the Magic Phase has magic cards!

So The Czarina and her escort were on the way to Altdorf when they were stopped by Zak-Ar-Rac the Crazy and his posse of Chaos Dwarfs (and Manticore).

Rancor on the Rampage!

A fun Star Wars game with The Kid this afternoon.

Members of The Jedi Council report that the planet of Booba 5 has been overrun by escaped creatures!

And that a Rancor is on the Rampage!

The 501st, with Jedi support, is dispatched to the planet.

The Jedis begin to get things under control.

But the Rancor is on the Rampage!!!!!

It is all to much for the Jedis and the members of the 501st.

(I'm not even going to mention the Mutant Grasshoppers...)

Daemons Running Free in The Empire

The 2000 point game in the Empire/Daemon campaign.  Our regular 7th/8th combo.  The battle was a real back and forth affair, but still, these Daemons!  How do you beat them?

In the end, one-on-one combat decides it.   My brave Warrior Priest accepts the challenge...

...knowing that Nurgle has 10 wounds(!!!), is Toughness 6, and has a 5+ Ward save and oh, Regeneration!

We will all remember my brave Warrior Priest.

There's a Zoat on Syrofoamia

No music tonight.  Luckily was able to bring Private N. over for a game.  Introduced him to Rogue Trader.

Seems a Zoat was seen on Syrofoamia.

The Squats (don't call us Squats) want the Zoat.  They need the Zoat.

But so do the Orks.

Reason enough for a fight?

Hanging Out In Wittenlausstein

The little Empire town of Wittenlausstein seems to be a popular rest stop for armies biding their time between Warhammer Fantasy battles here in the Land of The Eternal Privates.

Many of these guys are also here because I wanted to put some 5th Edition Warhammer Fantasy armies together.  From out of nowhere I suddenly want to play 5th Edition!  Maybe it is a reaction to all of the recent excitement over 3rd Edition.  I don't know.  But bring on the magic cards.  Load up the characters, 'cause 5th is coming back to town.  Well, at least the little town of Wittenlausstein.

And then, because I am all over the place, I've also been putting together a 3rd Edition Norse army.

Warhammer!

The Invasion of Bretonnia

It was a real treat to play an afternoon game today.  And it was also very nice to be playing again with my good gaming mate, Private D.   He had brought his wonderful Bretonnian army with him.  I met him in Bretonnia with a High Elf Invasion force.  I don't really like High Elves but I was curious to play them.  (My Wood Elves stood in for the High Elves.)

The Elves were very aggressive.  The first turn saw them take out most of  the Bretonnian missile capability.

And then turn on the dreaded Bretonnia knights.

I had a real tooled-up list full of double-handed nastinesses and surprises.   Here are the Phoenix Guard.

The last two members of the Sword Masters.  The whole unit was decimated by Fay magic!

The Paladin charges Prince Wahoo on his funny Moon Dragon.

The Iron-willed Lady of The Stones and her unbreakable unit of bowmen.  This brave lot passed countless Panic and Psychology tests and generally drove me batty.

 The final combat.

Soon there will be no more Bretonnians on the field.

A very great game.

P.S. - This was a pure 7th Edition game.