Posted in April 26, 2011 ¬ 21:15h.Owen
Merlin, a Malifaux Henchman from Cork, kindly traveled up to Gamers World in Dublin to give a few of us some demos of Malifaux. He and I played a 35 soulstone encounter while he was there. I used my Guild crew led by Lady Justice and he had a Lilith led Neveborn crew. The first [...]
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Posted in January 30, 2011 ¬ 22:46h.Owen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0lR-dUnWEQ
On the 12th June 1944 (D-Day +6) the 101st Airborne took Carentan, a crucial objective that provided a linkup between Utah and Omaha beaches. They encountered only light resistance with the majority of the 6th Fallschirmjager Regiment having withdrawn due to a shortage of ammunition. This two-battle campaign describes the events of the following day, when the 501st, 502nd and 506th PIR encountered the German counter attacking force consisting of paratroopers and the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division to the southwest of the city.
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Posted in January 7, 2011 ¬ 22:47h.Owen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqOFqJht0ho
Grab the popcorn and a big soda… this one is nearly 13 minutes long! This is my first game using the new SR2011 Command and Control scenario, which has radial deployment and multi-objectives. It was fun! Owen
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Posted in January 6, 2011 ¬ 22:46h.Owen
This’ll be a quick one. Tonight myself and Phil got a game in on VASSAL. I guess it’s down to a joint New Years resolution to play more games against each other. Phil lives in Hamburg and VASSAL gives use a chance to play against each other. We played a 25pt Break the Line game [...]
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Posted in December 1, 2010 ¬ 21:32h.Owen
Joe and I got a chance to play a game on VASSAL last night. We decided to play a 25pt game with my Cryx facing his Legion. Joe won the last Warmachine/Hordes tournament we had using Saeryn, so he’s well practiced with her. This would be my first time playing Skarre, the Pirate Queen. The [...]
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Posted in November 20, 2010 ¬ 21:22h.Owen
I love campaigns – they mix things up from the standard game format and can be loads of fun. Scourge Bringer lived up to that with all of the games played proving to be great fun. As a quick recap – each game was fought over a piece of the Scourge Bringer, an awesomely powerful [...]
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Posted in October 16, 2010 ¬ 11:14h.Owen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYlu9wvYMs8
Anthony and I got a 35pt Steamroller game in last night – Strakhov versus eSkarre. We used timed turns and it wasn’t an issue – I’m getting much quicker and we still managed to have an enjoyable game. Anyway, here’s the video – Enjoy, Owen
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Posted in August 22, 2010 ¬ 20:09h.Owen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipIz9bRlYfg
Yesterday Harry and I played out a 75pt game (No Mans Land scenario) of Hordes. Here’s a 9+ minutes video battle report – Enjoy! Owen
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Posted in July 16, 2010 ¬ 23:01h.Owen
Part 1 of the battle report is here. Control Area and Feats: All warcasters have a control area which is a circle that radiates 2 x FOC from their base. In Rahn’s case that’s a radius of 16”. Only in this area can warcasters allocate focus to ‘jacks, so you need to move your ‘caster [...]
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Posted in July 16, 2010 ¬ 23:00h.Owen
The elves of Ios are angry, very angry. They believe that the magic wielded by mankind is killing their remaining god, Scyrah. The Retribution of Scyrah, once a small and outlawed rebellious sect, but now a popular movement amongst Iosans, aren’t willing to sit back and watch their gods die. Every nation of man that [...]
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