Stout Smurf vs. Jawaballs.....300 point epic match.

To All,

Yesterday, after digging out from the snow on Saturday, Jawa and  I played a 300 point game that included "Huge" ships. It was really interesting and fun.

I flew a list of mostly named pilots. I know I could have gone all generics and filled the board with  ships but I wanted to see how the named guys(and gals) would do. 
GR-75 - Bright Hope
Wedge Antilles
Luke Skywalker
Airen Cracken
Lieutenant Blount
Bandit Squadron Pilot
Bandit Squadron Pilot
Poe Dameron
Ello Asty

Jawa's Force. Mostly named Tie and First Order pilots. I don't have his exact list, but a lot of synergy going on.

(You can see our placement in the two pictures above.)

Heading into turn 3 I was starting execute my plan. Wedge and Luke, in x-Wings of course, head directly into the swarm hoping to inflict some damage in the first joust while Poe Dameron and Ello Asty come across the front of Bright Hope on the flank. The Z-95 Headhunters are moving down the edge of the board loaded out with cluster missiles in an attempt to take down, or at least put a hurting on, the Imperial Raider with 18 cluster missile shots.

 

Wedge and Luke fire first and cause some hull points, but not enough to take out a ship. (I forgot to use Wedge's ability to decrease defender's agility by 1) Ello took out Howlrunner with Advanced Proton Torpedoes. The Ties  focused fire on Luke and took him down! 

The Headhunters continue to the Imperial Raider

At this point I had hoped that Jawa was going to divert some of his fighters toward the Z-95 but he didn't. He kept to his mission of destroying the Transport. Bright hope is in trouble, and didn't last the round.

 The Headhunters did get off the Cluster Missiles and got 4 hull points into the front section of the  Raider, but it wasn't enough. Jawa gets the victory.

Other shots.

In conclusion, I liked Epic play a lot. I want to tweak my a bit and change strategy, but I'm looking forward to the next game.

Reaper Space Mouslings......Ultramarines?

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Before I get back to working on Gnomes, I've been working on some "space/sci-fi" figures. Here is a unit of Reaper Space Mouslings. I did some conversions and painted them to give an "Ultramarines" look.

Here you can see the bolter all the way to the left, the sergeant has a plasma gun and a chain-sword, and the "dreadnought" has a powerfist and a Gatling gun.

I did the visors last night.....

More to come...

Back to painting.....

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Looking for Grinhouse Games Dogface Robots

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Looking to buy or trade for Grinhouse Games Dogface Robots from their JUNK line.

Histoicon 2015 - Gnome Wars: It's too quiet at Elmore's Castle.....

Our first game at Historicon took place on Thursday afternoon. Each of the Gnome Homeworlds sent a small patrol into the village near Elmore's Castle to investigate reports of strange happenings. 

Each group was sent to explore, find supplies, and secure a spot to "hunker down" for the night.

This father and son team were playing the Irish. They accomplished everything they were supposed to. The kid had a plan and executed it perfectly.

Some cultists appeared and were headed for the statue near the fountain. Maybe they just wanted a drink......

...but instead they started urinating on the statue and into the fountain.Good lord, it's a band of evil Urinitius cultist. They empty their bladders and unleash the zombie horde.

Andrew and Gavin, both veteran Gnome Wars players both turned to me and asked if there was any holy water around. (dumping holy water in the fountain stops the zombies from coming) I simply pointed to the church.

As the Swiss and Highlanders attended to the holy water task, The Sikhs rush immediately into the fray with elephants trampling and machine guns tearing zombies apart.

The Cultists try their best to hold onto the fountain and to continue to desecrate the statue but the Germans (and their tank) hold onto the Eastern side of the square. They formed up and continued to fire into the massed horde. The Irish reluctantly, but with devastating effect, send the walker to  fire canister from the West.

The Swiss and Highlanders, with Holy water in hand, both calmly sit wait for the right time to emerge.

The Cultists' leader is wounded and the Sikhs turn to finish him off. A unit of skeletons rush in help him get away.

With the zombies thinning out, the Swiss and Highlanders make their move and get the holy water into the fountain. Also at this point, the Irish went into the bakery and pissed off the gingerbread men. They took up candycanes and went out into the street.

With the greater threat gone it was time for mop-up duty.

It was time for gnomes and MBA bucks. Everyone walked a well deserved prize!

Scum and Villainy "Haymaker" list

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This is what I am going to run for the next month or so.

First game on new X-Wing Tabletop.....

To All,
Some shots from last night's game with Jawaballs. My first foray into Scum and Villainy and I missed some cards and synergy plays. Plus I flew my Firespray off the board - oops. I'll learn.....

 

 

The board worked out great!!