Wednesday 29 July 2020

Big Gunk Never Tires



Right back to work on a short 40K commission!

Tuesday 28 July 2020

Raiders of the Lost Ork: Ultramarines vs Evil Sunz


An Ultramarines patrol has run into more representatives of the Ork incursion on the remote world of Bagot Prime. Warboss Bludteef is missing, having his Cybork body rebuilt after the last encounter between these armies, but there are plenty of Evil Sunz left to cause trouble. 

Tonight I, Pootle, am hosting Rapid (in fetching bold italics) for his first foray into 9th edition. 

Monday 27 July 2020

Bjorn To Be Wild: Space Wolves vs Black Legion

Bjorn the Fell-handed is taking the Primaris pups out to chew on some heretics.

Warhammer 40k - 9th Edition - Black Legion vs Space Wolves - 1000pts - Eternal War - Incursion - Divide and Conquer

The Black Legion are waiting for them.

Tuesday 21 July 2020

Big Finish


Zombicide is in the bag! 

Monday 20 July 2020

A New Mantis: Mantis Warriors vs Tempestus Scions


The Mantis Warriors have strayed onto the private reserve of a planetary governor, searching for information on the whereabouts of an elusive foe. Tempestus Scions have been dispatched against them, racing to destroy the interlopers before they can ransack his data terminals.

Skype battle! And tonight Kasfunatu is taking the Mantis Warriors for their (and his) first foray into 9th Ed. I, Kraken, command the Tempestus Scions. Can I maintain the Mantis Warriors unbroken losing streak? Or will Kas finally beat the Mantis Challenge?

Saturday 18 July 2020

I Got Distracted



So close to the end of Zombicide! And yet I still found time for sidequests.

Friday 17 July 2020

Biology 101 - Tyranids vs Creations of Bile

New edition, new(ish) army! It's Fabius Bile vs Hive Fleet Afanc!

Warhammer 40k - 9th Edition - Creations of Bile vs Tyranids - 1150pts - Eternal War - Incursion - Ransack

Someone's gone and left their secret lab in the path of a Hive Fleet, the kind of careless forward planning you don't expect of a subtle mind like Bile's. Whose DNA is he after sampling? Or is this merely a field test of new subjects?

Either way, the Doctor will see you now!

Wednesday 15 July 2020

A Grey Knight's Tale: Part 3 - Night Lords

My final game in the Skypehammer campaign - Grey Knights vs the Night Lords!

Warhammer 40k battle report - Eternal War -  The Four Pillars - 500 points - Night Lords vs Grey Knights

It's a good knight from me, and it's a good night from him.

Tuesday 14 July 2020

A Grey Knight's Tale: Part 2 - Militarum Tempestus

The Grey Knights continue their campaign over Skype - this time we exterminate the hated Imperium!

Warhammer 40k battle report - Eternal War -  Hold Your Gains - 500 points - Militarum Tempestus vs Grey Knights

Wait, what?

Monday 13 July 2020

A Grey Knight's Tale: Part 1 - Chaos Daemonkin

The gospel of Skypehammer continues to spread!

Warhammer 40k battle report - Eternal War -  Data Recovery - 500 points - Chaos Daemons vs Grey Knights

This time I, Stylus, was a participant, trying out the heroic Grey Knights!

Friday 10 July 2020

Medium Large


A mere handful of Zombicide left to do, but it's fair to say they're a big handful. 

Wednesday 8 July 2020

INT: Computing Hub and Biomech Hive


You call a Kickstarter 'Dungeons and Lasers', you basically have my loyalty. 

Tuesday 7 July 2020

Wots Dat Smell: 9th Edition - Orks vs Nurgle Daemons



Ninth Ed!

As the new era dawns, Orks are attempting to get a foothold in the ruins of an imperial refinery. Plenty of good scrap there, but something has already infested the septic tanks. Have the greenskins bitten into a rotten apple?

Monday 6 July 2020

Quit your Jibber Jabberslythe


In my first Skype battle I fielded Nurgle daemons against Kraken's Tyrannids. I experimented with a Giant Chaos Spawn as I loved the look of all the random rolls and it was indeed great fun to use.

Saturday 4 July 2020

Class of 1666


Necromancers I promised you, and Necromancers is what I have. 

Friday 3 July 2020

A View T'au a Kill: T'au vs Chaos Space Marines

The Crypt Angels vs T'au

Cake for the Blood God: Chaos Space Marines vs Tau

This battle happened back in April, but we never got round to writing it up. Just before 8th Ed disappears, here it is for posterity.

Thursday 2 July 2020

Sexy, Sexy Contrast

My whistlestop tour of Contrast paints for Chaos Daemons continues with the toughest challenge of all - Slaanesh!

Fiends Slaanesh Daemons painted with Citadel Contrast for Warhammer 40k

Let's keep it PG-13, please.

Wednesday 1 July 2020

Escape to Reality: Thousand Sons vs Chaos Daemons

The Hunt for Ahriman campaign concludes tonight! Does that slippery little Exile have one more trick up his sleeve?

Slaanesh Daemons - 1200pts - Behead The Viper - Narrative mission from Vigilus Defiant Warhammer 40,000

Free!

Ahriman fell into a spiralling hell of colour and noise as he fell through the warp rift. For several seconds, neither time nor space had meaning. Everything was mutable - distance, physics, his own identity, the eventual destiny of the galaxy, everything

But he had been here before. Giving into this malleability would make everything that came before meaningless. A few hastily spoken wards stabilised him as he needed himself, and allowed a moment of reflection. 

Merely by having a will to express, he was already shaping the warpstuff around him. Whatever its true form, it was focussing itself into locations, physical places that his mind could understand. Fragments of a broken empire, hanging in space. Much like the reality he knew lay beyond, and also like that, his for the taking. No, that temptation wasn't worth giving in to. He had too much staked in reality. Hurriedly, he moved on.

As he moved, he searched. And before long, he found what he was looking for - a way out. A hanging oval, spinning around a point disconcertingly off-centre, with a hazy vista of broken rock and asphalt barely visible. Whatever benighted planet it was on, it would be safer than here. 

Moving towards it, he could hear the hoots and shrieks that justified his haste. He was not alone. Perhaps some of the denizens of the warp would serve him, for a time. But not all would be aligned with his goals, nor his expressed allegiance. 

Time to escape.