Rogue GorkaMunda Weekend

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“The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal (but at least those fishmen have taken the liberty of fertilizing your caviar Sergeant).”

theottovonbismark and I got together to play some daft and highly entertaining skirmish games set in the 40K universe last weekend.

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Uzgob proves that there are some high speed pursuit advantages to having ones torso welded to army surplus vehicle parts.

The scenarios were many, varied and unlikely and not a point value was used for the duration.  The games that we played were largely dictated by a desire to use some of the many miniature projects that we have been working on recently.  That meant that theottovonbismarks 1989th Necromundan “Death Ferrets” Regiment allied with Inquisitor Verhoeven, some fishmen and avian scouts in the hostile jungles of Krellborn IX, the Death Ferrets went toe-toe-toe with the Ursa Miners Squat Brotherhood and also got ambushed by orks of the Bigdogz tribe and Vim Petrol babysat Gordon Schumway in a hair raising, high speed collision filled pursuit across the wastelands near Standard Falls.  Hilarity ensued. Continue reading

Lead Belt Trip

I traveled to Nottingham the weekend before last to go to the Mantic Open Day and play in – and win – a DreadBall competition.  As I was in “The Lead Belt” I also squeezed in a couple of visits to other toy soldier places.  A visual record composed of ropey phone-photos follows.

Lovely miniatures in Foundry Cabinets.  They make me want to snap all of my paintbrushes.

Lovely miniatures in Foundry Cabinets. They make me want to snap all of my paintbrushes.

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7TV Inquisitor Pt 4

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A Matter of Honour – Act 3 – Vendetta

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7TV Inquisitor Pt 3

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A Matter of Honour – Act 2 – Rescue

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Ultimate DreadBall

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Rekall Rentokillaz (Veer-myn) vs Cork Road Browns (Z’zor) vs Mustard Prophets (Judwan). The Prophets won by landslide in the seventh and final round.

I got three games of Ultimate DreadBall played yesterday.   Continue reading

7TV Inquisitor Part 1

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My 40K skirmish project has been bubbling away for a couple of years now, repeatedly spinning off into a number of sub-projects.  All of these have been fun to work on but the main goal – as always – has been to get a few games played.

Last weekend PB and I finally got around to playing a series of four games set in the 40K universe, themed around Dan Abnett style, super-spy type Inquisitorial actions.   Continue reading

7TV Inquisitor Weekend

THRILLING alien graveyard shoot outs!

THRILLING alien graveyard shoot outs!

PB and I got together to play some Inquisitorial retinue-centric, Rogue Trader style games last weekend using the 7TV rule set.  The four linked scenarios had solid, cheesy and melodramatic narrative and the rule set turned out to be pretty ideal for the purpose.  The session was good fun with lots of laughs and it was great to finally get all of the models that I have been painting for the last year or so on the table. Continue reading

DreadMill II – DreadBall Tournament

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Infernal Fathers vs Mega City Judges

Aided by a couple of gaming cronies, I recently ran the DreadMill tournament, which went very well.  The follow up DreadBall tournament took place last weekend at the same venue. Continue reading

Q-Con / DreadBall Northern Ireland Regionals 2013

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I made the 1000km+ road trip from West Cork to Belfast and back again last weekend.  The main motivation was to play DreadBall, but it also gave me an excuse to visit Belfast, a city that I had never been to before. Continue reading

DreadBall Irish Nationals / Conclave 2013

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The view of Fortress Thomond as recorded by O.C.P. Patriots helmet cam during grav-chute deployment.

I played in the Irish DreadBall Nationals event last Saturday.  It took place in Thomond Park, arguably the most significant rugby stadium in the country.  That obviously also makes it quite an amusingly appropriate venue for a “sports” event like a DreadBall tournament. Continue reading