Midgard Heroic Battles Solo game AAR

 

Orcs and Dwarves form their battle lines. The Dwarf defenders were in a defensive stance primarily on three hills., while the Orc invaders stacked their centre but also deployed troops on both flanks in an attempt to flank the defenders.

Turn 1

The Orcs had deploy on some hills on their own side of the battlefield. Turn one saw them advance into the grasslands between the two ridges. 

Mounted bows advanced into range to harass the Dwarf left flank 

The Orc centre advanced towards their Dwarf counterparts

On the Orc left flank, two units of Orcs with a Mage try to outflank the Dwarf line

For the most part the dwarf army stayed in place, playing the waiting game. On the dwarf right flank one unit was move off the hill to defend against the Orc flanking march.

Midgard Heroic Battles

 

So, we had our first real test of Midgard today. Last week me and Steve hashed out a small battle based on the first scenario, but it was really more of a walk through of the rules rather than a proper game. This weekend I played GM to two other players as we played the first scenario with 300 points a side. We used the sample Orc and Dwarf army lists as it seemed a good place to start.

Orc light wolf cavalry and Ogre bodyguards flanked by rank and file troops

The Dwarven defensive line, scouts on the left flank and massed rank and file in the centre and right flank.

Game day April 11th Devilry Afoot and What a Cowboy!

 

Devilry Afoot

What a Cowboy!

So, two games played this past weekend. We had our first try at Devilry Afoot and a second try at What a Cowboy! Both went quite well, Devilry a bit better as I did not mess  up any rules! I acted as GTM for both games just to try and help people out with unfamiliar rules. (note to self, be more familiar with the rules next time) 

More Sentinels of the Multiverse

 

This one took a while. It was our second game of the night.In our first game it was Fanatic and Captain Thunder aided by Absolute Zero and Dr Manhattan. I have forgotten the other details, but I do remember that a low hit point Fanatic delivered 27+ points to bring down the villain.

Terrorform started with 200 hit points and had some help from the environment to keep our heroes at bay. In the end we managed to flip it which reduced it down to 86 hit points. That helped. It was a combined effort of Omnitron and Haka (the only two heroes still standing) that unleashed enough damage to drop Terrorform.

New gaming mat

 

So, on an impulse buy, I purchased yet another 3' x 3' gaming mat, in this case a double sided mat. One side is 'mud' or more like swamp. It is a nice image that I suspect will get some use. I placed some scenery for an upcoming game of Devilry Afoot to see how the items will blend in. 

 I think it works well.

The other side is cobblestones.

I do have some cobblestone mats already, but this is far more portable. Again this should do the job. 

Close up of the mud

So, a silly impulse buy has, in my mind worked out well! There is a bad lesson to be learned here!

Board game night

 

So, we got together Easter Monday night to play some board games. This time around we played two games of Horrified D&D and one game of Sentinels of the Multiverse. We had a bad time of it in the first Horrified game and won the second game with no cards left in the draw desk! 

The first game we played a warrior and a thief vs the dragon and the displacer beast. For the second game I switched to the cleric and we swapped out the displacer beast for the beholder. It is an amusing game but does have some weak spots in the rules.

I also find that the map is not the clearest map, the art sometimes overrides playability. It sometimes take me a few moments to figure out where the spaces connect. Also given that they numbered most (if not all) of the spaces would it have killed them to mark the items with location numbers?

Anyways, the second game was much better, not because we won, but because the rules and board did not annoy us as much.

Our other game that night was Sentinels of the Multiverse. It was setback and Guise (original edition) with Haka and Argent Adept (Definitive edition) vs Ambuscade (Definitive edition) at Wagner Mars base.

The base worked out to be a really bad location for Ambuscade and great for us players! At one point the base prevented any damage from being inflicted which allowed us to buff so that when we finally eliminated the 'offending' environment cards Haka had built up a very large amount of potential damage that he launched at Ambuscaded, thus ending the game.

Last last Hotlead treasure post (a follow up to an earlier post)

 

So, I finally cleared some space on the gaming table to set up the Napoleonic troops that I bought and to find out how many I have. Well it is quite the haul! While I set them up as best as I could, I was not certain about some of the cavalry, no banners and similar uniforms meant that I had to guess which side they belonged to. 

I believe they were based for Napoleon's Battles, and some have small slips of paper to indicate the unit, but very few. Since I plan to use these for General D'Armee it does not really matter that much beyond indicating which army they belong to.

The French

The Russians

Last Hotlead treasure post

 

So, not everything that I bought was on sale, just the vast majority. The six boxes on the left came from centuries. Kamal has a lot of stock and it is a real challenge to not find something of interest.  In my case, and for no good reason, I decided to pick up some Oathmark Elves. I also got a package of mounted Halflings which is fine as I am occasionally working on a Halfling army. He also had a box of Perry's mixed Spanish/French skirmish troops and since the club may do some Peninsular war skirmish that too was fine.

Now for some of the deals.  This Quar's war was less than half price! 'Crazy' Lee was having a clearance/getting out of business sale. He also had a number of blister packs at $10.00 each (regularly around $25.00)  an offer I could not refuse. So I picked up a few packs for Silver Bayonet and a pack of back of beyond hunters.

The other pictured packs all came from the bring and buy. Prices ranges from $15 to $20 as opposed to the retail price of around $47+.

I also picked up three board games, History of the World, Quartermaster 1914 and a nostalgia game, Waddingtons Campaign, a game that I have not played in 40 years. All these games were less than $10.00 each.

The Canadian Tank Museum [Whitby]

 

So, on our way to Hotlead we stopped off at THE CANADIAN TANK MUSEUM . It was the first visit for all of us and we had no idea what to expect, we figured we might be there for at most an hour. However we were pleasantly surprised and spent two hours and had a very enjoyable time. After buying our tickets we were getting set to wander about when a guide suddenly presented himself and just like that we started a guided tour!

The first part of the tour consisted of small displays of weapons and uniforms from the 1800's on up to modern times. Nice simple displays made better by the guides narration. The second part saw us entering a large garage packed full of vehicles from WWI to more modern vehicles. 

You should keep in mind that the following pictures are taken by a gamer with an eye to weathering techniques and certain other details. Go to their site if you want to see images of the entire vehicle.

First Canadian tank model the M1917 [French tank built in USA]

Universal carrier

Hotlead games part 2 of 2 [ECW, Mongols and Mausers]

 So one of the big games of Saturday night was an ECW games run by a buddy of mine, Craig. It modified version of the Black Powder Pike and Shot rules was used.

The Royalists on the right Parliamentary forces on the right. Rupert is in the lower left leading a massive cavalry wing.

Rupert with his dog at bottom of the picture

Hotlead 2026 some of the games part 1 of 2

 

There were a lot of games at Hotlead and sadly I only have a few pictures of a few games. Next year I must remember to take more  pictures especially of the whole venue and the mass of people that surround the bring and buy.

Up first. a dungeon crawl where the players were the monsters. 

A gorgeous game! The dungeon was well built and the various monsters well painted. Judging by the noise and laughter it was a very enjoyable game.

Up next, a caveman game