A lucky find

 

So, I walked into a hobby store not expecting to find anything and instead I found a treasure trove of Plasticville buildings! Now I view thus as a bit of a mixed blessing, you see I already have plenty of buildings for my Pulp Alley games, but I also believe one should buy things like this when you see them as you are not likely to see them again. 

Now these are very nice models, well built, very clean and in good shape. They also are building that I have not seen before, how could I say no? 

Something old, very old; Some GW Man O War ships

 

Actually, a mix of Man O War and some of the ships from Mighty Empires.

I was inspired to dig these out of storage after watching a game of Galleys & Galleons run by a fellow named Morgan at a recent OMG meeting. The game looked fun enough(more interesting than I thought it would be) and digging these out was no problem. 

The game is by Nic Wright author of many, many games, most notably (to me at least) Fantastic Battles. GG does look to be more versatile than most other naval/fantasy naval games that I have encountered before. Like Fantastic Battles, GG allows you to customize your ships any way you se fit, but it does include sample ships to help you to understand what you are designing. Anyways more talk about the game after I have tried it out. 

The picture above shows nine pirate ships from Mighty Empires and some Empire ships from MoW. I am missing one of the Wolf ship hulls, but I do have the aft deck should it show up.

Boardgame night, not a good time for our cooperative efforts!

  

This was one of the two games that we played the other boardgame night. We played three games of Sentinels of the Multiverse and one game of Eldritch Horror. We only won one game, the third Sentinels game that we played that night. The first two game the villain was Warlord Voss who beat us soundly. In the second game my second hero got to finish her first turn before we lost. Our fourth hero never got  a chance to play.

Our third game had us go up against Akash Bhuta. She gave us quite a struggle until Fanatic got her 'special' cards. Akash had a lot of limbs in play when Fanatic managed to set up one of her ongoing cards that wiped out every non character card in play, inflicting 148 points of damage to Akash Bhuta 200 HTK. Then Fanatic followed up with 25 points of damage due to her reduced hit points vs her starting points. After that, the rest was easy.

Battlefleet Gothic Game day Saturday August 2nd

 

So, this was the first kick at the can for a couple of players while for others it had been years since last played (Including myself as ref) Essentially it was a cruiser lash with escorts thrown into the mix. It was Chaos vs Orks with both sides had roughly 1250 points, but no commanders or any other special items, it was a test game.

The Chaos forces were: A Murder cruiser, Archeron cruiser, Styx heavy cruiser, a squadron each of Idolators [5], Infidel [5] and Iconoclasts [6].

The Orks fielded two Kill Kroozers, two Terror ships, a squadron of Savage gun ships [5] a squadron of Ravager ships [6] and a squadron of Ram ships [4] 

The Orks did what Orks do, they charged ahead, but so did Chaos along the flanks. Chaos launched fighters & bombers.