Pooch's January 2020 update

So, one month down- how did I get on?

1. Paint a Kings of War Army- In progress

The cat is out of the bag.... or more the Squig has escaped the cage!

It is with no small amount of excitement that I say that my Kings of War army is going to be Goblins. Small, sneaky, cowardly and hilarious, and a 'proper' fantasy army. Everything I could want in a Kings of War army.

January was pretty darn productive for them too, I managed to paint up the figures for my first three regiments, a warmachine and a couple of characters. No basing yet- I'm still waiting for some materials yet before I do that. Don't worry, I promise it will be worth the wait....

Goblins!

Flaggit (or Goblin with Flag)

Wiz (or Goblin with magic)

Sharpsticks (or Goblins with sharpsticks...)

Doom Diver! (or catapult for launching goblins. This one is pretty self explanatory)

I'll do some better photos once I have the bases done, which I think I will try to do in February.

2. Create a table of terrain to support a game

No progress.

3. Complete the 6mm Apocalypse Challenge- In progress!

As it turns out, painting 4 6mm Leman Russ was not hard.

At all.

In fact I finished all 4 of them on the 1st of January......

4 Leman Russ. The one with the white stripe is the Tank Ace

And this is all the 6mm I have painted so far!

Next up?

Mechanised infantry!

4. Run a narrative campaign for the group

Some planning, but no progress.

5. Add a new detachment to one of my 40k armies

I may have sorted this one out.....but no hints just yet.

6. Buy a starter box and paint all of it

No plans here yet- I'll wait to see if anything takes my eye!

7. Paint a Space Marine Heroes Series

No progress here

8. Update a 15mm Napoleonic army for Blackpowder

Well, I decided between French and British by selling my British.... So it'll be French, and I have made no progress.

9. Paint a stand alone force- DONE

Hey, I did a thing!

This stand alone force is a Miyazaki Crew for Gaslands. Why Gaslands? Because Hot Wheels cars with machineguns is just cool.

I went with the "Bad guy from Tron" look (which I have also been informed is also Automan?)

The whole crew

Rocket buggy!

Motorbike!

10. Update and improve a table of terrain

A bit of progress here, but not done.

11. Play a game each month, and share a photo of it

I managed to play a few games this month- there was the Valleycon Team Yankee tournament where I ran 82nd Airborne, my first game of Necromunda and a game of Black Sails using my French fleet.

The honourable French fleet

The blockade of pesky piratical privateers

The French First Rate Ocean and a brig, increasing sails to run the blockade

The French frigate Hermione blasting through the blockade

A last ditch attempt to stop the Ocean- a boarding action which was resolutely repulsed

12. Finish what I should have finished last year

Some progress here, but not done.

And that's it!

Pooch

Remember, Morty is watching.....

So Cawdor Bomb Rats are a thing...

Tank and I played our first proper game of Necromunda yesterday in which we had an actual scenario and played the game largely as intended. Oh man was it hilarious. So without further ado....

Manufactorum Assault

A Cawdor gang, for reasons that they were not at liberty to disclose, has been paid to attack a Manufactorum currently held by the Delaque. With every man-jack of them carrying a bandolier of explosives, they are to set three bombs in the manufactorum and preferably kill or maim as many of the Delaque defenders as possible. 

10 Cawdor gangers arrived in the Manufactorum to find half a dozen Delaques waiting for them. There were at least a couple more out there someplace, but they'd turn up, no doubt. The attack began with a wild frag crossbow bolt shot off into the dark.

The first shot of the game....I missed. 

  The Delaques came from cover to counter attack the incoming Cawdor lunatics - especially the leader using his grapnel to zip rapidly across the Manufactorum.

The Delaques start their active defence

The Delaque leader surveys the battle

But the Cawdors used their superior numbers to advance rapidly on both flanks!

The Cawdor left flank advances towards it's target! 

The Cawdor right flank with Bomb Rat! 

One Cawdor ganger snuck up the middle of the board and let a rat with a frag bomb off into the Delaque ranks.

The following turn, I got my shot of the game! The Cawdor champion fired a frag crossbow bolt at the Delaque leader, knocking him off a third story tower when he plummeted to the ground and pancaked. Hard. I realised after he'd hit the ground I could have left a bomb rat nearby for him to fall on. Just in case!

A Delaque tries to teach the Cawdor to use a flame weapon. The Cawdor Leader showed him how it was actually done

I forgot to take a photo here, but the first Delaque reserve arrived. A Champion with a grav gun. Who promptly crushed the two Cawdors attacking up that flank. Actually crushed. Flat. So much for that bomb.

Spot the Bomb Rat! 

The bomb failed to detonate (!) and the Delaque ganger escaped unscathed! Mercifully, some wild shooting from a Cawdor Juve got him to hit the deck.

This is what happens when a Delaque leader uses a Flechette weapon....

A couple of turns later, the Cawdor ganger on the right flank let rip with another bomb and this time, the petrol can exploded showering the Delaque ganger in flames unpleasantness. This was the point where we realised we'd been playing Blaze incorrectly and discovered it's MUCH MUCH worse than we thought. Or better. It's better if you're the one who is making the fire. Which when you're Cawdor is almost always you. :)

BOOM! 

About this point, the Cawdor right rear rear flank was compromised by another Delaque reserve but the Cawdor ganger responded well:

Git sum! 

However, the spindly Delaque reserve displayed some astonishing intestinal fortitude and blazed away with his twin stub guns:

With predictable responses as the Cawdor ganger ducked for cover, lost his footing and fell to the Hive floor! While all this was happening, a lucky Cawdor Juve set a bomb on a donkey well. Which promptly went off blowing that Juve to kingdom come!

Having crushed the Cawdor left, and then webbed their reinforcement out of action, he fired his Grav Gun into the centre of the board, putting the Cawdor leader and his Juve meatshield out of action. Then he disarmed the bomb. GRRR....

About here was when Tank's gang bottled out and started running leaving me with enough men and enough space to destroy a bunch of machinery in the middle of the board.

Countdown!!

The last action shot of the game, as the last standing Cawdor ganger tried his best to gun down the last standing Delaque champion. He got a lot of hits with his autogun and no wounds. And then the Delaque ganger ran away!

Thoughts? 
Loved it. Will probably be doing stupid stuff and getting new Cawdor kit from Forge World. I can't believe that I'd even think about that but that's how much we enjoyed this! I've planned for some more games in about a month when we hopefully also will play our first game of 6mm Apocalypse!

Next Time
Techically next time will be in February, which will probably mean I will do a sneaky and paint my Month 2 6mm silliness the morning before publishing.....

No, I won't. I'll be good. I'mma finish the Last Chancers. 

ValleyCon 2020

So a lazy blog post from me because I spent the weekend running a Team Yankee competition at our annual club event and hanging out with blogger Scotty, while he ran the 40K event. I was going to paint. That didn't happen. I did have some nice food, caught up with a bunch of people and had a ball watching the TY. So, instead, you get a bunch of photos of the armies and models to look at, none of which are mine!

Team Yankee - Army Parade

Blogger McBeth's Brits

Blogger Tank's Israelis

Blogger Scotty's West German Leopard 1s

Russian T64s

Blogger Pelarel's British

An Iraqi-American Alliance

Blogger Pooch's IPM1s 

A Franco-British Alliance

Wargamer on Tour's Czechs

East Germans and Best Army winner

US Marines - Commended Painting

French

Blogger Richard's Russians

Blogger Pooch's US Airborne

Berlin Brigade British

Iranians

Team Yankee Army Parade Highlights

Blogger Pooch's Sheridans and M60s

Blogger McBeth's Chieftans

Blogger Tank's Pereh Missile Tanks

M60s with modelled ERA

Berlin Brigade Chieftans

The Best Army Objectives

Iraqi Hinds

Wargamer on Tour's Frogfoots...Frogfeet....planes. 

Team Yankee - Highlights

Marine Artillery

Les Mirages!! 

Wargamer on Tour's Czechs attacking! 

Blogger Richard's Hinds

Blogger Pooch's A10 Flight

Wargamer on Tour's Airwing

Surrounded! 

Errr....

Chieftans hull down

The West German attack stalls

Iraqi Armour and American Recce

Gazelles and Rolands 

When Pooch's Shillelaghs don't do the business

Tank's Merkava's had this one....for a bit.

Age of Sigmar, DBMM and Warhammer 40K

Tyranid Harridan

Purple Sun of Shyish 

Cadian Leman Russ makes an impossible climb

Classic Imperial Fists

A plague horde overrunning a wrecked Devilfish

Burgundians attack the Poles

Greeks cross the river to attack the Bithynians  

Harlequins vs Adeptus Mechanicus Ironstriders

Clubmate BBs Eldar battling the T-Riptide T'au

Ogors and Skaven battling it out for soup (?)

Hero of the Warhammer World, Gotrek the Slayer, leads the Sigmarines

Swiss Pike

The Greek Shieldwall 

Mounted English Longbowmen

More Swiss Pike

A Lord of Change - and check out that base!! 

The Blue Scribes

Fish Elves on Flying Shark Lizards!

Maybe my favourite pic of the weekend. Clubmate BB deploys an actually flying Flying Wedge! 

Next Time
Tank and I are playing some games at the club next weekend I think. I'll take some photos and run up a batrep of a run in between his Delaque spies and my Cawdor lunatics.