Friday at Julians was a small-scale fantasy/pirate type game organised by Andrew, using some of Julian's Zombicide tiles to define the area of play. Chris, Julian and I ran a band of "pirates" each, and Andrew ran the "monsters"
Here are the pics with a few notes added
My band - its the first outing for my 3 Musketeers "Lady de Winter" figure!
The two musket armed pirates are on loan from Andrew.
The area of operations
All hedges and walls could be "stepped over" at no cost with the exception of the T shaped "crypt" in the centre, with the four doors to define it.
Julians pirate crew - most of the figures were supplied by Andrew
Within a few minutes of starting, the skellies were on Julians trail
The Vampire Queen who was concealed within the crypt, and who was the target of our quest.
Julians band in close combat with the guardians of the crypt
But wait, there more ......!
The Vampire Queen with one hit token
Julian spent the entire game fending off the pursuing enemy - they came on randomly, but every random throw Andrew made, they turned up in Julians part of the table!
The Vampire Queen restored to full health!
My group charge in to confront Her Evilness
Most of my group were pushed back with wounds!
But we went again, and combined with Chris, were able to force the Evil One to fall back, but she was surrounded with no escape route and therefore was eliminated!
Julian in the meantime, having lost his leader and half his force, was still battling the undead!
As we had arrived and started early, the first game was over before 7pm - so we had dinner and reset for a second outing
We all took the same squads of pirates
Chris searching for the key to open the doors to teh crypt
The doors are opened to reveal the Vampire Queen and one attendant skelly
Once again, the "randomly generate" monsters appeared behind Julian - these female beasties were particularly potent, as they had a +2 added to any roll they made- and there were five of them!
We should have killed the Vampire Queen here, but Chris deliberately DIDNT block its exit - because he is like that!
As a result, she managed to survive and escape my group!
But it was a short-lived reprieve
On four hits and caught between me and Julian, she had no escape route and was once more sent spiralling into the fires of the undead abyss!
Now here are a few images of completed stuff from the weekend painting desk ....................
Battle Honours 3D Red Army winter HMG team
I have one more of these to do and will vary the coats and hats
And the first (of six!) winter mortar crews
I think this was an error at the suppliers end as I am sure I only ordered one pack of three.
Mortars are particularly effective in the rules we use for WW2, so six on the table at one time is unlikely to happen!
Despite the two-man crew and weapon being a single print, I did not find painting them too much of a problem
I have two more in grey coats and hats with white fur 90% completed, then I will do the other three in olive/khaki coats and grey or brown fur hats, for some variety
Finally, a few images of the RCW 3D printed Lanchester armoured cars bought off Temu for $NZ16 each - approx US$12 or GBP 7
I am very happy with how these have painted up
A couple of images with Artizan and Copplestone figures
And finally, an image of my high tech (not!) photo booth!
I think that is probably plenty for one day - I do have a solo WW2 skirmish AAR to do but will leave that for a few days. Thanks for your visit (assuming you find this post, the last couple have been down on comments due to the vagaries of Blogger that Jon on PWJ discussed in a recent post.....)
The games really looked like they were good fun Keith, lovely figures used as well. Your Russian HMG and mortars team look great, very nicely done. Must admit those armoured cars look great and at that price you can't go wrong, great models and well painted.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Donnie, glad you liked the game report and latest offerings from the painting desk!
DeleteFun looking game with plenty if laughs is a good sign. I really like the look of those armoured cars
ReplyDeleteThaks Scotty - yes fun is the name of the game, after all! I was very pleased with that Temu purchase!
DeleteThat looks like another fun. Friday nights seem to bring you a lot of variety. Your photo booth setup is very effective as the pictures always seem to turn out well.
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed Lawrence - too much variety sometimes, it might be nice to play the same period/rules for two or three sessions occasionally!
DeleteIt's a real "Jerry built" set up but it does the job!
Looking as fantastic fun game time!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michal - it was a good evening of gaming!
DeleteA fun looking game Keith and more nice Russians 👍
ReplyDeleteThanks on both counts Matt!
DeleteGreat looking figures for that game Keith, but poor old Julian didn't catch a break! Love the newly painted figures, but overkill on the mortar front, but when dealing with the Fascist Beast, who cares;)! Those armoured cars are fantastic value at about £7.00 a pop and always look very cool too:).
ReplyDeleteCheers Steve - a fun game and I am happy with the Soviet support options and RCW armour!
DeleteThanks for the AAR Keith. Afterwards I thought of all sorts of things I would have done different/better(?) but otherwise I thought it went well & .... such fun!
ReplyDeleteThanks Andrew - it was a good laugh that's for sure - don't think we wanted you doing anything better - we might not have won?!
DeleteSounds like a great fun game, unless you were Julian! Great looking armoured cars and soviets, and yes my last post seems to barely be noticed which is odd!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Cheers Iain - my latest post did not appear on PWJ immediately, but it was only an hour or two until I could see it.
DeleteThe issue does restrict views and visitors though - I can see in mine, on average I was getting around 300 views per post, the more recent couple, it was only about half that, and comments were down by around the same proportion
Great looking figures all around, Keith. I particularly like the lady swords-women in the first image. Your Soviet additions are also very nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean, the sword buckling ladies are from Brigade , glad you like them!
DeleteThat is a very impressive mat. I think these sort of games have a lot more resonance when the visuals are good.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm. Andrew generally prefers to use these kind of tiles for his non historical games and I agree with you, they add a little something to the experience.
DeleteFun looking games there. Especially good idea to use the tiles from zombicide too. I’ve been having blogger problems too btw. Doesn’t show up on Google searches half the time for some reason.
ReplyDeleteThanks JBM. I have had that issue for ages. For some reason, if you Google search for Bydand Blog, you don't find mine....
DeleteWhile I have yet to be drawn to Zombie games, I certainly can see that they could provide some entertaining and hilarious moments. your Russian depots continue cranking out men and materiel at a rapid pace. Good stuff!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jon....the odd fantasy skirmish game on a Friday after work is a bit of fun.
DeleteLooks a fun game Keith. I like the Winter Russians as well. I'll have to tell Lee about those.
ReplyDeleteCheers Ray! There is a 3d printer I have seen that does specifically Winter War figures....both sides....they even have a Finnish soldier leading a reindeer as a pack animal! Very cool!
DeleteYeh I saw that on ebay, they also do a giant elastic band, where you can fling grenades of Molotov cocktails...haha!! Not sure they're in Bolt Action rules???
DeleteI am sure you could work something out between Lee and you...make it like a grenade with twice the distance!
DeleteGreat and fun game there Keith. Surely Julian got the MVP prize for dealing with all the monsters 😂
ReplyDeleteThe Soviets like their artillery so six mortar teams is probably about right.
That's a fair point, Ben!
DeletePersonally, I have nothing against having 6-8 mortars on the table at the same time - but anyone on the opposite side may not be so sang froid about it!
Great looking Russians, Keith.
ReplyDeleteThank you Richard...more to come soon!
DeleteFun sounding games! Sounded like there were plenty of hijinks to keep all involved entertained.
ReplyDeleteI like the new teams and Armoured Cars too. Was a little worried seeing them as bare prints, but painted up they look fine.
Cheers Dai - the Friday game was fun and not to be taken too seriously!
DeleteGlad you like the 3D prints. Several people expressed the feeling that painting the mortar teams would be a hassle as they were a single print, but I didn't find it that hard to be honest