Gates of Erebor

 Made some terrain for an upcoming battle of the five armies 

40K 30 anniversary

 Today there was much rejoicing at the local GW to celebrate the third decade of warhammer 40000. The staff organized events all day: during the morning there was an AoS tournament and a crazy race using all kinds of models; in the afternoon we had a 40k tournament and there I headed with my combination of marines & guard.

 My opponent was chaos, hadn't played against them for almost a year

 The black legion was led by a fearsome daemon prince

 The prince pulled off a first turn charge thanks to a psychic power

 He killed some conscripts, but the guardsmen managed to give him two wounds at bayonet point.

 Next turn my kasrkins dropped behind some marines and killed most with meltas

 The daemon, caught in a crossfire by devastators & conscripts, was destroyed

 The kasrkin were lucky and none died, next turn they wiped out the squad

 The remianing heretics climbed on a bastion for the final last stand

 But the mass of lascannons and meltas killed them all next turn

It was then a matter of exterminating the remnants of the other victorious armies (we were 6 players, 3 of which passed to the 2nd phase) with my practially intact forces. A walk in the park.

The winner of the tournament got a surprise present: a set of 40k artwork postcards with some of my favourite artworks, the roguetrader cover amongst them; nice!

Amon Sûl

 Just made the weathertop for an upcoming scenario, fireplace included!

The last alliance

 The gaming season is on! Our first game is the last alliance since we're gonna devote this month to LotR battles. The rules for the scenario are quite straightforwards: the good has to kill Sauron and the evil 4 of the 5 heroes within 15 turns in order to win. The game is played with the GW rulebook at 1400pts.

 The good side is made up of all the free peoples: dwarfs led by their king Durin

 Men of Numenor under Isildur & Elendil

 Elves led by Gil-Galad and Elrond

 And one eagle

 The bad guys include Sauron, orcs and trolls

 The good begins by keeping the heroes back and sending the warriors forward

 The evil, badly outgunned, must advance too

 The dark lord himself

 The eagle advances and wins a combat against two trolls

 Sauron uses his magic to wound the bird and puppet it into the middle of his forces

 The eagle won't last long there

 While some good warriors advance, the rest shoot

 The four main heroes form a block behind their men

 Eagle still fighting (not for long)

 Sauron moves to smash some heads, a mistake since he is far better at launching spells and can't do that in combat

 As the two lines crash combats spread, the trolls are killing machines, but the orcs die quite fast

 Goodbye eagle!

 A troll is killed by men with two handed weapons

Seven turns have passed and the battle stands on a knife's edge, however my opponent has got enough and decided to concede. Victory for evil then!

Imperium vs Imperium

 Another match of 40k, this time an imperium bash. Whoever wins +1 point for the imperium side of the global campaign.

I brought my trusty custodes

 With conscripts/cultists (heresy!)

 And Guilliman+firebase

 My opponent had tons of guardsmen

 Primarines! Resistant but not very killy.

 And some more blood angels

 First turn the cultists decimated a unit of guards

While the custodes ran ahead

Next turn one unit of guards was killed.

At this point my camera ran out of memo (I had left the card home!), luckily not much happened, the custodes butchered some marines losing two guardians, and my left conscripts were wiped out.

Battle ended as my opponent had to leave, I won by just one VP.

I wanted to try two things: Guilliman and the conscripts. Guillie was wasted as a support character and should have joined the custodes charge; while the conscripts killed as much as the same number of guardsmen. Still I think that a punisher russ is more killy-resistant (and a better buy?) than a blob of conscripts+comissar+cmdr.