Flames of Nerd

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Tigers Marsch at Great Escape Games

I snuck in a game against Russ at the local game shop last weekend and used to opportunity to show my youngest son a few basics of the game. Mostly he rolled the dice and helped deploy the models, and I took over from there. I put together a very simple list of Tiger tanks from the D-Day German book. Russ brought British infantry.

Our table. We played Free-For-All.

Two units of Tigers would approach the bulk of Russ' forces, protected by AA.

The other unit of Tigers and a Fallschirmjäger unit would advance through the 'Haunted Forest'. (Not much store terrain for 15mm that day)

Some lucky shots knocked out two of Russ' Achilles on the first turn, and another on the second. The AA did good job of protecting the Tigers from some roaming Kittyhawks, but once the RAF targeted the halftracks they quickly died.

With only a single effective AT weapon left, the Tigers began to advance across the open fields.

My 2iC was left behind to secure my objective from any British shenanigans.

The rest of the Tigers encircled Russ' infantry and mortars on the other side, securing the victory.

Poor Russ didn't have anything but the Achilles that could really hurt the Tigers and once they were gone it was only a matter of time. First time I brought Tigers out in years, really fun!

Saturday, February 1, 2020

X-Wing Tournament

I played in my very first X-Wing event today at Game Kastle in Sacramento since my friend Reno was coming down from Chico to play in it. I brought five X-Wings and tried to make it as simple as I could.

In Round One I faced a Resistance list with Rey, a Transport, and an A-Wing, and managed to shoot down the fighter before all of mine went down.

In my second game I was matched up against Reno and his Separatists, a Sith Infiltrator and a pair of Nantex fighters. I managed to destroy them all while losing a pair of X-Wings.

In the last round I faced a Scum force with a Lancer Pursuit ship, a G1-A, and a HWK-290. lost three X-Wings while on my way to shooting them all down.

I had fun and actually won two games after not playing at all for over a year. Crazy!

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Legion League II: The Empire Strikes Back

A new Star Wars: Legion league started up a few weeks ago at Game Kastle here in Sacramento using the skirmish rules and a reduced points limit. My Imperial troops have engaged Rebel forces twice now, losing the first match while winning the second.

A close match seeing heavy Rebel casualties, but the Son of Skywalker hit my center hard and allowed the remaining Rebels to control enough objectives to win.

The jungle fight vs. a second group of Rebels saw the destruction of most of their forces, securing a victory for the Empire, even after losing their Lieutenant.

Friday, January 24, 2020

2019 Review

Last year I seemed a bit lost game-wise, as Flames of War was played less as V4 has struggled to find a footing in the NorCal area and the meta shift on the national level left me cold. Strangely though, I seemed to get quite a bit of new units painted in the first half of the year before commission work made me put my own projects back on the shelf for a time. I also reached out and picked up several new games, such as Star Wars: Legion, BattleTech, and the Harry Potter Miniature Adventure Game, though I've only had a chance to play the first of those. Conventions were attended in Nevada and here in California, West Coast Nationals in Las Vegas, Gauntlet here in Sacramento, and KublaCon and Pacificon in the Bay Area. Several smaller events were held locally, though most of these were more casual than in the past. I got into Legion on the recommendation of some good friends, and even played a few games of X-Wing. I also managed to paint quite a few minis!