Raid on Blount Landing - Dark Elves vs Horse and Musket

 Ok so here are some shots from some Mighty Armies games recently played in GPTs basement. Scroll down for bonus Man O War pics.

 First 3 shots are the same but -w- different focal points. You can see the Dark Elf Great Sword/Sorceress group has the Shroud of Darkness, and a wall of darkness has been cast  to block flanking cavalry.

 wall of Darkness cast in front of the artillery

 Different game, Dark Elves come on fast and the County Militia falls back.

 The Dark ELves over extend and pay the price.

--BONUS Man O War -

...yet more Might Armies

What the hell google, this blogspot gets more F'd up everytime i log in.

ok well, The First pic is of Blount Landing a 2x2 Mighty Armies "battle board" laid out for the  "The Sack of Port Argotta: Scenario from the Black Sea Pirates book. Also in that shot are the 3 armies i've specifically based for MA. Dark Elves, County Militia, and Bat Clan HobGoblins

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 Last night we played a couple games First up was Dark Elves Vs The County Militia in the Sack of Blount Landing. This was the first outing of the DE, and first test (on my part) of the new DE rules. vs The Black Powder rules from " The Black Sea Pirates" Unfortunately I neglected to take pictures.

 The Black Powder rules as well as the new Dark Elf Spells give for some interesting tactical choices. More on that later.

The 2nd pic is of a game of the DE vs UnPainted Cave Imps, a late xmas present to Dave. I have no doubt that he will have them painted by the next battle. the "smoke" markers are the effect of the dark elf spell "Wall of Darkness" The Dark Elves have a couple of new spells that will force their opponent to use MP to dispel the effects, or allow themselves to be channeled. In the above pic, the "Walls of Darkness" are being used to protect the flanks of the Great Sword fronted group.


more later

Mighty Armies Dark Elves

In honor of my rereading the Elric Saga, and the forthcoming Dark Elf book....i present the Dark Elf Army http://rebelminis.com/darkelfarmy.html
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I am running a few hours of Mighty Armies at "the weekend" at the Continental next to Dutch Wonderland, Across from the Host at the end of June. More on that in the next post. Lets get to the pictures.

  the Black Sword

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 General and Magic User

 Dragon Man

 Heavy Infantry AKA Heavy Swords

 Light Infantry

 Crossbows, 2 views

 

Pretty Nice everything you need in one swoop Stats here http://mightyarmies.com/15mm_armies/15mm_dark_elves

hmm i need to line up mine like he picture on that page.....coming soon

Mighty Armies Oranj Mountain HobGoblins

Joining in on the Mighty Army craze, http://rebelminis.com/mightyarmies.html , first out of the block is the splintered light Goblin Bat Clan Boxed Set called hobgoblins in Mighty Armies since they are scaled to the splintered lands woodland creatures. These are all foot, the Bat Riders putty is still setting up, they will be next. Also at some point there will be images from the Songs of game I put on at Cold Wars, as well as things painted. General and Shaman stands 4 Stands of Warriors 2 stands of Scouts 3 stands of Archers

Figures
1 leader 1 hero 1 shaman 1 standard 3 bat clan assassins 2 werebats 3 archers 8 warriors/spears

I chose to incorporate the 3 wear bats into Command, Shaman and a Scout stand. more later thanks

New Cydonia Flats

Here we have the table for my cold wars 2011 game S-193 - MARS 2021 Sat. 3:00 PM, 4 hrs, 6 players The Year 2021. Mars has been partially terraformed, and colonized since 1999. Contact was lost with Earth during the 2012 solar eruptions. Currently the United Nations of Earth Martian Authority maintain a state of status quo. That has just changed as Factions take things into their own hands concurrent with a Cephalod lead Octopod uprising. Welcome to New Cydonia Flats, just outside the walls of New Cydonia. The Workers Union AKA WU are suspected of forming an alliance with the Octopods in thier struggle against the Corporate Fascist Cabal that the "owns" Greater Cydonia and much of the territories under UNEMA control.

Cold Wars Playtest

Here are some shots from a play test of one part of my Cold Wars game. Octopods VS UNEMA
United Nations Earth Mars Authority

more on the units etc later.
the number on the stand is the Elan of the unit, all measurements are made from the line on the front.

table by Dave.

MARs 2021 Octopod Uprising

getting my forces together for the USE ME game i am putting of at Cold Wars this year -
first up the Octopod Uprising.
In my alternate reality, the Cephalods are the original sentient race on Mars. At this point they are making a resurgance formerly they were mostly underground having never fully recovered from their failed invasion of earth in the 1800's. The Octopods were bioengineered by the Cephalods using redmartian, and human DNA along with their own. Human settlers have taken to employing them due to their resilience to harsh atmospheres and innate technical abilities.
as always click on the pics for a bigger view. The Ocotpods are from the fine people at http://15mm.co.uk/
and their wonderful, order which specific mini you want feature, on most of their lines. The only other place I know that does that is irregular, actually no there you get one out of how ever many poses of that say - afghan rifleman that they have. not quite as nice as at 15mm uk but i wish more people would offer it.
As it was i was able to choose this specific unit composition. The Cephalods are from http://www.blackhat.co.uk/
available in the US from http://www.scalecreep.com/ after the game is over I will post the specific stats that i used to represent this force.

USEME campaign game 1

Started a USEME campaign with our group. Loose map based thingy on a mining planetoid. The first game was a raid on an outlying supply depot. More werds later wanted to upload these while... Here is the overall scenario, this takes place on a mining asteroid in my alternate reality around the year 2017... Signals from earth became sporadic when the solar storms slowly increased in frequency and intensity. The cargo carriers runs became less frequent until they stopped. The last craft from earth was a year ago. It departed after a quick refitting and cargo exchange. Leaving rumors of an earth wracked by civil war and disasters natural and man made. Life continued on as usual for a while. A lot of the workers stay on the job for fear of the loss of the few needs that are met food water air. UNEMA and the 3 main corporations control most anything of value. There are some areas under individual or group control of varying morality, charismatic autocrats to town councils. Part of the Star port and Starport city, the slums, and back country.