Double Whammy! Seventeenth and Eighteenth game of the year. Bloody Big Battles and Super Mario Cart at XP

 This Tuesday we had a double whammy. Two games at XP, and for a day that on the colander is called WH40k day, not a Citadel Miniature in sight!

We began with Darren and me playing my Bloody Big Battles, Le Journal De Petite Battailes format Gribomvo 1897 scenario. I took the Ottoman side and Darren the Greek side. This was Darren's second game of BBB. He focused the Greeks on converging attacks on Hanopoulo and Gribomvo and won. We both rolled pretty high and there were a lot of spend and ammo low units, but ultimately the Greeks powered through. 

The Setup with Ottomans deployed. 

Sixteenth Game of the Year: Tau Civil War CP, and two Turns of BBB LJdPB Gribomvo 1897

 I went to XP on Tuesday and set up both my Gribomvo 1897 LJdPB BBB scenario and my Combat Patrol Set up. Usually Vern comes by and he does not play 40k, but he had a mishap, so I played a game of Combat Patrol with Darren. He played the new Tau Combat Patrol and I the old one. We narrated it as a Farsight Enclaves vs .Ethereal battle. In the end I lost decisively, though we both lost most of our forces (My ghost-keel survived, and his Devilfish and breachers) . A good game.

Then Darren obliged me and we played a bit BBB only getting two turns in, but hopefully helping him get the logic of the rules. 

Here are random photos from both games.

Project done for now: Combat Patrol and 1000 points of Death Guard

 I finally reached a milestone on my Death Guard force. I have enough figures to proxy both the Combat Patrol, and 1000 points. The army is built around a gift by my friend Onur, who gifted me a painted set of 1 Lord of Contagion, 1 Foetid Bloat Drone, 1 Chaos Lord, 10 Poxwlakers, 6 marines (1 plasma gun, 1 that can be used as Icon Bearer). 

I added to it 

-10 Citadel Poxwalakers 

-1 Plague Witch (proxy for Typhus or Deamon Prince), 5x Marine Annihilators (2x Plasma Guns, 1x Blight Laucnher, 1 x Plague Spewer, 1 Plasma pistol), 10 Plague-Walkers, 1 Hellbrute Proxy all designed by Immaterium Gods, printed by Sand and Forge.

-1 Biologus proxy, 3x Deathshroud Terminators proxies designed by Echos from the Abyss, printed by MrAnderson3DPrints.

- bult one marine from parts of Citadel and Immaterium Gods, armed with a meltagun 

Total Cost: about 150 USD.

I am missing one marine with a second blight launcher, and one with a heavy weapon+boltgun to be properly representative of all my options. 

Video and photos below. 

Fifteenth Game of the Year: Incursion level 40k, Death Guard vs. Necrons

 Finally got in an incursion (1000 points) 40k game with Darren today (Orthodox Easter is on Sunday). I ran a Daemon Prince centered list vs his Necrons. All in all a good game though we were not able to finish. We played to turn 3, and at the end the Necrons were winning with 5 points difference. As always we played at the friendly premises of XP Gaming Cafe 

Start of Turn 1