X Wing Escalation Game 1

Good evening,

Well, last Sunday, as part of the War Clouds over Woolston Wargaming Weekend, I participated in the Escalation X Wing event. Eight participants, each with four lists - the subsequent list made out of the bulk of the previous list: 60 points, then 90, then 120, culminating in 150 points.

So...here we go!

I was up against Chris with his two Bs - Keyan Farlander with a few bits and bobs, and a Blue Squadron pilot.

But I got to shoot first! Quite liking the Target Lock, Experimental Interface and Expose combo - an extra attack die with re-rolls for the price of a stress marker. Bang bang!

Or rather bang, bang, bang, bang - with another bang at close range!

Anyhow, Blue guy tries to deny me an action by flying into me. But with the Dauntless title card, I can still play an action. Again, at the cost of a stress. So more chunks come off Mr Farlander.

Still, it wasn't all one way. See that ongoing crit? I managed to throw it off, but still...

Alas for poor Mr Farlander...

...he couldn't really say the same.

And then there was one.

Who could still dish out the pain.

There goes Expose!

Rats!

Still, one B Wing, trying to take down a big nasty Devastator...

...was a bit of a big ask! Specially when he flew through a debris cloud and rolled a crit...and a nasty one at that!

And so ended Game 1.

Thanks Chris,

Nick

A Weekend at Warclouds Over Woolston

Good morning,

Just a quick post.

DBA at Warclouds - great fun, very interesting games, quite poor die when I needed it (!) = six games, one win! (Though I also won a couple of friendlies that didn't count towards the wee competition that we were playing). Bows are great at shooting up stuff at a distance, not so crash hot when in close combat against heavy infantry!

As for the X Wing Escalation event...

I won two outright, one by one point (!), and lost one by the cost of an Academy Tie Fighter! In the end I got fourth...out of eight...so...in the middle there.

Great games, bat reps to follow.

Nick

Another Sarabara Done

Good afternoon,

Well, school is nigh, so here is the culmination of 6 week's painting - my third (of four) Early Achaemenid Persian Sarabara Bow element.

And here they are all together.

So that's...

• 3 Sarabara elements @ 12 figs each = 36
• 2 Persian Psiloi @ 2 ea, = 4
• 3 "Fast" Parthian Auxilia @ 3 figs each = 9
• 1 "Solid" Parthian Auxilia @ 4 figs = 4
• 1 Parthian Light Horse element @ 2 = 2 + horses
• 1 Hoplite spear element @ 4 figs = 4

= 59 figures painted. Plus 2 horses. (Plus 11 games of X Wing, 8 games of DBA, 1 of Kings of War and 1 of Great War Spear Head.)

The EAPs still need this last Sarabara element painted...

...plus two more horde (one's almost done), two cav, one LH and a General's chariot.

Which should lead nicely to starting the mounted for the Parthians, as they're kinda using the same colours. As indeed do the Later Achaemenid Persians. Which will finally bring on the Macedonians. Then the Mithridatic elements to morph them. Then the second Marian Roman army. Then perhaps the Classical Indians, or the Polybian Romans/Later Carts...then the early medievals...now if I could only find some reasonable looking Later Pre Islamic Arab figures to sit atop my camels...my Italeri Saracens are too medieval...

So many toys, so little time!

ETA on the completion of the Early Achaemenid Persian DBA army? End of the Term 1 holidays, perhaps? I really want to practice playing my guitar more regularly...

Nick

And Now For Something...

...completely similar.

Good afternoon,

On Tuesday, being the last real day of my school hols (meetings and planning and such taking priority for the rest of the week - back on deck come Monday next week) Young Stan popped round for an early lunch and a quick game with his 15mm toys.

He is lending me a II/32a Later Carthaginian army for the DBA competition at War Clouds, so we thought to try a Book 1/Book 2 clash with his Amalakites. He had Camels for Africa. Or Palestine, as the case may be.

I broke out, and dusted off, my very own 15mm DBA board (I did have a 15mm EIR army ages back, but I sold it), Stan set down some dunes, which I then chose to deploy in (why?!), and away we went.

Stan moved first and had a plethora of PIPSs with which to move up his boys. Me, I just had two, so I try to push out my light horse.

And then I had a lowly 1!

So, seeing as I was a little stalled, Stan storms into contact, recoiling my Spear and Elephant, leaving my Cav General a touch isolated.

Did I say touch?

I meant mightily isolated! Down he does to a lowly Auxilia, and that was the end of that!

He was a bit pushed for time, so he took his leave, leaving me with a lesson I fail to learn time and time again - don't push forward your General too eagerly!

Nick

150 Point Game of X Wing

Good afternoon,

Last night I was invited round to Tim's place to try out my final escalation list of 150 points in preparation for the X Wing event the weekend after next.


Tim rocked out a quick, but quite synergetic list...


...and...away we went!

Don't those Imperials look grand! And spread out. Hmmm...


We close...


...the Dauntless strips the Falcon's shields...



...and in return, those dirty rebels strip four shields and seven hull off the Devastator!

Arghh!

Some fancy flying later...


(will you look at those margins!)



Boom!

Bother.

The big boys break off, leaving the little dudes to buzz around.




But not before Read Admiral Chiranaeu deals to Jan Orrs.

Huzzah!



And not before time!

Bother.

The Dauntless lasted, what, three turns? Stink!

Tim flies the Falcon south, so the Ties concentrate on the B.


'Cept, Soontir, who hasn't even shot yet (arghh!). He targets Tarn...Morrison. And his dratted R7 'droid. Who forces Soontir to re-roll all of his hits. To blanks. Arghh!


And then, to add insult to injury...



Arghh!

However...



...Huzzah!

The Falcon flies back into the fray...


(landing on a rock - huzzah!)


...and out again...




...leaving destruction in it's wake.

Bother.

Again, a Tie singles out Tarn.



And again, that dratted 'droid forces me to re-roll my hits!

Arghh!

However...




Ha ha ha ha ha! Serves him jolly well right!

Dratted 'droid!

However...



...urghhh!

At this point Soontir thought that discretion was the better part of valour and flew off.

Leaving the Falcon with one shield (dratted R2), and, perhaps, one hull point chipped off.

I should have bunched up for the first joust...

Thanks for the game Tim, it was a lot of fun. And cause for some food for thought...hmmm...drop the Dauntless title, swap out...probably Winged Gundark for Dark Curse, possibly give Soontir targeting computer...hmmm...

Nick