Game Plan 2025 - Q3

Half way through the year! It's time to take a moment and look back at the previous quarter and maybe do some planning (or guessing at) what I might do over the next few months! 

Q2 in Review

Here's what I'd planned for Q2... and how it went... 

(you can find the original post here: Game Plan 2025 - Q2)

Q2 GAMES

I played 18 games in the Second Quarter of 2025:

• Warhammer Quest: Cursed City x10
• Advanced Song of Blades and Heroes x5
• Bolt Action: Third Edition x2
• Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition) x1

Below is a bit of a breakdown of what I'd planned and how it went. 

Warhammer Quest

This had been going extremely well through the first quarter... I expected we would continue to play through the second... The only question was; Would we finish the game in the second quarter? Or would we STILL BE PLAYING!?  I had figured it would take a MINIMUM of seven more sessions to complete the initial campaign in Cursed City (but it seemed more likely to take eleven or more). 

In the end we played almost weekly and got in TEN games of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City this quarter. We will definitely finish off the initial campaign in the next few weeks or so! Woo! 

Role-Playing Games 

I had wondered if we might get the in-person Soulbound game going again... 

We did not... 

I did, however start a NEW campaign on Tuesday evenings... The Campaign for Ravensflight - initially the plans were to use Five Leagues from the Borderlands for the campaign system and Advanced Song of Blades and Heroes for playing out the tabletop skrimishes... in the end I dropped the idea of the using Five Leagues from the Borderlands and just made up my own scenarios that narratively followed on from the previous one... it was kind of more of a "role-playing lite" series of linked skimish adventures... but was fun! 

After only five sessions, the leader of the expedition died along with Finnegan's main character (the wizard! after he'd already lost one of his characters in the first encounter!?) and we had considered a hard reboot of the campaign and made up some new characters but then got busy doing other things. It was a lot of fun! I would love to get something like that (or some other role-playing game!) going at some point. I'd initially thought when we're done Warhammer Quest: Cursed City... But my interests seem to be shifting elsewhere. 

World War Two - Bolt Action, etc...

I thought FOR SURE I would be playing a LOT of Bolt Action through the Second Quarter. I wasn't so sure we'd keep playing Five Men at Kursk or Five Men in Normandy, but didn't rule out OTHER games! 

Previously we'd be mostly playing games set in North Africa - and a few smaller ones in the Pacific Theatre of Operations (partly due to availability of mats to play on!). As Orion was ordering a Hungarian army, I expected focus to shift to the Eastern Front as well! 

I ended up playing Only playing ONE GAME in April (which I never even got around to posting a game report for), and NONE in May, and then only ONE MORE game  in June!? 

Other Warhammer Games - Age of Sigmar/Underworlds/40K

I hadn't written all of these off entirely... I mean, I WAS still playing Warhammer Quest, so some part of my brain was still interested in the Age of Sigmar setting...

I DID get in one game of 40K and even before that I had also hoped I might get to painting a few more Eldar..?  or maybe a few of the Emperor's Children...? Possibly pick up the new Astra Militarum codex and reorg all those armies to be ready for action...?

At the beginning of May, Orion travelled to Calgary to play in the  - a World Championship of Warhammer qualifier event with two or three Golden Tickets up for grabs! She did not win one of those, but came back feeling inspired to play Warhammer Quest again!! But I didn't end up playing a single game... 

With the release of the new setting for Spearhead, I even got thinking about playing that again! So far, I have not... 

Board Games 

I was really feeling that I was missing playing a lot of the board games we'd played in the past... and hoped to play more... but realistically I wasn't sure if I'd have the time or energy to organize and play regular board games... AND play Warhammer Quest every week... AND play Bolt Action (or other miniatures games)... AND write up game reports... AND paint new miniatures for Bolt Action (or other miniatures games)... AND possibly organize and run a role-playing game... 

Though we had talked about playing Terraforming Mars a few times, in the end we played no board games this quarter...

Solo Miniature Games 

At the beginning of the quarter I was still feeling it would be fun to continue the current solo games... 

Paras in Normandy

Pulp Adventure

Five Parsecs from Home

and still hoped I'd get around to trying out Devilry Afoote... 

But as with board games... What little time I ended up playing games, I was actually playing games WITH people, so found it hard to fit in some additional solo games on the side! 

Q2 MINIATURES

Ooof! I did NOT get nearly as much done this past Quarter. In the first Quarter I managed to paint 199 x 28mm foot figures, four mounted and TEN tanks and other vehicles... This quarter I painted less than a third of that! 

It was clear at the beginning of the quarter that my focus was mainly ONE thing... 

World War Two - Bolt Action

This seemed to be where things were mostly focused for the forseeable future. I had been working on forces for the desert war in North Africa and the Pacific. 

I'd acquired a BUNCH of tanks to play in the sand and hoped that would be the primary focus for the Second Quarter. 

What I did end up assembling and painting was... 

• 1x German Spotter
• 3x USMC Forward Observers
• 2x Chindit Anti-Tank Rifle Crew
• 2x Japanese Anti-Tank Rifle Crew
• 4x USMC War Dogs and Handlers
• 19x Fallshirmjäger

But during this period I pick up another 55 WW2 infantry and four more vehicles!? 

• 10x Fallschirmjäger Squad (Tropical Uniform)
• 10x Gebirgsjäger
• 4x USMC War Dogs and Handlers
• 3x USMC Forward Observers
• 3x 1940 French Casualties 
• 7x 1940 French Weapons team crews
• 4x Afrika Korps Pak 36 light anti-tank gun and crew
• 2x Chindit Anti-Tank Rifle crew
• 2x Japanese Anti-Tank Rifle crew
• 1x Death Korps of Krieg Engineer (Free Miniature of the Month)
• 10x WW2 Gurkhas
• 6x Fallshirmjäger Weapons Teams
• 1x Chi-Ha Japanese tank (Q2) 
• 1x Vought F4U Corsair
• 1x Stug III
• 1x Stug III

Warhammer Games

Age of Sigmar/Underworlds/40K/Cursed City/Soulbound

I did finish Torgilius the Chamberlain - the only mini I needed to finish for Warhammer Quest: Cursed City! (other than two Mysterious Object markers!) 

I'd planned to get started on the last few things I need for Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars... the Fell Bats and Radukar the Beast!? I did BUY Radukar the Beast and I've had the Fell Bats assembled and primed for a while... but I did not get them painted 

I'd hoped perhaps that painting stuff for Night Wars might be expanded again into larger Age of Sigmar forces...? Maybe paint up some of the other Soulblight Gravelords when I work on these few things...?  That hasn't happened, so far.. .

If we'd gotten Soulbound going again, I'd hoped that might get me working on some of the Chaos foes that could be encountered - primarily the Disciples of Tzeentch, but also Skaven and Slaves to Darkness... alas... 

I DID start working on the Emperor's Children - reorganizing some of the things I already have and assembling and priming the Champions of Slaanesh I bought at the end of the First Quarter 

I did rebase 18 Noise Marines onto 40mm bases (as that's what they're on now!?) and I did paint up two new Noise Marines to finish up one unit. I have another four to finish up to complete the other two units. I also finished up an odd Possessed Heretic Astartes!

Unfortunately I also picked up a Chaos Daemons Combat Patrol box and Radukar the Beast, which has kind of put me back in the red to end this Quarter. 

Other Games

I did acknowledge that there was always the possibility that I could decide I needed to paint stuff for something else entirely... Thinking the most likely possibilities would be for the Solo games - Sci-fi stuff for Five Parsecs from Home or Pulp Adventure stuff....

In the end I painted a few things for the new role-playing/skirmish campaign

• 1x Wizard
• 1x Halfling Assassin
• 12x Assorted Fantasy Characters

and some random Mutant Plants... 

Painting progress and game playing dropped significantly over the second Quarter. Part of it was because it's spring and other things were going on... part of it was... "family drama", I guess you could call it... that put a LOT of things on hold. 

so... for the next three months... 

GAME PLAN 2025 - Q3

What to do in the Third Quarter...?

I feel like interests are shifting and Warhammer 40,000 might return to be a focus for the Third Quarter!?

GAMES

I will probably play some games... likely continuing what I've been doing for the last quarter/year so far... with some slight shifts...

Warhammer Quest

It has been a lot of fun playing this with Amanda and Finnegan! In the Third Quarter we will definitely finish off the initial quest in Warhammer Quest: Cursed City and then likely move on to working our way through Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - NIGHT WARS! 

I haven't even opened the Night Wars box, let alone read any of the content, so I have NO IDEA how long that will take... I imagine it won't take 30 missions like the first quest did, and could possibly be finished up over the summer (by the end of Q3)!

After that...? 

I really like this format of play and Amanda, Finnegan and I have been having a lot of fun playing through the campaign. We have a few options to continue on... 

There is still Silver Tower we have not played through. I still have to finish a numbe r of minatures for that one, but that could likely be finished by the time we're done Night Wars... 

There is also Blackstone Fortress! Amanda and I played through the initial campaign back in 2020/2021 and carried on playing some of the adventures in the Annual and the Dreaded Ambul campaign. I still have the Ascension, Deadly Alliance, No Respite, Traitor Command, and Escalation expansions to play through!!

OR we could maybe take a break and focus on... Role-Playing...? 

I have a feeling, if we finish Night Wars before the end of the Quarter, we might return to Blackstone Fortress! I checked with Finnegan and Amanda and both seem interested in that. 

Role-Playing Games 

As mentioned above I had a lot of fun playing that rpg-lite skirmish adventure campaign and I'd like to revisit that (or SOME kind of role-playing game!) But I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get that going on while still playing Warhammer Quest (and other games!). 

With a renewed interest in Warhammer 40,000 my thoughts have returned to Wrath & Glory and the possibility of starting up a campaign (or two!?) either online or in-person (or BOTH!?)... I've suggested maybe I could run a few one-shot adventures for players to try out different archetypes and Tiers over the summer and then maybe in the fall get an ongoing campaign going. 

World War Two - Bolt Action

Despite the slow down in games and painting in the Second Quarter, I do hope things will pick up again in the next quarter. I have an idea for a skirmish campaign involving some of Orion's Hungarians - when she gets enough done - and then I imagine there will be a lot of campaigning on the Eastern Front with them! 

Warhamer 40,000

At the tail end of the Second Quarter the 40K bug caught me again and I've been busily working on Emperor's Children and assorted other stuff, while listening to 40K audio books. I got in one game (with my Aeldari, versus Orions Space wolves...). Despite that disaster, it's got me thinking about 40K again. 

I'm not sure exactly where that's going to take me this quarter. I do not love matched play.... so I picked up the most recent Crusade book (for playing narrative campaigns) and am hoping we might get to play though - or at least start - a campaign over the summer. I want to finish up enough of the Emperor's Children to play with them! Amanda said she might be willing to play some games, so I might need to figure out a force for her. 

I could also see giving Combat Patrol a try...? It's a smaller game similar to Age of Sigmar Spearhead. 

Other Warhammer Games - Age of Sigmar/Underworlds/Soulbound/etc.

I STILL haven't written all of these off entirely... I mean, I'm STILL playing Warhammer Quest, so some part of my brain is still interested in the Age of Sigmar setting at least somewhat!? 

Some people on the discord were talking about playing Spearhead again - and I could see trying to get in a game or two. 

I feel completely out of the loop with what's going on with Warhammer Underworlds these days... There have been a few new decks released and I have not picked them up... 

Board Games 

WOW! I have missed playing board games... but with all the other games going on each week - each requiring some prep beforehand and a game report after... I'm not sure I'll have the TIME to play any board games... 

Solo Miniature Games 

It would be fun to continue the current solo games... 

• Paras in Normandy
• Pulp Adventure
• Five Parsecs from Home

I's also still LOVE to try out Devilry Afoote Campaign I got all set up for...

AND I continue to have SO MANY IDEAS about other campaigns I could play... 

I'll just keep those in my back pocket for now, in case any of the current active in-person campaigns Im actually playing with others fizzle... 

MINIATURES

What will I get up to PAINTING the next few months...?

As always, it will be likely dictated by the games I end up playing. As outlined above that will probably be Warhammer 40,000, Bolt Action, and Warhammer Quest... and possibly Age of Sigmar...? 

World War Two - Bolt Action

I could spend the rest of the year just painting World War Two stuff for Bolt Action (or... any WW2 game...) and not run out of stuff... If I COULD I'd like to finish up the following... 

• 4x  Matilda II
• 5x  Cruiser Mk1 (A9)
• 2x  Italian M14/41 tank
• Italian Colonial Troops (10) 
• Italian Breda AA gun
• 8th Army 6 pounder and crew
• Gebirgsjager Squad (10) 
• 1940 French Army Casualties and weapons teams (10) 
• ~50x Fallschirmjager  
• 2x  Panzer IV
• 2x Panther
• Japanese Army Chi Ha tank 
• 3x DAK Panzer III
• DAK Howitzer and crew
• DAK AT gun
• DAK Sdkfz 222 Armoured Car
• DAKPanzer IV
• 2x Stug III

Not sure how much (or ANY) of this is going to happen... but we can dream. I guess it will depend on how much Orion wants to play later in the summer and fall. Playing always motivates painting!!

Warhammer 40,000

I like the idea of trying out Combat Patrol - the smaller skirmishy version of 40K - very similar to Age of Sigmar: Spearhead. But they are fixed forces and I don't have the exact units required to field ANY of them... and I am loathe to BUY any more stuff at this point. 

I did end up buying a Chaos Daemons Combat Patrol last week... Partly to have a force I could try out Combat Patrol with... but also because there are rules for unbound wandering Daemons in the Armageddon Crusade campaign... and also they could be used in my Age of Sigmar Blades of Khorne army... AND, most importantly, the force is being discontinued and I wanted to get one before they all disappeared! 

In the last week I've gotten them all based and assembled and primed and hopefully within the week I'll be able to finish them all off!!

Other than that, I think the primary focus for this will be getting some Emperor's Children painted - enough to field a 1000 point Crusade Force for campaining on Armageddon. 

I MAY also end up breaking down and getting the Emperor's Children Combat Patrol, if I can find anyone else that's even remotely interested in playing. As with most boxed sets, it's way cheaper to buy the box than the individual units. The units in the box that I'd need (2 units of Flawless Blades) individually would cost $140... the Combat Patrol is $200 (which would give me two more units worth $135 - Lord Exultant and Infractors - which I could always do with more of...) 

Regardless... I already have loads of Emperor's Children to paint! 

Currrently to paint:

• Lord Exultant
• 20 Tormentors
• 20 Infractors
• 10 Chaos Terminators 

This, with the stuff I already have, would get me to about 1660 points - plenty of options for a starting Crusade force. Picking up the Combat Patrol would put me well over 2000. IF I picked up the Combat Patrol, that would add: 

• ANOTHER Lord Exultant
• 10 MORE Infrators
• 6 Flawless Blades

I think I have to make myself a deal that I have to finish at least the Lord Exultant that I already have, one unit of Infractors and one unit of Tormentors before I can reasonably buy myself an Emperor's Children Combat Patrol... 

To put together a 1000 point force of Ynnari for Amanda I need to paint 

• Yvraine 
• Ynnari Archon 
• 5-10 Ynnari Kabalite Warriors 
• Ynnari Succubus 

To expand the force, I have more Ynnari Reavers and Wyches and a Venom and other members of the Triumvirate of the Ynnead that I could paint... 

Warhammer Quest

I will definitely be painting up Radukar the Beast and the Fell Bats needed for Cursed City: Night Wars. 

After that...? I guess it depends which game we play next. 

There are Grot Skuttlings, a couple Skaven, a few Familiars, the Gaunt Summoner, and two of the heroes I'd need to finish up to play Silver Tower. 

For Blackstone Fortress there are miniatures for all the expansion campaigns I have that would need painting... 

Other Warhammer Games

I still have other Warhammer Games in the back of my mind...  I COULD see myself knocking out the rest of the stuff needed for a Soulblight Gravelords Spearhead army... (or maybe the Stormcast Eternals...?) - 

The Khorne Daemons from the Chaos Daemons Combat Patrol are all useable in Age of Sigmar... 

Other Games

Song of Blades and Heroes...?

other Ganesha Games...?

All the Solo games...?

If I got playing these again, I could end up painting stuff for them... buuuuuuut... realistically, I don't see that happening this Quarter! 

June Games

 These are the games we played in June 2025! 

Sunday, 1 June 2025

It was really warm the last weekend in May/first weekend into June - soaring to +30°C on Friday and then the air turned yellow-brown from all the smoke from wildfires in the northern part of the province... The inside of the house felt like the inside of an oven on the floors above grade and so we retreated into the basement to play a game of Warhmmer Quest: Cursed City! 

This game the Heroes went on another Decapitation Journey to take out the Ven Alten cousins - a trio of extremely dangerous and murderous vampires! 

Luckily by the evening the air had cleared up enough we could open up the windows and let the house cool down a bit! 

Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Tuesday afternoon Orion swung by to play a quick game of Bolt Action in the ruins of Stalingrad! There is a full report on the action here:

Bolt Action - Streets of Stalingrad!

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Back to playing games on Wednesdays! This week was a Hunt Journey - to lower the influence of Radukar's Court and start gaining experience towards Level Four (and presumably gather clues about Radukar's phylacteries!) - so they could take on Radukar the Wolf himself! 

Wednesday, 18 June 2025 

Another Wednesday evening, another Hunt Journey - this brought the four they were playing to Level FOUR - ready to take on Radukar the Wolf! (but maybe not quite yet... it was decided they should play two more regular journeys to bring Octren Glimscry up to Level Four as well!) 

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Another Wednesday, another round of Warhammer Quest. This week we played a Deliverance Journey - mostly to gain Octren Glimscry some experience. One more successful Journey and he will be at Level Four like all the others and any of them will be able to take down Radukar the Wolf... but that will have to be next month! 

So... four games of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City, and a game each of Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition) and Bolt Action (Third Edition)... Not a LOT of games... but more than we played in May!  

May and June were pretty busy for all with... well.. other stuff going on... Maybe July will be less busy for some of us.

Mind you, I did just get a new kayak, so... 

Game Plan 2025 - Q3 will be posted shortly after this! 

Crusades, Daemons and a Stug

 Over the last week, one thing arrived in the mail and I picked up a few things at my FLGS (Dragon's Den Games in Saskatoon!) 

Last week, I picked up the 40K Crusade: Armageddon book. I've had a hankering to play 40K again, and I do prefer playing campaigns - or at least games with some sort of narrative - so I thought I'd try out the latest Crusade Campaign book from Games Workshop. 

I'd gone to the store not entirely sure which one I'd pick up, as there have been two released so far this year - Nachmund Gauntlet and Armageddon. I didn't really look into either before I went to the store, which, in retrospect, probably wasn't the best plan... but here we are. 

I was a little familiar with Armageddon. I mean, the tales of the wars on Armageddon have been part of the narrative of 40K for decades. I mean, it was the skirmish game Shadow War: Armageddon, that seriously got me collecting and painting 40K miniatures again - and even then, Armageddon had been in the narrative a long time. 

I ended up picking up the Armageddon book because it was the only one of the two they had in stock (though they did still have the Tyrannic War and Pariah Nexus books, I passed on those, largely because I'd had it in my head I was going there for Nachmund Gauntlet or Armageddon... and the Tyrannic War and Pariah Nexus were not Nachmund Gauntlet or Armageddon... so...) 

(again, this is where checking things out to see what was available and maybe reading some of the articles on the Warhammer Community website to see what those different campaigns are all about might have been prudent... but here we are).

So the BIG THING going on at Armageddon these days is massive rift gates opening up and daemons spilling onto the planet from the warp.... and a full-scale invastion by the World Eaters (worshipers of Khorne, the blood god)... 

Ultimately EVERYONE shows up for these things (or there are ways you can work whatever force you have into the narrative and play. Space Wolves are actually mentioned to have a significant presence on Armageddon... Emperor's Children...? Not so much... but hey they could just show up to sow discord and confusion and take a few shots at both the Imperial forces AND the World Eaters! 

It's kind of fun, there are scenarios where there are wandering unbound generic daemons wandering around the battlefield! 

Which reminded me of the Chaos Daemons Combat Patrol... I'd been thinking of picking it up last year - to add to the Blades of Khorne forces (because, it's just such a ridiculous good deal...) AND I'd been thinking it might be fun to try out Combat Patrol - smaller skirmishy version of 40K with set army lists (similar to Spearhead for Age of Sigmar) but, of all the 40K forces I have stuff for, I could not fill out a single Combat Patrol!? I'd need to buy at least two units to fill out a combat patrol... for the Daemons, those two units would cost $125 CAD... the whole damed combat patrol is only $200... and contains stuff currently worth $325 - if it was all bought separately... 

Anyway, Armageddon got me thinking about that again... but when I went to check the Warhammer website, it had been removed!! the manager at the local Warhammer Store said they did have one or two in stock, but they were to be removed from the shelves soon and ultimately sent back (but that might not be for a while) checking around, I found a lot of the online stores I've bought stuff from were sold out of them... and then I happened to be in the Dragon's Den for Free RPG Day  and noticed they had one in stock... I didn't buy it right then and there... I thought about it over the weekend and went back Monday and picked it up... and the Wrath & Glory - Threat Assessment: Heretics and Daemons book, which I'd also seen they had in stock! 

And when I got home from the Dragon's Den I saw a package had arrived for me containing the Stug... which I'd ordered over a month ago and almost entirely FORGOTTEN that I'd even ordered!? 

So now I'm trying to finish up priming and prepping all those Drukhari and Corsairs... so I can put them into temporary storage so I can assemble and paint all these DAEMONS!! Largely because I know that they will be SUPER FAST to paint and it's nice having stuff DONE! 

(also, the quarter is almost done and the numbers are looking really low! Ha!) 

(this HAS... TEMPORARILY... put me back in the red - having purchased MORE than I've painted so far this year...!?) 

40K - Building Drukhari

For years I've had these five frames of really, REALLY old Drukhari Kabalites... 

I thought they had been included in the Drukhari army I'd picked up several years ago... But looking back at the post... I don't see them included in that lot...!? So now I'm not sure WHERE they came from!?

The last week or so I've been COMPLETELY DISTRACTED/SIDE-TRACKED by Warhammer 40,000 again... and have been planning and assembling and painting. Part of that planning was trying to figure out an army Amanda could play and I remembered the Drukhari... but also... that Drukhari can be used in Ynnari forces (which are in the Aeldari codex - which I have - and thus would not require buying ANOTHER codex!?)... so I've been sorting out Drukhari stuff I could finish up for her army as well as my Emperor's Children. 

While I was at this I dug out and assembled a Drukhari Kabalite Kill Team that I've had kicking around but never got around to assembling and painting (I picked it up in one of the big Kill Team boxes that came with two teams and a bunch of terrain). There was PILES of left-over bits - heads and weapons... 

So I decided to assemble these really old kabalites... but am using some of the newer heads and weapons to jazz them up. 

I did build a few with the original heads and weapons... just because (still need to add spikey bits to shoulders!) 

However, I also have PILES Of bits left over from the Voidreaver Corsairs kill team... Like enough that I could have equipped all twenty of the old drukhari and had a full squad of ten with Shuriken Rifles and a full squad of ten with power swords and shuriken pistols (Because the box comes with enough options that they can be build as a Voidscarred Kill Team - where just about everyone is some kind of specialist... OR a regular Corsair Voidreaver Squad all armed with Shuriken Rifles... OR a regular Corsair Voidreaver Squad all armed with shuriken pistols and power swords...). They COULD be fielded in units of five so I could have five of each (and then ten that I build as Drukhari Kabalites)... but I can only have a Shuriken Cannon if I have a full squad of ten Voidreavers... and you can' mix and match the shuriken rifle armed and the pistol and sword armed... 

Free RPG Day

Despite pouring rain, I rode my bicycle over to my FLGS - Dragon's Den Games - for Free RPG Day (Role-Playing Games! Not Rocket Propelled Grenades!). The kids and I used to go every year, it was great fun... but I feel like I haven't for a few years. It was cancelled in 2020, I think... another year the Den just never got their box. Another year I don't think they participated. Maybe I did go a couple years ago...? Free League might have had a Blade Runner quick-start or something...? The kids haven't gone with me since before the pandemic. Finnegan works on Saturdays now, and Morgan just isn't into role-playing games anymore... 

This year I picked up a deck of free cards from some world building system...? 

Ah, there are instructions on the tabs of this incredibly hard to open box... 

Different types of cards... 

Information on the cards... 

Oh... I guess if I'd opened the box/sleeve the RIGHT way, it would have been EASIER and I would have found all the instructions!? DOH!

I don't know... seems like the same could be accomplished with a few random tables and a pair of percentile dice... but I get it, it is fun to just flip cards and not have to look shit up on a table in a book... 

Did anyone else go out and pick up something for Free RPG Day? What did you get!? Let me know in the comments! 

Possessed Heretic Astartes

 A random single figure rolling off the painting desk that doesn't really fit in with anything else I'll be posting any time soon... 

Possessed Heretic Astartes 

I have not come up with a name for him yet... 

Not sure when or how I will ever make use of him... 

He has a brother, Lorgag, which I finished ages ago. 

Lorgag led a small band of Chaos Space marines, back when the leader of a Generic Chaos Space Marine squad could be led by a champion sporting a Chain Axe... And, maybe Generic Chaos Space Marines still can...? But not-so-much the Emperor's Children. 

So I probably won't find much use for him in 40K... but there's always Wrath & Glory (which I've been thinking a lot about again, lately, and has no such limitations!)

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session Twenty-Three - Scavenge Journey

As with the previous game report, this game was played almost a month ago at the end of May, when things finally got a little less crazy in our household... Still, we only got in two games in all of May!? Things have settled down now and we're mostly back to playing weekly games... 

Mostly... 

We could have played through the next Decapitation Journey, but Finnegan had a PLAN to do another Scavenge Journey, to try and gather up enough Realmstone to get a specific enhancement (or two) before taking on the Ven Alten cousins... 

In this game, Amanda played Qlathis the Exile and Glaurio ven Alten III and Finnegan played Dagnai Holdenstock and Brutogg Corpse-Eater. 

Strangely, the map I rolled on the random table was the Ven Alten Estates! So they went and scouted out the estate... and then robbed the Ven Altens, before going back to kill them with their own Realmstone after it has be wrought into vampire-killing weapons!? 

There were three Vyrkos Blood-Born vampires there to greet the invading hunters... They ven Altens!? 

Brutogg smashed one of them apart... it is a wonder how those Phylacteries put them back together... 

Glaurio then blasted one of this cousins with his pistols... 

Brutogg bludgeoned his way past the third, stunning it, before it was finished off... 

Dagnai had been holding off a horde of rats at a door opposite the rest of the Heroes. 

He worked his way into the room, killing as many as he could before running off to start collecting treasure! This was, after all, a Scavenge Journey! 

Qualthis and Glaurio finished up the rest. 

The alarm raised by the Ven Altens brought a squad of the Ulfenwatch, who caught Dagnai looting the residence! 

"YOU'LL NEVER CATCH ME, COPPERS!" Dagnai shouted as he fled with the goods... and then found MORE stuff to steal... 

It was left to Brutogg, Glaruio, and Qulathis to deal with "The Fuzz" and more bats and rats... 

Dagnai just kept looting the place... 

More of the Ulfenwatch arrived and chased Dagnai.. While Brutogg and the others were still dealing with the first patrol!? 

And then a Vargskyr showed up!?

A patrol of the Ulfenwatch finally caught up with Dagnai... He tried to distract them by shouting "LOOK! DONUTS!"

And then ran off the other way... 

Looting one bookshelf... 

Then another... 

These Ven Altens were LOADED... 

So much stuff to steal! 

The commotion eventually drew the attention of the ruler of Ulfenkarn himself... Radukar the Wolf... 

Glaurio fell back behild their mountain of a meat-shield... 

Brutogg pounded on the ancient vampire, while Glaurio took shots with his pistols. 

Qulathis even took a few shots to help take the beast down! 

Then took some shots at a Ven Alten vampire that tried to ambush them from behind while they were distracted by The Wolf! 

Another of the Ven Altens that had recovered from their wounds attacked.  

Brutogg waded into a swarm of bats and zombies to keep them busy while Dagnai finished looting the place.

A Kosargi Nightguard that had been lumbering after his master finally showed up... 

It took THREE of the Heroes to take it down... 

Just when they figured they're stolen enough, the Ven Alten Triplets showed up AGAIN! They had to be beaten down for the group to escape! 

Finally all made it to the Extraction Point and were whisked away on the airship Adamant! 

Influence on the rise... might be time for a Hunt Journey (or two)... but AFTER they deal with those Ven Alten vampires for good!

Three more game reports and I'll be caught up... with the Warhammer Quest game reports, at least! There was a game of Bolt Action in April I never got around to doing a game report for... and... at this point.. I think I might just let that go! There will be others! 

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session Twenty-Two - Decapitation Journey - Whispers in the Dark

With everyone at Level Three, it was time to go on another Decapitation Journey. At Level Three, there are TWO different Decapitation Journeys that need to be completed, and can be done in any order. The group chose to do Whispers in the Dark - hunting down Torgilius the Chamberlain! 

This game was played over a month ago at the beginning of May. We kind of got a bit busy with other things after that for a few weeks... 

As Decapitation Journeys take a bit longer, we played this on a Sunday afternoon when we didn't have anything specific going on... 

In this game, Amanda played Qlathis the Exile and Glaurio ven Alten III. Finnegan played Octren Glimscry and Brutogg Corpse-Eater. 

As always, the Decapitation Journey started with a dash through the streets and alleys of Ulfenkarn to escape a Suffocating Gravtide! 

The first two rooms FILLED with rats and bats were easy enough to clear out! 

And then they ran into Torgilius!? The TARGET of the evening's hunt! 

Brutogg and Qulathis beat him down before he could open his mouth and summon more bats or rats or cast a spell at them! 

They knew that wouldn't be the last of him they saw this evening, though... When they made it to his lair he would have to be put down again - and all his phylacteries destroyed! 

Next they were assaulted by a patrol of the Ulfenwatch! 

The larger groups at Level Three aren't too much more difficult to slay... but they do take time... and that slows the group down, so they just barely kept ahead of the Suffocating Gravetide... 

With the Gravetide hot on their heels... they ran into Radukar the Wolf!

Yikes! 

Glaurio was the first into the room and blew two large holes in the venerable vampire with his pistols. Qulathis finished him of with a couple of arrows... 

Then charged past the disipating corpse to attack the Zombies beyond... 

Sweet Jiminy! They were just running into ALL the Big Bads this evening... A Vargskyr was lurking just around the next corner! 

Brutogg was the first into contact laying a serious beating on the gigantic beast. 

Then Glaurio joined in blasting with pistols and slashing with sword! 

Just a few last deadwalker zombies to knock down... 

and they'd found their way to the entrance to Torgilius' lair!

We took a break and had supper and I set up Torgilius' residence. 

This hunt had some interesting new features - which made me wonder what might be coming... The Guard and Torgilius don't move until they activate with any of the Heroes within their line of sight (so, in the room with them, or at the door of an adjacent room) which was nice... BUT, there were NO DESTINY DICE until Torgilius was slain! 

Qulathis charged through the entrance and started clearing away huge swarms of rats... 

Glaurio smashed the first Phylactery! Hope Torgilius felt that and got a little afraid!

Then everyone was SWARMED with Rats and Bats!

It took some fighting to clear them all away. 

Brutogg smashed the next Phylactery! 

Then Octren smashed the third... after admiring himself a moment in the magical mirror... 

Uggghhh...so many rats and bats... I think by this point Glaurio wasn't in a good way. I think he had one or two grievous wounds and one or two diseased tokens!

He has such poor vitality, that it is difficult for him to get rid of them with recovery actions... 

a few brief moments were taken to give everyone a chance to catch their breath - and for Glaurio to fruitlessly attempt to recover a few of the wounds... This is where Destiny dice get REALLY IMPORTANT! 

Octren tried to hold off the swarms of bats and rats at door... 

Glaurio eventually recovered one or two of his injuries and charged in against the Kosargi Nightguard, blowing holes in the monsterous undead ogor. 

He continued on into Torgilius' chamber and blew a few holes in him! 

"You FOOLS! DON'T YOU KNOW THAT... " 

BLAM! BLAM!

A  few more shots wounded Torgilius so grievously, his last Phylactery shattered.... 

Then Brutogg charged in and battered the withered old man to a pulp! 

Torgilius was no more... 

But they still had to escape through hordes of rats and bats... 

and MORE Kosargi Nightguard that were rushing to Torgilus' aid, much to late... 

Late though they were, they were still very dangerous! 

Octren almost at the door leading to the extraction point! 

GAH! ANOTHER Kosargi Nightguard! 

Everyone almost at the Extraction Point! 

ANOTHER Kosargi Nightguard - and it stormed into the Extraction Point, blocking Glaurio's escape! 

Once in there it took out Qulathis! 

The Kosargi Nightguard was destroyed and the Hunters made their escape. 

Back on the Adamant, Qulathis was revived and there was much rejoicing! 

BOOM! Torgilius gone... Only two more decapitation journeys to go on... the next would be to hunt down the Ven Alten triplets - cousin's of Glaurio that have been turned into vicious vampires in the service of Radukar the Wolf! 

But before that, they wanted to tool up a bit more...