We played some games in October... here is what we got up to!
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Finnegan needed to spend some time in the animation lab to get some work done on a project, so we gave Warhammer Quest a miss this week... which felt extra bad as we'd missed the previous week because Amanda and I had been in Vancouver...
So on Wednesday Amanda said she's play a game of Spearhead with me...
We were both kind of tired, but I'd been wanting to play on my fancy new mat ever since I'd picked it up on the weekend... and wasn't sure when we'd get another chance to play any games that week...
I played Stormcast Eternals we said were dispatched to Ghyran to have words with some Sylvaneth who were killing logging parties that were cutting down trees they weren't supposed to... it came to blows... an understanding was eventually reached...
You can read all about the game here:
Spearhead - Taming of the Trees
Sunday, 12 October 2025
Orion was in town this weekend, so we got in another episode of our What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Soulbound: Champions of Death campaign. In this episode the Player Characters made it to the final Realmgate they needed to pass through to make it back to shyish... unfortunately they had to wade through a horde of Plaguebearers that were surrounding the realmgate. With those dealt with, they passed through, only to find themselves in the middle of a massive battle between large armies of Maggotkin of Nurgle and the Anvild of the Heldenhammer Stormcast Eternals!
You can read all about it here:
What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Episode Four
Monday, 13 October 2025
Monday Amanda and I played a game of Spearhead. She played her usual Sylvanth Bitterbark Copse. I tried playing the Blades of Khorne - Bloodbound Gore Pilgrims against them. It was a draw...
You can read about the battle here:
Spearhead - Blood in the Trees
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
On Tuesday we played the first Decapitation Journey in the Night Wars campaign of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City!
You can read all about that one here:
Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 03 - Thirst Awakened
The following week skipped Warhammer Quest and didn't play any other games, so...
Sunday, 26 October 2025
On Sunday, Amanda and I played another game of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Spearhead! I was trying out my new Maggotkin of Nurgle Bleak Host Spearhead... she was trying out some new fancy Sylvaneth dice...
you can read all about it here:
Spearhead - Nurgle versus Sylvaneth in Ghyran
Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Tuesday we skipped playing Cursed City because Finnegan had an animation assignment to work on, again, so Amanda and I played another game of Age of Sigmar: Spearhead.
you can read the rull game report and see all the pictures here:
Spearhead - The Contagion Returns
Wednesday, 29 October 2025
Orion was back in town this week and had been madly painting away at the Hungarians I'd picked up for her at Imperial Hobbies, so we played a game of Bolt Action on the Eastern Front!
At some point I'll finish up a game report and post it..
What games did YOU get to play in October!?
Let me know in the comments!!
Lots of games, looking forward to your Hungarians, hopefully not tainted by Nurgle! One game this year, hoping for a couple more before Christmas!
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Ha-ha! Not tainted by Nurgle!
Delete(the Hungarians are Orions! I have the Soviets!)
Nice to see the family playing games together, particularly your daughter with Bolt Action. The good thing about Hungarians is, if they start loosing, they can quickly change sides and become Socialist Liberators!
ReplyDeleteHa-ha! Thanks!
Delete(Orion is a friend, not a daughter - Though it recently occurred to me that she is young enough to BE a daughter. I had mentioned seeing Star Wars in the theatre in 1977 and she mentioned her grandparents went to see Star Wars in the theatres FOR THEIR FIRST DATE - and I'd never felt so fucking OLD in my life!?)
If it makes you feel any better, that story was a misremembering. I believe it was their first movie date, as they got married in 76, and it would be quite funny to not go on a date until after marriage. 😝
DeleteHa-ha! Well thank you for clearing that up!
Delete(STILL makes me feel old... just... maybe not QUITE so old...)
"she mentioned her grandparents went to see Star Wars in the theatres FOR THEIR FIRST DATE - and I'd never felt so fucking OLD in my life!?" Grandparents?! ha! If it helps, I turned 69 in October. :P
ReplyDeleteI only played one game in October, the Five Parsecs Bug Hunt game. We'll see if I manage any game of any sort in November. I just have so many different hobbies who knows which ones I will get around to at any given time. Spoilt for choice, as they say. :)
Nice!
DeleteNothing wrong with having lots of hobbies!
Agreed. I'm never bored. :)
DeleteThe ONLY downside is if you focus on what you DIDN'T get done in the hobbies that you haven't been working on lately... Which I have a tendency to do, and so is a large part of the reason this blog exists! To remind myself of what I HAVE been up to!
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