January Games

 In January, we played games... 

Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Amanda, Finnegan and I  kicked off the year with our first Decapitation Journey in Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. The game took most of the afternoon, so we were glad to have the free day where no one needed to do anything! The scenario is effectively the same as playing TWO journeys... 

First there is a Deliverance Journey, where the heroes have to rush through the city's streets and alleys avoiding a Suffocating Gravetide... 

After that is a special Hunt Journey...

Where they have to hunt down one of the BOSSES - in this case, a Vargskyr! 

It was a LOT of fun! You can read the full game report and see ALL THE PICTURES here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session Eight - The Fell Guardian

Thursday, 2 January 2025

While Finnegan was out playing D&D at a friends and Amanda wasn't teaching yoga (which she normally does on Thursdays with one of the Community Associations) we played through ANOTHER  game of Warhammer Quest Cursed City... 

But this time with Grombrindal, The White Dwarf! 

You can read the full game report and see ALL THE PICTURES here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session Nine - Grombrindal's Hunt

Friday, 3 January 2025

Friday evening I introduced Amanda to Lost Patrol... 

It was moderately fast and bloody and... she was NOT a fan... 

Afterwards we tried out Crypt Hunters, which is based on the same basic mechanics... but the Stormcast Eternals are MUCH tougher and more survivable. 

She was pretty tired and had a hard time wrapping her head around the geometry of how the tiles appeared and disappeared... 

but very nearly won and said it was a "1000% better game" than Lost Patrol! 

Saturday, 4 January 2025

On Saturday evening, while Finnegan was running his weekly D&D game downstairs, Amanda and I cleared off the dining room table upstairs and played a couple of games of Patchwork... 

The last time we played was a little over 3 years ago... So we actually had to read the rules again!? 

I did okay in the first game. Scored 13 points? Amanda scored zero... which is still pretty good, because i've had more than a few games with NEGATIVE total points.. I feel like I've played games where BOTH players had negative final totals...!? Which seems lame to win a game because you had the least negative number... 

Amanda felt she needed to play again, as the first game she was just remembering how to play, and, indeed, she did better, scoring 7 points. 

But so did I, scoring 17... 

This ended an unofficial 12 days of gaming that started on 24 December 2024! 

Sunday, 5 January 2025

Every year around his birthday, Finnegan runs a one-shot role-playing game adventure that starts around noon and ends later in the evening - with a brief break for pizza and cake. This year there were EIGHT PLAYERS  in attendance (in addition to Finnegan the Dungeon Master)! (one doesn't like being in pictures and is hiding)

This year they played D&D. There was a Hydra involved... it was slain before pizza and were consumed! 

Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Tuesday evening Nick and Orion joined us to play our first game of Soulbound for the year. Still working their way through Crash and Burn. I'd given up on getting the goblins painted for the goblin encounters and just threw a bunch of extra Nighthaunts their was (since I have a bunch painted!?) 

Thursday, 9 January 2025

Orion was looking for a game in the local Path to Glory league... and I figured it was about time I actually PLAYED with some of these miniatures I've painted... So we decided to meet up at the Warhammer Store to play (as, at one point, it had been suggested that only games played there officially count towards the league...? and also there was a new Free Miniature-of-the-Month to pick up!). The weather has been warmer this week, so I enjoyed my hour-long ride to get there... but was a little disappointed to discover the store was CLOSED when I got there!?

The silly thing is, I'd thought of shooting the manager a note the night before to check and make sure it would be open (because sometimes they have training session on Thursdays)... but then got distracted and forgot...  and then in the morning, at one point, I'd though of doing the same, or at least checking the Facebook page (because they always post there if the store's closed for any reason).. but in my panic to get things together, I completely forgot AGAIN... 

Ah, well... it was a nice enough ride and I needed some exercise after not getting out so much over the holidaze... 

Luckily, Orion only lives a few blocks away, so we wandered over there to play a game!

It was an absolute disaster for Bob Bloodblob's Bloodbound Brotherhood of Blood... You can read all about it here: 

Age of Sigmar - Path to Glory - The Ruined Settlement

Saturday, 11 January 2025

Played another session of the Online Soulbound campaign. Tethas and Kugraz got in a fight with a BUNCH of Bloodreavers! They survived... 

Sunday, 12 January 2025

We had to shift to Sundays for playing Warhammer Quest, because Finnegan has a night class on Wednesdays... 

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session Ten - Another Disastrous Scavenge Journey!

Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Tuesday we played Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound - the Role-playing Game. Our Heroes were fleeing through some caves to escape a massive Nighthaunt horde... 

This post will bring you up to date with what had been going on in the campaign to that point... 

Soulbound - Flight Through the Caves

Wednesday, 22 January 2025

We kind of moved back to Wednesdays for Warhammer Quest as Finnegan ultimately dropped the Wednesday evening class... and sort of skipped a week as there was a cold making it's way through the house and everyone was sick... 

You can read about the disastrous Journey here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session Eleven - Hunters Become the Hunted

Saturday, 25 Januar 2025

On Saturday morning, I FINALY got around to playing a second session in my Solo Five Men in Normandy campaign with the Canadian Paratroopers in Normandy. This was mostly to remind myself of how the rules worked before running Orion through a game on Sunday. You can read about the action here:

Five Men in Normandy - Holding at Varaville

Afterwards I ended up reading the Five Men at Kursk rules and decided that might work better... 

Sunday, 26 January 2025

Sunday I started playing a new campaign with Orion using the Five Men at Kursk rules. She's playing her newly painted WW2 Americans and I'm playing Japanese on a fictional island in the Solomons. The American Patrol was tasked with capturing a prisoner for interrogation. They were unsuccessful in this task as every Japanese soldier they encountered fought to the death! 

You can read about the adventures here: 

Fourteen Men in the Solomon Islands

Tuesday, 28 January 2025

Tuesday we were back to playing Soulbound... I forgot to take a picture DURING the game. The group gained passage on a new ship - The Grund - and made their way to Brightspear and were given a new mission but the Lord Celestant of the Stormcast Eternals there.

Wednesday, 29 January 2025

In the afternoon I rode out to the Warhammer store. 

There I played Crypt Hunter with John and then bought some stuff... you can read about that here:

Crypt Hunters at the Warhammer Store (and Some NEW STUFF!)

later in the evening, we played our weekly Warhammer Quest adventure. This week wasn't quite so deadly - for the Heroes! You can read about it here: 

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session Twelve - Scavenging Again

And that was it for January! 

That's a fair few game we played! 

I got in games of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City (five of them!), and Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound (four of them - three in person, one online), and one game of Warhammer Age of Sigmar... and I even got in some games of Five Men in Normandy'Five Men at Kursk (one solo, one not-so-solo) - all things I'd hoped to do in the Game Plan 2025 - Q1

I have not, yet, played any games of Warhammer Quest... Not being able to access the Warbands of Embergard card pack means a bunch of my warbands are still not playable... which has been a bit of a downer... I haven't managed to motivate myself to set up a game... but also... there have been a LOT OF OTHER GAMES going on! 

I kept the purchases and acquisitions to a minimum. I did acquire a pile of Disciples of Tzeentch part way through the month, but I traded away over twice as many WW2 Americans I knew I'd never get around to painting up! 

Near the end of the month I did pick up a few things; the Ravaged Coast Path to Glory book, the big box of Endless Spells, and the Soulbound Starter Kit

Next Month...?

Hope to continue with Warhammer Quest and the Soulbound games. Maybe get in a few more Five Core WW2 games and get a Warhammer Age of Sigmar Path to Glory campaign started! 

There will be the Codex: Aeldari that I'll be picking up and I have ordered a few metal Harlequins and a Swooping Hawk to finish up a few units. (I also ordered a Japanese tank! DON'T TELL ORION!!!) 

I don't know that there will be many more purchases... Unless the new Soulblight Gravelords battletome is realeased later in the month...? or the Emperor's Children...? Part of me feels like I'd like to pick up the release box - to get some of those new units for a little less dollars... but part of me just wants to focus on the Aeldari and just finish up some of the units I've got!

What did YOU get up to in January!? 

tell me all about it in the comments below!

Crypt Hunters at the Warhammer Store (and Some NEW STUFF!)

I made a couple of trips to the Dragon's Den this week and one out to the Warhammer Store. 

The first trip to the Dragon's Den (on Tuesday) was to pick up the new Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Path to Glory - Ravaged Coast. This is the new Path to Glory "battlepack" for playing a narrative campaign with the latest edition for Warhammer Age of Sigmar. There is a Path to Glory Battlepack in the Core Rules, but this one is much more extensive. There are a lot more missions. Seems like it should be fun. 

The next trip to the Dragon's Den (on Wednesday) was to pick up the Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery box which includes THIRTEEN different endless spells for Warhammer Age of Sigmar. They are Generic and can be used by any faction! Primarily I picked it up for a few that I could use with the Soulblight Gravelords, which I am, in theory, focusing on this Quarter... (and also... because there is a Suffocating Gravetide model that I can use in Warhammer Quest Cursed City to chase after the Heroes when playing a Deliverance Journey!)

After stopping by the Dragon's Den I rolled all the way out to the Warhammer store... 

there I tempted John into playing a quick game of Crypt Hunters! 

John played the Stormcast Eternals, and I played the Nighthaunts. 

In the first round, the Stormcast spread out a bit - to have maximum new tiles placed and minimize the places Nighthaunts could enter. The Gryph-Hound had found teh winch, but could not operate it! 

A few rounds later, I'd taken out the Gryph-Hound and Astrid was desperately trying to fight her way through to the winch lest it disappear and the mission become impossible.

Exploring other passages. The Nighthaunts had taken out the Stormcast's leader. So it was down to Astrid and Eric! Astrid still trying to fight her way to the winch!

Astrid made it to the winch, but then had to fight her way out and back to the others before the catacombs rearranged themselves and cut her off, forever lost in them! 

John played a card bringing back the gryph-hound 

The nighthaunts took her out and she flashed back to Azyr in a bolt of lightning... So the passages to the winch were abandoned - didn't matter the winch had opened the Hyshian Illuminator and they had that token! 

The Hyshian Illuminatore was discovered, but I played a card and dropped a token on it keeping anyone from being able to go on that hex for a round... It was getting despreate... 

Eric fought off the remaining Nighthaunts and the Gryph-Hound sparked up the Hyshian Illuminator and blasted the remaining Nighthaunts out of the city! Yay!

I really like Crypt Hunters. It's a fun clever little game. Doesn't take to long to play. WAY more balanced than Lost Patrol (which it is based on) 

While I was out there, I also picked up a copy of the Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound Starter Set. As the Heroes in the Soulbound campaign have finally made it to Brightspear, I thought it might be handy to have the Brightspear players guide and the adventures and maps contained in the set... though I have to admit, I was a little surprised (and disapointed!) that the maps enclosed were SO SMALL!? I thought for sure they would be larger fold out maps... but they are just the same size as the box (~8.5x11")

These were the first PURCHASES of the year... (earlier I had acquired a bunch of Disciples of Tzeentch through trade!) 

November Games

Well, the last two months were a bit of a disappointment... 

Friday, 1 November 2024

I saw Brent at the Rosebud Burlesque Club's Halloween Show the week before and arranged to meet up this week to try out Lost Patrol! 

We ended up playing the game SIX TIMES! There is a game report of ALL SIX GAMES here:

LOST PATROL!

Afterwards we played a few other games.

First we played Linkage: A DNA Card Game, which I have not played in... SEVEN. YEARS!? We spent a lot of time looking at the rules and trying to figure things out, but I think we were mostly overthinking things and expecting there to be more to it than there really was.... 

Speaking of spending a lot of time reading rules... Next we tried out Giro D'Italia Card Game. 

I'm sure I've had the game for about 15 years... and NEVER PLAYED IT!? It has some of the worst written rules I've ever read.... between me trying to read the rules on the tiny little sheet enclose in the game, and Brent looking things up on Board Game Geek, I think we finally figured out how it was meant to be played... 

Once we figure that out it was a pretty quick and clever little game to play! As the stage ended, my Rolleur was in the lead, winning me the game!  I think it was more due to luck than any grand strategy working out! Oh, I'd HAD a strategy... but it had involved my Rolleur leading out a break-away... with my climber and Leader immediately behind, my climber was going to pull the leader up the pass and then let him rip down the hill to the stage finish... I kind of flubbed when to try and break away and it ended with my leader being swallowed up by the Peloton (at least he was dropped!) and my climber only just keeping ahead. Two of Brent's riders came in second and third!  

Up to six players can play the game, which would be nuts! The rules claimed that TEN could play, but that was clearly NOT possible as we read on!? 

In one afternoon, I played more games that I did in all of October... not a bad start!?

Saturday, 2 November 2024

The next evening, I got together with Chris and Christian on Discord and discussed the possibilities of playing Soulbound this fall/winter. It could be kind of like Session Zero (Part One). We planned to meet again the following Saturday to actually MAKE characters and stuff... 

But that didn't happen... 

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

For the second week in a row, Amanda and Finnegan and I played Warhammer Quest: Shadow over Hammerhal! We played through The Grinding Gear level. 

You can read the full report and see ALL the pictures here:

Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal - Session Five - The Grinding Gear

Sunday, 10 November 2024

Orion stopped by for the afternoon on Sunday. We tried out a few games of Lost Patrol. She brought her Space Wolves Scouts. The first game she came SO CLOSE to WINNING! In the second game there was only ONE TILE left in the pile - the Escape Pod - but the sole surviving marine was trapped in a dead end and just couldn't shoot their way out! There is a full report here:

Lost Patrol - Space Wolves

Afterwards we tried out Crypt Hunters which is a way less deadly reskin of Lost Patrol. We played four games and... it was really fun! It's a very clever little game. 

There is a full report of the ensuing chaos, you can read it here:

Crypt Hunters - The Game! 

Tuesday, 12 November 2024

Amanda, Finnegan and I played another session in our Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal campaign. We played through The Auction House... I'd hoped to get to the Sorcerer's Lair and start CURSED CITY the next week... but it turns out fighting ALL THE THINGS in ONE ROOM takes a lot of time! (We also got started a bit late...) 

You can read about the battle in the Auction Hall here: 

Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal - Session Seven - The Auction Hall

Saturday, 16 November 2024

Orion stopped by with her brand new copy of Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard and we played through two games. We each took a turn playing Thircefold Discord. Orion played Ironsoul's Condemnors against the daemons, and I played Thorns of the Briar Queen against them. 

You can read all about the two games and the new edition of Warhammer Underworlds here:

Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard - First Games

Later in the evening I met up with Christian on Discord and we made a character for him to use in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound (role-playing game) campaign that we'll HOPEFULLY be playing on Saturday evenings going forward...?

His character is Kharadron Overlord Aether Kemist. Originally from Chamon, he had been tasked seeking out and finding some of the lost technologies of his clan from the Age of Myth! 

Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Tuesday Amanda, Finnegan and I played through the last session of Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal. The Chaos Sorcerer, Lord Redomir, was tracked back to his lair and slain, after he refused to come into custody peacefully... 

You can read all about the adventure and see all the pictures here: 

Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal - Session Eight - the Sorcerer's Lair

Saturday, 23 November 2024

Chris and Christian and I got together on Discord to make a Character for Chris for a Soulbound Campaign. Chris' character is a Human Freeguild Sergeant from one of the regiments based out of Hammerhal Aqsha. 

Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Session Zero - making characters for an IN-PERSON Soulbound campaign with Orion, Nick, Charlie, Amanda and Finnegan... It is going to be bat-shit crazy... 

Orion is playing a Fyreslayer DOOMSEEKER - crazy duardin/dwarf berserker types that always want to pick fights and seeks a glorious death in battle. 

Charlie is playing a Daughter of Khaine Witch Aelf - fanatical worshiper of the GOD OF MURDER

Nick is playing an Idoneth Deepkin Isharann Tidecaster - the Idoneth... those fun undersea Aelves that can't stand other people - even each other - and only contact with anyone outside of their enclaves are those they raid on shore to steal their souls... 

Amanda is playing a Sylvaneth Spite-Revenant - a screaming manifestation of nature’s wrath, radiating an enveloping aura of fear and rage, nightmare creatures of endless vindictiveness that most Sylvaneth prefer to distance from....

Finnegan is playing a Human Witch Hunter... 

So... I guess they all HATE CHAOS...? Hopefully more than they hate each other and everyone else they encounter!? The general feeling was that perhaps Malerion bound them together as a lark...? 

Wednesday, 27 November 2024

Amanda, Finnegan and I played through their first Hunt mission in Warhammer Quest: Cursed City! The full game report can be found here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session One - The First Hunt!

Anyway... played a few more games this month... So that was nice...