December Games

These are the games we got to play during December of 2025. 

We played a LOT of games in December!

(Shortly after this post goes live, there will be another, longer Look Back at ALL of 2025)

(I'm a bit behind on the game reports... if there's a spot that seems like there should be a link to a game report, but the link hasn't been hyper-textified, I just haven't gotten to it, check back in a few days... or... weeks...) 

Tuesday, 2 December 2025

In the afternoon, Matt and I played another game in our Path to Glory - Ravaged Coast campaign! This was the fifth battle I've played in that campaign. In this game, my Blades of Khorne and his Stormcast Eternal forces were in a race to get to the entrance to a pass through the Adamantine Chain of mountains, and hold it. You can read all about that here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast -  Storm the Pass

If that weren't enough for one day, I also played a game of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City with Amanda and Finnegan in the evening! 

This journey went poorly... they just couldn't get enough of the diregoyles or gnaw bone strays in time before time ran out... and then just before it did RADUKAR THE BEAST made his first appearance in the campaign!? You can read about that one here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 08 - Sabotage Journey to the Knucklebone Tolls

Wednesday, 3 December 2025

On Wednesday, Sean stopped by to play a Ravaged Coast - Path to Glory game. He'd started out with a Nurgle force, but decided to switch it up and try Daughters of Khaine! You can read more about that battle here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Rise Through the Ashes

Originally I'd had another game with Matt scheduled for Thursday... but Thursday morning he wasn't feeling great and had to cancel... which was okay, because it gave me a chance to catch up on some Game Report writing! 

Friday, 5 December 2025

And on Friday Sean was back again for another game of Age of Sigmar?! This time he brought another new army - a pair of MEGA GARGANTS (and their two pet frost-sabres)! The two gargants raided the Bloodbound's camp! 

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Ransack the Encampment

Saturday, 6 December 2025

Saturday morning, I convinced Amanda to play the quick rematch-swaperoo she'd suggested after the last time we played Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions the Trading Card Game - where we switch decks. Because she wasn't sure if the Order deck she'd played was just terrible... or if it was some incredibly bad luck-of-the-draw... or if she just didn't know how to play it (because I'd beat her three times in a row with the Chaos Deck).... I think it was a mix of a few things. The Chaos deck IS powerful and can deal a LOT of damage. But also, I pick up systems quickly, but then plateau as I hit the limits of what my lack of executive functioning abilities and atrocious working memory can do. Amanda is a bit slower to figure things out, but then beats me all the time. 

We were still in the Amanda-Figuring-Things-Out phase, as I beat her in the first game I played with the Order deck (and her playing Chaos). (I will admit, I also got fairly lucky with the cards I drew that just happened to deal out some CrAzY damage right off - and knew where to play them to gain the most advantage!) 

  

Sunday, 7 December 2025

For Sunday, Amanda and I had planned to get in another game in our own little Path to Glory campaign, but the day kind of got away from us and we had tickets for the theatre in the evening, so we just played a couple more quick games of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions - the Trading Card Game. Again I played with the Order Deck and she played with the Chaos Deck. I won the first game, but it was very, VERY close (like I had less than five health left when I finished her off) in the second game she just hammered me down... I was feeling like this may have been the end of me winning these games! 

We decided the next time we played we'd try out something different. Like trying the Death and Destruction pre-constructed decks! Soon I think I want to start constructing decks of my own, though. Having played the Order deck three times, I feel like it's not nearly as well constructed as the Chaos Deck - one of the champions requires healing for the first step of his quest... but there are only THREE freaking cards in the 20 card deck that do any healing!? Two of them are spells that telegraph the healing - needs two rotations until it can heal - giving the opponent plenty of time to try and block it! How are they to EVER complete their quest and reveal their blessing!? 

Monday, 7 December 2025

On Monday, Amanda and I had planned AGAIN to try get in another game in OUR separate little Path to Glory campaign...

And I spent some time in the afternoon, between baking muffins, to sort out a scenario and start setting up a game... only to be informed by Finnegan he had, without consulting calendar or family, made plans with friends to play board games in the Game Room on Monday evening... 

Initially I'd told him they'd have to play on the kitchen table as I was all set up down there... but eventually relented and PUT IT ALL AWAY again... 

And AMANDA AND I played Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions... AGAIN... on the kitchen table... 

This time we tried out the OTHER Grand Alliance decks Death and Destruction. We ended up playing three games. Amanda and I each won one of the first two, and I won the third. All three games were VERY close - these two decks seemed much better matched. Amanda seemed keen to play more of the Death faction. I suggested I was ready to start building decks with the cards from the booster packs! 

Tuesday, 10 December 2025

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Nightwars

You can read about it here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 09 - YET ANOTHER Sabotage Journey

Wednesday, 11 December 2025

Amanda and I had ANOTHER game of Age of Sigmar planned - to play the next battle in our little Path to Glory campaign... but AGAIN... things just weren't working out, so we SWORE we'd play on Sunday and then just played a few games of Age of Sigmar: Champions TCG. I tried to quickly make a few custom decks! I built Amanda a Death deck with two vampires (a female one on foot, and a male one on a Nightmare), a Spirit Torment and a Wight King (just like our Role-Playing Game group!). I quickly through together a Nurgle-themed deck for myself! 

It was a bit slower going... I build a LOT of healing into both decks. Almost played through my deck! 

Friday, 13 December 2025

Orion was in town for the day, so we got in another TWO games of Age of Sigmar - for the Ravaged Coast campaign. 

First we played Twisted By Rage - a Gnaw's Edge Battleplan where I had to hunt down her General and assassinate them! I succeeded at doing so, and thus winning a Gnaw's Edge Battleplan, could start playing Hateful Shores Battleplans! 

Second we played  Along the Crumbling Coast - a Hateful Shores Battleplan. This one was an objective control game with an interesting set-up locations and terrain that was potentially deadly.. Orion won that one and was now in the running to win the campaign - as soon as they could find someone else that had won a Hateful Shores Battleplan! 

You can read about it here:

Path to Glory - Ravaged Coast - Twisted By Rage

Path to Glory - Ravaged Coast: Along the Crumbling Coast

Sunday, 14 December 2025

FINALLY, Amanda and I got in our next game of Age of Sigmar for our own Path to Glory campaign! We incorporated most of the rules from Path to Glory - Blighted Wilds, I'd picked up the day before... you can read about the game here:

Age of Sigmar - Counter-Attack at The Blood Pines

Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Tuesday we were back playing Warhammer Quest - and this one was a Decapitation Journey to destroy Carmilla DuSang! 

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 10 - Decapitation Journey: Carmilla's Doom 

Thursday, 18 December 2025

Orion was back in town a bit early for the holidaze (blizzard kind of shut down work!) so we got in another game of Age of Sigmar - for the Ravaged Coast campaign. You can read about the battle here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Assault on the Sea Cave

Afterwards I got her to try out a game of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions (the Trading Card Game). Despite playing for the first time with a deck she was only seeing as she drew cards... totally won... (as I kind of expected she might - she's played a LOT of Magic: the Gathering and is just really good at these sorts of games!). 

Sunday, 21 December 2025

Sunday afternoon Nick and Orion came over to play in our Age of Sigmar: Soulbound role-playing game (involving exactly zero Soulbound!) with Amanda and Finnegan...

Later, after pizza, we (Nick, Orion, Amanda, and myself) tried out the new Spearhead Doubles rules! Orion brought both of her Soulblight Gravelord armies (Bloodcrave Hunt and Deathrattle Tomb Host) and Amanda and I played Sylvaneth and Stormcast, respectively. 

Spearhead - Doubles

Monday, 22 December 2025

Monday we played a four-player Age of Sigmar MEGABATTLE to wrap up the Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast Campaign. You can read all about it and see all the pictures here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Raid on Hel's Claw

Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Tuesday, Amanda, Finnegan and I played our regular Warhammer Quest: Cursed City game! This time we were on to hunting Kritza the Rat Prince and doing Pillage Journeys.... Which were similar to Deliverance Journeys in the first campaign, except instead of running through the streets of Ulfenkarn ahead of a Suffocating Gravetide, the heroes were running through the streets of Ulfenkarn ahead of a HORDE of rats, burning buildings and stealing stuff! You can read more about it here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 11 - Pillage Journey

Saturday, 27 December 2025

Brent and Barb stopped by in the afternoon and brought along a newish game - Pergola! You build a garden in it...

This was my garden at the end of the first game

This was may garden at the end of the second game.

It was fun. 

Tuesday, 30 December 2025

In the afternoon some friends I haven't played games with in AGES stopped by to try out the new Warhammer Quest: Darkwater. We played through an abbreviated version of Act I. Everyone seemed to have a good time and both visitors expressed an interest in playing again! Hopefully I'll get them back to play through a campaign some time in the new year (ideally after I get the rest of the minis painted!)

There will be a full game report here:

Warhammer Quest: Darkwater - First Game - Abbreviated Act I

If that weren't enough gaming - or Warhammer Quest - Amanda, Finnegan and I also played our weekly Cursed City game later in the evening?! 

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 12 - Another Pillage Journey

And that was it! 

Which WAS a LOT!!

Twenty-Seven Games!

• Warhammer Age Of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Core Rules x9
• Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions Trading Card Game x8
• Warhammer Quest: Cursed City/Nightwars x5
• Pergola x2
• Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound x1
• Warhammer Quest: Darkwater x1

 

What did YOU get to playing this past month!? 

Did the Holidaze afford you time to get some games in?

 Or did non-gaming-festive-social-obligations eat up all your time and energy? 

Let me know in the comments!! 

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Assault on the Sea Cave

After losing much of the armies supplies to the hungry, wandering Gargants, Goretim the Reddish bade his Slaughterpriests to beseech their lord Khorne to aid in the provisioning of the Bloodbound Horde! Reading the entrails of a slaughtered Gorepigeon, the Slaughterpriests claimed Khorne had gifted them with visions and they would find all they needed near a sea cave along the coast... and so they marched!

Near a sea cave, along the coast they did indeed come upon an army encampment full of provisions... unfortunately, the army was in the camp... and were not the least bit surprised by the army's approach!

Furthermore, it was their nemesis, the hated Soulblights... AGAIN!? 

On the right flank, the Mighty Skullcrushers of the Red Path charged forth and trampled a picket of skeletal warriors guarding barrels FULL of blood! Khorne would be pleased! 

The Mighty Skullcrusher were unable to secure their treasure, however, as a squadron of Blood Knights charged in from one flank and a Purple Sun of Shyish - summoned by the foul soulblight vampire - assailed their other flank! 

The Blood Warriors secured a trover of Emberstone. 

In the center, the newly recruited Ogroid Myrmidon sought to earn his pay and charged forth with his new friend the Korgorath, and secured a herd of pigs the enemy had gathered for "provisions"... they were followed on by a the cultists of the Claws of Karanak! 

Not far away, the Vengorian Lord and a Terrorgheist noted their approach! 

The two charged in and ran into a pair of Hex-Gorger Skulls, summoned by Bob Bloodblob... the Terrorgheist annihilated the two floating skulls (that were DEFINITELY NOT MAGICAL!) 

Then the Vengorian Lord swooped in on the Ogroid Myrmidon and Khorgorath, knocking them on their asses and sending them scurrying away from the field of battle (each with a pig under each arm, though!) 

The Bloodreavers charged in to aid the Claws of Karanak in holding back the Terrorgheist and Vengorian Lord, while the last of the pigs were removed to their rear for later slaughter and feasting! 

The two monstrous creatures slashed and chomped at the bloodbound warriors, dealing horrific wounds.

Soon there were only two of the Bloodbound warriors remaining to distract them as the rest fled with their prizes (and dragged off the wounded)

The two, affectionately known as Mr Squigly-Wiggley and Rock-Paw - for their respective mutations bestowed upon them by the Lord of Blood... these two heroes, held back the mighty beasts as long as they could, before they, too, were swatted aside and trampled underfoot. When they later made their way back to the bloodbound camp, broken and bleeding, they were healed and fêted by their comrades... 

Orion was back in town a bit early for the holidaze as the last few days of work were cancelled due to the blizzard that swept into Saskatchewan on Wednesday! Thursday we played a game, and then Friday she had another game lined up with Matt. 

I gained SIX Emberstone Shards from playing this game... I had some leftover in the vault from previous games. I spend three to recruit the Mindstealer Sphiranx into my Slaves to Darkness Regiment. Another three were used to give Goretim the Reddish the Spiteful Spark Heroic Trait (from the Ravaged Coast book) because... why not? Totally buffing that bully to the MAX! I was seriously tempted by Ar'Gath, the King of Blades (which disallows an enemy hero from using any ward saves when fighting the hero with Ar'Gath!) but I already HAD an Artifact of Power for Goretim (which I'd bought after Game Four and COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT AND NEVER USED!?). Finally I spent the last two shards advancing the Mighty Skullcrushers along the Path of Brazen Butchery and giving them the Soul-Eating Rage ability (-1 from ward rolls for enemy unit while in combat with the Mighty Skull-Crushers) 

I suggested that since there were just the four of us (Sean, Matt, Orion, and myself) playing in this campaign, rather than rushing to see who can be the first two to win a Hateful Shores scenario and then play the Raid on Hell's Claw to win the campaign, I suggested a four-player MEGA BATTLE for sometime next week to determine the victor - and everyone agreed!! All agreed and I shall be hosting that on MONDAY!! 

It will be exciting to see all four forces on the table - one from each of the Grand Alliances; Sons of Bebemat/Destruction, Soulblight Gravelords/Death, Stormcast Eternals/Order, and Blades of Khorne/Chaos! 

Path to Glory - Ravaged Coast: Along the Crumbling Coast

Filled with fury and buoyed by their recent success against the Soulblights, the Blood Siblinghood of the Slaughter-Gut-Pile Bloodbound Horde, led by their warlord, Goretim the Reddish, hate-marched through the last pass in the Adamantine Chain of mountains to gain the Hateful Shores - along the Ravaged Coast of Aqshy. They began their search for a route to Hel's Claw, where rumours suggested there was a trove of Emberstone beyond imagining! 

As they rounded another headland, they found another force blocking their way... it was the hated Soulblights... AGAIN... and the Duchess Mircalla was leading them!? Was there no way they could bring a final end to these cursed Soulblights!?

Khorne give us strength and fury... 

The Soulblights seemed to be content with collecting up Emberstone along the coast 

There were many clusters of the crystals, imbued with magical energy of the realm! 

The Bloodreavers fought a flight of Fellbats over one such hoard... but the fell bats picked it up and quickly swooped away! 

Enraged by this action, the Korgorath decided to smash apart one of the Cursed Sepulchres... 

Bloodbound Horde holding their line... 

The Soulblights drew closer as they finished collecting up the Emberstone clusters. 

The Blood Warriors joined the Korgorath in trying to dismantle the Cursed Sepulchre

A pair of Hex-Gorger Skulls were summoned and sent forth to harass and slow the advance of the Soulblights. 

The Vengorian Lord swooped in and attacked the Blood Warriors at the Cursed Sepulchre.

Goretim advanced on the Cursed Sepulchre and the cowardly Vengorial Lord fled, fresh in it's tiny mind were the memories of the beating the Khorne Lord had laid upon them in their last encounter... 

Enraged by the destruction of their Cursed Sepulchre, the Vengorian Lord charged back in assaulting the Blood Warriors... 

At this point, the Bloodbound had collected up what Emberstone they could and decided to cede the field of "battle" to the Soulblights... they would have to find another way around the Headland to find the route to Hel's Claw! 

For our second game on Friday afternoon, Orion and I opted for a Hateful Shores Battleplan - as one of us (ME!) had won a Gnaw's Edge Battleplan (The first game we played Friday afternoon!). We rolled the Along the Crumbling Coast Battleplan. 

It seemed pretty clear from the get-go that there was no way I'd win that scenario... and trying to do so would just mean my force would be utterly destroyed again... AGAIN... and they just can't take any more battering. I have a unit that is a game or two away from being utterly destroyed. Six of the eight units have at least one Battle Scar - permanent disabilities sustained from continually being removed as casualties game after game after game. I think half of those six now have two or more Battlescars...? 

So the Bloodbound Horde held on to ONE objective and tried to collect up the nearby Emberstone Clusters and hold on to them and survived and hoped I'd roll well for extra shards in the end game (for Hateful Shores battleplans the an EXTRA D3 shard are rewarded - so the winner get D3+3 and the loser gets 2D3... unfortunately I rolled two ones and thus gained a total of four Emberstone Shards - two for losing and another two I collected off the field of battle... Orion gained NINE!!! 

I spent three of the Emberstone Shards on hiring a Orgoid Myrmidon, to start a new Slaves to Darkness Regiment?! In Ravaged Coast you can recruit units from ANY faction in the same Grand Alliance as your faction - they just don't get to use their own faction abilities and don't get to use your army's main faction ability... I COULD have took a Khorne Daemon Hero - and next game added... some other daemons... but I decided to add the Ogroid Myrmidon because after the following game I'd be able to add a Mindstealer Sphiranx - which I painted ages ago... but haven't had a chance to USE as I haven't gotten around to painting the REST of my Slaves to Darkness army!? (If I were able to get in ONE MORE GAME... I'd have added the Fomorid Crusher and then had all of the units for Hargax's Pit Beasts! Alas...) 

Another idea I'd had earlier in the campaign for adding other Chaos regiments to the force would have seen me finish assembling and painting the Helsmiths of Hashut Tormentor Bombard and add that along with a War Despot to lead them forming a Hashutite Regiment - and adding some much needed firepower to the force... I might try doing this in the next campaign for my Nurgle forces... though, I feel like it would have made more narrative sense to add the Helsmiths to the Khorne force (in Aqshy!) 

The campaign could be Over in a few more games, at this point. To win the campaign you have to win the Hel's Claw Battleplan. To play the Hel's Claw battle plan, both opponents have to have won a Hateful Shores Battleplan (Orion has done that!) - but to play a Hateful Shores Battleplan, you have to have won (or have an opponent that has won) a Gnaw's Edge Battleplan... and I'm the only one in the league who has done that... So it could be conceivably over in two games - if someone played a Hateful Shores battleplan against me and then the winner of that game took on Orion for the battle of Hel's Claw...