AVBCW: Blunt Scythes (Editted)

The second game Byakhee JP & I played on Thursday.

The board was changed a bit, so that there was a wide strip in the middle of the woods that wass “open” terrain. Neither of us wanted to have a repeat of the same game – JP was wanting to test out the brink of Battle combat rules.

Both of us marched 3 of our figures down the same flank and ended up in a shoot out. Un fortunately for me, his leader was a gross out superhuman (we checked the ruyles all legit but still a f*ing pain), having killed one of his troops for two of mine, my final riflemand beat a hasty retreat through the field of KILLER GIANT BUNNIES. Something that later turned out to be a very wise choice.

In the woods the two forces macrhed uop toward each other to see who would blink first.

At this point, the Twiggy Mommet troops from the flank used the handy style to try and outflank the MHC in the woods. Outnumbered, outflanked, and facing a superhuman I was not feeling like it was going well. But wait. I cut down one protestor and sent another fleeing !± Maybe there was hope after all.

Well up to a point, the protestors closed in, stealthily working through the bushes…

BANG !
The last rifleman on the flank, through a series of VERY LUCKY roles downed JP’s leader with one shot !

The MHC and TwM lot mixed it up, with the MHC coming off the better, as they came in, the last of the protestors were picked off by other riflemen.

And to cap it all, in an amazing piece of serendipity and good luck for me, the hedge that JP had made, had had a chunk cut out of it at just the right place to allow my rifleman a line of asight to pick off the final flanking member of the protestors.

Both of us were now on bottle tests, and because I had knocked off so many of his horde, my chances were greater than his of forcing him to retreat, and the stats didn’t lie.

So one all each, the MHC and Twiggy Mommet Priotestors are building up a track history of emnity.

Sadly at that point I had to wussy off due to man-flu.

Until next time pumpkin head !

EDIT:

JP explained that under the brink of Battle rules half his points had to be spent on his elader as he was leading a Horde. So this explained the insane Comabt, and other attriobutes this guy had, and why he literally laughed at the hail of bullets I( had fired at him in the forst game, and the first half of the second game.

Having realised I was only able to deck this guy with some very lucky rolls of the dice, I spent all the rest of the second game shooting his much weaker followers, hecne the high number of casualties that resultewd in JP’s Twiggy Mommet protestors breaking. It was only a VERY lucky set of dice rolls from my lone rifleman that finally nailed his leader.

Photos by JP
His version of events is on hios blog roll.

AVBCW: More Mayhem in the Malverns

The Scythes were out – Byakhee JP & I had a couple of Brink of Battle games before I cried off due to Man-Flu.

For the first time, JP had enough scenery to cover the field of battle. He had some help from one of his daughters, who introduced the awesome field of killer giant bunnies.

Silliness aside, the scenario of the first game was that the local Twiggy Mommet protestors had half hinted a load of armaments, and that I (the MHC) would be retrieving the stolen goods.

As you can see the Twiggy Mommet chaps are not keen followers of fashion, but they do have lots of them, armed with lots of scythes and far, far to many rifles.

The boxes of weapons were hidden in the Wyche Woods, legended to be haunted. This meant that lines of sight were down to 4 inches, and movement wasn’t much better.

The MHC shot at, and got a response, after finding the few(!) Twiggy Mommet fighters with rifles.

Even my flanking unit managed to find the flipping Twiggy Mommets with rifles and got shot down.

That was quite a quick game, even though we were playing with c500 points under the Brink of Battle rules.

JP had chosen a horde of troops, and the short ranges imposed by the forest outweighed my troops’ higher skill and better weaponry.

We moved on to the next battle…

AVBCW: BUF Quadricycle of Death – with red go faster stripes

I bought a second Quadricycle of Death to paint up for my BUF, or as it is increasingly Captain Arrowsmith’s BUF contingent.

In a totally altruistic move Byakhee Rich has built these two beauties. The first one had been underfcoated before being photo’d, so the amount of work put unto building them wasn’t apparent.

As you can see, each of the four wheels had a new brass axle drilled through the body of the machine, followed by greenstuffing to make it all sealed in. So you can drive the model up and down going “brrrmmm, brrmmm” if that’s your sort of sad stuff…brrrmmm, brrrmmm… oops….

So I painted it up in standard BUF colour – BLACK.

But I thought that wasn’t enough, so after the usual BLACK colour scheme I’d add a Go Faster Red Stripe. 😎

I think it actually works quite well, emphasising the red background of the BUF markings (transfers).

Should help Captain Arrowsmith at the Big Game on 14th March JP & I are planning.
That and other mobility enhanced devices…. 😉