The 19th part of the Warhammer 40,000 Imperium Battle Report Series.
In this episode, we see a Primaris Captain and a squad of Assault Intercessors try to take down a Necron Royal Warden and his phalanx of Warriors
Who will prevail in this battle between the sinister Necrons and the noble warriors of the Imperium of Mankind.
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The 18th part of the Warhammer 40,000 Imperium Battle Report Series.
In this episode, we see a Lieutenant backed up by a squad of Aggressors attempt to destroy a Necron Technomancer, but he is guarded by soem Skorpekh Destroyers!
Who will prevail in this battle between the sinister Necrons and the noble warriors of the Imperium of Mankind.
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The 17th part of the Warhammer 40,000 Imperium Battle Report Series.
In this episode, we see a Librarian in Phobos Armour attempt to secure a drop site and is opposed by some Necron Warriors and the terrifying Flayed Ones.
Who will prevail in this battle between the sinister Necrons and the noble warriors of the Imperium of Mankind.
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October is on my mind a lot, why, because I turn 40, I will officially be old.
And I want to commemorate the occasion, it I can decide what to do. I have a few ideas, but I can’t decide on what to do.
I first considered a LAN party, but I suspect that won’t work cause my house ain’t that big downstairs.
Then I considered hiring a hall and just having some games of Warhammer, but then Lindsay and Megan wouldn’t take part.
Or just throwing another geeks disco as I did for my 30th.
This requires planning and I am just not sure what to do, I really want to do something fun to mark it with my friends.
If Battle Bunker were still around I would have hired that out, but alas right now it’s not.
Maybe I should enquire at the community centre next door to my house.
I started the week by painting a squad of Orruk Brutes alongside Bawla and Burk.
The main give brutes got finished first on Friday night.
And then I finished Bawla & Burke on Saturday.
After that I turned my attention to two sets of STC Ryza-Patten Ruins I had lying about, these are needed for Company of Legends.
I have two tables of terrain which are mostly Sector Mechanicum, and they lack line of sight blocking terrain. So adding a set of STC Ryza-Pattern Ruins to each of them, along with a Haemotrope Reactor each will, I hope, resolve this.
I painted them in a very simple scheme, just kinda assumed the Mechanicum painted everything red and went from there.
I then painted a Soulblight Gravelords Mortis Engine which I got with Mortal Realms.
I also managed at long last to get the air brush out and get the base coats on the T’au I have outstanding, a few Blood Angels and Fafnir Rann.
I am currently working on some floor tiles for Zone Mortalis.
So what am I working on for next week?
I uploaded my ad hoc Tuesday stream of Horizon Zero Dawn.
Mostly I have been concentrating of Far Cry 2 in an effort to finish it, which I managed on Saturday evening.
And I finished Unpacking on Saturday night as well.
I started on Far Cry 3 on Saturday night and I have to say, it’s a marked improvement on its predecessor.
Not a sausage 🙁
The next battle report for Imperium has been published, this is for issue 16.
Issue 17 and 18 have both been filmed and edited and await their publication date on Wednesday and Saturday respectively.
No live projects, but the dividers for the Griefcase from Gloomier arrived at last!
I bought myself an Xbox Elite Controller Series 2 with my Microsoft Rewards points!
I exchanged my points for £140 worth of Microsoft vouchers and put another £4.99 towards it.
And it arrived on Wednesday!
To fit it’s charging dock on my desk, I had to sacrifice my original Stream Deck, there was just no longer any room on the desk.
So I have now payed it forward and sent it to my friend Jessica.
A more practical purchase for me and Megan was a new mattress, we got it from Nectar as we had a 45% off voucher, but after signing up to their website, I have been sent a silly number of vouchers for 45% so I highly doubt anyone pays that price.
On the recommendation of RandomFrankP on his Cool Tech Under $50 I grabbed this Tripod/Selfie stick to use with my ZV1 for better vlogging ability, cause holding it at arms length is crap.
I also got a couple of cheap RGB Zigbee bulbs for the kitchen, as this is where I film my battle reports, I need a better white light and these fit the bill perfectly.
This means the existing smart bulbs there are moving to the downstairs loo and the en-suite to await the motion sensors becoming available for Hue again.
I also picked up some floor tiles for Zone Mortalis and a few paints this week.
Far Cry 2 is a game I first played back in 2009, very briefly on the Xbox 360.
I didn’t my last long, it was frustrating and really hard and just felt too much like hard work.
Anyway I realised that though bundles and deals I owned all of the Far Cry games and decided that I had best actually play them!
So I recently finished the original Far Cry, the review of which you can see here.
And thus I cracked on with its sequel, Far Cry 2.
To start with, it’s absolutely and completely different from it predecessor. Whilst Far Cry was a run of the mill Sci-Fi shooter, albeit with a very high difficulty level, Far Cry 2 is an open world game very much based in reality.
So how about we start with the positives.
Even 14 years on from its release, it looks good, the open world of the game is beautiful and very realistic in how it’s structured.
The open needed nature of the game, along with the choices you can make along the way give it a lot of character.
The setting is great, very much one that’s not been explored a lot in video games.
But I have a lot of issues with the game.
It feels very schizophrenic, it can’t decide if it wants to be an action-shooter, an RPG or social commentary about the influence of western mercenaries and blood diamonds in Africa.
And it doesn’t do a great job at being any of those.
If really feels like it wants to be an RPG, it really feels like it wants to encourage you to develop you character. But you never really do.
You get a choice of characters, I chose Frank, but it doesn’t feel as if that choice makes any difference in the game, it feels like it plays the same regardless.
And as a shooter, well this might sound weird but there is too much shooting!
See there are two different factions in the game, not that you would know as they are all, without exception going to attack you as soon as they see you, no matter who you are working with.
When you clear out checkpoints, within minutes they are repopulated, and the limited carrying capacity for syringes, the games health packs, mean that sometimes, you get stuck, unable to go back to a checkpoint for fear of the shootout, but unable to go forward for lack of syringes when you face the inevitable shooting.
So for me, I think this is a game that has a lot of potential, but never quite meets it.
So that leads me onto my conclusion.
This is a game that could really do with a remake, and I mean a full in remake, with the RPG elements enhanced, so that for example, when you clear out a checkpoint, you can reman it with the faction you are working with.
I would love to see the militias of the two factions treating you differently depending on how you have played the game.
Anyway let’s get away from what I wish the game could be and onto what the game is.
The game was fun, but difficult, perhaps too difficult. The story was interesting, but the big bad guy was a little generic.
This game sets the foundations for what the series becomes, and in a way it’s groundbreaking.
So I am gonna award it 3 out of 5.
I had the settings at the maximum possible and was getting 60fps constantly, it never dipped or got higher than that.
The 16th part of the Warhammer 40,000 Imperium Battle Report Series.
In this episode, we see a Squad of Assault Intercessors try to take down a Royal Warden of the Necrons.
Who will prevail in this battle between the sinister Necrons and the noble warriors of the Imperium of Mankind.
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I know I am only small fry, but i myself have to make a stand.
Lots of little stands will make something much bigger, and will hopefully make an impact bigger than any of us.
One thing I have done is to uninstall any program or app I have that’s from a Russian or Belarusian company, the big ones being Audacity and World of Warships.
I know it’s not a lot, but all I can hope is that small actions lead to big change.
Not much, been very distracted.
I have built Fafnir Rann, Darkstrider, the Canoptek Doomstalker and some Blood Warriors.
Paintingwise I just painted a pair of Haemotrope Reactors for the Company of Legends terrain.
I am currently working on some Orruk Brutes.
So what’s on the painting plan this week?
A little bit of School of X still, but not as much as I would like.
Not a lot but we did do a Murder Mystery at Meeple Perk for Megan’s birthday.
Again not much, a bit of Forza Horizon 5, some Unpacking and a bit of Halo Infinite.
But I have sat down and pushed to play some Far Cry 2 and I had a session of Horizon Zero Dawn tonight, the video of that will be in YouTube tomorrow.
No live projects right now, but the Isle of Cats expansions have arrived along with the big storage box.
On Saturday Fafnir Rann and a few paints arrived from Element Games.
I popped into Games Workshop on Sunday for the birthday week and I ordered the two birthday models and picked up Darkstrider at the same time.
I have also decided to subscribe to Humble Choice this month, simply because they had Borderlands 3 in it with the seasons passes at a very nice bargain.
This post is a bit late cause I had a little health scare, which was actually quite scary. Found a lump downstairs, thankfully it turned out to “just” be an abscess.
Anyway lads, remember to have a fumble downstairs every month!
This weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Durham Raiders Age of Sigmar weekender, something I look forward to all year!
I took Flesh-Eater Courts to represent the forces of Death and this is my army list.
+ Leader +
Abhorrant Archregent: Arcane Bolt, Battle Regiment - 1 Commander, General, Gory Talons and Fangs
Abhorrant Ghoul King on Royal Terrorgheist: 2. Razor-clawed, Death Shriek, Fanged Maw, Gory Talons and Fangs, Skeletal Claws, Unholy Vitality
Crypt Haunter Courtier: Massive Bone Club, Rancid Talons, Vanguard - 1 Sub Commander
Crypt Infernal Courtier: Foetid Breath, Skewering Talons, Vanguard - 1 Sub Commander
+ Battleline +
Crypt Ghouls: 20 Crypt Ghouls, Battle Regiment - 2-5 Troops, Reinforced, Sharpened Teeth and Filthy Claws
Crypt Ghouls: 20 Crypt Ghouls, Battle Regiment - 2-5 Troops, Reinforced, Sharpened Teeth and Filthy Claws
Crypt Ghouls: 20 Crypt Ghouls, Battle Regiment - 2-5 Troops, Reinforced, Sharpened Teeth and Filthy Claws
+ Other +
Crypt Flayers: 3 Crypt Flayers, Death Scream, Piercing Talons, Vanguard - 1-3 Troops
Crypt Flayers: 3 Crypt Flayers, Death Scream, Piercing Talons, Vanguard - 1-3 Troops
Crypt Horrors: 3 Crypt Horrors, Clubs and Septic Talons, Vanguard - 1-3 Troops
These were organised into a Battle Regiment with the Archregent, Ghoul King and Crypt Ghouls with two Vanguard Regiments, one with the Crypt Haunter Courtier and the Crypt Horrors, and the other with the Crypt Infernal Courtier and the Crypt Flayers.
The event also asked us to take an ally, who would be gone once they were killed, so I took the Grymwatch.
My first game was against Conner and his Kruleboyz, and he tabled me completely, to be fair it was a really fun game and I love playing the Conner boys.
My was against my friend Adam and he had Kruleboyz again!
I managed to score a major victory by staying in the objectives until the very end!
My last game of Saturday was against Jane and her Serphon army, which I lost, but had a good game. I got tabled in turn 3.
In the evening we had a pub quiz, a Warhammer themed one and my team, called “Michael is Not Cool“ (Thanks Aiden) won, thanks to a combined knowledge of the Old World lore, particularly when it came to the Winds of Magic.
The next day my first game was against an old foe, Mark, who is the dad of my first games opponent. But rather than his Sylvaneth, brought Ogar Mawtribes.
His army ripped mine apart pretty convincingly, with the shooting just removing models very easily!
My last game was against Matthews Slaves to Darkness, which demolished me in three turns.
The weekend away wonderful and winning a game means that this is my best showing yet at the weekender!!!
Next year, I might go Stormcast! I have previously avoided them as they have been extremely popular, but at this event there was only a single Stirmcast player!
So thank you, Durham Raiders for a wonderful weekend!
I painted some Alchomite Stacks that my sister in law got me, these are getting added to my Zone Mortalis board.
I then painted up some Blood Warriors for my Blades of Khorne army, getting the base coats and wash done on stream Monday night.
And I also painted the Snottlings Blood Bowl team!
And today I finished a Repressor for my Zone Mortalis board, its not really got use in the Sisters anymore, so its going to be a piece of scenery, an abandoned vehicle from an Enforcer Patrol.
So what’s coming up next week then?
Not much this week, a bit of Forza Horizon 5, some Deeeer Simulator, and a bit of Horizon Zero Dawn.
I streamed the former last Thursday night and you can see the video here.
I did run the Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark as well given that’s it’s been added to the game and I am really pleased with it.
Putting all the setting at balls to the walls max, with everything in Ultra or Psycho, including the ray tracing, I got a respectable 66.97 FPS with DLSS Quality mode enabled.
Just what I played at the weekender!
I published the Issue 14 Imperium battle report on Wednesday!
And whilst I was at the weekender, on Saturday the Issue 15 report went live!
I got a few bits and bobs from Element Games, specifically a Razorback to make a Repressor out of, the T’au Codex and Datacards, and a few paints I needed for my T’au.
I ran out of black primer and couldn’t get into town so I decided to try the Hycote primer a fair few people swear by, as well as ordering some Green Stuff.
And after the doctors I bought a Canoptek Doomstalker!
I also purchased Final Fantasy Pixel Remake, and Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Stormground this week.
The 15th part of the Warhammer 40,000 Imperium Battle Report Series.
In this episode, the deranged Flayed Ones of the Necrons make their debut as they try to get between a Canoptek Plasmacyte and the Assault Intercessors of the Blood Ravens!
Who will prevail in this battle between the sinister Necrons and the noble warriors of the Imperium of Mankind.
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