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Masks!

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On 22nd October 2025

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Two of my nephews begged me for some masks for Halloween, so I put the 3D printer to work and got them done

One asked for a Deadpool mask, which was the first I printed and easiest to do

The other asked for Mr Knight from Moon Knight which was a bit of a bugger to print!

They are now in the post and on the way to Suffolk in time for Halloween, and hopefully I will get some nice photos next week.

What I Am Modelling

I started off with a bit of terrain I printed for the new table I am keeping at home

I finally got the Tempestus Aquilions painted up, love these models and annoyed it took so long to get them ready for the tabletop!

I began a project to rebase my current Astra Militarium army and merge them with the Death Korps of Krieg, by rebasing these three commissars.

Which also allowed me to get them on the new correct base size for them which is the 28.5mm bases

And some Engineers for the Death Korps of Krieg

They are the first models I have painted from the launch box, got a lot of Death Riders to go!

Plus Unbroken from my Warhammer+ Subscription at last!

And I painted Hells Last too

And speaking of Minka Lesk, I also rebased her two other models, representing her as a Sgt and as a Lieutenant

So whats up next?

  1. Blood Angels Land Speeders
  2. Red Brigade Warband
  3. Dark Angels Firestorm Servo Turrets x 2
  4. Veletaris x 10 & Dracosan
  5. Grey Knights Terminator Librarian & Brotherhood Terminators x 5
  6. Heretic Legion Warband
  7. Imperial Fists Macharius
  8. Dark Angel Erradicators x 3
  9. Ardboyz x 10
  10. Tzzangors x 20

What Tabletop Games I Am Playing

I played George in the Combat Patrol League and lost 86-13!

On Thursday at Hartlepool gamers I played Dean and his Thousand Sons with the same Ultramarines list and 

 XIII - Ultramarines - 3k FB Fellblade - [3000 Point(s)

# ++ Crusade Primary Detachment ++ [1305 Point(s)]

Praetor [150 Point(s)]: Archeotech pistol, Paragon blade, One Apex Detachment

Centurion [125 Point(s)]: Power maul, Combi-melta, Frag grenades, Krak grenades, Melta bombs, Cyber-familiar, Vexilla
Centurion [100 Point(s)]: Disintegrator pistol, Power sword, Frag grenades, Krak grenades, Melta bombs, Prime Unit (Logistical Benefit (LB - War-engine))
Vigilator [95 Point(s)]: Nemesis rifle, Bolt pistol, Frag grenades, Krak grenades

Deredeo Dreadnought [215 Point(s)]: Arachnus heavy lascannon battery, Aiolos missile launcher, Twin heavy bolter

Assault Squad [170 Point(s)]: Frag grenades, Krak grenades
• 1x Sergeant [10 Point(s)]: Bolt pistol, Chainsword, Melta bombs
• 2x Legionary [22 Point(s)]: Power axe, Bolt pistol
• 7x Legionary [12 Point(s)]: Chainsword, Bolt pistol
Tactical Squad [125 Point(s)]: Frag grenades, Krak grenades
• 1x Sergeant [5 Point(s)]: Chainsword, Plasma pistol
• 1x Legionary [20 Point(s)]: Bolt pistol, Bolter, Nuncio-vox
• 1x Legionary [20 Point(s)]: Bolt pistol, Bolter, Vexilla
• 7x Legionary [10 Point(s)]: Bolt pistol, Bolter
Tactical Squad [130 Point(s)]: Frag grenades, Krak grenades
• 1x Sergeant [10 Point(s)]: Lightning claw, Bolt pistol
• 1x Legionary [20 Point(s)]: Bolt pistol, Bolter, Nuncio-vox
• 1x Legionary [20 Point(s)]: Bolt pistol, Bolter, Vexilla
• 7x Legionary [10 Point(s)]: Bolt pistol, Bolter

Rhino [65 Point(s)]: Pintle Mounted bolter, Pintle Mounted Combi-bolter
Rhino [65 Point(s)]: Pintle Mounted bolter, Pintle Mounted Combi-bolter
Rhino [65 Point(s)]: Pintle Mounted bolter, Pintle Mounted Combi-bolter

# ++ Auxiliary - Tactical Support ++ [330 Point(s), 1 Auxiliary Detachment(s)]

Heavy Support Squad [210 Point(s)]: Autocannon, Bolt pistol, Frag grenades, Krak grenades
• 1x Sergeant
• 6x Legionary [10 Point(s)]
Rapier Battery [120 Point(s)]: 3x Rapier Crew
• 2x Legionary: Bolter, Bolt pistol, Frag grenades, Krak grenades
• 1x Rapier Carrier (Gravis heavy bolter battery)

# ++ Auxiliary - First Strike ++ [160 Point(s), 1 Auxiliary Detachment(s)]

Javelin Speeder Squadron [160 Point(s)]:
• 2x Javelin Speeder [80 Point(s)]: Heavy bolter, Two lascannon

# ++ Apex - Army Vanguard ++ [545 Point(s), 1 Apex Detachment(s)]

Invictus Suzerain Squad [175 Point(s)]:
• 5x Suzerain [30 Point(s)]: Legatine axe, Bolt pistol, Argyrum pattern boarding shield, Frag grenades, Krak grenades
Seeker Squad [105 Point(s)]: Frag grenades, Krak grenades
• 1x Seeker Sergeant: Bolt pistol, Kraken bolter
• 4x Seeker [18 Point(s)]: Kraken bolter
  Prime Unit (Logistical Benefit (LB - War-engine))

Leviathan Dreadnought [265 Point(s)]: Grav-flux bombard, Leviathan storm cannon, 2 Heavy flamers, Phosphex discharger

# ++ Lord of War Detachment ++ [660 Point(s)]

Fellblade Super-Heavy Battle Tank [660 Point(s)]: Hull (Front) Mounted Twin heavy bolter, Two Sponson Mounted lascannon arrays, Pintle Mounted heavy bolter
• 1x Fellblade Super-Heavy Tank: Fellblade accelerator cannon, Hull (Front) Mounted Demolisher cannon

I did alright, to be honest the score doesn’t reflect how I did, I mean I lost, but I killed a lot of stuff!

And yesterday, I took thr same list to face Graham at Durham Raiders!

Of course I lost, but it wasn’t all that bad, the Fellblade got messed up with a status, and his high damage output stuff just got it killed

Next time I really need to take a Techmarine to get a status off my Fellblade!

What I Am Reading

I finished Of Honour and Iron by Ian St. Martin, which was ok, but you can tell it was very very early Primaris lore and now is very much out of kilter with the current lore, but worth a listen

I read The Last Gift by Josh Reynolds, which was ok, not the best, but quite enjoyable, and I followed that with Black Iron by Graeme Lyon which was extremely good, with a brilliant ending,

Currently listening to Manflayer by Josh Reynolds, and so far that is pretty canny, just as good as the prior books, I am currently 17% through it.

What Video Games I Am Playing

Still playing Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, and now I am on the Jack the Ripper DLC

I have been playing some more Ticket to Ride, and if I am honest, its not as good as the previous version, and lacks that ones killer soundtrack, and the controls are trash on Steam Deck, but I guess this is the game now

Also started playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider!

What Achievements Have I Unlocked

Ticket to Ride (Steam)

Lucky draw

On the North America map, keep all 3 starting tickets and complete them all		18/10/2025
The scenic route

Win a game without claiming any 6 length routes		19/10/2025
Ticket agent

Complete 25 tickets		19/10/2025
Gandy Dancer

Play 10 games		20/10/2025
Out of the station

Win against 4 Easy bots in one game		20/10/2025
Down the track

Win against 4 Normal bots in one game		21/10/2025
First come, first served

Win a game without drawing any extra tickets		21/10/2025

Hell Let Loose (Steam)

Medal of Honor

As US kill a total of 2000 enemies.		19/10/2025
Master Sergeant

Reach Career Level 70		19/10/2025

Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Steam)

Path of the Stars

Decipher the Path of the Stars		21/10/2025

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (Xbox)

Put the fear of you into them

Scare an enemy and make him kill someone else by mistake		21/10/202525G
Keep calm and carry on

Kill a Brute while he calms down his panicked allies		21/10/202530G
Brutal

Perform 30 complete Brutal Takedowns		21/10/202530G

What I Am Creating

We published a new episode of Edge of Empire!

What I Am Spending

I grabbed the new Death Korps of Krieg Combat Patrol and the Chapter Approved Mission Deck from Games-At-Hart

Plus another Death Korps of Krieg Heavy Weapons Squad

In terms of video games, I bought Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, mostly for Lindsay, but I want to play it at some point!

Plus I got the remaining Dungeons and Dragons classics

I also got Geometric Sniper – Blood in Paris, Distrust and Blue Estate in a mystery bundle, and I got the Heart of Africa Map for Ticket to Ride!

A Relaxing Trip

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On 20th October 2016

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To help celebrate my birthday, myself, Lindsay and Megan booked up a nice weekend away at a lodge in Otterburn. My plan had been to chill out and play games all weekend, the girls proffered the idea of visiting some places.

So Friday morning we feed and watered the animals and set off to spend a few hours in Rothbury a picturesque little town to the north northwest of Newcastle, where we had a nice little walk along the old fashioned ships and finally having some lunch in a little cafe. After this we set off to Otterburn and our lovely little lodge for the weekend.

And it was a really nice lodge, nicely decorated with comfortable furniture and best of all a hot tub! We had pizza that night and played Joking Hazard a game I backed on Kickstarter from the team behind the Cyanide and Happiness comic and it was a pretty good little party game.

The next day we drove up to Alnwick where we wandered round the market and Megan bought some mead from the Lindisfarne Mead shop. We had a nice dinner at the Dirty Bottles smokehouse and then went home via Barter Books, who to my dismay did not have an RPG section! That evening we had hot dogs and played a game of Munchkin Gloom.

The Sunday was dedicated entirely to games, starting out with with a nice game of Firefly Fluxx, after a lovely fried breakfast lovely prepared by Lindsay and Megan. Then we cracked open our copy of Tokaido Collectors Edition, another game we Kickstarted, the first one that we as a household Kickstarted together. We got it back in June, but it was only completed recently when we got the missing parts we needed. That was a fun game, which I won, but only because I decided to play as the game designer Antoine who wins all ties!

Then we moved onto Munchkin: The Nightmare before Christmas, a game which we had to import from America because USAoploy don’t publish their games in the U.K., but we enjoyed this version of the classic, I would have won, but Lindsay and Megan ganged up on me, wasting all the cards they had to mess with other players which then allowed Megan to win because there was noting Lindsay could do to help me stop her.

After lunch, Megan wasn’t feeling too well so she sat and watched some David Attenborough whilst me and Lindsay played Thunderbirds with the Tracey Island expansion, which is one of my favourite games. We managed to win that one, but it was close, another couple of turns and we would have lost because of of the missions was going to be so difficult to achieve.

Finally before bed we played a few rounds of Love Letter, which is always a favourite, me and Lindsay did want to play Carcassonne Star Wars Edition, but Lindsay wasn’t taking in the rules so we ended up not playing, which was a shame, I would have liked to have played more games that day, but the girls had a pace they wanted to play at. But we did have plenty of dips in the hot tub though!

Megan was sadly quite sick through the night, so we ended up leaving a little earlier than planned on the Monday to get her home quicker so she could recover for her trip to her Nana’s down in Oxfordshire.

On Tuesday I was due to play a 2500 point game of 40k but annoyingly the car decided to break down on the way to club, we did manage to get the car moving again before the RAC dude came out, and he found a fault on the booster pressure sensor, but the garage aren’t too worried about it, but we are taking him in next week to get looked over anyway, hopefully it’s just a one off, one in a million fault that won’t reoccur. 

What I am Modelling

Got my Millitarium Tempestus Kill Team ready to go. I went with the Kapic Eagles colour scheme because I actually quite like it and it’s easy to do following Duncan’s painting guide. I am seriously thinking of entering it into the Warhammer 40,000 Open Day Kill Team Tournament. I figure it will keep my busy, and not spending money, for much of the day, and I might actually stand a chance as not many players use the Millitarium Tempestus and thus they have a little bit of an unknown factor to them.

My list consists of the following

+ Troops (95pts) +

Millitarium Tempestus Scions (95pts) [2x Tempestus Scion (24pts), Tempestus Scion w/ Hot-shot Volley Gun (22pts), Tempestus Scion w/ Plasma Gun (27pts)]····Tempestor (22pts) [Bolt Pistol, Close Combat Weapon]

+ Fast Attack (100pts) +

Taurox Prime (100pts) [Taurox Missile Launcher (20pts), Twin-linked Autocannon]

The Scion with the Hotshot Volley Gun gets Relentless as an Indomitable Specialist, the Scion with the Plasma Gun is a Guerrilla Specialist and takes Preferred Enemy and one Scion with a Hot Shot Lasgun gets Sniper as a Weapons Specialist.

Hopefully this small elite team in the comfort of a Taurox Prime will manage to do some damage.

I have also started to paint up a Blood Angels Kill Team as well, but I will talk more about them next time.

What I am Reading

I have finished Ahriman Sorcerer, which was quite good, I liked how the story built up to the battle, but I was disappointed with the deaths of the characters who has supported Ahriman in the first book, it felt like they got very little in terms of appearances before they were summarily gotten rid of.

I have also been listening to some of the short stories around the Drop Site Massacre as I have been Modelling, stories you forget about like Strike and Fade, Veritas Ferrum and The Phoenician, and I am currently listening to the Crimson Fist, which I enjoy as Alexis Pollux is one of my favourite characters.

What I am Playing

A lot more than I have been of late, other than my trip to the lodge this is what we played.

Last Saturday night, me, Lindsay and Megan played a game of Bohnanza, a really cool game by Uwe Rosenberg, which is an old favourite of ours. It’s all about planting, selling and trading beans to make money, trusts me it’s better than it sounds. As usual Megan dominated the game, winning with 40 coins to my 24 and Lindsays 22.

The next Sunday, whilst Megan was at her sisters with her parents, me and Lindsay took a trip to Consett Tabletop Gaming Society, which meets on every second Sunday of the month. There we played a game of Ticket to Ride on the United Kingdom map, and I got bested very convincingly by Lindsay.

Then we cracked out Secret Hitler and we had 8 cracking games of this incredible hidden roles game. In the first 4 games I had the same Liberal card for all of them which cracked me up so much at the beginning of game 4 we had to redeal the role envelopes.

As when playing with Drew’s print and play set, I had an amazing time, it really is a game that gets your pulse racing. In one game we had passed 5 Facist laws and 4 Liberal laws and failed to elect a government 3 times, so we had to pass the first law from the top of the deck, unbelievably and statistically unlikely, it was a Liberal law wining the game for the good guys, but that game really did have my heart pounding.

The game went down very well with the Consett guys and I can certainly see them buying a copy for their collection.

What I am Backing

At the moment I am backing another project by my old friend, Sliced Quarterly. The stories in t you can read online so you get to try before you buy and they really are some very interesting stories and ways of telling these stories.

What I am Spending 

A lot less this week, simply because I have put money into Christmas presents, like an awesome Lego train set for one of the bairns. I did pick up another set of Lascannons to go with my Blood Angels Devastator Squad that Lindsay bought me for my birthday, so I can equip the whole squad with Lascannons and have them sit back and fire off laser death shots!

I also picked up as a birthday treat to myself a box of Blood Angels Assault Terminators, these guys are going to be equipped with Thunderhammers and Storm Shields and form part of my Archangels Orbital Intervention Force, I have a squad of standard Terminators already, so I am going to add another squad of Assault Terminators but give the second squad Lightning Claws. 

Feeling Broke 

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On 29th September 2016

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I had a horrid time at a local tournament a week gone Sunday. The tournament itself was run amazingly by Harry of Mackem Productions and he did a great job putting it together, but my not having played much 40k this year whilst I concentrated on 30k has seen me fall out of step with the local meta.

I took my friendly fluffy Iyanden army, which I won’t lie, has two lots of Wraithguard, a Hemlock Wraithfighter and a Wraithknight. But one of those Wraithguard are footslogging, and the Wraithknight is armed with a Suncannon, so it’s not that scary.

But what I had, including D weapons was so far out of line with what I came up against. My first game, against another Eldar army, lasted three turns, my Wraithknight coming off in turn one as it got shot to death by a Heavy Wraithcannon Wraithknight, and I simply removed other units in single swoops as Fire Dragons and Scatter Laser Jetbikes killed off my units one by one systematically.

My second game was a lot more fun, I played against my friend James, the eventually wooden spoon “winner” and we had a very good evenly balanced game which saw us mostly wipe each other’s armies out evenhandly. We ended up drawing, but had the game gone on another turn, his Imperial Knight would have made mince meat of my Wraithknight.

My third game saw me take on Chaos Daemons, this game lasted a lot longer, but with a Daemonic Incursion detachment with a Warpflame Host of 7 Flamers it was a really tough list. I did alright against his Chaos Space Marine allies, but I couldn’t touch the Daemons, and a Daemon Prince charging into combat against Dire Avengers is just hard to watch.

My last game saw me take on Eldar again and at this point I just lost the will to play, another Wraithknight, more Fire Dragons in an Aspect Host and plenty of Windriders with Scatter Lasers. Put it this way, I was scooping up units away with a dustpan metaphorically and only managed to kill three Jet Bikes all game with my Hemlock.

After the tournament I feel like a broken man when it comes to 40k, I am just that far behind in the meta, I don’t know what to do to catch up. I like fluffy armies and taking the most powerful broken units, well it’s something you won’t really see me do. But I have to do something, i don’t mean it like as in I want an army that will curb-stomp all others, I just want one that can stand on its own and get me mid table finishes at tournaments.

People keep saying I should go back to my drop pod Space Wolves list and play it as Blackmanes for the free drop pods, or throw in some Wulfen or Thunderwolf Cavalry, but that would to me, feel like the first steps on the road to power gaming.

Anyway it’s something to think about I guess.  
What I am Modelling
Trying to get back my hobby mojo, I am going to be playing some Kill Team at the club, so I am building two 200pts kill teams, a Millitarium Tempestus one and a Blood Angels one. 

The Millitarium Tempestus one consists of five Tempestus Scions, with a Hot Shot Volley Gun, Plasma Gun and a Tempestor with a Bolt Pistol and Chainsword, and accompanied by a Taurox Prime with Missile Launcher and Autocannons.

The Blood Angels kill team is the example squad from the Kill Team booklet, I have added a Blood Angels upgrade sprue to give the Space Marine kit just enough Blood Angels stuff to make it cool. It’s my first time using the new Space Marine kit, I haven’t had to buy a Space Marine kit for some years and I have to say it’s pretty good as kits go.
I have also built a Blood Angels Terminator Librarian, well it came packaged as a Deathwatch Terminator Librarian, but they were the same price and this came with a Deathwatch Upgrade Sprue I can add to the bitz box.

What I am Reading

I finished Praetorian of Dorn, and I have to say wow, what an ending! It’s a brave book, changing something somprbipusly fundamental about the fluff, it kept me reading right until the end.

I also read Ahriman:Exile by John French and I also really enjoyed that book, it was quite interesting to see Ahriman on the back foot, not sure of himself or his direction, but I very much enjoyed the book and have no moved on to the short story collection Ahriman: Exodus which so far is a little slow going, but I expect it will pick up. 

What I am Playing

Got three games of Kill Team in the other night using the Millitarium Tempestus. The first game I played against Tyranids, with three Tyranid Warriors and six Genestealers, and that game went quite well, he deployed quite spread out which allowed me to keep my team together hopping in and out of the Taurox taking out the nids one by one.

The second game was a total whitewash, as five Ravenwing Black Knights shot me to death with Plasma.

The third game was against 15 Dark Angels scouts, who as well as infiltrating made a scout move and were able to bring down a heavy rain of fire on me, lasted three turns, but my Scions couldn’t cope with the fire, and the individual scouts charging the Taurox with Krak grenades made short work of that.
Overall I am enjoying Kill Team it’s a lot of fun and we are talking about having a Kill Team campaign at the club, which I am looking forward to a lot. 
What I am Backing
There is just 48 hours to get in on Dungeon Fantasy, a good old fashioned dungeon delivering RPG, powered by GURPs from Steve Jackson Games. They have a great team writing it and the game box which is rather large ships from the EU at a rather reasonable $20, which is much better than what was originally proposed.

At the $70 level, which I am in on, you get the box containing the 5 books which make up the set, cardboard figures, dice and a map plus a GM screen with pre-generated characters. It’s pretty decent value in my opinion, and I have also bolted on a copy of How to Gurps GM in print and a print copy of the Companion which will contain the three Dungeon Fantasy PDF extras unlocked as part of the campaign.

So if RPGs are your thing, give it a look, and don’t worry if you can’t back it, there is zero in terms of Kickstarter Exclusives as its all about getting it to retail, and thus what you can back for will be in your FLGS next year.

What I am Spending 

With the split between Games Workshop and Fantasy Flight Games happening, I went into panic mode and have bought a few things I was holding off buying until I had the space/money. The prices on them was skyrocketing and I couldn’t afford to hold back anymore.

I picked up a copy of Forbidden Stars, a game I have wanted for a long while but been reluctant to buy because I am not sure Megan or Lindsay would be interested in it as it’s quite a heavy game and set in the 40k universe.

I also got the expansions for Relic, Nemesis and The Halls of Terra, they haven’t arrived yet as they are having to come from the Republic of Ireland, but I am currently worrying about how they will fit on the shelves, I might have to put their components in the core game box.

While I was at it, I decided to pick up a copy of Lost Patrol that was going for a song On eBay, I remember the original game, but back the. It was Dark Angels in the jungle, not Blood Angels.

And it’s not technically money I spent, but I did swap a few rare Munchkin cards for a copy of Warhammer Quest Silver Tower from a dude who runs an FLGS in Glasgow, the cards were free for me from my time as an MIB, and obviously the guy running the store would have paid trade price for the game, so it’s not as big a value swap as it seems on the surface.
I also sold my Abaddon and Loken set, I had it from when I originally looked into Heresy and was planning a Sons of Horus army, well that is until the Ultramarines tempted me to the ways of the XIIIth. Anyway the money I made from that ended up getting spent to buy an Infiltration Cadre, so along with that Tau Strike Team from Kill Team, I guess a Tau army is on the distant horizon.

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