As the subject alludes to, today was the Edmonton Wargames Group Mayday convention.
It started off with a bang as I arrived to find out Scott needed to head back home as he was quite ill. So after a quick handover, my involvement became much greater.
The hall was quite full with 2 tournament occurring (Warhammer 40K & Warmachine)
I started my day by playing a game of G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T, hosted by Sean & his son Liam.
Once again I donned the guise of Phil McCracken & his Camel Corps.
Below is the table. The goal of each force was to make it to the Skull Monument & hold the location against all comers.
The locale had some rather varied critters, below are a group of Rock People & some Lizard-men further back.
A larger spider charged my force, slaying one of the men.
Splitting my force, I had the dismounted Riflemen to engage the Rock People
The Legion officer was away on his own gathering Glowidium & was engaged by a Giant spider.
Craig's faction had a robot who plunged amongst the red lizard men.
Phil and a rifleman surged to the objective, but were slain
Eventually we awoke a dinosaur. Just as it arrived on the board, a beam of sunlight shone down further hi-lighting the beast.
Meanwhile Stampy engaged the good doctor & slew him.
The robot was brought low & tumbled forward, crushing 3 members of the Shore party.
Eventually the dinosaur charged into the French.
For my second game, after dealing with the auction, it was time for another round of All's Quiet on the Martian Front.
The scenario was thus:
The humans have identified a Martian redoubt. The sent forth a land ship to take it out, however mechanical breakdowns caused it to be immobile. As the call went out for back-up, the attached forces deployed & created defences.
Meanwhile the Martians have mustered forces to destroy this behemoth.
One of the human rifle groups was detected, & obliterated.
At the opposite end of the table, the Martians were running into stiff resistance as both scouts were destroyed.
As the human armoured reinforcements arrive, one was taken out by a heat wave.
One of the scouts plunges through the woods.
Things continue to be a challenge for the Martians on the left flank, as more tripods explode.
More human tanks are destroyed.
The game ended with the landship not being destroyed, the ship only receiving 1 critical of the 5 needed.
A further view of the left flank where the Martians were being overwhelmed.
So thus ends another Mayday convention. I am now looking forward to Cangames!
Scott & I hosted 4 of the fellows to our playtest of the All's Quiet game for Mayday.
Thus I will not be imparting the details of the scenario until its run at Mayday.
The general scenario is there is an Ironclad which the Martians have detected heading towards one of their redoubts & have sent a force to destroy it.
This is quite the sacrificial lamb. There are several infantry & artillery units deployed in Stealth (blips) around the Ironclad.
The Martians advance. That's a lot of Tripods.
The overall battlefield.
The unit of Rough Riders swarmed a scout & immoblized it with 3 markers...the Tripod wasn't going anywhere.
The battle continues with numerous hits, doing minimal damage.
The Martian perspective.
Time didn't allow us to proceed past the second turn. There were lots of hits, but penetrating or actually rolling on the Tripod damage results table were abysmal .
Not a single tripod was destroyed during this battle, though 3 were crippled & another immobilized.
Just a view from the US forces rear.
Scott & I will be tweaking the scenario between now & Mayday.
I spent Saturday in the city with my wife as she wanted to do some shopping at Giant Tiger.
This usually results in my looking through their T-shirts & DVD movies before getting bored & heading out to wait in the car. However my perusal of the toy section did give me pause as I noticed some vehicles, which although the sign said were 1/32 scale...were not. I did find another vehicle for sale that was 1/32 & held them up to one another.
These were definately not 1/32. So I quickly started going through the selection & decided on these below.
What was even better, is they were on sale for $3 a piece. Once home I opened them up & upon inspecting the bottoms, discovered they ranged in scale. Anywhere from 1/38? to 1/50. Ok I can live with that, as I posed a couple Zombicide figures besides the VW Van.
I also finished the second last unit I needed for the Mayday game. Here we have Heavy Field Artillery unit.
This leaves me with the Command Tank, which is now drying from the brushed on dip & will be matte sprayed tomorrow just in time to take to the club for our playtest.
I've completed the Anti-Tripod Gun & more infantry for All's Quiet on the Martian Front.
Up first the Anti-Tripod Gun. This single element unit is made of metal. I am still working on painting the crew members.
I've also completed another unit of US Doughboy's
I also have a unit of British Infantry. These lad's are equipped with the latest of the Queen's Armoury inventions which utilize Martian Technology.
One of the elements is equipped with a Coil Gun, which adds a bit more clout to the penetration power.
I've got the Heavy Field Guns put together & just have to weather them. As well the crewmen for the guns have been started.
Tonight Scott hosted us in a game of Sword & Spear.
I played the Hittites with Taylor, while Bruce & Brian took the opponents. Sorry don't recall the force.
Both sides played the one flank heavy with Chariots. As well both forces Generals were very much involved on this flank.
The other flank of all infantry was slower to get moving.
The Chariots collide, we had a unit evaporate, but evened the score shortly after. The Spear unit managed to hold against the foe.
The flank begins to get turned.
Eventually the spear unit fell under the wheels of Brian's Chariot. Down to a single Chariot unit, Brian pushed further behind the front line & was pelted with arrows taking 2 wounds.
On the Infantry flank, things were not looking good for the Hittites as 2 elements were lost to an insane amount of arrow fire.
As the last of Brian's Chariots was destroyed, his General fled.
It was the turn after that the morale failed on the opposing side & they departed the field.
The game was back & forth with lots of horrible rolls on both sides, followed by insane amounts of 6's. All in all good fun. Thanks Scott for bringing this out.
