Saturday 3 January 2015

Oldhammer in York.

I headed over to York today for some gaming action with Thantsants of Somewhere the Tea's Getting Cold and Ollie our gracious host and author of The Second Founding.

This was actually the second session of gaming in 2015 already and the cause of much eye-rolling from SWMBO and a few demerits in the book of grudges too no doubt.

I GM'd a small but perfectly formed game of Warhammer 3e for the gents to kick off with. Thantsants' Druid had rustled up some local muscle to escort him to a mad wizard's cottage in order to stop a dangerous summoning ritual taking place while Ollie's Khorne boys were in town to ensure that said ritual went off smoothly and in good order. No doubt the protagonists themselves will tell their own tale on their respective blogs but suffice to say the Khorne general rolled up the rather tasty Bloodrage attribute and confounded all efforts to slow him down.

After lunch we moved forward in time and down in scale for some 'epic'.





We debated the way we wanted to approach the game and decided to run with the Future War Commander rules which were written by Peter Andrew Jones under the Specialist Military Publishing banner.

These rules give you a reasonably fast and free-flowing game which helps when there are three of you and bath-time is looming. We reached a satisfactory conclusion (well, Thantsants was satisfied) and got several game turns in and I honestly don't think we would have been able to say the same of a game one third this size using the Oldhammer Approved Space Marine rules (fond of them as I am).

Best of all all the minis were handsomely painted and fine sculpts while both games took place on beautiful tables. :)

As I intimated, Thantsants' Imperial Army won the laurels by seizing and holding two of the four objectives while Ollie's Tau and my own Eldar had to content themselves with a single objective apiece.

Thanks for stopping by!

14 comments:

  1. Wow, any game with any Epic-style involved can never go wrong! I really like those pics!

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    1. Thanks Suber, and Happy New Year! We had a cocktail of laughs and excitement playing the epic game and I can't wait to try again now the others know the rules.

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  2. Sounds like a good day's gaming! Keen to hear more about this druidic showdown though...

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    1. It really was a very good day! Having Oldhammer neighbours is pretty awesome. I will give the others a chance to blog about their game but if they don't take the bait soon enough I may do the AAR myself. Happy New Year!

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    2. Indeed it is - managed to get in another game with VanLoon, and we are hatching plans for a mini-campaign in our neck of the woods.

      Looking forward to Mansfield!

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    3. Oh yes, and Happy New Year to you too!

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    4. Me too mate, I've replied to you on the FB event page.

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  3. Heresy!! 6mm Heresy!!! But it looks fun...for heresy!

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    1. It was pretty heretical I'm afraid and we strayed a good way away from the sacred texts but the Oldhammer Spirit was ever present thankfully! Happy New Year!

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  4. Happy New Year WP!

    Looks like lots of fun and I say if it's Heresy then bring it on!!!!!!

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    1. Happy New Year to you too mate! I did enjoy the heresy to be honest, and the corrupting of two innocent Oldhammerers of course!

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    2. I view it more as enlightenment.............................

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  5. That Epic table is amazing! Would have loved to see some close ups of the models themselves.

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    1. Many thanks TB, I will take a few snaps of my army for the next post and ask the boys if they can donate some shots or do a post of their own.

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