Showing posts with label sci fi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sci fi. Show all posts

23 April 2024

Firefight Meets 40K Meets Necromunda Meets....Mad Max

In this game, using Games Workshop figures and Mantic rules, a punitive expedition of Astra Militarum is send into the Wastelands of Necromunda to bring a despicable gang of Cultist Raiders to heel after they have been harrying and ravaging urban dwellers on this ghastly planet.

The diabolically deranged Cultists almost managed to overwhelm the regulars through their sheer brute force and outright fanaticism, but eventually the Militarum's superior firepower and organisation shredded their demonically possessed attacks piecemeal.

This group of Cultists were defeated, but there are plenty more out there in the Wastelands that must be eradicated...






















18 April 2024

Monday Games - Sci Fi and Napoleonics

In a game using Xenos Rampant Rules, two bands of spaced-out space hunks fought it out over an abandoned industrial complex of some description. The figures were an interesting blend of Games Workshop, North Star, Wargames Atlantic and some independent manufacturers.

The Napoleonic game pitted the French against a combined Russian and Prussian army.
















17 October 2023

Mantic Games meets Games Workshop - A Sci Fi "Wargames Fusion"

In this game we bring together a perfect 'fusion' of Mantic Games' Firefight rules and Games Workshop 40K miniatures (scenery coming from both of these Nottingham-based companies).

Orcs/Marauders take on Space Marines/Enforcers/GCPS in this mix-and-match clash. We prefer 'Firefight' Rules to 40K, but have quite a few 40K figures, so why not merge them together?

This game was tense from the start and actually ended in a dead heat - both sides racking up 8 Victory Points by the end of the 5th turn, which confirmed our views that Mantic rules are more fun and better suited to a relaxed, informal week night game than Warhammer 40,000.














11 September 2023

Cyber Punk Inspired Sci Fi Action

This was a fun game, using Firefight rules, with Forge Fathers (Dwarves in Space) against Orcs/Marauders. The dwarves proved too tough for the Orcs and won fairly convincingly. 

The terrain is largely scratch-built, with amazing attention to detail. It was inspired by Mantic Games terrain crates, the movie 'Blade Runner', along with a number of sci-fi city art books.