Warhammer 40k & Age of Sigmar vs The Brother

Headed north for a couple of games against my brother today. Started off with a game of 40k bringing the newly painted Trygon onto the table and then managed to squeeze in an introduction to Age of Sigmar.

The 40k game saw my Tyranids come up against his Necrons. While the final score saw me without a point to my name the game itself was much tighter than that would have you believe. I've come away with a few tweaks to try with my force and a larger disliking of reanimation protocols and quantum shielding :).

The forces square off

Trygon tunnels behind enemy lines bringing a unit of Warriors

My first attempt at a Genestealer charge

A whole mess of 6s on the overwatch shots

Trygon gets stuck in

2nd attempt a a Genestealer charge

A much better result for me

Trygon still sits at the back tying up half the Necron force, this is the moment when I discover the more damage I do the easier it is for the Quantum Shielding to save the Necron warlord.

Broodlord holding his own despite constantly re-animating necrons

A rather depopulated table leaving the Necrons holding all four objectives.

After packing up the SciFi we quickly set up for Age of Sigmar with my brother lending my his Khorne force while he took his.... I can't remember the new name for them but basically Ogres on woolly rhinos. I did manage to sneak a 6 to 2 win on this one, but we both found a few things we'd played incorrectly in this one which may have narrowed the margin.

Not a bad way to spend a Saturday really. Hoping to get another game in before I have to go back to work depending on how things flow over the next week.

2nd January 2019 - Finished Trygon

Haven't put up a post for a long while, but decided I'd try to kick things off again this year. Pushed myself a bit and finished off this Trygon for 40k over the course of a few days and I'm happy with how it turned out. I've been playing around with a few new (for me) techniques with my Tyranids and I think I'm starting to get to grips with them now. I've already got a Broodlord and a nice swarm of Genestealers finished over the last couple of months. I've still got a few more to go a few Tyranid Warriors, a Tyranid Prime and a Hive Tyrant, but once they're done I may look at sorting out my next thousand points.

I've still got a couple of weeks left on my holiday so I'm hoping to get started on a few other projects as well. I'm planning mostly on getting some more tables sorted out for the start of the year, though there are a couple of other miniature projects I'm looking at such as some 12mm WW1 models and I've just grabbed a quite a few Zulus and some British Line Infantry for a Rourke's Drift game; plus I grabbed a few different 15mm fantasy armies as presents this year for family and friends to play around with as well.