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A little progress with painting.  Iron Hill Dwarven Command done and the Gundabad Berserkers.

Started on more Iron Hill Dwarves and a Huge Gundabad Troll.

Note the new paint station picked up at Salute 2017.

Updated my painting backlog page too.

Rebels Darryl and Alex took on Phil and Mike’s Imperials.  An early attack near Coruscant from a neutral planet really surprised the Imperials causing Chaos.  A surprise space attack from Ozell caught the rebel fleet and took it out recapturing the planet too but Ozell went all out and lost his Star Destroyer as a result.

The Imperials built up some strong fleets and soon had a rough idea where the Rebels weren’t on the western map but struggled to gain ground, hold planets against rebellions and win ground battles. Consequently they lacked ground troops.  Their dice rolls in combat consisted mainly of blanks (see image).

Imperials once again captured and then carbonited the Rebel Admiral (see image) until he was rescued by Jedi Luke much later (forgetting that they could have captured Luke with Vader’s Special as a result).  The Death Star stumbled on the rebel base at Kessel and then blew up Nal Hutta but lacked ground forces and was out of supply.

Finally the Imperials narrowed it down to just a few planets but chose the wrong two to assault with just a couple of turns remaining.  An all out assault with remaining nearby troops plus Death Star on the Rebel base could possibly have worked in the ensuing turns.  However it was not guaranteed and it was very late and so the Rebels certainly deserved the Victory they were awarded.

Mike brought over his latest expansion for Mansions.  It involves a Murder Mystery Dinner Investigation with a Cthulhu twist of course.  Phil, Bruce, Alex and Darryl also took part.  Needless to say the scary mansion made everyone soon low on Sanity.  Mike, Darryl and Bruce lost theirs before the end.

Fortunately the Investigators were able to follow the clues and defeat the Evil menace before the end.  Unfortunately for Bruce and Darryl they did not meet their New Insane Victory Conditions but overall this was a Cthulhu type Victory for the Investigators.  Well done!

Mike was Sauron, Phil Saruman, DARRYL was Rohan and Alex played his first ever game as Gondor.  All the expansions were in play using second edition rules.  We had never seen so many play on the table cads in play at once.  The new factions certainly had an influence. Saruman stole all the muster dice bringing Isengard and the Dunlendings into play.  

The free people’s brought the ends and the eagles on but their utility was delayed due to a on nobody’s side card.  However they did put the fear into Saruman who had to leave a garrison at orthanc.  

Early on the fellowship travelled far staying hidden all the way to fangorn with smeagols incredible help drawing three tiles.  They went to fangorn to bypass the closed gates of Maria and to release strider from the entwood so he could summon the army of the dead.

For their part the evil team attacked Rohan with a force of dunleendings and isengard elites smashing across the fords and into helms deep then endorses before Rohan could muster.  Meanwhile sauron had built up some strong forces to attack Gondar with .  Eventually they did so and quickly took mines tirith and pelargir.  The south eons mustered at umbra awaiting the great fleet but were slow to move to war.  However it seemed likely they would be required to reinforce the army besieging the city of dol amrRoth at the end of our game.  

With dol amRoth besieged this would put the evil players on eight vp should it fall.  The companions and fellowship were strong with just strider and Legolas away.  Lots of cards on the table plus some good blue tiles in play.  However there were red cards to balance them and no safe places to heal up corruption nearer than Lorien.  Also the party were on about five corruption though both sides had cards to influence this.  Thus with the hour late victory was awarded to sauron and Saruman.  

The models have been painted with metal colour and then faces painted with dwarf flesh then a face wash applied.  The bases coloured with codex grey and dark brown.  Next a dark tone strong wash applied to the base.  Spear shafts painted black.