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16 plastic Saxons. Used citadel contrast paints for the block colours and then added army painter strong tone to darken them up to match my main force. Otherwise they would have been too bright. Then added shield transfers.

Gloomhaven via TTS with Alex and Darryl.

We did scenario against the ooze who had been poisoning the water supply . Was a tough one as Alex Sunkeeper had to go in room first and took a battering with lots of ranged monsters. Bear got in next and held off the monsters at the far part of room whilst cragheart and song moved to the near part of the room to ease the pressure and take out the monsters there .

Eventually the wound on the main ooze plus losing its shields as other oozes died plus retaliate began to tell . Also the newly summoned oozes and terrors where dispatched mainly by the bear .

Finally the beast tyrant got a stun on the main ooze whilst cragheart caught up and dealt massive damage to it . It was then soon defeated and two of our heroes levelled with Xp from this and a city event.

This was quite a challenging but fun scenario . Oozes and terrors continually spawning was a nuisance and would have been impossible in a kill all scenario but it was well crafted so you only had to kill the main ooze after dispatching at least four others.

First was Mike in his blue car. Next was Alex. Third was Bruce Green, Next purple Darryl , yellow Phil, red Alex, blue Mike and orange Michael.

Crashes: Orange, Yellow and Purple. (Mike, Phil and Darryl)

Started painting these using contrast paints for a quick simple look.

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Fireforge Teutonic Knights and Battleflag decals.

Assembly was straight forward . Standard for multipart plastics. Time consuming but allows for variety. Glued the second figure for the multi bases on sticks but used my glue gun which proved to be a mistake when it came to removing them.

First all painted white. Then white-light grey citadel contrast paint for the cloth later highlighted with white. Chain mail to the metal washed with black. Dark wood brown to weapons and horses. Some horses black. Snake brown to the leather.

Next the figures are varnished and the decals applied. Very time consuming as each one needs to be cut out and applied individually. Varnished again. Figures added to bases and base mix applied. Leather brown Vallejo paint to the ground and washed with army painter dark tone then grass tufts and yellow flowers added with pva glue.

Painting using citadel contrast paints.

Painted up a couple of swamp/ marsh terrain pieces for miniatures gaming. Used a green diorama swamp gel which I thought would be more translucent . So I had to restart with the leaves and herbs and use water effects over it. Next time will just use water effect.

We did a game over TTS and everyone enjoyed it. The humans won just about playing the basic game with a sympathetic cylon.

We have played a couple of games of gloomhaven using table top simulator. It works well. The first was a bit tedious being the headless horseman one which takes too long but is important for the campaign. The second was more fun being a treasure run and introduced Alex to his new Sun character.