Final battle for Luthien - a Battletech photo dump

 Last sunday, with my trusted group of Battletech players, we managed to play the last scenario we had set for the Clan invasion of the Draconis Combine.

This time the Coordinator himself, Takeshi Kurita, led the charge (quite literally), to drive away the hated clanners.

It was a special urban scenario where Shin Yodama (the Yakuza attache to the Draconis army) had to try and hold old Takeshi back from charging head first into the enemy for a proper Samurai hand to hand fight.

The scenario had special rules for this to see if the Coordinator in his golden Dragon could be held back or if he would charge head first into the enemy. Needless to say that I (controlling the Coordinato) managed to loose control and had to deal with a maniac charging the nearest enemy for the whole game.

Needless to say that it was a very dangerous situation. I managed to get to the end of the game (interrupted for lack of time) missing both arms and with a pilot wound for old Takeshi, but kicking a Loki several times and putting it in forced withdrawal.

The rest of the game was bloody, but went ok for the Kuritans that managed to keep the clan units mostly on their side of the table.

Point wise it was a draw, the amount of damage was pretty much the same, we lost a catapult to a very lucky 3 damage hit froma Man'O'War, but managed to cripple a few of the (already damaged) enemy units and destroy a Jenner IIC that soent most of its game jumping annoyingly from roof to roof.

The game was played on Gian's new urban mat with scenic elements scratch built by Omar.

Following is the photo dump:

A star of Smoke Jaguar that began the game on the table, already engaged with the Kuritan forces. All the clan units were survivors of previous games, so came on the board with the damage and ammo they carried with them.

These are the Nova Cat sent in as reinforcements. They entered the table's edge at the beginning of turn one.

Shin Yodama on his Phoenix Hawk.

The coordinator with his bodyguard of assault mechs.

The Tiger's Claws, the Coordinator personal unit.

Photos of the game, the chronological order might not be completely accurate, since they came from four different sources and were a bit hard to arrange properly.

These are a bit of fun with AI.

Another small progress

I finally managed to complete another unit, it took me, again, way longer than it should have, but life is still too busy to let me paint when I want.

Anyway, another little bit of my Badab War project is done, a unit of Space Sharks terminators. For this I had quite a few doubts, the colour scheme of the Space Sharks has evolved quite a bit in the years, but as always, I stuck with an old school style. For the logo I was a bit undecided between the very first one with the shark seen from the front or the "more recent" one with the shark seen from the side. Since the second one was already in use during the Rogue Trade era, I decided to go for that one, it does look better at the end of the day.

Here it is, a nice squad of Rogue trader, Space Hulk and second edition terminators:

Space Sharks terminator unit with a Chainfist and Cyclone missile launcher. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

I also have a tiny add on. Following up with the idea of salvaging old standards, I found an abandoned Epic scale standard from my old project of the Blood Angels Chapter in Epic scale, so I gave it a base and called it done.

That's all for this week

I'm still here

 Hi everyone, I'm not dead, but life has been very busy in the past month or so and I had not much time for painting and nothing to post... until now.

I just managed to finish a few models for my Badab war ongoing project.

These guys make up a Raptor Legion assault combat squad in the Blizzard suit variant. As customary I try to use as many old school models as possible and I do freehand shoulder pads symbols to keep the Rogue Trader style.

I enjoyed painting these models, I had to find a way to reproduce the snow camo effect and I added snow effect on the bases, pretty cool in my opinion.

I hope I can finish something else for next week, let's keep our fingers crossed.

Raptor Legion (Blizzard suit) assault combat squad. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

More cavalry

 This week we have a slightly belated post, I was in the mountains and when I got back life took over and I didn't manage to post until now.

I have another trio of historical cavalry models, this time Macedonians from RAFM, the classic models in 25mm with separate heads and shields, with wire lances.

I painted these more or less at the same time as the Greek ones I posted last week.

I used some leftover 15mm Greek transfers for the shields, they are not 100% historically accurate, but still better than what I could have done freehand, so I call them a win.

They might, as the Greek ones, end up being used in fantasy wargaming as well as historical.

Maceonian cavalry. 25mm, RAFM, painted by Ginzio