First 'Proper' Game of Space Gits

Why 'Proper' I Hear You Say? 

'Holy Tumbling Towers of Dice, Batman. 

That Thing is about to fall!'

Well, because beer was actually involved 😉. So, we (No.1 Son & I) got a game in on a Saturday night and started with a couple of beers* Again three orks a side and a simple board layout. This time the loot tokens fell closer to my side which led to a quick loot grab by my orks early on. 

*Well actually cider and it was in a can for the boy. But close enough! But did follow the rule of take a swig after each activation. 

Definitely need to finish this dread and build a Klankbot for my gang. 

So, both sides raced to capture the centre and the stash of loot tokens. With my orks taking an early lead. 

This time, I had a made a number of small measuring sticks which made things a lot easier. 

Despite grabbing most of the loot counters, the dice were starting to mount up on my guys. And Nath's guys were ready to put the boot in. 

With two guys down, my last ork 'Mosh' decided to hang at the back and wait for the clock*. 

*With less than two minutes remaining. I had to watch Nath's gits steal a few loot counters in the last couple of turns of the game. 

Whoop, Whoop - Its the Sound of the Police

Whoop, Whoop - Its the Sound of the Police Every time someone says the Fuzz have arrived, this is the what I hear. 

So, the police arrived and the game finished. It was a close run thing in the end with a final score four (me) to three (Nath). With the after game bureaucracy still to sort out. But another fun game of Space Gits. 

My original purchase of orks didn't arrive from eBay, so I am now trying to sort out a new lot so we build some proper gangs. 

Rob 

Another Elf Repainted on a Friday Night

One Movement Tray Done & Nineteen to Go

I started working through prepping the movement trays and decided that I wanted to fit in some of the 40mm hero bases. Obviously I still add the individual 20mm minis or a 40mm hero. But these will get these minis ready for Midgard. 

So, I wasn't really happy with my first attempt at creating a lava sword. I am happier at the mark two but I get the feeling Mark three may be needed once I have practiced.

Away in Belgium again and time to expand my knowledge of Belgium beer.

Rob

Typical Friday Night Post

Painting, Beers & Midgard

These Warmonger elves were painted back in 2021 and were crying out for an upgrade. Bronwyn Nightshade (above) did a sterling service against the shambling hordes of Jason last month so as a reward she is getting a repaint. I am using the previous paint job as the basis for the new scheme.  The mark one paint scheme is shown in the linked post Time for another elf. I am thinking it would be a good opportunity to try a special paint effect on the sword. 

After the wobbling dice towers of Space gits yesterday. I have started sorting the elf and undead minis into suitable Midgard armies. As well some repainting a few of the elf minis, I am now thinking about which one will need rebasing. The load of new movement trays also turned up today from Warbases. So, I can start finalise the units. 

Left over beers from Christmas aren't going to drink themselves on a Friday night. And the bottle caps will come in handy 😁.

Rob 

Space Gits Are Coming

First Battle for Space Gits

So, I got fed of waiting for my delivery of new space orks and played a game with classic RT orks. Nath & I played a simple game with 3 orks per side with only blasters, pistols and crude hand weapons. Given the game is only played for about 30 minutes, it had plenty of drama and action. In truth, I had to finish a new (smooth) board first, because moving dice over my textured boards would have been just too difficult (without even adding any alcohol). 

Nath's orks managed to grab an early (and sneaky git) lead by managing drop most of the caps on his side of the board. And then we lost two caps to an over enthusiastic drop. 

Gits at the ready to loot

Move which way first?

Yep definitely a hit, no question 😳

After a bit of debate, we sorted out the movement and rushed in to grab caps and bash the other orks. And very quickly we ended up with a number of tottering stacks of dice. Nath proved to be a steady hand as he manoeuvred an ork out of trouble while keeping his stack intact. 

Note - I think we are going to need some short and skinny range markers to leave both hands free for git and dice moving.

No I disagree about your ideas on the correct use of a teapot 😒

But it could last and eventually the dice towers were falling. 

All those years of playing Operation  have paid off!

But obviously didn't last

A bit of dice pay back

What all the sneaky gits are still standing...

At the end of 30 minutes, the game ends when a player rolls a triple on an accumulating number of D6s. And after 8D6, Nath managed bag the victory with four bottle caps to my pathetic one. Somehow all of the gits were standing at the end of the game, but this was more by luck than judgement. 

A great little game and we are ready for the gits to get back into action. 

And if none of this makes any sense, then you have probably got the point. And I suggest you go back and read my first Space Gits post 😁. 

Rob 

Little Blue Box

Plus Fifth Birthday for the Blog

Slowly getting ready to go back to work 😒 but I still found time to do a bit of painting over the holidays. 

While (still) waiting for my orks to turn up, I have continued with the scenery for Space Gits and the teleporterloo got the little blue box treatment. Obviously painting ork stuff is a relaxed affair with plenty of washes and dry brushing. 

Oh and the blog turned five 😎. 

Rob

First Battle of Midgard

Hold the Hill 

As is tradition, I managed to meet up with a couple of long-term friends for a wargame between Christmas and new year. This year it was Midgard, as friend Jas had just got a copy and was keen to play. None of us had played Midgard before but Jas was familiar with the rules and had organised the forces. 

Not Jason's copy obviously

The Game

In terms of the game, the elves and fae were holding the high ground against an undead & orc horde. A third of the elves & fae were held in reserve until turn four and on turn four each side gained an extra victory (reputation) point for control of each of the three standing stones at the top of the hill. 

The undead and orcs opted to place their low value undead and orcs at the front of the horde to soak up the inevitable elf bowfire. However, the elven archers were clearly having a bit of an off day and most of the orcs and undead survived to contact the enemy. 

This then created a bit of problem in that the best orc and undead units were now all still behind the rabble. Whilst the elven spears and tree men* happily chewed up the front units. And reputation (victory) points of the elves and fae were beginning to rack up. 

*The tree men (large and small) had the brutal trait which meant they wounded on 4+ instead of the standard 5+ which did indeed make them brutal!

The giant treeman taking down the first undead unit

And the second

Before finally meeting his doom against the trolls

It wasn’t all going the elves’ way as the giant treeman had taken down several units of undead but was now surrounded by trolls and the ghouls in the centre were proving surprisingly tough even when faced with an elven spear unit supported by three heroes. 

But the tide had clearly turned and as both the black orc and second troll unit failed to make their charge rolls in the last turn. The elves and fae were then able to break the enemy force before these elite units could make the difference. 

Two heroes face off

And victory went to the elven and fae alliance. 

After the Battle

It was the first game of Midgard for all of us, but we quickly got into the swing of the game. And Jas did a grand job as rules master. Fortunately, he had a large number of movement trays otherwise it would have been a massive pain to move the units. 

And I have already put an order in with Warbases to rectify this situation for future games. And I am now looking to rebase some of the earlier minis fit in with these units. 

Oh and happy new year for tomorrow 😁.

Rob