Friday Night Games

For the first time in over a year, I was able to attend my local gaming group - The Sutherland Shire Gamers - last Friday.

I had prearranged a game of Star Trek Attack Wing with Martin, another fan of the game. The scenario chosen was a rescue mission for the Federation: Rescue Kirk and McCoy from the Klingon prison on Rura Penthe and exit with them safely. Martin chose the Klingon's with two K'Tinga Class battle cruisers (Captain Martok and an unnamed Captain) and a Bird-of-Prey (Captain Chang), while I was the Federation with the Enterprise-B (Captain Spock) and an Constitution class cruiser (Captain Decker).

I apologise for the quality of the photography, the perspex board was reflecting the overhead fluorescent light.

The games afoot

Federation ships deep in Klingon territory

The game went well initially for the Federation, some shots fired, but no major damage. However two Klingon ships remained cloaked and elusive.

The Enterprise (right) at arrives at Rura Penthe

The Enterprise was able to rescue Kirk and McCoy, with the the Klingon's missing an opportunity as I had to drop my shields to conduct the rescue. From there it went downhill as I made a tactical error, pulled a sharp manoeuvre that left me unable to perform some actions, allowing the Klingon's to close with the Enterprise and destroy her, though at least the Bird-of-Prey with Chang was destroyed in the exchange. The other Federation ship was able slip away..

Game over for the Federation

So the game ended with the Federation losing its heroes and the Klingon's celebrating their great victory. A good time was had by both of us and although neither of us had played in a long time, we managed to pick up the rules again pretty quickly, and did not make too many mistakes.

On The Bench

So yet again not much happening on my bench at the moment, however I did manage to complete the character Daleks recently started.

Davros, Heavy Weapon and Emperor Daleks

Not my best paint job, but still happy with them.

In a previous post I mentioned that I prepared some figures for my wife to paint, and she has now completed them as well.

 

All these Christmas figures are from Reaper Miniatures, and are usually only available for sale in December.

I have also been helping her with another project, laser cut MDF kits from Miniature Scenery. These specific kits were made for a game system called Twisted, and were part of a Kickstarter from a couple of years ago. Due to the problems she has with her hands, these will be a long term project.

Recent Gaming

Recently the family decided that we should make an effort each week to play some games together, instead of letting them gather dust in the cupboard. So each Sunday afternoon, other commitments permitting, we have managed to get in a few different games.

So far we have played a few games of Witches of the Revolution, a co-operative board game, Skull & Shackles which is a Pathfinder Adventure Card game, along with Dark Souls and Zombicide:Green Horde.

My son is painting all his figures for Dark Souls and Zombicide:Green Horde, and it does make the games look and feel a lot better, but not easier to stay alive...

Have it easy so far...

Spoke too soon...

And the intrepid adventurer's succumb to the horde. 

Will post some more gaming goodness in the future.