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Polo's make me sneeze, photo of a communications tower taken from a site I was visiting for work.



Its was dark, gloomy day.

Week 20 of 52

A Flower photo.

Battle at the Fort

This weekend the Ascendancy players took part in the Battle of Fort William.


SamK was general of one army attacking the Sauron Lizardman Mage RichardS, and watched over by AndyL who GM'd thier battle. Sam had a hard task, but had more points than her opposition and looking back the task was perhaps hard to achieve since she needed 3 out 3 things to go right to win, and 1 failed. RichS was also Mr lucky dice.


Sam



RichS


Lizardman Mage, protected by his personal body guard.




Chance with his patchy trousers. He ran away something I don't think the real fictional one would have done


ChrisA took on non Ascendancy player John who was attacking the fort with his Sauron Lizardmen force in the second much bigger battle.

ChrisA was assisted by seasoned player Alex who not only played War Hammer but had a lizard man army so knew his enemy, he also had Kate and AndyP along to remind him of things they missed. In the long run this battle of even points was extremely close, very, very close probably the closer Ascendancy wargame we had out the 11 played, it was probably lost by ChrisA because the opposition set his stall on achieving the points objectives while ChrisA and team were more interested in winning the battle, which given a few more turns they in my opinion would have achieved.

Alex, Chris and Amy



Amy, AndyP and Kate


The Main battle for the fort


Langstrom's Ogres




Black Lizzies Unit with some freshly painted figures


Amy also in the store for the battle watched on while AndyL described her charcter's slow death at the hands of the mage.

I must say as a neutral both were well fought battles and very entertaining.

This weekend I discovered this blog was being used by the players as a source of information on upcoming Ascendancy battles, by looking at what I'm painting they can see what they might face, while not giving anything away really I still think I will have to be careful.

On Sunday I visited friends AndyT and Linda for dinner, when I arrived it was very sunny and I'm looking slightly red today since I burn so easily, luckily I had the sense to move inside after 10 minutes and no sun block.

We watched Bel their cat pounce around the garden after flies, which fine until Bel brought a live mouse into the house to play with, he 1st catch I'm not sure she knew what to do with it, it was retrieved from Bel clutches by its tail and deposited back under the garden hedge and ran straight off so perhaps survived its ordeal.

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Cat photo

Lizardman army completed

I have today finished my lizardman army, or stage one of it

It currently consists of 20 Saurus Warriors, 10 Temple Guard, 12 Skink Skirmishers, 12 Kroxigors, 1 Slann mage on Palanquin, 8 Saurus Cavalry on Cold ones, 1 Saurus mage, 4 Serpent lords, 30 skink warriors. Warhammer players will note it doesn't follow the rules and contains unique old models so it won't be in any competition games, purely for Ascendancy and friendly games with old players who don't care.

Slann Mage on Palanquin.

Saurus Cavalry.

I also started make some timber fort walls and gun platforms, but they are still drying so no photos, even if they are worth photographing.

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Slim pickings for this weeks photo, this is choice 1 out of 1, taken during my flying visit to Saltash for work, didn't have chance to stop close to the bridge, so this was the work camera's poor telephoto, from the site I was visiting.

Pirate Mates

This weekend I headed out to do some larping, well basically to give some of my friends Jock and AndyH a go at the hobby without being overwhelmed by lots of strong characters and fighters that would leave them feeling left out.

I asked Julie to write it and gave her a basic brief to aim at beginners, pirates, and include lots of elements that can make larp fun, well it turned out well and the seasoned players I invited also enjoyed themselves. AndyL introduced other plot into the event so should they wish they now have links into the Ascendancy core events to follow up.

I have included a couple of photos below.

After the event Julie and Dave came round for tea where we discussed future stuff, Dave left me a few bits for props including a Cyberman mask to convert into something.

That's my weekend really I have been painting more lizardmen ready for the next battle in frontier as you can see below, they should be complete by next weekend, giving me chance to sort out the players plan for the battle and build some fort walls.

Oh and I got to wear 2 of my hats I've never worn, my sock hat in the photo below and another brown hat I currently have no photo of as my merchant character.

Its me on the left next to Dave.