Post a pic of the last game you played.

[Elbows]

Re: Charlie

Just personal opinion, but SWA is just a less-deep, less involving version of Necromunda's rules...played with 10x more lethal units.  Necromunda's fun came from developing characterful gangers and arming them with scrounged weapons (of questionable reliability) and seeking revenge on the opposing gang who put out your eye, or made you go mad, etc.  The fun came from the fact that generally everyone sucked at most combat related things.  Finding something like a quality pistol/rifle was a big deal, and anyone with a BS4 was to be feared etc.  I think the rules reflected that - and you spent half of your effort surviving Necromunda itself between games - let alone your opposing gangers.

SWA removes the deeper purpose of gang/killteam development between games (something I enjoy as much as the game itself) and gives far too efficient/deadly characters to the kill teams.  Couple that with the relatively scant/boring kill team options and it just really paled in comparison to having just played a bunch of Mordheim.  I disliked the extreme lethality of SWA (my Exarch chopped through five guardsman in seconds, which, while accurate...doesn't make it fun for the IG player).  I disliked the arbitrary "you get to level up one character per game...regardless of what they did" approach to advancement.  This, of course, maintains balance...but is comically boring.  The out-of-action table was cut down to a single D6 roll and rather blase results (have of which are more beneficial than harmful).

I dislike the ready availability of exceptionally lethal weapons, and super-easy to purchase bonus equipment like red-dot sights etc.  There's no desperation, no penny-pinching, no carefully crafting a list.  I understand this game might seem amazing to someone who's only played 3rd-7th ed. 40K, but I find it doesn't really scratch the Necromunda itch, and I'd rather just play a proper game of 2nd ed. 40K if we're going that route.

I think some people might like playing super fast, forgettable games just to get models on the table - I like a bit more crunch/connection to games like this.

I think the game could be really cool with a heavy dose of house-rules or some expansions, but as it stands, it was really pale in comparison to Mordheim which we'd just played about 3-4 times prior. 

[skirmisher]

A long time ago...  A downed Rebel Y-wing crew and Imperial TIE interceptor ace await rescue amid an Eldonni desert storm. Played in 20mm with custom rules. To represent the sand-storm and large area being searched, I used random movement across 12 board sections, which meant unexpected encounters with enemy patrols or wild animals as both sides searched for clues (droid tracks / fighter-debris) to the location of their sides pilots.

Nice tension with each move to see would a detachment find its sides pilots, or the opponents crashsite, or else run smack-bang into the main enemy rescue-force. The highlight was an Imperial section being shredded and stomped by a herd of angry desert beasts In the end both sides extracted their targets successfully with minor loss to both sides.

[Billchuck]

An adventure in the jungle...



http://www.velociengineer.net/?p=87

[von Lucky]

Some more lovely additions to this thread. Still my favourite on here.

[Youngster]

Last Wednesday - Black Powder War of 1812:

[Deedles]

This weekends game at Partizan - more on my thread on the Colonial board

[Elbows]

Deeeelicious!

[Deano]

That as a great looking game.

[Harry Faversham]

Yesterday's game...
Dead Man's Gulch has been drunk dry and the supply wagon is dawdling it's way into town, Old Stumpy guarding it with his trusty scatter gun. Dolores Trollope and her underlings have decide to take all the booze. Down the other end of the Gulch Snake Eyed Pete and his underlings have decided to take all the booze.
Deputy Dick got it first right through the melon. In a surprising turn Snake Eyed Pete got his one way ticket to Boot Hill well punched too. What followed next was the deadliest shootout i've ever seen in all our games of FofL... nobody missed, nobody got wounded, all the lawdogs, Dolores Trollope and her entire gang fell in a blizzard of well aimed lead. When the gunsmoke cleared all of Snake Eyed Pete's bunch were still on their feet... at least they'd have plenty of Redeye to toast the little man's deemise!

"That was quick."

"Yeah, everybody could shoot."



 

[Jevenkah]

Mongoose's Conan: The Roleplaying Game.

"Mosveld Adventures #3: Reprisals", the conclusion to our spin-off miniseries of the  Sagas of The Gautrian Kings storyline in our home-brew sword and sorcery world.



The night began with an intense PvP manhunt through the city streets of Mosveld.





A boat chase ensued, to an island where a place of power lay hidden inside a cave.







It was a rollicking good time, worthy of "a great B-movie script" as one player said mid-way through the evening. The perfect way to spend a Saturday night.

Jevenkah

[The Voivod]

Oh, I do like that castle....

[Pijlie]

A Fallout game based on the Dead Man's Hand rules.

[blacksoilbill]

This thread just keeps on giving. A spectacular colonial game, lovely terrain for the fantasy game, and that's one freaky beasty in the fallout game.

[TWD]

I love this thread, one of my favourites on here.

However, may I just politely (and somewhat pedantically ) point out that the title of the thread is "Post a pic of the last game you played" and not "Post several pictures of the last game you played"?
Part of the pleasure for me is being able to quickly scan a lot of pictures of different games

It's no biggie, and I appreciate I may be in a (curmudgeonly,pedantic ) minority here, but I preferred it when all I saw was a single image of a game and then could follow links to blogs or other threads if I wanted to see more.

There are already threads running where people post multiple pictures of their games - this thread was always a bit different.
Lately there's been quite a few multiple shots of single games.

This isn't  intended as an attack on anyone who has posted multiple images - I really enjoy the contributions of everyone, it's just my observation that the thread seems to have drifted slightly from its original intent.

[Jevenkah]

Oooooooh, I like those blood splatters!

Thanks for the compliments, guys!



More SwordandSorceryRPG adventures with Sagas of the Gautrian Kings #67, "Einherjar Festival". (Mongoose's Conan, OGL 3.5)

Sacrifices await the altar:



The return of the Queen:


Always a blast:


Sagas of the Gautrian Kings #37-#53

Jevenkah