Marvel CP - Battle Report

Hello all,

I recently had the chance to get together with Mike and Duncan for some long overdue gaming...and surprise surprise, Marvel Crisis Protocol was the popular choice. We went with our pretty standard layout and scenario for the game...we did switch randomly lay down terrain and what not.

If I remember correctly, Mike was rocking his Sentinel, Colossus, Juggernaut, and a couple of others...I think he had used a few of them at some point before; Duncan hit us again with Malekith and his big kitty, and I think the Russian Doc Octopus (some dude with tentacles), Winter Soldier, and I think Sabretooth. This game gave me the chance to bring in Mr. Reliable...or I should say Doctor "Reliable" Octopus, as well as Hela & Loki, Vision, and Crossbones.

All in all, a fun game was had...

Initial setup...I am at the bottom of the pic, Duncan on my mid-left, and Mike on my upper-right.

Malekith and his big damned kitty. The Winter Soldier is hanging out in their shadow and Sabretooth and Tentacle guy are just south of the yellow taxi car.

Mike and his guys...with a big damned Sentinel looking over everyone.

The "good" guys...or at least partial (okay, maybe only 1 of them) good guys.

The action started to pick up fairly quickly...Doc Octopus squares of against his less-tentacled adversary, and I think he hit him for 4-5 healthpoints with a laser tentacle attack. Crossbones sauntered in and holds one of the portal locations (there are 3 total...I think).

Overview of initial moves...I am moving up slowly with the crew. I have a portal in my control, Vision has a shard or stone, and Hela, Loki, and Doc Oc are in good positions to support next moves.

Doc Oc put the hurt on him, but I think Hela swooped in and knocked down Duncan's tentacle dude. In this case, whenever a figure is KO'd or taken out of the game, Hela would gain a "soul" token that let her add additional dice to attack or defence (she could only have a max of 3 souls at any time). It was a nice touch for this spicy gal.

Duncan moves Malekith in to mess with Mike's Sentinel...some big CGI action went down.

I kept pushing forward with Vision and I may have taken some shots at Juggernaut...Mystere...Mystique...or something like that came out of the right and started to stir up things. Because I had Loki where I did, almost everyone had to pay extra power to make actions take place, he was such a mischievous character.

So I can't remember who did what...but by the end of this turn, we have less-tentacle dude, Juggernaut, Mystique, and Sabretooth KO'ed...Hela was very happy.

Next turn, everyone pops up and we start it all again.

Either Vision or Colossus put the hurt to Winter Soldier...

The chaos continues as Loki KO's Colossus...

...and it starts again...

By the end, we had almost all of Duncan's team were down and out...I think it was a matter of him being stuck between Mike and I, so it was pretty convenient for us to take on his guys. Mike had lost one or maybe two, and I had a couple of characters KO'ed but everyone was still standing at the end.

The crew: Crossbones did a great job of holding the portal, he missed out on all the action; Loki & Hela were very fun...Hela got her soulfood so she was happy, and Doc Frickin Oc was the star of the show. Dr. Reliable struck again.

Painting Update - Battlefront Shermans

Howdy everyone,

I hope all is well on your side of the internets, here’s to keeping the plague at bay. Here is a quick post on some more painting that I was able to get finished over the summer. These Shermans are from the Battlefront Open Fire starter box that I had bought years ago. The same box that one of my US airborne infantry platoons came from. If I remember correctly, I think the box came with two platoons/troops of Shermans, but to be honest, after I put these four together I was pretty damned frustrated with these models that I threw the other frames off to the side and gave them no mind.

For this group, I decided to have no markings…this way they could feel at home in any setting…WW2 or post-war or the Afropia region. I did enjoy figuring out the stowage and extra improvised armour thanks to extra track. While the assembly was a major headache, they painted up really well. I am almost convinced that I should grab that last frame and put them together…we’ll see where that takes me.

Anywho, please enjoy the pics.

Running up that Lead/Plastic Hill...

Painted

1/200             4 

15mm          65, +6    

28mm+        36

Terrain           1

Fabricated

     

Bought        42

Progress   +64

Painting Update - Six pack of Assault Guns

Howdy everyone,

I hope November is finding everyone well. It was great to see the snow hit relatively early this year, and not as great to see it go away...although there is a little left on the ground and the temperatures are at least within the norms. As the current year has gone by I see that my blog-fu or steadfastness has waned a little with less posts than I would like. Rest assured, I have continued painting...perhaps at a lower rate, but I am still wading through the crowd on the painting table.

I wanted to throw a quick post at the internets with some models that I completed earlier this year. These are a bunch of SU85's that my buddy Duncan gave to me which he had 3d printed. They were very clean and didn't present any annoying lines and whatnot. I elected to paint them up moreso for post-WW2 than a pure Soviet WW2 unit. 

So, with that as my intent, I went with an olive brown/brown violet base. If I'm honest, I had them socked away for a bit, pulled them out and had SU-122 on the brain and thought, hey I can just paint these up for some possible Cubans as part of Team Yankee Red Dawn...research corrected me rather quickly, but I still painted them up that way. Not only will they serve as fine proxies should I need, but I thought they would do well in the Afropian theatre of operations. Some post-45 Soviet military aid to a developing nation in dire need of a solid ride for their imperious leader.

I hope you enjoy the pics. Cheers.

Running up that Lead/Plastic Hill...

Painted

1/200             4 

15mm          59, +6    

28mm+        36

Terrain           1

Fabricated

     

Bought        42, +6 (I recently bought some Marvel Crisis Protocol figs on sale...couldn't resist). 

Progress   +58