Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

After a flurry of 'What shall we play', Martyn and I plumped for Xenos Rampant. I hadn't played for a year, he for two, but always an utterly enjoyable game. We rolled Mission Juliet - Supply run. Six caches of goodies lay around the table, mission, collect the goodies, or kill your opponent. We deployed across a blighted cityscape. My main stress was what list to use? It had been so long since I had dived into the box that I had forgotten which forces I owned. I had an undead list written, so I went with that. (Although there was a lot I could have used, hmmm, native infantry) My list Nemesis - Greater Xenomorph, razor sharp blades, cunning, xenomorph shooting, armour piercing (11AP) 3 x Zombie hordes with undead, mob, contagious (3AP each) - Yes, one is a mob of penguins, the local necromancer got bored! 1 x mages conclave Heavy infantry, large unit, unreliable, alpha level psychic (4AP) (Helping hand) Martyn's beautiful orcs Berserker infantry (very heavy armou...

++Report 31-01-23. Hadley's Hope/LV426 outside Rad zone +++ +++ Xenomorph clean up continues. Herding two know packs into Rad Zone for 'processing'. +++ +++Scavengers encountered in rubble and co-opted to assist.+++ +++ Motion trackers have found significant new signals, movement pattern does not suggest usual Xenomorph, all signs are of violent advance on our position with shooting and screaming +++ +++ Engaging +++ Martyn very kindly enquired if I would like a game of Xenos Rampant, I jumped at the chance, as I have many and various Sci-fi figures and had no real time to use them. But what to use? The answer was simple, my Colonial Marines . A few figures short of a full detachment, but I have enough Hasslefree S targrave 'randomness' to cover that. My force, very simple, HQ squad - Light Infantry, no upgrades. Command roll (tbc) Two squads of Armour piercing, Machine Gun armed Heavy infantry Psi scavenger squad- Light infantry with a Gamma level psionic with...