Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Some three years ago, I played and really enjoyed a game of X-wing first edition. I swore to play more of this great game. Alas, lockdown put pay to that. Three years later! Oops... The last time I played was here ( insert self-referential link here ) This time I got to take my Imperials. as Micheal at the Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club kindly agreed to take me through X-wing 2nd Edition . It has been enough time for me to forget the fancy rules of 1st Ed, and while the glorious basics remain the same, a lot of the later ship rules creep appears to have been eliminated. *Where changes are work commenting on, I will do it like this* Rules downloaded , we decided to use Quick Build with a 8 threat force each. *The points are different values, with a free download of pre built ships and upgrades, so you know you will have roughly even values and not too much cheese, I like that a lot. Or you can build the old fashioned way to 200 points, using points on each card.* My list was Soonti...

 As the light from a distant pyramid flared, Arbath Ray looked down at the slumbering form that had appeared at his feet. "Uuurh... can I have two klatchian hots, and an onion bhaji" the recumbent form of Ptepic XVIII, former Pharaoh of Djelibeybi. "Reality twisted again?" The black clad temple guard leader looked down at the also black clad assassin, "I can offer you a curried goat?" Pteppic say up, rubbing his head and looking round. "When? Where? Oh, you know old friend, the usual questions..." "Ptraci is is here too, and that camel." The guard leader smiled, "It looks like our old enemy the Myceneans are back, trying to take out lands," he waved a hand towards a branch of the delta, a strange blue box rested on a hill, "and they've brought guests!" "Well, I hope it goes better than last time, they 0-15ed us!" Pteppic shrugged. "Not sure that one is in the annals." Abath Ray laughed, "...

The Big Yin sat on a stool sewing a new buckle on to a leather belt. Doing little jobs like this gave him time to listen, think and plan. Right now he was listening to Wild Robbie Barratt who had just returned from a scouting mission with the news of this new warband and it’s latest fight. ‘This new gang the ‘Barbaric Pedestrians’. Gods they sound like a right bunch of posh boys.’ said the Big Yin. ‘Girls.Their leader is a Border Collie called Honey. All blond hair and fancy clothes,’ said Wild Robbie, ‘They took on Bowie and L’Otter and didn’t do so well.’ Those names bought a snarl to the lips of the Big Yin. He carried a dozen or more scars from battles with that warband. ‘Why should we get involved?’ He asked, to the other member of the warband. ‘We’re never going to side with Bowie, are we,’ said Lucy, the warbands Mage. This was a statement not a question. The Big Yin nodded, that would NEVER happen - far too much blood spilt between their two warbands for that. ‘And as th...