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There has been some more 40K-S scrappin' going on in la casa de Scoob recently.

First, I sent my Nidz back into action, and Scoob rolled out his Orks to meet them.

After I got quite outnumbered in the last game, and seeing how much I outnumbered his army by, I thought I'd have a decent chance here.

However, it took just three turns for the outcome of this game to be clear, as it was pretty obvious that the Nidz were now the ones outnumbered.

I definitely had a really hard time damaging the Battlewagons, which was not helped when my deep-striking Trygon got mowed down in short order by the Lootas.

It still gave us info though, in that a smaller, more elite army is capable of taking on a larger mob.

Then weeks later, after a lot of coding to add all of the other units and special rules to the game, as well as a new army builder and a new points calculator, we convened again for another game.

This one saw me bring my Marines again, this time with some Battle Sister backup, to take on hordes of Scoob's deep striking Daemons.

We actually managed to play the full five turns for this one, and it was pretty close throughout. It ended up being 1859 to 1674 in Scoob's favour. It would have been much closer, with him winning by just 13 points, had I not been a bit suicidal and thrown away my Land Raider on the last turn. But I was in "have fun" mode, and wanted to flame things.

It also didn't help that my multi-meltas failed to successfully wound for the entire game, as well as Scoob dropping some monstrous saving throws to keep lots of his Daemon foot troops alive in the last couple of turns.

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Sandwiched in between all of this 40K action was my first game of Epic-S in over two years. In this one, I went up against Gareth in a 3000pt game, where he took control of the Imperials, and I commanded the Orky ladz.

Because we were re-learning the rules, we took the first turn pretty slowly, and it probably took longer than all of the other turns put together.

We decided not to go to a victory point target, and instead played the full 5 turns, during which I had some really lucky mass saving throws.

By the end of the action, I had managed the tiniest victory of just 15 points, with the score 2192 to 2177.

Board game updates haven't really been present on this site for quite a few months, but there are a few little updates and highlights from this last year that I can share.

Starting all the way back on New Year's Eve, we had a few games of Secret Sith Lord, which I think was probably the last time we played this version of the game.

There was another game of Jamaica at some point, which I handily managed to win by racing out into the lead. Only me and Gareth were over the -5pt line by the end.

We also tried my two newest games at the time. First was The Crew, which has an amazing rep online, but which we really didn't get all that into. We played a few rounds of it and managed to progress a ways, but ultimately it didn't motivate us to go back to it yet.

Then I buckled and bought Cryptid, which we had tinkered with the year before but not properly played. I can't really remember who won this game, but we made quite the mess of the board by the end of it. Looking at the colours, and who was sitting where, I think Gareth is the most likely to have won this.

We also had another game of King Of Tokyo. Again, I do not remember who won. What I do know is that I, controlling Gigazaur once again, most certainly did not win.

I introduced Scoob and his wife to Survive The Island when I popped over their's for a game. It was fun and close, and Scoob pulled out the win with 22, while I got 20 and Emma got 19.

In easily the closest game of 7 Wonders we've played yet, Gareth and I tied for the lead on 54pts, with me only taking the win because I had 5 treasure to his 4. The two other players in this were also very close on 42 and 40 respectively.

After months of waiting, I finally got to try my proper copy of Whitehall Mystery at last. Fittingly, I managed just my 2nd win as Jack. Again it was very close, and the officers actually made an arrest on my final dumping spot on the turn before I got there.

Our second play of Viking Raiders didn't really go very different to the first. We attempted a "short" 3 player game to 6 victory points. Yet it still took us a good 2 hours to finish it. I capped off a fairly decent year for board game victories when I got the ability that dropped my victory requirements to 5, as I'd got just enough in all three categories to take it.

Where the victories eluded me was in our co-operative play. Specifically, we gave the word game, Alibis, several attempts. As of yet, we have failed to succeed. We clearly need to expand our mental dictionaries.

My usual winter painting shenanigans are continuing, primarily with five more Blood Bowl star players.

The selection this time consisted of five players of very different heights, evident when they all lined up together.

I also got stuck into the players Scoob gave me a while back, with the star Wardancer and Treeman in the mix.

The model I'm using for Bertha Bigfist is the first 3D printed one I've properly painted. Much like the 3D printed Tifa Lockhart, who will appear back on the blog at some point, I had some issues with very obvious layer lines on some of the more upward facing surfaces. That's something I'm really going to have to be mindful of.

But still, I think she'll work, and to be honest, may never even get used. To be even more honest, none of these players will ever get used again if I don't sort out the ERL house rules I started.

This painting leaves me with just six individual players in my collection left to paint, and then the Lizardmen and Wood Elf teams also. Of course, I've got so many ideas for new teams and players. Ideas which will only increase if I really get into the printing side of things.

Just too many "ifs" and "whens" to keep up with.

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And here's the snaps of the latest Blood Bowl players I've completed:

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It's not just Blood Bowl stuff in the painting queue. After finishing my Warlord Titans, I got back to some Orky goodness and have painted the Deathskulls Slasher Gargant.

During the course of all this painting, I finally ordered some proper wet palette paper and sponge, so the old Greggs wrappers that I'd been using can all go.

I had no idea I'd saved up so many of those wrappers. Just how much Greggs did I used to eat? It's probably a really good thing that I don't do that job any more.