Showing posts with label Mortal Gods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mortal Gods. Show all posts

22 January 2021

A return to Mortal Gods...and the Pub!


I'm home in Sydney for the Australia Day long weekend, so a few of us got down to our regular pub for a game and a few (maybe more than a few) beers. Libations were offered to Olympians to reconsecrate the venue, and then we broke out the first game of the year by revisiting Mortal Gods.

Last year during AHPC X, Alan painted a lovely Thrakian Army but he hadn't gotten it onto the table before last night.  His brushwork in detailing all the cloaks is quite stunning.

The Thrakians as a force are quite different to the usual Hoplite army, and offer a really asymmetric matchup. Their Evade ability in particular makes them very hard to pin down, and they are highly mobile including an Ambush ability so they can appear behind your main line unexpectedly. It will take a bit of experimenting to counter their cunning ways (They remind me a lot of Alan's really bloody annoying Welsh army in SAGA actually...)

Form wedge! Phalanx advance!

We cant kill them if we cant catch them Lochagos!

I was reminded of how much I like this game - relatively straightforward but with lots of depth. I might need to unearth some more figures to paint during this AHPC season

Great to be able to play at the pub again!

18 August 2019

August Hobby Update

The last few weeks have been good hobby wise.  I came home to find Alan had painted us up matching forces for Mortal Gods so we have been enjoying that a great deal, pitting his forces of Megara against my polis of Melos:
Naturally, all the aegis shields are hand painted


Alan laments a very rare setback on the battlefield

Reilly and I rediscovered our Blood Bowl treasures and had a few games. 1 win to him and 1 tie but lots of fun all round. Now considering playing in the upcoming MOAB tourney...


A painted a couple of fun things from 1st Corps:

There is a black sheep in every family!
I just had to have this priest for an Objective marker in Mortal Gods



And now I'm off on a holiday to Norway for a few weeks - cant wait!