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A photo of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's played on three rectangular boards sitting together in a T-shape, there are tiles marked out with hexes, and the artwork looks like you're inside a cave. Closest to the camera are Lady Harrow's Mournflight, four swooping spirits in sickly green. To the right at The Dread Pagent, three humans in purple clothing and light armour and then a very large goat man holding a huge sword above his head. Lastly at the left are the six beastmen of Grashrak's Despoilers, all wearing raggy armour and clothing.

A photo of a grey staffie puppy with a white stripe down his chest, standing on the arm of a lounge and desperately looking like he wants to leap down. The photo is slightly blurry because he would not stay still!

We went over to @oysta@oysta.au's for an excellent game of Warhammer Underworlds this afternoon. I decided to simplify things a bit and we just used the Beastgrave/Direchasm era warbands with their stock decks, me with Lady Harrow's Mournflight, @yayKM with Grashrak's Despoilers, and @oysta@oysta.au with the Slaanesh warband The Dread Pagent.

It was VERY tight at the end of the second round, with me and @oysta@oysta.au tied on 11 glory each, and @yayKM not far behind on 8, but I was able to score several objectives and make a couple of kills thanks to some crazy-good rolling, and the final score was me on 17, @oysta@oysta.au on 12, and @yayKM sadly still on 8.

Next time we're going to do an all-Chaos game with @oysta@oysta.au staying with the Dread Pagent, @yayKM using Khorne's Gorechosen of Dromm, and I'll probably use the Nurgle warband The Wurmspat (though now I think about it, maybe this might be a good reason for me to finally finish painting the Tzeentch warband Ephilim's Pandaemonium...).

In addition to Warhammer Underworlds, we met the most adorable staffie puppy named Hendrix, who is only 12 weeks old! 😍 He was SO excited to smell us, and he had his entire snout and part of his head fully inside my shoe after we arrived, haha.

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Posted on 22 June 2024, 18:52

A photo of a game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's a miniature-and-card-based game played on boards with hex tiles on them. On the board were my warband of six armoured skeletons, four spooky ghost-looking things, four lithe elves, and three lightly armoured humans alongside a big S&M-looking goat-man.

Mid-week gaming this week was a FOUR-player game of Warhammer Underworlds! Unsurprisingly we only got through one round, but one of the players hadn't even played before. I managed to eke out a win on 8 glory, and Kristina came back from nowhere to finish on 7.

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Posted on 26 October 2022, 23:19

A game of Warhammer Underworlds in progress. The board has tiled hexes on it and the two warbands are lithe but armoured aelves versus Slaanesh-worshipping humans (plus a big goatman who's wielding a massive sword over his head).

Tonight's game of Warhammer Underworlds was an absolute rollercoaster. We went for the core Direchasm warbands, by the end of the first round it was looking like an absolute blowout for Kristina, she was up 6-0, and was in the lead up until the very end of the last round. I managed to scrape in with all three of my objectives in hand at the very end of the game, and it ended up being a win for me at 12-7.

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Posted on 24 September 2021, 22:32

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board with miniatures on it. There's also three of my new pieces of terrain: the big skeleton, the giant horned skull, and the crystals.

Played our first game of Warhammer Underworlds with the new terrain! I love it, it adds so much visual interest to the board. (I gave up on the murder-ladies for the moment, I need to tweak the deck a bit, and went back to the Dread Pageant. Ended up winning 15-8!).

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Posted on 21 April 2021, 22:44

A photo of the board of Warhammer Underworlds mid-game, with miniatures all up in each others' faces.

More Warhammer Underworlds tonight, this time the two warbands from Direchasm, and Kristina won! Funnily enough, though, while the miniatures are fantastic, neither of us were particularly enthused by the actual play style of the warbands themselves, heh. I like casting spells (the Dread Pagent has none) and Kristina likes stabbing things from close range (the Purifiers are too delicate).

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Posted on 5 March 2021, 23:52

A photo taken across a dining table that has a game board with miniatures on it, and various dice and cards and counters scattered around it. On the other side a white woman with short brown hair is sitting with a small scruffy blonde dog in her lap who's sitting upright and propping himself up on her chest while she scritches him.

Kristina and I played Warhammer Underworlds tonight, and Beanie again decided he need to come up and help.

I played The Dread Pageant for the first time, they're interesting! I miss the lack of magic-casting though. I managed to win by one single point, and it was purely luck... if Kristina HADN'T killed Glissete in the very last activation, it would have been a draw!

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Posted on 27 February 2021, 23:17

A photo of the 4 miniatures of the Dread Pageant from Warhammer Underworlds: Direchasm. 2 are human, male and female, both in puffy purple Middle-Eastern type pants, black corsets split down the front, and with gold masks on. He has an ornate bow, she is holding a glaive over her shoulders. The 3rd looks human but much taller, with a studded PVC-clad leg and holding a spear and shield with 3 sets of eyes. Last is is a beastman with a massive claw for an arm and wielding a sword, he also has a PVC-clad leg.

BAM, the Dread Pageant are done! Really pleased with these, I put a thin layer of glossy varnish onto the studded arm and leg bits so it looks like it's PVC.

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Posted on 18 February 2021, 23:33

A photo of painted two miniatures. One is a tall but hunched over goatman wearing leather and wielding a sword over its head. The other is a woman with a corset, Middle-Eastern type puffy pants and a gold mask with a purple face covering, and holding a glaive over her shoulders.

My Warhammer Underworlds: Direchasm miniatures are coming along excellently.

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Posted on 15 February 2021, 23:19