January Games

I played a few games this past month. Here is what I got up to... 

Saturday, 3 January 2026

For the first game of the year, Amanda and I played a game of Age of Sigmar - Spearhead format. I am less keen on Spearhead these days, but I had recently finished painting all the necessary units for the Nighthaunt Cursed Shacklehorde, so Amanda gathered her Sylvaneth Bitterbark Copse and gave battle. We played in Shyish using the Sand & Bone gaming pack and fought in Dolorum. I managed to squeak out a victory - in terms of victory points... but there was very little left of my force at the end of the game... while most of Amanda's army was still intact and on the field of battle... 

You can read more about the clash here:

Age of Sigmar: Spearhead -  Sylvaneth and Nighthaunt in Dolorum

It was confusing to Amanda to switch back to Spearhead, because so many things are just slightly different than regular Age of Sigmar, which she was just starting to get her head around... We should probably just stick to regular Age of Sigmar... If I finish up more of the Spearhead armies I own... we could just use them for really small games of Age of Sigmar. Or I just play Spearhead games against Orion or others... 

Sunday, 4 January 2026

Sunday we got in our first game of Soulbound this year - carrying on with our What We Do in the Realm of Shadows campaign - where our undead "heroes" were still trapped in the Gaunt Summoner of Tzeentch's Silver Tower! 

Saturday, 10 January 2026

On Saturday, Amanda and I walked over to our friends', Shannon and Kevin's, and played a game called Kingsburg - which I have never played before. 

In it you are a noble house and trying to gain influence at court to gain resources and build infrastructure and raise troops... 

The troops are to fight off invading forces that come every winter. Some of the infrastructure you build helps with that as well... but ultimately the game is decided by victory points. Some of which are from infulence gained or buildings and infrastructure built. There are annual awards for who has the most infrastructure built and who beat the enemy the most... 

I kind of felt like I was flailing and had no idea what I was doing most of the time... but somehow did rather well... I think a lot of it came down to the influence roll (3d6) and how you used your dice. I had incredibly average dice rolls. Amanda had more than a few turns with utter crap rolls... otherwise I think she would have done much better...? 

Tuesday, 13 January 2026

Tuesday we were back to playing Warhammer Quest after a bit of a break. Still trying to finish up the Cursed City - Night Wars campaign - this was the last of the Pillage Journeys! Next the heroes would face Kritza the Rat Prince in a Decapitaton Journey, and then, if that was successful... face all three of the Vampires again in a final boss battle!? 

Finnegan and I were both very, VERY tired and had pretty low energy and enthusiasm for this game... I had kind of considered postponing it... but then it would have taken even LONGER to finish off the campaign and I kind of just wanted it wrapped up... so we played on! 

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 13 - Pillage Journey

Tuesday, 27 January 2026

After ANOTHER break (and cancelling a few other games!), we were back to playing Warhammer Quest. Getting SO CLOSE to finishing the Cursed City - Night Wars campaign! This evening the Heroes faced down Kritza the Rat Prince! 

It was a two-part scenario... first they had to defend Haven against assaults by Kritza's minions... 

Then they had to go hunt down Kritza, himself, in his palatial estate! 

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 14 - Desperate Frenzy Decapitation Journey

There is only one more Journey to play to finish up Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars... but that will have to wait until February - and then it's on to Warhammer Quest: Darkwater!! (If I can get the miniatures finished!!) 

Kind of a slower month... at least compared to DECEMBER!!

What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Episode Seven

Previously, on What We Do in the Realm of Shadows... our "heroes" confronted a force of Maggotkin that were attempting to summon a Great Unclean One. They failed to prevent the worshippers of Nurgle from doing so and ended up fleeing the scene with Sir Raven's lifeless corpse in tow... 

They fled through endless leagues of foetid swamps, corrupted with the taint of Nurgle. 

Just when they thought they would never escape this recently mire, they spotted a mound rising out of the dank marshlands. Upon the mount rose a tower. It was an old stone watch tower, in a state of some disrepair, but still clearly in use as warm light shone through the upper windows. 

The Characters climbed the small hill and approached the front door - a large and heavy wooden door reinforced by many bands of steel. After considerable banging on the Knocker, the view port opened up and strange eyes stared at them, silently for an uncomfortably long moment. The Port then closed, followed by the sound of many locks and bolts being undone on the other side of the door and the door opened inward, creaking loudly. 

Inside was a warm and comfortable looking parlour, with plush couches and a raging fire in a fireplace warmed the entire building. From a massive old char, with it's back facing the door, an ancient vampire leaned around becoming the group to enter and warm themselves by the fire... 

None needed to be asked twice and all barged in past the extremely large doorman... and something immediately seemed... wrong... the Old vampire started laughing at them and then reality swirled and then turned black and all were falling. 

When they regained consciousness they found themselves upon an ornate platform surrounded by the blackest void... After some time, a glowing magical portal opened and all stepped through, as there was little else to do! 

in the room beyond they encountered several Tzangors, which attacked them... and were slain. 

Beyond that room was another filled with Karic Acolytes and gibbering daemons... they too were slain... The room was filled with piles and piles of coin which made traversing the room challenging - especially in high-heeled shoes the vampires like to wear! Sir Raven slipped and fell mid-combat! 

Beyond that there was a library occupied by a solitary Pink Horror, who was looking at books and muttering to itself... 

Sir Renmould charged in and chopped it to pieces before it could even say a word... 

Then a Tazangor Shaman and two guards, all on discs of Tzeentch, were battled... 

the pace was incredible as all charged through this maze of rooms. 

All were required to finish off the Tzangor Shaman and friends... 

That Shaman was hard to take down and dealt some damage... 

Finally they entered a great hall with large prisms focusing the light that shone from above that burned to a crisp anything the beam passed over... 

while dodging the beam, the group had to fight off another group of Tzangors... and dodge spells being hurled at them by an Ogroid Thaumaturge!  

Eventually they figured out how to turn the prisms and shone them both on the statue of the eldritch entity... and that cracked and the Thaumaturge disappeared and they met their host - a Gaunt summoner of Tzeentch who had trapped the group in his Silver Tower. The Deamon-Wizard gave them a fragment of a shattered amulet and said if they could pass the Nine Challenges and gather all the shards of the amulet, they would be granted a boon and released from the Silver Tower... if they failed, they would be trapped here for all eternity... and/or die...  

And that's where we left it with the Gaunt Summoner fading away laughing just as the ancient vampire did in the old watch tower they encountered at the beginning of the episode! 

If that weren't enough gaming for one day... afterwards we had some pizza then set up a game of Spearhead DOUBLES to try out those new rules...  

Still very behind on game reports... I've had very little time or energy for any hobby pursuits this past week or so as I've been adjusting to my return to school. Hopefully I'll get a few more done this weekend... but I will likely not be keeping up with the same level of gaming and miniature painting as I did last year...  

November Games

Wow... November is done... where did this year go!? 

Here are the games I got around to playing in November

Sunday, 2 November 2025 

On the second we kicked things off with Episode Five of our What We Do in the Realm of Shadows Campaign! In this episode the Characters ran into Neferata herself and were given a new mission, bumped into some old rivals, recruited a Duardin Necromancer, and fought a pair of Pusgoyle Blightlords! 

You can read a bit more about it here:

What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Episode Five

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

After a bit of a break, we were back to playing Warhammer Quest this week... and... it did NOT go well. This was the first scenario facing Carmilla DuSang and the scenarios are TOUGH!! Things went poorly pretty much from the start and all four heroes were out of action by the third or fourth round!!

You can read about that debacle here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 05 - Sabotage Journey

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

After Amanda's singing lesson, we tried playing a quick game of Age of Sigmar - using mostly rules for a Path to Glory/Narrative type game - i.e. NOT SPEARHEAD! I played my Maggotkin of Nurgle force and Amanda was playing Sylvaneth. The scenario involved the Sylvaneth defending a Soulpod grove from the Maggotkin! 

You can read about all the action here: 

Age of Sigmar - Defending the Soulpod Grove

I also made a map and a page with more information about the campaign:

Path to Glory - Methervale Campaign

Tuesday, 11 November 2025

We got in another game of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars on Remembrance Day. This one went considerably better than the previous week's game. It was still TOUGH... but not only did they survive... they SUCCEEDED!!

WHEW!!

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 06 - Another Sabotage Journey

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Wednesday I somehow talked Amanda into another game of Age of Sigmar!? We played the second game in our Path to Glory narrative campaign. It was another brutal defeat for the forces of Nurgle... you can read all about it here: 

Age of Sigmar - Ambush at The Blood-Pines

Monday, 17 November 2025

Monday I rode over to Dragon's Den Games to meet with a fellow named Matt to play some Age of Sigmar - kicking off a Path to Glory - Ravaged Coast campaign!? You can read all about that here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Light the Fires

Wednesday, 19 November 2025

I played a second game against Matt and his Stormcast Eternals later in the week, but this time at my place. You can read about THAT battle here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Standing on Skulls

Thursday, 20 November 2025

If TWO games weren't enough Age of Sigmar for one week... Orion was back in town and wanting to get in on the Path to Glory action! So we set up a game on Thursday afternoon, then ended up playing TWO!! 

You can read about those games here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Blood in the Valley

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast -  Rift in the Peaks

Sunday, 23 November 2025

We also got in another episode of What We Do in the Realm of Shadows while Orion was in town. Note the Great Unclean One hiding behind my GM screen! The "heroes" were attempting to disrupt a number of Nurgle followers from performing a summoning ritual that would bring said Great Unclean One into Shyish... check out the game report to see how successful they were... or... not.. 

What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Episode Six

Tuesday, 25 November 2025 

 After another week off due to Finnegan needing to focus on schoolwork, we were back at it this week... (actually, when Finnegan left for campus, he thought he might be late again and we should probably postpone, but later in the afternoon texted to say things had gone well and he'd probably be home early enough to play! So we did!). This was a rather sad week, as the party lost another member. They are now down to four of the original eight. If they lose one more, that's the end of the campaign! you can read all about here here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 07 - Sabotage Journey to the Deadnooks

Thursday, 27 November 2025

In the evening while everyone was out, I sat down to do a little solo play-through of Age of Sigmar: Champions the Trading Card Game for funsies... you can read more about that here:

Age of Sigmar: Champions TCG

Saturday, 29 November 2025

TANKSGIVING

This was the BIG EVENT I had painted up that Great Unclean One for!! It was... not a terribly LONG even, for which I am grateful... it could have been a LONG SLOG if there had been too many people there with a lot of standing around... Overall, I'd say a positive experience. Would do again... but probably NOT bring a Great Unclean One again! You can read a bit more and see the pictures here:

Tanksgiving 2025

Sunday, 30 November 2025

There was Originally a plan to play Age of Sigmar with Amanda... But then I just didn't have the energy or time to set that up... but she was willing to try out Age of Sigmar: Champions - the CARD GAME!

We ended up playing three games. The first one took over an hour... the next two were twenty minutes or less! I played with the Chaos pre-constructed deck and Amanda played with the Order pre-constructed deck. Chaos won all three. It deals a LOT of damage... I'm not sure how the order deck is supposed to deal with that...? It doesn't seem as well constructed as an easy-to-play, ready-made starter deck. Amanda suggested next time we play three more and switch decks... so... at least she's willing to PLAY AGAIN!!

Whew! that's quite a few games I played this past month!! I hope I get to play even MORE through December as we all get a bit of a break over the Holidaze! At the least I expect Amanda, Finnegan and I might get in a few extra games of Warhammer Quest and perhaps Amanda and I will continue with our little Age of Sigmar campaign...? And hopefully we'll get to try out the Rise and Fall of 

What games did YOU get to play in November!?

Let me know in the comments!!

What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Episode Six

 While Orion was still in town we got in another episode of our What We Do in the Realm of Shadows campaign...

The characters conti -  ued to wander through the foetid swamps despoiled by Nurgle in an attempt to locate the Maggotkin forces and... somehow... "deal with them" so as not to be a distraction for the Stormcast Eternals that Neferata was trying to convince should aid her in the destruction of the forces of Khorne that have squatter in Angaria for far too long...

They did note the trio of Fell Bats still following them from the distance - sometime "friends", sometimes rivals from the court in Nulhamia - Simone the Deceitful, Count Blandula, and Jarred the Silent. They ignored them and carried on. 

Eventually they started to wonder if they were going in circles, as they were eventually so far into the tainted lands that EVERYTHING looked tainted and they were no longer sure they were heading towards more tainted stuff.. because it was ALL bad... so Lady Esmerelda took on her bat form and with Harald the Spirit torment tried flying ahead to scout things out. 

It was Harald that finally spotted a large concentration of the Maggotkin... and there were a LOT of them... and it looks like they were building something... perhaps a ritual site...?

This could not mean anything good and when Harald reported back what he'd seen... everyone was quite concerned that they'd been sent on a suicide mission. Harald pointed out that there were THREE VAMPIRE LORDS that were also vassals of Neferata following them and perhaps they could be convinced to join them. Lady Esmerelda and Sir Raven said they would rather DIE than owe any of those three any favours or to have seemed so weak as to need their help... especially since the three had boasted that Lady Esmerelda and Sir Raven were no longer in Neferata's favour, having failed to raise the army they'd promised, and that when the Legion of Blood took back Angaria from the Khorne horde, that their keeps would be awarded to those that were in favour Simone and Count Blandula! 

Harald went and tried to convince them anyway... unfortunately Harald, being a Spirit Torment, the only method he really had for trying to convince anyone of anything was INTIMIDATION... and that did not work... 

After returning to the others, Harald pointed out that if they DID NOT secure the vampires aid, they would surely die and then Simone the Decietful and Count Blandula would FOR CERTAIN steal their ancestral keeps! 

And so Lady Esmerelda made a pitiful attempt to ask the trio for their help... and hey declined... 

So it was up to them to stop this ritual on their own.. 

As they approached, most were involved in the ritual or watching the ritual... 

A few Nurglings were capering about, acting as sentries, of a sort. Harald flew up and pulverized a pair of them with his lock and chains. They burst like giant balloons filled with puss and gore.. but not before they squealed (it was unclear if it was terror or delight...?) and alerted the followers of Nurgle of their presence. 

Before they could act, Sir Raven rode down an entire unit of Plaguebearers! Slaughtering the lot of them smashing them to bits and being sprayed with more gore and puss and rancid fluids... 

This got the attention of the Pusgoyle Blightlord who charged Sir Raven, dealing the vampire some serious damage! 

 A Lord of Plagues, the Putrid Blightkings and another horde of Plaguebearers turned and shambled towards the interlopers,

Harald quickly found himself surrounded by Putrid Blightkings! 

He slipped away and attacked a Daemon of to the side that seemed to be directing the Plaguebearers. 

Sir Renmould stood guard, ready to defend Lady Esmerelda. Lady Esmerelda began throwing spells at the Sorcerer leading the ritual...

The Lord of Plagues charged in first bashing Sir Renmould HARD... 

Sir Raven charged down the other group of Plaguebearers, destroying them utterly! 

Then all fell back to try and deal with the Lord of Plagues and Putrid Blightkings first, before trying to assault the Sorcerer and the Lord of Afflictions protecting her... 

The battle was long and savage. At one point Sir Renmould seemed like he might be mortally wounded... and would have surely perished, were it not for the magiks of the Necromancer, Waldron! 

The Lord of Plagues absolutely obliterated the necromancers private guard of Deadwalker Skeletons... then proceeded to smash through all of his zombies... 

At that point the Necromancer cast one more spell healing the damage he could, and then fled! 

Around this time, Sir Raven was cut down by the three Putrid Blightkings he was fighting!

Things looked dire, indeed! 

Luckily, just then, when things were looking super bad... a large Fell Bat swooped in at attacked the Lord of Plagues! 

The bat turned into Count Blandula! He was soon joined by another Fell Bat. 

The second Fell Bat, they had earlier claimed to be Jarred the Silent who had been "stuck" in bat form for some time, was slain by the Lord of Plagues... and turned out to be just a Fell Bat!? WHERE WAS JARRED THE SILENT!? 

After that they were finally joined by Lady Simone the Deceitful, who killed the Pustule Blightlord and helped finish off the Lord of Plagues.

Alas... it was too late... 

The sorcerer successfully summoned the Great Unclean One into Shyish! 

Simone the Deceitful and Count Blandula looked at each other, then looked over an the other vampires... the simultaneously yelled "BAT!" turned back into their bat forms and flew off... 

Lady Esmerelda did the same... but tried to carry off her sometimes lover and possible sibling, Sir Raven... as awful as her unlife was with him... she could not imagine unlike WITHOUT hime... 

Sir Renmould had to just flee on foot, hoping to keep the vampires in sight as they flew off... 

How would they keep the Stormcast from finding out about the Great Unclean One and pivoting their forces to come and deal with it! How would they explain this all to Neferata!? Could Sir Raven be reanimated!?

find out next month, in the next episode of What We Do in the Realm of Shadows!!