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Title: Aliens Game
Post by: sunjester on 25 July 2012, 10:33:16 PM
Some piccies from a game I played the other night, Pendraken figures on the old Space Hulk board using Chain Reaction 2.0 from Two Hour Wargames.

The objective was to infiltrate the xenoform-infested underground complex, locate the nest and destroy it with explosive charges. We played it through twice, the first time the marines got wiped out, in the second it went down to a cinematic ending with the lieutenant facing down the last two xenoforms in the corridor leading to the nest and taking them out in a tense close combat.
:o

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7269/7644739202_ec1007df4d.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunjester/7644739202/)
The underground complex


(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7119/7644738610_cc8223875d.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunjester/7644738610/)
The objective, eggs in the nest

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7118/7644737722_e629e88880.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunjester/7644737722/)
The marines enter

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7108/7644736738_4eea856d73.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunjester/7644736738/)
I wouldn't open that door if I were you...

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7117/7644735692_a22b9e6707.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunjester/7644735692/)
I told you!

Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: nikharwood on 25 July 2012, 10:43:57 PM
(helping hand with the pics  ;))

Looking great there sj  8)
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: sunjester on 25 July 2012, 10:45:20 PM
Nick, don't you ever sleep?  ;) ;D
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: nikharwood on 25 July 2012, 10:50:36 PM
Quote from: sunjester on 25 July 2012, 10:45:20 PM
Nick, don't you ever sleep?  ;) ;D

Nope  :D

Actually, I really don't sleep very much at all: I had a life-changing moment aged about 10 with a truly inspirational teacher who said to us as a class that we could reasonably expect to live to be aged 75 (this in about 1980) - to which we nodded; he then pointed out that if we slept 8 hours a night that we'd therefore spend a minimum of 1/3 of our life - 25 years - unconscious  :o

f*** that - I'm not sleeping my way to death...so I retrained myself to get 2-4 hours / night: and about every 6 months or so I'll crash & get 8 hours...

Good value I reckon - and I get so much more done with my life  :) 8)
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: sunjester on 25 July 2012, 10:54:13 PM
The rest of the photos.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7249/7644734898_f45691d089.jpg)
I think I hear something Sarge!

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8289/7644733704_c80994e1fd.jpg)[/url]
It's behind you! (No, it's not panto)

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Too late!

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Eat lead sucker!
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: sunjester on 25 July 2012, 11:04:44 PM
I think sleep's over-rated, at least this needing 8 hours stuff. I usually get by on 5-6 hours, like you say it gives more time to do stuff! :)

The good thing for me is I usually wake up at least and hour or two before anyone else in my house, so it's downstairs, whack the coffee machine on for a cappuccino and painting time! I've bagsied space in front of the window in the utility room as a permanent painting area so I'm good to go.  :) ;D
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: nikharwood on 25 July 2012, 11:14:07 PM
Quote from: sunjester on 25 July 2012, 11:04:44 PM
I think sleep's over-rated, at least this needing 8 hours stuff. I usually get by on 5-6 hours, like you say it gives more time to do stuff! :)

The good thing for me is I usually wake up at least and hour or two before anyone else in my house, so it's downstairs, whack the coffee machine on for a cappuccino and painting time! I've bagsied space in front of the window in the utility room as a permanent painting area so I'm good to go.  :) ;D

Good call  :)
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: GordonY on 26 July 2012, 06:40:00 AM
Those old Hulk tiles look great with the Pendraken figs, shame I got rid of all my old Space Hulk stuff (then went and bought the "limited edition" a couple of years ago), the new tiles look a lot less generic.
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 26 July 2012, 06:44:48 AM
Great report! Nice to see the marines in action!
T)hat's how i used to work, 5 hours with 9 til midnight painting, unfortunately my two month old has decided that will be here active patch!
The shift to morning painting just isn't happening!
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: Techno on 26 July 2012, 06:58:59 AM
Good stuff SJ !
Cheers -Phil.
Sleep ?....I dream of getting a solid 8 hours once in a while. 4 or 5 is the usual amount, thanks to the dogs deciding they need to go out at stupid o'clock each morning.
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: sunjester on 26 July 2012, 08:04:20 AM
Quote from: Techno on 26 July 2012, 06:58:59 AM
Good stuff SJ !
Cheers -Phil.
Sleep ?....I dream of getting a solid 8 hours once in a while. 4 or 5 is the usual amount, thanks to the dogs deciding they need to go out at stupid o'clock each morning.

I have the opposite with my dogs, the laziest lurcher and poodle in the world! Left by themselves they stay in bed all morning! I-)
We tried an experiment once and left them alone, they showed up for breakfast and a pee in the garden at 11:30 :-w
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: Techno on 26 July 2012, 09:23:59 AM
You lucky swine !! ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: Nav on 27 July 2012, 12:50:37 AM
they mostly come out at night, mostly. gotta love the movie Aliens.  Nice game though
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: FierceKitty on 27 July 2012, 08:27:05 AM
At least dogs can't readily climb! No table is safe from a kitty with an attitude.
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 27 July 2012, 09:12:46 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 July 2012, 08:27:05 AM
No table is safe from a kitty with an attitude.

That be you by any chance ?  :d

Also - dont assume dogs cant climb.

IanS
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: FierceKitty on 27 July 2012, 11:16:39 AM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 27 July 2012, 09:12:46 AM
That be you by any chance ?  :d

Also - dont assume dogs cant climb.

IanS
Note the adverb.
Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: Techno on 27 July 2012, 11:35:52 AM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 27 July 2012, 09:12:46 AM
Also - dont assume dogs cant climb.
IanS

Too true Ian.
Had a little terrier from 'over the road' chase one of our moggies up a bushy fir tree a few years ago.
The mutt got about 15 feet off the ground, with the cat clinging on to as near to the top of the tree it could go.
Mind you...The terrier was using the tree as a sort of spiral staircase, so it was cheating a bit.
Took ages to coax the cat down after the dog had gone.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 July 2012, 08:27:05 AM
No table is safe from a kitty with an attitude.

Never a truer word spoken, FK. I assume you're referring to the table's legs !.....What perfect substitutes for a scratching post.
I mean...Why is it ?.....Why ?....That even if the cats have a 'proper' scratching post.....They prefer to rip their claws down a piece of furniture. :'(

Cheers - Phil.

Title: Re: Aliens Game
Post by: Squirrel on 02 August 2012, 12:14:44 PM
Quote from: Techno on 27 July 2012, 11:35:52 AM
They prefer to rip their claws down a piece of furniture. :'(

Just because they know it bugs you  :D Our two are just the same.

Cheers,

Kev