It’s that time again, time for the Second War of Futuris Clevelandis. Future Cleveland is the short-hand name for the ruined city board my friend Ryan built (inspired by the Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video), and as we’re cooking up a big invasion scenario for May, we wanted to do a practice run of a linked-board invasion. So the Second War Futuris Clevelandis was born. It’s a three part series of games, where each portion influecnces the final battle. It starts with a Kill Team battle, then a clash in the skies that is limited to just flyers. We got those two games in these past weeks.
My Death Guard clashed with the Eldar in the Kill Team missions. The twin plasma gun plague marines made a mess of the Wraithguard, and kept the Eldar Autarch hopping from cover to cover. While I pinned him in with some poxwalkers, my own Lord of Contagion had trouble chasing him down and I lost on scenario (it was an assassination mission).
The flyer battle was an asymmetric clash between different flyers across the three factions: Imperials, Chaos, and Eldar. Chaos had Enrico’s Helldrake, and my Hell Blade and Fire Raptor. Steve fielded three Hemlock Wraithfighters on the Eldar side. The Imperials had the largest contingent: two Valkyries, a Corvus Blackstar, a Stormraven, a Stormhawk, and a Stormtalon.
The Eldar flyers proved to be the initial predators of the sky, wrecking almost anything they were pointed at. The first plane to be downed was the Stormraven, which caught two of the three flyers. The Stormtalon chased the Chaos Hell Blade, and was chased by a Hemlock in turn. The Hell Blade managed to escape unscathed, while the Stormtalon was finally downed.
The remaining Valkyrie finally took out the Fire Raptor, blasting away its last wounds. But it was the Helldrake that finished it off–proving to be the most dangerous predator of the skies. A victory for Chaos!
While Chaos doesn’t get the saboteur special bonus for the final battle due to losing the Kill Team mission set, they do get to control the skies for the final invasion. A good result after some fun events toward the shared goal.
Painting Progress
More painting progress to go! Units that fleshed out the Kill Team as well as my second Flyer for the aerial combat event.
Lord of Contagion. I really enjoyed this model, and I’m slowly getting more and more comfortable with my process to do the Death Guard armor.
Ten Poxwalkers. Fun quick paint jobs. The one with the wrench is probably my favorite.
Fire Raptor Assault Gunship. The model is far larger than I thought. I enjoyed the process of working on it, and pleased with the results. It’s not something to field in every game, but on occasion will be a good addition to the force.
I also continued my progress on my Marvel Crisis Protocol groups. M.O.D.O.K. and Black Panther. I got in a few fun and friendly games of Crisis Protocol as well. It’s a great skirmish game that I’m having a lot of fun playing. I’ll have to do a post about my progress with that game and some of the cool action shots from it.
2020 Painting Challenge Progress
64/366 Warhammer 40k Power Points Painted
14/25 Marvel Crisis Protocol Models Painted