Cinematic #MESBG game today against a strong opponent, very happy to have won. In this pivotal moment Glorfindel found Gulavhar, and had to get a 5 or 6 in the duel. He rolled a 4 high and had Lord of the West to reroll, and got the 5, avenging Arwen. Gully fled the next turn after taking 3 wounds.

First game of #40K 11th, 1000 pts and my Sisters had a tough time against Thousand Sons. Disruption was an awful disposition and Take and Hold was great. Had a good run in the middle turns wiping out a sorcerer terminator murderball on the middle objective. Fun game but steep learning curve.

Preparing the Heartbeat Harvest mini-campaign for my quick start guide. I think this is the last bit of design to go in, and then I have a finished text that is ready for layout and graphics.

I have acquired 72 Mordor Orcs, half of which are painted, the Witch King and a couple of Wargs. First orc-heavy list will be Ugluks Scouts, tagged onto my Lurtz Scouts roster. Second will probably be Angmar with the WK, Wraiths and Werewolves.

These 40K kits take a good while to build. 2 hours for the Venerable Dread that I'm going to convert to a Night Lords Dread (since I prefer this one to the Helbrute model it will be running as). From the start of RotK to the Charge of the Rohirrim.

Spent today painting up the final models from the #DnD board game from the early days. Full set now. Tried to be as faithful to the box art as possible, these monsters have seen some changes over the years - crawlers are yellow now!

Warp Talons have been on my workbench for the past couple weeks but after I finally finished the chaos trim yesterday it has gone much more smoothly. Red, wash, other details, decals, tidy up and quick basing and can call them complete.

A horde of #D&D minis, the first of which were painted 20 years ago (when I tried to get into Warhammer Fantasy) and the D&D board game minis I painted up December 2024. Now had the itch to paint the remaining ones to complete them.

Finished up 23 Uruks in my existing scheme over the weekend, painting took 8 hours. I took a pause in a Warp Talons project to bash these out before a game tomorrow. I love how easy #MESBG models are to build and paint. No Chaos trim here!

Well. You're trapped in the last show you watched. Where are you? Feudal, rural Japan, where tiny spirits will cause mysterious and debilitating conditions until a wandering shaman comes along and exorcises them

Sisters of the Ebon Chalice #adeptasororitas ready for 11th edition. List in alt text of 2nd image. Terrain project battle ready, still some to do but I'm happy enough. Bases, flock, pigment, varnish outstanding. Army needs decals, base colouring unification and to be played!

Arundel is beautiful. Medieval gothic inspo for my Sisters

“What are the six genders? Wrong answers only.” Strength Dexterity Constitution Intelligence Wisdom Charisma

West Marches is quite fun to run actually

Chapel ruins project nearing completion as 11th edition approaches. Weathering and bases on the agenda also. Will have a nice photoshoot with the Sisters before it properly kicks off. #w40k

The AI picture that was used to make the mini. I added details like Chees' lightning-pattern white fur, the slight ghostly glow, the rough hempen-style fabric of the jacket, and the brass detailing on his weapons (because they are finely made). Very accurate mini that I could mod further.

This seems like a great use of AI out of many bad ones. For our Blades in the Dark campaign we all submitted AI portraits of our characters, and one of our players used AI to turn them into minis.

New draft of Heartbeat Harvest all finished forplaytesting over the next couple of months, including players using the rulebook for learning and design. Going to take a break for a bit while I deal with my terrain backlog. Also got a sweet scanned mini for BitD that I'm itching to paint up soon.

The first blog post on the development of Heartbeat Harvest so far.

Looking forward to 11th to finally learn the game with all my nicely painted toys. Not looking forward to having to finish my terrain set before then. This has become a big project I'm just not motivated to work on. I will have to persevere.

Stalled on my mega terrain project. I think I'm about halfway through the basecoats, and I think the fun parts are after that. I think. Going to try to get back to it this weekend.

Strixhaven Prerelease was great, went 2-0 2-1 2-1 to come 2nd with a bonkers Prismari deck featuring Jadzi, Zaffai, Echocasting Symposium, Wisdom of Ages, Traumatic Critique, 8 bits of very good removal and 2 Sanars to tutor the bombs.

Smart move to declare the Strait open for 3 business days. This looks like a way to paint the impending ground invasion in even worse light, as well as the US blockade which continues. International pressure is going to be high, but this shows the US can't back down.

What a serendipitous share chain. I'm sure I can help. Share a preacher, nun or priest.

Fun game Numenor Vs Easterlings 550pts yesterday on a billiards table

Going to be running Heartbeat Harvest in person for the first time in almost a year. So much has changed. The rulebook is now A4 instead of A5, for starters.

The bombers were en route and turned around. I suspect some of them had nuclear cargo for Iran's nuclear facilities if not for Tehran. I think if Iran hadn't agreed to the sham ceasefire proposed by the US via Pakistan, they would have dropped them. The truce was always going to be worthless.

The nuclear threat is becoming increasingly blatant. I don't think they have the non-nuclear firepower to destroy all power stations and bridges in Iran, nor do they want to given the air defences Iran still obviously has. I expect the Doomsday Clock to hit midnight tonight.

The pilot recovery was a coverup for BOTG near Isfahan nuclear site. Two troop carriers were destroyed after landing a strike force, which got stranded after the landing strip was ambushed and had to all be evac'ed. 100s of planes and personnel used in a botched operation.

My #adeptasororitas Chapel Ruins from 2 years ago finally on the desk being worked on. Around 7 hours worked on them in the last 2 days - gap filling with milliput, sponging white onto all panels, and now starting to block on the basecoats (primed already).

Another set of games completed in our #MESBG narrative league. Lurtz managed to kill a King of Gondor and then won alongside Angmar against Lothlorien. His search for a Palantir in the Anduin Valley is going well, among the abandoned Elven homesteads and woodlands of the riverlands.

I wrote a piece on Substack a few days ago responding to @mattcolville.bsky.social 's "Types of GM" video, but I haven't really advertised it. heartbeatharvest.substack.com/p/types-of-gm

Everything Ive painted for the Sisters so far this year magnetised all in one go today. Ready for 11th. #adeptasororitas #40k

He didn't announce boots on the ground, but it is clear the war continues. If he threatened a nuclear strike he was very ambiguous about it. "Bomb them back into the Stone Age" is close. The religious text followed after the speech by Franklin Graham. BOTG will likely follow on the weekend.

Have finished up my #MESBG terrain, painted the houses over the last few days and the woodland terrain on the days before. Have a board full of bought ruin walls that will supplement it. First terrain projects, can see how this can take over your hobbying.

I seldom post about politics but I think today warrants a change. Long analysis post below. * Trump has been peace-posting all week, driving the markets up. Based on previous signals he is just selling his positions ahead of a reversal. * He is deploying thousands of troops to the Middle -East.

The amount of different games I play, and their frequency, has steadily gotten out of hand. MESBG 2x/month D&D 1x/month Blades in the Dark 1x/month Sporadic Chess Heartbeat Harvest playtests Magic 40K Now that I say it out loud it seems pretty manageable. Still feels like a lot.

Completed our 2v3 league on Monday this week with 1500 pts Lurtz / Goblin Town / Moria Goblins Vs Lothlorien and Khazad. Evil threw their chaff at Good and kept them off the Hold Ground objective and ran out of bodies, ending the game. Great scenery from our hosting friend.

Painted and flocked the woodland terrain pieces today. Got a good variety of materials for it now, soon to have an MESBG board proper.

That's a very nice stick Paul. *Chani hides her better stick*

Now that my TTRPG project has started to pick up steam again, I'm thinking about posting about it on my otherwise mini painting dedicated page. I am planning to have a go at the art myself now that the rules are in full swing. I am exceedingly talentless at art, but it might be a fun project.

Just checked and the Novitiates were the last of the lot bought in June 2024. This was £112 for Celestine & Geminae, Aestred Thurgae & Dolan, Dogmata, Palatine, 2 Paragon Warsuits, 5 Sacresants and 10 Novitiates. Absolute steal.

Finished my #adeptasororitas backlog. I have been painting these girls for the entirety of 10th edition and I'm finally finished. Novitiates and 1 impostor Inquisitorial Agent from the eBay lot.

The Novitiates are coming close to completion. Basecoats all done (need to improve the white), then washes and tidying, faces and bases. New Rosemary Co. brushes handling like a dream.

The 17th session of our D&D game, started at the beginning of 2025, and my players got me an amazing birthday present - the Shadowhunt kill team box with both Sisters and Night Lords (my two factions). Great session, the celestial sphinx pet wrecking a CR 9 demon when the party is still level 5.

Converted the bases for my proxy #adeptasororitas Vahl and Hospitaller to the larger sizes (60 and 50mm respectively) and did the detailing on them. Also (not shown) finished the bases for the last 15 models in one go yesterday - all that I've finished so far this year apart from the jump packers.

Started expanding the bases on my proxy Vahl and Hospitaller yesterday, will add my basing scheme on top of the dried milliput and cork today and finish them off before starting on the last squad in my pile of shame - the Novitiates. Will probably go to a club to play soon and learn the game.

Celestine and Geminae battle ready for the #adeptasororitas. Tried to post it twice already. Finished on Sunday. Aim to do a freehand motif on the wings down the line but once all my Sister's are ready for tabletop I'll go back and do touch ups on all of them - decals, basing details, etc.

Group of friends has started a Blades in the Dark campaign and I'm playing a Hound. First session was quite fun but we're still in the rules heavy portion of new RPG learning. Next session in a couple weeks, looking forward to more cult hijinks.

Got a new phone. Prepare for some bangin mini snaps. Working on Celestine and Geminae now so might be a little while but it's gonna be worth it.