Pointless pictures of MERCS

I meant to blog about the two MERCS gaming sessions I had last week, but I got really busy and didn't have a chance.  But I do have a bunch of cool pictures of the minis mid-game, so I figured I'd post them anyway.

Game summary is as such: I got my ass handed to me in every game.  It was honestly pretty frustrating. I don't remember all the details (otherwise I'd blog about the games rather than just post pics) but I recall making a lot of really bad calls.  Thats the thing about MERCS that is awesome: its a tactics based game. Make a bad call and you can be screwed.

But I also have Good News! I played at Icons this Tuesday (two days ago) and won my first game in a long time!  I basically brought my A-game, got elevation and laid down a good combo of overlapping Suppression and Overwatch.  I even got my Demo by himself up field to throw two grenades.  I took some advice from Brian (one of the creators of MERCS) that focused fire is a solid tactic and it worked out well for me.  It was a six turn "most blood at the end" game.  I killed three models and only lost one. I think I did have some blood on my remaining guys at the end but the score worked out to a clear win for me.  Yay me!  Of course, I forgot to take any pictures! Doh!

Anyway, the two game sessions where I sucked last week:

The first set was at Icons and was a "first to kill three" vs Josh's USCR.  He pwnd me. That's alright. I'm pretty sure I pwnd him in our most recent game. ;)

I'm pretty sure this was one of the few guys I was able to kill. Not 100% on that recollection though.

Whenever I hit somebody with the Incinerator I put the card in front of the model. Otherwise I forget the +2 courage check against their next acton.

The next game was Wednesday night at my place vs Thomas's Waza.  I needed some terrain so I borrowed some from Xavier's plentiful toy boxes.  It worked alright. It was too open though.

A bit frustrated with my lack of variable terrain I finally got the Buildings of Malifaux TerraClips that I'd been drooling over for months.  There goes that item off my xmas list...

I could not be happier with it! Its beautiful and amazing and it will be super fun to play on. It is incredibly variable and lets you make a building the size of a closet as easily as a multi-floor complex! I did a quick test build to see what I could come up with fast and snapped some pics of the end product.

This is like 1/3 of whats in the box! I have it stored in a comic short box with two small plastic totes inside it and four plastic zip top bags! All this terrain for like $70!  INSANE!!!

I made a two floor tavern type of thing with a 2nd floor balcony above the front door and a back side door. Again, this used a small fraction of the pieces that came with my one set, but would be a nice piece as part of a larger MERCS board.

My MERCS CCC Medic for scale. 

Roof removed. Malifaux Silurid also for scale.

Wide staircase in the back of the building. The foot of the stairs is near the back door.

"I've got 1/2 cover, elevation and clear LOS on your gigantic son!"

Bottom floor.

 What I love about these is that if there's action happening on both levels you can just lift one off and play it in some other area! The multiple floors fit together and lift apart so nicely.

You can see the 2nd floor in the back left of the pic. Its still entirely intact.

I can't wait to play a game of MERCS in an "office building" type of setup, and a game of Malifaux on one of the "indoor" locations!