Club news (e.g. the Vanguard post, upcoming tournaments, etc)
December was a short month for the Monday Knights as we only met for three sessions due to the Christmas holiday break. The main event for the month was the Christmas party which involved everyone playing Space Gits. We had 12 players, so we split up across three games. After each game everyone was ranked … Read more
The Monday Knights didn’t meet during the first week of November due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday, but on the second week we held our annual MK Cup DBA Mini Tournament. With ten participants, our 3 game tournament was open to any army from any time period and as a result there was a … Read more
During October we started our Battletech campaign, based on the Hinterlands campaign book recently released by Catalyst Games Lab. The campaign began at Scale 1, meaning that starting player forces have a 3,000 BV limit to choose two Mechs, and well as two free pilot upgrades. Our campaign organiser created a number of contracts that … Read more
There was a lot of OPR: Grimdark played at the Monday Knights during September. We’ve picked this game up recently, with many people being new to the game, led by a few with more experience. It has given some of the older gamers a great opportunity to dust off their old Warhammer 40K collections, put … Read more
July saw the exciting conclusion to our three month Necromunda campaign. Every gang gathered for a final, all-in, free-for-all battle! Nine players engaged across a 6×4 foot underhive battlefield in a scenario devised by our arbitrator. Each player drew random objective cards from several decks based on their factional alignment. Objectives were varied, and could … Read more
As winter sets in and the days get colder, wetter, and shorter, plenty of games and gaming stories were shared every Monday night at the Auburn Bowls club. The third and final phase of our 2025 Necromunda campaign got underway, leading lots of loot, injuries, and laughs. Due to the high injection of funds during … Read more
Here are the Monday Knights we play loads of different games, with that in mind we are trying to make at least one night where we make sure that we have some conquest games. So here we announce the start of our monthly conquest nights are the Monday knights We are going to kick off … Read more
The first Conquest tournament, Regis Victoria, attracted six participants due to a last-minute illness. With support primarily from Zepnix Games, the event emphasized enjoyment over strict painting requirements. ShadowMK emerged victorious with a 3-0 record. The tournament was deemed easy to manage, with plans for future events, including demos at PAX Australia.
We kicked off our 2025 Necromunda campaign in March and that continued through April and into May. The second phase of the campaign begun with a multiplayer game with the gangs of Sabotage trying to poison the supplies while the gangs of Control tried to stop them, across a 6″ x 4″ foot table. In … Read more
As is usual for the Monday Knights, there was a wide variety of games played this month. Alpha Strike saw lots of action once again, but with a twist. Players participated in a draft style mini tournament, where each player brought four battlemechs to put into a draft pool and each player took turns to … Read more
The Monday Knights is proud to host it’s first ever Conquest, The Last Argument of Kings Tournament. On the Kings birthday long weekend the Mondays Knights will host this tournament on the Saturday 7th of June. Conquest Last Argument of Kings World Community TournamentRounds: 3Points: 2000Painting Requirement: No, we do not require fully painted armies, … Read more
This January, as with most January’s at the Monday Knights, was filled with practice for some of the games that were part of CanCon 2025. CanCon is a popular gaming convention for the Monday Knights, with many of us taking the 7 hours drive from Melbourne To Canberra for a long weekend filled with wargaming, … Read more
Towards the end of any year a lot of our members start to focus on the games that they intent on playing at the CanCon gaming convention in Canberra on the Australia Day long weekend in January. As a result, November saw a less diversified list of games being played. We kicked off November with … Read more
The “Knights of the Sphere” Alpha Strike tournament was played out on Saturday the 14th; a dozen players attended from multiple clubs to play Battletech: Alpha Strike and compete for their chosen great house! The day was a great success, with the player pool filled with our very own Monday Knights, several members from NWA, … Read more
The month of August was witness to a great variety of games played at the club, including the conclusion of the current Necromunda campaign, and the beginning a slow-grow Conquest league. With the final games of the planned Necromunda campaign played out earlier in the month, all five players came together again for a final … Read more
We are running an Alpha Strike Tournament at 400PVPlayers will be backing one of the great houses to aid in claiming the title of first lord, or just get paid well while doing it. Event Door Entry: $20When: 14th of SeptemberTime: 9am-5pm (Schedule in players pack)Where: Auburn Bowls Club (2B Munro St, Hawthorn East VIC … Read more
As usual there was a large variety of games played the the Monday Knights during July. The highlight was our Battletech tournament. Ten competitors gathered on Saturday 22nd of July for the Monday Knights annual Battletech Auction Tournament. Each participant was given 100,000,000 C-Bills to bid on a mix of 4th Succession Wars era Mechs. … Read more
Our Necromunda: Underhive and Frostgrave campaigns continued in June, along with many other games being played. The Necromunda Dominion campaign kicked into high gear with the Take Over phase. During this phase of the campaign, players are attempting to take control of other players’ territories which were gained in the Occupation phase. Surprisingly, not many … Read more
The month of May saw the beginnings of two campaigns within the club for Necromunda: Underhive and Frostgrave. Other Games included Battletech Alphastrike, Conquest, ADLG, Car Wars and Star Wars Legion
April 2024 saw a fair amount of Legions Imperialis being played at the club. This month saw the debut of a 3000 point game. Otherwise 2000 point games were the most common as everyone builds up their armies. Other staples this month included ADLG (Art De La Guerre), Conquest: Last Argument of Kings, Kill Team, … Read more
A little continuation of the Mythic Battles Pantheon project. Another troop unit, but this time it’s time for some Hoplites. Now, historically the Spartans would have been called Hoplites (and also probably would have had a spear as their primary weapon) so the last post and this one are a little mixed up. However, this … Read more
Not a long post today; a bit of a continuation of our last post. Along with the Barracudas from last week, I also painted a few of the larger Tiger Sharks. The colours are identical to the Barracudas from earlier. The larger surface area let me do a little more in terms of the camouflage, … Read more
The Beak for my Clan Jade Falcon – Bravo Trinary, is a nasty little piece of work. The Mad Cat has 4 Streak SRM6’s two to the front and Two to the rear, as well as 2 ER PPC’s. I had to custom build parts of this mech and I think that is my fav … Read more
My Clan Jade Falcon – Charlie Super Nova Beak Star finally complete. with this project I can see the end of the road. I have been working pretty hard to get it all done while under lockdown, and while I write this, we have been given release to get our lives back.. so my painting … Read more
First night back at Monday Knights after over 100 days of Coronavirus lockdown. I got to roll some dice playing for the first time in a lot of months. Congrats to Big Nige for his win & the great Team Yankee. (Damn those Soviet Hinds!) The game was a quick 85pts Soviet vs USA Team … Read more
I had just finished writing up a couple MK blog posts about painting PSC StuGs and my last couple Vanguard Forces of the Abyss war-band figures when I had this email exchange with Flop. I had great visions of powering through another couple of painting projects to either add units to existing armies or just … Read more
This is just a short little post, mainly of some pictures to show the Templar and Crusader army in its full glory. Let’s start with some numbers: 248 miniatures: 51 Cavalry and 197 infantry 70 bases 47 ADLG units & 3 command tokens 1 camp Over 150 hours preparation, painting & basing. To put this … Read more
Short post for tonight. Gamers all know this feeling – the feeling of satisfaction of painting that last miniature to complete a project. This week end – painted my last three figures to complete my Vanguard – Forces of the Abyss warband. Well – the last “unpainted” miniatures have been painted at any rate Back … Read more
*Originally posted in the Monday Knights Forum, 18 Jan 2020* Yep – happens to us all, make a good start on a new army project, smash out enough painted miniatures to be passable on the table, then distraction and loss of momentum kick in. The Blood-Masques and Warlock miniatures have been sitting on my painting … Read more
It’s time for the big show. French failed aristocracy pumped up on faith and the desire to kill heathens (or poor people). Templar Knights By now there’s not much more I can say, there aren’t any original colours on here. The miniatures are again Legio Heroica, but they’re not the Templars from that range. Instead … Read more
Unfortunately Melbourne (Australia) is still in Coronavirus lock-down which means that there will be no club meetings for the foreseeable future. Faced with the prospect of not rolling any dice for some time, I have offered to umpire a “Play by Mail” Battletech game with slightly modified rules to allow for a multi-player game with … Read more
The Warpstone Snorters Bloodbowl Team
Late last week we had some of the Covid-19 restrictions eased, Earlier in the week somebody suggested that the maximum number of people possible gather for a game of Battletech. Having not thrown a dice in anger in some 50+ days we jumped at it. On the Friday I was working out what mechs to … Read more
L’Art de la Guerre (ADLG) is an enjoyable and easily learned ancients and medieval wargame. The Monday Knights wargames club will be hosting a five round, two-day tournament. The event theme is “The Monday Knights Get Biblical“ 200-point armies should be chosen from the “Ancient” and “Classical” sections of the army lists. Allies that are from sections outside these are not permitted.
…the journey begins…. It has been far too long since I have had the pleasure of fantasy table top wargaming. Mantic Games were very generous in providing a number of stater & booster sets to the Monday Nights War Game club to get us started & I was crazy enough to put my hand up … Read more
A few weeks back Mantic Games asked for some volunteers to put together some warbands for their Fantasy skirmish game Kings of War: Vanguard. With some free toys on offer the Monday Knights were only to happy to put our name forward, and lo and behold our little antipodean club was selected to participate. A … Read more
The plan is for those of us who have blogs that we don’t wish to maintain, is to slowly migrate them over to here. Any sort of planing here will most likely go out the window and it will be on big hit. Who is going to be writing, these are possibly the things we … Read more
I’m running a Dropzone Commander tournament on the 5-APR-2015. If you’re in Melbourne (Australia) and interested in a game of Dropzone Commander then head on down to Melbourne High School and participate in Melbourne’s inaugural Dropzone Commander tournament. More details can are on a dedicated Reconquest 2015 page. Signup is available at the Conquest website. … Read more
