In lieu of a real post...

Hi...

yeah, its me.
Nope, no pictures right now.  But I'm just posting to make sure you guys didn't think I forgot about you.

This weekend I'm going to update my 80% completed winterguard images.
I'm also going to lay out my plans for a blood bowl pitch and a team (or maybe just painting my existing models).

In Soviet Khador, Warmachine plays YOU.

My gaming ADD is not about to slow down because I made a witty blog title, but I hope it helps me feel obligated to follow up with this a little.

As a start I picked up the battle box so I currently have pSorcha, a Juggernaut and a Destroyer.

Sorcha has been primed and has some red on her while the Juggernaut has been primed as well.   The Destroyer is currently pending arms.  I have been waiting to figure out if I wanted to just have the Destroyer, or if I could magnetize the arms and make it an optional kit.  Hoard 'O Bits of course would not have the Ripsaw (and I'm not going to order both piecemeal cuz I want to save on shipping). Cuz its either that, or pick up another Khador heavy jack box. Which would give me everything I needed. That being said, I wanted to actually pick up a Demolisher kit if I was going to pick up another Khador heavy.

The other thing I did manage to get was the plastic box of Khador Winter Guard. 10 ready soldiers of the motherland with 3 rocket launchers.  (A minimum unit costs puts me at 15 points, a solid starting step.)

I'm actually very excited about getting these guys together and ready for painting.

I'm just angry that I can't find the paints needed to do it.  Any suggestions?

How Time Flies...

You will notice from my previous post that it was week 1 part 1.
I was planning on writing a post for each day of games I played.   I didn't.  My attention failed me and after I would play my games come home. Most likely go to sleep.

I sadly did what I was trying not to do, I bought a bunch of models and rushed painting them in come cases, and in other cases just have them now.   I regret doing that.

This is me admitting what I did.

But I will post this week with progress on my new projects.  :)   Khador!

Warmahordes - Journeyman Tournament - Week 1, Part 1

These post titles are getting longer and more convoluted with every entry.

I failed completely at taking any pictures of any of my games, this is a constant issue for me but i digress.  In lue of actual pictures of the game, I'm just randomly going to find awesome pictures to make up for my failure as I review my games and ramble about them.

In hindsight my list was questionable at best, I took  pThagrash, a Carnivean, a Raek, and a Naga Night Lurker.

Monsters....
Grrr...  
Arrrrgh....









I had all this planned out in my head that I was going to remove defence buffs with the Naga's animus, use the Raek to jump by and deliver the killing blow to the enemy warcaster. My brain of a melting pot of tactical genius.

None of that happened.

My Strategy in action in most cases.

Now mind you I went 2 and 2 yesterday.  All 4 games we really fun, and even if I lost all of them I would have walked out of there happy as a clam.  My main point is "The Plan"  Failed completely. Not my forces, not my game, just what I thought I should have done, simply didn't work.

So lets jump into some of what happened


My first game was against a fellow named Steve M.  He was playing Khador and I believe his list consisted of pButcher, a Destroyer, and a very nicely painted Spriggan

                                                              Model's depicted for reference

I don't know much about Khador except they are tough to deal with, and I also know I don't want to get near any model holding a giant fucking axe who's name is "The Butcher".  It's like Godzilla that one time he came up near some Japanese Giant Hornets.

We can Thank The Oatmeal for this one

But it didn't change the point... I wasn't going to go any where near that bastard. I tried to tie up his jacks with the bodies of my warbeasts and in what I still consider to be a desperation move,  cast Obliteration on him, and just rolled high on the damage. It was a good game, and now I must keep an eye over my shoulder for I fear his vengeance will be terrible.

Next I played against Angelina,  she was rocking  a Circle of Orboros force. eKaya and Laris,  and 2 Feral Warp Wolves.

x2

Angelina's models were painted much better than these.

This game was both exciting and interesting, Angelina was plagued by mis-charges.  Always off by just 2 or 2 millimeters, but she stood firm on her declarations of intent and braced herself for the counter charges. This would end up getting one of her Warp Wolves killed, but  Kaya behind my lines with a little Trick of her pet wolf which lets her teleport to where the wolf is.  

I would like to point out that she had obliterated my Carnivean.  It was DEAD. D E A D, DEAD.   She was so happy to have killed it too, which is why it was so bitter sweet when I popped my Feat and brought him back from the dead.  That same Carnivean would go on to end Kaya's life with a snap of it's jaws. 

I was a good learning game for both of us, still getting used to rules we had to ask a few questions. My victory was in hand now, but little did I know...

I was about to get the shit kicked out of me by another fellow who also went by the name of Steve S.

When I looked at his force he looked down at it as well and said "Yes, I have 2 named jacks, I'm an ass." Which immediately amused me.   I will say that this was the game that got my heart pumping  Not that Steve M and Angelina didn't put up a fight, they did, but from the start of this battle I felt I was on the losing end, and I had to try and prove myself.

Steve was rocking 3 models,  Vladimir Tzepesci, Great Price of Imbrey,   Drago (Vlad's personal Berserker jack ), and Beast-09

When they are all combined they turn into a Megazord of assfuckery.

Steve was awesome to play against, he had massive amounts of strategies in his head and he was more then willing to explain them to me. His force was soo mobile and offensive I was already on the wrong foot starting off. I knew as I watched  None of that would stop him from killing all my warbeasts in One round of combat.  I almost disabled Drago, but you know what they say, horseshoes and handgrenades...

That was an amazing game to show me that there are strategies that I have not even dreamt of yet and that I was not prepared.  Also, he got me a soda, which makes him ok in my book.

Last battle of the night was a rematch against Angelina, which I had high hopes for coming off such a sound crushing defeat.

Low did I know that in the time we played last she apparently because a Circle savant and developed this crazy awesome strategy which consisted of that same teleport trick from before... only as the first move of her 2nd turn.. then she popped her feat, which brought all of her models over by her... btw.. she was only like 2  inches from my warlock.    

pThagrosh promptly pooped himself, and was destroyed by 2 giant werewolves.  It seemed a fitting revenge that snapping jaws would also take him out.

I informed her that she had just created a rivalry, and that this wasn't over.  

Then I went home and passed out.

Was a great time, and I look forward to getting back there tomorrow and playing another few games.

Well this is a nice solid battle report, hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed experiencing it.  

Leave a comment, they sustain me.

Cherry Poppin... Warcasters?

It happened, it really happened.   I stopped out at The Game Store today after Brigitte got a quick nap in and I played my first game of Warmahordes.


It was exciting, by exciting I mean I enjoyed getting caught up in playing a game.  I forgot about everything else for just 2 hours.

I played against a bloke named Brian, he is Press Ganger which was explained to me that he was the local Privateer Press organizer. He is the one in charge of the tournament so he was chalk-full of willingness to help me learn how to play.  

I always wonder what people are thinking when they are teaching people stuff.   I hate training, drives me batty. I have to fight with my brain when I train people because my brain understand that people don't know what I know, and that they have different learning patters and quickness. But I don't give a shit and it annoys me that I have to repeat myself 3 or 4 times. There is a reason I don't work for MPS.

Anyways...

I'm playing my trolls...

These aren't mine, but they are literally the same type of models I had. (Yay Google Image search!)

Brian played his Cygnar force... 

Again, not his models, but Google Image search is a sweet lover, and I was too wrapped up to take pictures with my phone.

The first game was fun, it was a no frills, we went right at each other with out any real special strategy.  Mostly I needed to get the mechanics down.  It was the little things that I was trying to get burnt into my head like when charging I get +2 inches to my range... not double range.  Just rules.

My Troll Axer ran in and tried to take that big Ironclad Warjack, and I will tell you something.  The only way to describe the ass whooping that the Axer got is the say it had to be 1953, and my Axer burnt the pot-roast right as the Ironclad got home from work.  The axer was just owned.

Her Axe is soaking...

But, my Troll Impailers were on a crit streak and knocked down all of his models at least once and in the end my warlock ran in himself and performed some crazy albino kungfu and chopped his warcaster in half himself. He really came through for me.  It was a great victory!

#TrueStory

So being that I still had some time, I asked Brian if he would be interested in round 2.   This time we moved some terrain around a little, but all it really did was make us play to the right of where we were the first game... same thing. The Ironclad Warjack must have come to the 2nd game drunk and pissed about the pot-roast again because he bludgeoned the shit out of the Axer again. On the other hand this game I killed his Lancer (The guy with the spear and shield).....  another sweet victory!... oh wait, that's right the game didn't end there.

After that he ran the Ironclad up to the Albino Warlock and tried to kill him.   Honestly, I think the Ironclad was just trying to work out some personal problems because he was trying to hit everyone.  I nearly got destroyed by it too, but was informed i could transfer the damage over, POOF!  I narrowly avoided getting my head smashed like a watermelon at a Gallagger show.

He will be showing up in the next expansion as a mercenary caster... with that look on his face.

So I ran at his Warcaster again and started up my albino lawnmower, the attacks are flying left and right and I'm not doing so bad, boost the attacks.... AND.... get him down to 1 box of life left.

After that he wasted no time mercilessly murdering me.  Like... I had 3 health left... and he did like 19 damage.    I failed my Tough test and that was it.

In any case it was a great time and it helped me understand what was going on.  I can't wait to play a few more games.

This weekend's project progress

So again I present another post with more pictures then actual words. Drake and I went in on a Hordes 2 player starter box.   I got the Legion of Everblight side and he is rocking the Druids collection.

So here is the stuff I have gotten together so far.   I wont lie, I actually hate the lesser war beast  Shreaders (No not the TMNT guy).  They are simple.. just 2 legs... but they don't look right...  so I digress.

Also, I have yet to memorize the names of the different units... i could check the ipad or even use the internet.  But I'm typing right now and do you realize how far away my mouse is from my keyboard?

Look, shinny Pictures!

Still missing its head, but this big old nasty is almost done.

 These jackholes don't look that bad, but what I hate is they have a set of 3 spears that go on their back... and the spears are bent all stupid.   Not amused.  Not sure if I should pick up some metal wire and replace them?  Hmmm

She was the easiest, 

In Trollblood news,  I picked up some rare earth magnets.  I figured while I work on building my collection I could swap out the hands on my primarily Dire Troll Mauler and make him the one that tosses bombs once in a while.   I will pick up another and have it a duel version later.

Also, a little painting progress...

Thanks for checking out the blog again.   Go get yourself a cookie for your efforts.

TrollBlood Progress - 2 out of 5 Complete

I know, you read that and were like. "Is everything ok? Matt is making actual progress on another project?  This.
Changes.
Everything.

But not really. The wife and queen of the home is downstairs sewing a blanking for the boy when he finally decides to come out. She is doing rather well, and with her down there, it makes me want to be down there. So I go down there...  and paint.

In total there are 5 models that comprise my whole Trollblood force.

1 Troll Axer
2 Troll Impailers
1 Dire Troll Mauler
1 Warlock, Madrak

So far the pictures you have seen are mostly an Impailer that I have been working on.  He has been completed.  Then since said wife was down stairs I worked on the Axer next. Progress was swift.  I would say he only took me 3 hours to get where I was happy with him?

First up is our friendly Impailer.  I did a nice turn around on him to show some more detail.

Then we have the Axer, looking all pissed and stuff.

 Grrr

 Yeah i noticed the strap that needs to be touched up... I will get to it.

 In the end I have to admit, I like them.  Simple, not going out of the ordinary.

As always I appreciate you taking the time to take a glance at my progress. Your comments sustain my drive to keep this up so please leave some.

omg Progress!

            So some days I surprise myself by just hunkering down and getting some work done. Tonight Tim was unable to make it to our weekly Warhammer game so I thought it would be a great time to get some painting in.  Lately I have been doing more work on the babies new room so tonight I decided that I could give a few hours on my trolls.

Starting off we just went with a black base primer.  Same kind I use for all my other models.  I primed all of the trolls at once.

I'm planning on going with the basic troll-blood color scheme, Blue skin, red hair/growths on the chin/shoulders.  Its hard to tell with out clicking on the picture, but I liked how the purple/blue wash in the eyes and mouth came out.  Part of my frustration with painting is that I always do all these extra random things, and in the end I look at it and think, 2 layers of blue would have done the same job.   Oh well. 

Here is that finish WarJack I had done before.  I finally got the resin bases in and painted.  

I need to figure out the best way of lighting cuz right now the flash on my camera phone isn't working well, but it does bring out the blue/red of the model and base.

Not as witty today, but at least I'm making progress.

Leave your comments, they sustain me.

WarmaHordes! The start of something new!

Of course this blog is all about miniatures and painting and stuff, so I'm being super awesome and updating it regularly. Aren't I?  ...  right?   /sigh  I need to get better at this stuff.

Over the last 3 weeks or so of not posting I have not only gotten my Warmachine Cygnar Starter box, but also a Hordes TrollBlood Starter box.  Warmachine and Hordes are 2 sides of the same game.  Warmachine is all giant coal driven robots, while Hordes is all monstrous beasts.  The rules for the 2 games are about 96% the same, with only allocation of action points being different for the 2 games.  (Warmachine you give action points to your Warjacks, where Hordes you take Rage away from your beasts calming them down so they keep fighting the way you want them too. )

Here is an Image of all the models together.  In the back you will see 3 Warjacks, and the Warcaster (forgot his name at the moment.)  

The next row is the Trollbloods, you can tell that size they are about the same as the robots. The idea is that they are true blooded trolls vs the smaller guy who is just a trollkin.   I haven't put any of them on bases yet because I had order some nice scenic bases from a website that apparently is on backorder. Just waiting for those and will  start working to get them taken care of.

This isn't the best picture of it, but this is technically the very first time I successfully used my airbrush for highlighting.  As I said before You can't tell, but I kept using successively lighter shades of blue from the top down to give it a "light shining off the model" look.   The big guy on the right is actually fully painted now, and I will update more when I get some time this weekend.

Originally I was going to have some planned posting schedule, but I think thats a mistake, as it forces me not to post when I actually am doing things, and we get situations like this where I get 6 levels of stupid and don't post anything.    Thanks for taking the time to look it over, and don't forget to check out my other posts.

The Warhammer Fantasy Campaign restart.

                Sorry for the delay in posting, not that a week is really a huge delay but still I know all 1 of you who subscribe to this desire to know how poorly I paint as well as how bad I am at updates.

That or you are just sitting there waiting for your other browser full of cat pictures to load.  Lets be honest here.

You couldn't say no if you tried.

Tim and I had been playing our previous campaign with 6 different armies each and 5 heroes that could gain experience as they won challenges and participated in battles. It helped us have a running theme to our battles. Also helped give our armies some character beyond their normal fluff.

Tim and I have taken the “experience charts” from a number of Games Workshops different books, and created our own leveling process with them.   All three armies we pick need to have 3 hero type characters.  Any 3 you want to choose but you are limited to those 3.

Well... technically you are doing it right.

As we play games, based on the actions of those games our heroes will get experience points. For every 10 experience points they gain one experience level, and get to role on a chart that give them a bonus to stats and combat abilities.  No one stat can ever be raised more than once.

Once a character gets 5 levels of experience, they have the option to forgo their bonus stats, and upgrade to a Lord level character ( yay promotions! ) 

I may come back and re-edit this post with the full detailed rules but right now this is the lay out.

Next will be the Battle report of Tim and I playing our Empire Vs Skaven.  Very close and fun Game.

Battle Report - Woodelves and Vampire Counts, and side projects.

     Small post today because I'm a bit behind on updating.  
     Tim and I did infact play a game on Saturday, but not only did I not remember to start recording or taking pictures until turn 5, but I was lazy in documenting what happened.
     What you need to really know is that Tim's Wood Elves put up a great defence against my Undead Hoard.  But in the end the Vampire Counts did prevail and put the Wood Elves out of particular ailment, which happened to be their lives.

The brave Glade Guard fire into the massed ranks of the undead.

The Massed Ranks of the undead don't care about arrows.

With my Naval Fleet completed, I started to work on my Malifaux models,  another small group of maybe 12 total, but this time its all individual models, meaning i can take more time with detail and less time with assembly line painting.  Its nice.

                                       



This is just a mini-update.  Will have another real post later on.

Project: Dystopian Wars - Federated States of America Fleet - Complete

        Men and Women of the Federated States of America, today is a day we shall no longer allow our selves to be bullied, to day we shall no longer take the words of the foreign dignitaries who tell us it is not our place to want to help others. Who tell us that we would not stand a chance if we choose to do what is right. Today, we fight for both our freedom and the freedom of others.  Today we have a chance to strike back at those who work to oppress us from looking past our own physical boards. Today we launch the finest fleet of the 19th century and we will show our enemies what american mettle is made of.

That what I would think a speech would sound like in this fictional world.  I could be right, could be completely wrong, who knows.  All I do know is the fleet IS ready to launch.

I finished it this last week.  Mostly I needed to complete the optional generators.

The Missile Launchers are a pretty obvious one. Originally i was going to paint them black with a red tip, I realized that the last thing I want the enemies of our grate nation to see is our glorious colors shining in the sky.   So I had to go with the old Red, White and Blue.

Next is the Shield Generators, Pretty simple honestly I wanted to give it a glowing aura so I went a little crazy with the dry brushing of the light blue over the dark blue base coat.

Finally the Kinetic Generators, in the game they actually provide faster movement which in a game of strategic placement can always be a plus. I went with a red hew. This image doesn't give it justice  as in person is really pops out.

Simple as that. Suddenly in my first week of having a blog about trying to actually get projects finished... i finish one.

Here are some nice "water" shots. Please let me know what you think in the comment field down below.

Next on the docket:  Battle Report!  Vampire Counts vs. Wood Elves 1250 points.  We will be having a battle on Saturday morning, a typical "Breakfast and Blood" as Tim and I enjoy calling it.  I hope to remember to take pictures.  Battle reports tend to be a little stale when they don't have anything to show.