The new Warhammer Armies: Daemons of Chaos looks SO GOOD! I bought it today along with a box of Bloodletters, and every P3 Paint Brush but the flat ones. I've had one too many Citadel brushes split on me that I'm now looking for alternatives. I've tried the Vallejo ones that come with the paint sets and found them to be unimpressive (save their ability to hold a point, but I imagine that's common with all synthetic brushes). I hope these work out.
Anyways, I bought the Daemons of Chaos book, and soon I'll have the Codex: Chaos Daemons book, and my Chaotic conquest will be complete. I'm surely not sticking my daemons on circle bases, this way I'll be able to use them in Fantasy and 40K (and if anyone complains about that, I'll laugh at them heartily and continue playing).
My other projects? Some are coming along, some have ground to a halt. I have been painting like mad, though. I've nearly finished seven Cygnarian Long Gunners, six Cygnarian Sword Knights, and nine Chaos Space Marines. I say nearly because the Long Gunners need only basing, the Sword Knights need only their sheaths painted, and the Chaos Marines need only their backpacks painted and glued-on.
This is good, as it means that I'm having a good start to both my (rather large) summer painting projects. But seeing as I've done the Marines in about a week it's not too bad. I'll post some pictures this weekend (I promise).
I'm also working on an Elven Wizard from Reaper Miniatures that I'm going to use for a D&D character (for 4th edition!), starting this Sunday when I demo the rules while playing through H1 Keep on the Shadowfell (the first 4th ed adventure, and one that I'm glad to see go back to the 'Letter-Number' designation). I'll also post pictures of him as soon as I finish.
Sadly, my Halfling Thief, and Confrontation Abel repaint haven't moved any further than the primer stage. Oh, the life of a painter with gaming-A.D.D. (there's nothing funny about A.D.D. unless you're Clone High).
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Repainting Prepaints
Say that ten times fast...
So, I thought I'd take a break in my two painting projects (Warmachine: Cygnar; and Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Space Marines) to tackle a couple projects I'd been meaning to do for awhile:
Painting a Halfling Rogue for D&D 4, and
Repainting the prepainted Abel from Confrontation
I primed both these suckas and now I'm just waiting for them to dry before I tackle this project. I don't think I'm going to do Non-Metal Metallics (NMM) as that's a project for another day. However, I will try and paint this model to the best of my abilities, using my new favorite line of paints: P3.
I'll use a good mix of Citadel, and P3; but I'm gonna try and better integrate P3 into my painting routine. I'm not gonna turn away from Citadel that easily. I still think they're good paints.
I'm thinking I might try some NMM on the halfling, though... Yeah, I think I will. I'll use that as a starting point, and I'll delve into some more complicated techniques with another model at another time and date. I'll, of course, let this blog know how it goes, with lots o' pictures.
Now for something else: This blog has tackled alot of the different aspects of miniatures wargaming, so far (that's the second time I've used the word, 'tackled' in this post); but what it's been lacking is the gaming portion of the hobby. I don't have the time, memory, or pictures to do battle reports for the two games of Warmachine I played yesterday, so you'll all have to suffice with the report that in my first 700 point game against Khador I pulled off a win in the Domination scenario from Prime: Remix; and my second 700 point game against a Menoth army went terribly poor as I lost by a landslide in a Killing Field scenario from the same book. This just goes to show my complete inability to deal with Menoth armies. Though, to my credit, I haven't played an army that hasn't fielded the Harbinger, yet. I'm hoping it's just her that throws a wrench in my gears.
I'm sure I'll have a better report the next time I play a game.
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So, I thought I'd take a break in my two painting projects (Warmachine: Cygnar; and Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Space Marines) to tackle a couple projects I'd been meaning to do for awhile:
Painting a Halfling Rogue for D&D 4, and
Repainting the prepainted Abel from Confrontation
I primed both these suckas and now I'm just waiting for them to dry before I tackle this project. I don't think I'm going to do Non-Metal Metallics (NMM) as that's a project for another day. However, I will try and paint this model to the best of my abilities, using my new favorite line of paints: P3.
I'll use a good mix of Citadel, and P3; but I'm gonna try and better integrate P3 into my painting routine. I'm not gonna turn away from Citadel that easily. I still think they're good paints.
I'm thinking I might try some NMM on the halfling, though... Yeah, I think I will. I'll use that as a starting point, and I'll delve into some more complicated techniques with another model at another time and date. I'll, of course, let this blog know how it goes, with lots o' pictures.
Now for something else: This blog has tackled alot of the different aspects of miniatures wargaming, so far (that's the second time I've used the word, 'tackled' in this post); but what it's been lacking is the gaming portion of the hobby. I don't have the time, memory, or pictures to do battle reports for the two games of Warmachine I played yesterday, so you'll all have to suffice with the report that in my first 700 point game against Khador I pulled off a win in the Domination scenario from Prime: Remix; and my second 700 point game against a Menoth army went terribly poor as I lost by a landslide in a Killing Field scenario from the same book. This just goes to show my complete inability to deal with Menoth armies. Though, to my credit, I haven't played an army that hasn't fielded the Harbinger, yet. I'm hoping it's just her that throws a wrench in my gears.
I'm sure I'll have a better report the next time I play a game.
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
What's he doing over there?
Why, painting Sword Knights of course... More at 11!
Not really... More later...
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Not really... More later...
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Alkemy in Review
What's this? Two posts in two days? Heresy!
Well, I'm getting better at being regular (gross!), and I hope to have this bizarre trend continue. Today I talk about a new miniatures game made by a French gaming company called Kraken Editions. The game is called Alkemy, and it's pretty cool.
I first found out about this game not even a week ago. A friend brought some into the game shop I work at and offered to sell me a starter box for the Kingdom of Avalon. I bought it, and I just assembled the models today. Here's some pictures.
This is one of the two Avalonian Recruits you get in the box.
Here's another one
The Legate-Knight Garlan de Brall
One of the Avalonian Recruits finished
The second Avalonian Recruit finished
An Avalonain Crossbowman
A Countryside Priest
And the whole lot of 'em together.
Note, all the models have Dark Age-style bases on them. They did not come with the models, I chose to put them on because the models looked really cool, and I think Dark Age-style bases make models look better. The bases that the models came with were slotta bases like the ones GW uses but with a smoother, shinier, rim.
MODELS!
As you can see the models aren't metal; they're plastic. What plastic? I don't know. I used superglue at first because I wasn't sure if my Citadel Modelling plastic glue would work because it's a polystyrene cement, and only works with certain types of plastic. I eventually decided to test it out and used the plastic glue to do half of the models. I'll test them when they're dry to see if it worked; but I imagine this will be difficult to determine because the models are snap-together.
That's right, snap together. All the different fit snugly into each other like you'd witness amongst the higher-end prepainted plastic models (By which I pretty much just mean AT-43 and Confrontation). Indeed these plastics aren't like the kind you'll see with Citadel plastics, these ones aren't on a spure. In fact, they're cast just like metal models, but in plastic. I don't know much (read: anything) about casting models, but this is pretty neat to think about, because people like plastic for it's convertability, and if the models are cast a similar way to metal models, the pieces might not be constrained to the 'sprue-barrier'.
The models look awesome too (as you may be able to tell, with better photography, here). I was initially attracted to the Medieval, French, look to the soldiers, and the miniatures didn't disappoint. All the detail looks really fine, not as fine as lead Rackham models look, but about as fine as a plastic Citadel Miniature looks today. I was also impressed that I could build a large part of the models and not have to worry about covering up detail. All the shields are held out from the body, which not only allow some deft brush movements, but look dynamic as well. As for those parts where I couldn't help but cover up detail? Who cares? They're snap in! I'll paint it then glue it, and not have to worry about losing any pieces.
There are still a couple of problems with the models, though. For one, some of the pieces were bent. They weren't just bent like some banners, or swords from a blister pack containing a metal model are, they were bent in a style that's reminiscent of some of the prepaints. That annoying bend that wont straighten no matter what you do. How many times have you bought a D&D Miniatures booster pack only to have a model leaning over his base as though he were toppling over? While this only happened with a couple of the weapons, it's still annoying, and I've never had another plastic model with bent components right out of the box. Also, I noticed some pitting on the inside thigh of one of the Avalonian Recruits. I'm hoping primer will cover this up. In the back of my mind I know I should try and putty this, but you have to twist my arm to get me to putty anything.
Overall, I can't wait to paint these.
GAME!
The game looks cool. I've read the rulebook in English (and German) that's availiable from their site (German), and I have a hard-copy of the rulebook in French that came with the box. In fact, everything's in French... Which is funny only because I'm weihttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifrded-out about it. I know that it's a French game, and that it shouldn't be weird, and that they'll get around to doing an English book eventually, I just find it funny that I look at these cards and rules and have no clue what any of it means. For those of you who are wondering I missed the 'exclusively French' phase of Rackham. In fact, I came into Rackham's games around the time that they were making some serious headway in English-speaking markets , North America especially.
Anyways, the rules are neat. Combat is done using a card system, where you choose your action in secret, and show it to you opponent who has also chosen a combat action. You then resolve the combat actions depending on what both of you played. I've been toying with a card-based action combat system for a while, but couldn't make it work. For those of you who remember the Warhammer Warriors books that Black Library did in the very late '90s you'll know the sort of system I was working on.
As for the die-rolling, you only roll one set of dice for hitting and damaging. The dice look like something out of Doom: The Boardgame, or Descent. There's six dice colored white, yellow, and red; and they all have numbers and weapon symbols on them. The colors depend on how heavily wounded you are: unharmed being white, damaged being yellow, and heavily wounded being red. Not only do the dice tell you if you hit or not with the numbers, but the weapon symbols correspond to a chart on your unit's card which will tell you how much damage you do to your target depending on what combination of symbols come up.
The game itself is a skirmish game along the lines of Confrontation 1, 2, or 3 (3.5... Whatever...), with alternate activation and action points. For those of you who played the VOR family of games (VOR, Warzone, Chronopia, Dark Age, and (to a lesser extent) VOID/Metropolis/Urban War) spending an action point to move, another to shoot, and a third to move again before handing off initiative to your opponent will seem familiar. I have yet to play a game; but once they're painted I will, and I'll let you all know how it went, along with my firsthand impressions.
BACKGROUND!
I haven't had much time to digest the background of Alkemy because I've been too busy digesting the background of HORDES and Dark Age; but it looks pretty cool. Except for the cat-people, that is. I don't even care if I offend a reader of this blog, cat-people, are bad, bad people. Beast-people, are perfectly fine, and dog-people are pushing it, but cat-people? *shudder*
Anyways, don't be fooled by the ninjas, or French Knights, it is a fantasy game populated by four races/factions: The Kingdom of Avalon, The Jade Triad, The Khaliman Republic(ugh!), and the Aurlok Nation. Like I said, I don't know much about the world, but from what I do know is that the Kingdom of Avalon worship an evil Tree-Daemon that they don't know is evil. It's also infecting them, turning them into mutant dryad-people. This I like; this I dig. I can get behind this game.
Overall, I'm pretty pumped to start painting, and playing this game. I'm sure that the low amount of models needed to play this game wont distract me from the 'Big Five' that take over my gaming life (Epic, Warhammer, WARMACHINE/HORDES, Dark Age, and 40K), but will still provide something new to keep me invigorated in the hobby. I'll post pictures as I paint them, and let you know of any gaming impressions.
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Well, I'm getting better at being regular (gross!), and I hope to have this bizarre trend continue. Today I talk about a new miniatures game made by a French gaming company called Kraken Editions. The game is called Alkemy, and it's pretty cool.
I first found out about this game not even a week ago. A friend brought some into the game shop I work at and offered to sell me a starter box for the Kingdom of Avalon. I bought it, and I just assembled the models today. Here's some pictures.
This is one of the two Avalonian Recruits you get in the box.
Here's another one
The Legate-Knight Garlan de Brall
One of the Avalonian Recruits finished
The second Avalonian Recruit finished
An Avalonain Crossbowman
A Countryside Priest
And the whole lot of 'em together.Note, all the models have Dark Age-style bases on them. They did not come with the models, I chose to put them on because the models looked really cool, and I think Dark Age-style bases make models look better. The bases that the models came with were slotta bases like the ones GW uses but with a smoother, shinier, rim.
MODELS!
As you can see the models aren't metal; they're plastic. What plastic? I don't know. I used superglue at first because I wasn't sure if my Citadel Modelling plastic glue would work because it's a polystyrene cement, and only works with certain types of plastic. I eventually decided to test it out and used the plastic glue to do half of the models. I'll test them when they're dry to see if it worked; but I imagine this will be difficult to determine because the models are snap-together.
That's right, snap together. All the different fit snugly into each other like you'd witness amongst the higher-end prepainted plastic models (By which I pretty much just mean AT-43 and Confrontation). Indeed these plastics aren't like the kind you'll see with Citadel plastics, these ones aren't on a spure. In fact, they're cast just like metal models, but in plastic. I don't know much (read: anything) about casting models, but this is pretty neat to think about, because people like plastic for it's convertability, and if the models are cast a similar way to metal models, the pieces might not be constrained to the 'sprue-barrier'.
The models look awesome too (as you may be able to tell, with better photography, here). I was initially attracted to the Medieval, French, look to the soldiers, and the miniatures didn't disappoint. All the detail looks really fine, not as fine as lead Rackham models look, but about as fine as a plastic Citadel Miniature looks today. I was also impressed that I could build a large part of the models and not have to worry about covering up detail. All the shields are held out from the body, which not only allow some deft brush movements, but look dynamic as well. As for those parts where I couldn't help but cover up detail? Who cares? They're snap in! I'll paint it then glue it, and not have to worry about losing any pieces.
There are still a couple of problems with the models, though. For one, some of the pieces were bent. They weren't just bent like some banners, or swords from a blister pack containing a metal model are, they were bent in a style that's reminiscent of some of the prepaints. That annoying bend that wont straighten no matter what you do. How many times have you bought a D&D Miniatures booster pack only to have a model leaning over his base as though he were toppling over? While this only happened with a couple of the weapons, it's still annoying, and I've never had another plastic model with bent components right out of the box. Also, I noticed some pitting on the inside thigh of one of the Avalonian Recruits. I'm hoping primer will cover this up. In the back of my mind I know I should try and putty this, but you have to twist my arm to get me to putty anything.
Overall, I can't wait to paint these.
GAME!
The game looks cool. I've read the rulebook in English (and German) that's availiable from their site (German), and I have a hard-copy of the rulebook in French that came with the box. In fact, everything's in French... Which is funny only because I'm weihttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifrded-out about it. I know that it's a French game, and that it shouldn't be weird, and that they'll get around to doing an English book eventually, I just find it funny that I look at these cards and rules and have no clue what any of it means. For those of you who are wondering I missed the 'exclusively French' phase of Rackham. In fact, I came into Rackham's games around the time that they were making some serious headway in English-speaking markets , North America especially.
Anyways, the rules are neat. Combat is done using a card system, where you choose your action in secret, and show it to you opponent who has also chosen a combat action. You then resolve the combat actions depending on what both of you played. I've been toying with a card-based action combat system for a while, but couldn't make it work. For those of you who remember the Warhammer Warriors books that Black Library did in the very late '90s you'll know the sort of system I was working on.
As for the die-rolling, you only roll one set of dice for hitting and damaging. The dice look like something out of Doom: The Boardgame, or Descent. There's six dice colored white, yellow, and red; and they all have numbers and weapon symbols on them. The colors depend on how heavily wounded you are: unharmed being white, damaged being yellow, and heavily wounded being red. Not only do the dice tell you if you hit or not with the numbers, but the weapon symbols correspond to a chart on your unit's card which will tell you how much damage you do to your target depending on what combination of symbols come up.
The game itself is a skirmish game along the lines of Confrontation 1, 2, or 3 (3.5... Whatever...), with alternate activation and action points. For those of you who played the VOR family of games (VOR, Warzone, Chronopia, Dark Age, and (to a lesser extent) VOID/Metropolis/Urban War) spending an action point to move, another to shoot, and a third to move again before handing off initiative to your opponent will seem familiar. I have yet to play a game; but once they're painted I will, and I'll let you all know how it went, along with my firsthand impressions.
BACKGROUND!
I haven't had much time to digest the background of Alkemy because I've been too busy digesting the background of HORDES and Dark Age; but it looks pretty cool. Except for the cat-people, that is. I don't even care if I offend a reader of this blog, cat-people, are bad, bad people. Beast-people, are perfectly fine, and dog-people are pushing it, but cat-people? *shudder*
Anyways, don't be fooled by the ninjas, or French Knights, it is a fantasy game populated by four races/factions: The Kingdom of Avalon, The Jade Triad, The Khaliman Republic(ugh!), and the Aurlok Nation. Like I said, I don't know much about the world, but from what I do know is that the Kingdom of Avalon worship an evil Tree-Daemon that they don't know is evil. It's also infecting them, turning them into mutant dryad-people. This I like; this I dig. I can get behind this game.
Overall, I'm pretty pumped to start painting, and playing this game. I'm sure that the low amount of models needed to play this game wont distract me from the 'Big Five' that take over my gaming life (Epic, Warhammer, WARMACHINE/HORDES, Dark Age, and 40K), but will still provide something new to keep me invigorated in the hobby. I'll post pictures as I paint them, and let you know of any gaming impressions.
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Update! UPDATE!
Wow, February... That's a hell of a ways off between posts.
However, fear not gentle readers, for I now have incentive to post here. Over at the Vancouver Gamers forums, I'm working on a 3-Month painting campaign that will have me finish all my WARMACHINE stuff (hopefully). I'll post the pictures here so as to generate some traffic, for once; and to save on the bandwidth on the Vancouver Gamers website.
I also haven't even started working on my Grave Guard... I'm hoping to finish my Vampire Counts before I go off to Germany. I will post pictures, though.
Here's a list of what I want to bring:
+WARMACHINE Cygnar
+Warhammer Vampire Counts or Chaos if Vamps aren't finished
+Warhammer 40,000 Chaos or Eldar if Chaos isn't finished
+Confrontation Cynwall (these probably wont be finished, but I'm gonna bring them to paint)
+Alkemy The Kingdom of Avalon (which is only five models that I can paint really fast and get some games in. Plus it's European, so I'll probably find some opponents over there.)
This brings us to The note on Alkemy. This game is a French game that's, so far, only availiable in France, and a few retailers in Europe. There's only one release of models so far, but I have a box of the dudes from the Kingdom of Avalon. I think the models are stellar; they have a Medieval, French, look to them, that's really cool coupled with their dark tree-daemon history. Unfortunately the game has cat-people in it, which I detest; but I can live with it. I'll just mock them, and try to defeat all cat armies utterly without mercy. God, I hate cat people.
Anyways I'm gonna paint 'em up, give 'em a go, and see how it treats me. I'll post pictures, and more, on it tomorrow. Until then... Later.
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However, fear not gentle readers, for I now have incentive to post here. Over at the Vancouver Gamers forums, I'm working on a 3-Month painting campaign that will have me finish all my WARMACHINE stuff (hopefully). I'll post the pictures here so as to generate some traffic, for once; and to save on the bandwidth on the Vancouver Gamers website.
I also haven't even started working on my Grave Guard... I'm hoping to finish my Vampire Counts before I go off to Germany. I will post pictures, though.
Here's a list of what I want to bring:
+WARMACHINE Cygnar
+Warhammer Vampire Counts or Chaos if Vamps aren't finished
+Warhammer 40,000 Chaos or Eldar if Chaos isn't finished
+Confrontation Cynwall (these probably wont be finished, but I'm gonna bring them to paint)
+Alkemy The Kingdom of Avalon (which is only five models that I can paint really fast and get some games in. Plus it's European, so I'll probably find some opponents over there.)
This brings us to The note on Alkemy. This game is a French game that's, so far, only availiable in France, and a few retailers in Europe. There's only one release of models so far, but I have a box of the dudes from the Kingdom of Avalon. I think the models are stellar; they have a Medieval, French, look to them, that's really cool coupled with their dark tree-daemon history. Unfortunately the game has cat-people in it, which I detest; but I can live with it. I'll just mock them, and try to defeat all cat armies utterly without mercy. God, I hate cat people.
Anyways I'm gonna paint 'em up, give 'em a go, and see how it treats me. I'll post pictures, and more, on it tomorrow. Until then... Later.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
I am a vampire, I AM A VAMPIRE!
(The title's from an Antsy Pants' song, by the by)
As I said last day Gav's Vampire Counts book is totally a high to end on. Here's the 2000point Vampire Counts army I'm gonna make, which illustrates my love for skeletons and Necromancers...
LORD
Vampire Lord - 435
Tomb Blade, Flayed Hauberk, Crown of the Damned, Lord of the Dead, Summon Creatures of the Night, Summon Ghouls, Red Fury, Level 3
HEROES
Necromancer - 120
2 Dispel Scrolls, Invocation of Nehek, Vanhel's Danse Macabre
Wight King Battle Standard Bearer - 225
Drakenhof Banner
CORE
30 Skeletons - 285
Hand Weapons, Light Armor, Shields, Full Command, Icon of Vengence
28 Skeletons - 244
Hand Weapons, Light Armor, Shields, Full Command
10 Crypt Ghouls - 88
Ghast
10 Crypt Ghouls - 88
Ghast
5 Dire Wolves - 40
5 Dire Wolves - 40
1 Corpse Cart - 100
Balefire
SPECIAL
10 Grave Guard - 315
Hand Weapons, Heavy Armor, Shields, Full Command, Banner of the Barrows
TOTAL: 1980
This will be the first army I've done without a Rare choice, and also the first army I've done that numbers over 100 models (111); though my Chaos army comes close. I wanted to include some knights but I don't think that it would do well with the ponderous nature of the army as it is. Maybe for 2250, or 2500 I'll add a unit of Blood Knights, and a 10-man unit of Wight Knights as a cavalry wing. Right now the Dire Wolves are used to flank and take out Fanatics/frenzied troops.
I own... ONE of the models I need for this army, and I'm gonna use mostly new models for it, so none of it is purchased/painted right now. I'll post pictures (for realz) when I do.
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P.S. In this bit of news Fantasy Flight is gonna take over production of GW's board, card, and roleplaying games. They aren't gonna be able to do games where miniatures are at the fore (like Warhammer Quest, Space Hulk, the Specialist Games, or Man O'War) but they'll get to do the rest (including Dark Heresy *glee!*). I wouldn't worry about Space Hulk, though. Games Workshop says they're gonna do it in-house.
As I said last day Gav's Vampire Counts book is totally a high to end on. Here's the 2000point Vampire Counts army I'm gonna make, which illustrates my love for skeletons and Necromancers...
LORD
Vampire Lord - 435
Tomb Blade, Flayed Hauberk, Crown of the Damned, Lord of the Dead, Summon Creatures of the Night, Summon Ghouls, Red Fury, Level 3
HEROES
Necromancer - 120
2 Dispel Scrolls, Invocation of Nehek, Vanhel's Danse Macabre
Wight King Battle Standard Bearer - 225
Drakenhof Banner
CORE
30 Skeletons - 285
Hand Weapons, Light Armor, Shields, Full Command, Icon of Vengence
28 Skeletons - 244
Hand Weapons, Light Armor, Shields, Full Command
10 Crypt Ghouls - 88
Ghast
10 Crypt Ghouls - 88
Ghast
5 Dire Wolves - 40
5 Dire Wolves - 40
1 Corpse Cart - 100
Balefire
SPECIAL
10 Grave Guard - 315
Hand Weapons, Heavy Armor, Shields, Full Command, Banner of the Barrows
TOTAL: 1980
This will be the first army I've done without a Rare choice, and also the first army I've done that numbers over 100 models (111); though my Chaos army comes close. I wanted to include some knights but I don't think that it would do well with the ponderous nature of the army as it is. Maybe for 2250, or 2500 I'll add a unit of Blood Knights, and a 10-man unit of Wight Knights as a cavalry wing. Right now the Dire Wolves are used to flank and take out Fanatics/frenzied troops.
I own... ONE of the models I need for this army, and I'm gonna use mostly new models for it, so none of it is purchased/painted right now. I'll post pictures (for realz) when I do.
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P.S. In this bit of news Fantasy Flight is gonna take over production of GW's board, card, and roleplaying games. They aren't gonna be able to do games where miniatures are at the fore (like Warhammer Quest, Space Hulk, the Specialist Games, or Man O'War) but they'll get to do the rest (including Dark Heresy *glee!*). I wouldn't worry about Space Hulk, though. Games Workshop says they're gonna do it in-house.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Gav THOOOOOOORPE!
You've been the constant butt of my jokes whilst working at Games Workshop. In fact, I came close to writing a series of comics that revolved around you and the other UK designers and your fantastic shenanigans.
I thought the 3rd edition Eldar Codex was the worst thing in the world, and I think I had complaints about most everything you've written in the past as well. However, you're leaving GW and I'm not happy.
Looking back at your body of work, it doesn't look balanced, or competative, it looks fun. I had fun with most every one of your books (except Codex: Eldar you jerk!), and I'm very sad to see you go. I will shed a tear, and hope that you do something very interesting and exciting in the future. I just hope it's in miniatures/board/RPG gaming and not Video Games like Tuomas, and Andy.
Also, the 7th edition Vampire Counts book is the greatest codex/army book ever written. You left on a high note for sure!
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I thought the 3rd edition Eldar Codex was the worst thing in the world, and I think I had complaints about most everything you've written in the past as well. However, you're leaving GW and I'm not happy.
Looking back at your body of work, it doesn't look balanced, or competative, it looks fun. I had fun with most every one of your books (except Codex: Eldar you jerk!), and I'm very sad to see you go. I will shed a tear, and hope that you do something very interesting and exciting in the future. I just hope it's in miniatures/board/RPG gaming and not Video Games like Tuomas, and Andy.
Also, the 7th edition Vampire Counts book is the greatest codex/army book ever written. You left on a high note for sure!
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Working Title
So just what have I been working on? Well, my interests are so varied these days I seem to peck away at many different things, accomplishing nothing. This isn't really the way I want to go, and so I've decided to focus on my WARMACHINE Cygnar army right now.
This is very hard, because my Dark Age keeps staring me in the eye; I just bought Hybrid and the Nemesis expansion by Rackham and I'm dying to play that (only, I have to finish painting the models first); and today Strategies got in a pre-release copy of the new Vampire Counts book, which just fuels the fire. I now have to finish my High Elves in order to justify doing a new army.
Like that will happen. I predict myself, come March, jumping into the Vampire Counts so deep that I'll need a lifeguard to get me out.
Which brings me to a sort of a rant (not on lifeguards). Why the hell didn't they update all the High Elf models? To say that I'm a fan of the High Elves is an understatement. They're my first army for any wargame... Ever, and I've been waiting six years for that book (yes, that's right, from day one of the last book (which was god-awful)), and I have NO MOTIVATION to redo my High Elf army. Sure I'm using models that are 12 years old and were painted by my 10 year old self, but with hardly any new models I can't muster up any energy to do a new army. Whereas with the Vampire Counts, I'm dying to sink into those new skeletons.
I'm hoping that they get around to doing the High Elf models later. Here's what I want to see:
+New Archers
+New Silver Helms
+New Ellyrion Reavers
+New Swordmasters
+New White Lions
+Some good Shadow Warriors for a change
That's not THAT much...
Anyways I know I always post painting lists, and I rarely adhere to them, but I'm gonna do so again in hopes that I will streamline one to a point where it's stickable.
+WARMACHINE
+High Elves
+Vampire Counts
+Confrontation Cynwäll (yeah I'm using the old paintable ones!)/Hybrid models
+Flames of War
+Eldar
+Dark Age
I'm not happy with Dark Age and Eldar being that low, but I really need to finish some Flames of War, post-haste!
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P.S. I'm getting closer to actually doing some work on my wargame. I bought a ton of hex bases, and hex flying bases. That's right, I'm using hex bases in my wargame!
This is very hard, because my Dark Age keeps staring me in the eye; I just bought Hybrid and the Nemesis expansion by Rackham and I'm dying to play that (only, I have to finish painting the models first); and today Strategies got in a pre-release copy of the new Vampire Counts book, which just fuels the fire. I now have to finish my High Elves in order to justify doing a new army.
Like that will happen. I predict myself, come March, jumping into the Vampire Counts so deep that I'll need a lifeguard to get me out.
Which brings me to a sort of a rant (not on lifeguards). Why the hell didn't they update all the High Elf models? To say that I'm a fan of the High Elves is an understatement. They're my first army for any wargame... Ever, and I've been waiting six years for that book (yes, that's right, from day one of the last book (which was god-awful)), and I have NO MOTIVATION to redo my High Elf army. Sure I'm using models that are 12 years old and were painted by my 10 year old self, but with hardly any new models I can't muster up any energy to do a new army. Whereas with the Vampire Counts, I'm dying to sink into those new skeletons.
I'm hoping that they get around to doing the High Elf models later. Here's what I want to see:
+New Archers
+New Silver Helms
+New Ellyrion Reavers
+New Swordmasters
+New White Lions
+Some good Shadow Warriors for a change
That's not THAT much...
Anyways I know I always post painting lists, and I rarely adhere to them, but I'm gonna do so again in hopes that I will streamline one to a point where it's stickable.
+WARMACHINE
+High Elves
+Vampire Counts
+Confrontation Cynwäll (yeah I'm using the old paintable ones!)/Hybrid models
+Flames of War
+Eldar
+Dark Age
I'm not happy with Dark Age and Eldar being that low, but I really need to finish some Flames of War, post-haste!
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P.S. I'm getting closer to actually doing some work on my wargame. I bought a ton of hex bases, and hex flying bases. That's right, I'm using hex bases in my wargame!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Hmm...
Well, I didn't post any pictures from my planned "Painting Bonanza" from yesterday. This is because I didn't paint anything yesterday. I got dragged (kicking and screaming, of course) to play Descent (one of my favorite boardgames) at a friend's house, then I went to work.
I'll get on that whole 'painting thing' later, honest.
In other news I finally got my AT-43 books, and have been pouring over them concocting crazy army lists and everything. So far, I have 1045 points of UNA stuff.
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I'll get on that whole 'painting thing' later, honest.
In other news I finally got my AT-43 books, and have been pouring over them concocting crazy army lists and everything. So far, I have 1045 points of UNA stuff.
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Monday, July 23, 2007
AT-43 Repaints
For some reason I thought this deserved a seperate post.
I'm going to try and fit in the finishing touches to this one AT-43 UNA trooper that I've been toying with to find the right color scheme for my army. I realized I don't paint enough green and so I'm going to use a mixture of Citadel/Foundation paints and P3 paints to get this guy done. I'm almost finished. I'll post a picture of him tomorrow.
This picture business all depends on if I can get a hold of a digital camera tomorrow, which may be scarce. I'm hoping I can.
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I'm going to try and fit in the finishing touches to this one AT-43 UNA trooper that I've been toying with to find the right color scheme for my army. I realized I don't paint enough green and so I'm going to use a mixture of Citadel/Foundation paints and P3 paints to get this guy done. I'm almost finished. I'll post a picture of him tomorrow.
This picture business all depends on if I can get a hold of a digital camera tomorrow, which may be scarce. I'm hoping I can.
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