So we are nearly done with Feb and I have only got 1 other game in. This is not from my lack in trying it just seems hard to get our local gamers to commit to anything. Very sad but true.
I have finished up Coleman and Journeyman Warcaster Jess. I still have to do my Lancer and Charger but they have been sitting at 50% for at least a year now.
I will be adding a unit of Stormblades to my April list to get me to 20pts. I have also ordered myself the new pNemo sculpt and the Thunderhead. Which I will work into my list somehow.
I am thinking along the lines of:
pNemo +6
Thunderhead 11
Ironclad 7
Journeyman 3
Charger 4
Stormsmith 1
My second game was a disaster. I played against Shae and his pirate crew. It them 2 turns to get to Coleman and kill him....I was very sad.
I played my first paintball league on Sunday and we managed to come 7/8. I would have preferred to have come 8th because than we would have gotten a wooden spoon prize. Oh well.
So I had my first 15pt game for our SA "Grow" League today and man was it close.
*I just need to mention the it was the first time I had face Feora and did not know her spells that well and Hannes had only bought her yesterday. I know I should have checked her spells before play. We played "Engine of Destruction" as a Upkeep/can be cast on friendly models spell. Oops!
Deployment:
Field Layout. Many walls to hide behind, a forest 3 inches out of my deployments zone and a hill in his deployment zone.
P1: Had the Repenter and Sunburst on the right and Revenger on the left with the Vanquisher in the middle with Feora behind it. (not everything was in her CTRL radius so the force was grouped close.) P2: Ironclad on the left of forest, stormsmith in front of forest, Coleman and JWC behind the forest with Charger and Lancer to the right.
Turn 1
Moved everything forward, cast Engine of Destruction on the Vanquisher and Hexes Hammer. Stormsmith ran off into the woods staying out of LOS of his lovely Arc-node. Everyone Moved up. JWC cast Arcane Shield on the Charger to boost it incase of incoming fire. Coleman cast snipe on the Charger, this was a Doh! moment when you realize what a waist as the Arcane Shield then expired and he cast Arcane shield on his Lancer.
Turn 2
Upkeep both Spells. Gave 1 focus to each Jack and ran them up behind the walls to buff Def. Moved up Feora and Sunburst. Upkeep Snipe. Gave 1 focus to Ironclad and 3 to the Charger. Charger then moved up to the wall on my side of the board and shot at the Repenter. needing 10 on 3 dice (Boosting) I missed the 1st shot and paid for a 2nd which managed to do 2 damage. Had he Ironclad run up the Left flank and moved the Lancer into a better LOS position. Coleman activated and cast Earthquake at the Vanquisher behind the Wall. I missed but was lucky to deviate towards Feora 2", knocking her and the Revenger and the Vanquisher down. Moved the Stormsmith to the edge of the forest and attempted to hit the Vanquisher but was out of range.
Turn 3
Upkeep E0D and gave the Vanquisher 1 Focus, Sunburst shot at the Charger (Def 17, needing 10) but missed and scattered hitting the JWC for 4pts and the Charger for 1...man was that close. The Repenter moved forward and took a shot at the Lancer but missed. The Vanquisher spent his focus to shake the effects of EQ and shot at the Stormsmith with his aiming bonus but still missed the template deviated 4" so no blast damage on the old man. Feora stood up and spent a focus to shake the Effects of EQ and moved to the right a bit. She then Arched Immolation onto the Ironclad but missed only needing a 6...Hannes was having no luck with his Cygnar dice against me so out can the Khador dice :) No Upkeep. Put 2 Focus on the Ironclad and 3 on the Charger. Stormsmith moved up out of the safety of the forest (Life of a stormsmith is cheap) and disrupted the Vanquisher. Coleman cast EQ on the Vanquisher again and this time HIT! taking down Feora, the Vanquisher and the Revenger. Coleman the shot the Repenter disrupting it and scratching the paint for 2 points. Coleman ended his activation by calling his feat. The JWC moved in behind the forest and away from his trainee Charger. The Charger then shot at the Repenter doing 17pts with 2 boosted shots. The Ironclad then charged the Vanquisher and did 15 pts with is 3 attacks.
Turn 4
Upkeep EoD. The Repenter moved up and shot at the Lancer and covering the Stormsmith as well but missed on both rolls....I think this rolled killed a bit of his spirit. The sunburst shot at Coleman and hit him square on causing 6pts of Damage thanks to his feat. The Revenger moved into LOS of Coleman. The vanquisher stood up and took a swing at the Ironclad only dinging it for 1pt. Feora set up a Wall of Fire in front of Coleman making sure I do not come forward knowing that I could not move back otherwise I would be out of CTRL range with the Ironclad. Feora ended her turn by calling Scorched Earth which put Coleman, The Stormsmith, Ironclad and the Lancer on fire.
Continuous Effects: Stormsmith died, Lancer took 3pts, Ironclad 4pts and Coleman took 2pts. I assigned 1 focus to the charger and 3 to the Ironclad. The ironclad then climbed into the Vanquisher doing 21pts of damage and taking it out of the Game with 1 focus to spare. The Charger then shot the Repenter doing a luck 10pts taking it out of the game as well. The Lancer moved towards Feora and the JWC cast Arcane Shield on Coleman before he Shot the Revenger doing no damage but disrupting it so that the arch-node was useless.
Turn 5
The Sunburst shot at Coleman but missed deviating into the woods doing no damage. Feora then shot at the Lancer, missing with her first attack and boosting the 2nd to do 3 pts. She then cast EoD on the Revenger. the Revenger then walked up to Coleman and did 3pts of damage because Coleman had Arm 21 (AS+3Foc).
Continuous Effects: Coleman took 3pts (Leaving 5 boxes) while the Ironclad took nothing and the fire burnt out on the Lancer. Upkeep the AS on Coleman from the JWC. I then Assigned 1 focus to the Ironclad, 3 to the lancer and 2 to the Charger. The charger fired its first shot at Feora but missed as it was OOR and took its 2nd shot at the Revenger in combat with Coleman and did 2 pts, If I had missed I could have easily killed Coleman. Coleman then hit the Revenger for 7pts and got pushed back out of Combat range. The Ironclad ran in BtB with Feora while the Lancer moved in and took a boosted swing at Feora, even boosting the DMG roll I only did 6pts I then missed with the 2nd attack.
Turn 6
Upkeep of EoD. The sunburst shot at the Charger and missed deviating only a inch but doing no damage. The Revenger then swung at Coleman with its shield and missed and again with its spear and missed, this needing 6's to hit. Feora then activated and tried to cast Blazing Effigy on the Revenger costing her 4Foc but the gamble didn't pay off as it was out of range (This could have won him the game). Feora then attacked the Ironclad and hit both times but did no damage.
Continuous Effects: Coleman took 3pts of Damage leaving him with 2pts. The Ironclad suffered nothing. The AS from the JWC was up kept on Coleman. Coleman then assigned 3 focus to the Lancer and the Ironclad while the JWC assigned his 2 to the Charger. Coleman then moved back into btb with the Revenger and hit out doing 1pt and disrupting it before being pushed back. The Ironclad then used Tremor in a attempt to get Feora down. I needed a 8 so boosted the roll......8 and Feora was on her arse. The Ironclad the spent his last focus and did 6pts of damage. The lancer then hit into her doing 10pts on its boosted roll taking Feora out of the battle and giving me the game.
Man that was a close game if he had just rolled higher on those Fire continuous effect rolls I would have been toast. Overall it was a awesome game and like always one I seriously enjoyed.
So it has been 4 months since my last post so let’s get this thing up and running again.
What have i been up to? Well I have stopped with MMo's, it was seriously starting to kill me. It gets a bit boring if you are not into the grind/monotonous thing. So I have been relaxing and playing MKII. I have also taken up Paintball a bit more seriously and will be taking part in some leagues this year with a couple of friends, we are calling ourselves Team Zombie. Will post a couple of pics if I get a chance.
The main reason I am back is because we are going to start a National Grow League for Warmahordes. Basically you have a single list for a month that you need to have fully painted and the points get increased by 5 every month until July. It all ends with a tournament at ICON.
Here is what we are aiming at.
The league will take place in stages:
10-15 points in February
15 points in March
20 points in April
25 points in May
30 points in June
35 points in July (culminating with a 35 point Warmachine Tournament at ICON!
So I need to get 15pts done by the end of February.
The list I am looking at is:
Coleman +6
Ironclad -6 (Painted)
Lancer -7
Journeyman -3
Charger -4
Stormsmith -1 (Painted)
So I need to get the rest finished. I bought a tin of Army Painter (Dark Tone) and I tried it on my Storm Smiths. Man am I happy with the results and it was Painless. I am not one for painting and this gave good results with minimal effort. I will put a strp by step with my next single model.
So I will try keep the Blog updated with the games I have to play as well as the models that need to be painted.
