Its been a while!

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.

So until next time.....

Japeth turns 40.

SO my Shadow Warrior hit lvl 40 on Sunday. Wow was the last 3 lvls a grind but at least I made it although I didn't make my one yr mark I did it in 1yr1day. Our guild has also started trying out a thing call tactics so I signed up for a pre-made group and ran around doing RvR and scenarios on Monday evening.

We had alot of fun although we got slaughtered often and learnt a bit about our roles in the group.

I am enjoying WAR abit more now that we have moved server to Karak-Norn...Lots of destro and good fights.

Mythic has announced the next patch and it looks good. No more stun, instead stagger will be introduced (a stun that is broken when damage is taken). Instead of you being Ganked by a witch elf now she will get one free strike before you are back in action again.

On the miniature side there is also good news. Privateer press have released the new MKII rules early by allowing the players to download, the unpolished version, in pdf from their website. They have also given a date for the Hordes field test, 14 November. This will be great because the two systems wont be out of sync for too long then.

I am expecting my Stormclad any day now then all my orders have arrived. That will give me a nice 1300pts, now I just need to get painting. We had a 7 way last week Thursday (Bank holiday here) where every system taken down and every model killed required you to drink a shot of something.....lets just say the poor hordes players had it rough, disable a system (1drink) and they heal it one point, next turn do it to 2 systems (2 Drinks) they heal to spirals, the following turn kill the beast (4 Drinks)....we had some really drunk people that night.

I did take photos of a game against our local Legion player but I misplaced my camera for so long I forgot what happened when I downloaded them. Next time Ill have a pen and paper.

I have been very busy at work and should be able to start gaming again in 2 weeks.

but until next time....

What I've been up to......

Wow, this blogging thing does not come easy to me.

So whats happening in my life.
1) Got my new machine last week Thursday so now I am able to play WaR @ full graphics....wow everything is so pretty and I have to relearn how to play now tat my machine doesn't jerk anymore.... :-)

2)Looks like the 3+ guys will be having a tourney at the end of august I have 2 lists I want to try.

i)Coleman 4 WM
Coleman
Squire
Lancer
Ironclad
JNR
Hunter
3x Stormsmiths
8x Longgunners

ii)Hayley 4 Hordes
Hayley
Squire
Lancer
Defender
JNR
Hunter
Stormblades
Prof. Victor Pendrake

3) I will be going to MEAD (South African LARP) in September. Going to be a warrior fighting for House Gloom Cliff.....If you want to know what it involves watch Rolemodels (the movie, 2008).

4) SA Nationals is coming up in September and I have decided to dust off my Tomb Kings and give it a bash. Not looking to win, just looking to get "high" and have fun.

5) Going to attend a wedding, my wife's best friend. So that means no Kids for the weekend......."Jager"-bombs here I come....

Other than that nothing else, I will update once I have something to report on or something good to say.

Until next time...

Everything I've been up to in the last week.

Ok so lets start with last week......

Thursday I got my Maelstrom order, can I get a whoop whoop! So i pulled out what Ive got and made a 500pt list and played against a 500pt Thag list.....wow units are not the same as Warjacks....No boosting to hit or Damage. I got my "Rear" handed to me but it was fine I learnt my lesson, I'n this game everything needs to work together otherwise you die ....and quickly.

Saturday I went to ICON (South African Convention)....Got there a bit late (10am which normally would be on time) so did not register for the RPG modules. I went and watched the MEAD (LARP) people beating each other up outside the Gaming hall while gluing my new models together. Was pretty fun watching them beat each other with taped up pool noodles. Will have to give it a try some time.

I also spent most of my day helping out at the Warmachine demo stand that was run by one of the other groups here in Johannesburg (3+ Gamers). We had a nice bit of interest shown by the people walking around and had demo games running all day. Once everything had calmed down I decided to play a 500pt game against a more experience Menoth Player.....I held out for most of the game and if it wasn't for Death Sentence each turn and the avatars free focus I might have been able to pull off something good. In the end Coleman was on his ace staring at some agro'ed Knights and a Avatar......

I spent my night LARP'ing I was a German Indiana Jones who had discovered a mysterious metal and was attending a unavailing of some Egyptian artifacts at a hotel in Cairo....to cut a long story sort, I was eaten by a Chinese Dragon who's metal I had stolen and the metal was turned into a A-Bomb that blew up all the other characters in the end....good fun.

On Sunday I partook in a demo game of Vampire: the eternal struggle (TCG). It looks very good and I have also roped my wife into trying it out. I had a deck from 2001 that I never got to use so I am using that and my wife is using the free deck I got from the demo game.

So that was my weekend. Nothing special but was fun anyways.

Now on to the exciting news. A fellow player and myself might be starting up a shop so that we can sell Warmachine/Hordes at a much better price. We worked out that the local shops are putting the prices up by at least 60% this could mean the life or death of this hobby. If people could get starter boxes for R400 ( $40) instead of the current R675 ($75) that the local retailer sells them for, I think this hobby would fly.

So tonight after our Thursday night game at my house we will talk business and work on a way to get us from 3rd world gamers to 1st world.

Until next time.....

SA Comp And BCBSA.

Warmachine Breast Cancer Brawl SA.

This is something I am really looking forward to. Not only will it be my first Warmachine tournament but it will also be something that I can really be proud of myself for if it runs smoothly and raises a lot of money.

I will be running the Tournament at my local Scout Hall on the 10th of October 2009. I have drafted up the ruleset and will put it up on our local forum. I have already got a couple of people interested in playing and might have a sponsor in the pipelines for pizes.

I am hoping to get my Pressganger-ship by October so that I can get some PP prize support. I just need to get moving on my Cygnar....I promise I will start in the next week.

South Africans and Comp for Warhammer.

This is one of the touchiest subjects that you can post about on our local forum. The guys from the Liberal Cape have no issues in trying to fix the game system that GW themselves do not see as broken. But the people from the North (i.e. Johannesburg) are a little less open to the suggestion. We have been having a debate about implementing a Comp into our local Warhammer scene for the last year. Next month is the South African National's and if nothing is done to balance out the silly "Power Tiers" that seem to be present in the game I do not see myself having a good time. It looks like one of our locals has done his homework and decided to post a "SAComp" on the local site. So far it has had many praises and of course the normal criticism, but hopefully we will see some direction very soon.

I do not have the money to start a new army every 6months when GW release a new army book. I have sold my Beasts of Chaos and put my Tomb Kings away so that I can focus on what I see is a more balanced games system, Warmachine.

Warmachine might be the game of the cheeses but at least we know that there is a equal level of cheese for each faction. Warhammer seems to be the game of "Who ever got released last and was really loved by the mentally challenged play testers" has the advantage.

On a side note:
I am taking part in a study between the link of MMO gamers and their Avatars/Characters. It is being run by a friend of mine who will be doing his honours in Social Antropology. I will let you all know what his findings are and how messed up us MMOG's are.

Also I will be attending the South African ICON 2009 next week. I will take some pics and let you guys know how it went. I will be roleplaying and helping out at the Warmachine stand trying to get more converts to the cause.

Until next time....