I smell bacon!

OMW have you seen this!

He is one mean pig. Story goes he hacked and sliced his way up the food chain and is now one bad ass Farrow warcaster.

This guy looks like someone had his mother for breakfast and he is out to find them.

I have already decide to get Rorsh and Brine for my Cygnar. Gives me a bit of Hordes flavour in my Warmachine list. So when Lord Carver over here is release I will have some Farrow already and not feel too bad.

So i promised some feedback from Warcon.

Well my lists were:
pNemo
Stormclad
Thunderhead
Lancer
Squire
Stormblades (6)
Arlan Strangeways
Journeyman
Stormsmith

and

a pHaley list that I cant remember for the life of me.

Game 1: Ricky (eStryker) Mission: Convergence

This was a very fun 1st game I wiped his trenchers off the board with pulse while I walk within 6" of old rowdy, How i here you ask, I voltic snared the hunter next to him and so he was helpless. I maintained the snare for 3 rounds before the hunter got the arcnode off the Lancer.

I learnt that only the base armor is halved and I had Arcane shield on him so it was -7 to his damage rolls.

It was all going so well, i had Nemo at the back casting spells and filling up the jacks but then eStryker hit the turbo button on his suit and moved out of combat with the T-Head missed my Free strike and he charged off into Nemo with +8str for 4 damage...It only took 1 swing and the old man was down.

Good game had a blast. Got 1 CP.

Game 2: Hannes (pIrusk) Mission: Kill Box

This was one of those games that you just had to smile. Hannes games at our LGC so we know each other well and I knew his list was as hard as nails.

He deployed first so I knew he would be in the box waiting for me. To my surprise he didn't move Irusk on the 1st turn but he was still only 4" out side the box. I moved up trying to get some cover and block LOS.

His 2nd turn he moves Irusk to the side of the board and I just look at the TO and shake my head...it didn't matter what he did next because when he said i could go I just looked at him and shook his hand. He was not impressed with himself but I did tell him twice what the mission was so no excuses.

We carried on playing just for the heck of it and he proceeded to wipe me off the board. I felt really bad for him.

Game 3: Charles (Harbi) Mission: Capture the Flag

This was the first time I had face a proper Menoth player and Harbi at that and all I can say is MAN WHAT A PAIN IN THE AR$E!!!

I took Hayley for this game and it went well besides me shooting my entire 12man long gunner squad into her force 2 shots a turn a 3 feat turn he still got into combat and started beating on my stormblades. It was a close game as "dice down" was called just as I had my hunter run to capture his flag.

Game ended with a win to me with 1 CP.

Game 4: Nuno (Bart) Mission: Outflank, Outfight, Outlast

I must just say that Nuno had been to our LGC for three practice games before taking part in Warcon.

This game really disappointed me. I pulled a Hannes on myself. I moved my units into position so that I could capture the points in the next turn but did not see the Buccaneer charge with dirty meg that locked up my units while his Freebooter sat on the control point. Tick at the end of his turn and I did my best to get my units/jacks across to the point but alas...tick, he won. He did not even notice I just looked at him at the end of his turn and said well done.

So this was my 2nd loss but I did manage 1 CP.

So at the end of day 1 I had 2\0\2 and 3 CP. Not too bad as there was only one player who had won all his games so far and he was my 1st game on the Sunday.

To be continued.........

I did a write up on the 2nd day but it was wiped with my hard drive, I doubt i will get back to it as I now cant remember what happened exactly.

Is this thing on?

Sorry that its been dead, been a bit busy with RL stuff like WoW and Paintball and Warmachine.

So in March I had my Steamroller event. We had a decent turnout and played our 4 rounds.

The winner was Ryan Keyser with his RoS list.
He used Rahn and a nice Mittens list. Worked very well and he got CC in each round.

2ND was Charles with a Menoth Harby list. It was awful to call dice down on the game between 2ND and 3rd but I had to. otherwise Harby could have sat there for days, man is that lil girl insane if you can get her in cover.

3rd was Mark with a Siege list from hell. He executed it very well.

Everyone had fun and i have got the models to mount on the trophies I just need to get it all painted up in gold, silver and bronze.

April was a quiet month we had UPCON in Pretoria (1hrs drive from us) I did not attend and the results have not been posted on our local forums so I can't say who won.

In April we did close the doors to our club. It was cost R1000 a month to rent the spot and the guy paying the rent was not doing anything to get income, so I told him to rather pack up and move into my garage.

Lets just say its worked out well for the both of us. My wife doesn't complain about me having to go out on Game night and the ex-payee now has to travel 20km less a week to play games also he has his weekends free to do as he likes.

This month we had Warcon in Kensington at Warfair. The Warzon club members ran the event and it was great seeing all three major systems at one well run event. There were less participants because the die-hards played their favourite GW system so we only had 8 players. I would just like to mention that this was 2 less than the WHFB players which is a huge shock. You normally have between 12-20 WHFB players at these events.

I will right up about my games in another post forcing me to at least make another post in the next week.

So what is planned for June/July:

Well My wife has told me that she will try WM so I will most likely buy her a starter box of one of the factions.

With that starter box I want to apply for Press Ganger membership so that I can get some prize support for my tourneys that I run.

We will also be playtesting our lists for ICON (The largest convention in RSA).

Feb comes to a close.

So February has come to a end and I was able to completely paint up my 15pts for March. I must say this is a major achievement for me. I have had my Cygnar since 2004 and I have only really started painting now.

I made a decision over the weekend that I will be selling my Tomb Kings. I have them sitting in the garage in my carry case collecting dust. I have sort of given up on GW, they write a very solid rules system but break it with their silly Army books. I do not have much time to waist and so I'll stick to the more customer friendly Privateer Press.

So I played a 15 point game against trolls last night and all I can say is multiple wound ARM 16+ models are a real pain.

He had:
Madrak
Axer
Axer
Champion Hero
3x Champions

I had my normal list.

It was a real meat grinder and we were both rolling awful. In the end it was Coleman staring down Madrak and the Hero.

My Charger worked very hard. He took out all the Champions and even received a charge from the Hero only to hold him up until the end of the game. After the game my opponent tried to convince me that Coleman was a bit too strong in that he took down 1 1/2 Axer's by himself. I said the Madrak could do the same if he needed to and it was just me using my focus wisely.

So what is install for March:
I am holding a Steam Roller event on the 12th call Smackdown '10. It will be using the steam roller format but with 35pt lists. We will do 50pts next year when people are more vet at this.
I have ordered a Mauler and some Shredders and will be buying some wood to make trophies. Gold Mauler, Bronze and Silver Shredders. I did buy a Ironclad (To go with the Mauler) and a Agonizer for Last place but I want them for myself rather.

I have Pledged to paint:
pNemo
Squire (Which i did while watching Blade Trinity Last night, Thank you Army Painter...my hero)
Stormblades + UA
Stormclad
And something special for the guys at the club.

Lucky for me I have my Army Painter so it should not take me forever to finish the models its just finding the time to sit and paint in the first place. I will try to get more games in this month by traveling to the other, more lively, clubs.

We are also playing in our 2nd Paintball league this month...so wish us luck.

So until next time.....

Nearly Done with Feb.

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.

Until next time...

Coleman vs. Feora (Cygnar vs. Protectorate of Menoth)

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!

So let’s begin.

P1: Feora, PoM

Feora
Repenter
Revenge
Vanquisher
Deliverer Sunburst Crew

P2: Coleman, Cygnar

Coleman
Lancer
Ironclad
Journeyman Warcaster
Charger
Stormsmith

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 until next time......