I'm still playing.....

I know it has been 9 months and it seems like nothing has happened ( and nothing has on here) but I have been rather "busy". In the past couple of months I have been retrenched from my job that I was working at for 14 days short of 5 years and We (my little family of 5) have decided to try immigrate to the UK. So we have spent all our money on Visa's and should know if our applications were successful in the next week or so.

As for Warmachine, I have been playing every Thursday at our club (my Garage) and I have run all 3 Leagues and 4 Tournaments so far this year. Sadly I am the only "active" PG in our area and so I have to do all the organising etc. Not complaining just explaining why I'm not playing in events.

This past weekend was ICON 2012 and I attended but sadly my luck was somewhere else, I wallked away with 2/3 win/loss. I will do a bit more detailed write up later this evening with how it all went down.

until next time..... 

Storm Strider 1

So I finally got around to painting my Storm Strider over the weeked. After last weeks performance in the 3 games I ran him in I decided he deserved some paint, along with Harlan Versh who took out eGaspy with 3 well placed shots.

Front pic of SS.

Side view of SS.

Storm Strider next to a Storm Smith.

....long over Due!

So Chad and I decided to get a Sunday game in and I had my camera ready.

I was meant to take Constance but decided to use my Storm Strider in the NQ eHaley Tier list.

Chads list:High Allegiant Amon Ad-Raza
* Reckoner
* Reckoner
* Hierophant
Choir of Menoth (Leader and 3 Grunts)
Idrian Skirmishers (Leader and 5 Grunts)
* Idrian Skirmishers Chieftain & Guide
Knights Exemplar (Leader and 5 Grunts)
Allegiant of the Order of the Fist
The Wrack (3 wracks)
Vassal of Menoth
Vassal of Menoth
My list:
Major Victoria Haley

* Stormclad
Arcane Tempest Gun Mages (Leader and 5 Grunts)
Field Mechaniks (Leader and 3 Grunts)
Storm Tower
Stormblade Infantry (Leader and 5 Grunts)
* Stormblade Infantry Officer & Standard
Storm Strider (Had advance move for tier 1)Captain Arlan Strangewayes
Stormsmith Stormcaller
Stormsmith Stormcaller (Free for tier 2)

 So Terrain was set up with us rolling for the water and it was shallow. With the roll off to see who would decide sides Chad took the far side with the water.

 Chad set up his force very close together with his Jack flanking his caster and the Idrians right in front of his force. I put my SS (Storm Strider) in the middle of the board not know where he would go and squeezed the Stormknights to the left and Gunmages to the right, knowing that they can protect the flank if something silly was to happen. The Idrian's called Prey on the Stormknights. And the SS took its advance move directly up the board.

Chads turn 1. He runs the Exemplars, Idrians, Reckoners. Hierophant gave Amon "Harmonious Exaltation". Amon cast Synergy on himself and charged the SS. The choir moved up and gave the Jack behind the wall some love so that he could not be shot at.

My turn 1. I activate Haley first and cast Deadeye and Temporal Acceleration on the SS and moved it two inches forward with Telekinesis. she then cast Telekinesis on herself and called her Feat catching everyone except the Hierophant and the Choir. The SS moved up and tried to use its Deadeye shot on Amon but missed so I put the other two into the Idrians and left the Guide alive but he failed his command check and was fleeing. Everyone else moved up with the Gunmages running in to cover any LOS the Reckoners would have to Haley.

Chads turn 2 (Known as Kelvin's Menoth turn). I thought that models outside the feat bubble could choose to activate before or after I started feat effected models. So Chad activated the Choir and gave the Jacks +2 to hit and damage rolls. And the Hierophant used "Harmonious Exaltation" again on Amon. Exemplars moved towards the SS. Idrian Rallied. The Allegiant went into shifting sand stance. First Vassal did ancillary attack on the one reckoner who shot the SS. 2nd Vassal did the same to the other Reckoner. The Amon activated and cast Convection on a Stormblade, killing him and giving one Reckoner an extra Focus. Both Reckoners shot at the SS. Leaving it on 4 hp and on fire.

 My Turn 2 . I roll to see if the fire goes out on the SS and it didn't. So Chad rolled damage and a lucky roll (10+) would have killed it but he did not even roll past the armor. The Mechanic and his crew moved up and repaired the SS for 6 points. The Stormsmiths both moved up and disrupted both Jack just in case he wanted to call his feat. Haley activated and cast TA on the SS and Deadeye on the SS and Stormblades. The SS shot at Amon Boosting to hit and got it and boosted damage. Next shot I tried Amon again and boost but missed. The 3rd shot I put into the Jack. The whole time the electro leaping from these attacks were killing off the choir and anyone close by. The storm tower shot the black reckoner and the lightning bounce off killing an exemplar. The Storm blades called an assault on Amon and the Allegiant.  Lucky for me I had Deadeye and hit the Aliegant but alas not one of the shots on Amon hit. So the gun mages moved up and shot the Black Reckoner pushing it back twice and the others took shots at the Exemplars only killing 1 more.

Chad Turn 3. The top Vassal moved up and gave the Reckoner a free shot at the SS. then the Reckoner moved up and Shot it again killing it. The Knights exemplar charged into the Mechanics and Gunmages and managed to kill the main Mechanic. Then Amon activated an charged the Stormknights and did a Thresher attack killing 5 and bought another attack killing the 6th. Luckily the Officer past his command check. The 2nd Reckoner moved forward. And the 2nd Vassal ran into btb with the Stormclad.

My Turn 3. I assigned 3 focus to the Stormclad. Haley activated and cast TA on the Stormclad. Arlan came up and gave the Stormclad immunity to free strikes. Then the Stormclad activated and walked over to Amon and it took 3 attacks but he did die.

It was a very good Sunday game. I do feel that Amon against Haley is a really unfair matchup and have promised Chad a rematch where he can use Sevvy.

Hope you enjoyed.

So until next time......

What have I been up to......

So I have not put a post together in over 3 months. Wow what a slacker I am.

But I have not died. I have been super busy.

First month was with World of Warcraft the other months with trying to get lists together for our Con/Tournament season.

So last i wrote that i was going to Out Come the Wolves, Wow what a waist I just could not get my mind right for the entire event. i ended up 5th but man it was just silly the mistakes I made.

Next was Warcon and this just killed me a bit on the inside. I needed a 6 on three dice to kill the enemy 'lock and I rolled a 1,1,3. I nearly cried. So I came 3rd instead of 1st.

Next up was Saturday Show Down. Another one where my head was not in it. Opponent wanted to Purge Haley and I told him I had him so he stopped and asked why I explained Vortex and he did a take back and proceeded to kill he with Manifest destiny rather. I should have said no to him but I am too soft, or so my wife says.

I flew down to Cape Town in June and Ran a Steam Roller event and had a demo day on the Sunday. The guys really enjoyed it and are amp'ed for more. Now the beach bums need to get a PG and run their own events.

ICON was our last event and I decided to rather do demos the entire weekend. Man was it AWESOME! From the Friday till the Sunday that Table was busy. We had so much response that I am really trying to get some figures together to try entice Jen to send over some peeps so that we can run something at rAge this year.

Promise I will post more often, So until next time........

Calm before the Storm.

So tomorrow is Out Comes the Wolves and man am I exited I have not played in a propper Steamroller event since September last year. I have organised 2 tournaments during my competitive dry spell but I am itching to play, hopefully I can get myself back into the top 5 on the national rankings (Currently 6th).....well I can hope.

SO in the past week I have been painting up my Gun Mages + UA and my Rangers so that I can field two fully painted lists that have completely different play styles.


My Lists are:

Lord Commander Stryker
* Ol' Rowdy
* Squire

Field Mechaniks (Leader and 3 Grunts)

Stormblade Infantry (Leader and 5 Grunts)
* Stormblade Infantry Officer & Standard
* * Stormclad

Journeyman Warcaster
* Charger

Professor Victor Pendrake

Stormsmith Stormcaller

Captain Allister Caine
* Ironclad
* Squire

Arcane Tempest Gun Mages (Leader and 5 Grunts)
* Arcane Tempest Gun Mage Officer
* * Hunter
* * Hunter

Rangers

Captain Arlan Strangewayes

Eiryss, Angel of Retribution

Reinholdt, Gobber Speculator


So as you can see I have gone for Assassination casters. Lets just hope I can use them correctly.

Wish Me Luck!!!!!

New Khador 'Caster and his 'Jack.

So yesterday I see a thread in the PP general forums that looks interesting and because my proxy at work does not allow me to go to the PP main site I decided to give the thread a look see hoping that someone had linked the image in a format that I could see it.

Well what a surprise I got when I saw all the negative remarks about the model. Even some well known Interwebz celebs had some bad words about the model. So I kept on scrolling down hoping for a pic I could see but alas there was nothing.

So I got home last night and after reading all the remarks about the model having a awful weapon and too many pouches, I thought this guy was going to be hideous. So I opened my web browser and waited for it to load flicking back and forth from other pages (We don't have super fast ADSL here where I stay).



"Khador’s Iron Wolf has earned a reputation as a peerless master of heavy armor on the battlefield, a war hero beloved by his men and respected even by the enemies of the Motherland. He is famous for his ability to move large numbers of warjacks at an unprecedented pace to arrive where the enemy least expects him. Where Harkevich and his iron army stride, the enemy finds itself hounded, outmaneuvered, cornered, and eventually obliterated by overwhelming firepower."

 Finally a pic pops up and my first thought was "What are they complaining about, look at the uber-steampunk mace that he rev's up to kill people with". I can see where people are saying it looks like a pirate peg leg but damn that made me laugh thinking about him vs broadside......beaten to death with your own leg would take on a new meaning. And for the remarks about the model being to busy? Well I think he is 100% in line with everyone else, I was expect bags/pouches on every open space but when I hit the rotate button on the site I didn't feel that the model was over done. In fact I really like the Bedroll on his back. To me he looks like the kind of man who does not see the cities of Khador much and is always on the move. If his story is pointing in this direction then i think this sculpt is spot on.

“Black Ivan is the prized companion of Kommander Harkevich, a warcaster renowned for his ingenuity on the battlefield. Armed with a bombard and an industrial wrecking claw, Black Ivan is an unparalleled instrument of war that excels at both long-range bombardment and the brutal press of melee.”

So this morning I get to work and again I see a new thread on "Black Ivan" and I was like "who is this new solo?". So i open the thread and the about picture pops up. Now I'm not a big fan of the new plastic 'Jacks and the character kits but I must say that this boetie looks awesome. I haven't had a chance to look at the 360 view but I really like his "Industrial Wrecking Claw" lets hope this thing doesn't have armor piercing or we will have a some whiny faction forums out there. I already have a great respect for the Destroyer and its Bombard and normal Axe now it has even more CC potential so I'll have to watch out.

I really like both these models and after the forum hate that I saw yesterday I was expecting a lump of plastic/metal. I just think people now adays are just finding any old thing to moan about.

Glad I'm not one to follow the masses and shout out DOOM!

Well until next time.........

So the wait is nearly over. Time for WAR!

So I have not played in a tournament since last year and man am I itching to play in a official event.

The South African calendar has given me a bit of time to get my 35pt lists 100% painted. But I have a month left to get as much as I can done before the Tournaments really start otherwise I'll have to buy some people some drinks.

At the end of next month we have Out Come the Wolves held at Warfair in Bedfordview which should be a standard one day 35pt Steam roller event. A week later we have UPCON in Pretoria that is a 2 day event. The PG running this event is trying to spice it up a bit by making some cool scenarios, so I'm not sure on the Points cost  or scenarios. Two weeks after UPCON we have WARCON that will also be a 2 day event but should be a normal 35pt SR. Three weeks after that I will be running Armageddon, I'm torn between running a 35pt Highlander or a 50 pt Vanilla steam roller. We will have to see.

From there on out we have at least one event a month excluding ICON, but I will be doing Demo's during ICON as this is the only real event a year where we get non gamers at a con.

Its going to be one busy winter but at least the blog will see some action with pics and updates.

I really hope that we can organise something for rAge this year. The problem that we face is that the stands are expensive and we need a decent sized stand if we want to put some demo tables up and still have space for some stock.

A week of Painting!

Well actually it was only 4 days 1 of which my Daughter was at home because we are in school holidays.

But I managed to get some painting done and now have 2 competitive 35pt lists. I tried them out on Saturday at Warfair (LGC) and won both games with each list.

The lists are eStryker and pNemo, I played against pButcher and Buldar respectively. The pButcher game ended with eStryker charging the Butcher and Overloaded for 8 Str but took 11 damage. The Buldar game came down to Thunderhead needing a 13 to kill and I rolled a 13. Was a tense game that I enjoyed a lot.

Well time for some pics.

All the models together.

eEiryss and eCaine

Backs of eEiryss and eCaine 

eStryker Front

eStryker Left

eStryker Right

Mechanic and Crew

Ol' Rowdy

Back Ol' Rowdy

So our next Tournament is April the 30th (Out come the wolves) so I will take these two lists to that event. I have my Rangers and ATGM unit + UA that I would like to have done before the 7-8 May (UPCON) as I would like to take a eCaine list to this one.

UPCON sounds like it is going to be a awesome event with all three gaming systems covered and all other hobby types represented.

Until next time......

Smackdown 2011/02/05

 Wow its a lot of work running an event by yourself.

I took the Friday off to sort out the Snacks that would be on sale and fetch the trophies and pick up the tables and transport them to the scout hall. But alas nothing ever goes the way you want it to on your day off. I had to work a couple of hours in the middle of the day throwing everything off. In the end I got my tables it the hall and had everything ready for Saturday morning.

Saturday morning I got up nice and early and set off to the scout hall. Set up the tables (because the scouts meet on Friday nights) and got the coffee mugs and all the "for sale" stuff sorted, you know gamers need Coffee before anything else. First person to arrive was Hannes who I ordered to rush home and get the packets of ice out the deep freeze. Poor dude got lost and took him about 30min to do , what should have been, a 5 minute trip.

So all the people started to arrive around 8:30 and we had 15 players by 9. That was 3 less than were registered. So we started.

The day ran smoothly with us running 15min late. Everyone looked to enjoy themselves and I had fun running the event as usual. Last year we only had 8 people this year we had 15 players and a couple of people come in and see what was going on. So lets hope that next year we have 28+ players at Smackdown.

Winners

Sean, Chad and Eli with their trophies. Golden Warhog, Silver Mauler and The Bronze Ironclad.

Chad also won the Destroyer award for the best Attrition score, he did tie with Evan on 93 point but had a better Survival score so got to take two trophies home.

1 | Sean Martens        | Warzone        |  Protectorate of Menoth
2 | Chad Parsons        | Dragons Den   | Legion of Everblight
3 | Eli Golovey            | 3+                  |Cryx
4 | Evan Hurwitz         | Warzone         | Cryx
5 | Hannes Wiese       | Dragons Den   | Khador
6 | Mike Gao             | Warzone         | Trollbloods
7 | Ryan Keyzer         | Warzone         | Retribution of Scyrah
8 | Ryan Kidson         | 3+                  | Cryx
9 | Ricky Veale          | 3+                  | Cygnar
10| Ryan Vonk          | 3+                  | Cryx
11| Martin Nortman   | Dragons Den  | Cygnar
12| Dewan Demmer   | Warzone        | Mercenaries
13| Charles Krynauw | 3+                  | Protectorate of Menoth
14| Robert Martens    | Warzone        | Khador
15| Nuno Afonso        | Johannesburg | Mercenaries

Nuno, our wooden spoon winner. Eating some Fritto's while getting a buy in the final round.

Chad getting ready for his round 3 game against Sean Martens. 

Ryan Keyser (PG_TotalGee) not sure what he was trying to achieve. Winner from last years event.

One of our locals, Martin, Trying to understand that those blue things on the board are not more Cygnar but actually elves.

Sean Martens in the finals with his game face on. For a man who has played in 2 tournaments with his Menoth and 4 WM/H tournaments in total I say he did very well.

Eli playing a fairly decent Dene list, if there is such a thing, getting ready to face off against Sean.

Play of the day goes to Sean who managed to set Dene alight on turn 1 even when she was completely hidden behind a building. He missed a Mechanithrall of to the left of her and it scattered onto her....she burnt for the rest of the game (5 Turns). Must have been awful rolls from Sean that she didn't die sooner.

 

 Chad getting his game on with pThaggy for round 4, needs to win to get 2nd or 3rd.

Mike getting ready with eDoomy and Mulg, the 2 hordes players at Smackdown facing off against each other.

Happy New Year and all that!

Thought I would get a post in before my year really starts.

2011 is off to a good start.

I got a mail from Jen last week Sunday telling me that my press ganger status has been approved. What does that mean? Well....smackdown will be my first event as a PG.

So far I have 17 people signed up for my Smackdown tournament (5th Feb). I have made trophies for the event. The Golden Warhog, Silver Mauler and the Bronze Ironclad. I also have a Trophy for the person who destroys the most points during the tourney.

I just need to find more tables because I only have 5 warmachine and 1 warhammer table. Our old club member says he has a couple of tables that he is willing to donate to us so I will have to go around and see what we can salvage.

I also received my Battlefoam Bag. Man am I impressed it is a stunning bag. Our local guy is bring ing in so Sabol bags and I think I will get one for starter boxes.

So getting ready for this weekend and have taken Friday off so I can sort all this out.

Will be taking pics this weekend and will update next week on what happened.

Doubles "test" game.

Last week I was testing out a doubles scenario for a tournament I want to run next year.

I was suppose to team up with Trollbloods vs. Legion of Everblight and Cygnar.

Alas the Trollblood player was not able to make it so I had to settle with Pirates as my partners.

I took a Coleman Stryker list as he has Arcane Shield (+3 Arm), Blur (+3 Def against RNG + Magic), Snipe (+4 RNG) which can all be cast on Friendly models not just Friendly Faction.

My ally brought Shae the Pirate Man-Princess and his little gun, and yes the cannon is the best artillery piece in the game hands down.

We played that both players went simulatiously but only one player could active at a time. I am not sure if I like the way it is done in the book for a tournament as I think this could take to long. But we will try it out in the weeks that follow.


The scenario we played was Close Quarters, 2x 8 inch circles one on either side of the board and you have to capture the circle in your opponents half.

We played on a 4ftx4ft table with 35pt list to see if it would be enough space. I think there was enough but did not ask the guys afterwards how they felt.

SO to the game.

Table had 5 pieces of terrain, and nice forrest in the middle and hill in the one deployment zone, a bunch of rocks in another, a swamp/pond on the right and a wall to the left but to the back.

C+M got first turn and deployed their armies on the left side of the board. Chad had one of every Carni variant, a Seraph and 2 shepherds. Martin had 2x Hunters, Arlan Strangeways, Squire, Journeyman, defender,ironclad, charger and 2 storm smiths. I am not sure what they were attempting

We deployed with Ivor taking up the left flank and myself covering their score circle to the right.
I had Coleman, Ol' Rowdy, Squire, Reinholt, Stormblades +ua +stormclad, Arlan Strangeways, Black 13, Storm tower and a Journeyman, Ivor had Cannon, Mangler, Dirty Meg + freebooter, Lady Ainia and Master Holt, Hawk, the bosun, Doc, Rockbottom and a full unit of Seadogs with master Walls.

I deployed the Tower and Storm everything on the right close to the objective point. The B13 on the far left and everything else in the middle. We put the cannon in the middle and his army spread out across the board. The Freebooter having Amphibious deployed by the water, because he didn't care .

First Turn they move up and put spiney growth on everything. Also puts Arcane shield on the Ravagor (Big Carni with Range) could not do anything else.

We moved the sea dogs out of the cannons way but did not need to as we were shooting at bigger based models, the seadogs shot at the Ravagor but at Arm 21 did nothing. The Cannon shot the scythean and slammed it back into the charger and thagrosh. The Journeyman put AS (Arcan Shield) on the freebooter. B13 moved up and shot the one stormsmith off the board (First blood was ours) and put the 4inch pow 12 cloud effect into play in front of his army. moved everything else up to get into position.

2nd Turn Chad shoots bunched up sea dogs and kills most of them and puts 3 on fire. Lucky for us Hawk made the fearless. The Corrosion cloud effect remained in play. Martins hunter moved up and took 5 damage from the pow 12 cloud and for all his effort missed the freebooter. The 2nd hunter managed to move up and hit but with AS it was -6 to his roll and I think he did 4 damage. Chad moved his beasts into the woods so that he could move to the objective next turn and staying out of site of the cannon.

We then realised that Shaes feat says all friendly models. and he has Coup de main which effects all friendly models....Mwahahaha. That is a 3" move for his feat and pathfinder + 2" extra movement and charge for free because of Coup De Main this gives every freindly model +5 movement. SO we took liberties and moved everything up. I charged the stormclad into the Ravagor (Because he had As and not Spiney Growth which could hurt the Jack) did dismal damage because of thaggy's -2Str and my Awesome dice rolls. The stormblades moved in and engaged the Scytheon but again at P+S 13 with no charge did minimal damage.
Arlan moved onto their circle. I wasn't watching Ivor to muct but nearly everything of his ran across the board and engaged Martins models. Hawk even took out Martins Journeyman, We should have done this first because the Ravagor would have been arm18 instead of 21 so I could have done more damage. the Cannon shot the seraph pushing it away from the object leaving the charger the only contesting model. The Seadogs managed to take the Seraph out afterwards. Coleman charged the Charger and because he had storm rager on him from Shae (+2 to hit and damage) e waisted the little guy. I then put AS on myself and called my feat (+5 Arm, friendly faction in CTRL) putting Coleman on Arm 26 (Base 15 + 5 Feat + 3AS + 3 Focus) + Def 18 because Ol' Rowdy came running into BTB. 1 VP to us

Turn 3 I was not watching the other side of the board as I was focused on what Chad was going to inflict on my guys. First off he double handed throws my Stormclad at coleman, missing and scattering back on to the Stormblades, Because of the feat they were arm 20 so none died but knocked 3 down. Thaggy moved in and ash clouded 2 of them and killed 3 in total. see a opening the Ravagor charged at Arlan on their objective but suffered a free strike from the last standing stormblade. With -5 to my roll I still managed 7 damage and took out body and spirit (Chad did not see this before he charged) so the ravagor made both attacks needing 6 on 1 dice and failed both...Arlan was sweating. I noticed that hawk was dead and Ivor Jacks were beaten badly. I also noticed that martin had moved a hunter into the control circle. Chad charge the Scythean into the Bosun who had help coleman kill the charger last turn. Bosun died and Scythean hit out at a sea dog killing him as well. then he took a swing at coleman boosting to hit and damage and inflicting 2 damage. I was disgusted. Chad moved in a shepherd to also help contest.

Our turn and we had to get the Scythean, Shepherd and Hunter away from our objective so we could win. I decided to let all upkeeps drop and pulled a focus from the squire gave 3 to Ol' Rowdy and started the turn. Basically read it like this no one else could make it to the objective in time to help. So rockbottom gave a coin to the cannon crew for +2 Ranged attack and damage rolls. They then slammed the hunter back, but not far enough, and killed the last sea dogs in the process. Lady Aiyana moved and cast Kiss of Lyliss (+2 to damage on the model) on the Scythean. Maser Holt shot at him and inflict 5 pts of damage. Ol' Rowdy moved into combat with the Hunter and Scytean and killed the hunter and beat into the Scythean Leaving him with 1 black left. Coleman moved in and finished the job. Now we had a Shepard that only two models could get to the Journeyman (Rat4) and Shae (Rat6) so the journeyman tried first and missed (Dammit) then I remembered Reinholt and moved him to Shea for a reload. Shea moved up and shot, hitting the Shepard and killing her. 2 VP to us. Game.

What I learnt. Doubles is actually much better I think because it is not all about caster kill. Especially with us as we only had 1 Jack on each caster so it would be a loss of only 2 models, still making us semi effective. Also Cygnar and Mercs are very well suited to playing together as we both have quite a few Friendly spells and not Friendly faction.

I really enjoyed it and the mission was a nice one for doubles games as you need to attack and defend which leads to awesome team work.

Stryker and 'ol Rowdy.

So the other night I faced off against a Sorcha list that I lost against at our Nationals.

I have never owned 'ol Rowdy before and decided to borrow a friends and see how he works with eStryker.

After this last game I now understand why they feature together in more than one picture.

I had a fun game waiting for someone to charge me but alas he never did the Def18 really made him think twice. The moving up together is quite tricky, trying to keep Coleman behind Rowdy all game.

Coleman trying to stay behind 'Ol Rowdy

Next time I play I will just leave him in front of Rowdy as his Def18 should save him from most slam/charge attacks and if they hit Coleman and not Rowdy then Rowdy can walk in and hit them down. Also thought of a tactic that I charge eColeman into combat and beat everyone down and call his feat. Then get Rowdy to charge stryker and Tremor knocking everyone except himself and stryker down. Now they get to move and make one attack on the knocked down models....auto hit can can boost. Awesome.

Tonight we will testing out the doubles format that I want to use at one of my tournaments next year. Will be Cygnar/Trolls vs. Cygnar/Legion. Will take pics and put it up here.

Man, I need a new case.

So I really need a new case to transport my Cygnar in because the small hard GW case that I currently use is getting a bit too small. So I am looking at either a Sabol or Battle Foam Bag for Christmas.

I really like the look of them both.

Sabol Army Transport

Battle Foam PP bag.

The Sabol bag is half the price of the Battlefoam but I have seen a few reviews saying that the strap seems to give at the most opportune times. I suppose the price will leave me with $70 to buy new straps but do I really want to worry about that. Also the Battle Foam comes with a very nice front pouch with the card sleeve holder (almost like a ring binder) and space for all my niche items that we all seem to have and use.

I will have to see what my christmas bonus looks like and hopefully I'll get myself a bag to Kelvin from Kelvin.

Food Machine. Gauteng - South Africa (Results)

So we had our Local Foodmachine on the 6th.

I had my doubts about this event as we only had 5 registered players until 3 days before the event. I started to beg and plead for participants. On Friday afternoon we had 16 registered players.

Day arrived and I was late thanks to my wife deciding to come sit with me for the day (Mistake on her part) and needing to drop my spawn off at my folks who were driving up to my Ouma's (Grandmother) 90th.

Get to the event and I have 10 players already waiting. Because Total Gee was suppose to be running the event with me i thought he would be at the event already and all I would have to do is set up my PC with our local home grown TO program and input the names. Alas it was not to be TG was not to be found and the tables needed to be set up. With the venue not being my local I was not sure what I could use and what I couldn't. Lucky for me the club members are awesome guys and we had the tables set up in no time.

At 9:00 I get a call from TG that he had slept through his alarm, so I was on my ace where I was only ment to assist.

Set up all the players and we had 10 at the start of the event. Matched them all up and off we went.

I must say that we had some very liberal players who used up most of their cans in the first game. Was awesome to watch as some guys would pay up to 8 cans (of food) to get the roll that they wanted only to have their opponent pay a single can to have them re-roll.

We had at late entry and TG arrived, in a very hung over state, so I paired them off. so that we would have even numbers.

We had 4 awesome rounds of gaming with TG (Ryan, Retribution) vs. Ronald (Legion) squaring off in the final. Man was it epic TG had a 32 can re-roll which means he had 6 re-rolls in a single turn. Came down to the wire and with dice down called Ronald walked away with the Gold Coin.

Total Gee did manage to spend the most cans for the day with a total of 151 Cans being brought to the club on Sunday afternoon.

Results
Tins of food Raised: 491

Player standings:
1) Ronald - Legion of Everblight
2) Marco - Cryx
3) Ryan - Retribution of Scryh
4) Sean - Cryx
5) Nuno - Mercs
6) Eli - Trollbloods
7) Robert - Protectorate of Menoth
8 ) Dewan - Mercs
9) Mike - Trollbloods (Only arrived in round 3, won both games)
10) Evan - Cryx
11) Warren - Legion of everblight
12) Victor - Khador
13) Martin - Cygnar
14) Donovan - Trollbloods (Played 1 Game, thnx for the cans)

Awesome event and looking at this I think I should try get my Breast Cancer Brawl off the floor. I tink next year I'll run it in the middle of the year so as not to clash with the next Foodmachine.

Food Machine. Gauteng - South Africa

Ryan Keyser (PG_TotalGee) has asked me to assist him in running a food machine event on the 6th of November. Info Here!

This is a very awesome event started by NJ SOBS.


The event allows you to cheat during your games by donating cans of food. One example is that you can donate 1 can for a re-roll of dice once per turn and the extreme is for 10 cans you can have a opponent lose advance deploy on a unit or have +1 MAT, RAT, DEF, ARM on any non-character beast or 'jack.

I am really looking forward to this event as all the proceeds will go to the TLC home for abandoned orphans, most of the children a HIV/AIDS orphan which is really sad.

Without the care and love given to the kids from the staff at the home I really don't think they would have gotten as far in life as they have. Lets hope this event is a great success.

So far we only have a handful of players but knowing our local community they will only wake up in the last week.