Hopefully there is a lot for you to be thankful for. I have spent the last year in economic hell, with the wife out of work and the kids sponging off of me like I had a bank logo on my forehead.
I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. My rent is being lowered, all of my kids except one have moved out. I may finally have a few dollars to start my new fantasy army...
As for the things I am thankful for:
My wife and kids are all healthy and safe.
My granddaughter is healthy and happy.
My job is fairly secure.
My friends are doing well, and reproducing at an alarming rate.
I am playing more games than I was just a few months ago, mostly Fantasy.
There is a game store in the state again!
So, have a great Thanksgiving and enjoy the time you have with your loved ones, whoever or whatever they are.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Griffin Dunne - DONE!
So, the werewolf for the Necromancers is done. I'll post some pictures of him later on...
Monday, November 9, 2009
Manufactorum Opening Soon
I have finally decided on a color scheme for my guard. The uniform will be a darkish blue, the armor a medium grey and the iconography will be gold.
Now that I have that figured out I will start assembling the guardsmen and their tanks this weekend.
The plan is to assemble and paint one squad or tank battery per week.
We'll see how that works out...
Now that I have that figured out I will start assembling the guardsmen and their tanks this weekend.
The plan is to assemble and paint one squad or tank battery per week.
We'll see how that works out...
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Dark Elves v Dwarves
On Saturday I played against my buddy Steve. He brought the dwarf gunline along with a shiny new Gyrocopter. He was giggling like a school girl all the way to the game store. We deployed our forces and started playing. My little surprise for him was four small, fast units. Two units of 5 Dark Riders and 2 units of five harpies. On turn two he turned his cannon and organ gun on my army. The resulting losses were minimal. I lost 5 of the harpies and a few witch elves. I charged the organ gun on turn two and the cannon on turn three. The result was the same. I killed the warmachine crews, silencing the guns. His bolt thrower crew died on turn four to massed fire from the dark riders.
The rest of his army started marching toward me. The warrior unit with my Dreadlord lost and broke from the Ironbreakers, but outran them, recovering on their next turn (the fourth). The Ironbreakers charged and fell short. That opened up the opportunity for the Dreadlord and warriors to charge on turn 5, with the Black Guard flanking the Ironbreakers as well. The resulting combat saw the warriors (specifically the Dreadlord) killing three Ironbreakers. The Black Guard managed to kill another three. The return attacks did nothing so the Iron Breakers lost by enough to break and ran 6". The Dreadlord and Warriors pursued and destroyed them, reclaiming their banner and capturing the Ironbreakers.
The harpies traversed the battlefield and charged the quarrelers in the rear, breaking them. The remnants of the witch elves charged the Thunderer's and obliterated them. The end of the game was at hand and the dwarves were defeated.
Ahh...victory.
The rest of his army started marching toward me. The warrior unit with my Dreadlord lost and broke from the Ironbreakers, but outran them, recovering on their next turn (the fourth). The Ironbreakers charged and fell short. That opened up the opportunity for the Dreadlord and warriors to charge on turn 5, with the Black Guard flanking the Ironbreakers as well. The resulting combat saw the warriors (specifically the Dreadlord) killing three Ironbreakers. The Black Guard managed to kill another three. The return attacks did nothing so the Iron Breakers lost by enough to break and ran 6". The Dreadlord and Warriors pursued and destroyed them, reclaiming their banner and capturing the Ironbreakers.
The harpies traversed the battlefield and charged the quarrelers in the rear, breaking them. The remnants of the witch elves charged the Thunderer's and obliterated them. The end of the game was at hand and the dwarves were defeated.
Ahh...victory.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Fantasy, Tatoo, Fantasy
I've been playing a lot of fantasy lately. My buddy Steve has a dwarf army he's been collecting for a couple of years and he finally talked me into playing. My army was at the club for a while (Southern New England Gaming, SNEG for short, http://www.snegaming.org/) and I was a little too lazy to get it. Long story short, I went and got it a few weeks ago and have been playing at least once a week since.
Once, a long time ago, I had all the cool stuff for a Dark Elf army: A Dragon, a Hydra, a Manticore, the Cauldron of Blood, so on and so forth.
A funny story about my Dark Elves. Once upon a time, the magic items weren't so restrictive and there were lots of cool toys to give your Sorceress. I was playing my friend Shaun and he had a Chaos Marauder list that was just plain scary. Lots of Khorne worshipping marauders, a couple of Chaos Warrior Units and some Trolls, led by a Chaos General who, on the first turn he charged, could wipe out two ranks of Dark Elf warriors in the first round of combat.
As my friend set up his army he gleefully described the carnage he would wreak upon me, as his army would advance behind his General and his bodyguard of Trolls, essentially cleaning up after the Frenzied General.
And that's exactly what he did. He rolled over me without so much as a wound to his ARMY as I fired everything I had at the general and failed to even scratch him. Well, that's not entirely true. I did wound the General a couple of times through mass fire of two repeater bolt throwers, but he had regeneration so he managed to regenerate them. Yeah...
So, over a couple of games I was routinely crushed without his general finishing the game even wounded. It was frustrating...
So I re-read the rules over and over. Finally after a couple of weeks of research I saw that models with regen can't regen wounds caused by fire. In fact, once a model with regen was wounded by fire they lost regen all together. This was outstanding because one of the magic items I had just read about was the Staff of Flaming Death. If a model was wounded by the Staff, it had to take an immediate Panic Check. Hmm, I thought. The rules for Frenzy stated that after making an attack the Frenzied character had to roll over the number of attacks they had just done in order to not tire and lose an attack. Once the Frenzied character started losing attacks it usually kept doing so until they were down to something manageable. A plan started to formulate in my small brain...
I would throw my two warrior units at the general and and hope that he would lose a few attacks in the process (a pretty good bet). Once he started attacking I just had to survive until he ran out of steam and then frenzy went away.
The next game we played I took the staff of flame and sent my warriors right at the general. The plan worked like a charm! The chaos general started losing his attacks and finally tired out completely around the third turn. By now, most of my army was gone. My sorceress was hanging out as the general charged at the last bastion of defence I had, a small unit of Corsairs. Even without frenzy the general was more than a match for the corsairs and he ran them off.
The sorceress took aim and fired her flaming staff at the general (who was no longer frenzied) and caused a single wound. The general failed his armor save of 2+!
Now came the important part. The general, no longer protected from psychology tests by being Frenzied, took his Panic Check and failed! He broke and ran, straight into the middle of his army! On his next turn, because of the proximity of his troops, he needed to take a leadership check for all of his warror units and one of his marauder units. They failed and ran. The general raced off the table (he was mounted on a chaos steed) while the units that failed the check turned tail and ran.
Because the general ran off the table, the units that weren't in range of the general at the start of the turn now needed to check, since a character fleeing off the table was considered destroyed and when the army general was destroyed (or fled off the table) then the whole army took a break check.
The remaining units took their test and failed, fleeing off the table.
I laughed, he cried, we packed our stuff.
The next week he challenged me to another fight and I accepted. I played the exact same army as did he. Things were looking good for him until the fourth turn, when, you guessed it, Flaming Staff to the general's noggin, chaos army runs away.
My buddy never played that army again...hehehe.
So, now I play against dwarves primarily and I have had mixed success with the Dark Elves. It's been quite an adjustment from 5th edition to the latest (7th, I think).
It seems that the Character Hammer of years past has been replaced with Unit Hammer, and that is pretty awesome. I have an army of Corsairs that I put together a few years back and painted. They have been doing pretty well. I've got some Cold Ones that I need to assemble, along with some warriors.
Once they are done I'll have about 2500 points of Dark Elf Doom for my dwarf playing friend...
Ahh, the evil I shall perpetuate upon his short bearded stunties...
Once, a long time ago, I had all the cool stuff for a Dark Elf army: A Dragon, a Hydra, a Manticore, the Cauldron of Blood, so on and so forth.
A funny story about my Dark Elves. Once upon a time, the magic items weren't so restrictive and there were lots of cool toys to give your Sorceress. I was playing my friend Shaun and he had a Chaos Marauder list that was just plain scary. Lots of Khorne worshipping marauders, a couple of Chaos Warrior Units and some Trolls, led by a Chaos General who, on the first turn he charged, could wipe out two ranks of Dark Elf warriors in the first round of combat.
As my friend set up his army he gleefully described the carnage he would wreak upon me, as his army would advance behind his General and his bodyguard of Trolls, essentially cleaning up after the Frenzied General.
And that's exactly what he did. He rolled over me without so much as a wound to his ARMY as I fired everything I had at the general and failed to even scratch him. Well, that's not entirely true. I did wound the General a couple of times through mass fire of two repeater bolt throwers, but he had regeneration so he managed to regenerate them. Yeah...
So, over a couple of games I was routinely crushed without his general finishing the game even wounded. It was frustrating...
So I re-read the rules over and over. Finally after a couple of weeks of research I saw that models with regen can't regen wounds caused by fire. In fact, once a model with regen was wounded by fire they lost regen all together. This was outstanding because one of the magic items I had just read about was the Staff of Flaming Death. If a model was wounded by the Staff, it had to take an immediate Panic Check. Hmm, I thought. The rules for Frenzy stated that after making an attack the Frenzied character had to roll over the number of attacks they had just done in order to not tire and lose an attack. Once the Frenzied character started losing attacks it usually kept doing so until they were down to something manageable. A plan started to formulate in my small brain...
I would throw my two warrior units at the general and and hope that he would lose a few attacks in the process (a pretty good bet). Once he started attacking I just had to survive until he ran out of steam and then frenzy went away.
The next game we played I took the staff of flame and sent my warriors right at the general. The plan worked like a charm! The chaos general started losing his attacks and finally tired out completely around the third turn. By now, most of my army was gone. My sorceress was hanging out as the general charged at the last bastion of defence I had, a small unit of Corsairs. Even without frenzy the general was more than a match for the corsairs and he ran them off.
The sorceress took aim and fired her flaming staff at the general (who was no longer frenzied) and caused a single wound. The general failed his armor save of 2+!
Now came the important part. The general, no longer protected from psychology tests by being Frenzied, took his Panic Check and failed! He broke and ran, straight into the middle of his army! On his next turn, because of the proximity of his troops, he needed to take a leadership check for all of his warror units and one of his marauder units. They failed and ran. The general raced off the table (he was mounted on a chaos steed) while the units that failed the check turned tail and ran.
Because the general ran off the table, the units that weren't in range of the general at the start of the turn now needed to check, since a character fleeing off the table was considered destroyed and when the army general was destroyed (or fled off the table) then the whole army took a break check.
The remaining units took their test and failed, fleeing off the table.
I laughed, he cried, we packed our stuff.
The next week he challenged me to another fight and I accepted. I played the exact same army as did he. Things were looking good for him until the fourth turn, when, you guessed it, Flaming Staff to the general's noggin, chaos army runs away.
My buddy never played that army again...hehehe.
So, now I play against dwarves primarily and I have had mixed success with the Dark Elves. It's been quite an adjustment from 5th edition to the latest (7th, I think).
It seems that the Character Hammer of years past has been replaced with Unit Hammer, and that is pretty awesome. I have an army of Corsairs that I put together a few years back and painted. They have been doing pretty well. I've got some Cold Ones that I need to assemble, along with some warriors.
Once they are done I'll have about 2500 points of Dark Elf Doom for my dwarf playing friend...
Ahh, the evil I shall perpetuate upon his short bearded stunties...
Monday, October 12, 2009
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Old Man's War
If you haven't read the series yet, then get out there and do it. Do it now. Very good in my opinion.
Old Man's War
Ghost Brigade
Last Colony
Zoe's Tale
The last book is a retelling of the third book by one of the characters. I just started Zoe's Tale, so I won't know if I like it 'til it's finished, but the others are very good.
I got mine off of Amazon, but Borders also sells them. I would imagine that eBay also has at least some of them listed.
Old Man's War
Ghost Brigade
Last Colony
Zoe's Tale
The last book is a retelling of the third book by one of the characters. I just started Zoe's Tale, so I won't know if I like it 'til it's finished, but the others are very good.
I got mine off of Amazon, but Borders also sells them. I would imagine that eBay also has at least some of them listed.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Dedication Re-Engaged
So, as promised I started painting. In a matter of hours I had two ghouls close to complete. I plan on spending most of the weekend finishing them and getting started on the wights.
Good times, as long as I can keep my focus.
Good times, as long as I can keep my focus.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
I'm Starting To Question My Dedication
Six years ago if someone said to me "Get those twelve minis assembled and painted ASAP," I would've had it done in a week, tops.
Now I've been looking at my Blood Bowl team for more than a week. They're primed. That's it.
I've been trying to get them going for the last four days, but no dice. I've been busy, to be fair, but that would've never held me up in '03. I can't even blame the kids! The lil' blighters grew up and moved out...
So tomorrow I'm painting. No excuses, no delays. Tomorrow I start.
Now I've been looking at my Blood Bowl team for more than a week. They're primed. That's it.
I've been trying to get them going for the last four days, but no dice. I've been busy, to be fair, but that would've never held me up in '03. I can't even blame the kids! The lil' blighters grew up and moved out...
So tomorrow I'm painting. No excuses, no delays. Tomorrow I start.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Just Like Ol' Times
Broke out the Outrider shirt, packed up the laptop and headed to the local shop to run the Fantasy Ard Boyz tourney.
Good times...
Had a small crowd but the games were awesome and everyone was great.
Man, do I miss doing that...
Good times...
Had a small crowd but the games were awesome and everyone was great.
Man, do I miss doing that...
Thursday, September 24, 2009
A Lucky Find
In searching thru my accumulated Blood Bowl stuff I found the famed Frank N. Stein, Golem Star Player!
He will play the part of my second Flesh Golem for the Necro BB Team, which is still unnamed...
I'll try and post a picture of Frank tonight.
He will play the part of my second Flesh Golem for the Necro BB Team, which is still unnamed...
I'll try and post a picture of Frank tonight.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Necromantic Blood Bowl Team
I started the Blood Bowl team for The BBCS at Kubla next year. The models were in pretty good shape and didn't require hours of clean up.
I got them all on their bases and then hit my first snag. Once upon a time I had two tubes of Squadron Putty, which is great for filling in the gaps on the bases. I went looking and couldn't find any...:(
I work pretty close to a hobby shop so I should be able to get some for tomorrow.
Until next time.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Here I Am
Well, all the cool kids seem to have one of these blogs, so I figured I would jump on the band wagon.
I am a 44 year old man who plays with toy soldiers. I know, the shame of it all. I play all manner of games, some of which are Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Blood Bowl, Space Hulk, Warmachine, Hordes, Rezolution, Wargods and probably a couple I've forgotten. I also play Board Games such as Twilight Imperium, Runebound, Attack!, Zombies and others.
Let's not forget the RPGs. DnD 3.5, D20 Modern/Future, Pathfinder, Traveller d20, Dark Heresy and I own several more.
Every year I travel to the west coast for KublaCon (www.kublacon.com). One of two Cons I attend as often as possible. While in the Bay Area I get to hang out with my friends Corey and Trent, who I don't get to see any other time of the year. We try to get as many games in as we can over the five day weekend, usually getting into the upper teens. It's easily one of my favorite weekends all year.
The other con I go to is TempleCon (www.templecon.org). It's a small yet growing con that includes a lot of Warmachine (Privateer Press loves this con, just ask them), Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Board Games aplenty, card games, RPG's, artists, musicians, dancers and more. You are encouraged to check them out.
I am going to Kubla with some new (well, newer) toys this year. I have a brandy new Imperial Guard army, the Rigard 1103rd. I will be assembling, painting, playing and selling them (in that order) for the con. I will also be putting together a new Necromantic Blood Bowl team, who are unnamed as of now.
I will be starting the BB Team tomorrow. I'll post some pics of my progress occassionally, along with infrequent (I'm sure) updates.
Until then...
I am a 44 year old man who plays with toy soldiers. I know, the shame of it all. I play all manner of games, some of which are Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Blood Bowl, Space Hulk, Warmachine, Hordes, Rezolution, Wargods and probably a couple I've forgotten. I also play Board Games such as Twilight Imperium, Runebound, Attack!, Zombies and others.
Let's not forget the RPGs. DnD 3.5, D20 Modern/Future, Pathfinder, Traveller d20, Dark Heresy and I own several more.
Every year I travel to the west coast for KublaCon (www.kublacon.com). One of two Cons I attend as often as possible. While in the Bay Area I get to hang out with my friends Corey and Trent, who I don't get to see any other time of the year. We try to get as many games in as we can over the five day weekend, usually getting into the upper teens. It's easily one of my favorite weekends all year.
The other con I go to is TempleCon (www.templecon.org). It's a small yet growing con that includes a lot of Warmachine (Privateer Press loves this con, just ask them), Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Board Games aplenty, card games, RPG's, artists, musicians, dancers and more. You are encouraged to check them out.
I am going to Kubla with some new (well, newer) toys this year. I have a brandy new Imperial Guard army, the Rigard 1103rd. I will be assembling, painting, playing and selling them (in that order) for the con. I will also be putting together a new Necromantic Blood Bowl team, who are unnamed as of now.
I will be starting the BB Team tomorrow. I'll post some pics of my progress occassionally, along with infrequent (I'm sure) updates.
Until then...
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