Nothing really

    Today was a lost cause miniature-wise, went to bed late wanting to get my battleship near completion.  Then another 12 hour day home to pizza and couch surfing.  On a positive note I fished the rules sections of the Dystopian Wars Rule book, working my way through the fluff now.  And I must say I am most intrigued.  I believe that some of the fellow acquaintances are also interested and we are all going to get small fleet's to try out the rules on the tabletop.  Rules are all well and good until they are tested.

    Also for those of you TempleCon'ers out there our group has already started our planing for the 2012 trip who knows this could be the last you know 2012!!!!!!  OOooOOoOoOOooooo........... Can't wait to see you there I'll be the sleep deprived guy with the mental painted beard hope to get some games in with you.  Not sure who I'm bringing this year last year was Circle Orboros and Gators, and the year before I had my Cryx.  Thinking about bringing the Nightmare Empire yet again for Scaverous and Erebus to rule the tables.  And this year I will remember to bring numerous copies of my tier lists so not to wait in the lobby for a copier.  Also I have recently starting building my Merchants of Death Skarre Tiered lists for the Con!  

I'll leave you with some relativity recent Cryx models I've painted.

Empire Update

    Used a little time this evening to paint my Empire of the Blazing Sun Battleship. Not quite finished but coming along well.  Dystopian Wars models are sweet Spartan Games keep up the awesome models.

Empire of the Blazing Sun

So I went out and ordered the Navel Fleet for The Covenant of Antarctica, and in the meantime picked up an Empire of the blazing sun Battleship.  Here is a picture of it now and I'll update it after I'm done.

Dystopian Wars and Paint

   Hi again long time no see been busy with work and attempting to find a game or two here and there of Warmachine/Hordes my favorite.  So I managed to get in some games with Scaverous and Erebus both of which I am very impressed with.

    So I'll begin with Scaverous, first let me say AWESOME, literally becoming one of my favorite casters.  The ability for a Cryx caster to get telekinesis and ghostly is so amazing it literally changes the battlefield in an instant.  Death Ward is a nice spell to have for Cryx too giving himself or part of his battle group a nice little bump and the ability to spread out damage is nice as well.  Excarnate is pretty powerful and gives a nice boost to your list if you're fielding an undead list.  Feast of worms his signature spell decent pow good size aoe and knock down the opponents armor.  Ghost walk giving anyone in Cryx ghostly is nasty. Icy Grip a nice way to insure your assassination run or killing blow goes through without a hitch.  Lastly Telekinesis SICK!!! SO disgusting! Best spell for Cryx move your piece forward or move the opponent out of the way.   Defiantly need to field a skarlock and other magic oriented units due to his Feat: Black Gate Boosted Magic attacks in cntrl area, reduce the cost of Scaverous' spells by 1 increase others by 1 including ANIMI! Hordes won't like it.

    Now Erebus the best new Jack! For not much more than a slayer you get Poltergeist and a 14 defense! That is as far as I know one of the highest defenses for a warjack.  Also tack on overtake so unlike the slayer you get engaged by a few troopers you kill them overtake and now you're behind the lines.  He comes with an affinity with Scaverous for every living enemy killed by Erebus, Scaverous gains a soul token! A soul reaving jack.

   Next Dystopian Wars a relatively new game from Spartan Games.  A fleet based miniature game based in a steam-punk alternate history of the planet earth.  Giving the player the ability to control a empire's navel fleet, Aerial squadrons, and Land assault.   This game allows for massive multi-party games and looks like a lot of fun.  As I am still new to the game I will keep you apprised as I am purchasing a navel fleet for Antarctica. 

  Last but not least I have begun in ernest to paint my friends Imperial Guard.  With a few tanks done and some more underway I have started on the unit leaders to his veteran squads.  I will leave you with some picture of my latest work.

Good Night

Lack of Games

   So here I am again missing from writing, well the reason for my most recent departure was frustration.  It appears that WarmaHordes is on the back slide at the moment while I build and paint I haven't played a game in almost THREE MONTHS!!! Every-time I hit up my local store no one is playing or if they are it's two friends who only play one another.  So I haven't felt like writing.  I have been collecting still I recently purchased a small used Khador army am building a Harkovich Man-o-War Armored list. Cryx my first love of miniature gaming I purchased Lord Exhumator Scaverous and Erebus kit. Erebus has yet to come in but next week.

    I finished all the Death Skullz for my friend and sold most of my space marines.  A friend gave me some Tau and I'm having an ok time running them I still feel frustrated or bored in most games of 40k.  I've been thinking of trying the Eldar or Dark Eldar to try out some of the more magic armies.  Still unsure WarmaHordes is my baby.

    I am currently working on a map based slow grow campaign for Warmachine. Don't really want to include hordes yet still flushing out the kinks.  It should have a feel of Mordhiem or Warhammer fantasy campaigns.  I have a ton of ideas non of which I'm sure will work but right now I have the rules but no one playing to try them out on...  Frustrating.

So.... I lied

OK well I thought that this new position would not get in the way of me starting up this blog but here it is a month later and I could barely make one post.  Even my modeling has gone by the wayside.  The orks I started a month ago still are unfinished on my desk and now I've taken on painting an entire IG tank battalion.  However I am getting most of a Tau army.

Don't have time for pictures tonight just wanted to let anyone who pays attention not to turn away quite yet.  Now with a month under my belt at the new job I am starting to get comfortable I am getting back to hobbing.  and I will continue please bare with me a little longer thanks!  More Warhammer 40k and Warmachine to come.  Especially with Wrath on the way and a new Tau codex is the works!

Sickness and other stuff

Not that anyone's listening but the reason I haven't been updating is I have had a cold for almost a month on and off, as well as looking for a job. 

So first off I've been working on our "New Legends" Warmachine and Hordes League.  Ok so get this we each create a new caster using existing abilities, and trying not to break the game. We then are going to do some playtesting and submit it for store review.  So far we have a Revenant Caster, a Kahdor on a pony, a choir caster for protectorate...etc. It's been really fun I am playing a Cryx Revenant Caster! Fun! Ghost Shot! It's been a lot of fun and as the league begins I will let you know how my caster along with others.

My D&D group has been making there way to the Frostfell to the Icegaunt Island trying to find "the seer" Looking for information on what they can possibly do to stop Lord Blood who they found out was a god who has been "chained" along time ago by the other gods and that he has tried this once before and almost succeeded but was defeated and chained again by man who was almost a god. dun dun duh!!! 

However they took the bait on a side quest trying to get the loot from an oni mage and his cohorts. This lead to a dungeon crawl in which they defeated two displacer beasts, and then a chimera. After looting up the joint they escaped out the displacer beast's tunnel only to be met by the Mage's second who with a few Ogres, a Umbra hulk and two tomb guardians. The battle was rough dropping everyone except the paladin at one point but with luck and a little fate they made it through.  Definitely the hardest battle of the campaign so far.

The job hunt has come to an end, pending the drug test and thorough background check, but since I know those are fine I am waiting till I get a start date.  With this job I will get to start with full benefits and I get to stay here.  It's so exhilarating knowing that I have a job.  The drug test took almost two hours and I had to have a hearing test, eye test, physical, and blood drawn.  But I HAVE A JOB!