My Orboros-friend (and brother-in-law)

Thought I'd give a heads'up about his own blog with his mini's and games if anyone is interested in them. :)

http://oneeyepainter.wordpress.com/

Good stuff over there!

15p Menoth Vs. Circle

I know, it's getting a bit dull reading about me getting my ass kicked all the time but that's all I can give you at the moment. :C

We tried to go for a quick game, but it took us two hours to complete (still a bit noobish I suppose).

This time we didn't take notes when fighting but my friend took a few pics to show off all of our (... my...) new terrain. It looks marvellous, not even since my older 40k days have I played on such a diverse and awesome battlefield with a wizard tower, two ruins, four patches of forests (a few too many when fighting Circle...) and a hill, all of it painted and ready.











(Please excuse the bags in the background, we had laundry day...)











Thoughts from the battle:

• My opponents feeble double-1 roll on his last Lord of the Feast-attack on my last Bastion. That was _quite_ satisfying.
  Unless you consider the fact that he had just killed the other two Bastions, and then later went on to almost kill my Caster after butchering most of my choir. (Lord of the Feast is retarded awesome, at least on this level.)
• My own feeble double-1 roll during my feat turn while trying to roast his Argos (with it's survival, this critical miss most likely cost me the entire game... Stupid Repenter...).
  
• My opponents inability to roll anything beneath average (except for the above statement).
• He took down my last boxes on pKreoss with his Warlock on his very last roll for his turn. The EXACT amount of boxes. Insane.
• My Repenter survived the attacks from a Woldwarden (for two turns) and one Gorax (for one turn) without any system failures. That rocked. Even though I will never forgive him for his critical miss.
  
• I lost because I have not yet painted ALL of my army. The dice gods do not favour me yet...

... until next time tree huggers, until next time...

Terrain time: Ruins of SvFF

First off, apologies for the crappy pic-quality, I took the shots with my iPhone3gs in bad lighting.

So, I'm currently working on a few wall sections, but got sidetracked when I found a bunch of old 40k ruins (from 3rd edition I think) and decided to make a small ruined building.

I found a few 40k bits to use, and clipped and snapped a few sprue pieces and glued a bunch of small rocks to the base as well.
I found one of the brass sprues with leaves and small branches from the Fantasy Basing Kit and glued them to the side of one of the corner pillars.

At first, I thought I would just turn this into a generic ruin, but after todays totally idiotic decision from the swedish football association (SvFF) I changed one small thing during the painting process.
































I sprayed it black, gave it a drybrush with Citadel Foundation Adeptus Battlegrey, a lighter wash of Codex Grey, and for the floor tiles I used a mix between the old Citadel Brown Wash and Scorched Brown, with a drybrush with Bestial Brown, and after that a Devlan Mud wash.

The point was to make it feel abandoned and starting to get overgrown, and I think it turned out good. :)

Terrain time: Tower of Gargamel

Hello.

After nerd-raging over the swedish football association's latest moronic decision I felt that I needed something else to do, to take my mind off of things.

So, back to the tower I was teasing about a few posts ago, it is now done (might add a few bits when I find my bits box again...).

In case any one is interested, it is made out of a pringles tube, an empty toilet paper roll, loads of cardboard and thin card.
To get the rough surface I used some filler, and also used it to cover the holes in the base where I used cardboard to make the tower feel higher.

I then sprayed it white (using Army Painters White Primer... since it's utter rubbish using on miniatures), gave it a nice greyish wash and drybrushed it with white. The door and windows were painted in gold and then got a Gryphonne Sepia wash.
For the roof tiles I just washed them with Citadels old Blue Wash (not available anymore) as it coats a bit better than their new one.

For the base I used a few bits from GW's fantasy basing kit, just to show that the wizard living in this (tidy and fairly clean) tower is serious business.
In case you can't see it from the poor quality there's a pile of skeletons, a horse skeleton, a chaos star and a broken shield.

Turned out pretty nice I think, could maybe do with a few more "dirty" washes to make it look a bit more intimidating, and also a few more bits to make it stand out better.

(Just another angle to show the lean-out tower top.)
It took me a total of two or three nights to finish, although the nights were spread out with about three weeks in between...

So, usable in WHFB or WM alike. Could probably use it in a "backwards planet" gaming table in 40k as well I guess.

Menoth vs. Circle 19p

My friend and I decided to try out a game of 19 points against each other on a 4' x 4' feet field.

Since I don't have any real 19p list I gave it a try with my 15p Reznick-list + a repenter.
It didn't work out too well...
My list:
- Reznick,
- Reckoner,
- Repenter,
- Max. Holy Zealots,
- 3 Wracks,
- Min. Choir
- Madelyn Corbeau
- Hierophant

I had hopes of a possible overpowered assassination-run since we had quite a field to play in, plus Reznik is a monster in melee. At least.. that was the plan...

He fielded:
- Krueger
- Warpwolf
- Gorax
- 2 Argus
- 6 Wolves of Orboros




The roll-off ended with me being the first deployer and attacker.

Deployment:

Protectorate of Menoth: (Marked in white on the photos) Ok, before you chop my head off, I realised (way too late) that I didn't need to deploy my Wracks THIS far up the field, more on that later.
I placed my Warjacks and Reznick + Hierophant + Madelyn on my far right, for some sort of a flanking manouvre, and my Zealots in the middle of the field, planning to go for a refused flank tactic.




Circle Orboros: (Marked in brown on photos) Two Argus' and Wolves of Orboros on his left (facing my caster and jacks) and his Warpwolf and Gorax on his right (facing my Zealots).







Turn 1:

PoM: Advancing up field, nothing fancy, casting Iron Aggression on the Reckoner. Turned my Zealots inwards towards my right flank.

CO: He started by casting something really nasty on his Warpwolf and made him fly over the building trying to charge my Zealots but he came up just short of them, but in a great position for next round. Otherwise just advancing with his other beasts, then casting something lightning'y (Electrical Tendrils he tells me) on his Wolves, giving them reach and and chain lightning. He then charged them at my Zealots, killing 4 in just two hits. Ouch. First blood to Circle Orboros.

Turn 2:

PoM: I desperately threw Fire bombs on his Wolves, killing all but one, and also taking a few boxes off of his Gorax with another rather lucky bomb. My choir-pumped Reckoner and Repenter killed one of the Argus in a fine display of "BURN HERETICS, BURN" but I was getting more than a bit nervous about his WW who could now do as he pleased with my Zealots.
I decided to sacrifice them to get Reznick into a better position for the next turn, and I felt a bit confident that this might work out according to plan...

CO: Wow. He seriously messed up my plans by going after the two Wracks (yellow circles) that were close enough for him, his remaining Wolf of Orboros with reach blew up the first Wrack, killing all but three Zealots and himself. The remaing Argus then charged my other Wrack, turning two choir boys into mush and hurting my Hierophant and Madelyn with a few boxes, as well as Reznick... Doh.
His WW charged the remaining Zealots and killed the two he could reach (leaving me with just one poor bomb hurling mainiac).

Turn 3:

PoM: Ok. I admit it, my overconfidence in my warcaster cost me his life. I overvalued his capabilities in melee against a Warpwolf.
I decided to go for the kill of his WW since his death would mean that there were not much my opponent could do to hurt me once it was off the field.
I used Madelyns ability to get the extra 3", plus casting Engine of Destruction on Reznick, giving him a wicked 11" charge range with boosted abilities, plus I saved up a few focus to make sure I finished the big bad wolf off.
Two damage rolls of 5 and then 6 on THREE DICE cost me this game, I was nowhere near killing it. It didn't matter that I one-shot his Argus with my Reckoner, or that the Repenter was closing in rapidly on his Warlock. My feeble rolls and overconfidence lost me the game.

CO: He didn't have to do anything really, with three fury-boosted attacks, his Warpwolf ate me alive.

Circle Orboros Win.

All in all, two turns of more or less even destruction on both camps, and on e turn of moronic overconfidence. I should have hung back towards my Warjacks and maybe getting a shot or two off to take him down a few boxes. But I didn't, and my opponent ate me alive fair and square.
His plan to attack the Wracks turned out great, decimating my Zealots and my choir as well as taking a few boxes off of Madelyn, the Hierophant and Reznick. And limit me to just one Wrack.


... can't wait until next time! The Creator shall have his revenge on the heretic followers of the Devourer.

Absence! (... and a tower.)

My apologies for being absent this long, summer time and vacation and trips and stuff came across my blogging, hopefully it will be a bit more frequent now that I'm back!

As a little teaser, here's a WIP of my wizard tower called "Gargamels Tower" (not the sexual wizard tower... Robert...).

Made out of a pringles tube, a toilet paper roll, shitloads of thin card, a few bits from GW's fantasy basing kit (a few really good pieces in it to be honest).

I used some filler to get a nice surface to paintas well as covering up spots on the cardboard at the base.

The most time consuming bit was cutting and gluing all the individual roof panels on...

Moar games!

A few of us from my gaming group decided to hook up and play a few games. 11p painted was what we settled for, and still 2 out of 5 had unpainted figures and proxy'd a few models.
But it was ok, we are only just starting so its understandable that not everyone is a paintlover like me.

So we had:
- Circle Orboros (starting box + Gorax, - one of the Argus).
- Protectorate of Menoth (me with the starting box).
- Cryx (with starting box).
- Khador (with Butcher and dawg and two heavy jacks).
- Retribution of Scyrah (a supertweaked list, perfect for low point games against jack-heavy lists... I'll get to this below).

Since I had to visit the midwife to check up on my son's hearing and seeing (they were both perfect) I arrived a bit later than the others.
They had decided to play the games on 2x4ft, which was just as good since we only had the starting sets. My Circle-friend went up against Khador in what seemed to be a great game, ending with Butcher down to 3 boxes due to a semi-failed assassination attempt, but he snapped the victory after butchering (har-har) pKaya in the following turn. The game switched sides a few times and I wish I hadn't played my game and witnessed theirs instead.

My first game was pure disaster. I went up against a mega-tweaked list, perfect for killing warjack-lists (like all starting sets are) and got my ass handed to me, in pieces.
He had:

- Kaelyssa (I think)
- 1 Phoenix
- Mage Hunters Unit
- Assassin Mage Hunter

After killing his Mage Hunter Solo with my Repenter I was basically owned for the rest of the game, his combo of the spell that makes one model stationary + the one that transfers damage to my warcaster for every box my warjack is damaged + the Mage Hunters made fairly quick work with me. Failing the rolls on my feat-turn didn't help either.
Anyway, I bet he had a blast, me not so much.
It reminded me in some ways of when an old friend of mine taught me how to play Magic the Gathering by giving me a red deck, and himself having a white deck with circle of protection: red.
All I really learned was that I will never play against that fellow again.
Ok, it was not that harsh, since his list will not be this overpowered when we reach higher point games, so I will definately play him again, no hard feelings even if he claimed that he just chose with the looks in regard.... (yahh.. right...).

My next game was against Cryx and it was a much closer game than the one before.
He charged his little chickenjacks at me with the bigger one following behind them and his Warcaster behind that.
The game was mostly distinguished by the feeble dice rolls from both of us with nothing dying in the first two-three turns.
After a few turns I got to taste the danger of ghostwalk. He kicked his feat off and walked his big Bonejack right through my Repenter and Crusader and up to my Warcaster. Once again feeble rolls snuck in and after getting Kreoss down to just 5 boxes he missed with his headbutt-powerattack so my Caster survived. I beat his Bonejack up seriously (only a few boxes remaining) with my Caster in the next turn, and missed with both a boosted attack AND my extra attack with my Repenter. His next turn he once again used ghostwalk but this time on one of the smaller chickenjacks but failed to do any damage with it, and thanks to his Bonejack being massively damaged he didn't take any boxes either.
In my final turn my Warcaster killed his Bonejack and my fully boosted Crusader and a Repenter and took out his Warcaster once and for all.

The best part in that battle was when I forgot my feat. Twice. During the feat turn.

Uberfail.




Otherwise I would probably have gotten his smaller jacks down. But hey, I still won and it was a much more satisfying game (not only because I won) than the first one.