Flipping through NQ 48, and damn, but I think I may have finally settled on "my" faction. I'll still play all the others, but I think some clockworks are going to take up a lot of my playtime. Bodge, Strip, Razor Bola, Luck, Homing Ripspike? Damn, but those guys are nice. . . .
Now I just have to wait until they are out. . . .
Monday, May 6, 2013
Thoughts from the weekend games
So, still playing in a jouneyman league, and still playing pMagnus. We're up to 25 points, so I have started putting in some units, trying them out, and making notes. I'll pretty up my chicken scratches a little here, but here's basically the synopsis of the games from this weekend:
Saturday - pMagnus vs 3Makeda.
I was runningthe Magnus battlebox, plus Gorman, and min units of Steelhead halberdiers and cavalry. He was running 3Makeda, a Brute, two savages, paingivers, gators and a task master.
First, Black Oil is great. It literally saved the game for me - I managed to Oil 3Makeda, and stopped her from charging Magnus. I think from now on, if I can fit Gorman into a list somewhere, he'll be there. He's just too useful, and if I can get Snipe on him, then I will do so.
Backswing. I used the Obliterator on a few targets, not intending to do much damage (and I didn't), but to simply knock them down. The cavalry charged in, and while I remembered the assault order, and the impact hits, I forgot about the +2 to hit (not that it mattered, since the targets were knocked down), but I forgot to take my backswings. Hopefully, I remember next time.
Magnus - I think I need to lead the charge with the mechanikal arm, and boost the hit roll against high Def targets. I'll do less damage, but the knock-down affect is too handy to pass up. Bad dice (on his part), and that knock-down let me take down 3Makeda, but he was wining the game up to that point.
Sunday
pMagnus vs pLylyth
Dropped the steelheads for a full unit of Long Gunners and Kell, ran his tier list. My opponent was running the Legion battlebox, plus Typhon.
I can't claim to have really learned anything from this game. I put Snipe on the Renegade, and pretty much just ran my army forward. He moved everything up on is turn. I wanted to put the hurt on Typhon, so I shot at it with the Obliterator. Missed (even boosted), and it deviated right on to pLylyth, who had not kept any fury on her. She took the hit, I moved up Kell, shot her, moved up the Long Gunners, and used CRA to shoot her. Missed one of the CRAs, but the other hit her, and managed to kill her. We both looked at each other, and said "Good game?"
So yeah, I won that game, but my dice were made of awesome and win. I have no idea what the outcome would have been if I had landed the shot on Typhon as I intended.
PMagnus vs Bloody Barnabas
Same as before. Barnabas had a croak hunter, gators, and a bull snapper. This went about as expected - Barnabas with Swamp pit could pretty much advance into charge range, and, frankly, Long Gunners are not melee stars. Or even competent. I lost, and killed only a few models. (In all fairness, most of the posse was badly wounded, but I could not put those last 1-2 points on any of them for the life of me.)
Saturday - pMagnus vs 3Makeda.
I was runningthe Magnus battlebox, plus Gorman, and min units of Steelhead halberdiers and cavalry. He was running 3Makeda, a Brute, two savages, paingivers, gators and a task master.
First, Black Oil is great. It literally saved the game for me - I managed to Oil 3Makeda, and stopped her from charging Magnus. I think from now on, if I can fit Gorman into a list somewhere, he'll be there. He's just too useful, and if I can get Snipe on him, then I will do so.
Backswing. I used the Obliterator on a few targets, not intending to do much damage (and I didn't), but to simply knock them down. The cavalry charged in, and while I remembered the assault order, and the impact hits, I forgot about the +2 to hit (not that it mattered, since the targets were knocked down), but I forgot to take my backswings. Hopefully, I remember next time.
Magnus - I think I need to lead the charge with the mechanikal arm, and boost the hit roll against high Def targets. I'll do less damage, but the knock-down affect is too handy to pass up. Bad dice (on his part), and that knock-down let me take down 3Makeda, but he was wining the game up to that point.
Sunday
pMagnus vs pLylyth
Dropped the steelheads for a full unit of Long Gunners and Kell, ran his tier list. My opponent was running the Legion battlebox, plus Typhon.
I can't claim to have really learned anything from this game. I put Snipe on the Renegade, and pretty much just ran my army forward. He moved everything up on is turn. I wanted to put the hurt on Typhon, so I shot at it with the Obliterator. Missed (even boosted), and it deviated right on to pLylyth, who had not kept any fury on her. She took the hit, I moved up Kell, shot her, moved up the Long Gunners, and used CRA to shoot her. Missed one of the CRAs, but the other hit her, and managed to kill her. We both looked at each other, and said "Good game?"
So yeah, I won that game, but my dice were made of awesome and win. I have no idea what the outcome would have been if I had landed the shot on Typhon as I intended.
PMagnus vs Bloody Barnabas
Same as before. Barnabas had a croak hunter, gators, and a bull snapper. This went about as expected - Barnabas with Swamp pit could pretty much advance into charge range, and, frankly, Long Gunners are not melee stars. Or even competent. I lost, and killed only a few models. (In all fairness, most of the posse was badly wounded, but I could not put those last 1-2 points on any of them for the life of me.)
Sunday, May 5, 2013
First step in a new direction
The first step is always the hardest one. Unless it is off a sheer cliff, in which case it will likely be the only one. Anyway, since I am tying to break the habit of not winning, I am trying some new things in my games. I'm not talking models (although that will certainly be part of it), but rather, I am going to take better notes on my games - my list, my opponents list, what I did right, and (most importantly) what I did wrong.
So, yesterday, I got in a 25-pt game. I wanted to try some stuff for the journeyman league this week, and my opponent wanted to try the newest incarnation of Makeda. I'll post more on it tonight (and hopefully another game or two today), but I do feel reasonably confident that making a note to myself to not, for example, forget about Backswing on Steelhead Cavalry is probably going to be useful. Obviously, if I play them enough, it will become second nature to me, but I need to decide on at least a faction in the next couple of months if I really want to get some quality games with them before AdeptiCon next year.
(Yes, I am looking toward next year. Believe it or not, while I may have some impulse control issues when it comes to amassing quantities of lead and plastic, I am more than capable of taking a long-term planning approach. And, right now, my sights are set on Lombard, IL next year.)
So, yesterday, I got in a 25-pt game. I wanted to try some stuff for the journeyman league this week, and my opponent wanted to try the newest incarnation of Makeda. I'll post more on it tonight (and hopefully another game or two today), but I do feel reasonably confident that making a note to myself to not, for example, forget about Backswing on Steelhead Cavalry is probably going to be useful. Obviously, if I play them enough, it will become second nature to me, but I need to decide on at least a faction in the next couple of months if I really want to get some quality games with them before AdeptiCon next year.
(Yes, I am looking toward next year. Believe it or not, while I may have some impulse control issues when it comes to amassing quantities of lead and plastic, I am more than capable of taking a long-term planning approach. And, right now, my sights are set on Lombard, IL next year.)
Thursday, May 2, 2013
And now for something completely different
I've been reading a lot of the Convergence spoilers lately, and I will have some thoughts on them once I actually have the stats in hand, so instead I am going to randomly post the stuff that I should have coming down the pipe at me, demanding that I paint them:
First off, my Reaper bones order. I jumped in on the Kickstarter for the project, and, when it arrives, I should be looking at approximately 250 minutes or so - Vampire plus the Sophie plus Cthulhu plus some extra dragons. I should see that in the next month or so.
Later this year, I should be getting my figs from Relic Knights. I could go back and do the model counts, but the number is somewhere between 50 and 100 figs. I should also be seeing my Rivet Wars models, just over 100 of them. And, my Wild West Exodus stuff will arrive - somewhere about 50 models.
That's a lot. But I also have a Galleon on the way, a Ragman on back order, a full unit of steelhead riflemen, a couple of razor boars, and I'll be gaining probably 5-15 more warlocks/warcasters by mid-June. Plus (hopefully) the initial release of CoC.
And, depending on some trades, I might still jump in on the Robotech kickstarter. And I have some other figs that I want to pick up - some Firestorm Armada, possibly one of the MERCS squads, a few Malifaux figs. . . .
I really should get painting now.
First off, my Reaper bones order. I jumped in on the Kickstarter for the project, and, when it arrives, I should be looking at approximately 250 minutes or so - Vampire plus the Sophie plus Cthulhu plus some extra dragons. I should see that in the next month or so.
Later this year, I should be getting my figs from Relic Knights. I could go back and do the model counts, but the number is somewhere between 50 and 100 figs. I should also be seeing my Rivet Wars models, just over 100 of them. And, my Wild West Exodus stuff will arrive - somewhere about 50 models.
That's a lot. But I also have a Galleon on the way, a Ragman on back order, a full unit of steelhead riflemen, a couple of razor boars, and I'll be gaining probably 5-15 more warlocks/warcasters by mid-June. Plus (hopefully) the initial release of CoC.
And, depending on some trades, I might still jump in on the Robotech kickstarter. And I have some other figs that I want to pick up - some Firestorm Armada, possibly one of the MERCS squads, a few Malifaux figs. . . .
I really should get painting now.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
AdeptiCon, part III - the car ride home
Driving out of Chicago was much better than the drive in. For starters, while I was sleep-deprived, the rain was not coming down in buckets - and I had an ample supply of caffeine. But it is a fair drive, some three hours or so, and rather than listen to the radio, we talked about the weekend, Warmachine, etc.
The first, and most important, thing, is that we all decided to come back to AdeptiCon next year. We had lots of fun, and played a lot of games. Next year, however, we plan on staying on-site - the half-mile drive was just long enough to be annoying, and we'd like to avoid that. Plus, we'll be bringing some fermented grain products of our own.
Second, we talked about the possibility of entering the team tourney. We have another player who may be coming next year, which would give us possibly two teams, and so we had a discussion on the possible display boards, the team composition, why we should have custom made shirts - the whole nine yards. (Among them - a Cryx/Legion team board could be a ghost pirate ship towing either a dead whale, with Legion beasts feasting on it, or a blighted whale, with spikes and carapace growths. Either sound fun.)
Lastly, we talked about why I lose so often. Part of it is dice - people who have watched me stare in awe (or horror) at successive strings of snake-eyes, or events where my average 2d6 roll is 5. I know that it is a poor craftsman who blames his tools, so while dice is indeed a part of it, I rarely plan my turns on the basis of anything beyond "I need 5s to hit, and do dice minus 4, so I should be able to kill this solo with 3 attacks." I presume that I will have sub-average dice, and try to plan accordingly.
No, the real problem, I think, it is that somehow, when I took the black and became a press ganger, I decided that I was supposed to lose. Not just at demos, but pretty much every game. I know my units reasonably well, but I seem to avoid doing some of the synergies that move my game from meh to decent.. I don't practice a list, or play nearly as many games as I need to, and I tend to flit from army to army, ostensibly to give people practice playing against as many different things as possible. In other words, I am trying to help make my meta better, but it means that I lose a lot, and in such a way that it does not actually make me a better player. I need to stop taking a back seat on the open play days, and allowing others to play (when there is an odd number) instead of claiming a table for myself.
Now, being aware of the problem and fixing it are two different matters. I'm going to goof off for the next couple of months, painting whatever I feel like (for the 5-pt/month challenge), and playing whatever I feel like. And then, once I have the Convergence book in my hands, I am going to look at it, and at all the armies, and settle on something. I have to play some eMorghoul games for that challenge, but I am going to pick something in July and concentrate on it until AdeptiCon next year. I won't get in 10,000 hours, but I plan on doing a lot better next year than I did this year.
The first, and most important, thing, is that we all decided to come back to AdeptiCon next year. We had lots of fun, and played a lot of games. Next year, however, we plan on staying on-site - the half-mile drive was just long enough to be annoying, and we'd like to avoid that. Plus, we'll be bringing some fermented grain products of our own.
Second, we talked about the possibility of entering the team tourney. We have another player who may be coming next year, which would give us possibly two teams, and so we had a discussion on the possible display boards, the team composition, why we should have custom made shirts - the whole nine yards. (Among them - a Cryx/Legion team board could be a ghost pirate ship towing either a dead whale, with Legion beasts feasting on it, or a blighted whale, with spikes and carapace growths. Either sound fun.)
Lastly, we talked about why I lose so often. Part of it is dice - people who have watched me stare in awe (or horror) at successive strings of snake-eyes, or events where my average 2d6 roll is 5. I know that it is a poor craftsman who blames his tools, so while dice is indeed a part of it, I rarely plan my turns on the basis of anything beyond "I need 5s to hit, and do dice minus 4, so I should be able to kill this solo with 3 attacks." I presume that I will have sub-average dice, and try to plan accordingly.
No, the real problem, I think, it is that somehow, when I took the black and became a press ganger, I decided that I was supposed to lose. Not just at demos, but pretty much every game. I know my units reasonably well, but I seem to avoid doing some of the synergies that move my game from meh to decent.. I don't practice a list, or play nearly as many games as I need to, and I tend to flit from army to army, ostensibly to give people practice playing against as many different things as possible. In other words, I am trying to help make my meta better, but it means that I lose a lot, and in such a way that it does not actually make me a better player. I need to stop taking a back seat on the open play days, and allowing others to play (when there is an odd number) instead of claiming a table for myself.
Now, being aware of the problem and fixing it are two different matters. I'm going to goof off for the next couple of months, painting whatever I feel like (for the 5-pt/month challenge), and playing whatever I feel like. And then, once I have the Convergence book in my hands, I am going to look at it, and at all the armies, and settle on something. I have to play some eMorghoul games for that challenge, but I am going to pick something in July and concentrate on it until AdeptiCon next year. I won't get in 10,000 hours, but I plan on doing a lot better next year than I did this year.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
AdeptiCon, part II
Next up, Blood, Sweat & Tiers. I wish I had taken better notes, because for the life of me, I can't recall what I lost to in the first round. But lose I did, and I wound up heading into the second round, and looking across the table at an eGaspy list.
I don't recall the entire list, but I recall bane knights and thralls, the cankerworm, withershadow, and a boneripper. I tried to run my Mortenebra list, but neither she nor Terminus would have been a good match for it. I died via assassination, and, IIRC, it was to a seether made by the withershadow from one of my jacks.
Third round, I would up playing Wargamer Girl. She was running an eSorscha list, with winterguard death star, a mortar, widowmakers, and couple of jacks. I spent too long trying to tear apart the winterguard, and she wore me down and killed poor Terminus. It was a good game, and I think I would have done a lot better if my Blackbane's had gone right through the winterguard and gone after ole Kovnik Joe. Oh well, you live, you get curbstomped, and you learn.
The last round, my poor opponent was obviously tipsy. And he was running pStryker, and a Stormwall. He moved forward, spent some time trying to take down the objectives for the control points, and left pStryker exposed, and within 9" of Terminus, and 8" of Deathjack. I won that game, which at least ended the evening on a happy note.
On Saturday, I played a couple of games in the Iron Arena, enough to get my the points to earn a Magnus art print, and then spent some time playing demos of Firestorm Armada and Wreck Age. I got owned on both. Wreck Age looks like a fairly decent game - it's a story-driven skirmish game, sort of a post-Apocalyptic setting for Necromunda. The figs aren't bad, and any faction that has explosive-laden pigs and a remote detonator can't be all bad, right? One of my friends picked up a copy of Wreck Age, so I'll be picking up a faction for it at some point.
As an added bonus - I managed to score a free Firestorm Armada fleet - the Aquans might not be my first choice, but free is a hard price to beat. I also stopped by and talked with Romeo, the guy in charge of Wild West Exodus, and hopefully made contact with some people in the Grand Rapids area who might be picking it up.
I also spent some serious time looking at the terrain from Burn In Designs. It's really nice stuff , and they have a good deal for a western town.
I probably should have stopped gaming at this point, but I wound up getting sucked into a 50-pt pick-up game of Warmachine. I made some mistakes, played badly, and wound up losing. The aggravating part was that I tried to concede - I did not see the fury tokens on Grim Angus, went in for the assassination, and realized that I could not kill him, since he had plenty of transfer targets. I wanted to concede the game, and he really wanted to play it out. I was hungry, and frankly, kind of tired of losing, and did not see the point of suffering through making the attacks and failing to kill Grim, and then getting killed by the EBDT that was right next to him. Meh. Went out to dinner afterward, and that made things better.
Sunday, I had to do some demos, and that pretty much took up the entire day. Drove back, and I'll discuss that in another post down the road.
I don't recall the entire list, but I recall bane knights and thralls, the cankerworm, withershadow, and a boneripper. I tried to run my Mortenebra list, but neither she nor Terminus would have been a good match for it. I died via assassination, and, IIRC, it was to a seether made by the withershadow from one of my jacks.
Third round, I would up playing Wargamer Girl. She was running an eSorscha list, with winterguard death star, a mortar, widowmakers, and couple of jacks. I spent too long trying to tear apart the winterguard, and she wore me down and killed poor Terminus. It was a good game, and I think I would have done a lot better if my Blackbane's had gone right through the winterguard and gone after ole Kovnik Joe. Oh well, you live, you get curbstomped, and you learn.
The last round, my poor opponent was obviously tipsy. And he was running pStryker, and a Stormwall. He moved forward, spent some time trying to take down the objectives for the control points, and left pStryker exposed, and within 9" of Terminus, and 8" of Deathjack. I won that game, which at least ended the evening on a happy note.
On Saturday, I played a couple of games in the Iron Arena, enough to get my the points to earn a Magnus art print, and then spent some time playing demos of Firestorm Armada and Wreck Age. I got owned on both. Wreck Age looks like a fairly decent game - it's a story-driven skirmish game, sort of a post-Apocalyptic setting for Necromunda. The figs aren't bad, and any faction that has explosive-laden pigs and a remote detonator can't be all bad, right? One of my friends picked up a copy of Wreck Age, so I'll be picking up a faction for it at some point.
As an added bonus - I managed to score a free Firestorm Armada fleet - the Aquans might not be my first choice, but free is a hard price to beat. I also stopped by and talked with Romeo, the guy in charge of Wild West Exodus, and hopefully made contact with some people in the Grand Rapids area who might be picking it up.
I also spent some serious time looking at the terrain from Burn In Designs. It's really nice stuff , and they have a good deal for a western town.
I probably should have stopped gaming at this point, but I wound up getting sucked into a 50-pt pick-up game of Warmachine. I made some mistakes, played badly, and wound up losing. The aggravating part was that I tried to concede - I did not see the fury tokens on Grim Angus, went in for the assassination, and realized that I could not kill him, since he had plenty of transfer targets. I wanted to concede the game, and he really wanted to play it out. I was hungry, and frankly, kind of tired of losing, and did not see the point of suffering through making the attacks and failing to kill Grim, and then getting killed by the EBDT that was right next to him. Meh. Went out to dinner afterward, and that made things better.
Sunday, I had to do some demos, and that pretty much took up the entire day. Drove back, and I'll discuss that in another post down the road.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
AdeptiCon, part I
I have to go through the pics and what not. I did not take as many as I had thought, but I still want to put them into some kind of order. With that in mind, let's start at the beginning.
Thursday morning, I got up and drove to AdeptiCon, stopping along the way to pick up my two co-conspirators. We got to the con around noon - later than I had wanted, but we were delayed by the contents of Lake Michigan being dumped (as rain) onto the tri-state tollway. Apparently, not only did part of 294 get closed down, but a sinkhole in the Chicago area swallowed three cars. Fun times.
At the con, we snagged a parking spot, and went in to get our bags. I had made the first 1k bags, but the other two did not. I wound up with a Cygnar starter, a Con miniature, a FoW tank, an anthropomorphic animal of some sort, and some other random things. I traded off my BF coupon for the WWExodus fig that one of the other guys got. I didn't plan on picking up any Battlefoam products, but I wanted that fig.
We went to our hotel (about half a mile away), and killed time until late afternoon. Jake took the time to paint some of Kenny's Legion stuff, and I dozed for a bit. Mainly, we were just marking time until the stuff we wanted to do started in earnest.
About 5, we headed over to the con to hit the Iron Arena, only to find that the room was not ready yet. Some of the pressgangers got pressganged into helping set up the room. Or we volunteered, whichever version you prefer. As a bonus, we got to see the new Convergence figs, and 3Lylyth and the Mammoth, without the glass in the way. I took a couple of pics, and yes, I will post them, although by now everyone should have seen them.
We all played in some Iron Arena games that night. I was trying to remember how to play my list, and it was not going well. Had fun anyway, earned some skulls, and we made it an early night, since (1) I had Hardcore Friday morning; and (2) I had the car keys.
Friday morning - after a quick run and breakfast, we all headed back to the con. I checked in for Hardcore, and the other two started playing Iron Arena. The less said about Hardcore, the better. I was running a Terminus list, and, for various and sundry reasons (known as lack of models and lack of practice), it was tier, but I had a Kraken in it. I scored a bye on the first round, got dropped by an Archidon at the top of turn 2 in the second round. I could claim ignorance of the Archidon and eMakeda, but the fact is that I was playing poorly, and left a nice hole for it to drop into. A couple of lucky rolls, and it was game.
Round 3 was better, but I died to a Gorax (IIRC) that got moved via stones into a space cleared for him. I did a better job protecting my caster, but I forgot the cardinal rule of dealing with stones - kill one. One unit may have the UA who grants stealth, but the second might have been in range of the Kraken's long gun. My bad.
Round 4 actually went to dice down, but I lost to Tony Faber, running a Cyngar list. I want to say it was eHaley, but I would not swear to it. I was getting a little demoralized at that point - it was a good game, but it had been a disappointing morning, to say the least.
Still - I know full well that I need to play more events, more hardcore, more tourneys. And lose at them. If I keep it up, and actually play more often, I should get better. So, now I have a goal to beat for next year, right?
Thursday morning, I got up and drove to AdeptiCon, stopping along the way to pick up my two co-conspirators. We got to the con around noon - later than I had wanted, but we were delayed by the contents of Lake Michigan being dumped (as rain) onto the tri-state tollway. Apparently, not only did part of 294 get closed down, but a sinkhole in the Chicago area swallowed three cars. Fun times.
At the con, we snagged a parking spot, and went in to get our bags. I had made the first 1k bags, but the other two did not. I wound up with a Cygnar starter, a Con miniature, a FoW tank, an anthropomorphic animal of some sort, and some other random things. I traded off my BF coupon for the WWExodus fig that one of the other guys got. I didn't plan on picking up any Battlefoam products, but I wanted that fig.
We went to our hotel (about half a mile away), and killed time until late afternoon. Jake took the time to paint some of Kenny's Legion stuff, and I dozed for a bit. Mainly, we were just marking time until the stuff we wanted to do started in earnest.
About 5, we headed over to the con to hit the Iron Arena, only to find that the room was not ready yet. Some of the pressgangers got pressganged into helping set up the room. Or we volunteered, whichever version you prefer. As a bonus, we got to see the new Convergence figs, and 3Lylyth and the Mammoth, without the glass in the way. I took a couple of pics, and yes, I will post them, although by now everyone should have seen them.
We all played in some Iron Arena games that night. I was trying to remember how to play my list, and it was not going well. Had fun anyway, earned some skulls, and we made it an early night, since (1) I had Hardcore Friday morning; and (2) I had the car keys.
Friday morning - after a quick run and breakfast, we all headed back to the con. I checked in for Hardcore, and the other two started playing Iron Arena. The less said about Hardcore, the better. I was running a Terminus list, and, for various and sundry reasons (known as lack of models and lack of practice), it was tier, but I had a Kraken in it. I scored a bye on the first round, got dropped by an Archidon at the top of turn 2 in the second round. I could claim ignorance of the Archidon and eMakeda, but the fact is that I was playing poorly, and left a nice hole for it to drop into. A couple of lucky rolls, and it was game.
Round 3 was better, but I died to a Gorax (IIRC) that got moved via stones into a space cleared for him. I did a better job protecting my caster, but I forgot the cardinal rule of dealing with stones - kill one. One unit may have the UA who grants stealth, but the second might have been in range of the Kraken's long gun. My bad.
Round 4 actually went to dice down, but I lost to Tony Faber, running a Cyngar list. I want to say it was eHaley, but I would not swear to it. I was getting a little demoralized at that point - it was a good game, but it had been a disappointing morning, to say the least.
Still - I know full well that I need to play more events, more hardcore, more tourneys. And lose at them. If I keep it up, and actually play more often, I should get better. So, now I have a goal to beat for next year, right?
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Back from AdeptiCon
Back from AdeptiCon. I'll be posting some pics and what not in the next couple of days. In the meantime, the short report is that I got pwned in lots of games, generally had fun, and plan on going back next year.
It feels very strange not to have a bunch of "I need to paint this now" guilt hanging over my head. I might not paint for a couple of days. . . . though I got a lot done in the days leading up to AdeptiCon, and I have to admit, I kind of liked the feeling of putting a fully painted army on the board.
It feels very strange not to have a bunch of "I need to paint this now" guilt hanging over my head. I might not paint for a couple of days. . . . though I got a lot done in the days leading up to AdeptiCon, and I have to admit, I kind of liked the feeling of putting a fully painted army on the board.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Late night update, and a PSA
First up, the PSA. When you pick up a paint bottle to shake it, it's probably a good idea to ensure that the bottle is actually completely closed before shaking it. Doh! Fortunately, it all landed on me, and not on the miniatures.
So, the Kraken is based. I'm hoping that it dries enough for me to paint it tomorrow, but otherwise, it gets a quick coat on Thursday at some point. Rengrave is not done, and I have four of the revenant crew still waiting to be finished. I have a seether that might get done as well, and the withershadow did get moved along a bit.
I also started doing base markings. I know that all of the blackbane's are done, as well as the bile thralls. The ripjaws got done, as did the slayers, the sirens, and most of the scrap thralls.I'd be working on them now, but (1) I'm hungry; and (2) I've done a lot of painting today, so I am calling it a day before I do something stupid and mistake black primer for the clear coat or something.
So, the Kraken is based. I'm hoping that it dries enough for me to paint it tomorrow, but otherwise, it gets a quick coat on Thursday at some point. Rengrave is not done, and I have four of the revenant crew still waiting to be finished. I have a seether that might get done as well, and the withershadow did get moved along a bit.
I also started doing base markings. I know that all of the blackbane's are done, as well as the bile thralls. The ripjaws got done, as did the slayers, the sirens, and most of the scrap thralls.I'd be working on them now, but (1) I'm hungry; and (2) I've done a lot of painting today, so I am calling it a day before I do something stupid and mistake black primer for the clear coat or something.
Belated update.
Yeah, I was going to post pics yesterday. Went down to the basement with the camera, turned on the TV for background noise for while I was painting, and yeah. . . .
So, here are the pics. I have done a little bit of painting since my last pic update. First up, the least important stuff: my Malifaux crew. I don't plan on playing many games of Malifaux at AdeptiCon, but I did pay the cost for the league, and want to play at least a few games, to help increase my familiarity with the system. I have enough for it, so I might as well play.
I had two of the metal gamin and the rail golem painted at the beginning of the month. Now, the rail crew starter, the rail golem, the metal gamin, and Willie are all painted and based. Reasonably happy with them, too.
But, on to the Warmachine stuff. I've been planning on playing Cryx for several months now - I had more painted for it than any other faction, although that is not saying much. These guys were done (earlier this year, Feb maybe?), but never based. I had to take care of that, of course.
Full Biles and a Scarlock do not an army make. I had a couple of chicken jacks done, but I needed more. So, I painted a few.
That's two slayers, a reaper, a stalker, two ripjaws,a harrower, a leviathan, and deathjack. That will do, right?
But I need more than that. I should have some support models and solos as well.
Five scrap thralls, two warwitch sirens, and Mortenebra and her special little friend. But wait, there's more! They're not pictured here, but right now, pGaspy, pThags, and a necrotech are basically sitting in their basing materials. The second nectrotech is almost ready for basing. Terminus is based, and, while he is not done, he is completed to the 3-color standard required by AdeptiCon. The Kraken is now at the 3-color standard, but I need to pick up something tonight at the store to finish up his base.
The sticking point is the Revenant crew and Rengrave. More than half of the revenant crew are almost ready for basing, and would be done to the 3-color minimum. Rengrave and four of the crew are a little farther back. With any luck, I will get the crew mostly done tonight. If I can get them mostly done, tomorrow won't be bad, and I might even get the Withershadow combine based and to 3-color standard.
I do need to carve out some time tomorrow to put arc markings on the bases, but that should take no more than an hour, and it is something I can do while paint dries. I might even start on that tonight, since I have Blackbanes and some other things that need arc markings.
So, here are the pics. I have done a little bit of painting since my last pic update. First up, the least important stuff: my Malifaux crew. I don't plan on playing many games of Malifaux at AdeptiCon, but I did pay the cost for the league, and want to play at least a few games, to help increase my familiarity with the system. I have enough for it, so I might as well play.
I had two of the metal gamin and the rail golem painted at the beginning of the month. Now, the rail crew starter, the rail golem, the metal gamin, and Willie are all painted and based. Reasonably happy with them, too.
But, on to the Warmachine stuff. I've been planning on playing Cryx for several months now - I had more painted for it than any other faction, although that is not saying much. These guys were done (earlier this year, Feb maybe?), but never based. I had to take care of that, of course.
Full Biles and a Scarlock do not an army make. I had a couple of chicken jacks done, but I needed more. So, I painted a few.
That's two slayers, a reaper, a stalker, two ripjaws,a harrower, a leviathan, and deathjack. That will do, right?
But I need more than that. I should have some support models and solos as well.
Five scrap thralls, two warwitch sirens, and Mortenebra and her special little friend. But wait, there's more! They're not pictured here, but right now, pGaspy, pThags, and a necrotech are basically sitting in their basing materials. The second nectrotech is almost ready for basing. Terminus is based, and, while he is not done, he is completed to the 3-color standard required by AdeptiCon. The Kraken is now at the 3-color standard, but I need to pick up something tonight at the store to finish up his base.
The sticking point is the Revenant crew and Rengrave. More than half of the revenant crew are almost ready for basing, and would be done to the 3-color minimum. Rengrave and four of the crew are a little farther back. With any luck, I will get the crew mostly done tonight. If I can get them mostly done, tomorrow won't be bad, and I might even get the Withershadow combine based and to 3-color standard.
I do need to carve out some time tomorrow to put arc markings on the bases, but that should take no more than an hour, and it is something I can do while paint dries. I might even start on that tonight, since I have Blackbanes and some other things that need arc markings.
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