So, about Relic Knights. . . .

In between Warmachine and IKRPG sessions, I have managed to get in a whopping one (count 'em - 1!) game of Relic Knights.  So, I don't have this huge body of experience to pull from, but the game was a lot of fun.  I am sure that we did some things wrong, and we both made some significant mistakes, but we had a lot of fun, with my Black Diamond kicking his Noh all over the board for a while, only to wind up with an end situation where I could not maneuver well enough to box him into a corner and avoid being shot to death.

True, the game is very much weighted in favor of the Knights.  So what?  I knew that buying in - it is a skirmish game, and the dashboard with the ready queue allows you to ensure that you can use your most powerful models a lot more often than some of the other ones, but I kind of like that.  Scratch that - watching One Shot obliterate some things, and then get placed right back in the queue was a lot of fun.

I need to get more of my RK put together, so we can play some more games.  And I need to finish painting my FSA fleets, since I may have some Dystopian Wars models on the way.  And I picked up a Fenris model, so I might start painting and playing my Khador again.

Competing with those desires, of course, is Warmachine Tactics.  Which is all kinds of fun. . . .

I hate clockwork angels

That's it, more or less.  They are a pain to assemble, and the fact that my current bottle of superglue is just about done did not help matters much.  I might be able to work on them tomorrow, but I don't know if I will get all three units plus Aurora actually put together.  I want to use them, badly, but I really, really, really do not like the assembly process. 

Update on the caster collection

Random update kind of worthy of its own post:

I am trying to get all the casters before the end of 2014.  Here is what I am currently missing, as near as I can determine:

Cryx
NONE

Cygnar
Darius
3Stryker

Khador
3Vlad
Strakhov

Protectorate
Severius
eSeveries
Harbinger

Retribution
eVyros

Convergence
NONE

Mercenaries
NONE

Circle
Cassius
eKaya

Legion
Bethayne
3Lylyth

Skorne
3Makeda
Rasheth

Trollbloods
Borka
Hunters Grimm

Minions
NONE

When the new casters from the next Hordes book come out, I'll update this list, but I am hoping to have cut out five or six from this one before then.  I'm pretty sure that, for the most part, I have been picking them up faster than Privateer has been releasing them, so sooner or later, I will catch up.  Then I can start going back and picking up units and jacks/beasts that I am missing.

That went as well a could be expected.

You know what happens when you don't play in a tourney for a really long time?  You don't do well, that's what.  And you know what happens when you try playing a second list that really wants certain models, which you have, but are not assembled?  You do even worse.

But you can learn from it.  I went 1-2 today with Convergence.  Syntherion did okay, Lucant less so.  I generally did fine when it came to killing things, but I lost both games on scenario, just a matter of not going for control points early and hard enough. 

You live, you learn, and right now, I am heading to the basement to do some priming.

Did you know that electricity is important?

So, yeah.  I had no power for most of this week.  My minis are kept in my basement.  The basement is not counted as living space because it is lacking windows.  So, I did diddly squat for the past few days.  I should be painting now, but it's the 4th, and I ran a 10k and mowed the lawn today, so minis will take a back seat.

There is a tourney tomorrow, and I still don't know if I am playing in it, or expected to run it.  I'll find out when I get there, I guess.

And good-bye everyone!

Just kidding.  But the beta is installing, so . . . yeah.  I'll paint later tonight, when I get tired of playing some beta goodness.

ETA - so, I got it downloaded, installed, and found out I need a better graphics card than what I have.  Looks like I have some shopping to do tomorrow, so tonight became assembly and painting instead.  More FSA stuff started, some WM moved a long a bit, and my Noh Empire for RK got some assembly time.  I may or may not have enough for a small, 2-player game of RK by Friday, but I will by this time next week.

And I intend to have two FSA fleets ready by the 4th.  Because spaceships are kewl.

It's Beta day!

Warmachine Tactics Beta will open up today.  I really am going to have force myself to paint for an hour each day before I play, otherwise, I will never paint any of the giant stompy robots that I have sitting on my painting desk.

(Well, I wasn't painting robots yesterday; I was painting fleets for Firestorm Armada and putting together Relic Knights figs.  And some WM stuff, although no jacks at the moment.  I have ones that I need to finish, but a few other models take priority.)

I really need a recipe box

Went down to paint on something earlier today, and I was hoping to replicate an effect that I had done for another unit many moons ago.  Turns out, I forgot how to do it, so I got to spend some time google-whacking to find the recipe and technique.  Generally, I write the recipe down, but that's not the same as keeping it around for months afterward.  Although, given the glacial speed with which I paint, sometimes it does amount to the same thing.

tl;dr - Forgot how to paint something, finally found it; I am an idiot for not keeping a box of instructions handy for quick reference.

In space, no one can hear you scream. . . .

when your dice crap out on you.  Three of us got to play a small game of Firestorm Armada last night.  We kept things small, used frigates and cruisers, and basically spent the evening pushing ships around the table, making "pew, pew, pew, kaboom!" noises.  (Well, I did that, mainly, but anyway.)

It was a learning game, and we learned a few things.  Like how nasty Dindrenzi railguns can be when three of them point directly at one of your ships, and suddenly your ship is gone.  And how Terrans really like to stay far away until they can arrange a broadside, and even then, they don't want to be too close.  And how badly Jake can roll - for once, the bad dice were not confined to me (hell, I had some great rolls!), and Jake sent several concentrated beam attacks at one of my ships to do absolutely nothing.

So, I need to decide if I am going to bolster my Terrans or add more Relthoza.  Because Dindrenzi are spoken for, as well as RSN.  In the meantime, I need to finish more asteroids, and maybe build a few planets.

Later today is Warmachine, but as EO, I may not get to play.  And tomorrow is a SR tourney, where I definitely won't get to play.  I plan on taking some models along, and getting some assembly done.  Might work on putting together some of the Relic Knights stuff this weekend as well.

Been a long time

No, I haven't forgotten about the blog.  I have been busy.  Not too busy to blog, but busy enough that I just never wanted to sit down and type random gaming thoughts.  I really need to start doing that again.

So, what has changed since the last post?  Well, Convergence has some new models. I am losing games with Lucant.  Relic Knights is finally shipping, and I have my order in hand.  Hoping to get a game or two of Firestorm Armada in tonight, and I am trying to clear out my basement.