Painted Satyxis Raider Captain

This Saturday is a Highlander event in Madison. I needed to finish a Satyxis Raider Captain to finish a couple lists so I can play fully painted at events still. She got done tonight for that reason. She's also going to be my Paint the Target model for Lost Hemisphere (more information at http://losthemisphere.com/blog/?p=20189). I'm glad she's done early as I need more time for Adepticon.

Battle Report: Circle Orboros vs. Cryx

I got to play another game with Baldur the Stonesoul against PG_MrRuffles (Brian). He's been playing Cryx for the last while now and he was gracious enough to give me a game at 50 points. I got to break out Baldur2's Theme Force at the level I've been wanting.

Battle Report: Circle Orboros vs. Cryx

I played Tony finally at my LGS on Tuesday. I came prepared to play 50 points of Baldur the Stonesoul's Theme Force. Tony only really has enough for 35 points and I'm more than willing to pair down my list to make it work. I'm very happy with my 50 point list so I thought it'd be difficult to slim the list down. It turned out not to be the case. I ended up dropping the Woldwarden, Shifting Stones, and Lord of the Feast from my 50 point list to make it 35 points.

Painted Baldur the Stonesoul

As part of the recent Wold painting, I've painted Baldur the Stonesoul in preparation of playing his Theme Force at 50 points at Tier 4. I've avoided the original color scheme in that I wanted all of Baldur's armor to be stone rather than a mixture of stone and metal. I like the look a lot more.

Painted Megalith

I finished up my Megalith that I had half-painted when I stopped painting Circle way back when. I'm happy to have him done. The wood on him looks a little dead rather than alive so I think I'm going to put some autumn foliage on his back to spruce him up. He's got quite a lot of detail and is just an amazing model to paint.

Battle Report: Cryx vs Skorne

I ended up playing Warwitch Deneghra vs Void Seer Mordikaar at 50 points last night. The main consensus I can get from the game is that my opponent can't roll dice and that Warwitch Deneghra's feat is just cruel when it hits the entire army. I ended up getting Nightmare on Mordikaar under Mordikaar's feat turn, still did some damage, but couldn't kill him. Deneghra's feat prevented any retaliation from anything in his army. He placed his warbeasts too far apart and on the flanks while my army just moved in on the weak side of his army. Gorman di Wulfe died to protect Nightmare from a possible charge from a Bronzeback. I'm not sure if the Bronzeback could have still made it with Beat-Back and Rush (not in that order). We played Revelation and my army pretty much swarmed Flag #1 to keep my opponent from scoring. I ended up winning because I scored one point and had a free turn of attacking Mordikaar with Nightmare with Mordikaar not having any fury.

Project: Weird Science

My friend Michael and I came up with a crazy idea: field an army of all Stormsmith type models. This was prompted by my purchase of two Storm Striders, Privateer Press' newest battle engine. They are wicked cool, and I can't wait to field both in the army.

The first iteration of the idea wasn't strictly Stormsmiths, I had the following list. It was just a generic attempt to utilize the Storm Striders in a pair, at 35 points.

• General Adept Nemo
• Firefly
• Stormclad
• Squire
• Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team
• Storm Strider
• Storm Strider
• Stormsmith Stormcaller
• Stormsmith Stormcaller

Michael suggested then to drop the Black 13th for more Stormsmith stuff, so we generated the following 35 point list that is the idea of the Project.

• General Adept Nemo
• Firefly
• Stormclad
• Squire
• Storm Strider
• Storm Strider
• Stormsmith Storm Tower
• Stormsmith Storm Tower
• Stormsmith Stormcaller
• Stormsmith Stormcaller

Now that list has more delicious electric goodness! It also looks like a blast to play!
I then wanted to make it 50 points just in case someone decided to challenge me to that type of game at the store.

• General Adept Nemo
• Firefly
• Stormclad
• Thunderhead
• Squire
• Captain Arlan Strangewayes
• Storm Strider
• Storm Strider
• Stormsmith Storm Tower
• Stormsmith Storm Tower
• Stormsmith Stormcaller
• Stormsmith Stormcaller
• Stormsmith Stormcaller

Sure, the list has some terrible matchups (an all electric immune army, which would be similar to this one, would be sucky to play against). It just looks like a ton of fun to shoot that much lightning around!

Here's a picture of the list in progress. I own everything, just didn't have it all with me when the photo was taken. The second Storm Strider is still in progress of assembly.

Painted Harrower - WIP 1

I'm continuing my work on my Harrower for my Mortenebra Theme Force/Hardcore list. He's pretty integral to the list due to his ability to Thresher with Reach and gain souls. He'll allow me to kill a lot more models, specifically infantry. My Mortenebra list can easily deal with heavies, it gets bogged down by infantry. That's why the Harrower is immediately in the list.

My current 35 Point Hardcore list:

• Mortenebra
• Deathjack
• Harrower
• Scavenger
• Slayer
• Slayer
• Deryliss
• Necrotech
• Scrap Thrall
• Warwitch Siren
• Warwitch Siren

It should be a ton of fun and pretty easy to use, so I'm excited to try it out. The Scavenger might get replaced with a Stalker, as I'm a very large fan of that bonejack as well.

Painted Shadow Play Theme Force

Here's my first fully painted Theme Force: Shadow Play. I haven't really played it too much, but I think it should do well.

• Wraith Witch Deneghra
• Nightmare
• Defiler
• Ripjaw
• Stalker
• Skarlock Thrall
• Bane Knights (10)
• Blackbane's Ghost Raiders (10)
• Machine Wraith
• Pistol Wraith
• Pistol Wraith
• Warwitch Siren
• Warwitch Siren

Warmachine Weekend Qualifier Results

I ended up going 3-1 at the Madison Warmachine Weekend Qualifier at Pegasus Games.  I had a blast playing! I ended up losing to Mary Ann in the first round to a very lucky shot from her.  After that, I won all of my games to take 5th overall. I'm terrible at taking photos of games, which means I need to ask Felix how the hell he takes so many photos during a tournament!

Warmachine Weekend Qualifier Tomorrow at Pegasus Games in Madison, WI

Tomorrow is a 50 Point Warmachine Weekend Qualifier at Pegasus Games in Madison, WI. I'm excited I get to travel to the event with Fool, Pook, and G Konkel. Hopefully we all do really well, maybe even win the event! It would be great for someone from our store to win it.  I'm expecting players from Madison, Milwaukee, Twin Cities, and Iowa to be there.  It'll be a fun day, hopefully I remember to take photos of my games.

Tournament Results - March 26 - 50 Point SR 2011

Went to Rydiafan's SR 2011 tournament yesterday.  I really meant to take photos, but I was really distracted by the games and never remembered to do so.  In the end, I went 2-1 during the day, winning against Trollbloods from Chicago and Cygnar from Madison.  I lost against Mercenaries from Madison.  This gave me the second place coin!  Woot! I learned quite a bit on what I can do in the future to make up for some of my downfalls in the games, but overall, I'm very happy with my progress with the faction.

Painting and Game

In the last few days, I've completed my 200th painted Warmachine and Hordes model.  I ended up finishing my Knights Exemplar unit of 4 that weren't done and got them dipped and sprayed.  I'll be basing them tonight and getting some photos taken.  I'm very happy with how the army is looking and I'm really excited to see the Grand Exemplar Kreoss theme force completed, cause it'll look awesome (think of a ton of Knights running around in armor, that the general idea!)  Speaking of Kreoss, that model and Reznik's model both took a dip last night to make those models pop more.  I'm terrible at shading, and this Army Painter dipping product is saving my life, making my models look better than ever.

Preparing for the Mayhem Cup...

On April 30th, the Mayhem Cup Event will happen again in Madison, WI.  This will be Madison's second defense of the cup.  Last time,  we had 7 players from Hobbytown USA in New Berlin, WI go.  We took 6th, 8th, 11th (me), 16th, 20th, 23rd, and 38th out of 44 players.  My goal is to break into the top 10.  To do this, I've switched factions from Cryx to Protectorate of Menoth.  I've been disillusioned by Cryx for a little while now and don't want to get stuck in a rut of playing the same two or three Warcasters over and over (for the record, they were Lich Lord Asphyxious, Wraith Witch Deneghra, and Master Necrotech Mortenebra).

One of the random prizes at the event is the fully painted army drawing.  You only need to have one of your two lists you can bring to the event painted, so I'm going to do at least that and try to get both done.

What follows is the craziness I am about to embark on, along with the one guaranteed list and two alternate lists...