FluffyCon 2012 Rise of the Warrior Part 3

So the culmination of all the modelling and painting is for this weekends tournament. Painting frantically for a tournament really does get the job done and it even got a display board made (they are so in at the moment). With FluffyCon the ultra soft tournament for New Zrealand it was a surprise that I was told High Elve are too over powered and I should pick either Beastmen or Warrirors. Oh well I guess I'll pick the most soft choice of the three (laced that with sarcasm) then Warriors of Chaos arriissseee!!! In all it's combat glory here's my army to go forth and slaughter 'Krell's Despoilers'.

..and yes those purple things are Ogres. I even made three Chaos Dwarfs with top hats outta spare Dwarf miners. Ah, really getting back into the hobby and tournaments yo!

OTT 2012 Part2 (Army list & Batreps)

With a 5am Journey to the Tron the Road Trip began. Car load of decent fella's all from the Auckland City Guard club we were ready to bomb da Tron 4 WFB and a solitary 40K amongst us. Bit of a Macca's binge stop managed to wake us for the fray.

My Army, gathered from the remnants of my Elven collection was going to have to do. My other Two armies were either inaccessible or locked in the Clubs cupboards as I'd cunningly left the keys with another one of the members to open up that weekend. So the list is rather strange and not really what I would bank on in future but should be hella fun to play.

Archmage LvL 4 Tali Preserve, Iron Curse Icon

Prince Barded Steed, Gt Weap, Dragon Arm, Vambraces def, Reaver Bow.

BSB Noble Armour Calador, GT Weap, Dawn Stone.

6 Dragon Princes Banner of Ellyrion
17 White Lions    Amulet of Light, Flaming banner
16 Swordmasters Banner of Sorcery
27 Spearmen
18 Archers
12 Archers
Tiranoc chariot
2 Eagles

No Scroll, T3 Elite infantry that was going to die to a stiff breeze so should be a good test of ones generalship and of course the favour of the dice gods.

Game 1 Vs Carl Lizards

Facing a Carnosaur Lord, big unit of Coldones, Double block of saurus, 2 Mages, Steg and sundry. I was pretty happy as the army was not too magic heavy and I might be able to survive some magic and get my close combat in before my army disappeared to his Slamanders and machine gun skinks.

Carl's 1st turn and he pushed up the middle with his Coldones with Lord in tow hopping that the Alter of Khaine within 6" would deter me from charging in to engage. From the middle of the board he pretty much had charges to any number of my units. The magic that I thought wasn't strong in his army proceeded to chain lightning and run rampant all the way through the whole of my army. This in turn killed all my battle plans as it took care of the two Eagles in one swoop in his 1st turn. Oh to have a scroll.

It was all or nothing so the BSB's unit of Whitelions and the Swordmasters decided it was gonna be a competition of who could chop lizard's or die and both charged into Carnostar unit. Whitelions with frenzy are just insane and  even a Carnosaur doesn't have much to save it from a great ax. Mind Razor on the spearmen managed to secure a good win after chasing down two units of Saurus. The game could have swung either way but Carl had the worst dice luck imaginable and as karma dictates I was set for some shockers later I was sure.
17-3 Win.

Game 2 VS TO Lizardmen

Ryan and I have had a great rivalry ever since I started playing Hammer seriously. We're both very wary and respectful of each other's game and what we have to bring to the table top (I just pretend I do :p nah he's actually a good player). Ryan took Old blood heavy Saurus deathStar with a ethereal Slaan and beast magic. It meant my minimal magic defence army would have to try and wipe out his chaff and avoid the 'savage beast' spell which would give his characters a million attacks. So battle plan was to avoid Main unit and kill everythingelse. The tension was palpable as we both made sure we didn't make any mistakes. I folded and made the mistake after wiping out all his chaff and mispositioned my diverting eagle one inch out of position. this meant he got the overrun into my Swordmasters and got their points on turn 6 to pull the game back. Must remember to get more tourney games in as I'm jut rusty at hammer. Good thoroughly absorbing tactical game and as always a fine chap and opponent.
11-9 Win

Game 3 Vs John Bretonnians

Long buses of rubbery lance doom was what I was thinking going into the game and that would be my down fall. John is a great guy new to my club and even though Brets pack a punch I thought I had them under control as there was a Alter of Khaine right where I wanted battle to commence. I went for a decisive turn one combat so moved swordmasters and Whitelions towards the Alter and offered John both charges at about a 7 to roll from his main bus with Lord in one and Bsb in the other. Thinking perhaps frenzied swordmasters with 21 attacks and Bsb's 3 str6 would put him off choosing combat. No such hesitation from John and my abilities to roll ones in combats was hampering and the stack of ones was going to prove my undoing. Combat elves lose and get run down. My attempt at pulling the game back was hampered by Dragon princes unable to catch fleeing Bret Lord in large Bus of points. Lesson learned Brets are good.
17-3 Loss

So far not playing competitive tournaments regularly have been really telling. Having a great time though and I recommend anyone out there to get in a tournament as it's great fun.

OTT (Over the Top) 2012 Part1

Tournament this weekend and it's OTT. My first Over the Top and very similar hard cap restrictions at the event that were used from last year. I'm excited as to get in a early tournament for the year and so excited I've taken a completely new HE list. It'll not feature any of the double White Lion bunkers and Phoenix Guard tarpits but for this Tournament I'm fielding a big block of Swordmasters. That should in itself be a challenge to drive.

So I decided I should make my very first display board. So in a rush to take a photo the board hasn't even had a chance to dry yet so is missing all the drybrushing. I'm beginning to understand why people knock them up.

Lord and Archmage need major work so with 2 days to go lets see if I can finish giving it lick of paint in time. I'll also post the Army list and some batreps closer to the tourney. Can't give too many secrets away just yet... :)

Warriors from the Chaos Wastes Part 2

Hell Cannon taking shape.

Needs fine detail and washes but I'm quite happy with how he turned out.

Warriors from the Chaos wastes.

Have always had a warriors army and haven't had an opportunity to sport them. FluffyCon the WFB tournament at Battlecry was the perfect chance for me to get some inspiration to paint my army up. Having been told that my High Elves would be very unsuitable to take to the one Soft tournament of the tournament calendar, the choice given to me by the TO was either Warriors or Beastmen. I think I picked the better option but it meant some serious painting inside of three weeks and some serious conversion and building work to make a Warshrine and a Hell cannon to support the troops.

Making the two models really got me inspired back into the hobby as it brought me back to what I like about the context of the hobby and that is, It's what you want it to be. Making your own conversions and adding your own touches to your army just gives it that special something that will keep you wargaming for aeons yet.

The Warshrine will eventually be marked with Tzeentch but I currently don't have any icons appropriate for this but will be looking at a forge world order at a later date. It's a Disc pulled by captured slaves converted to the cause. I particularly like the addition of the Dragon's head trophy which I found in my useful bits box. The whole army has a snow based theme and this will be added a little later on. All the rest of the trophies on the warshrine was just from the accumulation over the years and so very happy they were useful for something.

The Hell Cannon is just from the left over kit from making my Daemon Prince. The classic irony is that the actual cannon is made from a old work pen that I've green stuffed with lots of skulls on. The cannon spewing hell spawned icor (From my work pen) at my opponents is gonna give me belly aching ironic laughter for years to come. The legs are from some tyranid bits I had lying around. This model has immense amounts of green stuff and it was really a great learning experience for me since I'd never really used the stuff before other than for only minor gap filling and such. Once painted up it should be a cool centre piece for the horde.

Two more weeks to the tournament and I'll have more pics and batreps to come.

What to do when you have too many Archmages??

...You convert them of course!!!

Bit of a hiatus after the holiday season. With Long weekends (3days) over the last few weeks its been enjoy the sun, beverages and good company. Been drawn back to the hobby though with the imminent start of the tournament year. I'm picking up two tourneys this year in the month of Feb and the first of them is OTT (Over the Top) in Hamilton next weekend. I'm dusting off the High Elves for this and taking a rather weird list that concentrates on more attack than defense, lets see how they turn out.

So as with every tournament I like to at least make a new Model or Unit for the army. Looking through the bits box I discovered that I had about a half dozen Arch mages of IoB fame. So what do you do with these fine sculpts and they are just that. Here is my attempt at making a Archmage to led the Elven Host to glory battling it out in the Tron. (Hamilton).

The one on the left is an Arch Mage with the book of Hoerth which I'll use probably without the book of Hoerth at the tournament. He's just got a simple conversion with repositioned staff, Book from the HE mage kit and a head from the DP kit. The one on the right has more work done and has a PG breast plate, DP head, WL Left arm plus a great ax. Anyone out there with the great sword from the Dragon kit and I'll be happy to trade but other wise he's looking pretty complete.

I'll post Army list along with some Batreps after the tourney this weekend.

Cryx Painting - Damian

Like most out there I consider myself a slow painter, except in my case
its actually true! so in the past few months I have waged a battle with my
free time between Batman: Arkham City, Skyrim and Evil Genius and the
paint brushes to get some of my newly acquired Cryx painted, I made the
jump from WFB to Warmachine when the triple whammy hit in June and sold
off my High Elves which have funded this faction. I only really paint to
tabletop standards and use washes lots but I just got my hands on an
airbrush for Christmas (see first noobish attempt at glow on Skarlock
Thrall and the Slayer) so hope to up the level of painting over the course
of this year. I am working towards my first tourney in March (Equinox) so
hope to have 2x 35pt lists ready for that to wage my campaign for the
coveted wooden spoon.

Totally got my Painting Mojo back!

Airbrush = win, and this is my noobish attempt!

RUMOUR.

2012 A bit of comedy first.

Welcoming in the new year and I can't but feel excited about the imminent release of 'Games of thrones, Season 2'. For all you that haven't seen the first season, I suggest you go get it. It's the best Fantasy TV series I've seen for a long time. To fill in the ether until season 2 here's some Parodies.

You'll have to be familiar with the actual first season of GoT, but it's all good if you just dive in.

HAPPY NEW YEAR WARGAMERS!!