The Rumors of My Demise Have Been Greatly Overstated...

Hello oh interwebz... I have returned to you from the deep dark reaches of a far off kingdom called... real life... in this mysterious place they expect you to do things like "work" and "mow lawn" and "home improve..."

Greetings, salutations and all the over things. Sorry so quiet lately. Had some big news hit the D-9 castle last month. I'll be adding a new miniature to the collection sometime in the fall. It's titan sized apparently and comes already painted... but it needs a lot of cleaning... Yep Missus D-9 is prego. Very excited, mildly terrified, but looking forward none the less.

So the blog took a break due to a myriad of other things hitting my plate, including cleaning up my gaming space. All my photography gear got trapped in a box and I'm just now starting to rescue it. Hobbying didn't take a break though. In the 2 months since I last typed your way I've painted a ton more Circle stuff, finished the slow grow, and played in another tournament. Pictures to come this weekend off all the finished models. For the meantime feast your eyes on some WIP of big daddy Ghetto-Rex.

So much to write about in the coming weeks. Look back soon! 

A Couple of Victories With the Circle

Pulled off two wins last night to help break the screaming slide of losses lately. In the first game Grayle danced around the far flank against the old Witch. Using awareness and the Satyr's animus, the Stalker was able to blast through the woods and smash up the behemoth. The satyr countercharged a juggernaut slamming it 5" back and then wrecking it pretty well. In the end, the stalker put an end to the Old Witch. The true hero of the game was the feralgiest, who singlehandedly kept me from losing simply by being ethereal. Joey B had one magic attack left and that was Valchev attached to boomhowlers trolls. The woldwyrd under awareness sniped Valchev ensuring that I simply couldn't lose on objective.

Game 2 was against Vindictus and didn't look good for a large portion of the game. When it finally started to go my way I charged Vindictus with Grayle and a Stormraged Moraig... and didn't kill him. I then stood there and watched a fully loaded Vindictus whiff almost all of his attacks and ended it with a big hit from Moraig next turn.

Two good games. Very excited about the feralgiest. It may be time to add a second Circle caster into the mix... either eKaya or pKrueger. We shall see...

Updated Circle Painting

Well hello interwebs. Sorry I've been so silent, lots going on. My Circle army is coming a long nicely, can't say I'm winning a lot of games, but I'm having fun. In non Circle related news I went to a tournament last weekend and took my Cryx that I haven't really played in a bout a year... I lost all three games... it wasn't pretty. The moral of the story is stick to what you're playing... anyway... picture time!

First up, my Black Clad wayfarer. I wanted him to still fit in with the army but to look a little different from everyone else. The patchwork cloak was my attempt at this little idea.

The gnarlhorn is added to the stable of beasts. This is one awesome model and he took quite a bit of work to blend and shade. I'm really happy with this one.

Moraig off his wolf. Is it sad that he is a cooler model than Grayle?

And last but not least, a non slow grow, Wold Warden.

The Wolves of Orboros now number 10 as well, didn't take a pic of the four new guys. Next up are the skinwalkers and a feralgiest.

Circle Orboros Painting Update

Lots of pictures for everyone tonight. This represents about one month's worth of work on my slow grow list. I'm very happy with the progress thus far. Next on the list is Moraig's unmounted model followed by a Woldwarden and a Blackclad Wayfarer. After that it will be time to max out the WoO and then add in a set of Shifting Stones and the UA. Enjoy!

Slow Grow League Painting Update

Today was one of the ugliest days that has hit Baltimore in a long time. The weather itsself seemed to be in a crappy mood following the Ravens' loss, and it mirrored pretty much every single person's mood who I ran into anywhere I went today.

I guess now that football season is over it's time to focus on hobby news. Still a few more months before my bike takes over my free time again, and those months jive perfectly with our slow grow league.

The goal (for anyone who just dropped in here for the first time) is to paint an entire 50 pt army as we move through our slow grow league from January to May. There is prize support for our group, but since I'm providing prizes I'm not too excited.

This month was going to be a heavy paint month for me. 15 points of my Grayle list included two warbeasts, Grayle, and 8 wolves of orboros. So with the month winding down...

excuse the crappy photography.

Two warbeasts? CHECK
Warlock? CHECK
Wolves of Orboros? almost...

still have two more infantry plus both models of the UA on my painting table. Hopefully I'll finish them off by the end of the month. The two rank and file guys are already 60% or so finished, so there's a good chance I'll make my goals this month.

Painting up the Circle has been a nice change from all the Cygnar work I was doing. The enameled gold effect is relatively easy to pull off and I like the cohesive look it's bringing to the army. The various greys that I've been blending on cloaks and beasts have been a lot of fun too. Hopefully I'll do a little tutorial for everyone one of the last four Wolves of Oroboros when I bump the list up to 35 points.

The other slow grow member who's going to make his mark this month is Joey Baltimore. A little shout out for his foray into model painting, which I think is going quite good. I'm sure he'll regale everyone with his trials and tribulations in the comments. Hopefully I'll get some pics of J.B's Retribution for everyone... the only problem is they die so easily to Grayle...

I'm an elf killin' ninja!

Slow Grow Week 3 Update

Waiting for the Ravens to take the field... figured I'd type up a quick update!

The slow grow league moved over to 15 points this week and set up some changes in people's armies. I added a min unit of Wolves of Oroboros and UA just to have a bit of a tarpit and some objective holding capability. I feel like with Grayle's relatively limited spell list I'm ok on Fury management at this point.

My first 15 point game was against Vyros and the elves. Joey B. brought along the lesser warlock and her snake which was surprisinly effective at this point level. The game went back and forth until Joe went for broke and wasn't successful in an assaination run. Grayle sliced the elf down in short order.

Game two went against Arkadius and his warhogs. I had this game, but my dice let me down in the end. Grayle was able to cut down two warhogs on his own (with a little help from his wolf... just a little) A final warhog brought the game to an end.

In the painting front, I have finished Grayle, the stalker, the woldwyrd, and 4 wolves of oroboros. 4 more infantry models and I'm done my 15 points in time. Look for pictures soon!

Slow Grow Week 2 Update

Since week three's gaming night is tomorrow night, I guess I should toss a quick update for last week.

After a strong week one, Grayle was a little slow out of the gate. Utter failure in dropping Baldur's VERY hard to kill beasts left me wide open for sudden death and while I don't remember the merc. game I think it had much the same outcome, with me at an inability to finish off two heavies in one turn.

Game 1: Circle vs. Circle (Baldur) LOSS
Game 2: vs. Daimanio LOSS

Then I decided it was time to set Grayle loose and see what he could do. I tried to play him a little more front line so his damage output was finishing off things that the wyrd and the stalker were crashing into.

Game 3: vs. pMadrak: WIN

Ninja Grayle charged through the lines and pounded Madrak into the turf.

Game 4: vs. Vyros: WIN
This time ninja Grayle jumped out of the woods and scrapped Vyros' last jack (a heavy) for the win.

Game 5: vs. Shae: WIN
I had had quite a few drinks by this point, but I'm pretty sure the warpwolf ate Shae. I could be wrong though...

Tomorrow night we move up to 15 points. Grayle and his warpack are getting a min unit of Wolves of Oroboros with UA to give me some tarpit ability and to set up the addition of Moraig later in the league. I figure the UA and CMA will give me another big punch to help drop heavy targets.

On the painting front, Grayle is done as are two Wolves. More to come.