Scratching the Tournament

Well sad to say I will not be playing in the tourney this weekend. after the winter from hell, the first 70+ degree weekend just can't be spent in the games shop playing 40k...

In other news, a great night of Warmachine wednesday night. Skarre and the ladies laid the whumpin' down on Caine, but got fried by Kreoss. Horny demonic pirate goodness, YAWR! A few new pics for everyone to see tonight too.

2250 Tournament Final List

Next weekend the FLGS is having a 2250 Tournament w/ one super heavy allowed. I've toyed with a couple different army ideas, but here's the final decision:

HQ: Kharn the Betrayer

ELITE: 5x Terminators
-2x power fists
-Icon of Khorne
- combi melta
-heavy flamer
- Champion w/ 2x lightening Claws

Chaos Dreadnought
- 2x Dread CC Weapons
- Heavy Flamer
- Extra Armor

TROOPS: 3x 8 Berserkers w/ power fist champion
2x rhino w/ havoc launcher
1x rhino w/ daemonic possession (Kharn's squad)

HEAVY: Defiler w/ extra CC Weapon and Heavy Flamer

Land Raider w/ extra armor and dirge caster

Predator w/ twin las and las sponsons

SUPER HEAVY: Brass Scorpion of Khorne

Everything is painted except the pred, who I will whip up this week. This is essentially my normal 1750 world eaters list minus 2 squads of daemons w/ the scorp and predator added in. The pred was my sticking point, but knowing the ammount of super heavies i will be up against, I need something to reliably punch holes in armor 14.

I'll get some pics up as I get ready this week.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE THRONE!

'Tis a Pirate's Life For Me!

Yawr matey's... hoist the skull and bones and send up the grog!

Ok enough pirate talk... but damn am I sold on Skarre and her crew of horny demonic pirate babes. These ladies are fun to play and have proved a very solid army for me as I'm trying to wear some of the shine off my newb pin when it comes to Warmachine. My current list at 25 points:
Army Points: 25

Name Cost
Pirate Queen Skarre -6
Skarlock 2
Deathripper 4
Slayer 6
Necrosurgeon (3) 2
Mechanithralls (6/10) 3
Black Ogrun Boarding Party (3/5) 4
Satyxis Raiders (10/10) 8
Sea Witch (undefined 2

As you can see, six of the satyxis and the jacks are now painted as well. I figure I'll finish the satyxis off and then hit the seawitch. After that I will probably churn out the mech thralls. We shall see.

The army is fast, furious, and fragile. The skarlock works at providing the focus factory for Skarre while the necrosurgeon tails skarre keeping her healed and bringing back any mech thralls that may fall along the way. I try to use stitch thralls as the sacrifice victims. The slayer is Skarre's bodyguard while the deathripper runs out in front for arc purposes. Primarily it's all about isolating a jack, hitting it with backlash and then letting the ladies with the whips do their thing. The ogrun serve as beatsticks themselves, but also can help with moving things around with a lucky harpoon shot. In the end, Skarre has also won a game or two simply by camping focus and getting a melee kill on her feat turn.

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2250 Tourney Playtesting

Greetings from the frozen lands of Baltimore! Our gaming group converged on my war room today for some mid afternoon 40k. The new tyranids were put to the test on all three tables, and 2/3s of the time were found lacking.

My goal was to playtest my possible list for the upcoming 2250/ superheavy tournament in March. I took Tiny the Titan out for his first real spin with a half finished paint job, and high hopes for uber distruction. He was joined by my always dependable World Eaters led by Kharn. My opponent went without a super heavy in order to try out many more of the new bugs, this meant multiple tervigons, a mawloc, a trigon, a carnifex brood, hive guard, hive tyrants, and the kitchen sink. To make a long story short, I won. Unfortuately, it wasn't really because of the titan. Don't get me wrong, nothing touched the beast and it did do some good shooting, but all major parts of the game were won just the way they always are, by guys in red power armor hitting things in the face with a chain axe. With today's results in mind, I think I'll be dropping the titan and taking my brass scoprion. It's fluffier anyway, and is 350 points less allowing for more krunchy khorne goodness. A few pictures for everyone above. Until next time.

D-9

Warmachine: Skarre Triumphant!

The arctic tundra wasn't enough to stop the forces of Cygnar and Cryxx throwing down at 25 points for the first time today. We got two games in, one to Joey B and one to me. He ran pNemo and lots of jacks w/ a Jr. in game one. I brought pSkarre and friends. By turn three I had set up the feedback loop combo with a full unit of Satyxis and a sea witch on one of his jacks. The next turn Skarre hellfired the last two wounds off of Nemo and that was that. In game two I was up against Siege. He was able to pop his feat, and get a clear LOS to my caster and that was it.

So, once again, I sing the praises of Warmachine. We played two games in about 3 hours complete with beer drinking and bullshiting. I had a lot of fun, even in the game I lost. I think the name of the game for me will be to stick with one army and learn the ins and outs of it.

Some pics for everyone of my finished Slayer and one Satyxis raider. Real happy with both pieces, not so happy with the photos. Too much light.

28" of snow means no work tomorrow, so hopefully some more hobby time, maybe even some games of 40k or WM. Doubtful for work on Tuesday either, then we get another major storm Tuesday night. I could be looking at a weeklong vacation with little to do... sounds like my painting table and I will be spending a lot of time together.

-D-9-

Greetings From the Frozen Tundra

From the icy land of Baltimore I bid everyone greetings! Almost 3 feet of snow fell on us this weekend, with more to come this week. I wish I could say I got a lot of hobby in today, but most of my time was spent humping snow.

I do have my slayer finished, with pictures to come, but something exciting and new was laid on my desktop yesterday....
Our FLGS is holding a 2250, Apoc style, tourney in March. One super heavy/ gargantuan creature/ etc. So the question is, what to take? Guard w/ baneblade? Ol' Ripley could use a final coat of paint, and I'm sure there will be plenty of bugs there for her to gun down (My baneblade is named Ripley due to her propensity for bug annhilation)
My other option is to break out the zerks. One list has the brass scorpion in it the other has my warhound...ahh decisions, decisions...

Hopefully I'll get some painting done this weekend, and a few new pics up. Til then, stay warm.

C'mon Snow Day....

Looks to be a messy day tomorrow in the mid east... that could mean some hobby time instead of going to work. Could even mean getting some Warmachine games in. But before then, time for a little blog update.



Shennanigans
Ok, has everyone read the latest legal tomfoolery posted about the net?
http://privateerpressforums.com/showthread.php?t=9026
I for one am really turned off by game companies who seem to spend more time developing their legal departments than their rules. If GW could take a few moments to actually playtest, proofread, and edit their codexes instead of printing C&D orders maybe 40k wouldn't feel quite as sloppy in the rules department as it does. As for Lone Wolf, I enjoy army builder, but I often have wondered why/how this company justifies charging the ammount they do for essentially a program that does very little except allow other people to do their work when it comes to programing. Privateer comes off as the winner in this one as far as I'm concerned. Their reply is priceless. I guess our upcoming podcast can no longer be called "East Coast Army Builders"" eh? Interested to see what my lawyer friends have to say about this.

Tyranids
Ok, let me get this out of the way. I finally read the book. Well the rules portions at least, and I have one thing to say.... Doom of Malantai= WTF? Talk about a stupidly broken unit... Ahh GW... I guess I can rest well knowing that if my Dark Angels and World Eaters ever get re-done this decade they will be made of pure awesome the way things are going. Other than the silliness that is the Doom, I sorta like the book. I feel it has a few things that are superfluious and don't seem to stick with the flavor of the fluff, but overall it should be fun to play against... except for the doom... did I mention that thing sucks?

Oh well til tomorrow.