Blog Vs Podcast

It's been about 12 months since my last pilgrimage to Warhammer World, so I though it was about time that this injustice was put to rights. Myself, Matt and Craig made the journey and also invited Sam from the Adeptus Terra Podcast to come and join us for a day of gaming.

Post Carnage: Eldar Vs Necrons

I took the Harlequins to the tabletop for the first time today against Craig's Necrons. It was an excuse for me to use the Heroes Path formation and use the new miniatures for the first time along with trying out a few counter tactics for taking on Necrons.

WiP: Shadowseer

A quick work in progress for my Shadowseer. I quite like the black and red quarters and it is leading me to question my colour scheme for the troupes. Initially, they were just going to be red and blue in different variations to represent the three troupes, but now I am thinking of going red/black, blue/black and red/blue. It's probably something I'm going to be pondering as I aim to finish this model at the weekend.

Formations

Formations are fast becoming a big deal with the hobby, especially with the advent of the Necron Decurion Formation, which is made of smaller formations.  It's a confusing and rule packed system Me, Alun and Craig have had a good few discussions about, including but not limited to;

How do they work?
Do they cover FoC slot?
Do they count as allies?
Can I take more than one?

Those questions we've pretty much answered now and Alun is making strides with this new system with the aforementioned Decurion and some of the new Harlequin ones.  Seeing how he's using them and how they fit into a force has got me interested so I've decided to jump on board the Formation express!

Harlequins: Death Jester

I've recently wrapped up the painting on the Death Jester, and with it the second part of the Heroes Path formation.

Army Showcase: Craftworld Ulthwé

After tidying the house a few weeks ago, I decided to get my Eldar army out of the case and just take a visual audit of what I have painted to try and give me an idea of where I want to go with it in the future, Whilst doing this, I took a few photos too, which I would like to share with you.

WAAAAGGGGHHHH at the Moon

Hey Guys, Girls and Xenos

Craig here with another blog post.

As most of you will be aware our local store is rapidly approaching the first hand in for Tale of Many Gamers.  This year I have vouched to stick this to the end and at all costs.

The time scales for this year seem to be more manageable so I can really focus on the finer details and getting things right. Rather than rushing things and messing up. One unit from scratch ready for the fist Saturday of  every month right up until December.

If you read some of my other posts you will see that my spark has been reignited with 40K (which I thought would never happen) and all it took was some meat heads known as Orks. So this TOMG I will be entering the Bad Moons Orks and making them look angry and bad.

I started off with a squad of Nobz one of my favourite units at the moment in the Ork book. They have the diversity of being a smash and grab unit with klaws and choppas or can shoot you with many different things. (Rokkits, Burnas or more bullets). On the plus side if they need more speed you can give them a trukk or to make them uber tough a bike.

Obviously giving them a Waagghhh banner will help massively who doesn't need +1 WS.  Also giving one guy a kombi burna to kick out a few wounds before they actually get into combat is always a plus.

I can honestly say putting this unit together was a joy. Every last part of the 5 guys was awesome. The only conversion on them is the banner. I thought these guys deserved a nice big banner. I was scratching my head thinking what have I got that is big enough for these guys. Then it clicked OGRES. So I rummaged through my bits and bobs to find a brilliant huge tattered banner. I think it looks brilliant probably the stand out feature of this unit,

I have started on the unit focusing for the moment on the skin tones. I can't make up my mind f the need to be vibrant and stand our or whether they need to be toned down. I do like the look of the skin so far, but something is missing and I can't put my finger on it.

Next week I will have more pictures of these lovely gitz and will have hopefully figured out my bloomin skin scheme.

Until next time.

Craig

Tale of Many Gamers: The Heroes Path

It's that time again where I try and expand my army as part of the local Tale of Many Gamers event under yet another new manager. As Matt said in his previous post, this time we are only having to submit one unit per month until the end of the year. Something that is easier, yet harder to achieve in equal measure.

Toxic Shock

The Toxicrene, a beast of deadly poisons, horrific assault potency and fear for anyone unfortunate enough to be in its way, including the aspiring hobbyist! I was going to post this a while ago but kept forgetting.  Why?  Simple, I wanted this model out of my mind.

Return of the ToMG

Tale of Many Gamers has returned!  But, what is it?

Our local GW store holds and annual army building/painting event called Tale of Many Gamers, in which the local hobby community is challenged to produce a certain number of built and painted units in a set time frame.  It usually runs for about 5 months and has the goal of getting people to end up with a nicely painted and based force.

Myself, Alun and Craig are all entering this year and have pledged to say the course, something not all manage.  (Myself and Alun have endured hell to stick to it each time we entered though :) )

Leonardo da Orky

Hey guys Craig here again

As some of you may of read in my last post. I was going to enter my local GW painting contest. Which was a first for me, as personally, I don't think my painting is up to scratch.

List Building: Rule of Cool

If you walked into a Games Workshop store and asked the friendly shopkeep which army should you start, you are more than likely going to be asked one question, "Which army do you like the most?". It makes me beg the question, why is this the only time we take the look of an army into the equation when building a force?