Awesomely Weird Tournament

A few weeks ago I had the please to join in a very strange tournament at the game store I frequent. It was a Santa themed amazeballs Thunderdome type event! It was loud, fast, and so much fun! Seriously! I had a blast with these guys.

I rather um... intelligently decided that I was going to play this tournament the day before my big move (another post, another time). Now this tournament was rather difficult, let me explain some rules then post a picture which I am very much so stealing from Lost Hemisphere who has a fantastic podcast of nerdiness!

So rules!

You may bring 5 casters, 3 must fight per round, you get heads that other people take from you when they kill you. The one with the most kills wins.

This tournament was the brain child of Captain Spud.

Simple right? Yes, but amazingly fun and crazy amounts of weird! The point of this is to act fast and kill things.

I made the mistake of taking casters I had never played before, not the best of ideas, but I did learn how to play them rather well after the end of the day.

Here are some photos of the board and game play:

A Very Wintery Paint Exchange

At the game store I go to they had a winter season paint exchange, this allows players to paint outside of their factions and enjoy seeing what other people in the store's community can do. I was given the Iron Lich Overseer from the Cryx faction, now if you don't know much about Warmachine let me tell you this. Cryx are very mean, undead meanies! Well not all undead but mostly. I've been use to painting rather living models so this was a change for me. Fun, but still a change. 

I painted it to the best of my ability, I think next time I get a Cryx model to paint I will be able to do it much better.

Here is a photo of the completed figure (again stolen from Lost Hemisphere):

And here is the miniature that got painted for me (which I am so very in love with!):

There are many more photos of the paint jobs on Lost Hemisphere's facebook page so if you did miniatures I would go check him out.

My ever changing army list and other things!

As the New Year has begun I must say that this past year wasn't what I would expect it to be. It's been filled with ups and downs. I've lost people in my life and even though they aren't in my life any longer I still very much so wish them all the best. This is the year for change and new beginnings! I start school in a few days and boy am I nervous! I'm so lucky to have the people in my life that I do, I don't think I would have been able to make this transition so well without my boyfriend, my friends and family. (Including my game store family). Life changes faster than we know it, one second you are comfortable where you are, the next you are uprooting your life and starting a new adventure!

So I've changed to Menoth! Yes I know Khador is fantastically awesomely beatstick... But lets be real here: I like setting stuff on fire! It makes my inner self squee with excitement and isn't that really what this game is for? To set stuff on fire and take focus for everything on fire? Oh yes did I mention Feora is awesome! Mhm! So here is my Menoth list (so far) I have more casters than I know what to do with so I might keep switching casters out but for now this should keep me busy. I'm going to play it through and paint it for Templecon. It's a 50 point army, let me know what you think.


eFeora
Redeemer (x2)
Repenter
Crusader (x2)
Vanquisher
Daughters of the Flame
Exemplar Cinerators
Choir

I'm not one to make resolutions, infact I usually see no point to them. But as this year is a brand new year, lets just put something down here. My goal this year is to take my time on this earth and create more positivity! It's something I feel this world is lacking, so I will make every effort to have my world be more positive! I encourage anyone reading this to do the same.

So let me say this in closing. Happy new beginnings, Happy New Year, Bonne Anné!

Why my Khador Army Kicked Butt!

My friend hmmmm for this blog post lets call him Cryx Commander or CC for short, well my friend CC has kicked my army's arse every time we have battled. Everytime without fail, the first couple times he CRUSHED my army, as in there was never any chance of coming back from that without great skill (which I'm currently lacking) or sheer dumb luck.

But my friends I have done the impossible! I kicked his bottom, not even a little I demolished his army! Woot! Now I really don't usually brag but we have played about 10 games now and I think I needed this win. For most other people I would believe that they would let me win but CC wouldn't he believes in logic and doesn't believe in hand holding or coddling someone. Though I will admit again this was mainly due to how over powered my Warcaster is, Vladamir the Dark Prince of Umbrey seriously kicks ass on stats. CC has many more years of Miniature War games under his belt but soon through the skills I have learned from him I'll be able to kick butt everywhere! 

Round 1: Fight! (Battle Report #1)

I found out yesterday that Warmachine has a funny fighting style. It can go quickly if you aren't paying attention AND if you finish your turn and start swearing in your head then well you did something stupid and you and I have a lot more in common than you think!

Now for someone who is use to playing Pathfinder and games like that, miniature war games are different enough to be confusing. I've never played Warhammer or games like it and if I had then maybe I would have had a better outcome to our practice game last night. My friend's Cryx army decimated my Khador forces and I left myself open to having my Warjack do the final blows to my Warcaster, thankfully the roll fell short and saved me that embarrassment! 

So now that I saved the embaressment of having my warjack end the game, I left myself open to a melee attack that completely over killed my warcaster, now let me say this: DON'T LET A WARJACK GET INTO MELEE WITH YOUR WARCASTER! *Sigh* 

My next battle report will be better, but our duel which when two people know what they are doing is only supposed to take about 20-25 minutes took about an hour.

             LEARNING! YAAAAY!

Yours in Serenity,

Erynith

My Khador army will crush yours!

Soooooooooooo,



my friend decided that he didn't want to play Warmachine alone so he got me into it by purchasing my first
starter kit.




I will admit the description of Khador made me make high pitched squeaky noises, seriously who can resist:

Khador's powerful warjacks epitomize the national ideals of strength and resilience and are as relentless in battle as the frigid winter of their homeland.

Taken straight off of the back of the Khador Battlegroup box.

 *Insert stupid grin*




Okaaaay! So now you know my painfully horrible addiction that has started all of three days ago. Now I must admit the horrible truth... My painting skills suck, it seriously looks like an epileptic monkey spazzed out and threw red paint everywhere. But it is my first go and I'm slowly learning some new techniques. Lets show you the first photo while I hide in shame.


I also am quite aware how bright and out of focus it is... Photos should get better eventually...










What I have realized is that the Khador paint kit didn't have all the colours I saw my army being in, so I bought two full paint kits and a pot of Quick Silver. So now I can make my army of the frigid north shine bright like the snow and ice from their homelands.









I know, I have quite a ways to go before my miniatures army is completed but I am in it for the long haul, and I am looking forward to what it looks like all completed.

Yours in Serenity,

Erynith.