Sazel's Everbruise Tribe - The GuhNawBlawg! :D

Okay, so I've been a part of this site for a few months now, and I've decided it's finally MY turn to start one of these Gnoblogs.

To get started, I decided to do a whole rundown of points for my entire army, just to see what I had with the new rules point-wise:

THE EVERBRUISE TRIBE
Full Points Army: Note: FMP = Full Magic Points, using up all magic points allotment

Lords:
Tyrant - BoP, HA, FMP -       329
Slaughtermaster - IF, Lvl4, FMP -    388
Subtotal:            =717

Heroes:
Bruiser - BSB (LoG), GW, HA, FMP -   200
Hunter - Harpoon, Stonehorn, FMP -   440
Hunter - BVulture, FMP -       190
Butcher - GW, Lvl2, FMP -      194
Firebelly - GW, Lvl2, FMP -      214
Subtotal:            =1238

Core:
(3x) 6 Ogres - FC, LoG, IF - 207x3 -   621
10 Ironguts - FC, LoG, FMP -      515
(6x) 10 Gnoblars - FC, Trappers - 75x6-   450
12 Gnoblars - FC, Trappers -      80
Subtotal:            =2386

Special:
5 Leadbelchers - FC -      235
(6x) Sabretusk -          126
4 Mournfang Cav - FC, BoP, FMP, HA, GW- 378
Gorger -            90
Subtotal:            =1639

Rare:
Scraplauncher -          130
Ironblaster -          170
2 Giants -          400
Thundertusk -         250
Subtotal:            =950
TOTAL:            =6214!!!

Some more notes: I don't have all the Gnoblars put together yet, and only a fraction of my army is actually painted. Plus, this is purely milking every point available via the book, in an actual game there's no way I'd field 10 full-command Gnoblar units well, I mean, I wouldn't have the FC in them, at least

Eitherway, I'm very impressed with what i've accomplished points-wise. So, now I'm going to try and post some pics in my next post.

Eitherway, enjoy!

To start off, the only model that I've actually taken pictures for as of the start of this Gnoblog, my Ironblaster.



Forgive me, my webcam's a piece of crud. Eitherway, I went ahead and used the advice that the instructions gave, where I painted the pieces before putting it all together.



I wanted to try and work on washing and drybrushing a bit, so I did a good amount of washing on the chassis (my family was quite impressed with how the base looked, and were a tad disappointed when I had to bury it with the other pieces lol).



Now, I could nitpick the model's weakspots until the Maw returns, but honestly, let's face it. I'm not a Golden Demon contender, nor do I need to be. I just want to have a cool looking model that's good enough And I'm very happy with how it turned out. I love to drybrush Scab Red on the tips of spiky metal, I just love that stained-blood look.

I've come to realize that my favorite color paint in the Citadel range is probably Tin Bitz, followed closely by Kommando Khaki. I like how the Tin looks, and K-Khaki is the usual skintone of my ogres (although this ogre's skin is a drybrush of Bubonic Brown covered with Rotting Flesh, it looks decent).

Well, I'll try to get more pics up as I can. I've done a lot of work on this army already, but I'll try to showcase more stuff as I can get to it. And hopefully I can get a better webcam in the future so I can get better pics lol

Okay, so I figure I should post my next project idea: The Mournfang Standard Bearer.

The idea is simple: I have two kits (4 kitties, of course!), and so two sets of the banner materials.

I would like to use them to create a true Dragonhide Banner, and make it look pretty darn nifty! So, as a start off, here are a few of the bits (I'm going to rummage through my other bits and see if there's anything else I'd like to tack on for kicks) that I will be working with:



My main goal is to make it look cool, but to also make it so that my SBearer doesn't fall over too much lol...

I plan to post more pictures as I get it built s'more, as well as after it's all painted and purdified. I'm going to use this banner as a chance to try out freehand painting before I do my BSB (which, along with the rest of my army, I should take pics of and post; oh, to have a good webcam lol).

And, a half hour later...





A nice little hackjob at the skull created an interesting (and lopsided) lower jaw. I like it being lopsided because it shows how the bones are decaying and coming apart (I hope I can represent that with the painting later lol). To do that, I simply clipped the skull right at the point where the teeth start coming out; I then took the top piece, clipped that in half, and then rearranged it to make it look like the sides of the jaw, leaving a gap in between the joints like an actual jaw/skull is arranged.

I'm not quite done yet, but I'm thinking, what would be the best way to represent the icy burst that is coming forth from the banner? I'm trying to think maybe dyed cotton (using a bright light blue) that's thinned out and spreading out from the mouth, but does anyone else have any ideas?

awesome! I love it

Would you mind if i borrowed the idea for my BSB?

i'll pay you a gnoblar

I do not mind at all! I love banners, and I'll have to post my other banner sometime in the near future.

You don't have to pay me a gnoblar, but I'll appreciate the shoutout for the idea lol

Oh, and for everyone who's reading this: I got my Sabretusks in today! I ordered 3 packs of them, so that I can do max singletons for mega games as well as have some variety in the smaller games; I'll paint and post them up here later on today (hopefully!).

Okay, 6 Sabretusks, front and center!



I'll paint them later on. However, there are two in particular I wanted to focus in on (in the first picture they are the ones on each of the far ends of the pic):



I wanted to swap the front left leg of each model and see what I could come up with.  The limping left leg onto the standing Sabre worked well with little error. The standing leg on the limping Sabre (I can't think of a better way of defining them separately) sat up a little high on the body, so I took a piece of the sprue it came on and fashioned it into a rock-esque shape. I figure it's cheaper than buying the rock basing stuff and after it's painted it'll come to the same effect hopefully. There's a lot of cleanup work here, and I'm thinking I may need to get my hands on a bottle of liquid GS before they're painted, but, then again... I like how they look now, and I'm not worried about the weird little gaps here and there; painting it tends to camoflage it from the untrained eye, and I'm not attempting to enter any art competitions with these fellows. They're here to eat some flak and bat around some warmachines!

Alrighty, more painting in a future post.

BTW, how do you fill the gaps in the cavalry bases? should I just cram em full of GS or is there another method?

That's an impressive list, but I wouldn't count anything that isn't based and painted. Buying them is the easy part after all.

You should take the time to fill those gaps I think, many eyes are rather trained after all. 

The gaps in the cavalry bases can be fixed quickly with a bit of all purpose filler or covered with rocks and debris. Green stuff takes some time to knead but if you use it on a model anyway, the cavalry bases are a good place to put the leftovers.

The Dragonhide banner is a great idea.

That's an impressive list, but I wouldn't count anything that isn't based and painted. Buying them is the easy part after all.

I have none of them based! lol... er, fancy based, I mean, I have them glued to the actual bases and all that. And, only a fraction of my army is painted, so other than my Ironblaster and a few random Bulls and Ironguts, then I'd technically have no army list atm However, I do plan to get all of this done in good time, but all I have left to officially put together are the Mournfang standard bearer and the 4th Mournfang dude (aka "the other one"), and I can say that I'm done with building models for the moment! Then it comes down to the painting... and, as you see in my primary list, it'll take a while lol

In fact, I'm going to update it; everything in bold will be painted. Just for the time being

Thank you for your thoughts, I'll fill those spaces with basing stuff when I get to that step of the hobby, and I'll strongly consider getting liquid GS, although only for the models that are unpainted, I don't wanna fuss around with repainting and all that lol

Alrighty, it's been WAY too long. I've worked late night shifts the past several days, so I haven't had any time to really work on or post anything.

So, hopefully you'll appreciate my banner-wielding Mournfang rider



For the Dragonhide Banner that my unit will undoubtedly be wielding, I wanted to attempt writing some old runes symbolizing power (from the Elder Futhark, aka Norse, rune script). The 3 runes are as follows:
I = Ice / N = Destruction / "C" = Magic



I did this in order to earn the Wildcard achievement for freehand-painting a banner. I guess this also technically counts for the achievement for converting a new model, since I redid the banner (?)... If it doesn't, the 4th Mournfang rider (aka "the other one") has a simple converted weapon, but I'll post pics later on.

Anyways, I did a close-up on the skull's eyes, because I wanted to depict the magical power of the dragon breathing ice, so I drybrushed some Shadow Grey and Skull White (respectively) to show some magical oomph. I have a lot of good ideas, but I don't feel like my execution is nearly up to par. Oh well.



Now a shot of the dude. I gave his helmet one horn, just like the dragon only has one horn left, and other'n that used a Bleached Bone /Devlan Mud Wash skintone. I really like Devlan Mud, I'm thinking of looking into more washes. Oh, and the iconic "purple nurple" that is inherent in all my tribe



So now a direct shot of the model, as it comes charging at you. Note two things: the Mournfang isn't done yet, but whatever I'll get to it eventually, And notice how the flag is turned. Sadly, I didn't quite model the flag-to-hand aspect quite right, so instead of having the flag head-on, it's turned to the side. Not the effect I wanted, but oh well, I think it still looks decent as is.

Okay, I think I earned 3 achievements with this post: update blog 3 times, convert a new model, AND freehand paint a banner. Onto updating that and so on and so forth Now, to paint the remainder of the Mournfang Cavalry!

EDIT: I had earned 4 achievements that I had not yet posted lol... Missed one earlier!

Okay, so I've been asked by my local hobbyshop to partake in a "Best Painted Model" competition for whatever. I dunno if it's for a prize or bragging rights or what, but I'm going to try for it. It's next Saturday (the 28th), and I plan to paint my Gorger. So, I'm putting my sabres/mournfangs on hold for a bit, and plan to start that.

I'm planning on attempting new painting techniques (well, new for me) to try and blend colors to make a particularly gruesome Gorger. I didn't want to do just the traditional pale white or stonegray gorger that I see across the internet, I want to try and have one with a sickly green accent to the skin; so, still mostly white or pale, but a slight hue of green.

So, I'm thinking this:
Basecoat Chaos Black (DONE)
Gretchin Green
50/50 Gretchin Green/Rotting Flesh
Rotting Flesh
50/50 Rotting Flesh/Bleached Bone
Dheneb Stone
Highlight 50/50 Dheneb Stone/Skull White
Washing with Devlan Mud either between each step or at the halfway point, not sure.

What do y'all think? For the hair I'm thinking black with hints of greens and/or blues, and then having the skulls be a bright white with a light Bleached Bone hint, and then the center of all eyes (including gorger's) being something bright, like either red or purple or something. I'm really just curious how the skin will turn out.

If nothing else, Simple Green can help me out

Alrighty folks, I decided to spend today working on my painting competition entry: The Gorger.

As with many of my models, it was already basecoated with Chaos Black before I even put a brush to it; it was just sitting in the eternal queue of my "hobby-to-do" list As a side note, though, this is the old metal one, not the new Finecast model. So, yeah, it was a little more hair-raising to paint as I fretted picking it up and not dropping it and having it completely come apart

So, I begun with the skin, and started with a beginning layer of Gretchin Green. I wanted to have a greenish-tinted skin, to look a bit sickly from the lack of sunlight.  I then layered a 50/50 of Gretchin Green and Rotting Flesh, and then another layer of 35/65-ish Gretchin Green/Rotting Flesh, before I applied my first wash of Devlan Mud.


Gorger before first wash

After that, I painted on a full coat of Rotting Flesh, followed by a coat of 50/50 Rotting Flesh/Dheneb Stone, and then I washed again with another Devlan Mud wash, but I didn't use as much as the first time; I really just wanted to bring back some of the depth and shading while I was painting.


Gorger before second wash

At this point I decided to drybrush a layer of Dheneb Stone on top, so as to keep the shading and to fully bring the skin to completion. I later applied a small highlight of 50/50 Dheneb Stone/Skull White around the eyes, but it really didn't come out that much, so I didn't bother to do any other highlighting.


Skin's done! See also in the background my Ironblaster and my Cockatrice (which I have forgotten to post!!!)

So now, excited by how it looked (honestly, although my pictures don't show it, this really looks like something that could actually exist, not just a portrait or statue, y'know?), I went ahead and did the detail work.

I used Calthan Brown on all the leather/cloth bits (because I have no other decent paint colors), and drybrushed Bubonic Brown over the top of some parts. I drybrushed Bleached Bone on all the bones sticking out of the flesh as well as all the skulls, and I used a drybrush of Rotting Flesh on the toeclaws. For the hair I used a mix of Shadow Grey and Chaos Black that I drybrushed along it (a nice rich deep blue that didn't stand out too much), and then I used a good helping of Blood Red and Scab Red at various locations to note the bloody mess this beast leaves behind. I even used a fine detail brush to have the blood drip down the fingers and jaw a bit. I also tried using a bit of Liche Purple on the eyes, and although it doesn't stick out like I like, at least it gives them some color.


DONE!!!

I'm really excited about this. It may not win the competition, but I'm proud of how much effort I put into this guy, and how great he actually looks (even if my webcam's blah).

In the meantime, I'm basecoating all my sabretusks for my next painting step. Maybe, one day, I'll find time to play a game ( -_-)'

By the way that's my Cockatrice for Storm of Magic battles.

Honestly, I don't like SoM, the couple times I've played I just really had not the best experiences, but I really loved this model so I'm glad I got it anyways

I painted this Cockatrice using the thematic idea of my tribe, the Everbruise. So, I wanted to paint it using different tones of what bruises look like. The skin is the dark yellowish tone of a nearly-healed bruise, the scales and claws the deep red of the center of a really bad bloody bruise, and the feathers a deep blue with purple tints for the "black-and-blue" bruises. The skin in the wings is just a complimentary tone, it's Shadow Grey with a light drybrush of Scab Red, kinda looking like a bleeding wounded spot, but it was more that I couldn't find a fourth decent tone for bruising And the eyes I dabbed a bit of Scorpion Green just to make them pop out a bit.

Technically this is the first model that I painted since restarting my Ogre army. I have some Bulls that I painted even before then, but that will come with a later post

Hello, all you faithful readers (or people who have a little extra time to kill!)!

It's been a long time since I've posted. I've had a sort of non-inspirational period and I just haven't gotten around to painting or anything. Plus, the banner-arm of my Mournfang standard bearer popped off and I can't find a decent glue to hold it (super doesn't seem to be cutting it and plastic glue takes too long for my impatient fingers to hold together lol).

However, I bucked up and forced myself to go out and play a game at my local hobbyshop, the Seattle Battle Bunker. I was challenged by a Warriors of Chaos player to a round, but he only had a portion of his army (he was planning on running his 40k stuff), so I kinda lucked out there (I'll show in the list). He had 1300 points, so that was the benchmark I set myself at.

1300 List: (not exact, doing off the top of my head)

Lords:
SMaster, Obsidian Blade, Dispel Scroll - 325

Heroes:
Bruiser, BSB, Crown of Command, Tal. Protection, HA, IF - 188

Core:
8 Ironguts, FC, Banner of Eternal Flame (Character Bunker)- 379 (ish?)
10 Gnoblar Trappers - 50
10 Gnoblar Trappers - 50

Special:
2 Solo Sabretusks - 42
4 Mournfang Cav, FC, Dragonhide Banner, BoP, HA, IF - 366 (ish?)

Total: ...1400? Um. My numbers don't seem to be adding up right....

Well. I guess I may have miscounted and had too many points. Shoot. Or I'm remembering something wrong.

ANYways...

His list:
Chaos Lord on Daemonic Mount, with stuff
Tzeentch lvl 2 spellcaster dude
2x20 Chaos Warriors, I think with Mark of Tzeentch
5 Chaos Heavy Cavalry dudes
1300 was his total.

He had both the wizard and lord flying solo, and he was trying to remember rules as if it were the Lord of the Rings game. Neither of us had played Fantasy for a long time. He obviously gets the first turn. He places, from his left to right (my right to left): Warrior pack on left flank (right for me), Chaos Lord, Warrior pack in middle, Wizard behind forest, Heavy Cav on right flank (left for me). I placed a Sabretusk  on my right flank to plan to redirect the Flank warriors, with the Mournfang behind it; I place my mini-Gutstar in the middle, with a Sabretusk next to it, followed up with both packs of Gnobs, one opposite his Heavy Cav.

First Turn Warriors:
Marches everything forward a bit, keeping things out of forests that are littered across the battlefield (5 in the middle, in fact, making a sideways pentagon pointing towards my right). Magic phase, he rolls 11, I channel, and manage to dispel his big one(he had two spells, one that made my guys attack themselves, and then one that caused damage based upon a Leadership test), but he gets the Leadership-one off on my Gnobs, and I lose 1 (First Blood!). He had no shooting, so my turn!

First Turn Ogres:
I run my right Sabre around a building and in front of the flank Warriors, just enough to point them towards the corner if they charge. I run my other Sabre up forward just enough to be out of easy charge range for the middle Warriors and the Lord, which would force them to expose their flank to my main line (which inches forward to get ready for some good chargin' next turn). Gnobs in front of the Heavy Cav march right up, blocking up a hole in the trees that he'd have to charge into, and the other Gnobs rotate to start plugging the gap for the eventual overrun of the Heavy Cav (I know by the rules that they can't be affected by multiple Dangerrain tests in one turn). Magic (I have Bonecruncher, Trollguts, and the signature), I get Stubborn on my 9 Gnobs, and I crunchatize 1 Warrior from the mid pack (woo!). I shoot my Brace of Pistols up in the air like a cowboy (that was how effective they were). No combats yet.

Second Turn Warriors:
Charges the Heavy Cav into the Gnobs (he didn't realize what the trappers did even though I told him beforehand lol), Charges Flank Warriors into Sabre, and Charges Chaos Lord at Sabre (wasn't expecting that!). Both Sabres escape, but here I think we screwed up the rules, and we both went max movement even though he failed both charges; whatevs. Heavy Cav lose 1 guy to the traps. Magic, I use my scroll on his big spell and dispel the other one. Close Combat! Heavy Cav swing...

and whiff Hard.

No attacks land on the Gnobs, who return in kind. However, due to static res he still wins, and by this point they were outside the general bubble, so they were overrun, and the cav slam into the flank of the fleeing Sabre.

Second Turn Ogres:
At this point, my opponent's parents had arrived to pick him up, so we had to rush through a lot (and miss a lot of technical rules). So, shorthand:

1. Charge Gutstar and Cav into Lord, star into flank and cav into rear
2. Magic, IF'd Trollguts, rolled an 8, lost a wound
3. No Shooting
4. Combat, 2 wounds from charges (got heavy Ogre charge which did both wounds), one from combat, leaving mount behind.
5. Mount fails Leadership utterly, overrun by both star and Cav.
6. Called it.

So, in the end, I technically "won" since I killed his 200+ point general, but it was just fun eitherway, so I don't care. (Granted, I marked it as a win in my signature scoresheet, but w/e lol).

If we had more time, I would've only had the Mournfang charge, because they would've overrun into the Heavy Cav from the rear, and I would've rotated the bunker to face the Warriors that were coming.

Lotsa rule errors, but we had fun and no hard feelings were made, so that's good.

Okay, I hope this was a decent report. First time, y'know? I hope I can do more for you as time progresses

So, I haven't had any motivation lately to work on stuff, but I forced myself today to do some basecoating!

I now have all three of my other Mournfang riders based and ready for the artist's touch. However, I noticed that there was a lot of dust in my work area, and it kept sticking in fuzzy bunches on my freshly-painted surfaces. Anyone have a cure for dust? I have no room for a curio, sadly, and even then I dunno how much that'd help. I have currently dusted my work area and changed things around a bit to hopefully prevent future happenings of that sort.

Yeah. Hopefully, one day, I'll have more interesting pics to post. Life keeps getting in the way, and I've just felt so busy  Oh well. It'll be good ;D

Hey there, long time no post, again... almost a month, actually. Gah!

So, as to update: I have painted my four Mournfang cavalrymen; I will post pics when I can get the pics taken . I am going to use up the last of my old paint before investing in the new stuff; I wonder how good it really is...

ANYways. Had a game today against a great guy who I met upon playing the game; he was working his 1500pt. Dark Elves list for an upcoming tourney next month. He had just finished a game against VC (turned into a draw by the look of it) and was raring for another round with the same list! So, I hastily put together my list, in attempts to try and give him a challenge; so, I attempted to doctor my list against his, just to help him find weaknesses in build or strategy. However, I also tried out a few different things for fun, idk how much they really helped.

The Everbruise Tribe
Lords & Heroes
*General* Slaughtermaster - IF, dispel scroll, Tormentor Sword (idk woulda been fun against his stuff, see below)
Firebelly - AHW, Level 2, Terrifying Mask of Eeee! (again, thought it would be fun)
Bruiser - BSB, HA, IF, Tal. of Protection, Crown of Command

Core
6 Ironguts, FC, Banner of Eternal Flame (Character Bunker!)
2x 10 Gnoblar Trappers

Special
2 Mournfang Cavalry, Mus, SB, Dragonhide Banner, GW, HA
3x Sabretusk

Rare
1 Ironblaster

TOTAL: 1498

Dark Elves Tourney-Prep List (from what I could figure out)
Sorceress, level 4, Sacrificial Dagger, some weapon that gave it 3 auto 2+hit shots

20 Spearmen (sorc bunker)
20-30 Corsairs w/frenzy banner
20 Blackguard w/eternal flame banner that had a champion with a 25pt weapon that gave him str6 attacks

2 War Hydras

... Yep. 2 of them. I was really worried about those. I was hoping to cannon & fireball them to death, then focus on the others.

*SETUP*
A small forest near the center closer to his side, about a 5 inch gap to the SW (if I'm on the S edge and he on the N edge) was a tall building, directly to the right about 3 inches from the table edge was impassible terrain, and then about 4 inches to the SE of the building was rough terrain (right in the heart of my area).

He won the deploy roll, but gave it to me. I set up from Left to Right:
Ironblaster to W side of building, Sabre behind, Gnobs in rough terrain, IGuts, Gnobs, Sabre, Sabre, Mournfang on far end. Gonna use dem kittays to redirect!

He set up from my Left to Right: Both Hydras behind building, Corsairs, Spears behind Corsairs w/Sorc, BGuard

Magic: SMaster got Bullgorger, Trollguts, and then I got to pick and chose The Maw (shoulda gone with Bonecruncher). Firebelly got Flaming Sword of Rhuin and Flame Storm, switched to Fireball since I already had Maw. Sorceress, with Lore of Shadow (crapcrapcrap lol), and he got Withering, Enfeebling Foe, Pit of Shades, and Okkam's Mindrazor (CRAPCRAPCRAPCRAP lol).

He won to start (both rolled 6's, he got +1, drats! lol).

DE 1:
Moved forward, couldn't get the hydras out of my shooting line of cannon.
Magic, casts Withering on my IGuts and Enfeebling on my Mournfang, stopped Pit.
Shooting, got a wound on my IGuts.

OK 1:
Moved one Sabre to redirect Corsairs, moved one to redirect BGuard, brought the other behind impassable terrain and lined up Mournfang, walked my DTerrain Gnobs and marched my other side gnobs and inched my unit forward; brought IBlaster around to hit Hydra in flank. (Does marching the IBlaster deny shooting? didn't know so I didn't march).
Magic, Fireball'd blackguard for a few wounds, Maw'd a couple Corsairs, Gave +1 Str to the Corsair Sabre for fun lol
Shooting, Did 3 wounds to the Hydra with basic shot (shoulda Grape shotted, was in range)

DE 2:
Corsairs auto charged Sabre, BGuard charged Sabre, both hold; Hydra (that didn't get shot) charged Gnobs who stood and shot, failed the charge (rolled a 4, needed 6). Moves other Hydra 1" from IBlaster in face!
Magic, D-Scrolled Pit, he passes and allows me to dispel both hexes (we thought at first that he could cast after passing, then discovered we couldn't, so he let me dispel them)
Shooting, Wounds my Hiding Tiger (crouching dragon? wait... that's mixed up lol )
CC, Corsairs eat Sabre, forced to overrun, stopped 1" of Hydra but in range of my flank charge; BGuard eat Sabre, reform to prep for Mournfang charge.

OK 2:
IGuts charge Corsairs, Mournfang charge BGuard, remaining Sabre charge BGuard flank, IBlaster charge Hydra (Can IBlaster back up? I didn't know if chariots could move in reverse or not; I pondered this ipso facto). Marched Gnobs up a little bit to plug holes.
Magic, Fireball'd Hydra (for 2 wounds; had enough to kill one Hydra between the two of them, rats lol), Bullgorger'd IGuts
Shooting, threw stuff at Hydra (I think I was too far away but we didn't realize till later), nothing happened! Strangely enough
CC - Mournfang popped the banner, Sabre completely whiffs, but still manage to kill all BUT 2!!! The SB with flaming attacks and the souped up champ. THEY HOLD, which wasn't good for the mournfang, who took 5 wounds in return and almost got wiped in one round.
Ironguts and Characters decimate the flank, taking 5 wounds in return (one to FBelly, 4 to unit), Corsairs break but barely missed the overrun, leaving my flank wide open to Spearmen.
IBlaster gets whipped by Hydra and crew, but stick around for another fight with 2 wounds left (none returned).

DE 3:
2nd Hydra succeeds in Gnob charge (no Dangerrain :'( lol), Spears charge IGuts, Corsairs rally.
Magic, Okkam's on the Spearman (crapCrapCRAP lol). It was IF, rolled a 4, so he lost 3 spears and an IGut took a wound, but the wizard stayed and only lost all the rest of his power dice.
Shooting, nothing left
CC, BGuards kill Mournfang, Sabre runs through terrain and survives, Bguard SB dies, leaving only the BGuard champ left!!!
Spearmen chop up an IGut, lose many due to Firebreath/FBelly, Tanky Bruiser, and Unit Champ ( accidentally attacked with my SMaster from second rank, but we remedied that and returned the model, which got burned anyways lol), Spears hold.
IBlaster gets pounded by Hydra. Other Hydra does naughty naughty things to the Gnobs, so naughty that we can only say that the entire unit was no longer there when the Hydra was done naughty'ing it up Hydra reformed to face my flank.

OK 3:
Sabre runs, Iguts reform, other Gnobs line up to take Hydra flank. Y'know, just in case.
Magic, all dispelled
Shooting, threw more crap at Hydra from other unit. Was going to throw crap at lone BGuard but they were out of the way too far.
CC, challenged with SMaster, unit champ accepted and was overkilled by 1, rest of the unit routed along with the General. Reformed to face both the Hydra and the Corsairs so that they'd both be front charges.

DE 4: (I think we had thought it was turn 5 at this point, I don't remember)
Corsairs fail crucial swift reform, instead form up and march away. IBlaster Hydra hides behind building, the other succeeds a close march and gets behind/flanking IGuts. Runs BGuard into corner.

OK 4:
Pulled FBelly out of unit to face the lone BGuard champ off in the distance. Reformed IGuts to face Hydra
Magic...
Okay, so this part I have to go into detail.
I needed to kill this guy so that I could get all those VP for a possible win. So, I throw 5 dice into a 2d6 Fireball (shoulda made it a 3d6 at that point ). I Irresistable Force, and so I roll to see my damage first before doing the miscast.
I roll...
DOUBLE ONES.
OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD is what I was thinking. I roll... 2 hits!!!
He gets 2 armor saves...
and misses one!!!! [/i]
The unit died and I got 320 VP for it!
SO, anyways I roll a miscast. Got an 11, lost a level and Fireball. Well, that was a wellspent spell! lol

DE Turn 5: (yeah, we thought this was turn 6 come to think of it)
marches everything away, with Hydra marching in reverse (now being 7" away facing my IGuts).

OK Turn 5:
attempt the IGuts charge, failed.
Magic, tried long range Maw, rolled the right distance but in the wrong direction

END GAME
We thought it was turn 6, but anyways the game was pretty much over at that point. Although, if we'd known there was another turn, he may have possibly decided to charge my IGuts with the Corsairs and Hydra and attempt to bring the other Hydra in, I wonder how that would've gone...

We counted up the points. I lost 599 points, and he lost 960 points. Adding that I got his General and two Standards (+150), it ended up begin +361 in my favor. A victory! (idk if it's minor, major, or whatever lol)

Ending Thoughts:
I had a great opponent who was good natured about the game. This was the first really enjoyable game that I've had in a long time because I knew we were nearly on the same level skill-wise (he being my superior, IMO) and it was my goal to help him learn his list better, not to just necessarily win. We definitely made a few mistakes between the two of us, but we were both learning and figuring out what to do, so it was a great experience overall.

Unit Thought Breakdowns:
SMaster - Kinda helped, Did what he could with what he had
FBelly - Fireball FTW! Probably my MVP, if not SMVP (Second Most Valuable Player )
Bruiser - BSB helped once, otherwise good for CR
IGuts - Helped soak up and dish out damage!
Gnobs - Completely useless other than to draw the Hydra's charge and pull it out of the game. I don't really know why he chose to do that instead of charging my IGuts, but that's his decision to make.
Sabretusks - One was the game winner (drew out the Corsairs for the flank charge). Two were practically useless, bouncing off the Blackguards like nothing. I need to learn better deployment strategies.
Mournfang - Amazing! My first real game with these guys, and I wish I had fielded a 3rd one; it would've completely wiped the BGuards in one round and allow me to flankcharge the Spears. From now on, if I field Mournfangs, I'm going with 3!
IBlaster - Only got one shot off. Poor deployment on my part, again, but this was also my first real game playing one. Would've worked better had I used the Grapeshot, I think. may have also been better to have fielded on the opposite side, and then shoot down the line either at the Hydras or at the other infantry blocks.

Next time, I'd probably drop the Gnobs, add another Mournfang, and then maybe even drop a Sabre to get another IGut (with the extra points from dropping the Gnobs).

Good game to my opponent, and I look forward to telling more war stories!

So, I just realized I haven't updated my achievements for the last two games.

Here we are!

Previous Game:
42. What that  coming over the hill? - field a unit of 4+ mornfangs
22. Here Kitty! - field 1 or more lone sabretusks in your army

This Game:
81. ...and you play Ogres!? - Have more war machine weapons in your army than your opponent.
94. Thinling roast! - kill 5 enemy models with a single firebelly breath weapon blast

Also, I have realized that I miscounted my Achievements. So, I'm officially at 26.

Awesome! If my next game's a win, I get two achievements! 10 games with the new book, and 3 wins in a row!

So I got another game in this week, against the same opponent from last week (dark elves!). Since he was still training for the tournament, we decided to play one of the scenarios, Battle of the Pass.

My list was slightly altered, and so was his. I won't go into as much detail as last time (kinda similar path), but I ended up getting a draw because I needed 10 more VP than him to win, and I lost access to points.

SMaster, IF, Gambling Armor, DScroll
FBelly, AHW, TOTS
Bruiser BSB, IF, HA, Comm. Crown

6 IGuts, PC (no champ), Flaming Banner
10 Gnob Trappers

3 Tusks
3 Mournfang, PC (no champ) IF, DHide, HA

IBlaster

He had all the previous units, all a little smaller, plus 5 Harpies and 8 Witch Elves. Same lineup as before. I went first, magic was Bonecruncher, Trollguts, Maw, Fireball, Fire Storm. Lotsa damaging stuff!

There were 3 objectives to take control of, and I managed to hold 2 of them until the end of the game, when he wiped my gnobs and contested my big unit. I had lost one tusk, my mournfangs, and 2 Ironguts. He only had the two hydras and his general left. Magic was big for me, although I did miscast enough to lose Bonecruncher and Trollguts The game was fun overall, but then when it came to counting points, and I realized I hadn't *obviously* won, I was rather disappointed.

However, I did manage to rack up a few new achievements! Very exciting!

6. look what we can do! - have a mornfang rider successfully parry an attack
74. Crusher - play 10 games with the new ogre book
78. ker-splat! - kill an enemy unit with just your impact hits alone.

I almost had the 3 wins in a row! But, alas, now I hafta start all over. Granted, if we weren't playing scenario rules, I had about 300-ish points in my favor against him, but, that's just how the cookie crumbles

Granted, my list was designed more to kill off his troops rather than to take objectives, so I wasn't necessarily geared for the task at hand. I don't particularly care for scenario rules at this point in time I figure, though, that as I play more games and get more comfortable with the rules, I will eventually like to try more scenarios. For now, though, no tourneys for me!

So, on the painting part of my hobby, whilst having American Idol playing in the background (it fills the silence ), I managed to complete the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse... well, at least, the four cavalrymen of my Mournfang. However, I've come to the realization that 3pks of Mournfang work a tad better than 4pks, so I may possibly get 2 more just so I can have 2x3 units (mwahaha!)

Anyways, here's the pics with explanations...


The four ready for war! From Left to Right, my standard bearer (already pictured earlier in the gnoblog), the musician, the "IF Champ", and the "GW Champ".


I had first designed the IF Champ to be the only champion, but I figured if I felt like playing a GW pack of Mournfang, the GW Champ could represent for the unit. I'm not great with WYSIWYG, but I try a little 


First on the closeups is the GW Champ, or who had once been known as "the other one" I had wanted to use one of the GW weapons when building him, but sadly I had the wrong arms available. So, I just greenstuff'd the weapon tip onto the bottom of the other weapon, and thus created the double-glaive!


It's hard to tell, but I absolutely love his skin color. A combination of Chaos Black, Kommando Khaki, and Calthan Brown, washed VERY heavily. I didn't even want to do more tattooes because of this. And, yes, I'm still using the old paints until they dry up or run out. Gotta save $$


This is the original Champ, designed to have either the IF or the Brace of Pistols. I wanted him to be a counterpart to the unarmored rider, so I gave him as much armor as I felt comfortable placing on him.


With all of my Ogres, they will be drenched in blood, using a basing of Scab Red, drybrushed with Blood Red. Of course, now the names and quality are different, but still I also did different pants/boots patterns for them all; this guy's the only one with a crossover pattern.


The Musician. I'm not too great with too many of the finer details, but at least I can get good amounts of blood effects and skintones done decently!


I gave him an attempt at some freehand tattooes. One's the Maw, and the other's supposed to be multiple horns, showing the impending demise of any adversaries at the front of their charge! Well, it was either trying that or leaving it bare, and I already did that for the GW Champ; granted, I like the champ's skintone much better

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Now, I have plenty left to take care of painting-wise. I only have partially painted one character (my Firebelly) out of the five I have, plus tons of the rank and file (including the 50-some-odd gnoblars, which will probably be last lol). Oh, and of course the Mournfangs, the Thundertusk, the Stonehorn, and all 6 Sabretusks...

*sigh* the fun continues

Enjoy! I'm hoping to get more games and painting in. HOWEVER, I will be hopefully getting married in a few months, so we'll see how that affects things luckily, my future-bride-to-be appreciates the hobby (even though she doesn't play herself, which is ok). So, I'm not packing up my bags, I'm just getting started

Special post for #200!

Just wanted to say that I'm excited to reach this milestone I'd like to thank all the topics that made this possible, including this gnoblog. Here's to another 200! Heck, here's to another 2,000 hopefully!

Alrighty, a quick update post:

First of all, I had another game with my Dark Elf opponent which was alright, but due to time constraints we weren't really able to get too far into it (he technically conceded, but I think it could've been possible for him to pull a draw by the end!). However, in this game, I earned another achievement!

70. Buffy The Ogre Caster - Have all of your Slaughtermasters spells be augments.

So, yeah, that was cool. Also, I have been plotting for some time now to create a Cassanova Maneater based off of the Firebelly model. The reason is this: when I bought my first Firebelly and began to paint it, my brother looked at the flames and smoke rising from his hand and said, "Whoa, those kinda look like a bundle of flowers!". After my initial shock of the comment, and looking at it further, I thought... this could work[/b].

So, just for kicks, here's my expertly-drawn idea of the Cassanova Maneater created by MS Paint.


I know, I know. I'm amazing. lol

But, seriously, I thought this was an awesome idea! So, I went ahead and recently bought a Firebelly, and I have currently GS'd the crap out of him to make it work. However, I can't seem to get a good picture at the moment, so I will wait and post a pic of the final product (ie after he's painted). I'm rather excited Plus, with his creation, and with two of my other models I've made, I could technically run a unit of Maneaters now. Technically. Idk if I want to do just a 3-pack or if it's even worth it. We'll see

So, in between Mother's Day activities with my dearest mother, ( ), I finally put together some movement trays. I've three 6-model trays and one 3-model tray for my ogres; I figure if I feel to put my gnobs on a tray, I can use the smaller one for a 10pk (it's 6 squares wide, so it sorta works lol).

Also, my Cassanova Maneater is done with the modeling, and now needs to be painted. Probably not today, but eventually!

I think in a future post I'm going to update my "full points" list and see where I'm at; I now have a 3pk of Maneaters and one less Irongut (I use one model as either an Irongut or a Maneater, depending on my build).

...Granted, I don't know who even reads this, I think I'm just posting for my own amusement lol

I had a chance to catch a game at my local Gee-Dubya shop (Seattle Battle Bunker) against a nice guy who wielded High Elves. He had just started an Empire army, but he had a pre-established 1500pt. list for his High Elves which he had, so I pulled out my 1500-ish list that I've played a few times against the Dark Elves opponent of my previous reports.

This game was just way too awesome to pass up writing a BR for. I have the Battle Chronicler, but it's kinda complicated and I'm rather tired, so, forgive me for another egregiously long post.

Simple layout of the field, a hill in each corner, from my left to right, there was an impassable terrain piece halfway on the board about 3" from the side edge, two forests about evenly split with one on my side and one on his (probably 10" from each board edge on that side), a ruined tower near the dead center which we called impassable terrain, and two rocky patches declared as difficult terrain (one about middle of the right flank, one further back and to the left of it a bit, about 7" apart).

OGRES list! again, I apologize, but I don't have my points handy at this time, again...
Slaughtermaster - Gold Sigil Sword, Enchanted Shield, Dragonbane Gem, Dispel Scroll

Firebelly - AHW, Level2, The Other Trickster's Shard
Bruiser - BSB, IF, HA, Crown of Command

6 Ironguts - Music, Standard, Flaming Banner (proved to be a bad choice ipso facto) - All characters here!
11 Gnobs - Trappers

3 Mournfang Cav - Music, Standard, Dragonhide, IF, HA
3x1 Sabretusk

Ironblaster

TOTAL - 1498.5

His list, totalling at 1497
Archmage - Level 4, High Magic, Magic Item that gave him +1 Spells
Noble - BSB, really good armor, Dragonbane Gem (note: remember which banner I picked? lol)

11 Archers
20 Archers Archmage was here at first
20 Phoenix Guard
19 White Lions BSB here
Giant Eagle

For magic, I rolled Toothcracker, Braingobbler, and The Maw, and kept (I don't know why lol) with my SMaster, and I rolled double 1s for the Firebelly so I just took the signature and had Fireball and Flaming Cloak. He ended up with all the High magic spells except for #3.

Deployment:
My left to right:
Sabretusk Gutstar Sabretusk between the forest and ruined tower, Mournfang just around the other side of ruined tower, Gnobs Sabretusk and Ironblaster on the extreme right flank.

His right to left (so my left to right on his side):
Phoenix Guard, White Lions, 20 Archers, Eagle, 10 Archers, pretty much lined up in a row.

He got the +1, but I got the initiative and went first.

Ogres t1:
Movement: barreled forward, moving each of my Sabres to the forward flanks of my Gutstar that settled between the forest and ruins. Swung the Mournfang around the building, marched the Gnobs forward around the rockpiles, and double-backed my rightwing Sabre behind the frontlines, knowing it'd just be shot apart by archers. I inched the Ironblaster forward to get a good view of his battleline...
Magic: Got a good number of dice, casted the big bubble Toothcracker and achieved it, affecting the star, the center Tusk, and the Mournfang. Rolled a 1 on my lore attribute and took a wound. Fireball was dispelled.
Shooting: Cannonshot bounced and slayed the Eagle (First Blood!) as well as one of the large pack of archers. Success!

HElves b1:
Movement: moved Phoenixguard around the trees towards my left flank, marched White Lions through the trees (lost a couple to Dangerrain), inched back big archers and moved forward small archers in an attempt to chaffblock the Mournfang.
Magic: He rolled double one's and I channeled. That was all there was to that lol
Shooting: The center Sabretusk became a porcupine after the large archer barrage, and two Gnobs were snubbed by the small archer barrage. Pokey pokey!

Ogres t2:
Movement: Charged Gutstar into White Lions, got a 10 on the charge! Moved left Sabre to chargeblock the Guard, swung the Mournfang around the building again, marched right Sabre forward to try and dodge the arrows from the small archers, rolled the IBlaster and Gnobs closer to the small archers; they were in grapeshot range, mwahaha!
Magic: I rolled 3. Managed to get Toothcracker off on just the Ironguts, as well as Fulminating Flame Cloak, causing 2 White Lions to burn. Forgot to roll for lore.
Shooting: Grapeshot the Archers, took out ONLY 3. Held from the panic.
CC: Brought the BSB to the front and kept the FBelly in second rank. My SMaster could only hit the bsb, who happened to have a 4+/2++, so yeah, because of flaming attacks the BSB was untouchable. I won combat by a few, took out 7 lions and lost a 'gut, he held easily. Go go Grindfest!

HElves b2:
Movement: Left Phoenixguard due to Sabreblock, pulled archmage out of archers and hid behind forest, moved archers forward to receive the inevitable Mournfang charge, backed up the small archers.
Magic: He rolled a good number of dice, but missed on the big 6-spell by like 2, so it ended his casting early. However, he used the remainder of the dice to dispel Flame Cloak.
Shooting: Shot at Mournfang with big unit, did 1 wound (shocking, I know ), shot at Sabretusk and only managed 1 wound with the smaller archers.
CC: I decided, since I wasn't going to get anywhere with the SMaster in combat eitherway, I had him challenge, to which his unit champion accept (ohcrapohcrapohcrap lol), and made way with the FBelly prior to that, so his nasty BSB started smacking him up; crushed the champ in the challenge tho Won combat again and he held, but he was left with only 4 lions and the BSB left.

Ogres t3:
Movement: Rearranged the left Sabre better, moved the Right Sabre behind the small archers to attempt a panic test Dangerrain (totally misplaced him lol). Inched the IBlaster forward again. I charged with the Mournfang, and we had a small rules dispute.

So, quick pause. With the Dragonhide banner, it states that you get to reroll 1's on saving throws "with a successful charge." Well, does that then apply to armor saves for Stand and Shoot? Because I rolled four 1's out of five dice on my 2+ armor save. We asked the employee on hand, and they said the successful charge occurs before the reaction of Stand and Shoot resolves; so, I got to reroll and save all of them.

Was that played correctly? Someone correct me on that please! That really was a big game-changer depending on the ruling.

ANYways...
Magic: Toothcracker big bubble again, along with the Flamecloak again! Toasted 2 more. Healed a wound on the SMaster.
Shooting: Grapeshot the archers down to one, who fled. Away from the Ironblaster. And completely past my Sabretusk who was looking in the wrong direction. I felt like a derpasaurus rex there lol
CC: Issued another challenge, which was a HUGE mistake. He had to accept, and although the rest of his unit was wiped, he was able to hold, and so my SMaster was stuck in an unwinnable challenge, waiting for his Phoenixguard to show up... Oops... Oh, and the Mournfang smashed apart a good chunk of the archers (and by Mournfang, I mean the actual Mournfang: the riders flailed helplessly, the little elves were apparently too hard for them to reach without their great weapons ), and they rolled Double ONES to hold. Blah.

HElves b3:
Movement: Charged Phoenixguard into Sabretusk. Rearranged his archmage, and the lone archer fled s'more.
Magic: Casted the 5+ward save on his BSB, which was silly since he had a 2+ wardsave to the flaming attacks (he realized this too and we laughed a bit), did the phoenix burn on the unit, caused a wound, and I scrolled the big-6spell that was targetting my general's Gold Sigil Sword.
Shooting: none
CC: Phoenixguard minced up the Tusk, reformed to face the Gutstar flank, Archers were whooped by the Mournfang (beasts) again and sent running, which the cavalry easily overran and went to the opposite side of the forest where the grindfest is happening, and the BSB continues to spank my SMaster for being a twit and challenging him. Somewhere in all this (either my turn or his, I don't remember) the Firebelly is chopped down also, so I lose the flaming cloak.

Ogres t4:
Movement: No charges, moved the Mournfang into the forest to prepare for a countercharge against the Phoenix flank, swung the last Sabre around, and marched the IBlaster towards the fray. The Gnobs decide to stay in spot and pick their noses for the rest of the game (literally, I had no reason to move them at that point lol).
Magic: I get like 6 dice, and desperate to heal with the lore attribute, I cast  the Maw. And I roll double 6's with three dice. So, I managed to eat 2 Phoenixguard, heal a wound, and lose 2 levels, the Maw, and Toothcracker (D'oh!). Darnit! I practically gave him the magic phase for the rest of the game!
Shooting: The Mournfang pop their banner on the Phoenixguard, and although it caused no wounds, the hits still caused them to lose their ASF and denying them rerolls in the ensuing combat. the Gnobs threw sharp stuff at the rocks. They enjoyed it.
CC: No luck against the BSB, and my flank is left wide open for the Phoenix charge. BTW, I kept winning the combats due to static rez (ha, can you believe that?), but being that he was the BSB he kept rerolling and holding himself.

HElves b4:
Movement: Poo hits the fan, and by that I mean the Phoenixguard hit home into my flank. The lone archer rallies! Ohz Noez!
Magic: He gets a solid phase, casts the 5+ ward on the BSB again... I won't complain lol. The Phoenixburn hurts my guts s'more, and he gets the 6+spell off, breaking my Gold Sigil Sword and allowing his BSB to reroll missed hits now. Oh, dear...
Shooting: shoots at something with the lone archer to no avail. I don't even remember what or if he remembered to shoot for that matter lol
CC: Made way with my BSB, and the unit managed to hold against the Phoenixflank with the Crown of Command on my BSB my Smaster hangs on with a prayer!

Ogres t5:
Movement: In comes the cavalry! Mournfang charge (no Dangerrain wounds, yay) the Phoenix, and the Sabre charges the flank of the BSB even though he's still in a challenge. Moved the IBlaster forward to deal with that meddlesome archer... Oh, and the Gnobs grew wings and began flying around my right flank. *COUGH*...
Magic: I attempt Braingobbler for the sake of the wound heal. He easily dispels it.
Shooting: 4 Str10 grapeshots to one archer which turned into vapor.
CC: My general finally goes down in his challenge (no overkill), as well as my BSB to the Phoenixguard. However, I managed enough to make his Phoenix break (but not his BLEEPING BSB!!!) and run from the Ironguts, which the Mournfang chased down and chopped up. There are now 3 Ironguts (and the stupid flaming banner) and a wounded Sabretusk against his BSB. Guess what?

HElves b5:
Movement: moved his archmage a bit, woo.
Magic: I think he casted the 6+spell and broke the Dragonhide banner, I don't remember anything else.
Shooting: n/a
CC: He splits his attacks, and kills the Sabre and one Gut. The other two flail helplessly at him with their FLAMING attacks. He breaks them and actually manages to overrun them, barely missing the ruins.

Ogres t6:
Movement: Thankfully, his overrun was not enough! I was able to move the IBlaster forward enough to get his BSB within 12" hehehe *EVILSMILE* . Turned the Mournfang to face the Archmage so that he couldn't flankcharge if he wanted to lol
Shooting: Rolled a 10!!!! Did 7 wounds!!! That WEREN'T FLAMING!!!! So he went down in a blaze of shrapnel glory.

HElves b6:
With only his Archmage left, he marched to within an inch of the Mournfang, casted the magic missiles and finished off one, and missed on another spell.

Thus, at game's end, He only had his general, and I had my Mournfangs, IBlaster, and my flying Gnoblars who could at that point shoot lasers out of their eyes and breathe firey ice out of their armpits. They were pretty much amazing. ... After tallying up the bonus points, I ended up 106.5 points ahead; A Victory!!!

Final Notes:
God, why did I do this before bed? It's midnight now lol... ANYways, I was VERY happy with the Ironblaster, which never misfired (at first I seemed to do nothing but misfire with these dice; now they're playing more nicely ). I was also impressed with my Mournfang, who managed to make a lot of Leadership checks successfully outside the general/BSB bubble (even without the Standard of Discipline!). I didn't properly kit out my characters, but that comes with experience. Plus, if I had put more thought into it, there was no logical reason to bring the Flaming Banner; I had it against the Dark Elves to scare off his Hydras, but really it hurt me much worse in this game; I would've easily crushed his BSB if it weren't for that crazy ward save!! Also, I had no ward saves on my characters! I don't know why I did that! lol... Finally, I was ecstatic with the Gnoblars, who happened to not get themselves killed; however, they have been very ineffective in my recent games. Granted, I haven't had much in the way of enemy chaff that my Gnobs could hold up. They're there for a reason, but the reason's not coming in these games. Oh well!

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Okay, I'm tired, peace out y'all. Oh, and one day, I'll hopefully paint and post my Cassanova Maneater. One day...

I forgot! Ogre Achievement:

26. Win a game using ogres vs. High elves

Yay! Ok g'night.

Hello all, this is the High Elf player from the above game. Definitely a fun game, and much closer in score than we thought at the end, since all I had left was my archmage.  I made a few errors in my battle line early on that hurt, as did getting my eagle blasted turn one before getting to move.  Ah well.  I think this battle report sums up everything pretty well.  I think we had one other rule question early in the game we were unsure on, but can't remember what that was anymore.

Congrats Sazel!  Looking forward to playing you again.  Go ahead and keep the fire banner. =)

So, whilst planning and plotting for the upcoming tournament at the Seattle Battle Bunker, I decided to make some objective markers.

They recommended around the 40mm base size for an appropriate size. So, I used some cheap plastic poker chips that my grandma gave me (yay inheritance!...? ). I plan to use the others later on for markers for the various magic boosts that the available lores can give us (+1 str, +1 tou, regen, etc.).

without further ado...



I wanted to have each one stand out in its own way. I was first thinking of painting them all like the center one, which is supposed to be a flag in the wind (I really suck at freehand lol). However, I had just finished playing some Batman: Arkham City prior to this (GREAT game, IMO), and I had just defeated the Riddler. So, without paying attention, I painted a question mark instead of a flag for my first marker. D'oh! So, I figure, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

So, the left marker was actually the first one I made. The second one is what it was supposed to be like. And the third one, well... I realized the three flags weren't going to work, so I wanted to do an "X marks the spot" theme. Plus, Green, Orange, and Purple, now I've covered my need for balance by having the secondary colors be the spotlights (I'm ignoring the blue I put on the middle one for this matter, since the focus is on the orange flag ).

I hope they're decent! They're just a hair shy of 40mm diameter (I'm roughly guessing 37-38mm?), so they work for all intents and purposes.

Hey there, all you fellow tyrants and such! Just wanted to make a note out there, that I have, today, competed in my very first tournament! (there's an achievement for that, I'll do those at the end of all these posts...)

So, to start off, here's the list I ran, straightforward. http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=24747.0

Now, a pic of the army With my new fancy-pants camera that I purchased just before the tournament so that I could take pictures for the gnoblog ARE YOU PEOPLE HAPPY FOR NICE CLEAN PICTURES???


So, from top left to bottom right: Mournfang, 3 individual Sabretusks, IBlaster, 6 Bulls with the Butcher (bottom right model), and my 8 Ironguts with both bruisers and the Slaughtermaster general (command in front, characters 2nd rank).

So, it was a 3 game tournament, where every game had a max value of 20 battle points.
Win = 15pts, Draw = 9pts, Lose  = 5pts, plus 5 possible bonus battle points for various objectives.

GAME 1: Dawn Attack!
Bonus Objectives: +2 battle points for general in enemy deployment zone by end game, +1 BPs for each enemy core destroyed (max 3)

Versus... TOMB KINGS!
As an early note, the only thing I was truly worried about was the magic phase, knowing the power that this army can have in that step.

His list, roughly off of memory:
Tomb King with Destroyer of Eternities (???)
Tomb Prince BSB
2 Liche Priests, one Light and one Nehekharen (the latter being the Hierophant)
20 skele-archers (Light priest*)
35 skele-warriors (Nehe-priest*)
40 tombguard (Tomb King&Prince*)
Casket
6 Chariots

So, for deployment, I win the roll off to go first to deploy. Out of my seven units, I rolled to have four of them in my right flank...

I end up with my Bulls and two Sabretusks in the center, with everything else plugged up on the right flank.

And while I was all in my right flank, my opponent was all in his left flank!

We pretty much played on one side of the field lol... He ended up with Skele-warriors, chariots, and casket in the middle, with the rest on the left flank. I get the first turn.

For Magic, I roll Flock, Kadon, Savage Blender, and Amber Spear for the SMaster and traded Kadon for signature, while getting the Braingobbler and trading it for the signature. His magic, he got two light augments (Pha's prot and the double-movement augment I can't remember the name of) and his Nehekharen magic doesn't come into play (you'll see why in a bit )...

Ogres T1

Movement: I march forward, while shuffling my IBlaster over the hill to see the Casket...
Magic: Amber Spear'd the chariots, only managed 2 wounds so I didn't get to push through, but that's ok. Nothing else exciting.
Shooting: Misfired the IBlaster! (first time!) But I get a 5, and so he faces the right edge, with micrometers between him and oblivion.
CC: NONE. First turn?

TK B1
Movement: Charges his chariot into my Bulls easily, shuffles his tomb guard to try and get them into the game.
Magic: I manage to shut down all his spells (even the Casket! thank God lol).
Shooting: Sprays 18 arrows into the 2+ armor save Mournfang. Guess what?
CC: Even after impact hits, I knock him around enough to crumble down to two chariots left with only one ogre lost.

Ogres T2
Movement: Not needing overkill, I march my IGuts past the slaughter on their left, and push my Mournfang right in front of the archers, getting out of the tombguard charge-arc. Spin my IBlaster to face the right way. My Sabres kinda wander around a bit, they pretty much do nothing all game so I won't talk about them anymore after this
Magic: I roll like a 5 (four-one), so I give Wyssan's to the Bulls to add insult to injury. Oh, and I threw angry sheep at the Casket, to no avail (silly Flock of Doom, it's always *doomed* to fail ).
Shooting: I misfire the IBlaster! Again! Exciting! This time, I rolled a 5 and he ended up facing exactly forward, perpendicular of the last roll lol... He's TOTALLY earning his points this game...  lol
CC: chariots go down! I reform to smash into the Skele-warriors and priest next...

TK B2:

Movement: Shuffles his skele-warriors to take the bull charge, rotates the tombguard for the flank kill of the Mournfang (it's not a matter of if, but when ).
Magic: Quick Note. Notice in the picture above, the far left skeleton rank, with the gap in the front rank?
I ate my Hellheart. [it]It[/i] ate his Hierophant. My opponent cursed his luck, but didn't quite lose heart. I believe I DScrolled one of his spells and shut down the Casket again (lucky me!)
Shooting: 18 shots into the Mournfang again. Surprisingly, one got through! I high-fived him for the fun of it lol
CC: None yet! His Skelewarriors crumble five dudes away, but everything else holds.

Ogres T3:
Movement: Charged the Bulls into the leaderless Skelewarriors, charged the Mournfang into the archers, shuffled my IBlaster forward to grapeshot the tombguard (since regular shot's no good lol), and rotate my IGuts to watch the inevitable demise of the archers (and the Mournfang!).
Magic: I get hardly anything, again. I think all my spells were shut down or missed this time.
Shooting: Grapeshot succeeds! 3 Tombguard get scraped. Not a lot, but more than what the IBlaster's done so far
CC: Skelewarriors get smashed down to seven or eight left, archers are obliterated down to just the priest (shoulda used the breath weapon here, but oh well)

TK B3:

SORRY! Fuzzy picture. Tried the zoom feature on my new camera, not going to do that again
Movement: Charged his tombguard into my Mournfang's flank. SURPRISE You can't see it in the picture, but there's a priest behind the mournfang on the right, just laughing and knowing what's going to happen
Magic: He rolls another twelve, like, his magic phases are HUGE. Gets off both light augments in big bubbles O_O' ohshiohshiohshi... . Oh, and the Casket works! However, my BSB re-roll turns a 15 into a 6 (do you reroll with bsb? we didn't know so we did it.)
Shooting: none, all the archers are DEAD. DEAD.
CC: Apparently, his king's pretty tooled out. And with ASF and rerolls, yeah... So the Mournfang are cut down to a bull. Heh. Heh... :'(  At least the Skelewarriors are wiped completely out with stomps and such. I don't think there was any crumbling after this. At least, not due to leadership...

Ogres T4:
I can't seem to remember this turn well...
Movement: I shuffle everything close to prep for a multi-charge into tombguard (and to try and outlast his augments!). I even bring the Bulls closer to the IGuts, and although they won't be able to join the combat, maybe give them some sort of support? Maybe? lol
Magic: I think I threw more angry sheep at the Casket to no avail, while I attempted an Amber Spear at the free standing priest, and missed :'(
Shooting: A couple more tombguard are plastered by shrapnel.
CC: Nothing yet!

TK B4:
Movement: Attempts a long charge with tombguard, and miss. However, he then walks his priest into the unit to keep him safe. (Idk if that was allowed, but I was fine with it so idk ).
Magic: Another huge dice turn for him, and he IF's both of his light augments, causing wounds to his unit but nothing else in particular. I completely shut down the casket with like 6 dice that were left over
Shooting: ialreadysaidthearchersaredeadialreadysaidthearchersaredeadialreadysaidthearchersar-*cough* Excuse me, idk where that came from...
CC: Nothing yet!

Ogres T5:

RETRIBUTION!
Movement: Multi-Charge Success! IGuts, IBlaster, and even a Sabretusk! (he was in the flank, but he got bumped in the picture.) I march the Bulls closer, just in case.
Magic: I get Savage Blender off! Mwahahaha...
Shooting: IBlaster's done shooting, now into combatting!
CC: His King does this sweeping attack but doesn't succeed any HKB stuff against my general (PHEW), and I pound his unit into the ground. After CR, I think I had him down to his king left.

Here, we called it. I had only lost the Mournfang, he only had the Casket and King left. I killed off three core units (skelewarriors, chariots, and archers), but I was like a 1/2 inch away with my general from his deployment zone, so I only ended up with 18/20 points for the round.

VICTORY!!!!

Alrighty, I'll post the other two reports tomorrow. I'm tired and it's getting late, plus those games were much shorter Thanks a bunch! TTYL!

Grats on the win

Very nice with clear good images, makes it easy to follow. With regards to the zoom. I never zoom but instead use the crop editing feature in photobucket.

Nightsoul

UGH... I just deleted what I worked on. ANYways, onto the rest of the tournament!

GAME TWO: Blood and Glory!
Bonus Objectives: +2 BP if enemy is broken, +3 bp for a win while being broken

Versus... Daemons of Chaos!
I wasn't really sure what to expect in this game, but I was just so happy that I won the first round that I wasn't too worried about it at this time

His List:
Skulltaker (UGH)
Herald of Khorne BSB
50 Bloodletters
24 Fleshhounds with Karanak (whose Eternal Hatred was upon my general)
2x5 Flamers (was kinda worried about these guys, wasn't sure how they'd affect this game )

Deployment:

I start off, and end up, from left to right: Sabre, Sabre, MFC, IGuts, Bulls, Sabre, IBlaster.

His deployment was simply Flamers, Hounds, Flamers, with Bloodletters behind. Kinda looks like a Roman lineup but I digress... I manage to steal the initiative and gain first turn!

Oh, but before that, I roll up my magic, and get toothcracker for my butcher, and Flock of doom, Wyssan's, Savage Beast, and Pann's Pelt (I was rather excited ). My opponent had no magic, so I was both relieved and annoyed; I don't like enemy magic phases, but there went 75 points in the Hellheart and Dispel Scroll that I took. Oh well, it was to be expected

Ogres T1:
Movement: Near full march forward with the mainline, brought my leftside Sabres up and around to harass the Flamers, and put the rightside Sabre to attempt a redirect against his hounds. Idky with them being 12x2 facing, but I felt like it woulda been worth it.
Magic: Honestly, i don't remember hardly getting any spells off in that game, I once again had poor magic phases (rolling 5 or 6 dice with four-one or five-one results lol). Honestly, I think I rolled at least one one every magic phase in every round but that's fine, no biggie to me!
Shooting: Cannonball bounces and kills 3 Bloodletters. The IBlaster doesn't really have much to shoot at this game, either
CC: too early for that!

DoC B1:
Movement: Charged the hounds into the Sabretusk (ha, wonder how that'll go...), shuffled everything else around a bit.
Magic: He has none, so I skip this from here on in, mmk? mmk. He'd jokingly roll for winds of magic, but it was ok because he was a really funny kinda guy
Shooting: Flamers TOTALLY whiff. I think he does one wound to my IGuts and one wound to my MFC's, with rolling like only 10-15 attacks on each lol... 5d6 str4 flaming attacks are pretty crazy though O_O'
CC:Dogs beat cat. Dogs eat cat. Dogs overrun into my perfectly lined up IGuts and Bulls. Cat will be avenged

Ogres T2:
Movement: Charged the MFC into the flank of the hounds, adding insult to injury . I move my IBlaster forward to grapeshot-distance, and I wander around with the other two Sabretusks, who have no warmachines to hunt and no marchblocks to do
Magic: Nothing notable. It was either this turn or next turn that I roll 3 on the magic dice
Shooting: Grapeshot causes one Flamer to dissipate
CC:Well, here's the picture:

I challenge Karanak with my killy bruiser in order to keep him from attacking my general, and he has to accept. I kill him on the dot with no overkill, but that's ok, I'm glad I took care of him Out of the remaining 20+ wounds I caused on him, he only saved 3 with ward saves . However, on his leadership test to see how many disappear into the Warp, he rolls a 4 when he needs snake-eyes. So, only one hound leaves play O_O' ... My opponent had absolutely no luck on his ward save rolls, but oh well, 5+ can't stop EVERYthing.

DoC B2:
Movement: I think he actually pushes his Bloodletter block back a bit to keep the ogres from overrunning into them. That's about it.
Shooting: One of the left Sabres gets roasted, and the IBlaster only takes one wound. Yay 6s only
CC: More hounds get grounded down. Once again needing snake-eyes, and rolls a 4, so he loses only one hound. He has like 4 hounds left at this point, so my IGuts break free from the combat and reform to charge the Flamers next turn

Ogres T3:
Movement: Charged the Flamers, losing an impressive 3 Ironguts to the stand and shoot (I high-fived him, he was so happy they did something lol). My other Sabretusk ought've charged the Flamers in retrospect, because I didn't realize they were only WS2; my Sabre could've won a fight against them... maybe...
Magic: I think I get Wyssan's off on the Bulls, but it didn't matter particularly at that point.
Shooting: 2 more Bloodletters are cannon'd.
CC: Hounds go down, the MFC rotate to face the leftside Flamers, and the IGuts crush the rightside Flamers, wiping them out to a daemon; they then rotate to face a possible charge from the Bloodletters...

DoC B3:

So this is what he's looking at on his third turn. Apparently the fleshhounds were around 1,000 points-ish, so he's got only half of his stuff left. Exciting for me, whose only lost 42 vp so far with the Sabres
Movement: He attempts an average charge, needing an 8, and only rolls a 7 (four-three), so I felt kinda lucky there
Shooting: He fires futily into the MFCs and nothing occurs.
quick turn for him, he was enjoying that fact

Ogres T4:
Movement: MFCs charged the Flamers, and proceed to lose one whole Mournfang to the stand and shoot; meanwhile, I actually decide to back up my IGuts in order to plan a possible multi-charge in the subsequent turn.
Magic: Nothing, again. No luck Granted, in retrospect I think I killed a couple Bloodletters with the deadly sheep spell
Shooting: I think he ward-blocks all the cannon wounds this time; very impressive, sir!
CC: The Mournfang chew up and spit out the Flamers. And by Mournfang, I mean the beasts, and not the riders, who continually fail to do anything of noteworthiness in all my games lol...

DoC B4:
At this point, here's what we've got:

I was very worried about that Skulltaker, probably moreso than necessary. I couldn't break his army because his three fortitude points were in that Bloodletter unit. We talked about this, and strategically, we decided to call it here, because the game was a guaranteed win for me at this point. However, if I charged into those Bloodletters, and my stuff gets cut down and destroyed, then I'd throw the game away for nothing. So, we shook hands and called it there, giving me the win but neither of us achieving any bonus BP.
In retrospect, I realize this was a very stupid decision. Why? Because if I'd charged, and he challenged with Skulltaker, I still had two unit champions that he could've faced off against; so, my four other characters would've been free to eat up the BSB and other units, and basically disintegrate the unit before he could do anything about it. But, we live and we learn.

Victory!!!

And special thanks to my opponent who let me borrow his measuring tape in both this round and the following round after I bent/broke my cheap@$$ one

Okay, I'll do Game three either tomorrow or whenever, I'm kinda tired tonight

Alrighty, last BatRep for this tournament, and then a post on achievements and other goings-on.

Game 3: Slay The King!!
Bonus Objectives: +1 BP for killing a character in a challenge (up to 3BP), +2 BP for general's survival!

Versus... Warriors of Chaos!
I already knew that there were 3 other armies other than mine that had 2-0-0 records so far; two WoCs and a Chaos Dwarf army. However, since one of the WoCs was from the same shop as me, and the other WoC and the Chaos Dwarf were from another shop, and the fact that the don't pair up people from the same place if they can avoid, and the fact that two WoC armies facing each other would not be quite as interesting for some unknown reason, and the other fact that I can keeping adding and's and keep dragging out the sentence... I knew this was my opponent. And I was worried. Because I don't care what anybody says, Warriors of Chaos are still an overpowered army that need to be balanced.[/b] There, I said it
(funny side note, have you noticed that the only people who don't say that WoC isn't OP are WoC players? And how everyone else seems to think that they are? just a random thought )

His List:
Chaos lord on knight with Demon Sword and other stuff
BSB dude on horseback with stuff
Level 2 Tzeentch wizard herald
20 Marauders with hw&shield
30 Warriors of Tzeentch with halberds
5 Knights with stuff
2 War Shrines

Deployment:

I deploy first, and I have two sabres on my left flank, then my IGuts, Bulls, MFC, another Sabre, and then IBlaster, in that particular order. I have a thought here, but I'll save it till after the next photo.


He deploys as such, with his Chaos Knights and general/lord on the far left, then War shrine, Warriors with BSB, Marauders with level 2 Wizard, and another Shrine.
In retrospect, I should have my IBlaster lined up opposite his Knights. Why? Strength 10 Cannonballs into 0+armor knights seems to sound like a more effective kill than into 4+ ward shrines with 6 wounds (6? 5? idk can't seem to kill them eitherway, damn marks lol...)

Eitherway, I manage to steal the initiative and get moving first! OH, Magic. He gets a coupla spells, I don't remember them honestly (it was a short game), and I had toothcracker, wyssan's, pann's, savage blender, and the curse of anrhaerhiarharaera... you try spelling that off the top of your head after being up 16 hours lol

Ogres T1:
Movement: Move forward, prep for charges, trying to get stuff out of each other's way while not blocking my IBlaster's LoS to his flank Shrine.
Magic: I manage to Curse his knights, keeping them held in place so they wouldn't plug up my lane.
Shooting: Managed to wound the Shrine, but only did 2 on the multi. Darn, wanted a first turn instakill! Can't get everything tho
CC: TOO EARLY!

WoC B1:
Movement: Shuffles things around a bit, tries to get the flank shrine away from the IBlaster's LoS.
Magic: Nothing that I can recall...
Shooting: His flank Shrine bless the Warriors with +1 strength (he had the "adjust the roll by one" clause somewhere, and I let him change it ipso facto, so yay, nice guy I am ), and the other rolls a nothing on the Knights. Phew!
CC: NONE YET!!

Ogres T1:
Movement: Multiple mistakes that easily cost me the game here.
1. I decide to charge his center Shrine with my IGut block.
2. I decide to charge his center Shrine with my IGut block. Note the emphasis
3. I didn't move my Sabretusk up enough to block a flank charge from the knights; granted, I thought I had, but you'll see why in a bit.
4. I didn't move my Bull block up far enough to prevent a flank charge from the Warriors, JUST IN CASE...
Other'n that, shuffled my IBlaster down the hill so he could still see the hiding Shrine, and I get my MFC to swing around the forest to prepare for a flank attack! My right side sabre goes up to do some charge-blocking.
Magic: The curse gets stopped, and my magic phase is lost.
Shooting: Silly 4+ ward bounces the cannonball away.
CC: Surprisingly enough, I only manage 2 wounds on the Shrine, and it holds. Oh, yippee... I really can't figure out why I chose to do that now. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid...

WoC B2:

And see what I get for it! Just a side note, since the bulk of the fight happened to be on the side of a hill, to prevent models from flopping over/breaking, we eventually shifted the whole combat about 12" south into the center. Honestly, everything's in the fight practically by the start of the next turn, so why not? lol.

Movement: Flank charge from the Warriors, who can sneak in. Flank charge from the Knights, who could barely see the tip of the IGut block past the forest, and manage to escape any Dangerrain tests caused by running through a forest and dodging my Sabretusk completely. His flank Shrine and Marauders charge my Sabretusk, oh woo whatevs
Magic: I pop the Hellheart, and only manage to cause one wound on the wizard, whilst he only loses 1 power die and we end up with equal power dice. I don't even remember what he casts if anything lol
Shooting: His center Shrine gives the Knights +1 armor, so they now have a 0+ armor save.
CC: His general challenges. I agreed, because I thought he had Flaming attacks. However, since he has a magic weapon, the flaming banner doesn't affect him, so my 2+ flaming wardsave wasn't used. (I really didn't like my opponent this game, he talked really quickly and was hard to understand, and apparently he's one of those kids who goes to tournaments weekly and spends a lot of time playing the hobby, although he's only played one 8th edition game prior to this tournament. I don't know how fair he played, tbh, but whatever, I still had fun all things considered.)
Eitherway, I get stomped. Hard. I lose 6 out of 8 Ironguts in the combat, plus my general takes three wounds whilst his takes one... that he self-inflicted. Good ol' Crown o' Command keeps me fighting, though

...oh, and the Sabretusk died.

Ogres T3:
Movement: MFC charge into the shrine, Bulls charge into the Warriors flank.
Magic: Toothcracker bubble, fell short.
Shooting: Coupla marauders go down.
CC: My general and his general die simultaneously to his magic weapon's effects. Oh well, not much you can do against a weapon that gives +d3 Str and +d6 attacks, right? on a 0+ armored horsemen? Yup.
However, my IGuts fight on, leaving behind only the two bruisers, who hold, but the Bulls bounce off and flee.
My MFC do munch up the Shrine and charge into the Marauders, although we called it at this point, since I can't seem to kill anything with those ************************ ward saves everywhere. Guess what word I hide there? I don't think I could

So, a resounding DEFEAT...
But, that's ok, I still had a lot of fun! I overall ended up in 6th place out of 14, which I think is good for a first time tourney-goer, with a list that I didn't even get to practice!

Final Thoughts...
Here are some last thoughts for the tournament, in whole:

I wanted my army to focus around the Beasts lore pumping up my characters. Honestly, I rolled so average to poor on all my magic phases that I just wasn't able to accomplish that. So, would I try this 4-character-Beasts list again? Maybe, but for now I'll probably switch back to level-3 Maw and Firebellies. I think I had more luck with Fireballs there, anyways

Also, my Ironblaster had targets in the first and third games, and failed to really perform in any of the three games. It didn't make back any of its points, what with misfires in the first game and poor rolls in the third. there were no good targets in the second game, but it did what it could.

My Sabretusks did nothing in the first game, draw fire in the second, and failed a charge-block in the third. Part of this comes from inexperience, the other comes from lack of appropriate harrassment targets. I faced no war machines in any game (which also added to my IBlaster's shortcomings) and the units were never really there for the redirects.

My Mournfang did well overall, but as usual, it seems that only the beasts do anything: the riders consistantly whiff on their attacks! Just weird, but, hey, they took care of their flanks like they were supposed to, so I don't mind as much.

The Bulls did an excellent job in the first game, earning WAY more points than the IGuts did. In the second game, they did alright, and the third, they were too little too late anyways. Maybe next time I'll field more Bulls instead of a 4th character... or perhaps attempt an MMU approach? we'll see.

The Ironguts... I dunno. They soaked up the damage as much as they could, but heavy armor and no ward save is just so meaningless in this edition, what with every army apparently fielding Str 5+ armies everywhere lol... Idk how they do it! It's also kind've annoying that we have absolutely no access to any decent ward saves, only the IFist parry and then magic items from the BRB. But, oh well, without hardly any magic support, the Ironguts suffered. That's about it.

As for characters... The Butcher did his duty well in being an HH transport, and I'm glad he successfully ate the Hierophant in the first game! The killy bruiser, well, he did alright, the sword of anti-heroes worked more or less, but I kinda wished that I could've given him a better ward save, too. But, the 3+/6++ did ok for what it's worth. The BSB did what BSB do, provide the bubble and have a little protection; I'm glad I gave him the Crown in the last game, though that was the only game where it was used. The general... Idk if a Slaughtermaster with the Glittering Fencers combo is appropriate. Sure, the enemy only hits on 6's against him, but then what? no armor, no ward (except against fire, which was nonexistant for the most part), and even then, he was only striking back with Str 4 attacks! Again, no Magic, no smashing...

So, yeah. I had a blast overall, and I was glad I had the rounds that I had. I'm honestly just glad I didn't have my @$$ handed to me three games in a row, otherwise I'd probably never do another tournament again lol... Maybe in future tourneys, if that happens, I'd be ok with it, but not on my first one

Okay, thanks for reading the reports, if anyone ever has anything interesting to say in response, I'm all for it! I should perhaps convert these last three posts into the Tales of Conquest forum... maybe tomorrow

So, in regards to the tournament, I've unlocked four more achievements!!!

14. Crush the thinlings - take a new book ogre army to a tournament
25. Does this taste funny to you? - Win a game using ogres vs. Daemons of chaos
32. Past their sell-by date - win a game using ogres vs. Tomb kings
60. Overpowered! - win 3 games in a row with your ogre army.

I'm very excited! I've been gunning for #60 for a while! Now I don't feel as pressured to win ALL the time... now I just want to

Still reading through your Tournament battle reports.  Good stuff!

Just thought I'd offer 2 quick clarifications after reading your battle report against the high elf player prior to the tournament.

1.  The dragonhide banner does not work against stand and shoot wounds.  The reason for this is because a SaS reaction is declared and immediately carried out after a charge has been declared, but before you roll for charge distance.  As such, you don't know if it is a successful charge.

2.  The flaming banner doesn't confer the flaming quality to any magic weapon attacks.  So, his BSB wouldn't get his 2++ save against any attacks made by your slaughter master.

Still reading through your Tournament battle reports.  Good stuff!

Just thought I'd offer 2 quick clarifications after reading your battle report against the high elf player prior to the tournament.

1.  The dragonhide banner does not work against stand and shoot wounds.  The reason for this is because a SaS reaction is declared and immediately carried out after a charge has been declared, but before you roll for charge distance.  As such, you don't know if it is a successful charge.

2.  The flaming banner doesn't confer the flaming quality to any magic weapon attacks.  So, his BSB wouldn't get his 2++ save against any attacks made by your slaughter master.

Wow. That really would have changed the results of that game, big time. I wouldn't've been held up forever, and his archers could've possibly survived the mournfang charge. But, we remember for next time I found out about that "magic weapons > flaming" effect at the tournament, too. This is very interesting, and will be considered for future lists...

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the banner say "During the turn it charges" instead of needing a successful charge?

Typed semi-verbatim from pg. 63:

Models in a unit with DHide banner can reroll all TH, TW & saving throw rolls of 1 on the turn they make a successful charge.

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So, sadly, it applies to the successful charge, which happens after charge reactions. I was at my GW shop today and got some charge clarifications done. Also, it happens to be fact that units can't panic from losing 25% after Gnoblar Trappers. Because the charging unit has to be in base contact with the gnobs for it to work, they are considered to be in combat, so they don't take panic tests. I was a wee shocked at that! just a wee, though

Good to know about the banner!

lol, thanks for correcting the correction!  have a gnoblar.

Awesome! Thank you so much That gives me my first trapper bunker! Very exciting

In honor of this event, I'm going to cache my first ten named gnoblars on this post, so that when the next tenpack start coming in I have room for them in my signature

Squishy: The first, for he shall be my squishy!
Stinky: For my "gaseous" attack idea in the House Rules section under New Big Name Ideas.
Mysterious Bob: He is mysterious, and his existence is unexplained. Bob is my nickname for all things unnamed
Ghort: named after my esteemed D&D fighter, because I liked the name
Massy, Massier, Massiest: All are awards for my "Twas the Night before Gutmas" poem in Christmas '11.
Lefoue: I asked my then-girlfriend-now-fiancé for a name, and she gave me this one. Points for which movie this name appears in
Abacus: For answering a math based question (it was something about points, and not Mathhammer, which I'm still figuring out)
Stan-Der: The so-far newest addition, and was based upon a clarification of the Dragonhide Banner rules.

Thanks for all who made this possible May the next ten come as swiftly as the first!

Does Lefou eat 5 dozen eggs so he's roughly the size of a barn? 

Does Lefou eat 5 dozen eggs so he's roughly the size of a barn? 

No, he just smells like 5 dozen eggs, left inside of a barn oh wait that's Stinky lol

I've been wanting to wait to do this, in hopes of having more of my army painted. However, my mom's pen-pal/best friend from England was in town, and so I asked her if she wanted to see my collection, to which she replied, "Of course!" because you would never ever ever say no to that. Ever.

So, I decided to pull out all the stops, so to speak, and assemble my entire collection on my parents' billiards table. Well, I figured, while I had them out, why not take a few pictures and post them on the blog, securing yet another Wildcard achievement?


Hmph. The little image on my camera looked clearer than it does now. Well, I switch back and forth from flash to no-flash. But here it is!

Now with flash! For those of you who read this gnoblog, take note that my total army list in my first post is different from this, since I've purchased more items, and I haven't assembled all my gnoblars yet lol

Action Shot From the Right Flank! Showcasing the Firebelly, Sabretusks, Gorger, and my Slavegiant mating pair!

Now for the Action Shot From the Left Flank! Showing some of my Bulls, the Cockatrice, my old Scraplauncher, Ironblaster, and my "popped-off-the-base" Hunter/Maneater conversion!

Attempted closeup on the Bulls. I'll only use the flash from here on out lol

My "Hulk", my mighty champion, and my bloody tears warrior. Oh, and the butcher, photobombing the shot

My practically untouched giant beasties, which I was really excited for, and now can never field because they're so bleeping expensive points-wise. Sigh...

Front and Center! Gotta get the Gnobs in there! You can also see all my non-Firebelly characters, with my BSB in the back waving the unpainted flag of awesomeness! He needs a lot of lovin', and will get a unique post for him, once I get myself motivated to want to paint him ;P

Alrighty! Here's my achievement post:
99. Da lads! - post a pic of your entire army on the stronghold in your ogre gnoblog.

Yay! lol

Hello, my faithful gnoblogians... or gnoblogites? Eitherway...

So, today, I decided to go out to my local Bunker to do some paintin' and some playin'. Now, Thursdays are normally 40k day, but since I don't have a 40k army (yet...) and Thursdays seem to be my most popular day off, I go out anyways.

So, I put in a pledge this month to basically paint up all my Ironguts. I only have 10, about 4-5 which are more or less painted, so I said to fully paint 6 of the Ironguts, and to finish up the final 4. Well, although I have no pictures atm, I have paint on 8 of them, and the last two are primed. I think one, maybe two, more painting days, and I should finish my pledge. And it's not even set in stone for another five days!

I was also able to chew the fat a bit about 40k, and I'm seriously considering looking into Tau when I have the money... Of course, I will also wait for their update, whenever GW gets around to it once they're done, I think I might be able to fully consider entering into that part of the hobby. All in good time, though, all in good time.

So, instead, I manage to catch a game with a High elf player that I haven't played before. He wanted to run 2500 points, but since I don't have my BRB with me (I'm letting my bro borrow it while he reads/learns how to play), I simply took my 2k tourney list and tacked on another 500 points. So, 2 more Ironguts, a pack of 5 leadies with musician, a scraplauncher for the helluvit, and 14 gnoblar trappers (I had 10 points to spare ).

I'm not going to run a comprehensive batrep, because the game was a pretty cut-and-dry win for me (yay win lol). He had two packs of archers, a small pack of swordmasters, some spearmen with bows, a repeater ballista, a chariot, some reavers, and a 10pack of Dragon princes. He put the DPs and the chariot on one side, which I filled with chaff/redirectors, and on the other side he had his infantry which I lined up with my main force and both war machines.

Simply put, chaff tied up the DPs into the 5th turn (when he conceded), and the rest of my army trudged through and decimated his mainline. Although, a fun point for me was when his chariot failed his Dangerrain test on my trappers and took 6 wounds. My 60pt gnoblars took 140pts from him with that! they earned more than double their points!

So, yeah, a good hobby day for me. As my wedding comes closer, however, I know my hobbying will slow down a bit. 86 days until I'm married to the most beautiful amazing woman ever!!! I'm about as excited for that as I'm excited for Warhammer! ... Oh, who am I kidding? I am WAY more excited to get married! lol

Okay, so, after much deliberation with my fiancée, I decided to go ahead and buy a couple more items for my army

I picked up a 2nd Ironblaster because, honestly, 2 Ironblasters sound even more useful All I have to do is proxy a 2nd Scraplauncher, and tada, I have achieved another Wildcard achievement!

I also acquired a box o' Ogres! But, instead of 6 more dudes (of which I have 24 already), I've decided, I want 3 more Leadbelchers (to make 8, which seem to be a good healthy number), another character/Maneater conversion, and the other two... well, either 2 more Ironguts, or 2 more Maneaters... I'm thinking Ironguts (I've got 10 atm), so I could in theory run MMU with 4x6 Bulls and 2x6 Ironguts. In theory... But, I figure, why buy a box of Leadbelchers and just convert one, when I could get 6 Bulls and get two more bodies for about the same price? btw, Amazon's amazing for good deals. JUST saying lol... $64 for both items PLUS s+h, saving at least $20

On my PLEDGE, I haven't gotten much farther as of recently, but I'm more than confident that I'll be able to finish it in time. However, I will have 2 more Ironguts to take care of soon lol... They'll probably be a part of the bonus pledge after I finish the first one.

Alrighty! Back to the action! More posts to come!

So, yesterday, I went to another tournament, this time at 2500 points. I will post a deeper recollection of batreps here later, but for now I wanted to post my achievements, which I was very excited to earn

Ogre Achievements:
27. Win a game using ogres vs. Wood elves
31. Stake Out - Win a game using ogres vs. Vampire counts
41. No auto-wounds for you! - have a butcher or slaughtermaster get hit with a poisoned attack

3 more notched on my wall! I'm a game or two away from the 20-games achievement, also.

I'm very excited, and I feel like I'm really starting to figure this army out. I mean, trying to learn the deeper, more advanced tactics of the game is getting to be more and more interesting, and I hope that eventually I'll achieve that first place achievement

So, I began trying to type out the entire tournament like I did with the last battle report(s), and as I was about partway into the introduction of the first match, I realized... I really didn't feel like typing it out lol... Plus, I forgot to take plenty of pictures at key points in each match, so it just kinda seemed a little blasé.

So, instead, i opted for a condensed version of the tournament!
However, I'll post at least a picture of the army that I brought, with a quick description.


So, from top left going clockwise and ending in the middle, we have...
10 Ironguts with Death-Slaughtermaster General and BSB
Ironblaster, 3 Mournfang with Dragonhide
3 solo Sabretusks, 4 Leadbelchers
Killy Bruiser, next to his 6 Bulls
10 Gnoblar Trappers, 5 Bulls and my Hellheart caddy LotGM Butcher

Round 1: Ogres, Battleline with "Magic Flux" special scenario
wasn't planning on fighting ogres, and wasn't too happy with it
Magic Flux: After channeling all power/dispel dice, roll them all; any 6s are given to the opponent. So, you have 5 dispel dice, and you roll three 6s, and your opponent rolls one 6, you now have only 3 dispel dice. Capiche?

Basically, I misdeployed against him, and he dominates my left flank, while I barely scratch any points off of him. However, had a Sabretusk chase off one of his Sabretusks. I lose, but gain +3Battle Points (BP for the rest of post) for having units near the center of the board. 5BP for a loss, +3BP bonus = 8/20 BP. Bad start.

However, here's an amazing picture of his army, which he has posted up in his blog on Warseer (I've totally forgotten his username, however, I apologize to him!!!). He also had a unit of Mannies and two Sabretusks that aren't pictured because they were still WIPs.


Round 2: Vampire Counts, Battleline with "Dusk Attack" special scenario
had mixed feelings, because I know what VC is capable of, but when I saw him put his 4 casters all right next to each other, I ran my Hellheart Butcher straight at them, lol...
Dusk Attack: I don't even remember the rules, we had to roll dice to see if night had fallen and it would've impacted the game, but we never saw nightfall.

They have two units of Vargheists and a Terrorgheist running amok, and eventually one of the Var-units and the TGheist rear charge my IGut block who was front-charged by zombies.  After three rounds of combat, most of the incombat VC units crumble to my astounding combat rez (got +11 CR in the last round of combat). Oh, and I popped three of his four wizards with the Hellheart. 50 points for 270 points? deal

Solid win for me, plus I gained +5BP for each unit I destroyed; two Dire Wolf packs, both Vargheist packs, and the Terrorgheist. One of the D-Wolf packs was fended off by the Sabretusk; the same that chased off the other Sabre in the first round. He rolled snake eyes on his first leadership fail, and proceeded to cut down the rest of the wolves ... so, 15BP for the win, +5BP = 20/20BP for the round, 28/40 BP overall.

Here are my pics of this army: one of part of his Armies on Parade/transport board, and another of his Wizard Council in their bunker.


Beautiful paintjobs

Round 3: High Elf/Wood Elf Alliance, Watchtower with "floating fortress" special scenario
My opponent had been my ally in the first Warhammer game I played with my Ogres, so it was good seeing him again. His list looked pretty nasty, but I'm not really afraid of elves anymore. Rerolls? that's fine. I'll still be wounding on 2's most of the time lol
Floating Fortress: the watchtower in the middle started the game unoccupied, and every player turn moved a scatter-d6"; on a 5-6 roll, any unit in the watchtower gets left behind.
Probably my favorite special scenario of the three.

Anyways, the tower basically spends all game running away from me, but I table my opponent, so I didn't need to worry about occupying it; granted, I didn't know that war beasts could garrison buildings, so I could've captured it by the end of the game, since my only living Sabretusk (who happened to be the exact same model of the Tusk-and-Wolf-Slayer Sabretusk ) was standing 2" in front of it on the last turn.

However, my win netted me another 18BP (15 for win, +3BP for having up to three of my units in his deployment zone at the end of the game) and giving me an overall total of 46/60, which was ok, but that lost really shot me in the foot. I pulled a tie for 6th place against the other ogre player, so I ended up being marked 7th since, as a way to break ties, his win over me gave him the 6th place mark. So, I'll call it a "tie-for-6th" lol

A picture from that game, where my killy Bruiser challenged his Dryad champion, who was cut down... literally...

dramatic scenery always makes for better challenge spots

Okay, well, if you want a more detailed battle report, feel free to ask, I'll only be able to remember all the details for so long ... I was happy with the outcome (2-1-0), for having only made the list not even 10 hours before the event. I'm hoping that in the future, whenever I have the time for another tournament, that I can attempt a 2-0-1, or even a crazy 3-0-0!!! Ahh, here's to hoping

Okay, so, I haven't done too much hobbying since I completed the July pledge, but here's what I have done!

I've begun conversions on my box'o'bulls that I bought a while ago, and I've finished assembling 2 of the 3 leadbelchers (the third one, well, I'm trying to sculpt a greenstuff cannon and I'm a crappy sculptor lol), and I've put together AND painted the Irongut Champion! He looks cool, haven't got pictures of him yet, but in good time. Also, the Irongut Musician is assembled and had his gaps GS'd, and needs a slathering of paint. And finally, my Maneater conversion is going ok, but I've kinda hit a block on what I wanna do with him. He'll be cool when he's done, though

Also, I've been itching to play a game for a while (hadn't played since the July tournament! ridiculous!). Apparently EVERYone's into 40k in my area, especially with the new rulebook out. But, thankfully, a good friend at the shop had his Warrior of Chaos with him and he was willing to take my 1,000pt. challenge game

Okay, so, here's the dealio. There are two Wildcard Achievements that I wanted to obtain. This list completes both I wonder if you'll guess what those achievements are...

Sazel's Force

Heroes:
Billy No Mates: Firebelly, Level 2, AHW, Arabyan Carpet.

Core:
"Just..." - 9 Bulls, Musician, Standard, Ironfists

Special:
"...The..." - 3 Leadbelchers

"...Lads" - 6 Maneaters, Musician, Standard, Std. of Discipline, Poisoned Attacks, Stubborn, Front rank has Single Pistol, back rank naked

TOTAL: 1,000

So, at the end of this post, I'll list all my achievements (yes, I managed to obtain one or two more!). But, needless to say, I was already heading into the game knowing I wasn't going to necessarily win. I just wanted to have fun; plus, neither achievement says you have to win, only one says its a *bonus*

Festus' Legion

Character:
Festus

Core:
40 Marauders, Khorne Mark, Flails

Special:
9 Chaos Knights, with stuff for 1+ armor

Rare:
Hellcannon of DOOM...

Yes... Doom.

*cough*... ANYways, so yeah. 3 units apiece, one character, gonna be awesome.

SETUP:
He let me place the terrain, so along the center, from MY left to right:
Rocky Field (Dangerous Terrain) - 4" - Ruined Building - big gap - two mysterious forests, almost parallel each other in each deployment zone-ish - 8" - Rocky Field

I won to deploy, so I simply went Leadies, Bulls, and Mannies across the center with the Ls and Ms angling inward. I put my Firebelly on the right flank opposite of the forest.

He deployed Knights, Marauders and Festus, with the Hellcannon behind the trees on his left/my right. He stole initiative, and away we go!

OH AND magic, Festus had his Rot spell and the one which causes all enemy units within 18" to take some hits or wounds or whatever, he never did use it... you'll see why... I pulled up the d6/rank fireball spell and switch for the signature fireball. My goal was to whittle the crap outta his marauders, doublecharge them, then figure out something to deal with the Hellcannon and Knights

WoC T1:
Movement: He almost completely forgets to move and do magic, he was raring to shoot my units with his Hellcannon... But, he stopped and caught himself in time He wheels the Knights around the building to go for my flank, stopping just shy of the rocky field, planning to charge my Leadies. He moves the Marauders forward a bit to get Festus into his spells' range, and ta-da.

Magic: This is literally the most important part of the game. He gets four dice, I had three. He casts the Rot spell on my Bulls (-1S/-1T every Magic phase), and Irresistable Forces it. Rolls a 3. Kills 6 Marauders and causes Festus to get sucked into the WARP! His 5++/Poison attacks support for the Marauders are gone, and I'm super excited! I now may actually win this one! lol...

Shooting: Hellcannon aims at the Mannies, shot overshoots by 8".
CC: End of first turn!

Ogres B1:
Movement: Moved the Leadies 6" forward and out of the charge arc of the Knights, inched other things around, flew the CarpetBelly into the forest on his side, which turned out to be NORMAL!!! Dun, dun, DUNNN!!..
Magic: The 5d6/rank fireball, followed by the sig. fireball, tear about half of the Marauders apart lol... my opponent forgot about the Fire lore attribute and so I was able to overpower his reserved dice for the second spell.
Shooting: Leadies semi-whiff and the 3 pistol shots get a couple wounds, knocking the marauders ultimately down to 11 models. Granted, they had Frenzy still, so they didn't care lol
CC: End of first turn!

WoC T2:
Movement: Decided a silly charge with his Marauders, needing an 11... which he ROLLS. lol. Also charged his Hellcannon at my Firebelly, which I wasn't expecting, so I had him flee (which uses his regular movement) and escape the Hellish Wrath. Oh, and the Knights ignore the dangerous terrain and march right through it, to line up a kill charge on my Leadies' rear. Welp, oh well lol
Magic: none anymore so fuhgedaboudit
Shooting: Hellcannon charged so it didn't shoot, lucky me
CC: His marauders smack down two Bulls, who proceeded to smack down 6 of his guys, which actually caused a tie, so no one broke and he kept his Frenzy. Great... lol. However, he loses his +2S next combat mwahaha...

Ogres B2:
Movement: Rallied the Firebelly, Moved the Mannies forward to try some potshots at the Hellcannon (which was almost a bad move...). Charged the Leadies into the flank of the Marauders because the Marauders made them incapable of rotating or moving (they were like 1" from the center leadie's face lol), so I figured why not lol
Magic: 3d6 Fireball attempt with only 4 power dice? Ha. Nothing to report THERE. lol
Shooting: Leadies in CC, and the Mannies whiffed at shooting into the Hellcannon.
CC: Marauders were obliterated, although they did 2 more wounds to the Bulls. Leadies turn around to redirect the Knights' inevitable charge, and the Bulls line up to slam into the flank of the Knights (just in case, since they too had Frenzy and thus HAD to overrun). However, I noticed that, had they rolled a 12, they would've been able to clip the Maneaters in the flank... Oops... lol. Luckily that didn't happen, but still.

WoC T3:
Movement: Knights Charge! Hellcannon's Leadership Control check fails, and he barrels 3d6" into the Firebelly (who couldn't flee since it was a compulsory action).
Skipping Magic and Shooting for now...
CC: Knights obliterate my Leadbelchers (did like 14 wounds to a 9-wound unit lol), and cause my Bulls to flee from the panic test (d'oh! forgot that one!), but they didn't roll high enough to clip the Mannies thankfully. Hellcannon slaughters the Firebelly, but not without the Firebelly killing one Chaos Dwarf handler He overruns, but not quite enough to escape the front arc of my Maneaters (it was millimeters, though, and we 4+'d whether my guys could see, and I rolled a 5, so I was allowed to charge, which was nice of my opponent)

Ogres B3:
Movement: Maneaters OGRE Charge into the flank of the Hellcannon! Bulls rally, and turn to face the flank of the knights to countercharge them if they charge into the Mannies in the following turn.
Magic and Shooting are naught this round
CC: 8str6 impact hits later, and 24 poisoned attacks, and his cannon is utterly demolished. I overran so that he couldn't charge easily into my Mannies' rear.

WoC T4:
Movement: He wheels his Knights so that I can't charge them with my Bulls, but he gets a good decisive shot of which one of my units he wished to charge the next turn.

Ogres B4:
Movement: I move my guys into the forest (which, mine happened to be the mushroom-Stupidity forest) to try and get some Dangerrain tests off his dudes.
Shooting: Pistols picked off one, methinks.

WoC T5:
Movement: After some pondering, he decides to charge... THE MANEATERS!! (yay me lol)
CC: He does 5 wounds and I return with 3. Stubborn with the Standard of Discipline made it a moot point however

Ogres B5:
Movement: My Bulls BARELY made their Stupidity test, and OGRE Charged the flank!

We called it at that point. I killed s'more, he ended up leaving me with 2 Maneaters left, but yeah, he wasn't going to be able to fight off 7 bulls with two knights for that long, especially after they lost frenzy.

So, not only did I manage to pick up the two obscure WC Achievements, I also managed to obtain the beat the WoC achievement, as well as my 20th game!! Woo, I'm getting the hang of this game almost! lol

34. Win a game using ogres vs. Warriors of chaos
54. Just the lads - field an army containing ONLY ogres, no animals, gnoblars, etc.  Bonus if you also win.
75. Bruiser - play 20 games with the new ogre book
97. Billy no-mates - field an army with only 1 character in it.  He cannot deploy in a unit or join one.  Bonus if he survives the game. No bonus, but oh well!


So, yeah, I was glad I could finally catch a game! I'm hoping to post more pics in the foreseeable future, but with a wedding right around the corner, my time's getting stretched WAY too thin...

Lovin' it. Okay, ciao!

Wow. It's been a long time since I've done anything. I'm getting married in 9 days, and I've had no time to even think about Warhammer (other than "man, I need to do more WH" lol).

With the advent of the new Forum Achievements, however, I have procured another 10pack of Gnoblars!! So, as I did last time with my first 10, I shall now list the ten and their purpose, while I begin the next batch

Julius - For Completing the July 2012 Monthly challenge.
Magic Mick - For Reasons Unknown, but he's a sexxi gnob
R-Teest - For my exceptional artistic rendition of a modified Stonehorn/Thundertusk conversion (note: i suck at Paint )
JubJub the Unreasonably Lucky - For Reasons Unknown, but he's a super lucky gnob
Blasty - For helping with the creation of a heavy-magic list
Mints & Acheev - The first two (of now 7!) Forum Achievement awards.
Swordsie - For the BattleHardened achievement.
Successful Skimp - For the Ogre Achiever Level 2 achievement.

As such, now I'm at 22, which is crazy lol... I'm rather enjoying this

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Oh, so I have made the GS'd cannon, and it looks meh, but it's decent enough that people know what it is, at least lol... Other'n that, that's pretty much it. I'll eventually get it together after I'm married and we have our home set up and settled down

So, as I have been very busy as of late, I haven't really posted much on here.

The reason being: I'm getting married tomorrow. Which, ok, by this forum's time, "today", but my time, I still have about 1.25 hours left

I have met the most amazing girl in the whole world, whom I love and adore, and who loves and adores me back for who I am. Plus, she's totally fine with me playing and modelling Warhammer, and has even volunteered to help me paint after we're all established and settled down

I am very happy. And I guess the only reason why I'm posting this is because I like telling people how happy I am lol

So, I'm now off to get married, and then a nice honeymoon up to Vancouver and Victoria, in Canada!! Super excited for the whole adventure of life together <3

So, see ya'll later! I might eventually possibly do something hobby related in a few weeks, but for now... hehehe 

Congratulations sir!    Welcome to the ranks of the married.   Good luck getting games in now!   Just been reading through your blog for the first time.   You deserve more responses then you've been getting.  Keep up the painting.   You will roll better when u field a fully painted list =P

Congrats my friend
Sure your day will be wonderful and as such a reflection of your life to come!!!

Feel free to crow about it your obviously very happy and a lucky guy

Congrats and have fun!

I'd say "Don't do anything I wouldn't do," but I don't want you to take that as a challenge   So, knock yourselves out! 

Back from my honeymoon on Friday, first chance to use my cpu (it's still at my parents' place, haven't found a good setup for my home yet). Had a huge blast and we had lotsa fun

Even got to go visit the GW in Victoria, BC last Tuesday (my wife just rolled her eyes, and then when I told her it was next to a book store she was a little more willing to go hehehe). But, yeah, I love her to bits!!! She's aMAZing!!!

In the meantime, however, I have realized that I've packed up my entire Warhammer collection (models, tools, books, etc.) into my car and are hauling them around with me for the time being. So, I'm thinking, I'll try to find a day where I can attempt a "empty cupboard" battle with someone (all available points of each player down on the field). I think that would be fun. 24 Bull horde with about 6 characters? Yeah. Bring it on homes lol

So yeah, I'll try to post when I can, but in the mean time, I know my Warhammer will be taking a back seat to my life... Get it? Back Seat? They're In My CAR??? ... nvm.

Whoa, that's my area.  Where are you living now??

Whoa, that's my area.  Where are you living now??

I'm residing with my wife in a small region right between Auburn and Federal Way, just off Highway 18. I plan to visit the Supermall GW more as I get the time, but I'll still frequent the Battle Bunker because I work at the drugstore in the same parking lot as it.

How about yourself?

Ah, I'm in the place you just visited, Victoria. ;P

Aw shucks! I should've realized...

Well, it's only a 4+ hour journey to the Battle Bunker... one way...

Make a day of it

Haha! Maybe one day. 

So, I finally caught a game last night, and it was for a new WHFB escalation league ran at my local GW. The rules were 1500 pts + Pacts of Binding up to 200pts that were never unbound (basically just a free 200 points of monsters).

I was trying to get a fast game in so that I could spend the evening with my wife and her family, but random circumstances caused the game to start when I was planning on leaving... Got a wee bit o' flak for it, but we talked afterwards and it's fine now.

Anyways, so, my list (which I kinda slapped together and wasn't too happy for it):
Firebelly general, Dscroll, Gold Sigil Sword
Bruiser BSB, HA, IF, Crown of Command
10 Bulls, IF, FC
6 Ironguts, FC, Std. of Discipline
16 Gnoblar Trappers
5 Leadbelchers, Mus
3x1 Sabretusk
Ironblaster
+Cockatrice with Poisoned Claws
totaling out to 1499 +185 = 1684pts.

My opponent played VC, with a single Vampire Lord char and, well, lessee:
Vamp Lord dude, lvl2, random crap, on a HORSE
horde o' skeletons (50? 60?)
6 Crypt ghouls
4 Vargheists
10 black knights? or some knights that the Vamp Lord rode in
2x5 dire wolves
Spirit Host
 + Stegadon

So, we had to roll for a game, and we got Dawn Attack... Which, I didn't mind last game. I ended up deploying first, and here's where it sucked.
Right Flank: 1 Sabretusk
Center Flank: 1 Sabretusk, Ironblaster, and Ironguts (which I got a 6 for)
Left Flank: 1 Sabretusk, Gnoblars, Cockatrice, Leadbelchers, Bulls with both chars.
...
Yeah. Plus, I stupidly decided to roll for the big units last (which I'll never do again) and I ended up having to awkwardly shove the Bull unit into the corner, stuffed behind all the chaff and unable to move much...

His deployment:
Right Flank: Vargheists
Center Flank: (from my right to left) Stegadon, Wolves, Spirits, Wolves, Ghouls, Skeletons
Left Flank: Knights with Lord
... So, he had everything evenly spread out, and I had 2 sabres to try and protect my Ironblaster from his full Right flank... sheesh...

For magic, I end up taking the sig over flame cloak, and he takes Invoke to recover wounds and hellish vigour.

I win the turn, so here we go!
OK 1:
Movement: He remembers to vanguard his wolves at this point. I roll my IBlaster around to easily see either his knights or his stegadon. I push my sabres on the right forward to try and attempt any sort of redirection (my opponent placed his vargheists backwards so they wouldn't rage-charge the first turn), while I basically unpiled the corner to get things to move around; Cockatrice went into a woods on the left side (abyssal woods, nobody cared lol), Gnobs and Sabre surged forward, Leadies went around the back side to try and get to helping the Ironblaster, Bulls and Ironguts move forward.
Magic: Y'know, I never cast a single spell this game because the Abyssal Woods and all my guys blocked any view that my wizard had of any of his stuff, so i'm skipping my magic here on in. Which sucked.
Shooting: Leadies marched. Cockatrice tried to stone a Dire Wolf (only thing in range) and missed. Ironblaster pops one knight (clipped it on a 10 roll lol)

VC 1:
Movement: Steg charges rightmost sabre, Spirit host charge central Sabre (who catches and runs down the sabre; when he did this he moved his spirit host the full 16" inches that the charge gave him, whereas I thought he caught me where the sabre stood; what's the deal there?), his knights charge my cockatrice, who elects to flee (causing nothing else to panic thankfully) and they fail to redirect towards my leftmost sabre. Everything else moves forward and around a bit. He puts his central dire wolves right in front of my Ironguts.
Magic: He heals back the one knight that fell.
Shooting: he has none so we'll skip this hereon in.
CC: Steg smashes and overruns the sabre. Crypt Ghouls manage to do 6 wounds to the Ironguts (he was giddy about that) and I only managed to do 5 back, so I lost. Needing a rerollable 8, I still failed, but wasn't caught on the flee. Damn, this game has been going so poorly so far...

OK 2:
Movement: I surge the last Sabre forward and swing him behind the enemy units, I rally the Cockatrice, I charge the Ironguts into his wolf screen, Ironblaster inches away from the Vargheists on his flank, the Leadies march forward to help the Ironblaster more, and I decide to spread out the Gnobs with a swift reform to 1x16, hoping to screen the knights. Bulls move forward.
Shooting: Leadies marched and cockatrice rallied, BUT the Ironblaster managed to one-shot the stegadon! (woo!) So that got me some points netted there.
CC: Ironguts ate dogs purely on d3 impact hits. Reformed to face the inevitable Ghoul charge...

VC 2:
Movement: Crypt ghouls make their charge on the Ironguts without support. This is because of a fluke in his charges, he chargeblocks his skellies (that were going to go after the gnobs in the woods) with his knights, who couldn't wheel enough and make  the charge, so it ended up being a lot of weird turn arounds. Vargheists flew up into the grill of my Ironblaster, Spirit host inch forward, dogs move around and away.
Magic: I negate his invoke, and I scrolled his hellish vigor on the Crypt ghouls, hoping that the Iguts could pop them in a round.
CC: Crypt Ghouls manage to do 6 wounds to the Ironguts (he was giddy about that) and I only managed to do 5 back, so I lost (I had standard, he had charge). Needing a rerollable 8, I still failed, but wasn't caught on the flee. Damn, this game has been going so poorly so far...

Okay, so I'm getting tired of typing the whole thing out at this point lol... I've been at it 20 minutes and my brain hasn't woken up yet this morning.

So, eventually, spirit host overrun my leadies, vargheists fought my Ironblaster, it ran but rallied, was double charged by ghouls and vargheists, and I got a triple charge on his knights but because he has a stupid 1+ lord that I had no way of dealing with, I couldn't cause any wounds and he eventually tables my entire unit. I scooped by 5th turn because all I had ended up killing were his knight unit, a pack of dogs, and the stegadon, while everything else was dead (except the cockatrice, which I know now is entirely useless.)

So, I feel like deployment killed me this game. I couldn't move around and I wasn't able to get the bulk of my forces into any important fights. Plus, nothing, and I mean NOTHING, could ever pass a leadership test except for the damn Gnoblars lol...

Oh well, a bad game, but that's what I get for playing a game instead of going home to my wife granted, she knew I was at the shop and we had planned it beforehand, BUT still, I felt there was an ominous omininity as I was playing. Maybe it was my usual guilt-tripping mind that can never let go of things.

Oh well.

I'm thinking about going out to another GW today and maybe catching another game. We'll see from there. My wife works until 10pm tonight, so I'm practically free for the evening

I now for experience that you seem to always worry you're doing the wrong thing if you're out enjoying yourself with out your wife
I always make sure I ask "I want a game of warhammer, I might be out late, is that ok?"
The hard part after that is understanding if her "Yes" really means "No"

I now for experience that you seem to always worry you're doing the wrong thing if you're out enjoying yourself with out your wife
I always make sure I ask "I want a game of warhammer, I might be out late, is that ok?"
The hard part after that is understanding if her "Yes" really means "No"

lol, sad but true It 'helps' that she doesn't get off of work until 10pm on Thursdays, so although I won't get to be with the love of my life, at least I'll get to play something that's in the top 5 of my loves

So... yeah. I was typing up a batrep for a game that I played tonight, and the stupid window closed and wiped everything.

So, yeah, I played a VC player, 2500pts Battleline, and I won!!! It was a close game, and a lot of fun; the game kept going back and forth, but I managed to smash through more of his stuff than he could of mine

Plus, I got my wife's blessing of "Good Luck!" before the game, so I'm thinking that I'll ask her before every game now; I lost when she didn't bless, and I won when she did I love my wife!

Well, I'll post into the Stronghold Games record. In the meantime, g'night!

Thought I'd give you a quick answer to your question from your battle report.  I also had a question about it (you said you're IGs ran from a combat, and then charged in the next turn), but I'll just skip it since you mentioned your wrote the report while tired, and we all know what that's like

So, his spirit host declares a charge against your sabretusk.  You declare a flee action.  He decides to continue the charge or redirect.  You roll flee distance, and immediately move the sabre tusk.  He then rolls for his charge.  If the distance plus movement is equal to the new distance to the sabretusk, then he catches and kills the sabretusk, but does not roll for additional overrun. So, if he was 16 inches away from the sabretusk after it fled, then he moves that full distance.

Hope that helped; it was a little tough to understand the situation from the battle report

Thought I'd give you a quick answer to your question from your battle report.  I also had a question about it (you said you're IGs ran from a combat, and then charged in the next turn), but I'll just skip it since you mentioned your wrote the report while tired, and we all know what that's like

So, his spirit host declares a charge against your sabretusk.  You declare a flee action.  He decides to continue the charge or redirect.  You roll flee distance, and immediately move the sabre tusk.  He then rolls for his charge.  If the distance plus movement is equal to the new distance to the sabretusk, then he catches and kills the sabretusk, but does not roll for additional overrun. So, if he was 16 inches away from the sabretusk after it fled, then he moves that full distance.

Hope that helped; it was a little tough to understand the situation from the battle report

Actually, that explains it perfectly. Plus, I realized midway through typing that I forgot a turn's worth of stuff and began editing it and so I must've missed
something lol

So, it's been like, a month since I've posted anything in my guhnawblawg?

Here's where I'm at in my life. I've been happily married 1.5 months now, heading into the holidays with lotsa happiness in store!

We're also buying a house. It's a huge step, and has been a lot of work (something we've been working on since like June), but when it's all said and done, by the beginning of December we'll have our own place, and by the new year I'll have a dedicated Warhammer working space again However, I'll also have 2 cats, so I'll hafta figure out how to handle them not destroying my collection (hopefully)... they're good cats, and a bit older, so not as mischievous, but we'll see.

In the meantime, I've had no time to play any games, which has once again been bugging me, because I've spent all this time and money to play the game, but now I have no time to dedicate to the actual gaming part But, hey, that's life, I live with it, s'all good.

Also, I've begun the works for my own Ironblaster conversion. It should be pretty good if I can make it work. More details when my parts from eBay arrive and I begin some basic assembly I bought a 6pack of Ogre Bodies from eBay, and with the spare bases, I'm going to make up some dedicated Maneater models, so that way I can actually run Bulls, Ironguts, AND Maneaters! lol... Right now I've been mix-and-matching, but my plans for an epic 6k battle royale day won't work with my current collection.

I NEED MOAR...

Alrighty, I think that oughta wrap it up for now. Oh, and I'm looking into getting another carrying case that's dedicated for the big beasts and the MF beasts, as well as my extra collection.

Ok, thanks for the catch-up! I'll post as I can!

Woo, so I got a couple games in yesterday!

I won't do a big battle report for either, simply because they weren't really all that remarkable of games.

The first game was 3k versus an "alliance" of Tomb Kings, a unit of Chosen with a stupid Chaos Lord, and a unit of DE Cold One Knights. Basically, I think my opponent wasn't quite up with all the latest rules, but I kinda rolled with it.

I attempted an MMU list, so, from memory: Killy Tyrant and Tanky Bruiser with 7 Ironguts, Deathmaster with 5 Bulls, "Tax" Butcher with 5 Ironguts, 2x4 Leadies with Musician, 4 Maneaters with Sniper/Poison and BoP, 3x1 Sabretusks, 4 MFC with DHide, and a good ol' Ironblaster.

He had a small pack of Sword/Shield skellies with a necrotect and tomb prince, a large pack of Spear skellies with a necrotect and a hierophant, 3 of the serpent knight MC that TK have, and a Casket, as well as a 10pack of Cold Ones, and a 20 pack of Chosen (who got the +1 attack boon) with a Chaos Lord and BSB.

My shooting was overall ineffectual, other than my cannon blowing away his casket 2nd turn. Magic was blasé, but I did use my Caress of Laniph to kill his serpent knight champion, and almost got Fate of Bjuna on another one (just to cripple the unit). His Chosen bunker and my big Irongut bunker basically grinded each other to bits, while my SMaster was eventually double charged and overrun by his spear skellies and serpent knights, but the following combat my Mannies and then next turn the leadies came in with rear charges against the spear skellies and the whole units popped against my Butcher's Ironguts; meanwhile, the Mournfang grinded through all the sword and shield skellies, the entire unit of cold ones (who took the cold breath to the FACE ), and then flank charged the Chosen, who rolled 12 on the break (after their BSB went down) and were run down. even if the Chosen had held, I still had my Maneaters, both Leadies, one sabretusk, the Butcher (no ironguts for him, though), and the Ironblaster.

He was kinda "meh" the whole game, and I got the feeling that he really didn't feel like playing, but was just there because I called ahead for a challenge.

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Second game was against a kid who asked me if he could proxy some things, which I said was ok.

Should've said no lol...

He ran VC, but the only VC models he had were Conrad von Carstein and a Corpse Cart; he said he had a Ghoul King but it broke of its base, as well as he said he had Spirit Host which also broke of its base. And then he had a large pack of "Skink" Crypt Ghouls, and a 10pack of "Cold One" Black Knights...

I had a Sabre, Gnoblar Trappers, a pack of Ironguts, and a large pack of Maneaters, with a BSB that had the Gnoblar Thiefstone (got the Tal. of Protection with it) and a Tyrant with the Wizarding Hat. So, to do the random lore, I wrote the eight lores down in my book and numbered them, had my opponent pick any number without him seeing the lores; I then rolled 2d6, and went around the list from the starting point my opponent picked. I ended up with Heavens, and getting Harmonic Convergence and Wind Blast. Crap. lol

So, that game... yeah... I'm not going to allow proxies, nor will I willingly play younger players. He didn't have a list, and so I have no clue how many points I was actually up against, and he kept pulling things out of nowhere and bringing them up. So, quick questions for that:

1. Can the Shrieking Sword that VC have be used for Stand and Shoot when the unit is already in combat? Also, can it be used against a rear charge from a unit that is already in combat?

2. Can you cast Invocation of Nehekh on a unit that hasn't lost any wounds? He kept doing that to get the Corpse Cart's ASF ability.

3. Does the Strigoi Ghoul King have Red Fury? Also, what does its Unending Hunger ability do (if it even has one?)? He kept rerolling things and then saying that his guy was recovering wounds, and since I have no previous experience against one of these characters, I couldn't do much about it.

Eitherway, Conrad ***** my army. It wasn't very competitive to begin with, but the game was a real drag to play overall. I'm going to try to avoid such games from here on out. But, nevertheless, more experience, more fun

Okay, that's all I had to say. Keep it real, fellow tyrants!

By and large I don't care to play kids, unless I literally take them by the hand, force them to write a list, walk them through the game, etc.  I love teaching the game, but it's a bit wearing with younger gamers.

I'll try to answer your questions from memory, but I don't have the book to hand.  I'll try and correct them later if I get them wrong.

1.) No, if already in combat, a unit may not declare a charge reaction, stand and shoot being a charge reaction.  Now, VC have a few things that may shoot regardless of being in combat, but they may still not SaS since they are unable to declare a reaction.  So, he could shoot you in his shooting phase, but thats it.

2.) Yes, thats perfectly allowed.  Kind of a dumb way to get that ASF, IMO, but whatever.

3.) The GK may choose to take Red Fury out of his 100 points of vampiric gifts, sure.  Red fury says that for every wound he causes (with his initial attacks), he may make an additional attack.  Wounds from these attacks do not generate additional attacks.  He regains wounds on a 6 if he causes a wound (can't remember if its d6 roll for every wound, or just a single d6 if he causes wounds).  He can also take a Vampireic gift that gives him Hatred.  GKs are amoungst the killiest of characters out there (not quite as bad as a VC lord though).  The only saving grace is that they may not take armor.

So, here I am, another week along, about a week away from (hopefully) closing on a house, so what do I do on my day off?

GET ANOTHER GAME IN lol

So, I come across a kindly fellow who was willing to pull out his Skaven to battle my Ogres. So, we did 2,000 points, but with two large 40k games going in the store at the same time most of the terrain was taken, but we mustered up two buildings, a temple, and a forest to play with.

My list:
-SMaster with AoD, Sword of Might, and a DScroll, along with an Ironcurse Icon (for those damnable WLCs!), and a BSB with a coupla items in a unit of 10 Bulls
-A Firebelly with the ASF Sword and the Ruby Ring in a unit of 5 Ironguts with the Std. of Discipline
-4 MFC with DHide, as well as an Ironblaster, 2 Sabres, and 10 Gnob Trappers

Pretty competitive while not being too cheesy (for those rats lol). I figured the T3 blending MFC could help against any possible hordes I might face.

His List:
-40 Stormvermin with a Screaming Bell and a BSB
-30 Stormvermin with a Plague Priest
-30 Skavenslaves with an Engineer
-ABom and a Doomwheel
-two packs of 5 Gutter Runners
...and that's that. He said he had horrible luck with WLCs so he rarely ever uses them, so that made me happy (even with a 5pt loss of the Icon).

His lineup from my left to right, Slaves, Bellvermin, other Vermin, Abom, Doomwheel.

My lineup from my left to right, Tusk, Gnobs, MFC, Bulls, Guts, Blaster on a hill, Tusk. He wins the first turn.

Magic, I rolled up Flame Cage and Sword of Rhuin for my Firebelly (who already had Fireball, and by looking at his army, I felt that double Fireball wouldn't be quite as useful this time), and Bullgorger, Toothcracker, Braingobbler, and Trollguts for my SMaster (I actually rolled 3 4's and a 2, which both of us thought was amusing).

For his Grey Seer, he rolled 3 6's (for 13th) and got really excited, until I told him the ugly truth (no-no on my Ogres, lol). So, he ended up with bad breath, plague, wither, and Filth Blessing. His engineer took Skitterleap, and the other wizard also had plague and wither (or something like that? I don't really remember).

Skaven T1:
Movement- His Abom and Doomwheel both barreled forward, putting his ABom in charge range of my Firebelly's troop (he was shocked to find my guys have movement 6, I guess he wasn't ready for that lol) and the Doomwheel ready to round the corner and hit into my flank. The rest of his units shuffle forward.
Magic- He begins ringing the bell. I won't bring it up every time, but he mostly got the +1 Attack or the wound to T7 creatures, which neither of us had, so it was largely ineffectual this game. For the rest of magic, he rolled low winds, so nothing happened.
Shooting- His Doomwheel put only a single wound on my right Sabretusk. Phew!
CC-FIRST TURN LEZGO

Ogres B1:
Movement- I attempt a charge with my Ironguts, and they failed (double one's, needing only a 6, poo. lol). So, I shuffled other things forward a bit, moving my wounded Sabretusk to try and block up the Doomwheel, while still letting my IBlaster take a shot at it...
Magic- My opponent lets Braingobbler through on his ABom. Who broke and ran, fleeing through another unit which surprisingly held. My Firebelly failed his spells (as he does all game) and the rest of my magic was stopped. But, at least the ABom was basically out of the picture for a while, which is good!
Shooting- The only thing that mattered. My Ironblaster, lining up, and nailing his Doomwheel! Then rolling 5 wounds! Woohoo, no Doomwheel on the flank! That made me even more happy, since he had no other warmachines for me to worry about.
CC- Nuthin.

Skaven T2:
Movement- ABom rallied, and he shuffles things a little bit more. The Gutter Runners both come into play, so he puts one unit right next to my IBlaster, and the other behind the Gnoblars.
Magic- I scrolled Plague, but he gets Wither on my Mournfang, making them a measly T3. Nothing else exciting.
Shooting- The Gnobs lose 2, and the IBlaster makes his armor saves against the poison attacks.
CC- Next turn, I promise!

Ogres B2:
Movement- MFC charge into the Skavenslaves! I rotate my IBlaster to face the runners, as well as the Gnobs to face theirs; I swing both Sabres around each of the buildings to prepare any possible flank charges. You never know, right?
Magic- I wasn't in range of the MFC to buff them up any, but I think I tried another Braingobbler and it didn't work, so nothing to report here.
Shooting- Grapeshot into the runners proves ineffectual. Gnobs too far away to shoot back at their runners.
CC- MFC, with the rerolls, just obliterated the unit, knocking it down to 8 slaves left? Yeah, double one's didn't happen. So, they "exploded" and did nothing either. I reform to face the inevitable charge by the Bell and Co. ...

Skaven T3:
Movement- ...Bell backs up. He was scared of what the MFC could do. I didn't want to tell him that if he got the charge he'd be much better off lol... He also tries to bring his other Vermin unit over to attempt to block the MFC charge. Which gave me a wicked idea... His ABom rolls into my wounded Sabretusk.
Magic- I'll mention the bell ringing at this point, because he does the d3 Str4 hits to every enemy model in 24", which proceeds to kill my wounded Sabretusk and put a wound on the other Sabretusk, as well as doing two wounds apiece to my IGuts AND my Bulls. After that, he Withers my MFC again, but unable to get anything else off.
Shooting- 1 more Gnoblar dies away, and 2 wounds on the IBlaster. Drastic action MUST be taken!
CC- Since my Sabre died, no CC for him to play with.

Ogres B3:
Movement- Charges! I Charge my MFC AND my IGuts into his non-Bell block. My opponent was rather surprised, but I figured, hey, why not? free points lol... IGuts got the flank. I also charge my IBlaster into his Gutter Runners; let's show them how my Rhinox feels about poison... I just back up the Gnoblars, making his shooting a little weaker. Since he felt like that unit was worth shooting at, well, hey, let him enjoy it, right? OH, and I also put my Sabretusk right in the way of the Bell so that he couldn't flankcharge my MFC next turn.
Magic- I get Flames of Rhuin off on an IF, rolling a Power Drain and wiping out my FBelly's non-Ring spells. Other'n that, nothing gets through.
Shooting- None, since my IBlaster's about to whoop some Guttertail!
CC- ...Which he does! IBlaster kills three of the five and runs down the other two. My MFC and IGuts make quick work of the Stormvermin, and the MFC run them down, while the IGuts stay behind to handle a possible overrun charge from the Bell unit.

Skaven T4:
Movement- ABom rolls into MFC, and the Bell backs up (???? this guy was totally psyched out of my guys lol... he could've totally decimated the cat). Also, his other Gutter Runners decided to charge my Trappers, who stood and shot and killed two of them lol...
Magic- He withers my MFC, AGAIN lol... After that, he failed to cast the other spell he was going to do, and since he was down to one wizard, that was that.
Shooting- nothing left to shoot.
CC- My Gnoblars traded 1 for 2 of his Gutter Runners, but with their charge it neutralized the combat. Six Gnobs versus 1 Gutter Runner... ha. His ABom does Feed attack, while my guys flail back and do 2 wounds (Well, they did three, but my opponent, forgetting his Regen, starts using 40k Rules and rolls and IDK ANYWAYS we ended up letting him get one of the three wounds back, but he still lost combat).

Ogres B4:
Movement- I charge my Firebelly out of the unit into the ABom's front, lining up alongside the MFC (who were down to 3 left). I inch the IGuts forward, while moving the Tusk again to get into the way of the Bell. I also left myself a shooting gap between my IBlaster and his Bell...
Magic- I get off Toothcracker, negating the Wither on my MFC. That's about it as far as I could recall.
Shooting- IBlaster kills 3 Vermin, but the Bell only takes 2 wounds from the shot. Phooey!
CC- ABom goes down to one wound but still holds while I lose another MFC. The Lone Runner manages to kill two Gnobs and chase them, but the Gnobs are fleet of foot for panicking lol...

Skaven T5:
Movement- ...But the Runner outruns them on the second charge anyways and they're scattered. He charges the Bell into the Tusk, knowing that he can't escape its blocking.
Magic- Nothing again, so far as I can recall. He had no luck in the Magic phase. I think he tried to Bless the ABom with filth but it was stopped.
Shooting- He puts a wound on my IGuts with the poison.
CC- ABom goes down! 3 Rat Swarms appear, blocking my MFC.

--NOTE: I think at this point, we've totally lost track of our turn count, I think we end up playing 7 turns, but I can't remember--

So, all in all, what happens at this point is his Bell slams into my MFC, who manage to hold and still wipe out the Rat Swarms in two turns. meanwhile, I basically charged everything else into the Bell unit, and it breaks in two turns. My IBlaster failed to snipe his Lone Runner, but he conceded with only the Grey Seer and the Lone Runner left on the table, to face everything but my Sabres and Gnobs, and a few models lost from each other unit.

Woo! Very exciting. My opponent hadn't played his Skaven in a while (he'd apparently been playing a lot of TK lately), so he was a bit rusty, and I could tell. But, it was a fun game, nevertheless, and this time, my opponent was much more upbeat and friendly Which makes Warhammer fun

Nice battle report.  Looks like you ran into a decent army with a bad general.  Of course, sometimes you win by beating the general, not the army    Watch out for the more experienced Rat players!  They handle us roughly.

Question: He DID know that Wither is a permanent reduction, right?  Heck, if he cast it one more time, your MFCs would have auto-died from being reduced to zero Toughness.

Nice battle report.  Looks like you ran into a decent army with a bad general.  Of course, sometimes you win by beating the general, not the army    Watch out for the more experienced Rat players!  They handle us roughly.

Question: He DID know that Wither is a permanent reduction, right?  Heck, if he cast it one more time, your MFCs would have auto-died from being reduced to zero Toughness.

...what. Well, I would've tried to stop Wither a LOT more if I knew THAT lol... That's just silly. Neither of us had realized that! I thought it was just -1T for the turn! Which, honestly, is kind've a silly spell alone. Hm. I'll let him know next time I see him lol

My opponent seemed to be out of sync with his army; he had been playing a lot of Tomb Kings (his other army), and apparently he'd been playing a lot of 40k as well, so that combined with his superstition towards his bad luck with the WLCs helped me have an advantage (being that I only have Ogres as my only Warhammer army for either system lol).

lol, yeah, you really have to watch out for that cross-system or cross-army contamination.  Happens to me all the time (really bad with confusing invul and ward saves  ).  Yes, Wither is a PERMANENT reduction, which makes it one of the most terrifying of skaven spells, IMO.

Yes, Wither is a PERMANENT reduction, which makes it one of the most terrifying of skaven spells, IMO.

REALLY hate that spell.

Well, magic's always something that's very important to remember. I say this because, hey, I got another game in today I'm just a gaming phenom lately lol...

This time, against a fellow who's a big time Dark Elf player (sounds like he knows them inside-and-out). I wasn't even planning on getting a game in today, but a random schedule opening happened, so I went ahead and took him on.

So, I used the exact same list that I used against the Skaven player, you can read it in my last big post.

His army:
Krohm (??? idk the spelling, the named witch elf hero) with 20 Witch elves
20 Witch elves characterless
20 Blackguard with 2 level 2 wizards, one DE and the other Shadow
10 Cold ones
Blood Cauldron thingamajig

So, he wins first turn. For magic, I pull Spinemarrow, Bonecrusher, Toothcracker, and Trollguts for my SM, and 2 Fireballs and Flamestorm for my FBelly (RRR, woo lol). His magic, he gets Enfeebling Foe and Miasma for shadow, and banestorm(?) and some soul draining spell. I don't know DE magic well, but humor me.

His army lineup: Blackguard, Witch elves, cauldron, Krohm's posse, and Cold One Kuhniggits. My lineup: Sabre, Gnobs, MFC, IGuts, Bulls, Sabre, IBlaster.

On the table are three woods, one in between his Blackguard and my MFC (Venom Thicket), one just to the NW of my right Sabre (Blood Forest), and one which has Krohm's posse in it (Fungal Forest). There's also a giant deadwood tree near the center that we treated as impassable terrain.

DE T1:
Movement: No stupidity occurs. everything marches forward and around the deadwood.
Magic: He Enfeebles my MFC by 1, and MMM's my Bulls by 3. Yikes, crazy magic dudes!
Shooting: He had none, so I'll skip this from now on.
CC: 1st turn.

OK B1:
Movement: I shuffle everything around, lining up my IGuts to set up a countercharge if possible; I stupidly plugged up my MFC with the Gnobs, and I chose to be defensive and not charge through the Venom Thicket (we didn't know it was that, yet, but that's what we rolled via the Mysterious Terrain next turn; could've been different, but w/e). I also move my kitties to try some chargeblocking to his Blackguard and C1K's.
Magic: I roll an 11 and get double channel. Darn! lol... So, this step was fun. Fireball at lone Witch elves; he let's through, I kill 2. Weak Fireball at Witch elves (shoulda done the 2d6, but I didn't specify so we kept it level1); he let's through, I kill 3. Flamestorm at Witch elves; he let's through, guess what? direct hit, 10 more gone. Even though they're ItP, I nearly annihilated the unit in one round. I then try a Bonecrusher at Krohm's posse but he used all his dice to stopped it.
Shooting: One cannon through 2 C1K's, but the third survived via a ward save given by the Cauldron.
CC: Nothing yet!

DE T2:
Movement: Charges! He charges his Blackguard at my Cat, who runs through MFC (who hold), and then through the woods into the MFC! He loses one to Dangerrain. He charges both Witch elf packs at my Bulls, only Krohm's posse makes it. He charges the C1K at my cat, who runs, but he catches and pursues, landing about 3 inches short of my Bulls  ... He forgets to move the Cauldron.
Magic: Soul drains the Gnobs, killing 4 of them and sending them fleeing and poofing up that wizard to 4 wounds; no other magic that I recall.
CC: My MFC slaughter a bunch of the Blackguard and kill both wizards, but his Stubborn dudes hold on. (We COMPLETELY forgot about the Enfeebling, this alone probably cost him the game, or at least made this flank held in my favor). Krohm slaughters my Bull champ, while my guys munch through the rest of his unit. They lose but hold steadfast.

OK B2:
Movement: I charge my IGuts at his 5 Witch Elves, because I couldn't see Krohm's flank. I shuffle my IBlaster over to get another flank shot down his C1K's. Oh, and my Gnobs rally, which I thought was quite amusing; my cat doesn't, so I just rule him a casualty since he was close enough to the edge at that point.
Magic: I get another solid magic phase, with ANOTHER double channel! It was awesome lol... I give my Bulls +1T, and heal back a wound lost by the combat. I tried Trollguts, but he, realizing I have no other decent spells to cast, dumps all his dice into dispelling it. I then attempt to dispel Enfeebling, but fail.
Shooting: My IBlaster misfires, and rotates to face my back edge. Joy.
CC: My MFC, now properly Enfeebled, manage to do a bit to his dudes, who kill off one of my guys; the grind continues... In the meantime, Krohm and my general duke it out, and proceed to wound him once and me twice; I annihilate the rest of the unit, and he actually breaks! I run him down, and escape the flank charge of the C1K's! My Firebelly single-handedly annihilates the 5 Witch Elves, having ASF and a Firebreath the unit flips around completely, to plan a charge against C1K's. I could try to chase his Cauldron, but my Bulls are basically staring it down anyways...


DE T3:
Movement: Charge attempt on MFC via C1K's, failed. Moves his Cauldron around, begging my Bulls to charge it...
CC: He's down to three Blackguard, and I have 2 MFC. Without my Str5 beasts, he kept rolling a lot of 6's for armor saves. Lucky bum! lol... We draw at least.

OK B3:
Movement: IGuts charge his C1K's, Bulls charge his Cauldron (why not, he's got nothing left), I wheel the IBlaster around for a possible long charge against the C1K's rear.
Magic: I get +1T bubble on Bulls and IGuts, c'est tout. It's fun having a lvl4 to his nothing
Shooting: none, since everything's now in combat.
CC: MFC finally kill the last 3 Blackguard, via the Frost Breath (9 hits, 5 wounds, only 1 armor save ). IGuts manage a couple wounds on the C1K's and lose a little in return, I win combat but he holds easily. I send my general and BSB to duke it out with his Cauldron's warriors; I kill the 2 attendants, and he wounds my BSB once and my general twice; static CR sees me through, he breaks, and then he breaks. I rotate my Bulls around to flank charge the C1K's.

DE T4:
CC: C1K's and IGuts keep smashing one another. Draw ensues.

OK B4:
Movement: My Bulls couldn't fully charge because they would clip the IGuts, so instead I charge both my general and BSB into the flank (both got Ogre Charges!). My IBlaster failed his charge.
CC: 5 str 5 impact hits, and his last two Cold Ones couldn't hold up. Tabled by the Ogres!

It was a fun game, but my opponent seemed a bit shocked by some of the Ogre stuff (he didn't realize the whole full command/character issue, apparently his last OK opponent played wrong), and if we hadn't forgotten about the Enfeebling Foe, that fight could've gone a lot differently. Maybe I should've charged through the woods, idk; the rerolls could've helped a lot lol... But, overall, good game, good opponent, well done overall!

Okay, ttyl!

So, I've been posting a lot of battle reports lately, and while I'm days away from getting a house and dealing with all that moving and such, I have snagged some time with my wife to work on some actual modeling. And, by "time with my wife", I mean "while my wife does homework for her graduate program"

So, I've started on an Ironblaster conversion! I think I mentioned it before, but my goal for this one will be two ogres, a Leadbelcher and a "counts-as-a-Rhinox" Bull, both of which are carrying the Skycannon.

I put together all the pieces, but now I need to paint the pieces and THEN put them together completely. So, in the meantime, I'll give a teaser of what I've done so far...



However, I'm at a bit of a stump. I wanna try magnets, so that I can transport it more easily; BUT, I've never done that before, so I'm not sure what to use. I know some people use magnet strips that you can get at an Office Depot, but Idk if that would be strong enough to keep both ogres to the base, and/or the Skycannon to the ogres. I can choose to glue it all together, but I'm not sure if that will travel well, either.

I'm really liking what I've done with it so far, though, and I think my GS'ing of the Bull "Rhinox"'s shoulder is actually kinda decent I still need to make a GS hand for the Leadbelcher, but we'll just see how THAT goes... I haven't had much luck modelling hands (...or GS'ing anything, for that matter...).

Alright, till next time!

So, with Christmas less than a week away, my job's been a nightmare, to say the least. Retail sucks this time of year

That being said, I have had zero time for Warhammer. Also, with my D&D group completing their 4th ed. campaign, and our continuation next year into a 3.5 ed. campaign, my mind's been full of D&D lately (being the DM for the group lol), so I'm sorta in a juggling stage with Warhammer, D&D, work, and my beloved wife, who I try to give as much time as possible (although she just started a new job that's 7-2:30, so yeah, our schedules line up even less now :'''''( ). Oh, and I should be getting the keys to our today, hopefully.

Yeah. I figure, this is a gnoBLOG, but I can still treat it as a blog

OH. I did fill out a wish-gift-list-thingy at my local GWS (Seattle Battle Bunker, if you don't recall). SO, if you have any spare change and feel like helping your favorite Moostaur-avatar forum member, give 'em a call lol...

Alright, if I'm not on here before then, Merry Gutmas, and to all a good feast!

OH MY GOLLY!

I finally got another game in. It's been, oh, well, 3-4 months-ish now, hasn't it? 

Anywho, it was a quick 1,000 point Ogre Civil War!

I had:
Firebelly - Powerstone, RRR
8 Ironguts FC with Firebelly and Gleaming Pendant
3 Mannies, BOP's Poison Sniper
3 Mannies, AHW Stubborn Scout with Swift Banner

He had:
Slaughtermaster lvl4 (which, in retrospect, I don't think he could've fielded because of point restrictions, but w/e I think he was like 5 points over)
and the battalion, so
6 Ironguts FC
6 Bulls FC & SMaster
4 Leadies

The game basically went this way:
-Stubborneaters charged his IGuts and decimated them two rounds in a row via Flaming Sword of Rhuin, he fled and rallied following turn each time.
-Leadies potshotted my Gutstar and then my Snipereaters, who returned fire, and eventually front charged em with Stubborneaters rear charging them.
-His Bulls failed charges on my Gutstar, which eventually made the charge and left him with only his SMaster, who eventually fled off the board.

He went first, but by the bottom of 3 it was done.

NOTES:
-MANEATERS > OGRE CORE
-LEADIES/NOT SO GOOD VIA OGRES
-SMASTER - PROBABLY COULDN'T FIELD IT ANYWAYS BUT I DIDN'T HOLD IT AGAINST HIM.

Also, my brother with his Daemons came with me to the hobby shop and did some painting. Yay

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On another note, I have a random plan to quick paint my Gnobs, because I don't care about them that much lol

SO: Deepworld Forest the skin and clothing (after primer)
Wash with Agrax Earthshade (? forget the spelling)
Drybrush Nurgling Green over skin, drybrush Mournfang Brown over clothing
Paint metal bits for flair. Maybe another wash, we'll see

I think that might be a good quick way to paint them, with having the same basecoat over the entire nonmetallic parts of the model.

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Okay, thanks for watching/reading, I'll send more eventually.

Wow congratz that is one immense collection!  Looking forward to seeing that lot take shape. 

Wow! You are unbelievably lucky there dude. I would be amazed just to get my hands on one of them armies...let alone three!

I guess though that the real work begins now; getting up to speed with rules and putting your own stamp on them.

G_H

I'm just so exited to see the Brets take shape. Nothing is more awesome than a fully painted, vibrant and diverse army of them marching to war. Besides ogres of course

Woo, so I've hit 31 pet gnoblars! I need to archive my latest 10-pack and move onto the next one... I'm on my way to a horde!

Toothy, for my Butcher I do believe!
Workie, from an unknown source
Sir Reginald, from another unknown source!
Busty, for a funny comment if I recall correctly!
Poka-Face, for helping with a mathematical scenario!
Threedy, for some reason or another!
Artsy, for contributing to help someone's artwork!
Fourest, for another reason or another!
Tie-Ran, for getting the Tyrant achievement!
Hordie, for getting the Gnoblar Horde achievement!

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And now, to start off the fourth 10pack, I have... Gibblet. Because I don't know where this one came from either lol

So, I got some more work done on my Paint'n'Trade model, as I'll link here:
http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=28335.msg374613#msg374613

I'm very excited with how he turned out! Granted, I kinda need to finish and paint him soon, as I won't have much time left to get him completed due to my work schedule 

Also, with the leftover green stuff that I made, I decided to make this:



A torch! But, what could it be used for?? I have my next Maneater idea for it, hopefully I'll put that into work soon enough

Good idea with the torch! Never thought of that, will be interesting to see how you apply it

Ooh, a box of goodies! Groovy

Can't wait to see those painted up!

- Loran

Hello Hello!

I've been busy at my job, but I've also been busy getting some painting done! So, to start off...



My Mournfang Cavalry! I finally got all four of the beasts done! I finished the riders like almost two years ago, but now I'm glad that the four models are complete.




Note that I plan to swap the standard bearer and the "iron champ" so that the one wielding the Dragonhide banner has the ice beast.

Also, I managed to finish...

My Leadbelchers! I only have 8, which is fine enough for me as I don't plan on making any more purchases soon... or ever...


And a shout-out to my wife, who painted both of these leadies. I'm actually quite happy with how she painted them, and I'm glad that she was willing to spend some time with me in this hobby. Too bad I can't convince her to start!

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With that being said, my Paint'n'Trade model is almost complete. I have just received the last components to get the model done, so now I just need to slam through it and get it completed... if I have a day off before the 20th, hopefully lol... It'll be fun!

The blue ogre is actually quite striking! I would love to see a whole unit of these guys; pity you can't convince her to do some more! I have just convinced my daughter to build her first Ogre...just waiting for her to put some paint on him and I will post a picture of him up somewhere. It was actually a really nice afternoon of me and my daughter doing something together, which makes a nice change from her being buried in internet gossip and Facebook.

Mournfang look excellent. Looking forward to seeing your finished PnT model.

G_H

That bright blue leadie just makes me think of the Genie from Disney's Aladdin. 

That bright blue leadie just makes me think of the Genie from Disney's Aladdin. 

Reminds me of your ogres a bit actually :p that ice blue! BAM!

Now that you say genie though...yeah very resembling

That bright blue leadie just makes me think of the Genie from Disney's Aladdin. 

...

...You've just given me another Maneater idea. ("You ain't never had a Maneater like me!" haha)

I dunno if I'll have the technical know-how or skillz to get it done, but I may invest one of my ME's towards a Disney Genie model. Since that blue looks good on him anyways

That bright blue leadie just makes me think of the Genie from Disney's Aladdin. 

Reminds me of your ogres a bit actually :p that ice blue! BAM!

Now that you say genie though...yeah very resembling

And that was exactly what came up in my mind seeing those dudes, they look stunning though, so does the mournfang. Would be a great idea for the dragonhide banner, i'd switch them!

I know I have seen some ogre conversions for genies in the past but can I remember where .......

well Google is your friend luckily !

Here's some pics I found just one the quick.

http://warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php?topic=14235.0

http://warhammer.org.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=52886

Really simple yet very effective and would make fantastic maneaters!  Or even a firebelly perhaps.  Plenty of possibilities.

Regards Zolas. 

That guy does amazing work. That maneater army, woo

Alrighty guys, the moment you've been waiting for...

I've been working on my Paint 'n Trade model for the past month (as have everybody else in the event lol), and I managed to get mine from primed to painted in under 90 minutes.

Here we go! I'll even do a painting tutorial with it. For those of you interested.


1. Primed. Chaos Black Spray Paint.


2. Skin: Basecoat Zandri Dust, washed with Agrax Earthshade.


3. Cloak: Top is Basecoat Mournfang Brown w/Agrax Earthshade heavy wash, Bottom is Zandri Dust. Pants: Rhinox Hide with Agrax Earthshade wash.


4. Skin: Karak Stone "Drybrush-Layer" (used layering techniques with drybrush, I liked the effect). Left Shoulder (homemade): Warplock Bronze. Right Shoulder: Leadbelcher, with the top segment drybrushed Necron Compound (although I end up seeing no difference, maybe I'm using it wrong?). Beard: Drybrushed Rhinox Hide.


5. Backplate: Balthasar Gold with Brass Scorpion 'teeth', Bottom Half Ironbreaker. Pants Stitches: Karak Stone (first time I've ever picked out this detail, it's a shame I haven't done it sooner!)


6. Gutplate: Ironbreaker with Brass Scorpion 'teeth'. Boots: Mournfang Brown. Mouth: Khorne Red and Evil Suns Scarlet. Eyes: Evil Suns Scarlet. Beard: Light drybrush of Mournfang Brown and Khorne Red (VERY light on the Khorne Red!).


7. Head Tattoo: Khorne Red, for the Chaos Eye. I felt the head seemed a little empty without some sort of tattooing


8. Weapons: Handles are Mournfang Brown, Blades are Leadbelcher, Stones on Left Axe are Dawnstone. Base: Drybrushed Rhinox Hide, stone is Dawnstone. Metal Bootplates: Leadbelcher.


9. GORE: Khorne Red base drybrushed, followed by Evil Suns Scarlet drybrushed (letting some KR still seen), and then a healthy dose of Blood for the Blood God. Key Points are both weapons and the mouth.


10. Trail of Blood: Blood for the Blood God only. I love this paint!


11. Finishing Touch: Mourn Mountain Snow. I tried to do a "windswept" look with the snow on the cloak, but in retrospect, I feel like it didn't quite work out; Lord Rex, if you don't like it, just paint over it with Mournfang Brown and then rewash with Agrax Earthshade.

Overall, besides the bit of snow on the cloak, I'm extremely happy with how this model turned out. I happily shipped it off today, in hopes that nothing breaks on its way over!

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In other news, I don't think I'll get my bonus pledge for the May monthly challenge done, but I got my primary pledge completed! And at that point, I think I've finished 3 of them now! But, I'll have to go back and double check to make sure

That guy looks like he's ready to take some heads!

Hey everybody! I haven't posted for over a month, pretty much because of a mix of work and personal laziness

I have, however, completed my personal June Painting Challenge, and would like to share the pictures with all of you! My challenge this month was to paint my three metal characters that I've put off forever: my kit-bashed Slaughtermaster, my Tyrant, and my giant converted BSB of DOOM. Yes, DOOOOOOOM. I didn't, however, do any WiP photos, because I pretty much sat down and did each of them, one day at a time, in one sitting each. Roughly 2-3 hours for the SMaster and Tyrant, and about 5 hours for the BSB (keeping note, however, that I multi-tasked while working on them, including painting some other Ogres, as well as assembling a new Great Cannon for my Empire army, as well as watching Star Wars... I've been busy these past couple weeks lol).


First, the Slaughtermaster:

I bought him a few years back during a GW-store's birthday event: the schpiel was that if you bought a model that day, you had access to a giant bits-box, where the shop manager basically opened up a bunch (and I mean, a BUNCH) of battalions and battleforces and dumped them all in together. So, he's got a bunch of extra bits, most of which I can only guess where I got them from


Poor, sad Gnoblar


This was with finishing touches that you don't see in the first pic. Note the eyes and nipples. He's ready for the slaughter 

Alrighty, next up: My TYRANT!!!!

I was really intimidated to paint him at first, but once I got started, I realized that he's really easy to paint! Just a Necron Compound drybrush on all the chainmail and he's halfway done The chain wrapped around the tusks of his gutplate are meant to accompany my two giants that I bought for the army. I made the three models into a mini-diorama, using the chain from the slavegiants each going along their bases, and then eventually meeting up at the edge of the Tyrant's base, making it look as though the Tyrant is dragging them along by his gut (as is appropriate, I'd say!). Now, this was accomplished for the old book, when Giants were actually Slavegiants, but still, I think it looks awesome


NEED MORE NOM-NOM

And, finally, my BSB. Which was, by and far, my biggest challenge.

Yes, there he is, in all his glory. That banner was made using the ram from the Battering Ram metal kit (that, I don't think is available anymore on the website? Can't find Anything there these days...) and two Bull Standards. It stands in just over the height of the Thundertusk's backmount, but the banner on the TTusk backmount (the big wooden thing with the metal maw on it) is like a quarter-inch taller than it. By scale comparisons, this banner would be about 20ft. tall in the real world 


My wife thought he looked like a creepy killer Santa Claus lol... He's actually supposed to be the uncle of the current Tyrant, whose stood on the backlines and kept himself alive by not challenging any Tyrants, instead being happy holding the gigantic tribal totem in place. By my lore, at least


And, my freehand banner. I had a difficult time figuring out what I wanted to do, but then, I decided on this pattern. I'm super stoked about how I was able to get the blocked-off areas to look nearly perfect (I know there's a bit of a mess-up, but I'm okay with that). The four emblems, starting from the bottom left and going up and around to the bottom right:
BL - Fist of the Ogres.
TL - The Mountains being "blessed" by the Great Maw (which, due to my poor freehand, looks like Pac Man )
TR - The Mountains of Mourn, seen as the greatest of all mountain ranges
BR - the Emblem of the Everbruise tribe: The eternity symbol within the Maw. It's a little small, but I'm still happy with it


So, there you have it. The Three Titans of Terror!

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In the meantime, I do believe I'll start focusing on getting my Empire stuff repaired and re-painted. But, we shall see... We, Shall, See...

These guys are all looking great, but for me the BSB takes the prize! He looks awesome; I love the standard and the model himself, nice work Saz.

On the Empire front, I was half hoping you would have got bored with them and moved on to the O&G stuff you got. Maybe it's the case that you just don't really feel the love for that O&G stuff and want to sell it on to some other discerning gamer 

Great work mate, keep the pictures and updates coming.

G_H

On the Empire front, I was half hoping you would have got bored with them and moved on to the O&G stuff you got. Maybe it's the case that you just don't really feel the love for that O&G stuff and want to sell it on to some other discerning gamer 

Thank you very much for your kind comments! I'm glad that I had waited to paint them up to this point, because I feel that if I had tried a couple years ago they would not nearly look as good. Everything works out in the end, right?

As for Empire and O&G, there's a few reasons why I've decided to lean more heavily towards Empire. Reasons:

(Pro-Empire)
1. Luthor Huss, my favorite special character in the game. Mostly for fluff reasons, although I can't wait to try him out sometime!
2. Versatility. Whereas O&G also have some versatility, I feel that, in the long run, I could potentially create and compose more lists for my playstyle using Empire sources than with O&G stuff.
3. Completion. There's simply more Empire stuff that I have, and more of it that isn't broken/disassembled.

(Not-so-pro-OnG)
1. Incompletion. There's barely anything there for O&G, and I feel like I'd have to dump serious money into them just to make them playable. Right now, they can be "fielded" technically, but they lack many key ingredients to a tasty O&G Army List entrée.
2. Random factor. I know that's their whole point, but I don't like the idea of things backfiring on me Maybe I'm just WAAAAAAY to competitive, but I feel like I'd probably end up more annoyed at my dice/myself at the end of each game rather than being able to laugh it off to silly Orc shenanigans
3. Trade Value. Although I don't have much of anything for a complete army, I'd like to think that what I have is actually a really good "army booster", that could help another O&G player bolster their forces a bit.

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So, G_H, coming to point 3 of O&G, maybe you know of some other discerning gamer who might be interested in a sale/trade? If you do, I'll gladly PM them if they're interested in a full detailed roster of what O&G stuff I have and in what condition it is (which, mind you, isn't very pretty, even by Goblin standards ).

So, no major updates for a couple months. Had a lot of really bad RL issues happen. But, that's how it goes.

Today was the first day in the past couple months that I got remotivated into doing anything with my physical Warhammer stuff. (lately I've just been watching Youtube bat-rep's and posting on these forums lol). So, I took care of a very important personal project that I"ve been putting off: Reworking my army case!

When I first bought the big Army Case (the $90 one), I had pretty much loaded up all my stuff into it, including my two giants and metal Scraplauncher. Which caused me to have to rip apart the foam sheets a bit to make room. Well, I grew the army, and decided to make my own "big-model" case, which left gaping, wasted holes in my Army Case.

Well, several months ago (ha...), I bought two sets of the Army Foam Sheets from the GW website, and I had just put it off until now. Which, is a shame, because now that I've done it... I've gained back 1 1/2 full sheets of open space, plus a couple small gaps where I could put future Ogre additions... I now think I have room to assemble my 100-ish Gnoblars that have been lurking on their sprues and in a gnoblar-specific bits bag for the past few months lol... My goal to have my 15 10-man trapper units for my dream 3k all-shooty list is closer to being attained!

...which, yes, btw, I do plan on running 750 points in just gnoblars. For 15 drops. Which basically dictates that I get to win deployment. Every. Game. How about THAT for your MSU lists?

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Moving along, I plan to go into a GW tomorrow to chew the fat and get re-invigorated, as it's MY BIRTHDAY TOMORROW!!!! You can send me your gifts via PM, I know you have one prepared for me, just lemme know and I'll give you my address lol...

But yeah, it's nice to get a project done. I'm slowing shifting my mindset into my Empire army, to bolster it and make it semi-competitive from the mish-mash that it was to begin with. I have already acquired a Cannon and one box of State Troops (that'll become Halberdiers, for sure), and I have plans for more Halberdiers, Greatswords, and a Pope-mobile I just love the idea of the War Altar, hopefully I can make it work lol

Alrighty then, got a game in today for my birthday! It was 1500 vs High Elves. I'll type it up in the bat-rep forums, and not necessarily right now (nor today, maybe), but to give a sneak preview, my opponent generously gave me a win for my birthday

In the meantime, I cheekily got myself a box of Greatswords to accompany the box of State Troops that I got last week, to help bolster my Imperial forces I'm now looking at 20 GS's and about 25-30 Halberdiers (with another 10 being proxied by Free Company, because why would anyone want free company lol). I'm getting closer to what I'd like to field for my Empire army atm, although I'd still like to get more Greatswords, a Popemobile, and maybe more knights... Maybe...

So, yeah, Ogres are rolling right along, and tomorrow I think I'll take some time to give some TLC to both armies. Maybe. It's my vacation, after all, I can do w/e I want

This all sounds great Saz, but if you can do what ever you want, could I suggest a Gnoblar Hero model? I mean, how long can it take to paint 1 Gnoblar.... 

G_H

This all sounds great Saz, but if you can do what ever you want, could I suggest a Gnoblar Hero model? I mean, how long can it take to paint 1 Gnoblar.... 

G_H

Ha, yeah, about that G_H... I'll get to it I have the spare Gnoblar bodies to erect a glorious Gnoblar hero

And, if my plans go through correctly, it'll be "barrels" of fun.

Okay, here's the bat-rep from yesterday's game!

http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=29025.msg380936#msg380936

I'm going to go and work on some of my Empire stuff, as well as some Gnoblar assembling (and maybe even some Gnoblar Hero assembling ).

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EDIT:

So, I managed to assemble 10 Halberdiers, 10 Greatswords, and start with the Gnoblar Hero. I had to postpone the Hero after about halfway, though, because I apparently have run out of greenstuff  quite sad, I know. But, I like what I've done with him so far, and hopefully I'll be able to pull it off and make it look nice and fancy.

In the meantime, I'ma throw together a 1500pt. Empire list that I may get to play with tomorrow. EXCITING!

So, got another game in today against another batch of High Elves, but this time it was a different opponent and a different list altogether! I'll get a batrep typed up soon about it, probably tomorrow, and this time I won't put any spoilers in this post!

In other news... I've been working feverishly on my new War Altar of Sigmar, and although the progress has been somewhat slow, I'm still happy with how it's turning out.

I also have the basics done for my Gnoblar Hero, but I just have to paint him, and honestly... I'm not superbly feeling it, just because I've been focusing on the Popemobile, but still... I'll try to get around to it tonight or tomorrow, just to post and have it completed

Otherwise, RL has been really difficult, as we've all experienced before, so it's hard to get out. But, it was nice to get a game in today and to be a nerd for a little while