Recap and New Years Beatings!

Well haven't updated in a while so let me recap a few things:

1. Played a whole 2 games of WHFB over the course of last year. The first game was a team game and was more learning. Dave (Beastmen) & Josh (Dwarves) against Ryan (Ogres) and myself (WOC). We played 1500k per army and played thru 4 turns in under 4 hours. I have to say I am still really new to the 8th ed rules (I quit playing during 2nd/3rd/4th). They are quite easy to learn and having a few people who know what they are doing makes the games go alot faster.

(As a side note, Its harder to play 40k with anyone these days because most people are not willing to be patient and help you with rules. Instead the couple of times I have played out side my circle of friends its been more of a "hey its that guy that doesn't know the rules and guess I will just over kill him".)

The second game was just a pickup between Dave and I to test and play a little more. Dave took some units he hadn't played with before and I tweaked the army list ryan made for me. I did find out that 10 knights of chaos is a little over kill. Even though they tear thru stuff it almost felt dirty and borderline offensive to take that many, and with the mark of khorne no less!

2. I kinda caught the bug and found myself on Forgeworld's website and accidently ordered some stuff. (some 40k contemptor arms, a 10 man squad of chaos dwarves with fireglaives and command. I also found out that even though an ebay auction may say forgeworld...when said order shows up from Hong Kong its just recasts. (the 3 plague ogres I got for 39.99 was still a good deal).

3. Put together almost everything I have. I still have 10 war hounds on sprue and a manticore to put together. I really have no use for 20 war hounds with my current build but they make great points fillers and easy chaff to units. The manticore I just cant use at this time. I don't know if its the model or what but I can't get excited about putting it together and using it. The Lord and Sorcerror model that come with it are great! Its just the manticore looks so sub par. I did take the steps to magnitize the Lords weapons so I could swap them out for each style. I learned the hard way somepeople perfer the WYSIYG (what you see is what you get) style and should make it easier for tourniments coming up.

4. Ordered some movement trays from Shogun! I love these things and have to say for the few dollars they cost they have been great. I took the cheap way and bought circle magnets from walmart (they were 18 of them for 1.98 and had sticky backs). The magnets fit underneath the bases and do raise the figs up a millimeter or so but work and are alot let expensive that doing some of the other options I had.

So thats kinda a review up to the new year.

Now for 2012 lets reflect on what I should be doing:

1. Playing more games for both 40k and WHFB. I hope to get in at least 2 games a month I would prefer to have 2 of each but will be happy to just play alittle bit more.

2. Paint....But Dan your models looks so good in the 14 shades of grey you have used. So lets just say with the baby on the way and me actually being more strapped to the house I need to get stuff painted and looking decent. Its pretty sad to go play with your friends and all there stuff looks good and yours has a plastic look and generious wash of super glue! (I did find a great motivater was listening to some pod casts like joes (waaagh cast) and David and Chris (Garagehammer)).

3. Attend 2 tournaments 40k or WHFB. I guess the only way to actually start getting motivated to paint is to go to a tournment and not score any points for painted models. Nothing says last place like winning 1 game and being at a negative score because your guy dudes look the same off the sprue as they did on.

4. Kick Joe in the butt to put together a blood in the badlands campaing. Yes Joe if you read this I will be kicking you soon!

5. Stop buying crap I don't need! I kinda bought some Chaos dwarves...I want a 2000 point chaos dwarf army but thus I would spend a ton of money for this plus the investment of a 100.00 book for an army list is alittle above my means right now.

6. Be nicer...We will just leave that one alone.

Now I will leave you with a few photos of forgeworld/knock off forgeworld goodness!

Happy batteling!

I caved to peer pressure and square basers!

Well I finally caved and am going to start playing WHFB now. I would like to thank Ryan and Dave for poking me untill I bled!

This will open up a few more doors to be able to get back to hanging out with some people I knew a long time ago and since lost touch with. The funny thing is that when I was in the heat of this in the 90's everyone played everything (40k, Fantasy, Blood Bowl, Necromunda, etc....). Now it seems that there are quite a few people who only play one or the other. I found this kinda upsetting as I remember growing up and working at the game store and it wasn't uncommon for one peron to come in to play fantasy and then after that was done to break out our 40k and play, which made for a long, but fun day.

So you may be asking what will Dan be playing?

Well I am going to try and make a competitived Chaos Undivided Warrior Army. (thanks to Dave who made a mistake and won an ebay auction!) I haven't picked the book up and started looking at the old 90's army books I had for them. Back in the day I had a 1500 point Chaos army and it was pretty crappy, but nowadays there are so many diffrent options that weren't in the 2nd ed book. Everyone I have spoken with says they are a decent starter army and honestly thats kinda where I am at with both 40k and fantasy (just a casual gamer and not competitive.)

Thats all I got for now, stay tuned for some ramblings on how I hate putting together all the new stuff, or how I glued my hand to my face, and how many cuts I will have!


Let me leave you with this picture it will be ordered soon!








Isn't it cute! I will name him fuzzy tusk!

Contemptor dread Go!

Well I got my Contemptor dread in from Forge World last weekend. I have to say it was the easiest one to put together so far. I have a ton of Forgeworld iron armour and seems to me that the molding process left alot to be trimmed on those models. This wasn't the case with the Contemptor. Each part was clean and had very little mold lines to file down (side note: I found if the resin is a little wet that the files seem to work easier with the resin).

From clean to build was alittle under 3 hours, and I have to say this thing was meant to be articulated. This is the first Forgeworld model that I have seen that is ball and socket and screams to be magnitized so it could be posed. I opted to not do this one and went with a fixed body and legs. I magnitized the sockets on the arms, so they could pivit and move, and the joints for the weapon attachments as well as the head (this will be able to be swapped out to the targerter head when I get the cyclone missle launcher).

I opted to purchase the lascannon and the conversion beamer as the first set and will be adding all the arms down the road. I would love to get a second one and actually played with it Wednesday against Dave's Orks. For the point cost it did quite well and as I learn the rules more I may actually be able to do a little more with it.

All in all, I am extremely happy with this purchase. I hope at some point to be able to actually paint all my stuff and get it more table ready. By point count I can rough in around 4000 points with alot of wiggle room for options, saying this made me just realize that I have so much to paint now!

Untill next time,
Dan

Geekness again!

Hoping to get a game in tonight! Have a pretty good idea for a decent list and going to run with it at 1750 points just to see how it plays out. Trying to go for an all scout army with alittle twist and using Shrike with a unit of lighting claw (or S/S T/H I haven't decided yet) termies in a land raider crusader (according to what I keep reading Shrike can join the unit before putting anything on the table so he can join my 5 man squad of termies in the land raider and they all gain the inflitrate special rule, thanks for the help Jacob!) This just means that I won't deploy anything on the table and be able to better set myself up for a win (1-32 as of last week).






This may end up being my next purchase if I can't get anywhere with regular stuff might as well throw money at something with some firepower!

untill next time....

Contemptor Dread on its way from far far away land!

First and foremost most people seem to hate this model for some reason. I freakin love it, I truly think It is the single best model that Forge World has produced to date. Maybe its the old time Rouge Trader days that are still lingering around in my head, but I truly think Forgeworld and Games Workshop are trying there best to expand and capture the older gamers who started playing this game back in the late 80's and early 90's, as well as get people to play Pre-Heresy games.

This model stands slightly taller than the current tin can dreadnaughts and has a variety of weapon load outs. I opted to purchase a conversion beamer and lascannon for the first go. Why conversion beamer you may ask? Well I honestly have not seen one used or on a table in many years, GW hasn't really had a model since the old Rouge Trader Squats with conversion beamer, and heck its a huge stand back and fire weapon. So why not?

Hopefully once it arrives I will be able to magnitize it so I can purchase the other arms and be able to kit it out as I see fit. I have be watching alot of youtube videos on this and seem to be very easy to do. I have been really into converting my guys and adding magnets so I am not stuck with multiple models with diffrent loadouts and seems to give me more bang for your buck. Especially with the price of the figures this is the best option for anyone playing now a days.

This is the first time I have seen an actual model that is made to be posed coming out of forge world. Most of the FW models are pretty much cut and dry and can't do much on the end of posing or resulpting pieces. The joints are ball and socket and scream to have magnets shoved into them so when the model gets moved on the table you can manpulate the arms and legs. I have seen a fully articulated dreadnaught on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfJiuWnl0T8). This seems like a lot more work than I really want to put into it, but its a great conversion. I think I am going to just stick to doing the arms sockets so the arms can move back and forth and the weapons so they can be easily swapped for diffrent versions. To me having a model fully move is just going to cause issues on the table and am opting to just come up with a cool base idea. I have some left over terrain pieces from 3rd ed boxset lying around and think I may be in the right direction.

Once I get the model in I will post some pics of the progess. I truly think this is going to be an awesome and time consuming build so be prepared for some larger updates coming up.

First Post!

Just wanted to jump on the band wagon I don't want to be the last kid on the block without a blog.