Filthy, Dirty Hordes

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2016-05-25T07:32:00.001-04:00

Thinking about Fat Bottomed Girls

2013-11-10T23:01:00.002-05:00

So I got my ass handed to me last time I got out to play.

Even with the losses I am still enjoying Borka, but I am *very* tempted to change up and try Calandra Truthsayer. I really want a chance to fuck with my opponent's dice and alter my own. I am also excited to try to get my burrowers on the table. Here's the list I want to run:

Points: 50/50
Calandra Truthsayer, Oracle of the Glimmerwood (*5pts)
* Troll Impaler (5pts)
* Dire Troll Bomber (10pts)
* Trollkin Runebearer (2pts)
Krielstone Bearer and 3 Stone Scribes (3pts)
* Krielstone Stone Scribe Elder (1pts)
Pyg Burrowers (Leader and 9 Grunts) (6pts)
Trollkin Champions (Leader and 4 Grunts) (10pts)
* Skaldi Bonehammer (3pts)
Trollkin Fennblades (Leader and 5 Grunts) (5pts)
* Trollkin Fennblade Officer & Drummer (2pts)
Fell Caller Hero (3pts)
Stone Scribe Chronicler (2pts)
Trollkin Champion Hero (3pts)

In other news, I gave painting my test-Impaler another shot Friday night. When the wife saw it she said it was in "rough shape, but don't strip it again, just re-base coat it". I base coated it tonight and shaded the muscles. Not in the mood to highlight tonight, but I think I should be able to get it done tomorrow night.

Friday night games

2013-11-05T23:37:00.002-05:00

Game 1 vs Cryx
Coven of Gharlgast
Nightmare
Deathjack
Pistol wraith
Harrower?
2 other light jacks

Loss, caster kill

I left Borka open, got arc'd onto and charged by Nightmare, end of game.

Game 2 vs Cygnar
eStryker

'Ol Rowdy

Thorn

Black 13th

Max Gun Mages

didn't ask for the rest

Loss, caster kill.

I thought I could engage Stryker at the end and took the free shot as I ran past Ol Rowdy, as luck would have it Rowdy got a crit knockdown, end of game, eStryker overcharged and ended it quickly.

2 more losses but I had a god time, i really enjoyed my second game against Jeremy (the local PG), and look forward to more games with him.

OMG You Killed Kenny! You Bastard!

2013-11-05T21:51:00.003-05:00

So apparently I've been playing Borka and Kenny wrong.

According to this video from Adepticon, Kenny can activate separately from Borka. I thought he was an attachment to Borka (making them a unit) and so had to activate at the same time. Can anyone weigh in on this?

2 Weeks of Congress

2013-10-27T09:26:00.004-04:00

Ok, so, what I've been up to:

Priming with gesso
A week ago (or so) I primed a few of my trolls in white and started painting one of my impalers. I had watched a video that made glazing seem like the easy way to go in my paint scheme. I was wrong. I started with a base coat too dark and tried to highlight from there as if I was using a layering technique. Epic fail.

So I soaked the impaler in Simple Green. (that stuff is amazing!)

This time I thought I might try gesso to prime. Another fail. I had watched a video on priming with gesso where the guy mixed his gesso with water and matte medium, he was very careful about measuring, I, was not. One chunky primed impaler later and he's back in the simple green bath. Lat night I gave him a fresh prime of straight gesso, liking at him this morning I think I'm gonna stick with spray primer, i have spots that are well primed then others where I can see bare metal through the gesso. I may try some paint on primer in the future.

In the process of reading the PP painting forums I read a comment by Meg Sales(?) staying that the PP studio uses a technique called 2 brush blending to paint their models. Of course I was interested, I checked youtube for tutorials on the process and came across a guy named Brant Benoit. He made it seem simple enough, heck I can do that! Then offer on handcannon online I was reading some articles by a guy named "ghool", I dropped him an email asking a question then realized they were one in the same.

Brant has given.me some sound advice and I really appreciate his taking the time to respond to my dumb-ass questions. Here's a link to Brant's youtube channel and his articles over on Hand Cannon Online.

In terms of painting and modeling: 2 Steps forward...3 steps back...

Non-Gaming

As far as gaming, I haven't been able to get in any games this past week and not today due to a busy life, running a half marathon Saturday morning and all. Hopefully next Friday I'll get out of the house for a game or two. I was able to buy a set of casino dice, they showed up the other day and are damned sexy.

Also, the Red Sox are in the world series, go Sox!

Simple Green, Simply Awesome

2013-10-13T11:30:00.001-04:00

I've been contemplating changing my priming to white, particular for my warlocks. I went out and picked up a bottle of simple green and put my primed and basecoated models in it and let them soak overnight.
I tentatively pulled them out of the simple green this morning and the paint was just falling off them.
I got the following models stopped and ready for a new white primer.

Borka &Kenny
Axer
Impalers x2
Madrak

If they dry and the weather is right I should be able to get them primed today!

In other news

2013-10-13T01:37:00.001-04:00

I worked on my modeling again this morning. I greenstuffed some gaps in Horthol, Calandra, my Fennblade officer & drummer, Jarl.

I've come to the conclusion that I hate greenstuff and that I'm terrible with it for filling gaps. Ask me to model pustules and boils onto a Nurgle rhino for 40K and I'm all about it, ask me to create weld-lines on a looted Lemann Russ for 40K (again) and I've got you covered. Ask me to cover the gap on a yak's ass on a Long Rider and I'm fucked.

10/11 Game vs Cygnar

2013-10-13T01:30:00.000-04:00

Ok, playing against pHaley is like playing against an old Stasis deck in MtG. Wow.

Got a game in with Adam on Friday at PPF. I did *much* better than I had previously. I remembered not to Fury-screw Borka. I remembered to cast defensive spells. I remembered my vengeance moves. I woulda rocked face if it wasn't for such a shit match-up for me.

Adam wasn't prepared for a 50pt list so I went down to a 35pt list:
Points: 34/35
Borka Kegslayer (*5pts)
* Pyre Troll (5pts)
* Earthborn Dire Troll (10pts)
Krielstone Bearer and 3 Stone Scribes (3pts)
* Krielstone Stone Scribe Elder (1pts)
Trollkin Champions (Leader and 4 Grunts) (10pts)
Trollkin Fennblades (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Trollkin Fennblade Officer & Drummer (2pts)

Adam's list:
Points: 35/35
Captain Victoria Haley (*5pts)
* Stormwall (19pts)
* Squire (2pts)
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team (4pts)
Cylena Raefyll & Nyss Hunters (Cylena and 9 Grunts) (10pts)
* Captain Jonas Murdoch (2pts)
Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios (3pts)

He won deployment and first turn. He moved up a bit and threw out some covering fire. Nobody checked but I think we made a mistake and made the covering fire a 4" template instead of the 3" template. Oh well, next time.
My turn, I screwed up, I ran my fenns up and didn't have range with Borka to cast Iron Flesh, also didn't leave room between my champs to cast between them. Next time, I'll keep the champs in a 2 and 3 man groups to allow for the B2B ARM bonus and still allow me to hit units beyond them with spells.
Afraid of taking POW12 covering fire I stopped my movements at the covering fire templates.
At this point I realized that I had lost the game, if I was too afraid to charge through the templates and engage the damn jack I would never expect to take on Haley and finish her off.
Mercifully the guy who owned the portable board needed to leave, I conceded the game to Adam and explained that I knew he had me dead-to-rights. He apologized for playing Haley against me to which I told him that it wasn't necessary, I saw that I had played a better game than my last and had learned more.

Then we sat down and played a game of High Command Cryx (Me) vs his Menoth (he got me again).
All-in-all it was a good night.

I think I get the Dygmies

2013-10-10T23:18:00.000-04:00

I just read Sevwall's treaty on Pyg Burrowers. Here if you've never read it.

I'm very, very tempted to buy a set of Dygmies for my army this week...

Stuff I'm working on:
I finished modeling the entire unit for Hunter's Grim last night (Muggs and Krump). I've got Skaldi, Troll Moses (The Runebearer) and Janissa Stonetide left to put together. Update: 10/10, done assembling Skaldi, Trollses, and Janissa. I am going to base them then get them primed.

I am planning on priming my locks in white so they pop a bit more on the battlefield and my warbeasts in gray then my units and solos in black. Anyone else try anything similar?

Playing:
The wife just announced that she will be out of the house tomorrow night which means that I will be able to get over to PPF and get at least one game in.
I'm going to continue my Borka list, I really think it has potential, I just need to stick to it and remember how this game s supposed to work.

It's nice being back to wargaming.

Welcome back mister kott-air!

2013-10-06T09:49:00.000-04:00

Well, where to begin, again?
Same guy, same trolls. I had decided to take a step away from wargaming to pursue interests in costuming and as both are not cheap hobbies, I decided costuming would take precedent. The past few months have seen my interest in the costuming wane and a renewed interest in minis gaining again.

I went out to my FLGS, picked up the MKII rulebook and my faction deck. I'm beginning to get back into Filthy, Dirty Hordes again :) My FLGS (Past, Present, Future comics, in Davie, FL, you guys rock) was very welcoming to a new/returning player, I've had multiple, multiple offers in the past months to come in and get a refresher game, fill in my knowledge gaps for MKII and have a good time.

Finally this past Friday, I packe dup my trolls and went on down and got in a game. What a great time. Thanks Charles!

I know I made a bunch of HUGE noob mistakes, and I'll document them here and learn from them (roll the tape!)

Charles and I played a 50 point match, my Trolls against his Menoth (I may be inaccurate on his menoth, bear with me while I get back to this whole thing)

My force:
Points: 49/50
Borka Kegslayer (*5pts)
* Pyre Troll (5pts)
* Earthborn Dire Troll (10pts)
Krielstone Bearer and 3 Stone Scribes (3pts)
* Krielstone Stone Scribe Elder (1pts)
Trollkin Champions (Leader and 4 Grunts) (10pts)
Trollkin Fennblades (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Trollkin Fennblade Officer & Drummer (2pts)
Trollkin Long Riders (Leader and 2 Grunts) (7pts)
Fell Caller Hero (3pts)
Horthol, Long Rider Hero (5pts)

Charles played something like this:
Points: 48/50
Harbinger of Menoth (*5pts)
* Crusader (6pts)
* Hierophant (2pts)
Avatar of Menoth (11pts)
Choir of Menoth (Leader and 3 Grunts) (2pts)
Holy Zealots (Leader and 5 Grunts) (4pts)
* Holy Zealot Monolith Bearer (2pts)
The Covenant of Menoth (2pts)
Vassal Mechanik (1pts)
Vassal of Menoth (2pts)
Vessel of Judgement (9pts)
Exemplar Errants (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Exemplar Errant Officer & Standard Bearer (2pts)
Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord (2pts)

We played a scenario with 2x 12" circle control zones. I thought I could deploy heavy on one flank, roll through one side and make my way across to the other, holding or contesting at least one of the control zones and making my way to the other. I fucked up, deployed poorly for what I thought in my head and then tried to change up my plan mid-game. It didn't work out well.

We ended up on the bottom of turn 2 (my half of the turn, he had feated Harby so I couldn't get into the kill box without taking POW14 fire damage to Borka. I needed to get my Fennblades out of the way so I could do that, they all took the POW14 Harby feat to the face, and I made 1 tough roll. 7 Fenns ate it. Not my dice' proudest moments.

Lessons learned:

Make a battle plan, and stick to it. Be somewhat flexible, but do not try to re-invent the wheel.
Move your army forward. If I hadn't been stuck outside of the kill box, I could have sat still or moved laterally and dealt with the feat.
Remember your spells. I didn't cast Mosh pit once in the entire game. I used the +STR buff from the Stone Scribe elder once. I didn't feat.
Don't think so much about it. I was brain burned after the one game that I didn't want to get a second one in. I wish I had.
Harby's feat is a bitch to infantry heavy armies.

Whew!

2009-05-27T05:43:00.002-04:00

Ok, Life 1, Ray 0.

I've been super busy in the real world with work, business trips, my wife, dogs, friends, etc. I haven't been able to play or model in just as long and I'm missing it dearly.

One item of note, I work in a small office within my company with six women. While this can be trying at the best of times, the past month has been much more fun. The ladies decided they would start playing "Biggest Loser" and roped me into it. I figured I could drop some weight as I moved down here to Miami at 145-150lbs and am now in the (according to the weigh-in scale) 202 area. So I've been working out. A lot. I've been attending karate classes with my wife 3-4 times a week for 2 hours at a time. I've been running a mile in the morning (5AM running is nice, probably the best weather Miami has to offer). My karate sensei has decided to teach a small group of us judo and I'm really enjoying it, so much so I am thinking of leaving the dojo for a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school and keeping my sensei as a personal trainer.

Anyways in WM/H news I purchased TOM and Harby. But due to the business and sickness (my wife's grandmother gave me the bubonic plague, i swear) I haven't even taken them out of their blisters.

Gonna have to work up a new nerd-friendly schedule to include my jiu-jitsu, mountain biking, running, work, wife, dogs, modeling, painting, and playing.

The Masses Have Spoken

2009-04-28T06:41:00.003-04:00

Hey guys, well, the masses, erm, uh, the 9 of you have spoken (thanks mom). My blog specifically for my Menoth Army will be called Trial By Fire.

I'm working up a simple banner like the one above and I've cross posted the three posts here onto there so I don't lose track of them.

During the MKII Field Test (this last week) I will be updating the blog then as I play the army and build upon it I will be posting then too.

I'm thinking, perhaps, (and time will tell on this) if I should just amend the name of this blog to cover both and work up a simple banner for both...

anyhoo, for the time being at least there is a new blog up (nothing overly exciting I'm afraid) over at Trial By Fire

Priming

2009-04-24T21:27:00.001-04:00

So I'm waaaay behind on my painting. So sue me.

Anyways. I played a lot of Orks in 40k and WHFB back in the days and so I was used to a lot of black primer. I'm very comfortable with black, it hides my mistakes well.

But I'm curious now. I see a lot of gray primered models and white primered models. Anyone out there (hopefully troll players) prime in anything other than black? Can you drop me a link to your work so I can see how it comes out on other people's models.

Thanks guys!

Menoth vs. Cygnar

2009-04-24T12:25:00.001-04:00

Menoth vs. Cygnar

I played Andre twice last night. Both times he played Nemo.

I played CerealJohn's (Getting Small)
(http://newtowarmachine.blogspot.com) Amon list in both games (sorry
John, it looked like too much fun)

High Allegiant Amon Ad-Raza
Vanquisher
Vanquisher
Dervish
Idrian Skirmishers
>Idrian Skirmisher Chieftain & Guide (2)
Choir of Menoth (6)
Vassal of Menoth
Allegiant of the Order of the Fist
Allegiant of the Order of the Fist
Deliverer Sunbust Crew

I think he played the following:
Nemo
>Squire
Stormclad
Charger
Charger
Thorn(?)
Storm Guard (full)
Stormsmith (3)
Journeyman Warcaster

Game 1
I had first turn, I followed John's advice to run the Sunburst onto a
hill and camp it out. Worked marginally well. As I am still new to WM
I failed to allocate focus to jacks for two turns (luckily though my
opponent was very understanding). Skirmishers preyed on the Storm
Guards this game. I forgot to go to ground after running them into the
forest at the center of the table. They got beat, bad. Chain Lightning
fried most of them through auto hits arcing from his Stormclad. The
remaining 2 Skirmishers charged a Stormsmith and killed him before being
obliterated next turn.
Bottom of the second turn Nemo feated while within range of all my
jacks. He hit two of the three disrupting them. Damn. But the
vanquisher with LOS to him was unharmed (woot!) Top of turn four
allocate three focust to the sole Vanquisher who can take focus and
upkept synergy, Amon activates and casts Mobility and moves outta the
way. Activate what's left of my choir and sing Battle Hymn to the
Vanquisher. Vanquisher activates and charges Nemo (unprotected in a
forest), Vanquisher squishes Nemo good.

Game 2.
Again I had first turn, I allowed Andre to tune his list a bit, he and I
felt he needed more arc nodes in the list (he was only running one in
the first game). I set up behind a building with most of the army save
the Sunburst. Similar to last game I ran the Sunburst first turn and
all the rest. Also similar to the first game the Idrians got squished
VERY early, never even getting off one CRA. Flying monks went up the
flanks hoping to catch Nemo from behind. Unfortunately Catherine
Laddermore met one and he was forced to fillet her horse. Laddermore
tried to exact vengeance for her steed unsuccessfully and of course the
monk whalloped her for that lack of respect.
Elsewhere on the battlefield one Vanquisher tried a shot at the unit of
storm guard and missed horribly only to scatter onto all but one member
of the unit, setting them all ablaze. Rolling the blast damage took out
one or two then during the next turn one Storm Guard was able to
extinguish himself while all but one other died in a fire.
During all this a Charger popped the flying monk who killed Laddermore.
Thorn and the Stormclad were threatening Amon's position along with a
Charger coming through the woods. Chain lightning happens. Amon got
zapped twice and died.

Menoth 1, Cygnar 1

Thoughts: I think Vanquishers with their auto fire will be staples in my
eFeora lists in MKII along with a Vassal. I either was playing the
Idrians way wrong or they are VERY weak in the current format. I've
never played them in MKI so I cannot compare to their previous
iteration. The Sunburst was decent, hit its mark once and squished a
Journeyman Warcaster and most of a Charger, but no other amazing feats.
The flying monks feel like solo and caster hunters and seem to do their
job well with high mobility and solid hitting power on the charge. The
Dervish seems like it could have more mobility using the spell of the
same name and its Sidestep ability, but I was unable to put all my ducks
in a row to get it all set up for a slice 'n' dice run. Maybe next
game...

Overall record:
Cygnar - 2/1/0
Protectorate of Menoth - 0/0/0
Khador - 0/0/0
Cryx - 0/0/0
Mercs - 0/0/0
Trollbloods - 0/0/0
Circle of Orboros - 0/0/0
Skorne - 0/0/0
Legion of Everblight - 0/0/0

Overall Win Pct: .666

Menoth is my Copilot

2009-04-22T06:35:00.002-04:00

Skip ahead again, I played my first WM game last Thursday with my Thursday play group. We played MKII rules (woot!).

My list:
Protectorate of Menoth
24/25

Feora, Protector of the Flame (umm, epic caster at low point values? yes please!) (-6)
Revenger (6)
Redeemer (6)(bonded) (umm, insta-fire? woot!)
Temple Flameguard (6) (full)
>Temple Flameguard Officer & Standard Bearer (2)
Holy Zealots (6) (full)
>Monolith Bearer (2)
Covenant of Menoth (2)

I goofed and could have added in a full unit of wracks for the last point but forgot. Next time.

I ended up playing one game, against Art and his Cygnar bastages.

About 3rd turn I had set fire to a good amount of things and feated. Unfortunately I fouled up order of operations and could only apply focus to my Redeemer and then I read the card wrong and thought I could add a lot more focus than I thought. bah! anyhoo, he threatened Feora who moved back around a building and out of sight only to pop up on the other side of the battlefield where her Revenger was threatening Kraye.
Kraye took a deal of damage from the Revenger (not sure if it was a free strike or the charge I made against him prior to the free strike) in charging Feora. Feora was a tough cookie though, one more point of damage and this would have gone the other way. He failed to kill Feora with one point left. He even moved his Charger (?) out of melee (taking free strikes from my TFG) to take a shot at Feora in melee with Kraye. Missing horribly.
Feora's turn came around, she got her focus back and without missing a beat, full focus took one swing at Kraye and cleft him in twain.

Menoth 1, Cygnar 0

Feora will be mending her wounds this week. Perhaps Silent Bob will be commanding Menoth's troops.

Muddying the waters

2009-04-22T05:40:00.004-04:00

I've tried my hardest to keep this blog strictly about my Troll experiences but I'm completely enamored with the new MKII rules and my new Menoth army.

So here's the scoop. For the next three days (until the poll is closed) I think I'll post up my thoughts and experiences with my MKII Menoth army (and probably just copy the posts over to my Menoth blog when it's up and running).

* * *

So I got hooked on Menoth. What did it? Well just like the Trolls it was the models that sucked me in. First and foremost, this guy:

The Guardian. Followed closely by the Dervish, Devout, Revenger, Avatar of Menoth ad nauseaum.

Then I started reading the fluff. Wow. Some really cool stuff going on there. The first model to catch my eye was the High Reclaimer, or as I have come to know him, Silent Bob

In choosing a Warmachine army I really liked the recycling of Cryx and Menoth, but the Menoth jacks did it for me and Bob made the choice complete. Then I discovered the dirty little girls of Menoth. Harbinger and Feora and they totally sealed the deal.
* * *
Skip ahead a bit, I purchased a Menoth army from a local player looking to get out of WM and get season tix to the Dolphins (I think we all know who won out in that exchange!).

Question for PPS_Kevin

2009-04-21T09:30:00.000-04:00

Our friendly neighborhood Press Ganger gave me a tactic to use with my Longriders the next time I run them.

If you’re in melee you can still charge the same model if you can move 3” against the same model without leaving combat (thus no free strikes) gaining your impact attacks and charge bonus.

I don’t see where this is wrong, but I don’t see where this is right either (spirit of the game).

I would love it if Kevin or someone could guide me on this.

Schism Results

2009-04-19T04:51:00.002-04:00

Played the Schism tourney @War & Pieces yesterday and had a blast!
I played three games, the first against Joey, the store owner with his Darius Cygnar list and the last two against Ian and his Testament of Menoth Protectorate list.

I want to say this now, I could have cleaned up for the survivor medal but I didn't even think about it, I went in to have fun. At the end of the 2nd game I realized I had a shot at it, but because my first game went so long and my second game I sacrificed my Earthborn I failed :(

Here's what I should have done:
1.) I should have decided on winning that medal prior to the tournament.
2.) Run all my lists beast heavy. at 750, I can run Borka with 4 heavies and 3 lights for 18 VPs. At that point it's all about sacrificing your Warlock. Run him up to your opponent's warcaster and he has two choices. A.) allow you to walk up to his caster and beat him down at full fury and get all the VPs or B.) Kill your lone warlock and you still get the VPs.
3.) In all my games, i needed to sack my warlock. just as above, run him up, screaming and yelling, and collecting VPs.

shoulda-woulda-coulda-but didn't. damn.

I ended up with 16 survivor VPs. The winner of survivor had 22. Not a big margin, had I not sacked my EBDT in game 2 I would have been 3 points closer :)
Im on the lookout for the next one of these. At 750 I should be able to scoop up 18 VPs a game. :)

Oh and for all my hard fighting, I lost all three matches.

Schism Lists

2009-04-15T12:00:00.001-04:00

So I’m thinking of my Schism lists for this Saturday at War & Pieces ( http://www.warandpieces.net )

Basically three lists. 750 points each. Characters and casters cannot be in more than one list.

Here we go:

Grissel 750 List

748/750

24 VPs

27 Models

Grissel Bloodsong - 70

Troll Impaler - 75

Dire Troll Mauler - 111

Fell Caller - 35

Trollkin Champions - 106

Trollkin Hero - 38

Krielstone Bearer & Stone Scribes (+2) - 50

Stone Scribe Elder - 18

Trollkin Longriders (+2) – 139

This is an attrition list. 84 wounds on the Champs plus the Hero. Full Longrider unit. KSB. Very little in terms of beast support but I think Grissel and her fell calls will work well.

Borka 750 List

741/750

26 VPs

25 Models

Borka Kegslayer – 74

> Pyg Keg Carrier – 0

Troll Axer – 72

Troll Impaler – 75

Winter Troll – 75

Dire Troll Mauler – 111

Fell Caller – 35

Stone Scribe Chronicler – 19

Krielstone Bearer & Stone Scribes (+2) – 50

Stone Scribe Elder – 18

Trollkin Champions – 106

A beast heavy list still utilizing the 84 wounds on the champs. This should be the Irresistable force to go up against whatever Immovable objects may be presented (If I lose the defender status).

Grim 750 List

746/750

22 VPs

16 Models

Grim Angus – 76

Troll Impaler – 75

Earthborn Dire Troll – 125

Dire Troll Blitzer – 118

Troll Axer – 72

Trollkin Longriders (+2) – 139

Fell Caller – 35

Trollkin Champions – 106

Very beast heavy. This builds off of the Earthborn missle 350 T&C list. It adds in the mobility of the Longriders with the bodyguards of the champs, with Metamorphose Grim can still be ARM 21.

I don’t think anyone from my play group (short of Guy) reads my blog so I’m not overly concerned with tipping my hand.

Call To Arms Final and Random Thoughts

2009-04-15T11:40:00.001-04:00

I just realized I have never posted my standing on the Call to Arms league. Oops.

Well, let’s just say that I got the Mediocrity Award for coming in higher than anyone who only showed up for one night.

Standings at the close of the league:

1. Gabriel A - 63 pts.
2. Stephan C - 48 pts.
3. Cary V - 44 pts.
4. Cesar M - 29 pts.
4. Ed S - 29 pts.
4. Arturo R - 29 pts.
5. Dios C - 23 pts.
6. Ray Guimond - 21 pts.
7. Laz Q - 10 pts.
8. Guy L - 8 pts.
9. Mario M - 5 pts.
10. Steve Q - 4 pts

So yea, I got that going for me…snicker. I guess I’ll try to get in more 750 point games come May 15^th and the next league starts then cherry pick as many points as possible.

Kind of feeling a little burned out on my trolls and I’m really looking forward to getting started with my Menoth force.

Cesar contacted me (being another Hordes-only player) about a game this Thursday at Sunshine ( http://www.sunshineroleplayers.com ). Hopefully there will be room. I would like to get in a 750 practice game with him before Schism @ War & Pieces ( http://www.warandpieces.net ) but if he doesn’t have a 750 point force I think my three lists can be broken down to their basics at 500 points. (posting my lists next)

Am I the first to notice?

2009-04-10T09:49:00.000-04:00

I don’t read the big boards much anymore because I can’t access them from work, but, am I the first to notice that Ayanna and Holt have been changed?

“Master Holt & The Ugly Ampersand”

Then they list Ayanna’s stat line and weapon stuff. Looks like an “oopsie”.

More MKII Hordes Musings

2009-04-10T07:18:00.003-04:00

I think Borka's Mosh Pit is going to be changed (out of turn movement)

Also, possibly the Winter Troll's animus may be changed (out of turn activation)

I went to my FLGS last night to see what the hubbub was. Boy was that a mistake. No sooner did I walk in and I heard the owner pissing and moaning that "Bastions are $45 for 5 models, that's $9 per model for plastic, nobody's gonna pay that, woe is me, gloom and doom" (of course I'm paraphrasing)I told him to relax and continue what he's doing with WM/H anyways which is keeping a *MINIMAL* stock on hand (mostly books and a couple starter boxes) and special order all the rest and make sure it comes in in a timely manner.

Then for the next *two* hours I was given the pleasure of listening to Art rant, rave, piss, moan and whine about "how they ruined the game" and that "the flaws are inherent" at which point I was forced to say "shut the fuck up Art. if you don't like the game, sell your models and go play one that will never change, like Chess. because, seriously, I don't want to hear it, and nobody does either. have you played any games? No? then shut the fuck up."

I'm sick of people jumping to conclusions without even trying the new rules.

100th Post, Mark II Hordes Musings

2009-04-09T06:32:00.009-04:00

So I'm pretty well sure I'm going to go with Protectorate of Menoth for Warmachine. I've contacted a local guy who's selling his Protectorate army (not because of MKII). I've also been reading the MKII rules and stat cards and I see and agree with almost al of the rules changes and those that I don't like are so few I'll learn to live with them. However, the whole thing leads me to think about what will happen to my beloved Trolls when time for MKII Hordes comes around.

I love my champions. They really do make for an awesome force. However, perhaps Concert may be a bit strong and possibly confusing. I see either Concert or Brothers in Arms being toned back a bit, not that I would like that, but perhaps PP thinks it best.
Grim Angus. I see his feat changing. As it stands right now it's quite a bit of information to digest to play it. Also, he will most likely lose some of his vision abilities for whatever reason.
Borka and Kenny, Chiller may be dropped as a spell. His bomb may not bounce anymore. Not sure.
Fell Callers, god, I hope not, but they may bring their song choices down.
Grissel, I see her as her fell calls taking an action in MKII. ANd her feat will probably be toned down.

We'll see in a year, and I hope we don't see many changes, but it's quite possible we will.

Any ideas what possible MKII Hordes changes we should expect for the trolls? Anything you think may be overpowered?

by the way, i'm going to try to start blogging int he AM before work so I can post pictures and make this blog a bit more interesting.

Cygnar 1-1

2009-04-02T23:38:00.002-04:00

Played Andre and Art tonight. Both playing Cygnar.
Andre is a very new player (only about 4 games under his belt) and I shouldn't count his game, but this is my blog and when I played Ashe I counted that game.

I played:
Faction: Trollblood
Points: 486
Model Count: 17
Victory Points: 17

Borka Kegslayer
> Pyg Keg Carrier
Troll Impaler
Winter Troll
Fell Caller
Trollkin Champions [5]
Trollkin Champions [5]
Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew [2]

I think Andre played:
Faction: Cygnar
Points: 500
Model Count: 25
Victory Points: 19

Commander Adept Sebastian Nemo
> Squire
> Lancer
> Centurion
Gun Mage Captain Adept
Journeyman Warcaster
Field Mechaniks [6] (2 added)
Sword Knights [10] (4 added)
> Sword Knight Officer & Standard Bearer [2]
Rupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord

I played a good game. Stationary + Free Strikes (Mosh Pit) will mow down almost anything short of a Centurion. Effing 24 armor jeebus. Anyways, We played No Man's Land. It came down to him having to run Nemo away and I would have just pursued with my unit of Champs that hadn't lost a single model. He did some good damage with Nemo's chain lightning the first shot, he should have just poked me with the jacks for their base attacks and just arc lightning all over the place. He'll get better, I see him being a good opponent in tourneys.

2nd Game was against Art. I told him we didn't have much time so he would have to shut up and play a quick 350 Mangled Metal game. (Art, 350 Mangled metal, don't fight me for 500 or 750 when it's 10PM and the store can/will and has closed before 10PM)

I played the Grim List I posted the other day. Art played the following:

Faction: Cygnar
Points: 351
Model Count: 4
Victory Points: 11

Captain Jeremiah Kraye
> Hunter
> Hunter
> Hunter

Yea, I know it's a point over. I wasn't about to whine. I wanted another game and I wanted to play Art without his stoopid Haley lists. Unfortunately Earthborn Dire Trolls, Impalers and Axers on their large bases don't do well against armor piercing. So I got shot to shit. The one round I had a clear shot at Kraye I muffed the roll and got 3 damage. beter luck next time Ray

Borka @ 500 Points

2009-04-02T10:37:00.001-04:00

I’m thinking of running Borka tonight. No league tonight, last week was fun games and medal ceremony for Call to Arms. This week is just pick up games.

If you remember correctly Cary and her Sorscha list wrecked me last week. Eek.

I’m thinking of running Borka, I testing some fundamentals of one of my schism lists: Mosh Pit + Freezer + 2 units of Champs

Right now the list for tonight is looking like this:

Borka Kegslayer

>Kenny, Pyg Keg Carrier

Winter Troll

Dire Troll Mauler

Trollkin Champions

Why did I choose the beasts I did? 1.) Winter troll. I am in love with freezing my opponent. I charge my champs in and cast Freezer on them. You now either run away and take a free strike or you stay put, get pushed from Mosh pit and get autohit on a free strike then I move in and autohit you on my next turn. 2.) Dire Troll Mauler. I still love the look of this model. It was the selling point of Trolls for me. The animus is cool and he’s got a lot of damage transfer if needed. And the option of the Borka Bomb is still there.

This puts me with 28 points leftover. I’m not sure what to add.

Stone Scribe Chronicler – Protection turn 1, +2 attack and additional damage die turn 2, Parting Blow on turn 3. The turn 2 portion is a little situational because the champs would have to be in range of something that a full blooded troll has melee range to.

Swamp Gobbers Bellows Crew – Protection, not overly effective against Legion, but then again, not many Legion players in my group

The final option would be to swap out the Dire Troll Mauler for an Impaler or Pyre Troll. Impaler would work well with the Chronicler as he would be able to be in melee with more than most other models due to reach and the Pyre Troll would allow me to field a unit of Krielstone Bearer & Stone Scribes to protect myself a bit more.