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More Adventures....

2012-01-30T21:40:00.002Z

Hello...

I have been frantically busy, and my personal life is getting a bit in the way, but I do have a few things to show/ tell you.
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A Few Points I Feel I Need To Make On The 6e 'Leak'

2012-01-29T19:02:00.000Z

One thing I have seen mentioned a couple times in reference to the 6e 'leaked' PDF is the belief that it will somehow "balance" the game.

It's commonly asserted that common builds from 5e, such as Razorspam, will magically cease to be any good, and that the weaker Codexes get a boost that puts them on par.

Now, I don't actually believe this is the case, in fact I believe it's a crock of shit.

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TKE used Wall O' Text! Critical Hit!

2012-01-22T11:50:00.001Z

WylyQuimby said:

"GW could, if they wanted to, update rules on a regular basis and still produce codices for fourteen armies on a quarterly basis. It’s not a question of difficulty but of interest. It won’t be long before we’re all using iPads/Kindles/generic tables or the like anyway. The printed book is going the way of metal models."

TKE can has reply:

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Hooray! UPDATE: Combat Squads finally f*king work!

2012-01-16T15:30:00.001Z

New FAQs up on the GW site, seemingly for everybody. Have begun at the bottom, with the Nids, and this alone prompted me to post - SItW now (finally!) affects things inside Transports.

Good job, Gee-Dub!

EDIT: Not everyone, not Tau., for instance. Also - Combat Squads, FIXED!!!!!!! Yay!

Width's Adventures in Painting

2012-01-09T21:40:00.000Z

Well,

I've recently become infatuated with the idea of running an Eldar Corsairs army from the new Imperial Armour book as I am really in love with the idea of dedicated BS4 Falcons, Nightwings in normal 40K and using my favourite new model, Eldar Hornets.
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Happy New Year!!!

2011-12-31T11:33:00.002Z

So, no time really for it to be typed up now, but expect a review of the year in blogging, and a preview of what I'd like to do next year. That, and finishing a few things still kicking around, and replying to an email I got about my Ork Homebrew rules that I shamefully forgot about until just now.

Onwards and upwards!

Looks like WarpCon is out this year :(

2011-12-28T13:14:00.001Z

As much as I'd love to go, currently struggling on two counts:
1) the trip certainly wasn't cheap last year, and that was without drinking with the leds, something I'd much prefer to add to the experience this time if possible.
2) My Blood Angels (of Blood) aren't going to be painted. No chance in hell. Haven't got all the requisite sponson and turret weaponry even, or the Razorbacks to put my infantry in, or all the Land Speeders I need...
My army could be 100% built in time, no question. Painted though, even to just 3 colours, seems very unlikely indeed. While I'm not a good painter by any stretch of the imagination, I'm a perfectionist one, and can't simply glob dabs on to fulfill the minimum standard when I'm taking the army on a 1000-mile round trip or however far it is.

It's a damn shame, cos I wanted to go, but accepting defeat early means everyone will get over the disappointment so much sooner. Ho hum.

Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T03:39:00.001Z

...See above.

PRESENTS OMFG!!!

2011-12-24T22:22:00.000Z

Have a merry Christmas everyone.

That includes you TKE.

Interlude: Imperial Guard for those who like chips...

2011-12-19T15:02:00.003Z

Am very busy with that boring Real Life nonsense at the moment (Stupid Christmas season...) and am knee deep in a quite long-winded article on playing the game at different points levels, and the pitfalls, pratfalls and pitbulls in that. Well, maybe not so much the latter.

Anyway, I was asked (several times, to be fair, because I forgot to make a timely reply) how one would go about making an Imperial Guard army on a budget, so this is the list I have come up with that would sort-of be cheaper (financially) than perhaps I would ideally run.

That said, I haven't bothered to check how expensive this IS exactly, but I have no illusions that it'd be cheaper than getting a pile of Vendettas.

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Another Carcrash, The Falcon & Fire Prism

2011-12-15T21:10:00.000Z

Hey,

A few too many days later than promised, but well, between a hangover or three (never mix beer and absinthe guys and gals), reading for work to do and things never, ever going according to plan blogposts take a back seat. First up: It turns out that some guy at the local club was inspired by my efforts to rewrite the Eldar codex and took it upon himself to refute all of my efforts and make his own.

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Very Brief Idea...

2011-12-08T13:53:00.001Z

Orks, right. Their problems largely stem from the fact that they can fill their FoC for a stupidly low number of points, and even when they don't try, they still find it far too easy to fill.

Those of you familiar with Sid Meier's Civilization games will know of the Infinite City Sprawl, and I'm sure plenty of other strategy games feature the same idea...

So, my idea, is the Infinite Shitty Sprawl.

For every 2 Troops choices the Ork player takes, he can choose a single non-Troop above his allowance (ie, elite, FA, HS NOT HQ) and for every non-Troop he takes (including these bonus ones) he may take an additional Troops choice.

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What the hell happens when Relentless Long Fangs want to Assault?

2011-12-07T01:23:00.001Z

...Seriously.

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We Don't Like The Way You Play With Your Toys

2011-11-29T18:47:00.001Z

Again, a brief hiatus, apologies, but work is wiping me out.

I've been busy pinning warmachine and hordes models and reading up on their rules, slowly writing sections of rules for the ECP and working my ass off at a soil lab for minimum wage. It was all going so well until Monday evening.

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Eldar Codex Project: Warlocks, Bonesingers and the Vyper Jetbike

2011-11-17T17:54:00.001Z

Well,

It's been a very long time in coming, but here is the promised Warlock and Bonesinger entries. As you've all waited so long, I am also throwing on the Vyper Jetbike, as it was very easy to update as I saw fit.

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Eesh...(Updated)

2011-11-15T20:20:00.000Z

I know I'm in the middle of several things, and I'mma let me finish - but I managed to get my hands on Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition a few days early, and yeah...I want to complete that bad boy, preferably before everyone else gets their mitts on it. ;-)

So, Joe, haven't forgotten your list, or your request Ryan - I'll get to them ASAP, but defeating the Covenant is more important for the next couple days. :)

UPDATE: I have now completed Halo : CEA on Normal Difficulty, so, back to the Blogging! Hooray!!

A Little Filler

2011-11-13T21:35:00.001Z

Hello,

It's been an awfully long time since I posted on here, especially considering the ongoing ECP and my contributions...

I have recently had some pretty significant changes and things going on in my real-life, such as concerts to perform at and attend (Tchaikowsky's 4th Symphony is so tiring), finally acquiring a job at a local lab and going on emergency trips to and from London. Needless to say, I have been very busy, doing everything but blogpostwriting. During and before my miniature hibernation, the Newcrons arrived, and failed to impress me, but were a dour sign of things to come (interesting, characterful rules and terrible Fluffretconning) for the Xenos if M. Ward continues to write these codexes. Let Mister Kelly write the new Eldar 'dex please GW...

With regards to my hobby projects, the ECP is still ongoing if on a backburner of sorts, and has not been abandoned - my reading time is more devoted to other matters as it happens - I am steadily absorbing and analysing more Warmahordes stuff whilst steadily painting up and basing my wee Retribution of Scyrah force.

I should have another ECP post completed by the end of the week, the long awaited Warlocks and Bonesinger....

Well....

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Busy Day/Live Blogging/Ramona A. Stone

2011-11-11T15:06:00.001Z

Well, there's a couple things I've been falling behind on, mostly due to work - so I'd really like to clear at least a few of them out today, get myself back down to a reasonable workload.

As a result, sadly, this means the post will undoubtedly be scatty and somewhat unfocused. On the bright side, you should kinda expect that by now. :p

Obviously, Live Blogging is MUCH more fun with other participants, so I'm going to begin in approximately 90 minutes - that gives me time to finish the last mission of Kill Team (Xbox, ofc, not the shitty table-top version) and grab a quick bite to eat, as well as to collect my thoughts and try to make this as efficient as possible.

See you then?

Necron List Deux...

2011-11-09T01:19:00.000Z

I don't think Necron Troops are ANY good. At all. They Just Plain Suck.

Literally, the only way to make them good is to use your catch-all answer to everything Superman tries to do - Kryptonite. Er...I mean, Crypteks.

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So, initial Necron Scare-Cav list...

2011-11-07T22:37:00.000Z

As usual, I'm going to go for a 2k list here, and try to write something that doesn't make me bemoan the obvious deficiencies of the Necron Troops section. Wuzzat? Wolf Guard make them viable? Yeah...maybe. We'll see. Anyway, I start with Troops, cos I figure this is where I get the 'numbers' with the guns coming in later.

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Necrons...

2011-11-06T01:15:00.002Z

So, I've read the Necron Codex, although I'd much rather read it through again and begin to play about trying to write some lists before I make any sort of verdict.

There's plenty of scary-ass stuff, and certainly some things I feel I will have to adapt for...but that depends on whether or not lists with them in are truly viable.

Triarch Stalkers, for once, are something I think GW should have had a model ready for, even if a prototype was photographed in the Codex colour section, just to help protect their IP.

Playing Blood Angels now does look like a little bit of a pain, if all these perma-Night Fighting things turn out to be worthwhile...but with Fast vehicles I can get close enough to largely make up for Searchlights I suppose.

Warriors and Immortals being laid out the way they are is fantastic, having a base cost and then extra for more guys is just more elegant than the alternative in the Kelly-Dexes.

Oh, and I just want to claim the credit for naming the all Night Scythe-mounted list. It should be called Scare-Cav. Cos it's Air-Cav, and scary, cos they're the mechanical visage of death. No? Silence, I have decreed it. :p

Not sure it'll be much more Competitive, but I'm going to give it a shot, list-wise, see what I can come up with.
If only I knew anyone with enough mixed Flyers to proxy, nevermind that of course no-one I know owns whatever number of the real thing I can squeeze into 2k...(Nobody I know owns ANY of course, but still...)

Excelsior!

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Thoughts on the Necrons, stand-out units or combinations etc as always very welcome. Just finding out how many of my readers have been tempted by the Deathless Ones would be great to know, we Children of the Stars apparently have sketchy and oft-contradictory records on your approximate numbers and force disposition...;-)

Elves on Dragons, Angry, Angry Elves & Mutant, Scary Elves

2011-11-03T00:11:00.000Z

So,

I suppose I'm a little bit like Sinsynn in that if I do play a Tabletop wargame, I am immediately attracted to play as an elven faction (In his case, he sometimes goes a tad overboard with his xenos love, but it is something I deeply respect him for). I often ignore the fact that the rules for them may be terrible, disregard the fluff that might dress them up as complete ponces, but I can't get enough of pointy eared freaks.
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Armies In Focus: TKE'S Blood Angels Part Two - Elites

2011-10-31T15:56:00.003Z

[Image from B+C]
For my Elite slots, I have opted for two Sanguinary Priests, each armed with a Power Weapon instead of the default Chainsword, and retaining their Bolt Pistol.

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Eldar Codex Project: Playtesting, Wraithguard and Pathfinders

2011-10-30T12:20:00.000Z

From WarhammerKorea

It's been a while since any major posts have been made with regards to this..... Behold! The Wait Is Over!

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Recently....

2011-10-29T13:46:00.003+01:00

I've spent an awful lot of my free time recently reading old White Dwarves, mostly the old chapter Approved and Index Astartes articles by the likes of Andy Chambers, Graham MacNeill, Phil Kelly, Pete Haines, etc etc...a lot of such articles Designers notes for the Necron and Chaos Space Marine Codexes of the time...or the introduction of the Trial Assault Rules that form the basis of what we use nowadays.

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