War drum finished

Just a quick painting progress picture update. My converted war drum. I didn't get a chance to use this guy on the weekend since my first game (9th age) went so long. So still after another KoW game yet, but will follow up with my scenario thoughts soon.

Orcs of Mantica - Scenario Analysis

A disclaimer up front. I've played 1 game of Kings of War. As I write this, I'll be playing another this Sunday against some undead, but apart from that my experience is limited.

As you can see by the pics below, I've got bits of boyz everywhere and I'm trying to work out what to build for both Kings of War and 9th age. I'd like to try focus on just the Orcs for 2016 (for both games) and try not stray down the path of temptation/filth of the day.

Enough MDF to horde a Waaaaagh (tm) ;)

About 100 mantic orcs there

My goal is to build up a great looking army that will be able to run variety of balanced lists. Specifically, for Kings of War, it seems very important to take into account the 6 scenarios. So here's a first pass at what I think would be the winners and losers from the Orcs list based on the scenarios and use that to guide some selection. I'll take any and all suggestions/corrections in the comments as really, I have no idea what I'm doing :)

I'm going to start with my initial take on the scenarios and what general things would be needed for them and follow up with more posts specific to the Orcs.

Kill

By its title, this scenario is all about killing enemy models (and secondly) preventing the death of yours. Winners would seem to be high Me/Att units or High De/Ne units. As anything in KoW, movement would play a large factor in getting off charges, but seems secondary to the 2 above.

Invade!

Speed seems pretty critical for this scenario as well as the ability to simply survive. So High De/Ne and fast units (Sp)

Dominate!

Defence probably wins this one too. Even the slowest army can make it to the middle of the table, but can they hang around enough to survive to the end. This is where my limited game experience shows. I have no idea how a 6 to 7 turn game would affect the need for fast units or defensive units in this scenario. Is killing the opponent still a better option? Healing and boosting Ne seems important

Pillage!

So there may be 7 different locations we need to 'hold' and we can't do it with individuals. So low cost, high De units? Maybe this advantages troops/regiments over hordes. With things spread out, high Ne units that can operate individually seem pretty useful. Also, the ability to heal. Another factor might be the ability to reach out and destroy units with Ra attacks.

Loot!

Once again speed seems critical, although once you pick a loot marker up your at speed 5 anyway. Would throwing some hordes in the face of the enemy distract them enough to let a bunch of skulks make off with them? Individuals can't make off with loot, but they can defend. Fast flying individuals to stop their units getting off the board might be of use here too as would High Ra units

Kill and Pillage!

Combination of the respective scenarios above. At 2000 points (which seems the standard) an objective is worth as much as taking out a 200 pt unit. Is it better to try take just a subset of the objective markers and make sure you kill every damn thing that is close to them?

So, there's my initial take. Maybe it gives me some ideas. I've no doubt missed a bunch of key points but I'll run through each scenario and take a look at some of the units that might excel in the roles required.

Please, feedback/comments most welcome.

Cheers

Daemons of Chaos from Castle Assault 2015

So it looks like I never kept this blog up to date. The AoS debacle left me somewhat annoyed at GW. I can't see myself getting into that game unless prices drasctily reduce and the fluff takes a turn for the better.

However, last October I did finish my Daemons for Castle Assault. I played terrible (as usual) but had a great time anyway. Here's a few pics of the army. I got nominated for a painting award but the winner of that smashed all of us on votes. I'll try dig up some pics of his (it was an Empire/Lustria army). Anyway, here's mine

My old metal bloodthirster sees his first tournament

And as you may have guessed by the title of my blog, it's now on to Kings of War and 9th Age for me. 

Slow Grow Update

Well.. I'm in no way keeping this blog up to date. To at least attempt that, I decided to throw a few pics up of the past few months slow grow progress.

April - 1000 pts

For this level I brought in more horrors, screamers and flesh hounds (as compared to the 500 point list). I've decided to avoid mono Tzeentch just because I want something that can actually fight down the track.

Converted from wild wargs (LOTR)

May - 1250 pts

For this level, I added another Herald of Tzeentch. This guy is on a disk and using the law of metal. May help stripping regen off from all those passed warpflame tests.

I hate metal models

Every good daemon list needs a skillcannon ;)

Attempting white edge highlighting :(

June - 1500 pts

For 1500 points I'm just adding more horrors (5) and a unit of Blood Crushers. I need something that can fight, so that's the idea of the crushers. 

However, in my test games, I'm finding that I have to use the 120 point screamers as re-directors and they're just too expensive for that. Next month I'll be bringing in some furies that I'm converting up from horrors using Tyranid Gargoyle wings.

Still WIP, but having fun with the edge highlighting

500 points of slow grow finished plus some odds and ends

My local club's Warhammer Fantasy Slow Grow kicks off this month, starting at 500 points.

I'm bringing some Tzeentch daemons and finished them a good few weeks early to the point that I'm almost finished the 750 March deadline. 

The list is pretty standard Tzeentch

• Lvl 1 Herald with Greater Locus
• 10 Horrors - Muso/Std + Gleaming Pennant
• 6 Horrors - Muso/Std (We're allowed less than min at 500 pts)
• 3 Screamers

 

In addition I'm keeping the pulse on the Orcs. I've finished 15 Black Orcs so far and added the big guy, Grimgor!! Can't wait to use his Incarnate version soon.

Itching to buff da boys with some Wild Form!!

End of Year thoughts

Wow, have I been inactive on here the past few months. Seems that's the way all my blog attempts go.

I haven't been quiet hobby wise though. Check out my Youtube channel first and foremost, it's always up to date, at least as much as I can make it.

As for what I've got finished this year.

I successfully got my Orcs & Goblins painted, as you can see my past posts for some pics full army pics. I have now started expanding it with the less than optimal choices as I do want this army to continue to grow (It's my first love). At this stage the pieces I'm planning on adding are

• Black Orcs + Grimgor
• Arachnarok (started painting, need to finish)
• More and more Goblins

First 10 Black Orcs

I have also helped organise a local slow grow league where we start with 500 points and add 250 each month until November, making a 2500 point list. For this, I've chosen to go Daemons of Chaos. The initial list is Tzeentch themed, however, I'm not adverse to adding Khorne down the track as I think I'll need it in a 2500 list. :(

Test Screamer

My first horror unit all Gateway ready ;)

So hopefully 2015 is going to be a busy hobby year and by the end I should have 3 nicely painted armies. With 9th hopefully dropping, my Empire shouldn't be neglected as it sounds like it'll have some new toys as well.

Have a safe new year and see you on the other side

All ready for Castle Assault #CA14

September Wrap-up

Well it's been a little too long between updates. I've kept the hobby going, but with some interruptions, didn't manage to get as much games in.

So I'll just skip through quickly what I've been up to.

Greatest achievement, finishing Azhag :) Very pleased with the result

I also took some full shots of both my armies (Empire & Orcs) that I have completed in the past year

• Orc Army Album
• Empire Army Album

Love how this picture came out

For those keeping track at home, I also have 3 battle reports for the month

I'll try keep up the updates this month as practice picks up for a tournament in 3 weeks and thoughts move towards my next army :)

Practise HoD Game @ Manday

Got a practise 3000 pt game in today and Manday but it was pretty rushed so not enough pictures for one of my +Gommo's Itchy Nuisance bat reps :(

It's my Orcs (with Warboss/Wyvern/Spider build) taking on an Empire list with 2 cannons, hellblaster + stank! I didn't expect to have my Wyvern around for long, he had to stay tight to those trolls.

In the end, ended up 12.5-7.5 win, with my wyvern warboss surviving, but my Spider didn't (2 cannon shot death turn 1 :( )

But my 8 trolls spewed through a unit of 12 Reiksguard, GM/Runefang, BSB, Warrior priest unit! And had 4 trolls still standing. Go the vomit!!

Two weeks left till the tournament so should have my Wyvern finished by then. Skullmuncher is getting close

My horde of savages complete. ... enough for my list at least

Finally got through that savage orc horde. It was a tough slog but they turned out ok.

I'm going to also add another 6-7 as archers that I can replace the front rank with. Hopefully opponents are ok with that if I want to switch to arrer boyz for a game.

If you want to see how badly I use them though, check out my latest bat rep

Weekend Wrap-up #4

Well it's been a good few weeks again since my last update. !! Ooops.

Luckily I have been keeping busy, and plodding through painting more Orcs & Trolls. Four out of nine trolls are complete which is an entire front rank in this unit of 8. (With 1 remaining to act as single redirector)

The trolls are actually quite enjoyable to paint and the style I've gone with is fast yet looks effective.

The savage orcs on the other hand! Aargh, they're a pain to paint. So I've borrowed (stolen?) from Luke Davis and gone with remounting 3 Orcs to 50mm bases. This will cut down on having to paint 4 whole orcs, (Yay!) but makes the unit SO much easier to rank up.

2 of the bases done

Well over half a horde finished!!

I've have 2x50mm bases to still finish, with probably 2-3 individual orcs to flesh out the unit of 40. Once they're complete, along with last 5 trolls, I'll have a good size 2400/2500 list all ready for action.

Then, it will be on to adding some elements to make it a little 'fun'. My current purchases were basically the net list. So I'm looking at adding

• An Arachnarok. This thing looks too good not to paint and have. One thing I miss compared to my Empire, are some center piece items, and this is one of them. Also...
• 1-2 Wyverns. Of course they won't see action every game, but I want to have the option

Until next time...

What's on my painting table?

... Quite a bit actually and I haven't got around to updating my blog :( So what have I got up to in the past few weeks hobby wise?

First up, the plan was to try do a troll a week. I finished a second and then got side tracked painting up some GW fences and building some GW size forests (will post pics of the forests later)

Seems weird to buy something you can make yourself but those fences do look super cool. In addition I got hold of a new Savage shaman model that I started.

Then, I ended up attending a 1 day tournament (last week) so I had to paint up 14 new archers, which side tracked me further :). I finished 5 fully and got 9 others to the washed stage, so know have to get back to highlights and details.

Most recently I acquired a new hellblaster to replace the old metal one I have. (or to field 2 when I want to be douche)

Jeez I have too much on and need to finish some of these!!

Also, you can see my totally lacklustre and frustrating performance from last weekend. Game 1 is up on youtube (see below)

Thanks for reading, and I'll try get back to some weekly updates this week

First paint job on my trolls

I finished up a troll this weekend (well at least mostly) to see how the red/yellow scheme will look and what paint colours to use on it.

I had to grab the War Paint yellow that matches the yellow primer I used, but as usual, it's total crap (as most yellows tend to be). I found mixing a little citadel white in made it useable.

Let me know what you think. I'm hoping they stand out nice alongside the green savages.

Winter Carnage 2014

This past weekend I attended a 2 day Warhammer event called Winter Carnage, held @ Good Games in Sydney.

I've posted the first battle report up, more to follow, and stop reading now if you don't want to see my results.



In the end I only won 2 out of 5 which wasn't great, finishing 14/22.

However, the best news was winning the best painted army prize ($100) which was totally unexpected and awesome. Deeply honored.

It was a great 2 days and hope to get back there in a few months for their next one.

Those filthy nurgle daemons invade the bad lands!!

A host of nurgle daemons take on my Orcs.

Weekend Wrap-up #3

Well, the weekend is coming to a close here and it was a great family weekend. So not as much painting as usual, which was fine, as I only planned on finishing 10 Night Goblins.

But that is done and my small bunker is ready for the table

This week, again, I'm going to take it pretty easy due to work and a busy Warhammer week the next week so budgeting time between hobby and life :)

I'm going to try get 3 more Savage Orcs done and a test figure of a new Wood Elf blood bowl team I recently purchased.

I also received my Karl Franz bitz in the mail so at some stage, will need to get him up ready for a game

Stay tuned for pics

My Empire takes on a Bretonnian force

Got another game in this past Tuesday. This time my Empire (with some SCGT comp changes to test) against a Bretonnian force.

It's on youtube, enjoy

Weekend Wrap-up #2

Past weeks target was ...

1. Finish first 10 of 20 Night Goblins. These just need highlighting and some small detail work
2. Finish last 2 crew of 2nd boar chariot

Some BFSP Night Goblins painted

Well I achieved that and also my 2nd rock lobber arrived so I sprang into painting action and got that finished too.

The overall quality on my Orc army is decent table top standard but that's about it. I'm just impatient to get this on the table :)

A second rock lobber arrives to double the odds of hitting

I'm particularly happy that all my Chaff and Artillery pieces are finished. Now I just need to finish the actual foot troops and Trolls. Specifically that is

1. 27 Savage Orcs to finish the Horde of 40
2. 6-8 Trolls (Depending on list)
3. 10 more NGs
4. Strip and repaint 1-2 Night Goblin Shamans and/or paint a new Savage Orc Shaman on foot

This weeks target is

1. Finish last 10 of 20 Night Goblins to finish my small bunker unit off.

I think I'll take the painting easy this week. Have another battle coming up Tuesday night so hopefully you'll see a battle report this week between my Empire and a Bretonnian army. Stay tuned on my youtube channel for updates.

So how are your painting goals going?

New wood elves!

An Averland company escorting Volkmar the Grim back to Altdorf was set upon by a host of wood elves led by Drycha and an Ancient Treeman.

How do they fair with their new improved book?



Ouch!!

Weekend Wrap-up #1

What did I get done this weekend?

Finally got the crew of Boar Chariot #1 finished.

Orc boar boyz, ready to roll

Also, grabbed the new Wood Elf book and started playing around with some autumn colours. Not totally sold on this one but at least seeing what types of colours I have and what I may need to buy.

Terracotta Vallejo colour is awesome!

This weeks target

1. Finish first 10 of 20 Night Goblins. These just need highlighting and some small detail work
2. Finish last 2 crew of 2nd boar chariot