My painting has gotten better, so while playing other armies, most of the BT's are going into the simple green to get stripped and start over. Some can be touched up, some can't.
One problem was my terminators and their original bases.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
One Problem Solved
My first army after getting hooked into painting and gaming by Mordheim, a total gateway drug, was a Black Templar army. I thought they came out looking pretty good. That was ten or eleven years ago.
My painting has gotten better, so while playing other armies, most of the BT's are going into the simple green to get stripped and start over. Some can be touched up, some can't.
One problem was my terminators and their original bases.
Yeah, many say it's okay to play the models on the base they came on. I have new terminators on big bases too, and I didn't feel like waiting for new bases to show up if I ordered them. So I cam up with a work around.
A poker chip and some green stuff worked decently.
My painting has gotten better, so while playing other armies, most of the BT's are going into the simple green to get stripped and start over. Some can be touched up, some can't.
One problem was my terminators and their original bases.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Day Two of Working at the Home Brew Store
Leaving one job, grabbing food and heading to another job leaves me groggy the next morning. How shocking. The last time I pulled the "two jobs" thing I was 23. Needless to say, I'm not 23 any more, and it was killing me back then. However, what I'm not doing is taking a full load of classes like I was at the time, and neither job back then was as interesting as home brew.
I have already learned a few things about brewing and wine making that I didn't know. I've also gotten some ideas about a few things I want to try in my next few batches.
More on that later.
I have already learned a few things about brewing and wine making that I didn't know. I've also gotten some ideas about a few things I want to try in my next few batches.
More on that later.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Next?
After Bayou Battles, I put away the skellingtons for a bit to work on my original army, my Black Templars. Most of that involved dropping major portions of the army into Simple Green and starting over. The BT's were my among the first models I ever painted 11-12 years ago, after the GW gateway drug that was Mordheim got me hooked into painting and such.
Suddenly, though, I have little time on my hands. In addition to working as a writing tutor, I just picked up a part time gig at a local home brew store. So painting time has been limited.
Since I have Friday off from both jobs, though, I'm going to pack away the BT's and drag the TK's back out. I need to touch some things up before the Alamo GT and don't want to wait til the last minute, again.
Suddenly, though, I have little time on my hands. In addition to working as a writing tutor, I just picked up a part time gig at a local home brew store. So painting time has been limited.
Since I have Friday off from both jobs, though, I'm going to pack away the BT's and drag the TK's back out. I need to touch some things up before the Alamo GT and don't want to wait til the last minute, again.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the Weekend
Don't get me wrong Bayou Battles was great. I loved it and plan on going next year.
The Good:
The people running it are awesome. Despite losing all five games, I still had a great time in all five games. I didn't witness any bad behavior, There were more FANTASTIC looking armies than I've ever seen before.
The Bad:
Hangovers on Sunday morning. Spending so much time getting your army painted you have never played that list or one like it before. It would have helped me in my first two games. The fourth scenario drastically penalizes slow armies and drastically benefits fast armies. Still nearly pulled out a draw, but it was a lot harder because my opponent nabbed all three objectives on turn 1.
The Ugly:
Being on a low carb diet while there. There is barely time for fast food for lunch, and we went to a Cajun place for dinner. Bad choice on my part, but I'm going back next year when I'm not on a low carb diet. Using Diet DP for a mixer late at night means I'm drunk and wide awake. better drink choice next time. Finally, seeing all these GORGEOUS armies makes me want to start a new one. NO! I've even planned out the models I need. NO! I've got this great idea for a theme. NO!
What I really need to do is pretty up the TKs get to work repainting my Black Templars. They were my first army when I first started painting. I've stripped a bunch of them and plan on getting back to work on them soon. NO NEW ARMY...yet.
The Good:
The people running it are awesome. Despite losing all five games, I still had a great time in all five games. I didn't witness any bad behavior, There were more FANTASTIC looking armies than I've ever seen before.
The Bad:
Hangovers on Sunday morning. Spending so much time getting your army painted you have never played that list or one like it before. It would have helped me in my first two games. The fourth scenario drastically penalizes slow armies and drastically benefits fast armies. Still nearly pulled out a draw, but it was a lot harder because my opponent nabbed all three objectives on turn 1.
The Ugly:
Being on a low carb diet while there. There is barely time for fast food for lunch, and we went to a Cajun place for dinner. Bad choice on my part, but I'm going back next year when I'm not on a low carb diet. Using Diet DP for a mixer late at night means I'm drunk and wide awake. better drink choice next time. Finally, seeing all these GORGEOUS armies makes me want to start a new one. NO! I've even planned out the models I need. NO! I've got this great idea for a theme. NO!
What I really need to do is pretty up the TKs get to work repainting my Black Templars. They were my first army when I first started painting. I've stripped a bunch of them and plan on getting back to work on them soon. NO NEW ARMY...yet.
Monday, August 5, 2013
The Pillaging of Houston!
Okay, not so much pillaging, but when you go 0-5, you usually don't come home with loot from a tournament.
Just for showing up, we all got a "Bayou Battles X" pint glass. Andrew and I were drinking out of ours that night, while Tom finished his Ogres. He picked his up in the morning. I won a door prize as well, which I totally need!
In my first game I played Xavier, from the Wargamers of Arkansas. They gave their opponents beer mugs containing candy, salt and lime, and the following message. "An offering to a worthy opponent in anticipation of a battle well fought. May your death on the field be both glorious, and bold. ~ Compliments of WAR ~" Sadly, I'm on a low carb diet, so Tom and Andrew helped me out with the candy, and I'm drinking diet soda out of it instead of beer. For now. I can not say enough how much this meant to me as a show of sportsmanship and camaraderie. I am totally stealing the idea.
I'm not saying HOW a foam dart from someone's (Andrew) gun ended up behind the dresser with the TV on it, but in spelunking under the dresser to retrieve it, I found the dark fellow on the right and the barrel of TNT. At first glance, we thought he was a ninja, and were confused about how a ninja was going to remain stealthy using a barrel of TNT. More spelunking for the rogue dart uncovered the fellow on the left making us think, "Cool! A ninja AND a Pirate WITH DYNAMITE! You just can't beat that." Then we started paying attention and realized that the ninja was, in fact, a pirate, and while pirates with dynamite are cool and all, they are not as cool as pirates AND ninjas with dynamite.
We arrived Friday evening, and before he broke out his paints to finish his ogres, and even before we cracked open the booze, Tom brought out the "care packages" sent by his wife. She even attached cards to identify them.
Back from Bayou Battles X
Back from Bayou Battles X, and stinging from the savage beating I took.
Game one was a 500 point loss to Wood Elves. He brought a ton of 10 man archer units that stayed across the board and shot my two bone giants to bits over time, slowly but surely, and used his fast cav to get in my backfield and kill my Casket of Souls and Catapult. The casket detonation killed the remains of the two fast cav units, and purple sun got the eagle.
We both killed a number of models from other units, but I couldn't make up the points or catch anything with my slow movement.
Nice win to him.
Game two was a 180 point loss to Skaven. Neither of us lost our oil barrel, and I lost the game on the last turn as he killed my Casket with his poisonous slingers that snuck in behind me and my colossus with his doom wheel. I beat the DW back and chased it off twice, but couldn't catch it. The third time, it got me.
If either of those models survive, we draw, if both do, I win.
Game Three was a loss to Brettonians. The game was close up until the end, but he knocked small units and expensive single models to get me, 800 and change to 990ish. What came out of this is that one unit of Tomb Guard with the razor standard and a tomb king in the unit can hold off and beat
two units of knights with a lord and a caster and a reliquae knight.
Game four was a loss to Chaos Warriors.
VPs were only a minor goal, since we were only going for capturing three objectives. He used cav and ogres to get to all three on turn one. I took one away with a colossus, and contested one from turn two to turn five, but the dragon ogres finally wore down the skeletons and killed them on the last turn. His giant killed mine and took the other objective, also on the last turn.
Almost gave this one a bad game vote. I know the guy, I like the guy, but the constant whining and bitching every time I killed a model got old. Yes, purple sun sucks, but so do dragon orges, hell cannons, and hordes of chaos warriors. When you're winning a lopsided game, you don't need to whine to the other tables around us about how unfair my army is. I'm playing Tomb Kings for crying out loud. Put on your big girl panties and suck it up.
The reason I didn't go with a bad game, however, is that he time and again argued against his own advantage when scenario rules interfered with game or army rules. So I chalked it up to that just being how he plays and talks smack during the game.
Game five was a loss to Chaos Daemons. Khorn getting pissed at my opponent's army choices took my colossus down to one wound at the beginning of his magic phase, then he blew up his cannon on turn one as well. So chance gave us both one in the ear hole right away.
I killed a bunch of Daemons but few units, and he killed all the small stuff for the win. He used flyers and ambushers to get into my backfield and kill my war machines and Hierotitan (which was a near thing). I used my one wound colossus to mangle his bloodthirster/juggernaut things, but they got the colossus before I could drop that last wound. The colossus was a one wound champ, though. He survived so long because I kept dropping a hex on the bloodthirsters to drop their S&T. His two big hordes never got involved because I kept using spells to slow them.
So in five games, I only lost my big block of skeletons, general, tomb guard, hierophant, BSB, once each (in the same battle, actually). I lost the lvl 2 death caster twice. Lessons learned: 1) It's hard to kill 80 skeletons, 2) TG are NASTY, especially with the TK's WS and the razor standard, and 3) standard of the undying legion wasn't that useful since I had so many other ways to get models back and so many other spells.
The colossus died every game, usually after absolutely violating at least one unit, or keeping a nasty unit busy and out of combat for most of the game. Lesson's learned: 1) He's a badass against most infantry, 2) anything attacking initiative messes him right up, 3) he's a shooing magnet and eventually even weak shots get through, and 4) he can't stand up to normal giants or S5 because of initiative.
The hierotitan also died every game, usually after spending most of the game making it hard for my opponents to stop my casting. Lessons learned: 1) He makes it hard to stop my spells, 2) his spells are marginally useful, 3) he is pretty good against infantry, and 4) but eventually they'll get him.
Had a great time, saw deserving people win cool stuff, and came home with loot myself, which will be addressed in a later post.
Game one was a 500 point loss to Wood Elves. He brought a ton of 10 man archer units that stayed across the board and shot my two bone giants to bits over time, slowly but surely, and used his fast cav to get in my backfield and kill my Casket of Souls and Catapult. The casket detonation killed the remains of the two fast cav units, and purple sun got the eagle.
We both killed a number of models from other units, but I couldn't make up the points or catch anything with my slow movement.
Nice win to him.
Game two was a 180 point loss to Skaven. Neither of us lost our oil barrel, and I lost the game on the last turn as he killed my Casket with his poisonous slingers that snuck in behind me and my colossus with his doom wheel. I beat the DW back and chased it off twice, but couldn't catch it. The third time, it got me.
If either of those models survive, we draw, if both do, I win.
Game Three was a loss to Brettonians. The game was close up until the end, but he knocked small units and expensive single models to get me, 800 and change to 990ish. What came out of this is that one unit of Tomb Guard with the razor standard and a tomb king in the unit can hold off and beat
two units of knights with a lord and a caster and a reliquae knight.
Game four was a loss to Chaos Warriors.
VPs were only a minor goal, since we were only going for capturing three objectives. He used cav and ogres to get to all three on turn one. I took one away with a colossus, and contested one from turn two to turn five, but the dragon ogres finally wore down the skeletons and killed them on the last turn. His giant killed mine and took the other objective, also on the last turn.
Almost gave this one a bad game vote. I know the guy, I like the guy, but the constant whining and bitching every time I killed a model got old. Yes, purple sun sucks, but so do dragon orges, hell cannons, and hordes of chaos warriors. When you're winning a lopsided game, you don't need to whine to the other tables around us about how unfair my army is. I'm playing Tomb Kings for crying out loud. Put on your big girl panties and suck it up.
The reason I didn't go with a bad game, however, is that he time and again argued against his own advantage when scenario rules interfered with game or army rules. So I chalked it up to that just being how he plays and talks smack during the game.
Game five was a loss to Chaos Daemons. Khorn getting pissed at my opponent's army choices took my colossus down to one wound at the beginning of his magic phase, then he blew up his cannon on turn one as well. So chance gave us both one in the ear hole right away.
I killed a bunch of Daemons but few units, and he killed all the small stuff for the win. He used flyers and ambushers to get into my backfield and kill my war machines and Hierotitan (which was a near thing). I used my one wound colossus to mangle his bloodthirster/juggernaut things, but they got the colossus before I could drop that last wound. The colossus was a one wound champ, though. He survived so long because I kept dropping a hex on the bloodthirsters to drop their S&T. His two big hordes never got involved because I kept using spells to slow them.
So in five games, I only lost my big block of skeletons, general, tomb guard, hierophant, BSB, once each (in the same battle, actually). I lost the lvl 2 death caster twice. Lessons learned: 1) It's hard to kill 80 skeletons, 2) TG are NASTY, especially with the TK's WS and the razor standard, and 3) standard of the undying legion wasn't that useful since I had so many other ways to get models back and so many other spells.
The colossus died every game, usually after absolutely violating at least one unit, or keeping a nasty unit busy and out of combat for most of the game. Lesson's learned: 1) He's a badass against most infantry, 2) anything attacking initiative messes him right up, 3) he's a shooing magnet and eventually even weak shots get through, and 4) he can't stand up to normal giants or S5 because of initiative.
The hierotitan also died every game, usually after spending most of the game making it hard for my opponents to stop my casting. Lessons learned: 1) He makes it hard to stop my spells, 2) his spells are marginally useful, 3) he is pretty good against infantry, and 4) but eventually they'll get him.
Had a great time, saw deserving people win cool stuff, and came home with loot myself, which will be addressed in a later post.
Friday, August 2, 2013
Not Quite at the Last MInute
I finished about noon today, but they're done. At least, they're done enough. I have some touching up and a few details I want to change, but I am willing to bring them to Bayou Battles like this.
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