Warmachine Casters for Dummies Part 1

(Now with 40% more hordes)

For those of you that know me (well anyway) you see I struggle sometimes with rules, and my eyes will often glaze over when you start reading the stats of your unit. Now some of this is because I just don’t care that much I just want to roll dice and kill stuff, but some of this is that I think my memory is full and I just cant fit too much more stuff in without losing some of the old stuff. Like my kids names and birthdays.

For awhile now I have an idea to help myself and others who have a similar problem to make up a bunch of Castor/Warlock cards to help when it comes to picking the right army to beat your opponent's castor, or even how to build a list for your own castor.

So what I want is a brief description of the good, the bad and the ugly of each castor that will fit on something the size of a playing card.

What it will contain are things like the name and faction that’s a given, and then a brief of the feat if its needed (not all feats are earth shattering). Also a list of spells that will cause you grief and then the types of play and maybe army make up you can expect.

So here’s an example , and this is from me so its not accurate at all.

KHADOR:   PSorscha
Feat – Icy Gaze All enemies in her control area and LOS are immobile unless they have immunity to cold. Play style:Assassination and maybe objective spam if she takes a heap of troops.
What to expect: If your castor is squishy she will get close enough to charge your castor using wind rush, cast tempest to knock down stuff in her way of the castor then feat and freeze everything then game over for the enemy castor. She supports troops well with fog of war but her stats aren’t great so she wont be assassinating Butcher or Borka. She also has boundless charge for those extra long charges and Jack support. Bad things: Her tactics wont work on stealth castors.

To get the ball rolling I would like to do 5 castors each time. So I'll pick a few easy ones.
PSorscha (she's already dressed) for Khador. PKreoss for Menoth. PStryker for Cygnar. PDeneghra for Cryx and last but not least lets try PVyros for the Ret

I dont care what format you put it in but a few comments would help. Maybe put Castor, feat and explaination. other spells and game style and maybe even army compositions. Also weaknesses if any.

Cheers all.

KGK SGL June Tournament

Our next Tourney is upon us. So this one is a 35 point iron gauntlet.

Rules are relaxed iron gauntlet rules so the following changes apply.

1. Death clock (Noone likes timed turns anymore) 45 minutes each.

2. Game time will be 90 minutes 

3. Specialists. 10 points

4. We will play 4 rounds. I dont care if we have a winner after 2 rounds i want to get a few games in.

5. trophies must be made by the past winners. You all know the rules so make your trophies. Dont leave it till the game day.

6. For those in the league you dont get painting points for a faction you have already used unless you have painted new models and are using them in this tourney.

7. If we have an odd number of players we will try to get everyone to play 4 games with one player having to play a 5th and that player can pick his best 4 games to score for the tourney.

The tourney is at my place as usual. date will be Saturday 21st June and we would like a 9 oclock kick off. I will do up a bbq as usual for lunch and bring your own beer. Could you also let me know if your going so we can work out if we need to invite extra players etc. Hope to see you there.

Ogrebane's Omnium-Gatherum Part 8

Ive put some paint on this guy but I need to do a bit more work on the flames and a few of the detail bits.

Let Me know what you think.

Ogrebane's Omnium-Gatherum Part 7

Well Ive finished with the green stuff. So I gave it a quick undercoat and am ready to paint.

 Also I had some spare green stuff so I did a few flames I'll add to the base later.

Next up is paint. I use a purple skin tone with flesh coloring around high points. I will also try a bit of OSL with this one.

Cheers

Ogrebane's Omnium-Gatherum Part 6

Continuing with my Pyre Troll.

I have made a bit of progres with the Troll. Here are a few pics for you to look at

So from this shot he is breathing fire as well as holding two fire balls. His hair is fire, inspired by hades from the disney cartoon. In the next shot you can see his back is covered in fire.

This last shot you can see a better shot of his back. You may also notice the past where the skirt and the leg need some work.

 Once Ive done that I will undercoat and paint his guy. Im thinking that this guy will be standing on a rock in a lava pool.

Results for first Tourney of 2014

Results from First tourney of 2014

So our first tourney for 2014 has been run and won. We are playing a modified verion of Iron Gauntlet. So 2 armies at 25 pts and they can be from different factions. The rest of the rules are on the tourney page.

These are the results. As we were playing 25pts and only six players we decided to just play each other. So we each played 5 games apiece.

So strength of schedule was out the window for count backs. It was an interesting result as we had 3 players on 4 wins and Kort was actually on 4 wins and a draw.
So by 2012 rules he probably would have won the tourney. By count though back Eddie won the game against Kort so he ended with 4 wins.

I think it was 3 count backs for Parfiet to be given the overall win as both eddie and Jay had the same kill points and control points.

I had a great day and the results dont reflect how some of the games actually went. The game against Foster and Parfiet was down to Both thier casters and maybe a solo on Parfiets side and was won by a late game caster kill. Nathan had 4 control points and just needed to hang on till the end of the turn to win.

I'll do a break down of the other trophy wins at the end of the table.

So second term starts, which means any non locked factions that were used in first term wont get paint points unless a new mini is painted and used. Good luck all.

Pos	Name	Faction	Games Plyd	Games Won	New Plyr	New Fctn	Paint Pnts	Locked Fact	Cstr Kills	Cntrl Pnts	Tourny Game	Bonus Points	Total Points
1	Jay Nielsen	Legion/ Skorne	5	4	1	1	5	4	3	2	5	5	35
2	Eddie Crompton	COC / Circle	5	4	1	1	5	5	2	2	5	0	30
3	Courtney Tottle	Menoth	5	4	1	1	5	3	4	1.5	5	0	29.5
4	Adrian Roberts	Circle / Retribution	5	2	1	0	5	3	1	1.5	5	1	24.5
5	Aris Tottle	Mercs / Trolls	5	1	1	1	5	4	1	1.75	5	4	28.75
6	Nathan Foster	Retribution	5	0	5	5	0	5	0	2	5	11	38

And the winners are...

1st place:    Parfiet with 4 wins 128 kill points and 8 control points

Best Painted:    Courtney. He only took menoth so it was voted as one army but it looks the business. Should get him to post a pic.

Man of the Match   Eddie. The total of both his MOTM was good but he could have won it with just Axiom which did 199 boxes of damage.

Assasin: (Fastest Caster Kill)    Eddie again. We usually only give one trophy per player but as noone else posted a time and Eddies was pretty quick with 29min 25sec we gave the award to him

Genocide:   Ado. Thi one is for the highest army points destroyed. I think Ado still likes to play Warhammer style destroy the other guys army.

Phat Controller:    Foster. As the name states the one with the most control points. I'm a bit worried that one day Nathan will get enough games to nutout whats going on cause he gives a good game.

Im looking forward to 35 points. I think the trolls suffer from not enough support staff at low points and I hope to see them come to the for this round. If your interested in getting involved drop one of us a line and join in. We usually play one weekend a month so there is plenty of opportunity of getting a game is as well as Warmachine Wednesday which should be at Under the stairs now that Battle stations is closed. Cheers all

KGK League table March

This is the league tale for march. When working out your bonus points for playing someone higher that you use this as a guide.
So If I (Aris) play Kort, I will be Pos 5 and Kort is pos 1. (5-1)/2=2 (round down) So I will get 2 bonus points every time I play Kort in March

KOOINDA GAMING CLUB
SLOW GROWTH LEAGUE
MARCH 2014

Pos	Name	Faction	Games Plyd	Games Won	New Plyr	New Factn	Paint Pnts	Locked Fact	Caster Kills	Control Points	Tourny Points	Bonus Points	Total
1	Courtney Tottle	Menoth	23	14	13	7	21	20	13	2.5	0	0	113.5
2	Eddie Crompton	C.O.C	22	8	18	9	10	12	4	7	18	0	108
3	Adrian Roberts	Circle	19	10	16	9	11	7	4	12	16	0	104
4	Jay Nielsen	Skorne	20	3	16	10	10	10	12	3.25	11	5	100.25
5	Aris Tottle	Trolls	22	6	11	9	19	7	5	4.5	5	7	95.5
6	Allen Love	Circle	3	1	3	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	14
6	Graham Marshall	Menoth	4	0	2	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	14
8	Nathan Foster		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Mathew Read		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Alan Maddox		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0