Grimjaw's Grab 'n' Smash

Hey all some more stuff from the slightly darkened corners of my mind. This time its the kraken.

Straight out of the box i didn't like the legs (common complaint apparently) So i looked on line for inspiration and came up with a short list of improvements.

-longer legs (war of the worlds was first to mind)
-swap round weapons to improve looks
-use all of the parts. some conversions did away with the crab claws which i wanted to keep

taller check! legs were brass rod.

leg details are a doc octopus toys arms cut up and threaded onto the rod like beads. 

Very tedious but effective.

weapon swap detail. i really like the guns in this configuration 

the kraken in all its glory

have since got some paint on this bad boy will get a post up soon.

thanks guys, see ya

Kooinda Gaming Klub League table for october

KOOINDA GAMING CLUB

SLOW GROWTH LEAGUE TABLE
October 2013
┌───┬─────────┬───────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬──────┐

│Pos│  Name   │Faction│Games│Games│ New │ New │Paint│Castr│Torny│Total │

│   │         │       │Ply'd│ Won │Playr│Factn│ Pnts│Kills│Pnts │      │

╞═══╪═════════╪═══════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪══════╡

│ 1 │Ado      │Mercs  │  30 │  21 │  14 │  10 │  30 │  11 │37.00│152.00│
│ 2 │Kortez   │Cygnar │  47 │  28 │  11 │  11 │  19 │  16 │17.25│148.25│
│ 3 │Jay      │Legion │  46 │  16 │   8 │  10 │  21 │  10 │16.25│128.25│
│ 4 │Eddie    │Cryx   │  35 │  20 │   9 │   7 │  21 │  14 │26.00│131.00│
│ 5 │Aris     │Pirates│  26 │   7 │   7 │   9 │  16 │   3 │15.00│ 84.00│
│ 6 │Foster   │Ret    │  14 │   7 │   7 │   7 │   7 │   3 │17.25│ 63.25│

│ 7 │Matt-Man │Khador │   8 │   6 │   5 │   5 │   4 │   3 │10.00│ 41.00│

│ 8 │Alan?    │Cryx   │   8 │   3 │   5 │   5 │   4 │   1 │10.25│ 36.25│

│ 9 │Chunky   │Trolls │   3 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   2 │ 9.00│ 25.00│

│10 │Gelfie   │Crocs  │   3 │   2 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   1 │ 6.25│ 21.25│

│11 │Graham   │Khador │   3 │   1 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   1 │ 3.00│ 17.00│
└───┴─────────┴───────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴──────┘

1 October 2013: Kort vs Aris 50 points.
I know this was a crap game. I was never in it. Cygnar just over power with shooting. 50 points are not good for pirates they work better at lower points and my collosus may as well not be there when a 5 point unit can take it out. The biggest problem I have with warmachine is that there is no level across the factions. Anyway points are:
* Kort gets 3 points for win play paint
* I get 2 point for play and paint

2 october. Jay vs Eddie. Jay wins on control points.
*Jay gets 3 points
*eddie two for play paint

Next Aris vs eddie he gets ful points cause I rage quit. I cant kill something with armour 31 once again needs a cap to make it fair across the factions but that will never happen.

*I (Aris) get 2 points play and paint
*Eddie gets 4 points for play win paint castor kill

October: Kort vs Aris. Kort played trolls so no points for him and I played Bart. Kort won the game but we recorded it and found he had 2 animi on his bomber. One from the axer which allowed him to get closer to my caster and 1 from the spear chucker so he could get close enough to chuck two bombs and kill bart. So he cheated and I get full point.
* Aris Play, painted, win, caster kill, new faction so 5 points

Also I played a game against Ado. I don’t remember the details but I was testing a new list. Im pretty sure he beat me on scenario but cant remember so points are
*Ado Play, Paint, win = 3 points
*Aris Played + 1 point

Updated league games from bris machine:

KORT: This years weekend at bris machine I took my league army cygnar and went with Brisbane and EHaley.

Game one was against the master bates which was a mirror match, I took Brisbane and he dropped "the ECaine list"
I ended up conceding after all the bullshit that "the Caine list" is and scored
*myself playing, new player, new faction = 3 Points

Second game was against the Sam man. Another mirror match, I took haley and He dropped ENemo. Long game drawn out, i should have won but didn't because I forgot a few of my in play abilities, but that's the game.
*playing, new player = 2 Points

Third game was against the parfait wearing jaybo. I took Brisbane and jay had lylyth. He went for a long shot turn two but was out so I cleaned up. 
* Kort play, win and caster kill. = 3 points
* jay  play and paint = 2 points

Last game was against a new player to the tournament scene he played legion with Elylyth and Pthags. He took lylyth and I dropped brissie again. Another quick game he moved and feated turn two and I responded with a Brisbane boosted feat shot at lylyth without any fury and that was that.
* Kort play, win, caster and new player = 4 points.

Wasn't a bad weekend I drove so couldn't drink food was good quality and cheap but there was no lucky dip and the top spots went to the same people as it always has this year so I went home with nothing but some good games of warmachine.

Eddie: So like Ado, Kort and Jay I played at brismachine and took my cryx.

Had terminus and coven as my casters.

1st game was against Dave Potts.
He had skorne and dropped hexeris (one with the arc node bond) was a tight game came down to me putting terminus into tiberion to kill him and putting a big threat on his caster. then he went in with a brute and had to use all his fury to kill me. He nearly choked cause he forgot terminus had tough! but bad luck to me terminus dies. Good tense game.
* Eddie played, painted, new player, new faction = 4 league pts

Game 2 Justin with legion.
Forcing me to use termi again (coven don't like legion)
He had thagrosh with tyfon and 2 heavies, ogre warspears, legionnaires and the pot.
Terrain and scenario forced the legionnaires into control range of termi and it wasn't to hard to kill most of them and feed terminus enough souls to camp on arm 28 one turn then with cull soul camped on 30 next turn. his heavies bounce off and i the charge thagrosh for the win.
* Eddie played, painted, new player, win, caster kill = 5 league pts

Game 3 tony mercs gorten.
I use coven but wraith engine stalls on a flank due to tough press gangers. Kraken gets scrapped to easily by forge guard (partly my fault partly a tough roll denying as kill shot - dahm piper of ord!)
death jack then has to take on a driller and a rockram not good odds even if he is the death jack. mechanithralls play a rolling retreat against most of his army but only delay the enviable as i slowly lose witches over a few turns. Brutal game make me want to dust off my Gorten and give him an airing.
* Eddie played, painted, new player = 3 league pts

Game 4 clinton cygnar. (If this is ClinTonKen and you played him at the tourney last month lose 2 points)
Old friend from warhammer days. I drop terminus again cause he has lots of living. he has stryker roudy, gallant, precurser knights, gunmages, blazers.
wraith engine and mechanitralls are able to clear my left zone. Gallant got unlucky and failed to kill engine. termi feeds off the knights souls as the mechanithrall blob pushed towards the mages. termi and my withershadow are forced over to his zone to stop striker farming control points termi camps and runs into melee with styker he is unable hurt termi so has to camp and clear the combine out of the zone to dominate up to 3. termi is forced to have a go at stryker camping arcane shield and some focus. a few lucky rolls get the job done. phew that was close. gotta keep an eye on the scenarios in the future.
*Eddie played, painted, new player,new faction, win, caster kill = 6 league pts.

all in all a good day. bit hot but that's qld for ya. thanks to chunky for running another great event and to my opponents on the day.

league points for the weekend = 17 (hope ya counting aris)
ta guys, eddie.
"I did and I count 18" Aris

Ado: I played the mercs, Did not do well but enjoyed the company and games

Day one I played Prime Magnus and Drake MacBain

First round played Dodgy - great game but I took my eyes of the scenario and let him get 1 control points, at dice down I lost to scenario but was totally owning Dodge on the attrition battle, hmm.. Need to think about my game a bit more.
*Ado Played, painted, new player, new faction = 4 points

Round two Played Jay, Good match up but Jay forgot the drag on the galleon!?! pulled in Bethayne in her warbeast and proceeded to smash her down with just about every activation in my force. Win for me (only one for the day)
*Ado Played, Painted, win caster kill = 4 points
*Jay Played painted = 2 points

Round three played trent with Emorv AKA GoatGirl! all I can say Emorv's is awesome and when played buy a talented player is terrifying. Big lost (Tabled!)
*Ado Played , painted, new player, new faction = 4 points

Last round and man I'm tired! Play a really nice guy name Tmo with a dwarf Colossal "Earthbreaker" and Tmo assassinated Drake in turn 3, just kept his eyes on the prize I had a chance to drag in Gorton in but for the life of me I cannot think why I didn't.
*Ado Played, painted, new player, new faction = 4 points


On day two which was a Tiers list only tournament I had two games that couldn't be any different (Round one vrs Josh with Ehaley) game over in 12 Minutes and I think Josh was going easy on me.
*Ado Played, painted, new player = 3 points

and Round two win on scenario vrs a Legion player from Good games store "Sorry forgot your name" Interesting game but it when down to 4 minutes left on the death clock - My Brain melted at this stage so I called it a day.
*Ado Played, Painted, New player, win = 4 points

KOOINDA GAMING CLUB

SLOW GROWTH LEAGUE TABLE

September 2013

┌───┬─────────┬───────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬──────┐

│Pos│  Name   │Faction│Games│Games│ New │ New │Paint│Castr│Torny│Total │

│   │         │       │Ply'd│ Won │Playr│Factn│ Pnts│Kills│Pnts │      │

╞═══╪═════════╪═══════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪══════╡

│ 1 │Kortez   │Cygnar │  42 │  25 │   8 │  10 │  19 │  13 │17.25│133.25│

│ 2 │Ado      │Mercs  │  23 │  18 │   9 │   7 │  23 │  10 │37.00│126.00│

│ 3 │Jay      │Legion │  43 │  15 │   8 │  10 │  19 │  10 │16.25│122.25│

│ 4 │Eddie    │Cryx   │  29 │  17 │   5 │   5 │  15 │  11 │26.00│108.00│

│ 5 │Aris     │Pirates│  23 │   6 │   7 │   8 │  14 │   3 │15.00│ 76.00│

│ 6 │Foster   │Ret    │  14 │   7 │   7 │   7 │   7 │   3 │17.25│ 63.25│

│ 7 │Matt-Man │Khador │   8 │   6 │   5 │   5 │   4 │   3 │10.00│ 41.00│

│ 8 │Alan?    │Cryx   │   8 │   3 │   5 │   5 │   4 │   1 │10.25│ 36.25│

│ 9 │Chunky   │Trolls │   3 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   2 │ 9.00│ 25.00│

│10 │Gelfie   │Crocs  │   3 │   2 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   1 │ 6.25│ 21.25│

│11 │Graham   │Khador │   3 │   1 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   1 │ 3.00│ 17.00│

└───┴─────────┴───────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴──────┘

How to build a best painted army part 3

Show piece, center piece and eye catchers.

 These will be the key to wining the best painted. They all differ slightly from each other though

Show Piece

This is usually your leaders and standard bearers. They can be similar to the eye catchers but they usually stand out more.

This is where alot of you time is spent. You can spend as much time on one of these as you would a whole unit. The idea here is to show of any special talents you may have, as in you may make great bases so go nuts on these guys or your freehand might be good so this is the place to do it.

But don’t despair if you don’t have special talents you can still make a show piece.

Show piece models should be you army leader and unit leaders and other character models. I like to put my leaders on larger bases so they stand out and this is all you really need to do. Make sure your base follows your theme and build your character accordingly. As you can see below my Spartan General is leaping into battle. This is in keeping with the Spartan theme and wasn’t very difficult to do, Just a reposition of the arms and changing the legs and a wire through the torso to raise him up. No real special skills involved. He was given a little extra attention paint wise.

With my ogre general he had to be the biggest ogre in the group. This took a lot of modding I also had his sword and luck knoblars built onto his base in order to make him stand out more. This took a bit more skill as I also did a bit more on the free hand but overall not too difficult. One thing to note with Show pieces is that you only need a few maybe one per unit or even just the main characters, This will also depend on time available to you.

I made my Spartan general before I did my first troop as a test piece and decided that I wanted one in every unit.

Center Piece.

Every army needs one of these. It needs to be seen from a few tables away and will probably take the most time to make and paint. With warhammer at least there is usually a large beast or warmachine that you can use for the purpose. Warmachine is similar especially with Collosus's.  Below you will see my Rhinox riders. I made these big and bright and built up the bases to make sure they stood out. 

In all infantry armies this can be a problem but there are ways around it. For instance in the Spartan army I made a unit filler where 2 Spartans are attacking a Minotaur, you could have 4 troops raising a banner or something similar. The center pice should define your army so give it a bit of thought before jumping in. And once again one center piece is good but you can do more if you have the chance. As Ive said before if you hear someone go to a mate and tell them they have to come look at this then you know you’ve got it right.

I modded this Slann to be a center piece for a lizard army

Orc Center piece he stands over 30cm tall

Eye catchers

Now they can be show pieces or center pieces but really what they are is subtle things that people discover as they look at your army. The longer someone looks at your army the more votes so you want to give them stuff to look at. You don’t have to put allot of time in but they should be in theme with your army and can be amusing but don’t have to be.

In my ogre army I put a lot of eye catchers. If  you look at the knoblar unit you can see coconut clappers and knoblars riding ponies. These didn’t take long to make in fact the theme for my army was based on this mini.

in some armies this would be a center piece but in this one its just an eye catcher

In my Spartan army I had the movement trays with piles of dead bodies on them. In my Chaos army I had different mutations and a unit with the seven deadly sins. You don’t need a lot of time but they are worth putting two or three in the army and one in each unit would be good. As Ive said the longer someone is looking at your army the better and if they come for a second look and notice something different it will really help out.

My cryx army has alot of detail to the bases. Took a bit of work but once its finished it will be worth the effort

So I hope this has helped out. The main points are in my opininion

1. Limited pallete
2. Bright paint job.
3. Unique or little used idea
4. Show piece
5. Center piece
6. Eye catchers
7. Themed force

So anyone who can hold a paint brush and use a knife and glue could do this. It helps if you do a little research before you start your army but anything can be your inspiration. The further you go from the hobbie to get your inspiration the more likely you will come up wit something new so don’t be afraid to read google or phone a friend.

Thanks for watching and leave a comment to let me know what you think or if you have any questions.

Center piece for my wood elf army. I made a mum and dad treeman as well

Center peice for my merc and Kislev army I also used this as a Bretonnian army and they stood in as Pegusus's

Eye catcher in my Kislev army

More from my Ogre army

This guy I made for Golden Deamon but it didnt make the cut. It makes a great center peice though

Ogrebane's Omnium-Gatherum Part 3

So a few updates on my collosus I have yet to finish the legs and the crane arm as I want a complete redesign of this monstrosity

Hope you enjoy

KGK SGL September 2013

The wash up

So I started the day expecting 12 players. After a few phone calls I was thinking we would have 14 players.

...... And then the rot set in. Gen Y true to their nature decided that it was too hard to turn up and lets not bother to tell anyone.

First up Allen dropped out. If I hadn't got someone to call I wouldn't have known. Ok well maybe we can still get twelve. Then the number 5 australian player scared of the flogging he would recieve didnt bother to call either but dropped out. Ok we can have 10 players its still good. So at 8:50 no Matt man. Frantic calling to no avail Mattman a no show. Took the day of work so his poor mother had to cover for him and not to be seen. His next invite will be lost in the mail.

SO we have 9 players and byes suck monkey b@!!$ so Ado and I played the two headed giant. We are one player. I opted to let Ado go first and as we only had 8 players it was only a 3 game tourney.

It was a great day. We had Chunky and Gelfy come up from Lysmore and Graham Marshal a newbie to the world of warmachine join us.

The final Match was against Kort and Chunky both on 2 wins and after a tight tussle Chunky came out the overall winner.

So trophies were
Field Marshal (1st place)  Ben (Chunkey) Hayes
Phat controller: (Most control points) Courtney (Kortez) Tottle
Slaughterer (Most kills by single model) Eddie (Grobnuts) Crompton
Assasin (Fastest Caster kill) Clinton (Gelf) Kenn
Best Painted (And about time) Jay (Parfiet Ive only ever finished 1 army) Neilsen
Genecide: (Most army points killed) The two headed giant.

Links to recorded games to follow.

Had a great day thanks to you all for turning up now get painting for the 50 points.

Here are the league tables

KOOINDA GAMING CLUB

SLOW GROWTH LEAGUE TABLE

September 2013

┌───┬─────────┬───────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬──────┐

│Pos│  Name   │Faction│Games│Games│ New │ New │Paint│Castr│Torny│Total │

│   │         │       │Ply'd│ Won │Playr│Factn│ Pnts│Kills│Pnts │      │

╞═══╪═════════╪═══════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪══════╡

│ 1 │Kortez   │Cygnar │  42 │  25 │   8 │  10 │  19 │  13 │17.25│133.25│

│ 2 │Ado      │Mercs  │  23 │  18 │   9 │   7 │  23 │  10 │37.00│126.00│

│ 3 │Jay      │Legion │  43 │  15 │   8 │  10 │  19 │  10 │16.25│122.25│

│ 4 │Eddie    │Cryx   │  29 │  17 │   5 │   5 │  15 │  11 │26.00│108.00│

│ 5 │Aris     │Pirates│  23 │   6 │   7 │   8 │  14 │   3 │15.00│ 76.00│

│ 6 │Foster   │Ret    │  14 │   7 │   7 │   7 │   7 │   3 │17.25│ 63.25│

│ 7 │Matt-Man │Khador │   8 │   6 │   5 │   5 │   4 │   3 │10.00│ 41.00│

│ 8 │Alan?    │Cryx   │   8 │   3 │   5 │   5 │   4 │   1 │10.25│ 36.25│

│ 9 │Chunky   │Trolls │   3 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   2 │ 9.00│ 25.00│

│10 │Gelfie   │Crocs  │   3 │   2 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   1 │ 6.25│ 21.25│

│11 │Graham   │Khador │   3 │   1 │   3 │   3 │   3 │   1 │ 3.00│ 17.00│

└───┴─────────┴───────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴──────┘

September Tourney Table

┌─────────┬───────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┐

│  Name   │Faction│Games│Games│ New │ New │Paint│Castr│Torny│Spend│Cntrl│Trphy│ Win │Total│

│         │       │Ply'd│ Won │Playr│Factn│ Pnts│Kills│ Game│ coin│Pts/4│     │Torny│     │

╞═════════╪═══════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╡

│Chunky   │Trolls │  3  │  3  │  3  │  3  │  3  │  2  │  3  │  0  │ 1.0 │  1  │  4  │25.00│

│Kortez   │Cygnar │  3  │  2  │  2  │  2  │  1  │  1  │  3  │  0  │ 1.75│  1  │  0  │16.75│

│Gelfy    │Crocs  │  3  │  2  │  3  │  3  │  3  │  1  │  3  │  0  │ 2.25│  1  │  0  │21.25│

│Ado      │Mercs  │  2  │  2  │  1  │  0  │  2  │  1  │  2  │  4  │ 1.25│  1  │  0  │16.25│

│Aris     │Pirates│  1  │  0  │  1  │  1  │  1  │  0  │  1  │  0  │ 0.0 │  1  │  0  │ 6.00│

│Eddie    │Cryx   │  3  │  1  │  2  │  1  │  3  │  0  │  3  │  5  │ 1.5 │  1  │  0  │20.50│

│Parfiet  │Legion │  3  │  1  │  1  │  1  │  3  │  0  │  3  │  0  │ 0.75│  1  │  0  │13.75│

│Graham   │Khador │  3  │  1  │  3  │  3  │  3  │  1  │  3  │  0  │ 0.0 │  0  │  0  │17.00│

│Foster   │Ret    │  3  │  0  │  1  │  2  │  0  │  0  │  3  │  0  │ 0.0 │  1  │  0  │10.00│

└─────────┴───────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┘

PS Gen Y sux

Kooinda Gaming Klub Slow growth League table for September

KOOINDA GAMING CLUB

SLOW GROWTH LEAGUE TABLE

September 2013

┌───┬─────────┬───────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬──────┐

│Pos│  Name   │Faction│Games│Games│ New │ New │Paint│Castr│Torny│Total │

│   │         │       │Ply'd│ Won │Playr│Factn│ Pnts│Kills│Pnts │      │

╞═══╪═════════╪═══════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪═════╪══════╡

│ 1 │Kortez   │Cygnar │  39 │  23 │   6 │   8 │  18 │  12 │11.50│116.50│

│ 2 │Ado      │Mercs  │  21 │  16 │   7 │   7 │  21 │   9 │28.75│109.75│
│ 3 │Jay      │Legion │  40 │  14 │   7 │   9 │  16 │  10 │11.50│108.50│

│ 4 │Eddie    │Cryx   │  29 │  17 │   5 │   5 │  15 │  11 │26.00│108.00│

│ 5 │Aris     │Pirates│  22 │   6 │   6 │   7 │  13 │   3 │13.00│ 70.00│

│ 6 │Foster   │Ret    │  11 │   7 │   6 │   6 │   7 │   3 │13.25│ 53.25│

│ 7 │Matt-Man │Khador │   8 │   6 │   5 │   5 │   4 │   3 │10.00│ 41.00│

│ 8 │Alan?    │Cryx   │   8 │   3 │   5 │   5 │   4 │   1 │10.25│ 36.25│

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Update: I missed a few games. Kort should have 1 extra new player and 2 extra new factions Jay should have 2 extra new factions

5th sept. kort vs jay, EStryker tier4 (cygnar) vs Bethane (legion). Mass carnage on both sides of the table. His heavy beasts were unable to destroy both stormclads, during my feat turn I killed both the beasts and advanced and swung at Beth with a boost boost (that part of the feat is just silly :D) but he transferred to a shredder, it died and Beth took 5ish damage. His turn he went for it with some arched spells a light beast and a spell from a shard member surviving a free strike and a lone spell slinger dude. Dust settled and stryker was left on 6 due to a couple poor rolls. My follow up turn 3focus to the jack in combat with Beth and a positive charge on the jack within 3" of it finished the game.

Kort 1pt play.1pt win. 1pt caster. 

Jay 1pt play

7th sep. kort vs jay. PHaley (cygnar) vs pLylyth (legion) he had Rhys as his second list so I dropped Haley just in case

Rather non eventful game with jay staying back and shooting me with everything and me responding with the same manner. I popped feat too early and it had no effect. Jay went for a caster kill with plylyth carnivean and CRA from striders. Lylyth had to spend the first shot to clear out a lightning pod for LOS to Haley and did poor on the damage roll. Carni was out for a spray 10! Just.... And the striders rolled average. My turn plays out with colossal shooting lylyth after tem barrier was cast. Haley also shot her and a lone B13 member. After that the stormGuard went in. Hit for 5ish, miss,miss,miss,miss and then hit!! Game was done

Kort 1pt play.1pt win.1pt caster.

Jay 1pt play.1pt paint

9Sep WARMACHINE Monday kicked off with kort V jay.

Jays two lists were Plylyth and Absilonia? I stuck with Estryker and Phaley. I choose Phaley once again coz stryker just won't handle all the poison shots and stealth striders. Jay dropped Plylyth again. 

Jay won the roll for first and did so promptly. 

Everything of his ran with all buffs put on lylyth and bttle group, as all good players do. Much the same happend for me with arc shield and tough went on stormguard. Hayley tried a shot but was out due to stealth which I forgot and it hurt my plans as I was going to spell the unit to death! Oh well she was, safe? Behind the guards. Stormwall trampled and placed a pod killing a strider and damaging the solo. Gun mages advanced to the hill with the colossal and tried to shoot em some stealth, but couldn't hit. 

Jay replied with all his units shooting and after the dust settled two guards were down and two on the ground due to tough. Lylyth came out of the forest and shot at a tempest taking him out. Carnivean tried to spray at 3 of the mages but missed. 

My turn went off with 3 focus on stormy and kept arc shield with squire. I contemplated for a while deciding what to do as all of his force was basically on my side of the table a flanking raptors and Anissa too close for comfort. I decided to go for it, as lylyth had come out of hiding the previous turn. We went with Haley going first popping feat and giving the mages dead eye. StormGuard tied up maybe 2 raptors running thru the forest thanks to the piper and charging some striders. With an insane amount of attack only one connected and two died in total due to an electric leap however the gun mages advanced and brutal shot at lylyth eventually chewing thru the transfers and leaving her on 3? Damage. So the stormwall went for it. Needing 13 to hit with 3 big gun shots they were all boosted...... Miss....miss... 13!!! That was that:)

Kort 1pt play 1pt win 1pt caster. 

Jay 1pt play 1pt paint

Warmachine wednesday is back

11 Sep Warmachine Monday/Wednesday was with Eddie vs kort, cryx v cygnar. We had a Asphy 3 tier list and Terminus. I was running my Estryker teir list and Phaley. 

Eddy dropped Terminus and as I don't have all of my stryker list with me I dropped Phaley. Eddie won the roll for first and took it, as he wanted a couple of turns to be able to run. And everything did so. 

I ran with storm guards and gave them tough and arc shield. Haley was "just" out of a temp barrier to his colossal. Gun mages advanced into position on the right flank and the colossal dropped a pod (why not) and two covering fires.

Eddie's turn was more running and his colossal drew first blood onto mine with a unicorn shot. He ran a mechanic solo onto my farthest left flag (as the centre one was the one too disappear).

I pounded for awhile but ended up feating in my next turn and shooting down some dead with Haley. My storm guard received the pathfinder ability thanks to the piper and charge/ran. They cleared out a few dead and two of the brute thralls. My colossal tried to catch the stitch surgeon but she sack pawned.....twice, I was sure the second one was out, but.... So we shot at the last brute and took him out and of course layed out some templates. Gun mages did much of the same but only half the unit was in feat range so they only managed to take out 4 or so dead. I pass the turn... 

Edd replies with Termi feating and casting berserk on himself he went in and cleared 5 guards, leaving him on a stoopid amount of Arm. The kraken took out a few more guards, feeding Termi. I think at this stage he's at Arm 28? 

So my turn started and I look over at the clock...... I hav 5 or so min left :( oh well, I go for it. i try getting the "crit" to knock Termi down from the mages bullets, but dice says no so the colossal goes in and at dice minus 8 i do a total of 7? To Termi. 

His turn starts with Termi allocating 3 to kraken and Termi upkeeps a spell. Kraken kill colossal and Termi charges Haley, nuff said....

Eddie 1pt play, 1pt win & 1pt caster

Kort 1pt play

11 Sep At Good games. Jay played some random. So Jay vs Tim (Khador). No details but Jay gets play paint and new player for 3 points

12 sep Aris vs Kort Heres a link to the write up The write up

     Kort 1pt win 1pt caster & 1pt play

    Aris 1pt play

16/9/13 Warmachine Monday. Was a perfect day for gaming out at redbank plains, finally a lil wet weather.

So we had Kort with Cygnar (Phaley and Estryker) and Jay with legion (Plylyth and Abby) 

I dropped Haley again and jay took Abby. Jay went first and everything ran with buffs put on for good measure.

I ran most of my stuff and arc shield went out on Murdock's boomhowlers and temporal barrier catching the arch angel and bolt thrower (happy days :D)!Stormwall layed out some covering fire and dropped a pod and the booms called super tough and ran to screen Haley who decided to dominate the objective this turn. End of my turn and I decided to place the objective within my zone hoping to get a good start to the scenario. 

I pass the turn 

Jays turn plays out with the arch angel shooting the boomhowlers in front of Haley, he toughs but dies to the last strafe shot. Jay "activates the Ravagore, casts his animus, boosts to hit and damage" and deals 12 to Haley setting her on fire, needing 13 on three dice he rolls trip 6's!! 

Wat are ya gunna do, these things happen in dice games. So I just stop jay from anything farther, roll one dice for fire, doesn't go out, so I shake his hand. 

Quick game... 

          Kort 1pt play AND 1pt paint 

          Jay 1pt play 1pt win 1pt caster Kill 

17 Sep Eddie v Jay heres the link to the game descriptionThe write up

          Eddie play, won, caster kill =3pts

          Jay play, painted=2pts

20 Sep Kort vs Aris Linky The other write up

          Dad 1pt play 1pt win 1pt caster

          Kort 1pt play 1pt paint

25 sep Warmachine games at Jay's tonight: Played Jay, My Prime Magnus Vrs Jay's Absylonia

Jay had an Archangel, Ravagore, Nephilim Bolt Thrower, shredder and smattering of support models

I had 2 Nomads, Renegade , Gunmages with UA with marshaled Mule, Tactical Arcanist Corps and support.

Scenario was Chemical Reaction. Jay had the first turn and like a good player got all his buffs out (No paying for them again) and run crap up the table staying central to the table with his force.

I also got my buffs out (also no paying for upkeeps) moved towards his army and his zone, popped my feat in the first turn to run my battle group towards a wall between the zones threatening his army.

Jay moved both the bolt thrower and ravagore to take shots at my caster (ops!) caster took no damage due to Jay's crappy roll but was set on fire (Shit!) the Archangel moved to engage one of my Nomads hitting over a wall and doing damage but still rolling on the derppy side!

this turn shot my once per game renegade shot knocking down but the ravagore and bolt thrower, ignoring the archangel both my nomads put these two beasts down and my caster dominated my zone for a point. Fire did 1 point of damage to Magnus and went out in the following turn.

At this stage the achangel was engaged with two Nomad (one really beaten up) and a Mule and losing two key pieces (Ravagore and bolt thrower) was giving Jay fits, he continued to roll crappy dice on my jacks - Killing the Mule with Absylonia and leaving one of my Nomad in a few hit points. 

I continue to throw out damage and dominate my own zone till this forces Jay to use the Achangel to take a ranged assassination attempt on Magnus which as the game has been going failed miserably (Derpy Dice) 

   Win to Me by scenario, fully painted.   3 points

   Jay get play  Jay's army by the way is starting to look amazing looking forward to a review of his army on the main website soon.

Second Game vrs Kort (my Drake Mcbain!! vers EStriker)

Kort had a stom wall and storm knights with 2 gun attachment and UA, black 13th and normal Cygnar Support 

I was running the gallon (Colossus show down!) Boomhowlers and Forge guard and support. 

Mission was destruction. 

Early turns involve moving toward the objective and putting out our buffs as per most games of warmachine. One note the booms took 4+ tough and counter measure and run straight at Korts force - this is my favorite tactic against Shooting armies. 

This game can be summed up with if you frustrate your opponent into making mistakes you win. 

Counter Measures Booms that cannot die stop a cygnar army from doing most, not all of their cool stuff and the galleon was having a field day doing damage to objectives and anything else he could get in line of sight. and Kort just couldn't escape the countermeasured Boomhowlers not through a lack of trying. 

I think Kort just got sick of my hard control and ran Striker straight through my lines on full camp then got crit smite buy a forge guard and stomped to death by the galleon - Sorry Kort! I feel bad but a win is a win 

Win for me Caster Kill, fully painted. 

KOOINDA GAMING CLUB

SLOW GROWTH LEAGUE TABLE

August 2013

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│Pos│  Name   │Faction│Games│Games│ New │ New │Paint│Castr│Torny│Total │

│   │         │       │Ply'd│ Won │Playr│Factn│ Pnts│Kills│Pnts │      │

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│ 1 │Eddie    │Cryx   │  27 │  15 │   5 │   5 │  15 │   9 │26.00│102.00│

│ 2 │Ado      │Mercs  │  17 │  12 │   7 │   7 │  17 │   7 │28.75│ 95.75│

│ 3 │Kortez   │Cygnar │  30 │  19 │   5 │   6 │  16 │   8 │11.50│ 95.50│

│ 4 │Jay      │Legion │  33 │  13 │   6 │   7 │  12 │  10 │11.50│ 92.50│

│ 5 │Aris     │Pirates│  20 │   5 │   6 │   7 │  13 │   2 │13.00│ 66.00│

│ 6 │Foster   │Ret    │  11 │   7 │   6 │   6 │   7 │   3 │13.25│ 53.25│

│ 7 │Matt-Man │Khador │   8 │   6 │   5 │   5 │   4 │   3 │10.00│ 41.00│

│ 8 │Alan?    │Cryx   │   8 │   3 │   5 │   5 │   4 │   1 │10.25│ 36.25│

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I know I missed a few games. Can you post you game on the facebook page and maybe some colored text (yes I went there)

Forgot a game with Eddie and Foster. Foster won by Caster Kill for 3 points and Eddie gets 2 point for play and painted.

Ogrebane's Omnium-Gatherum Part 2

Collossus legs

I had to have a rethink of the legs. I wanted the big fella to be walking up the beach but the rest of my army was built the other way around so I repositioned the legs like below.

 I need to do a few small tweeks with the legs and they will be done. Im still not sure how I will shape the greeves yet but I dont think they will be too elaborate as I want to see the pistons etc.

Instead of starting a new thread I'll just put the update here. I remodelled the legs. They are nnow ready for paint. I added some crates to the base and I will add extra details as I go.

Ok for now the legs are done. I may do some battle damage later but paint wise it will do. I still have to do the water effects on the base and maybe a small bit of deco (Like a bot fishing on the pier)

SO here is what I have