Now that I’ve run another Warmahordes league, I wanted to take a step back and evaluate how this one went. There were definitely some things that worked well – better than last year even – and some things that didn’t quite go as well as I had hoped. Continue reading Warmahordes League – Game Design 1
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Warmahordes League – Custom Character Warbeast
As I mentioned last time, this year’s summer narrative league at The Rogue’s Roost was all about building a custom warjack or warbeast. Another thing I did differently this year, was allow everyone to play two factions rather than one – this allowed a little bit more variability in what you could play and meant that everyone got to design two models rather than just one if they chose to do so.
For my custom Grymkin warbeast, I looked to the Rattler for inspiration and looked for ways to destroy even more infantry. The first stop along this path was Death Rattle: Continue reading Warmahordes League – Custom Character Warbeast
Warmahordes League – Custom Character Warjack
For the warmahordes league this year, the featured element was designing a custom warjack or warbeast. I went into this with lots of ideas about what I might want to do, and I ended up with something cool and a bit unexpected. During this league, everyone earned cards for games played which gave them a set of random abilities that could be used to upgrade their warjack or warbeast, so the bound on one’s creativity was the availability of a particular ability. This made for some interesting design decisions because I couldn’t quite get everything I wanted, and had to work with what I had.
Below, I’ll talk a bit about what I ended up with and show off the cards. Continue reading Warmahordes League – Custom Character Warjack
Warmahordes Painting – Week 6
For the last week of the league, I had a bit of extra time, so I decided I would paint a big model – the Death Knell, the Grymkin battle engine. Continue reading Warmahordes Painting – Week 6
Warmahordes Painting – Week 5
By this point in the league, my painting ambition was ramping up a bit. The Mad Caps unit was a bit bigger, involved some technique, and used a fuller palette of colors than the last couple of models. Here’s the result: Continue reading Warmahordes Painting – Week 5
Warmahordes Painting – Week 4
As I started to ramp back up my painting effort, I decided that the Gremlin Swarms should be next. These guys were a bit more complicated, because they are mostly small fleshy creatures, and, because they’re naked, there’s not much to contrast it with.
Picture after the jump. Continue reading Warmahordes Painting – Week 4
Warmahordes Painting – Week 3
I am totally guilty of a false start on the painting blog posts, so this one… …Came late and is finally ready to go out.
I started off the summer league well – I had plans to paint, to blog my way through it, and everything. Unfortunately, I ended up needing my normal writing time to do the design work needed to push the league forward (which was happening a bit more last minute than I would have hoped). Still, I did manage to get a model painted five out of six weeks, so I wanted to bring those to you. Continue reading Warmahordes Painting – Week 3
Warmahordes Painting – Week 1
With the arrival of summer, comes the arrival of the 2018 summer narrative league at the Rogue’s Roost. As such, I’ve decided to get the motivation together to paint, and painted The Dreamer and her phantasms from my Grymkin army. Continue reading Warmahordes Painting – Week 1
April Apocalypse 2018
What? An April Apocalypse? Yep, after Thanksgiving last year, we decided to go ahead and do an apocalypse game again this spring so that we could do a test run of the 8th edition rules, and make time for Uncle Barry and the Orks to play. This time around, it was Ian (Custodes), Uncle Clayton (Necrons), and I (Space Wolves and Knights) vs. Cody (Chaos), Keagan (More Chaos), and Uncle Barry (Orks). Continue reading April Apocalypse 2018
Acheron Complete!
I’ve completed my Imperial Knight Acheron! Sure, it’s not painted yet, but I thought this was enough of an achievement to take a few pictures and get it posted: Continue reading Acheron Complete!