Here is a quick photo..

I will check them for flash etc and base them. I’m now inspired and might assemble my reaper and get some of that painted… but the tau… shall I give into the Dragonfather?

15pt Metal

Deneghra
Nightmare (or Slayer + Nightwretch)
Deathripper
Nightwretch

Skarlock

25pt Ranged

Deneghra
Nightmare (or Slayer + Deathripper)
Deathripper
Nightwretch
Nightwretch

Bile Thralls (5+1)
Pistol Wraith

35pt Flexi

Deneghra
Nightmare (or Slayer + Deathripper)
Deathripper
Nightwretch
Nightwretch
Cankerworm

Withershadow Combine
Bile Thralls (5+1)
Pistol Wraith

If possible I will take some photos and do a battle report

To update on my battlegroup/resume where I left off: the Nightmare’s pillar and small girl with the teddy bear have been mounted on a 25mm round base to be used as a Death Tracker token. I thought that they would take away from the Nightmare himself. It also means the Nightmare can be ‘proxied’ as Slayer. This means that short of a quick touch up on the Nightmare & Combine bases everything is painted up :

Here is the Nightmare;

As you can see the skulls still need doing, he needs proper fixing to his base which needs touching up.

And the rest of the crew as they stand now:

As you might be able to see : Denny needs her weapon fixed (again!) Mortenebra has lost a small leg which I cannot find (which is bugging me!) and the Combine need their bases done properly. Otherwise they look better than I remember!

One advantage of having a working army is that you can afford to wait and take time to build it up. This is one thing about Warmachine I prefer to warhammer. In warhammer you need 1500-2000 points pretty much off the bat. 1000pts are good but not many people want to play 1000 pts. In Warmachine small games are as ‘culturally acceptable’ as larger ones although I’ve not heard of many ‘duels’ (15 pt) games myself. Then again my experience is limited. What you may also see are the green ‘soul tokens’ I made for the Combine & Warcasters.

Also my legion beast got mangled in the move – decapitated, despined and de armed!! Cotton wool + box = no good! He’s now alive again and has better padding in the same box

EDIT: Finally have been trying to figure what to buy for the grand ‘update’ at the moment it stands at the rulebook, the cryx deck, 2 plastic slayer kits (1 reaper then maybe a slayer or corruptor – I am also going to see if they are interchangeable…) 2 of the Warwitch Sirens (extra one means that I’ll need to modify/convert one – oh noes! ) A necrotech & scrap thrall (for a Morty list) and I’m thinking 2 defilers as apparantly you have to give focus to nightwretches to make them AOE now and the defilers have the spray of acid DOOOM!

That said I still feel a bit short on the troops front… the Satyxis blood witches are anti-infantry apparently, bane thralls I’m just not sure on… bane knights look a bit kick-ass and would be easy to paint. I’m wondering also about MechThralls… Simply to have some fodder more than anything. I’m pondering about the bane thralls in that regards – the minis aren’t expensive (witches are!) and they have stealth which makes them a bit more (un)live-able. I shall have to postulate further.

I’m still pondering how is best to ‘upgrade’ to Mk II

However there is a press ganger which I made enquiries about and I’ve also gotten good feedback..

I think the next step is goign along seeing what the craic* is and possibly ordering myself a rulebook, armybook and deck. I would also want to ‘update’ my army at some point by adding more units. I really like the feel of the army. It is one that has resonated with me more than any GW army barring Lizardmen.

Speaking of GW – price increase + new rules = Bad form. Although I’ve played GW games for over 1/2 of my natural live 12+ I am calling it quits for fantasy on this one for the time being. I might play some casual 40K if I can be bothered to paint the rest of my Tau (see tau blog) as I have some D&D friends who play. But I think that is low on my list.

Craic ; pronounced: ‘crack’  Hiberno-English word meaning fun, good atmostphere, or a situation. Used above in the sense of hoping for a good atmosphere – hopefully incorporating fun Use: ‘The craic was mighty last night at the pub’

No photographs as I didn’t bring out my camera but I took notes. I was using My Deneghra 500pt list (Deneghra, Nightmare, Cankerworm, Deathripper, 6 Bile thralls, Withershadow, Gorman, Skarlock, Pistol Wraith) He had 2 large trolls – stone and mauler I think, a pyre troll and slag troll, an axer and his leader who had the focus/fury feedback type of feat.

It went down like this..

We all moved up, I was cautious with death tracker on the nightmare so as not to get in charge range of the stone troll. He also moved up.

I charged in the cankerworm to his slag troll and the nightmare to the axer (to get away from the stone troll) I murdered the Axer! Cankerworm with some focus put a hole in the slag troll with help from the skarlock debuffing it. I kept deneghra back and took pot shots with the pistol wraith and the withershadow (who essentailly have the same stats) He charged my nihtmare in the back and totaled it. His slag troll hit the cankerworm but I was lucky to have a box left in each system… CLOSE!

He was getting quite close. A little closer than you want a horde of regenrating frenzied trolls to be. So I oiled the pyre troll to blind it, Denegra used scourge to knock down the mauler and the pistrol wraith got lucky and chilled the stone troll!! Then my bile thralls decided to martyr themselves for the Dragonfather. I did a point of damage to the stone troll, corroding it and the pyre thrall, I did a couple of points and also damaged my own cankerworm corroding it – this knocked out the cortex which meant no focus – was I toast next turn? Then he popped his feat whcih meant anything that got focus got zapped. OWCH.

I survived with most things intact although corrosion burned out my cankerworms cortex – not a big worry as the feat meant that if he had focus then he’d fry and with 2 boxes left he’d be Toast. The skarlock parasited the stone troll who got zapped twice with dark fire and admonia debuffed him by just being there and looking cool. Puppet master on cankerworm from Tremulus made up for lack of focus. I hit with the cankerworm and due to the fleshgrinder, ablation and parasite the stone troll was worm food! Go cankerworm! However now wanting to preseve my beloved beastie I scuttered him behind some trees.

After that it was mostly over. I’d lost my Nightmare and suicided my thralls, my cankerworm was weakened but more or less fully functional and short of the mauler trying to throw the deathripper at deneghra (he missed – phew!) the game was mine. A good game with many hair rasising moments! My opponent did fluff a few rolls but on my second last turn I missed both of Denegrhas spells by 1 which let his mauler get closer than I’d hoped!

I must add that not having much experience of hordes this game was fun. My opponent wasn’t afraid to let his beasts go frenzied and actualy wanted it to happen. He was quite true to the fluff of his army and we played for fun. I enjoyed the game immensely.

Not playing against ‘hordemachine’ or against a casterkill type army allowed us to really have fun rather than work it out ‘chess style’ about how to cheese-ball kill each others HQ which to me seems boring! While I was cautious at the beginning (maybe not in character) I opened up and had to take chances. I would have liked Deneghra to have killed stuff in melee but despite her Uber big spear she’s not a fighter!

Deployment was thus :

He had Darius, a squire, a journeyman, 2 centurions and Rowdy.
I had my Deneghra list.

John just turtled and I advanced hoping to outflank, little did I realise that this was some well know tactic called ‘the bullet’.

The turn before the kill was turn 2 and looked like this;

I did fear a charge on Deneghra so Gorman popped some smoke but I didn’t realise that Darius could life 16 tonnes of steel and put it within 2 inches of him so darius moved, lifted rowdy who then, with the help of a spell charged into Deneghra and ate her. Game over it was the worst game I’ve had. John did realise that I wouldn’t know what Darius could do due to my lack of experience so it was a bit of a kick to the teeth. However he was nice about it. I just would have rather had a game rather than I had been target practice as literally no models other than Deneghra died. Not really much of a fight to be fair. I did defiantly learn though, to keep Deneghra WAAAAAAAAAAAY back! It may have been different had I brought Mortenebra as she cannot be knocked down and is also a ‘ ‘Jack-caster’

The Family:


Carniverean:

Lylyth:

Shredder:

Shredder & Lylyth:

Carniverean WIP :

The main back armour plates will be done and blended to hopefully look older than the ‘newer’ growth of spines. The leg plates will have a trim of bone as I’m imagining that the skin goes purple before turning into bone.

And here’s two of the Shredders, WIP :