This post is dedicated to Sir Elton John for The Circle of Life song..
Ahem moving swiftly on. This weeks warmachine game was against Ian’s Circle. I think he went a bit soft with his choice of caster a sort of shapeshifting werewolf dude with 2 axes an a lot of fury potential. He also had a Satyr, Stone&Stick-Man,a stone circle, a twigman making monolith, wayfarer and druids.
I took Deneghra, Nightmare, 2 Deathrippers, Nightwretch, Bile Thralls, Gorman, Pistol Wraith and The Withershadow Combine made their Debut.
Deployment was as shown in the picture, Ian allowed me to go first.
The first turn each was largely uneventful with us moving up into better positions. I didn’t waste as much focus in this game as other games so I am getting better.
The game was largely constrained to a few key moments due to time constraints and also by the fact that in turn 2 both Ian and my own dice rolling was less than dire. (Ian missed a 5+ on three dice and two 7+ on 3 dice twice!) Things didn’t heat up until the Nightmare charged the Satyr and knocked him to 1 wound. Magic was suppressed by the druids and the pistol wraith missed them with both pistols. The Withershadow were interesting but I wasn’t that confident with them as I would be with the nightmare or cankerworm. I only got to zap dark bolt a couple of times at the Stone-Stick-Man-Beast thing. By Turn 2 it looked like this :
In turn three Ian tried to assassinate deneghra in a long shot by using the wayfarers ability combined with his casters spell to move right on top of Deneghra. He did some damage and combined with the shooting from the evil eye orb thing she have only a couple of wounds left. Stickman fell short as he threw a boneripper but it hit the Eyeball. At this point i felt victory was within my grasp and I popped deneghras feat and combined it with parasite. so that the caster had -2 def and -5 armour and deneghra had +1 armour. The eyeball missed it free shot and deneghra stabbed the warcaster with 3 of her remaining focus but this was transferred to stickman. He was now impailed and easier to hit but again this was transferred. He was vunerable and I couldn’t leave deneghra there so she walked away ( I LOVE WITCH BARBS!) leaving the battle field looking like this:
I thought about using my withershadow to melee him and hopefully kill him but I coudn’t charge from the wood. Then I noticed my bile thralls who had only done a point of damage on the eyeball and lost a guy. Usually they are dead by now! I decided that since there was so much room just walk down and purge all 5 onto the Warlock and so it was victory to me as he wasn’t going to survive 10d6-5 damage 
The wraith was mostly a quick drybrush up, some light inking and more drybrushing with some slight detailing (the silver on the guns). The reason the skull was brown was because bone looks better over brown. I also tend to use bleached bone rather than white to make my first highlight and then possibly white and that to make the final one depending. The bleached bone is more muted and not as garish as white can sometimes tend to seem. Eitherway he was mostly done and just needed the green scarves to be inked green, then highlighted up with goblin green+bleached bone and finally a hint of scorpion green so he’s a little bit ethereal looking!
