Totengräber's Workpläce

Well, I’ve had a long hiatus from updating this site again. I see there are still people visiting, so I’ll try to make an effort to keep it updated. Let’s see what I’ve been up to since the last post…

• Played Ogres a few times in WHFB. Got beaten enough that I figured it must not be the army for me, so I sold/traded them for High Elves.
• Played a game or three of WHFB with the High Elves at one of the Circle City Circuit tournaments and felt pretty good about how they play, though I did get trounced most of the time.
• Won a painting contest at Circle City Circuit #2 with a Ultraforge Treewoman. There were only two other entries, though.
• Painted a High Elf Battle Standard Bearer to very high standard for the Scibor Painting Contest. I also entered Pandora, Candy and my Lord of the Feast. Pandora was chosen for the final voting.
• Assembled and painted more than 50 points of Hordes Circle Orboros for my eKaya army.
• Played in a Warmachine invitational tournament where I won game 1 and lost the other two rounds.  No worries, though. I got to hang out with some good friends and talk about painting with some folks.
• Started playing Warhammer 40,000 again since Games To Die For is running a 40K league starting at 600 points. I bought into Dark Eldar. Played my first three games and ended up winning just one against Imperial Guard.
• Bought a Wacom Intuos4 Medium tablet and Painter 11 with which I’ve done some practice drawings. They didn’t turn out as well as I hoped.
• I’m currently taking a Life Drawing class at Ivy Tech to try and improve my drawing skills.
• Sold/traded a lot of the smaller miniatures games and CCGs in lieu of those I can find opponents (and models) for. I’m still working on dropping Infinity and Malifaux. I also unloaded a bunch of roleplaying books to clean up stuff I know I’ll likely never use. I’m keeping Pulp City and MERCS for now.

I guess that’s not all that much for almost 8 months.

In the near future I hope to post some pictures of the models I’ve painted and maybe some digital/traditional art I have done.

I know, I know, it’s been a long time since I posted here. Honestly, I’ve been working on a web site for gamers here in Central Indiana and have neglected this blog for a while.

I’ve been mostly working on getting a 50-point army for Khador in Mark II Warmachine painted, just so I can play a fully-painted army for once! I also picked up Wood Elves to more or less replace my Ogres as my Warhammer Fantasy army of choice. I even sculpted my own Treeman! This weekend I picked up the Blood Angels codex for Warhammer 40K to replace the Catachan army I started a few months ago. Something about painting a ton of those models really bothered me.

As for the Gallery, I have added the Warmachine models I’ve painted so far. Check them out here.

Per the usual, I went over to Games To Die For to play some Star Wars Minis. with the league going on, several people have been coming in on Tuesday night to play our league games. I brought my 200 points of Ogres and crossed fingers. My first game was against Mike Morgan who is running Warriors of Chaos. (continue reading…)

I set up late last week to play a guy named Shawn who has been hanging out at Games To Die For lately for Sunday. We didn’t really decide on points level or even what time we’d both be there, so I think it was assumed we’d play as big an army as both of us can cover and meet near when the store opened. When I arrived at about 12:30, Shawn was already there waiting with his Tomb Kings army. (continue reading…)

Seems like I can never get away from Warhammer Fantasy. After I get rid of one army (Lizardmen), something else makes me buy back into the game even though I don’t play it all that much (though I’d like to). This time the impetus was having a gift card to The Game Preserve and not having anything to really spend it on. I just sold my Lizardmen army, but Brian working on his Dark Elves made me start thinking abou thte game again. At the Keystone branch of the GP, I saw a discounted Ogre Kingdoms Battalion. I then researched on-line as to whether it was a good deal and whether the Ogre Kingdoms are a decent army. The more I looked, the more I liked. No, they aren’t an uber-competitive army, but they are more of a finesse army than one might think. So I purchased the battalion and a Butcher model, which was also discounted to $25. I basically spent $100 for about 1,000 points worth of Ogres, which is about the point value Brian and I had talked about playing. All in all, a great deal. I’ve already started cutting the models from the sprues this morning. Excitement abounds!!

At our local store, Games To Die For, one of the players is running a Warhammer Fantasy campaign. I didn’t get to play in the opening mega-battle, but I was able to get a game in with a gentleman named Bill. We met up yesterday at the store at around 6pm and got started soon after that. We were told by Aaron, the guy running the campaign to place an objective on the board worth 200 points to the player who controlled it at the end of the game.

Here is the list I played:

• Saurus Scar-Veteran w/Charm of the Jaguar Warrior, great Weapon, Shield, and Light Armor (124 pts)
• Skink Priest w/dispell Scroll x2 and made Level 2 (150 pts)
• Saurus x19 w/Hand Weapon and Shields and Full command (239 pts)
• Saurus x20 w/Hand Weapon and Shields and Full command (250 pts)
• Skink Skirmishers x10 w/Blowpipes (72 pts)
• Kroxigor x3 (165 pts)

Bill’s list went something like this:

• Herald of Khorne mounted on Juggernaught
• Bloodcrusher x2
• Bloodletters x15 w/Full Command
• Bloodletters x15 w/Full Command
• Flesh Hounds of Khorne x5
• Screamers of Tzeentch x4

This game actually went pretty quick based on my experiences with Warhammer in the past. First turn, we both inched forward trying to stay out of charge range of the enemy except for the Skinks who moved in and took shots at the Flesh Hounds, doing no wounds. The Screamers moved to my left flank, the Flesh Hounds moved somewhat toward my right.

Second turn, the Screamers passed over the Kroxigors and one unit of Saurus causing me to lose one Saurus and one Kroxigor ending up behind both units. The Flesh Hounds charged the Skinks who killed one of them by standing and shooting. They subsequently lost combat, ran and were destroyed by the Flesh Hounds. His Bloodcrushers moved down to my left flank.

Third turn, We both inched forward some more and I lost more Saurus and got some wounds on the Kroxigors thanks to the Screamers. I turned the Kroxigors to help out the unit of Saurus on my right.

Fourth turn, his Bloodcrushers and a unit of Bloodletters charged my Scar Vet and Saurus unit. The other unit of Bloodletters charged the other Saurus unit. The Champion and his unit were decimated while the other Saurus unit destroyed a number of Bloodletters in Bill’s turn and then finished them off with the help of the Kroxigor on mine.

Fifth turn, Screamers killed more Saurus and wounded more Kroxigors, leaving me one. In my turn, the Screamers were charged by the remaining Saurus and destroyed.

Sixth turn, the last Kroxigor finally died in combat with Bloodletters and the Saurus fled from charges to the rear from Flesh Hounds and Bloodcrushers.

We called the game at that point giving Bill a victory.

In hindsight, I should have taken more Skinks to be able to shoot at the infantry units and reduced the number of Saurus just a bit. 1,000 points is difficult to build an army in sometimes and I never really like tailoring an army to my opponent.

All in all, a really fun game.