• 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’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.

His List:

• Warriors of Chaos x10 (Extra Hand Weapon & Shield, Mark of Slaanesh, Champion, Standard)

My List:

• Ogre Bulls x4 (Crusher)
• Gnoblar Fighters x20

As is the case with most of these games, we didn’t set up any terrain. We just deployed and ran forward for the most part. I sent my Ogres and Gnoblars at a bit of an angle to see which one he decided to go for. He opted to head for the Ogres, so I tried to get the Gnoblars set up for a flank charge. I know that Gnoblars won’t do well in close combat with the Warriors, but maybe it’ll help when the Ogres show up. due to Bickering one turn, they didn’t get to combo charge with the Bulls, so the Bulls just charged the front of the Warriors. They killed one or two with impact hits and a couple more in combat. He was able to do a couple of wounds to the Ogres. The Warriors stood their ground. The Warriors attacked the Bulls next turn and killed two of them, leaving me with 7 attacks back. I did very few wounds and lost combat. The Ogres ran 11 inches and the Warriors did not catch them. The Warriors tried to charge the Ogres, but just missed them. The Gnoblars charged the flank of the Warriors and won combat, sending the Warriors running. The Gnoblars were an inch from catching them. The Warriors were able to charge the Gnoblars, win combat and send them running and were caught. The Ogres finally rallied and were able to rear charge the Warriors and wipe them out.

A very fun game that seemed to go back and forth.

The second game was against Greg, who has been challenging me since the league began. He is playing the new Skaven, who I have played against once already and won, so I had no real worries.

His List:

• Skaven Clanrats x24 (full command(?), spears, Ratling gun)

My List:

• Ogre Bulls x4 (Crusher)
• Gnoblar Fighters x20

Well, in this game my overconfidence and thoughtlessness was my undoing. I moved the Gnoblars and Bulls much like before, but the Skaven weren’t taking the bait. He stood still so I’d have to move into range of his gun. I eventually marched the Ogres forward to try and minimize the turns he’d get to use the Ratling Gun against me. In one turn he fired the gun, rolled doubles, but did not hit anything. Second go around, he was able to put a wound on an Ogre. I eventually charged his 6-wide unit of rats, but he’d moved close enough to prevent the Bull Charge. Pretty much the Ogres took it in the face and lost combat, ran, and were caught. The Gnoblars ended up going against the left-behind Ratling Gun and killed it. Eventually, the Clanrats fought the Gnoblars and beat them down. A total loss for me.

A fun game, as always, but I know that charging the big unit of rats was a uber-bad decision. Oh well, it was still a game counted toward the league.

My record in the league so far: 4 wins, 2 losses.

We decided to play 1,500 points as that was as big as I could get my Ogres to go.

My list:

• Bruiser (Tenderizer, HA, Luck Gnoblar, Gnoblar Thiefstone x2)
• Bruiser (BSB, Seigebreaker, HA)
• Butcher (Bangstick, Dispel Scroll)
• Ogre Bulls x3 (Bellower)
• Ogre Bulls x3 (Bellower)
• Ogre Ironguts x3 (Bellower)
• Ogre Ironguts x3 (Bellower)
• Gnoblar Trappers x10
• Gnoblar Fighters x25 (Champion)
• Leadbelchers x2 (Bellower)
• Leadbelchers x2 (Bellower)

His list (my guesses):

• Tomb Prince (chariot)
• Tomb Prince (horse)
• Liche Priest
• Chariots x5
• Skeleton Warriors w/Bows x24
• Skeleton Warriors w/Bows x10
• Ushabti x4
• Tomb Scorpion
• Bone Giant

I don’t remember all the details, but here are a few highlights.

He was able to wipe out my Gnoblar Trappers on his second turn with his unit of 10 archers. The ability to cast a “move” spell and then charge with units like the Ushabti or the Chariots was pretty awesome. My BSB was able to pretty much wipe out the unit of Chariots including his general thanks to the Seigebreaker. Bull Charge is pretty cool for a few extra hits. Having little/no armor is pretty rough to deal with. Each guy having 3 attacks and 3 wounds was nice. It kept units fighting for a while. The Leadbelcher Misfire is pretty harsh. I lost one guy from one unit and the last guy from another unit due to that roll. The idea that I have to stay still for a turn after firing kinda sucks, too.  Ushabti are pretty killy. They swept through lots of my dudes. I lost my Butcher the turn after he fled from the Ushabti as he failed his Rally roll. Gut Magic seemed to work pretty well and I look forward to getting better at using it.

All in all, it was a blast. I really have always loved WHFB even over 40K. I think I’m digging the Ogres and after a few games with them, I hope to get a win or two in there. Shawn and a few other people at the store had a bunch of great suggestions for me, not the least of which is to skip using the Leadbelchers. It’s kinda hard to do that when in one turn they got off 12 shots into the Skeletal Archers. Personally, I think I just could have used them better. Next time I’ll also have a unit of Maneaters, once I get some conversions done. I would also like to get a Goger or two as well. A second or even third Butcher may make their way in, too.

There was also talk of starting a Warhammer Fantasy league with discounts on regiment boxes and bonuses for painting talked about. Shawn will be working with Jerry on that.

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.