The nice thing about being on vacation for a few days, I am able to get in some gaming and painting. Yesterday was our day to stay home and get in a few games of Warmachine/Hordes. The NOVA Open is two months away and I still wanted to get in some practice for “Speedmachine”. “Speedmachne” is 15 Point armies and played with 3:00 minute turns. The 3:00 minute turns is really allowing me to learn my army better and play faster, I am hoping this faster play will rollover to when I play the larger 50 and 75 Point practice games.First up during the day I played my son’s Cygnar army led by ‘Stryker 3’ and I played my Khador with ‘Vlad 1’. I had a Unit on a scoring zone collecting points for me while the rest of my army was battling out, my son had nothing he could contest with until late in the game, by that time one of my ‘Juggernauts’ was able to Assassinate ‘Stryker 3’. If I did not Assassinate ‘Stryker 3’, I would have one the game on Points that turn.
Later in the evening my Trollbloods friend TJ came out for a some practice games. First up he played my Khador army and I was playing the same list as earlier in the day. TJ elected to give ‘Borka 2’ a try. This was a hard fought battle, ‘Borka 2’s’ Feat really dampened my plans, but I managed to stay in the game. We battled it out all the way till the end of Turn 7 and I barely lost 2-1.
After my son played a game against TJ’s same list (and my son also lost), I played TJ again and he went with ‘Borka 1’ and a ‘Mountain King’. I played the same list as earlier, but I swapped out ‘Vlad 1’ with ‘Butcher 1’. We ended up going to Turn 4 and the score was 0-0 at this point. TJ elected to charge into ‘Butcher 1’ and failed to hit on his Charge attack, ‘Butcher 1’ was camping 3 Focus and he managed to stay alive with 5 boxes. ‘Butcher 1’ then popped his Feat and charge back at ‘Borka 1’, able to do so with his 2” reach and I was able to Assassinate ‘Borka 1’. That was my first Assassination ever against TJ.
I am still undecided between playing ‘Vlad 1’ and ‘Butcher 1’, I still have 2 months to think about it before the NOVA Open. I like ‘Vlad 1’ for his “Signs & Portents” spell, but ‘Butcher 1’ is a lot better in combat.
Besides getting in some gaming yesterday, I was also able to start on my ‘Kodiak’ Warjacks for my Khador army. I need these two Warjacks for my 75 Point list for the NOVA Open Team Tournament. I have only played with ‘Kodiak’s once before, so I know I will need a lot of practice with them. I should be getting them done sometime later today or tomorrow. More than likely they will be posted next week for the month of July.
Privateer Press had announced that once Lock & Load 2018 was over they would be releasing the new Steamroller 2018 rules packet, well today is the day.
This is not a very good pattern for me with rarely any updates and I am hoping that will turn around very soon. I am actually off on vacation the rest of the week and I am planning to finally prime some models and possibly get some paint on. Will I finish a model or a Unit, we shall see. I have a Unit of ‘Battle Mechaniks’ and 2 ‘Kodiak’ Warjacks that are up next on my painting board. My plan with the Warjacks is to actually base coat them with my airbrush. If I can get my station all setup this week, there is a good chance those 2 Warjacks may get done by next week.
With the recent CID release for Khador also comes some new models for them. Over the past two weeks, Privateer Press has been releasing new Man-O-War models for the Khador army. Khador was my first army for Warmachine/Hordes and probably still is my favorite. I do love the look of the Hordes models, especially my Minions, but I like the gam play mechanics of Warmachine better.
One of the events my son and I will be playing in this years NOVA Open in September is called “Speedmachine”. It is Warmachine/Hordes, 15 point armies and 3:00 minute turns, hence the name “Speedmachine”.
Once again another week has passed and not too much was accomplished. At least I did actually build a few Khador ‘Kodiak’ Warjacks last week and I know it will still be a few weeks before I get any paint on them. I have 72 days before NOVA Open starts, so that is my goal for my 7 models I need to complete. 7 models in 72 days should be easy, but life always gets in the way (especially with new puppies). I am hoping once I get into my 3rd quarter for my painting queue I can kick up the production like I did in the 1st quarter (maybe not to that extreme, but better than 2nd quarter). The puppies are getting better at being housebroken, so hopefully my modeling time will come back.
I kind of expected going into the 2nd quarter this year that my modeling/painting would slow down, but I honestly did not expect it to basically come to a halt. I knew that at the end of May I would be going back down to Arizona for a few days, and that is all that I had planned. Well 2 bathroom remodels, a trip to Arizona, and now 2 new puppies has placed a halt on my 2nd quarter.
Boy time is flying by pretty fast this year, we are already into Week #23 for the year. As you can see in my blog, gaming/hobbying has been pretty slow for me the last 2 months, and I am way behind in my ‘Painting Queue’. I really need to re-evaluate my queue and start to get ready for the NOVA Open. We picked up 2 more Siberian Husky puppies this past weekend, so house training them will once again take some gaming time away, hopefully I will be able to get a few models assembled shortly and start painting them.
It has been some time since my last game of Warmachine/Hordes but last night my son and I finally got to get a game in downstairs in the man cave. To keep things a little quicker we played only 50 points and I wanted to proxy in my new ‘Assault Chariot’ that had just arrived.
This past weekend my Khador ‘Man-O-War Assault/Siege Chariot’ arrived from Black Anchor Heavy Industries (Privateer Press), and I was so busy putting our main bathroom back together that I forgot I received the package till yesterday afternoon. Once I remembered about it, I had to open it and take a few pictures and I wanted to check out the BAHI truckers hats that came with it.
It has been pretty bad for my hobbying/gaming the last 2 months (ever since coming back from AdeptiCon), but both of my bathroom remodeling projects are now completed, my trip down to Arizona to move my son up to Michigan is completed, so now HOPEFULLY I can start to get back into the swing of things.