Guild Ball: Alchemist’s Guild ‘Smoke’

Just like yesterday when I finished ‘Stoker’ for the Brewer’s Guild, ‘Smoke’ is the last model I needed completed for the Alchemist’s Guild.  After I completed most of my Alchemist’s last year, my son down in Arizona took a liking to them and had me give them to him when I was down there at the end of May.  At that time he had purchased ‘Smoke’ and I thought he would be painting her up himself.  Well when my son came up for SteamCon USA in December, he brought with him ‘Smoke’ still new in package.  So it feels good to get another Guild completely finished.

Here we have ‘Smoke’ a 2nd Captain for the Alchemist’s Guild.

Smoke

Smoke

Painting Points: 1

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Guild Ball: Brewer’s Guild ‘Stoker’

I know come to the final model for my Brewer’s Guild with ‘Stoker’, a Defensive Midfielder for the Guild.  It feels good to complete an entire Guild.  Not that I have even tried to play with the Brewer’s yet, I just like all the models that Steamforged is putting out for Guild Ball and want my entire collection to be painted.  Eventually when games are esier to get in (when my son moves up) I am sure I will be trying the Brewer’s out.

Stoker

Stoker

Painting Points: 1

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Battle Report: Hordes 1/25/2018 Minions vs Trollbloods (75 Points)

For now most of my Warmachine/Hordes gaming is against my friend who only plays Trollbloods, so most of my reports will either be my Minions or Khador vs his Trollbloods (until I can get to some events and play other opponents).

Last night I decided to try a new caster for my Minions and used ‘Maelok’, and as always when trying something new I am very unfamiliar on how he actually works.  I knew how to play a lot of his spells, but also missed out on a lot things (mainly gathering souls) which hurt me down the road with Fury.  The Trollbloods player usually plays a high count infantry list with 2 Units of Champions and I knew it was going to be pretty tough.  Mortality was a nice spell from Maelok and I was able to get it off twice which really helped a lot.  In the end, again it was the clock that lost the game for me.  I clocked out at the bottom of Turn 3, with myself being up 1-0 in the Scenario.

Scenario: Outlast

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Guild Ball: Brewer’s Guild ‘Pint Pot’

Back to completing some Guild Ball models for a few days and wrapping up my Brewer’s Guild.  I was down to just 2 models left to complete and then I swayed towards my Minions for a little bit.  Well it is time to finish them up.  

A Central Midfielder for the Brewer’s, we have ‘Pint Pot’.

Pint Pot

Pint Pot

Painting Points: 2

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Battle Report: Guild Ball 1/23/2018 Butcher’s vs Hunter’s

Last night was a rematch againt my friend, my Buther’s vs his Hunter’s Guild and the outcome was now the opposite.

We both ended up playing the exact same lists as two weeks ago and I am starting to feel a little bit more comfortable with the Butcher’s.  I still forgot a few things with them but not as many as before, and I am still making a lot of rookie mistakes in the game itself.  The one part of the game that I really do not enjoy is the counter-attack.  I really hate going in for an attack and then my activation ends becasue my opponent was able to Dodge out of melee range, not too thrilled with that one and it happened a couple of times last night mainly with Fillet.

Just like two weeks ago, my friend and I both clocked out during the game, this time with me clocking out first.  I had a decent lead 9-4 (thanks to a Brisket Goal) when I clocked out, but it was not enough, my friend still had 7 minutes on his clock and Theron pounded on Fillet a couple of times.  It came down to the wire and my Butcher’s ended up losing 11-12.

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Hordes: Minions Croak Hunter (Solo)

We are heading into Week #4 of 2018 and my last model of the three I purchased the previous weekend at Fantasy Games down in South Bend is now completed for my Hordes Minions..’Croak Hunter’.  I have a game lined up for this Thursday night and will be trying ‘Maelok’ for the first time along with this ‘Croak Hunter’.  I am really curious and looking forward to giving ‘Maelok’ a try (though I’ll still probably lose).

 Croak Hunter

Croak Hunter

Painting Points: 1

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Weekly Chronicle 2018 #3

The momentum train is still rolling for Week #3.  Week #2 was mainly completing some Guild Ball models and Week #3 I concentrated again on some of my Hordes Minion models.  I even was able to complete 2 models that I had much further down the line in my queue.

I spent all of Saturday out with the family visiting downtown Chicago so not much was completed or prepped over the weekend, but I do have some more model that will be ready this coming week.

I also was able to start using The Hobby Holder yesterday and I am quite happy with how it works.

Barnabas 2 a new Warlock for Minions was also released this past Friday.  My original plan was to go down to South Bend and pick him up on Satirday, but with family plans instead, I was able to purchase him this weekend.  There are a few other Minion models coming out this coming weekend and I may just wait to purchase them all together.

Week #3

Models Completed: 4

Minions: Gatorman Witch Doctor

Minions: Blindwater Brew Witch Doctor

Minions: Feralgeist

Minions: Boneswarm

Games Played: 0

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Kickstarter: The Hobby Holder

2017 was the first time I purchased anything through Kickstarter.  The first two were just card games and then in October I came across The Hobby Holder, a miniature painting holder and cup.  An acquaintance I know back in Arizona (Gorilla with a Brush) uses something similiar, and when I came across this Kickstarter for a very decent price, I thought I would give it try.  The Hobby Holder was funded in November and very quickly he went into production and kept us notified on all the updates.

Early this week my item arrived and I am going to give it a try later in the week.  It only came with a small amount of blue tac so I will probably have to get some more or use double sided stick tape.

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Hordes: Minions Boneswarm (Warbeast)

This is the 2nd of 3 models that I purchased last weekend at my LGS in South Bend and I knew he would be a quick one to paint up.  I enjoy painting bones as it it usually just a drybrush.  I have had plenty of practice from back in the day painting Tomb Kings and Vamoire Counts for Warhammer Fantasy.  With the release of Barnabas 2 today, I have been seeing a lot of lists on the Facebook Groups that are running the Boneswarm with him.  So while I was there I decided to pick him up and get him painted.  I also noticed most of those lists are running two Boneswarm’s but I have not quite realized why.  Maybe next time I am down in South Bend I’ll see if they have another one to get.

Boneswarm

Boneswarm

Painting Points: 2

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Hordes: Minions Feralgeist (Solo)

While in South Bend this past weekend catching a movie (the only place that was playing my ‘sing-a-along’ version), I had to hit up the gaming store on the way home and pick up a few models and some paint.  Might as well have some more reasoning to a 80 mile round trip drive.  While there I saw that they had a ‘Feralgeist’ and I knew I did not have one yet in my collection.

I was originally worried on how he may turn out like with the Necrotic Green color, but with the Army Painter Green Tone wash, I think he definitely looks good for the table top.

Feralgeist

Feralgeist

Painting Points: 1

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