WM: Khador Battle Mechaniks (Unit)

I really do not prefer painting Units, but they have to get done also, so I tend to assembly line my Unit models.  Honestly I do not think they came out to shabby.  In order to try and save some time on the “death clock”, I have been leaning more towards playing the “Jaws of Wolf” theme which is usually a Warjack heavy list.  Well with all those Warjacks, I need a Unit that can repair them.  While base to base, each ‘Battle Mechanik’ model can heal a Warjack for D3 damage removal.  This is very beneficial  when you really need that axe arm back on your ‘Juggernaut’.  One problem I am still trying to learn with them is keeping them all in Command range while trying to heal all my different Warjacks.

With this Unit now completed, my main list for the NOVA Open is completed, now it is time to add some model to my painting table so I can try out a few different lists.

Battle Mechaniks

Battle Mechaniks

Painting Points: 6

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WM: Khador Kodiak 2 (Warjack)

Very similar to  my ‘Kodiak 1’ I finished this past Sunday, I now have completed my ‘Kodiak 2’.  Both of these models I purchased for a great price at this years AdeptiCon, and now both are completed.  I did much better with this purchase from AdeptiCon compared to last years where I still have model sitting unfinished in their boxes.

Up next will be to finish up my ‘Battle Mechaniks’ and then probably move onto ‘Karchev’ which arrived yesterday afternoon.  Once ‘Karchev’ is completed I then may tackle both of my ‘Greylord Forge Seers’, but we’ll see, I may want to change it up a bit.

Kodiak 2

Kodiak 2

Painting Points: 5

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Weekly Chronicle 2018 #26

It is Monday morning so that means it is time for another Weekly Chronicle.  It also #26 for the year and we are half way through the year.  As always, I start of the year going in strong, calm down a bit and then usually pick it up back up towards the end of Summer/early Fall and it has been no different this year.  I started of the first quarter of the year super strong in my Painting Queue, then I died down just after AdeptiCon for the entire 2nd quarter.  We just entered the 3rd quarter for the year and I am hoping to pick things up a bit, probably not as strong as 1st quarter, but hopefully I will be able to get quite a few models completed.  Currently my interest is still into Warmachine/Hordes (especially with NOVA Open in less than 2 months) and I excited all over again for Khador army.  I received a bunch of the new Man-O-War models in last week, and I have a few more new Khador models coming in today and one of them being a new Warcaster ‘Karchev’.  I am hoping to get ‘Karchev’ assembled pretty quickly and get him to the top of my queue, I am really curious on how he plays.

I also was able to get in 3 games of Warmachine/Hordes last week (it helped to be on vacation), grant it they were all 15 point Speedmachine games, but it is still practice and I am starting to learn those models even better.  As I have been mentioning the last 18 months, I have always wanted to get into the WM/H League down in South Bend on Monday nights, but Mondays are always a very bad day for me with all the chores that have to get done after work.  Tonight starts up another 4 week session (and it may be there last) and we were thinking about attending, but honestly I do not think I will be able to attend.  Once work gets done for the day, it is time to take care of the dogs and cats, then its time to take out the trash and I have to get back on the bike again to prepare for a bike ride in 2 weeks, all to be done in 1 hour so we can leave at 6pm....so it is very unlikely we’ll attend, but we’ll see, more than likely I will probably start assembling ‘Karchev’ or get in a game at home with my son, we also have another Vet appointment next Monday for the new puppies so once again Monday’s always seem to be a bad day for me.

Models Completed: 1

Games Played: 3

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WM: Khador Kodiak 1 (Warjack)

What can be better than starting off a new month and painting quarter than with a finished model.  I finally got around to sit down and get some painting completed (along with some gaming) over the last couple of days.  It actually feels good to have another model finished, it has been way too long (April 5, 2018).

For one of my lists for the NOVA Open, I need to complete 2 ‘Kodiak’ Warjacks and a Unit of ‘Battle Mechaniks’, so those models at this moment are my priority.  I have a few different lists that I may want to play, but I also need to complete models for those lists too.  So right now I will start with above and once completed, I can tackle the other lists.

First up on the list, we have ‘Kodiak 1’.

Kodiak 1

Kodiak 1

Painting Points: 5

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Battle Report: WM/H 6/28/2018 Speedmachine (15 Points)

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.

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WM/H: Privateer Press Releases Steamroller 2018 Rules

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.

Not much has really changed in terms of rules in the packet (Masters and Champions packets do have more changes) but they did modify 3 of the Scenarios in the packet.  Scenarios 4 & 5 are brand new and they made a slight change to Scenario 6: Recon II by moving the Flags toward the center of the board slightly.

You can download the new Steamroller 2018 Rules Packet at Privateer Press by clicking HERE.

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Weekly Chronicle 2018 #25

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.

I did manage to get in one game last week of Speedmachine practice and I am planning a few more games at this points cost this week.  I am still finalizing which list I want to play, so the more practice the better.

Models Completed: 0

Games Played: 1

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WM: Khador Armored Corp Incoming

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.

As always when I see new models coming out for an army that I have, my wallet tends to open up for them.  I did not get every model that was just released, but quite a few.  I want to try an Armored Corp themed list, but more for fun with some variety in models.  Instead of spanning units, I want to play with 1 of each. 

As you know I recently received the ‘Man-O-War Assault/Siege Chariot’ and I already own a Unit of ‘Man-O-War Demolition Corp’, so this past Friday I made an order for my remaining models.

* denotes new model release

Kommandant Sorscha Kratikoff (Sorscha 3) *

Man-O-War Bombardier Unit

Man-O-War Bombardier Officer *

Man-O-War Shocktrooper Unit

Man-O-War Shocktrooper Officer

Man-O-War Suppression Tanker Solo x2 *

Sergeant Dragos Dragadovich (Demo Corp Attachment) *

The question now is , when will these models get painted? Who knows.... I still have some models I need to get done for the NOVA Open coming at the end of August.  Once those are completed, I will take another look at my Painting Queue and see what I want to paint.  I think for now I may be playing these model unpainted in the basement.

Sorscha 3

Dragos Dragadovich

Suppression Tanker

Bombardier Unit

Bombardier Officer

Shocktrooper Unit

Shocktrooper Officer

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Battle Report: WM/H 6/18/2018 Minions vs Cygnar (15 Points Speedmachine)

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”.

To save on space in the car while traveling I was only planning on bringing one army with me, and that is my Khador army, but yesterday I was thinking about my Minions for a little while and decided to see what kind of 15 point list I could come up with.  As with my Khador list (running a ‘Conquest’), I decided to build my Minion list with my ‘Dracodile’.  The reason being, I am a slow player to begin with, so the less models I have to move around and think about the faster I can play (that’s my theory).  I still plan on testing my Khador “Speedmachine” in the next couple of weeks, but last night it was all about my Minions.

My son came down into the basement carrying his Cygnar army (which I expected), but I expected him to be playing his ‘Stormwall’ model, but instead came down with 2 Heavy Warjacks and 1 Light Warjack led by ‘Stryker 1’ and a ‘Journeyman Warcaster’.

Scenario: Breakdown

Minions

Theme: The Blindwater Congregation

0 / 0 Free Cards     15 / 15 Army

Rask - WB: +27

-    Dracodile - PC: 36 (Battlegroup Points Used: 27)

Bog Trog Mist Speaker - PC: 4

Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew - Leader & 1 Grunt: 2

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Cygnar

Theme: Heavy Metal

1 / 1 Free Cards     14 / 15 Army

Commander Coleman Stryker - WJ: +30

-    Squire - PC: 0

-    Ironclad - PC: 12 (Battlegroup Points Used: 12)

-    Ol’ Rowdy - PC: 18 (Battlegroup Points Used: 18)

Journeyman Warcaster - PC: 4

-    Hunter - PC: 10 (I think he had a Hunter)

3:00 minutes per Turn is not a lot of time, but I thought it was very fun.  

Turn 1 Cygnar ran up the board and I did the same with my ‘Dracodile’ up to the Zone and advanced my other models.  ‘Rask’ popped his Feat since he was now in charge range of ‘Ol Rowdy’.

Turn 2 Cygnar could not Charge anything and moved some model to my left Zone so he can start to contest a Circle.  Minions upkept Fury on ‘Dracodile’ and Charged into ‘Iron Clad’.  I just fell short of killing him and my time expired (I did forget that I can Assault with my ‘Dracodile’)

Turn 3 Cygnar’s ‘Iron Clad’ and ‘Ol Rowdy’ went to town on my ‘Dracodile’, but he was still standing, the rest of the army advanced and his ‘Hunter’ was able to get some hits on ‘Rask’ which I transferred to the ‘Dracodile’.  I did some healing on my ‘Dracodile’ and I was able to finish ‘Iron Clad’ and do quite a bit of damage on ‘Ol Rowdy’.  I also moved ‘Rask’ into the Rectangle Zone and scored a point. 1-0

Turn 4 saw Cygnar try to kill the ‘Dracodile’ with ‘Ol Rowdy’, but being badly damaged, the ‘Dracodile was still standing’.  On my Turn, the ‘Dracodile’ was finally able to finish off ‘Ol Rowdy’ but I did not have much time left to do anything to ‘Stryker’. 2-0

Turn 5 Cygnar’s ‘Stryker 1’ was able to bring down my ‘Dracodile’ and his ‘Hunter was able to do some damage on ‘Rask 1’.  I knew now it was kill or be killed so ‘Rask 1’ cast Fury on himself and charged into ‘Stryker 1’.  Well ‘Rask 1’ is not much of melee caster and he fell short causing only 9 points of damege.

Turn 6, we all know what happens now.  With ‘Rask 1’ only having 6 boxes left.....’Stryker 1’ was easily able to bring him down.  It was an Assassination Win for Cygnar.

I need to think about if there are any other Minions combos I can think of that I can play fast with.  I was pretty good controlling the ‘Dracodile’, though I never did get to get a spray shot in since I forgot to do it with Assault.  I think they may have helped a lot since I would have hit ‘Iron Clad’, ‘Ol Rowdy’ and ‘Stryker 1’ but with 3:00 minute turns you are trying to move as fast as possible.  All honesty if I would have sprayed, I probably would have ran out of time for his melee attacks.

I really like the low point level games that play fast....looking forward to trying some of my Khador combinations.

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Weekly Chronicle 2018 #24

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 know the lists that I am planning on playing at this years NOVA Open are not that competitive, but they may be fast for me to play.  The ‘death clock’ still has a tendency to beat me.  I have no problem losing a match to my opponent either by assassination or scenario, but I really hate to lose when I beat myself with the clock.  So my plan is to try and with fewer models so I can complete my turns faster.

So last week for me was no models completed, nor any games played (we did drive out to my friends house and my son got in a 75pt game while I watched).  This week I am hoping to get in some smaller games of Speedmachine (15pts)  and maybe a practice game of Breakfastmachine (50pts).

Models Completed: 0

Games Played: 0

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