Mail-order Madness!

Well, I am officially crazy. Despite doing practically nothing with the models that I currently have, I just recieved a big order of yet more Skorne stuff. The Trollblood playing co-worker has a guy he orders all his PP game stuff from, and we went in on an order together. Everything is 37% off retail, so even with the international shipping we came out ahead. Especially since we split the shipping cost.

7500 yen for five small, metal cat-lizard things

My next post was going to be a battle report of sorts from the games against my friend’s Trollbloods on January 12th. But I couldn’t remember them well enough to post anything that would be of interest.  We played three 350 point games , and I lost every single one. They weren’t beatings like last time, thank goodness, but they were still losses all the same. Those damn Trolls just don’t go down! Even when all eight of my Venators did a CRA against one of his Trollkin Champions, the stupid thing was still left with an unmarked damage box.  The unit then bulldozed into my Cataphract Cetrati and turned two of them into dog meat, +4 ARM bonus from Shield Wall or no. I am getting a better feel of my troops capabilities though. Hopefully I’ll be able to report back with at least one win from our next games on February 4th.

Cryx “Techno-sewer” bases

I finally finished assembling the few Cryx models I have for Warmachine. Cryx is going to be the faction I play with when I finally do start playing, as I am always drawn to the evil undead army for some reason. No matter what game I play, I always end up being the “bad guys”. I had originally bought the Cygnar Battle box (just to be different this time, I told myself) assembled the models, played a few battle box games against my friend’s Khador, and decided I was fooling myself. Why fight who you really are? So, I traded the box to another friend and “started over” with Cryx. I haven’t played a game with them yet (my first game will be tomorrow) but it feels so much better being in the “right” faction again.

Model Inventory

So, let’s start things off with an inventory of all the models I have and the current state they’re in. My current Skorne horde consists of the following models, in the following states;

Warlocks -

• Archdomina Makeda – cleaned, pinned, primed, and about 30% complete;
• Master Tormentor Morghoul – cleaned;
• Supreme Aptimus Zaal – cleaned;
• Tyrant Xerxis – cleaned and pinned but with a lose arm and back banners for easy painting;

Units -

• Cataphract Cetrati Unit (Primus and 3 Cataphracts) – cleaned and pinned, but with lose shields and shoulder plates for easy painting;
• Venator Unit A (Dakar and 5 Armigers) – cleaned;
• Venator Unit B (Dakar and 5 Armigers) – cleaned;

Light Warbeasts -

• Basilisk Drake – finished, but horribly chipped and nicked from poor transportstion;
• Cyclops Brute – cleaned and partially pinned;
• Cyclops Savage A – cleaned and partially pinned;
• Cyclops Savage B – cleaned;
• Cyclops Savage C – cleaned, and destined to be converted into another Brute;

Heavy Warbeasts -

• Titan Bronzeback – 50% cleaned;
• Titan Gladiator – cleaned and 50%pinned;

Solos -

• Ancestral Guardian A – cleaned;
• Ancestral Guardian B – cleaned; and
• Kovaas – cleaned

All in all I have a total of 1083 points of Skone models (if I count Cyclops C as a Brute and not a Savage which he will eventually be), of only which 67 points worth (or about 6.5%) is painted. If I go by model count and not points value, I have only painted 1 out of 30 models. But this sounds better than it actually is, since some of the models are relatively small and others are titanic. Literally. Titan Bronzeback. Titan Gladiator. Get it? Disgraceful, both the bad joke and the state of my army. I certainly have my work cut out for me, don’t I?

Happy New Year

Well, I decided to start yet another blog that will most likely go un-updated after a few months or so. This one’s about my Skorne army from the Hordes miniatures game from Privateer Press. Last month the stars aligned in the form of my first paycheck from my new job (which allows me to budget a much larger amount for my hobby) and a 30% off sale at my local gaming store. Needless to say, I went on a bit of a buying spree…

So, I now have a big pile of “white metal” that needs to be cleaned, assembled, and painted up. It’s a daunting task, and I’m a pretty lazy person to begin with. So I’ve stared this blog in the hopes that it will motivate me to finish them all in a timely manner. Or at least to keep working on them until they’re all done. I’m going to place a link to this blog in my signature over on the Privateer Press Forums, and hopefully people will visit from time to time to check on my progress.

Sadly, there is only one other Warmachine/Hordes player in in my area that I know of. There might be more, but language is an issue for me. I live in Osaka Japan, and can barely speak Japanese. I speak enough to get by from day to day (but usually have to incorperate a lot of gestures in my conversations), but I don’t feel comfortable enough yet with my Japanese skills OR the rules of the game to play against someone who doesn’t speak English. Hopefully that will change this year.

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