Monday Morning Gamer 22-5

Hello and good morning! I think this is a first: me actually posting a Monday Morning Gamer post on an actual morning! (It’s 8:14 am here, for those wondering). Sure, pessimists might point to the fact that it is Tuesday instead of Monday, but I choose to look at the glass as half full!

Anyway, another shortish post for you this morning. I have a few thoughts on the new Empire book. I know it’s been out for a while already, but I didn’t do a proper post on it before so I’ll mention some thoughts now. Secondly, we have another installment of our Farewell to 5^th painting challenge. We’ve hit a sizeable snag last week, which I’ll mention below, but most of us managed to push through and get some painting done. Lastly, just some thoughts on the way army selection works in our group currently. Nothing big, just some thoughts I’ve had while playing in our Blood in the Badlands campaign.

Let’s get to is, shall we?

Monday Morning Gamer 14/5

Goodday to all! I have a short post for you today. Haven´t been up to much gaming lately, so have nothing to share on that front. What I do have for you are some pics! Last week we started a Farewell to 5^th painting challenge and my, my, are we off to a great start! Well, when I say great, I actually mean a good start. Or rather, let´s just say we´ve at the very least gotten started! Check below for more!

Also, as has been mentioned over on our Blood in the Badlands page, I promised to put up two versions of the map Shalen made for our campaign. One is with grids, the other is completely grid-less.

Monday Morning Gamer 7/5

Hello and welcome to a long-overdue edition of Monday Morning Gamer! As per usual on a blog, real life events have kept me from updating the blog regularly. Still, here’s an update for you now! As luck would have it, there hasn’t been much to report on the campaign front this past month either. I’ll give you a recap of the final turn of Spring and talk about the Battle for Mount Bloodhorn we played yesterday. Also, as sort of a new attempt to paint a few models, Balephon, Bra’tac and myself have joined in a little Farewell to 5^th painting challenge. Lastly, I promised a few weeks back that I’d talk a bit about how my Ogres are doing at tournaments. I’ve had a bit of think and decided to change a thing or two in an effort to actually improve my tournament record (which, to be honest, is just a notch above abysmal the last few years).

Tournament battle 3

And the final battle! I played vs Dark Elves. There was a dragon and a hydra. I killed something, he killed something. I shot the dragon, he killed my Maneaters. At the end, we had a draw! Fun battle though :)
Overall, I had fun, but I've run into some problems with ogres. I'll write a bit more on it later.
Right now it's time to eat!

Tournament battle 2

And another loss down :p I played vs high elves, an army I've plenty of experience against. Too bad that didn't help much. I had a hugely succesful casting of Comet of Casandora that blew away a fair chunk of his army, but I had trouble finishing off units. Same issue I had last tournament. I tried tackling that by including more, and smaller, units, but I still need to work on that.
Ah well, at least I'm done with Battle of the Pass. Not my favourite scenario.
One left :)

Tournament battle 1

Ah yes, the first one is in the books. True to form, I suffered a loss :p Dawn Attack deployment divided up my army into 2 parts, with the half without my general fleeing off the table after a sabretusk got killed by a terradon attack.

Ah well, such is life. I had fun playing. On to the next one :)

Tournament day!

Hello all! After a bit of silence (just started a new job), I thought I'd throw out a quick post now. I'm on my way to a tournament that starts in about 45 minutes. (I say "on my way", but really it's held 100 yards from my home, so I'm still comfortably sat on the sofa).

It's a simple tournament for warhmmer fantasy. 2200 points comped, which over here means no named characters, no duplicate rare choice and no triplicate special choices. 2200 pts is just a shade under what we usually play (2400), but still lets us bring a reasonable sized army.

I'm taking my ogres for another outing and this is the list I'll bring:
Slaughtermaster, hellheart, fist
Butcher (heavens), lvl 2, scroll, fist
BSB, flame banner, heavy armour, fist

12 bulls, fist, full command
3*10 gnoblars, trappers

6 Maneaters (sniper/stubborn), 6* brace o pistols, 6* heavy armour, full command.
4 Maneaters (scout/poison), 2 hand weapons, standard, heavy armour
3 Leadbelchers
2*1 Sabretusk

Ironblaster.

I wanted to try out maneaters and gnoblars and this is what I came up with. I'll try and keep you updated on how I do!