Crucible 6 has come and gone. What an event! This was my first year on the organizer side of things, running Guild Ball rather than playing. Even still, I had a great time. All three tournaments I ran had a good number of players (8,12,6 respectively), and ran super smoothly. There were moments of difficulty that were overcome with straightforward talk and good attitudes. I'm looking forward to the next one, which is only 6 months out! We're moving to October!
On the painting side, I finished 10 of the 16 models I wanted to paint in the last week before the event, and only 4 of the remaining ones were without paint at all. Some borrowing later, and a lone Fillet was the only primer-bearing model in the event. Not so shabby! Every table I put up had painted terrain, but I need to get some trees for my forests for next time.
What's next?
Well, I picked up a box of Genestealer Cultists to play as a kill team for Shadow War: Armageddon (aka new Necromunda). That'll be a thing, methinks. If not, they look fun to paint. I've got some Necrons that no one ever wanted to buy as well, so maybe those'll be a team too. Maybe 6-7 models to paint per band isn't bad at all.
Still playing Frostgrave - need to paint more guys for that. My Summoner is up to level 29 or so, with a pretty decked out warband. I've got a low level Elementalist as well, so I can play against newer players without being "that guy".
What else? Who knows. We'll see. And maybe there'll be pictures next time.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Monday, March 27, 2017
Hey look, a blog!
So...I still exist.
Quick summary:
Successfully finished the painting contest on the Privateer forums last year (painting 5/10 points per month). Haven't painted much since then.
Started playing Blood Bowl when it released in November. Got a Frostgrave book for Christmas, started playing that in February.
Crucible 6 is four days away. I am running Guild Ball at the event. I have 16 captain models to complete by Friday. They're all assembled, all but one is primed, and I can probably finish six of them tonight. I don't think I'm going to make it, but I'm going to give it my best effort. I also have terrain to paint for the event. I have slacked hard.
Frostgrave: Simple, fun, easy to play. It plays with miniatures I already had, but I've bought some more for it. It kinda scratches the Mordheim itch; not completely, but enough to satisfy.
Maybe I'll update more often than bi-annually.
Quick summary:
Successfully finished the painting contest on the Privateer forums last year (painting 5/10 points per month). Haven't painted much since then.
Started playing Blood Bowl when it released in November. Got a Frostgrave book for Christmas, started playing that in February.
Crucible 6 is four days away. I am running Guild Ball at the event. I have 16 captain models to complete by Friday. They're all assembled, all but one is primed, and I can probably finish six of them tonight. I don't think I'm going to make it, but I'm going to give it my best effort. I also have terrain to paint for the event. I have slacked hard.
Frostgrave: Simple, fun, easy to play. It plays with miniatures I already had, but I've bought some more for it. It kinda scratches the Mordheim itch; not completely, but enough to satisfy.
Maybe I'll update more often than bi-annually.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
September - Lots of painting!
September, thus far, has been a super busy month!
Lots of models painted! Pictures coming soon!
I don't know if its the paint scheme, or the ease of painting larger models, but I am cranking through my Cygnar. So far this month, I've completed 2 Centurions, a Defender, a Grenadier, 2 Arcane Riflemen, pHaley, and Lanyssa Ryssell. I've also painted Fangtooth for my Guild Ball Union team.
I've also got lots on my painting desk, in various states of completion. I'll likely finish more by the end of the month.
Big League for Guild Ball is running!
We've modified the rules a bit, to run without a set schedule of games. This means removing the standard player loans rule, and replacing it with "borrow any model for a game for 3 Favor points". This could prove to be game-breaking, but so far, no one's actually used the loan rules. I intend to start doing so tonight. We'll see how it goes!
So far we have 8 games played, a good start!
Lots of models painted! Pictures coming soon!
I don't know if its the paint scheme, or the ease of painting larger models, but I am cranking through my Cygnar. So far this month, I've completed 2 Centurions, a Defender, a Grenadier, 2 Arcane Riflemen, pHaley, and Lanyssa Ryssell. I've also painted Fangtooth for my Guild Ball Union team.
I've also got lots on my painting desk, in various states of completion. I'll likely finish more by the end of the month.
Big League for Guild Ball is running!
We've modified the rules a bit, to run without a set schedule of games. This means removing the standard player loans rule, and replacing it with "borrow any model for a game for 3 Favor points". This could prove to be game-breaking, but so far, no one's actually used the loan rules. I intend to start doing so tonight. We'll see how it goes!
So far we have 8 games played, a good start!
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Quick update! Painted models!
Models completed for August:
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| Rowdy Rowdy Rowdy! |
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| Somethin' strange, in your trenches? Who you gonna call? |
Still, good try and that primer won't go to waste...terrain. Jus' sayin', starting green helps.
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Not abandoned! Just busy!
I have not abandoned this poor, neglected blog! I've just been busy with playing the games, painting the minis and working rather than writing about any of it. I swear!
Here's the status of the various things:
Cygnar:
Loving Cygnar in Mark III WMH. Just won a small tournament after completing a Journeyman League. Haley2 is still strong, shock I know.
More importantly, I'm still painting Cygnar models. I'm currently at 322/536 points painted, and still going strong. I just completed a pair of Trench Busters, one of which was a test of a new primer...not a successful test, sadly so I'll be sticking with Duplicolor Sandable Black/White. My goal is to keep moving towards that moving "fully painted" target for this army. Maybe I'll stop buying to stop the goal from moving so much....but not likely.
Guild Ball:
Still playing Alchemists, still haven't finished painting my Alchemists. I have 9 painted models (7 Alchemists, 2 Union), so I have a playable team, but Katalyst and Smoke are still on the painting table, at 90% and 50% completed, respectively. I have finished probably a dozen other models since I started Katalyst and just can't seem to get any progress done on him. Naja just joined the assembled club the other night, and had his first outing on the pitch.
Also, I'll be running the Guild Ball events at Crucible 2017 in sunny Orlando, Florida! Check back for more details or find The Crucible on Facebook!
Malifaux:
Very sadly, haven't touched it since March or so. Want to, have the stuff and want to play, but not a big group locally. May go to a tournament on this coming Saturday, but not sure. Not giving up on it.
Board Games;
Mansions of Madness; Love it. Played it twice now, great app-integration, fairly smooth running game.
Legendary: Doesn't matter what IP you slap on it, basic Legendary doesn't do it for me. Shame that they wasted Big Trouble in Little China on this POS game. Legendary Encounters games are at least interesting and not competitive.
A Game of Thrones LCG: Still enjoying the game, trying to keep the local scene going.
Expect more posts, maybe not soon, but maybe soon. Very decisive, I know. Maybe just some picture posts.
Friday, July 1, 2016
July? What happened to those other months?
So three months have passed since my last post in April. Since then, I've become a Pundit for Steamforged Games (volunteer rep), done some painting, played some games, and oh yeah a new edition of War Machine came out.
Boom.
I'm digging Mark 3. On the wider rules changes, I love premeasuring. Its one of my favorite things about Guild Ball. It just makes sense to make it official, when you could basically cheat it in by using control ranges, flag measuring, etc. Power-Up is great, especially with the number of 'jack points now. It actually feels like 'jacks are worth using, which is a first for the game in a long time. Other changes (no more wreck markers, no more morale, etc) are good changes too. On the specific rules changes, the army I'm playing, Cygnar, came out smelling like roses. In-faction units are better, more 'casters are viable, and 'jacks are awesome. Lots of in-faction synergies to discourage mercenaries from being the best option makes me smile, despite the number of mercenaries I have.
Painting:
I've been working through my backlog of miniatures. I now officially have a billion left unpainted :)
Not really, of course, but more than I care to count (though I do have a spreadsheet with all of the information in it).
Here's some stuff I finished for this month:
Boom.
I'm digging Mark 3. On the wider rules changes, I love premeasuring. Its one of my favorite things about Guild Ball. It just makes sense to make it official, when you could basically cheat it in by using control ranges, flag measuring, etc. Power-Up is great, especially with the number of 'jack points now. It actually feels like 'jacks are worth using, which is a first for the game in a long time. Other changes (no more wreck markers, no more morale, etc) are good changes too. On the specific rules changes, the army I'm playing, Cygnar, came out smelling like roses. In-faction units are better, more 'casters are viable, and 'jacks are awesome. Lots of in-faction synergies to discourage mercenaries from being the best option makes me smile, despite the number of mercenaries I have.
Painting:
I've been working through my backlog of miniatures. I now officially have a billion left unpainted :)
Not really, of course, but more than I care to count (though I do have a spreadsheet with all of the information in it).
Here's some stuff I finished for this month:
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| Alten Ashley, Monster Hunter Extraordinaire |
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| Firefly - varnish not yet dried |
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| Major Beth Maddox |
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| Trenchers 1-6 of 15 |
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Is it April already?
Seriously, my month of March disappeared.
New month, new goals! But first, a quickie Crucible 2016 report. I had fun. I didn't win.
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Okay, a bit more detailed, then.
As far as games played, I stood in for the bye-round on Friday night's X-Wing tournament. This was unique, as I didn't actually bring anything for the game. I bought a big ship (the Ghost) and played it and its shuttle at around 85 or so points. I won one of three games, but was just playing for fun.
For War Machine, I played a pair of Iron Arena games and a whopping two tournament games of War Machine. I lost the first round of the main event to Trolls, killing a total of 6 Runeshapers out of 4 units (so half points for 2 units) and nothing else. I'm not sure exactly what happened, honestly, and I've blanked most of it out by now. I then managed to be the lucky guy who got paired up in the following round, and played Mr. Jason Watt, a really nice guy, who would go on to win the whole damn thing. He beat me in fairly short order, teaching me a few new tricks in the process, and after a two hour wait (lunch), I pulled the bye round 3. At this point, I was pretty tilted , so I dropped.
Fortunately, this put me in a great place to go and play A Game of Thrones LCG, as it was starting right around that time. We had 6 players (woo top 8), and I came in second with my Tyrell Lord of the Crossing Knights deck. In the three rounds we played, I managed to get the Left-Right combo out twice, with dupes in one game. For those who don't know the game/books, they're twin bodyguards who are mostly useless unless they are both in play, at which point they are crazy good. Fun times.
On sunday, I skipped the Gibbet (4 years running on that) to play in Conquest LCG. I convinced another player to try a fun deck rather than a serious deck, just by my choice of deck. I lost all my games in the tournament (Still top 8! WOO!) but had fun in the process and got some random prizes as well.
On the whole, the event was a blast. I got to see some folks that I don't see often, spent some time enjoying the resort, watched some competitive Guild Ball, won free drinks in the bar, won free drinks from my/Ed's cooler, and didn't work for several days! A big win! The only downside was that some of my locals weren't able to make it, which put a bit of a damper on it. Next year, we kidnap them all and take them with us!
Thoughts for next year: I'll probably practice up on War Machine more, or simply not play in the competitive events. I felt like I had a decent pair of lists, but not the skill to play them fully. And I tilted way too quickly on the way it all played out, though a four hour gap in the middle of an event will do that. Its 11 months from now, who knows what I'll be playing, what'll be available, etc, etc. For now, back to the drawing board!
New month, new goals! But first, a quickie Crucible 2016 report. I had fun. I didn't win.
...
Okay, a bit more detailed, then.
As far as games played, I stood in for the bye-round on Friday night's X-Wing tournament. This was unique, as I didn't actually bring anything for the game. I bought a big ship (the Ghost) and played it and its shuttle at around 85 or so points. I won one of three games, but was just playing for fun.
For War Machine, I played a pair of Iron Arena games and a whopping two tournament games of War Machine. I lost the first round of the main event to Trolls, killing a total of 6 Runeshapers out of 4 units (so half points for 2 units) and nothing else. I'm not sure exactly what happened, honestly, and I've blanked most of it out by now. I then managed to be the lucky guy who got paired up in the following round, and played Mr. Jason Watt, a really nice guy, who would go on to win the whole damn thing. He beat me in fairly short order, teaching me a few new tricks in the process, and after a two hour wait (lunch), I pulled the bye round 3. At this point, I was pretty tilted , so I dropped.
Fortunately, this put me in a great place to go and play A Game of Thrones LCG, as it was starting right around that time. We had 6 players (woo top 8), and I came in second with my Tyrell Lord of the Crossing Knights deck. In the three rounds we played, I managed to get the Left-Right combo out twice, with dupes in one game. For those who don't know the game/books, they're twin bodyguards who are mostly useless unless they are both in play, at which point they are crazy good. Fun times.
On sunday, I skipped the Gibbet (4 years running on that) to play in Conquest LCG. I convinced another player to try a fun deck rather than a serious deck, just by my choice of deck. I lost all my games in the tournament (Still top 8! WOO!) but had fun in the process and got some random prizes as well.
On the whole, the event was a blast. I got to see some folks that I don't see often, spent some time enjoying the resort, watched some competitive Guild Ball, won free drinks in the bar, won free drinks from my/Ed's cooler, and didn't work for several days! A big win! The only downside was that some of my locals weren't able to make it, which put a bit of a damper on it. Next year, we kidnap them all and take them with us!
Thoughts for next year: I'll probably practice up on War Machine more, or simply not play in the competitive events. I felt like I had a decent pair of lists, but not the skill to play them fully. And I tilted way too quickly on the way it all played out, though a four hour gap in the middle of an event will do that. Its 11 months from now, who knows what I'll be playing, what'll be available, etc, etc. For now, back to the drawing board!
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