The last week in Gaming - May 2013

For some reason I rarely get to post on my blog when I'm off work for a week.

Nurgle Daemons 

They're sitting in a naughty corner after a couple of nasty games versus orcs & goblins (Fern and Nick). Lost 4 in a row with it at the moment. Fern has a killer list with 80 Night gobbos with bows and BSB with Poison banner. It's painful. I'm working on variations without a GUO and with. I'll have to trial this list

Epidemius
HoN BSB, Level 1 Death
43 Plaguebearers with full command w/ banner of swiftness
3 x 5 Beasts of Nurgle
5 Furies of Nurgle
2 Nurgling bases
5 Plague drones w/ full command and Plague Proboscis

or

Epidemius
HoN BSB, Level 1 Death, greater gift.
43 Plaguebearers with full command w/ banner of swiftness
2 x 5 Beasts of Nurgle
1 Beast of Nurgle
2 x 5 Nurgle Fuies
5 Plague drones w/ full command and Plague Proboscis
2 Skill Cannons

or

Epidemius
HoN BSB, Level 1 Death, greater gift.
30 Plaguebearers with full command w/ banner of swiftness
20 Plaguebearers with full command
2 x 5 Beasts of Nurgle
1 Beast of Nurgle
2 x 5 Nurgle Fuies
3 Plague drones w/ standard and Plague Proboscis
2 Skill Cannons


The key is getting at least 1 General, BSB and 2 standards to compete in Blood and Glory. Epidemius will either be in a corner or near the Plague drones to benefit from Look out Sir. Or take 2 Skillcannons (of Nurgle;-) and shoot dangerorus stuff like rock lobbers, cannons and screaming bells off the board.). We'll see how it goes and whether I want to buy another box of drones.

Khorne Daemons  

Broke out the pure Khorne daemons and took them to Warlords on the weekend and they faired fairly well. I ran:

Bloodthirster, 1 Greater Gift and 2 lesser Gifts
Herald of Khorne, Bloodthrone, BSB, Locus of Fury and Lesser Gift
2 x 30 Bloodletters with full command
3 Bloodcrushers
5 Flesh Hounds with ambush
2 Skill Cannons


Number of drops was amazingly short. I must say the skill cannons are much better as chariots than cannons.

Had a game against Matthew Hassal(High Elves) and Pete Dunn (Mixed Daemons -Mostly Tzeentch) and both time they faired pretty well. The throne works really well  especially nuzzled in between the two Bloodletter units. Bloodthirster was a star especially with little artillery to take him out.

High Elves

Been having a look at Highelves, I only got a few miniatures so far, but was having a look at something like this.

Loremaster of Hoeth w/Book of Hoeth and Talisman of Preservation
Noble BSB and insert magic stuff here
30 Lothern Sea Guard full command
2 x 5 Silver Helms w/ shield musician
3 x 15 Archers w/musician
2 x 3 Tiranoc Chariots
4 Eagle Claw Bolt Throwers
2 Great Eagles

Should be good for a laugh. Send the chariots  to break stuff and eagles to divert stuff and set back with the rest and shoot stuff/

Painting 

So I'm currently painting Daemon Princes, Throgg, and 6 Ogres. Progress has been slow as a wet week since the Tournament. The red Daemon Prince is almost done Hamish.

All things Kickstarter: Reaper

I picked up an Ogre Chieftain and 6 Kobolds from Pukeko Games on tghe weekend when we went to Warlords games. Have reordered some primer so can primer them and start painting, the detail is marginally less than normal but acceptable for the drastic decrease in price. reaper are waiting on last 2 Containers to reach them so they can start processing our order.

Dice Rings Kickstarter

Dice rings will start shipping soon. Then we will be blinging it out with our geeky rings.

Mantic Kings of War Kickstarter

Whilst Deadzone is out am still waiting on Kings of War, I might drop another hundred on High Elves or Dorfs. Still not sure. I have some Elf sprues from the crazy games discounted box they did at Christmas and whilst being tiny wasted they're not bad sculpts.It might be just the thing to really grate on Hamish's nerves by playing with alternate models, especially since he has High Elves.

Other Kickstarters

Then it's on to Kickstarters I'm watching/waiting for. Secret Weapon Terrain Kickstarter is looking awesome and will probably end up setting me back a couple of hundred for a Necromunda runied streets board. Raging Heroes Toughest Girls in the Galaxy: this I will most certainly drop some cash on. I've been waiting for this for a long long time. Hopefully because of their delays in starting it will be awesome. All quiet on the martian front kickstarter looks cute as a button. And then there is the Robotech kickstarter.