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Hardcore Cryx After-Action Report!

That sounds even less like something you’d actually want to read.  Perhaps the secret to my lack of success has been discovered…

So, the peanut gallery spoke and I took Mortenebra down to Chimera in Brierley Hill for a bash around.  Before we start, can I just say that Chimera’s rather ... 

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Warmachine: Hardcore Cryx Action!

In the past I may have been heard saying good things about Warmachine’s Hardcore format, in a sort of detached, intellectual kind of way, with ref: different goals for different playstyles and a prize for each, no conflated ‘best overall’ nonsense, sportsmanship as a prerequisite rather than something that needs extra gameable systems to police.

What ... 

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Warmahordes: Gaming The Terrain

Earlier this year, I ran a four-player Warmachine game as a way of saying thanks to my then gaming club for putting up with me for half a year.  The scenario we used was a modified version of the Siege on Fort Lawton from an early No Quarter; one player in the middle, three players ... 

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Warmahordes: It’s Been A While

What with actually running the Dark Ages Vampire game (it’s going well, thanks, although there’s no interesting meta as yet and so I’m observing the First Rule of RPG Club), painting up Lizardmen and trying out Lord of the Rings, I haven’t been talking much about Warmahordes – or playing that much either, as tight ... 

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Been Painting: Mister Topham’s Tuffalos

Tuffalo, HOOOOOO!

I have no real idea how I painted these. It involved layer after layer of Scorched Brown > Tallarn Flesh > Knarloc Green > Cobra Leather and then a good slather of Gryphonne Sepia over the top just to take the extreme baby-poo off the Tuffalos themselves; then blending in more Knarloc ... 

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FQDII Khador List Review

I’ll be honest, I’ve got the blues a bit at the moment.  Not as regards actual gaming, still doing a fair bit of Blood Bowl and WoW, although the Goblins! game has stalled owing to the near-impossibility of getting seven people into a room at the same time.  Strange that it’s only RPGs that seem ... 

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Reinforcements!

A wee bit later than anticipated or ideal, but here they are: two more warlocks, two more beasts, and the much-needed Shifting Stones.  I also snuck in a Fate Deck so I can maybe try out the Goblins! characters in their native rules environment.

In other Druid news, I won a game with my Circle ... 

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Fun, Quick & Dirty II – Event Report Thing

Rather than take up the blog with game reports for a week, I’ll just direct you here for the blow-by-blow report, and I’ll do the list build review here, when I have time.

Bloody good event, though.

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Been Painting: KHADORS

All done and ready for FQD2 tomorrow! Granted, most of them were done when I bought them, but I did have to mark all the bases, as well as painting the Kovnik, Valachev, and most of the Kossites…

Filed under: been painting, IABN, khador, mercenaries, warmachine ... 

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Been Painting: Mr. Wellsted’s Widowmakers

Sneaking this one in between proper updates:

The first part of the Khador army I’m painting for Si, our Star Wars GM and Pathfinder guru, who’s given me his spare monitor and promised a Lizardman Blood Bowl team in return. I live in hope that he will actually play some games with these at some ... 

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