Tuesday, November 9, 2010

A glance at Menoth

The might of Menoth is undeniable, therefore it is only reasonable for me to disclose in advance my possible army lists:

Harbinger 50 pt Theme List:
Harbinger
Devout
Avatar of Menoth
Crusader
Crusader
Castigator
High Paladin Dartan Vilmon
Paladin of the Order of the Wall x2
Hierophant
Max Holy Zealots + UA
Min Choir x2
Either 2 Vassal Mechaniks or another Paladin (Just realized I need another model....)


Grand Scrutator Severius 35 pt non-Theme List:
pSeverius
Avatar of Menoth
Blessing of Vengeance
Vanquisher
Vassal of Menoth
Max Exemplar Errants + UA
Min Choir
Vassal Mechanik

Of these lists, I own all except either the last 1 vassal mechanik or paladin, but much of it is not yet assembled.

More to come, for the glory of Menoth!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Incoming: Bretonnia

Bretonnia is officially work-in-progress now that I've got my battalion box. I've had a lord and BSB assembled for a while (pictures when they are primed), but nothing says ready to play like 20 men-at-arms, 16 peasant bowmen, 8 knights, and a Pegasus.



I haven't had a chance to thoroughly read through the 8E rule book; however, I have a tentative list for 1000 points.

1000-Point Bretonnia
Bretonnian Lord
* Lance, Shield, Royal Regasus, Gromil Great Helm, Virtue of Confidence, Gauntlet of the Duel, Mantel of Damsel Elena
Paladin
* BSB, Barded Warhorse
Paladin
* Questing Vow, Great Weapon, Barded Warhorse
Damesel of the Lady
* Level 1, Warhorse
Knights of the Realm
* 8 Models, Full Command
Men-at-Arms
* 20 Models, Full Command
Peasant Bowmen
* 16 Models, Musician
Field Trebuchet

The Field Trebuchet is still on back order at GW but I expect to receive it before I'm ready to play. I'll probably make some adjustments to the list before playing with it hopefully later this month but generally this what I'll have to play as its basically all the models I'll own.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Points: I'm coming for you!

I have pictures of the assembly of many chaos models for you today. All of these models are ready to be primed (though not quite fully assembled - so that they are easier to paint). I intend on making these "winter" themed, so my next post should be some pictures of the first model with such a paint theme...probably a chaos warrior. So painters beware - I'm coming for YOUR points next month. =P

16 Marauders, 10 Hounds, 12 Chaos Warriors.
Oh, and High Paladin Vilmon, 2 Paladins, and a vassal mechanik - fully assembled.

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Also - Thanks to Nathan for letting me use both his camera, and his blog.

The BK

Monday, July 5, 2010

First Post (with some bulk)

I'll start off by linking to a few friends who are responsible for the existence of this blog (and whose readership is the only I even expect :) ).

Got a couple of things to cover in this post. I'll start off with a quick summary of a game I played with a friend back in May.

May 15 2010, Empire v High Elves, 500 points


I'm going to save the effort of providing the details or going through the images one by one. This battle was my first attempt in capturing the game through images and I believe I pretty well failed at that. So a bit of a lesson learned in that regard. The game consisted of one major combat between my block of spears versus his block with general. My state troops managed to beat the high elves in this fight but failed to run down his general. Otherwise the game consisted of a a lot of cat and mouse tactics.

I made two major mistakes in this game. The first was a failed attempt to get my knights in to the flank of a unit (this failure and the resulting flank charge is captured in the photos). In hindsight, I was just rushing and should have realized that either I should have just charged the unit or expanded to 5-wide to accept the charge. The other mistake is avoiding the charge with my greatswords. It may not be obvious from the photos but we each had a unit that spent the game avoiding getting charged by the other. I should have just rushed straight in and let him charge me head on from the beginning.

On the hobbying side of things, this last weekend me and a friend (the same from the game in May actually) sat down a few times and made some progress on our respective initial Warmachine forces.

July 4 2010


That's all for now. In future posts, I'll try to provide more picture by picture comments of the hobbying and gaming