Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

I played my Witch Coven for the first time last Saturday. 35 point tier list using the following:

Witch Coven
Deathjack
Deathripper
Nightwretch
Skarlock
Darragh Wrathe
Pistol Wraith
Soul Hunters
Witch Coven

I initially had my first game vs Erickson Kwok's Menite army but we didn't finish it as he had to leave immediately as he had to go meet his girlfriend.

I thought it was going to be a no game night and was watching the match between Tiny and Kim when John Benares came in and so we had a small game. As noted it was 35 points and the scenario was Diversion, a radial mission with control points.

So we rolled off to see who goes first and he won the die rolls and he decided to let me go first. So after setting up our armies, we started the game. I basically moved my army forward with the Soul Hunters and Darragh handling the right flank and most of my army aiming towards the center of the table. I sent the Nightwretch to the left. Deathjack moved towards the middle of the table where there was a crater opting to get some cover protection and casts Occultation on the Soul Hunters. The Witch Coven casts Infernal Machine on it and camps the remaining focus.

John B allocated focus to his jacks. He then moved up his army, attacking my Nightwretch with his Mage Hunter Strike Force and doing serious damage.  He then ran one of his lights and arced a spell onto the Nightwretch further lowerig its efficiency. The walked up his Shield Wall units as well as his solo cav. Mage Hunter Assassin went in to attack the Nighwretch but misses. He also pops Kaelyssa's feat to prevent me from charging and gives his army Stealth.

Next turn, Witch Coven  upkeeps Infernal Machine for free via Withershadow Combine. My Soul Hunter ran towards the MHSF to stop them from shooting. DJ then is given Ghost Walk by the Skarlock and then moves his 8" towards the John B's light jack and proceeds to demolish it. The Witch Coven move up and then pop their own feat as well as arc Stygian Abyss onto the MHA and kills her. Withershadow follows them. Pistol Wraith runs closer to the action.

In JohnBs next turn, he kills one of the two remaining Soul Hunters. He CMAs the Soul Hunters but one survived on his rolling 4s while needing 5s. His archers tried shooting at Darragh and misses. More shots take out the Nightwretch. He also advanced the cav solo and the Shield Wall unit.

My turn I allocate 2 focus to the Deathjack who had gotten a Soul Token before from the destruction of the MHA. Darragh charges an MHA and kills it then Battle Wizard activates and kills another model. The remaining Soul Hunter activates and while Incorporeal charges Kaelyssa and misses forgetting he has a soul token. Pistol Wraith kills 2 MHSF models, clearing the way for the DJ. Skarlock casts Ghostly onto DJ and promptly charges Kaelyssa over some rough terrain. He reaches Kaelyssa and manages to kill her.

So my first usage of the Witch Coven turns into a win for the ladies with the ball. Hope you enjoyed the batrep.

WMH Pokemon! I Choose You! Now I Have Them All!

I finally completed my Cryx warcasters. Here they are in all their infamy:

From left to right they are: Epic Goreshade, Epic Deneghra, Scaverous, Prime Goreshade, Prime Deneghra, Epic Asphyxious, Epic Skarre, Prime Asphyxious, Venethrax, Prime Skarre, Mortenebra, Witch Coven and Terminus at the back. 13 for 13 and just waiting for the third incarnation of Asphyxious for 14.

Hope I can play each of them at least 50 games each. But that might just take a couple of years. Enjoy the pic!

Epic Gore

This week painted up a new caster. Epic Goreshade it was. And here he is in all his undead glory:

I took him out for his first game last night, a 35 point match against Christian "Kei" Valentin. He was using Epic Haley in that game and this was the list he used:

Faction: Cygnar
Casters: 1/1
Points: 34/35
Major Victoria Haley (*5pts)
* Defender (9pts)
* Squire (2pts)
Arcane Tempest Gun Mages (Leader and 5 Grunts) (6pts)
* Arcane Tempest Gun Mage Officer (2pts)
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team (4pts)
Stormblade Infantry (Leader and 5 Grunts) (5pts)
* Stormblade Infantry Officer & Standard (3pts)
Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios (3pts)
Journeyman Warcaster (3pts)
Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord (2pts)


I used this list for Epic Goreshade:


Faction: epic Goreshade - Heresy of Shadows
Casters: 1/1
Points: 35/35
Tiers: 4
Goreshade the Cursed (*5pts)
* Deathripper (4pts)
* Deathripper (4pts)
* Defiler (5pts)
* Skarlock Thrall (2pts)
Bane Thralls (Leader and 5 Grunts) (5pts)
* Bane Thrall Officer & Standard (0pts)
Bane Thralls (Leader and 5 Grunts) (5pts)
The Withershadow Combine (5pts)
Bane Lord Tartarus (4pts)
Pistol Wraith (3pts)
3 Scrap Thrall (1pts)
3 Scrap Thrall (1pts)
3 Scrap Thrall (1pts)

It was a long and drawn out battle, reaching 6 rounds before I managed to finally get as assassination run in and that run was exciting as well with me missing my boosted charge attack and then proceeding to miss the next attack as well. I was sweating at the third bought and boosted attack. If I missed that, most likely I wouldn't have enough focus to kill her. Luckily the third attack hit and I proceeded to roll an 11 for damage sealing the victory. I will wait up for Kim to upload the video of the batrep and link it to this blog.

Until next time!

Edit:  Here a link to the video battle report at Kim's WMPH Blog.

100th Game With Cryx

Had my 100th game with my Cryx army last May 1, 2012. That day, I played Mortenebra twice.

First was a 25 point game against Christian Melo's Strakhov which I got by mainly because he was new and the second game was against Rob's Prime Haley.

 In my game with Melo, we played Envelopment scenario but ended up more on going for assassination. I deployed first spreading my models in the center of deployment. I played a tier list with the following models:

Mortenebra
Deathjack
Reaper
Leviathan
2x Warwitch Sirens.

Melo had:

Strakhov
Beast
Min Kayazy+UA
Widowmakers
Manhunter
Yuri the Axe
Prime Eiryss
Kell Bailoch

So I ran my models forward my first turn with DJ getting Spectral Steel giving it +2 to Arm and Ghostly. He cautiously advances and shoots with his Widowmakers doing some damage. Beast is also given Superiority.

Next turn, I tried to hit Beast with the Reaper's ranged attack and hoping to Drag it and missed even with boosting the attack via Mortenebra's interface. Leviathan tries shooting the Widowmakers and miss. I then charge with the Deathjack against a Widowmaker and kill it then I attack Beast taking it down 2/3rds of its points. At this point, Mortenebra is a bit up front and exposed.

So on Melo's turn he shoots with his Widowmakers again and pEiryss hits Mortenebra with a Dirsuption bolt stripping her of her focus. Strakhov feats and charges the Leviathan, damaging it. Beast does some damage to the Deathjack but not enough as Strakhov didn't allocate focus to Beast. Kayazy now charge Mortenebra. Unfortunately, they had to go through Deathjack's Abomination range as well as Mortenebra's Terror range. They promptly failed the first test and the attack against Mortenebra failed.

My turn, Derilyss casts Spectral Steel on the Deathjack and it went for the win.

In my next game vs Rob, I played the same list, adding a Defiler and Slayer. Rob had: Prime Haley Thorn Squire ATGMs with ATGM Officer Jackmarshalled Defender Stormblades with Stormblades Officer and Standard Strangeways Journeyman Warcaster In this game, we played the Process of Elimination scenario. Rob won the die roll but decided to have me go first.

So as usual I ran most of my models forward and Mortenebra giving Spectral Steel to the Deathjack and Warwitch Sirens giving focus to some of the jacks. I stayed mainly in the middle of my side of the board.

Rob's turn, he moved Thorn forward and arced Arcane Shield on it and it moved again. Journeyman moved up and cast Arcane Shield on the Stormblades. ATGM stayed put and the Defender moved forward and shot but missed as he made a mistake in sequence of activations with Arlan.

Next turn I ran moved my defiler forward and tried spraying Thorn, missing my attacks. I then ran Mortenebra towards the Reaper and then the Reaper interfaced with Mortenebra and tried to hit Thorn and missed it. Deathjack then ran towards the Reaper. Leviathan tried shooting ATGMs and missing and the Slayer moved up. Sirens also moved up.

On Rob's turn, he shot with his Defender doing damage to the Leviathan. ATGMs move up and tried shooting at the Siren but her high defence lets her live one more turn. Haley tries to Scramble the Reaper but just stays put as the direction was towards Mortenebra whom the Reaper we in base to base with already. Stormblades moved up as well. Journeyman damages the Defiler.

My next turn, Mortenebra ran forward to get to base to base with the Reaper. The Reaper boosting via Interface hit and damaged Thorn and dragged it to itself. Followup attacks didn't do much damage. Siren tries to hit Reaper with spray and misses. Deathjack however finishes off Thorn. On the other side of the table, Defiler sprays and hits 2 Stormblades. Slayer charges and also does kills 2 Stormblade. Second Siren moves up.

On Rob's turn he feats with Haley. ATGMs shoot at and damage the Leviathan as well as kill the wounded Siren. Defender shoots and heavily damages the Reaper. Journeyman shoots at the Slayer damaging it and then the Stormblades finish it off.

Next turn, Mortenebra moves from her position risking falling damage which didn't punch through her armor. Mortenebra can't be knocked down so it was a good play. Reaper moves forward and again with Interface shoots at Defender, damaging it and dragging it to itself. Does some more damage with focus from Mortenebra and Deathjack finishes it off. Defiler sprays the Stormblades and hits a couple of them.

Rob goes for hail mary pass on his turn. First, some Stormblades die to Corrosion. Then Haley along with the Journeyman breaks the Reaper. ATGMs now try to shoot at Mortenebra and she takes some damage but cover from the wrecked Reaper keeps her Defense high enough to weather the shots. Rob concedes the game after his turn as the Deathjack will be in range of Haley. Good games and worthy opponents who will only get better with experience. When I got home and listed my games, I found out the last gamge was my 100th game. Winning it is a good bonus. Until next time!

P.S. Forgot to take pics! Arrrgh!

Vaya Con Diyos

Lost a good friend the other day. He had a heart attack while undergoing dialysis. He's tough as they come, having lost an appendix, had a quintuple bypass and survived 2 previous heart attacks afterwards. This last one, I guess the Guy up there decided he has gone through enough pain and took my friend into His bosom.

I was supposed to meet him yesterday too. Would have been nice to reminisce with him about the college days as well as get updated on how he was and what he was doing. It wasn't meant to be.

God keep you safe, Peter Solquillo. Twas a good run.

Don't you just hate it...

...when your laptop and desktop both go down in the span of 1 day?

Games at Schizo March 3, 2012

Had 2 games at Schizo last Saturday. It was my first time to visit there. Schizo is the haunt of the newer Warmachine players. Louie de Guzman invited us to play there and we took the offer. Kim and Kei arrived earlier than me along with Louie.

My first game was against Jose Arguelles aka Taks. We played Envelopment scenario from Steamroller 2012 with 7 points of reinforcements. He used Epic Magnus and his Tier 4 list. I was a noob using Epic Asphyxious for the first time. Taks played a bit more aggressively and almost always went for the assassination. He nearly did eGaspy in too. His rolls weren't going for him though. His first Oblit rocket attack from the first of his 2 Renegades did 3 points of damage. It was bad since the damage was all in. His last assassination attempt needed a total of 15 points to kill eGaspy. He rolled 14 total and eGaspy lives to see another round. My army then went for the kill. Taks was smart. He avoided killing my models so eGaspy wouldn't be that much of a threat.

Second game was vs Erickson Kwok aka Menite-Kei. Erick used Prime Serverius in this game. This was more straightforward affair as he wanted to see how eGaspy's feat works. Problem was he was rolling terribly in hitting or damaging my models. So Tartarus and the Bane Knights actually lived a turn more than they should have. Finally managed to kill them but the second wave Bane Thralls then went up to bat. Meanwhile, the Pistol Wraith was Death Chilling his Reckoner so was making it less effective than it should relegating it to a shooting platform. eGaspy then came up for his feat turn and Old Man Sevvy was pulled down by the Knights. Though Tartarus and the first Bane Knight made it interesting as they both missed Severius but with 8 more models to go, it got done by the 4th model.

Two interesting but very good games. The first one I really should have lost except for the bad or just missed to damage rolls. The second could also have gone either way had Erick managed to destroy Tartarus and the Bane Knights much earlier. Unfortunately was not able to take pics but hope I can take pics next time.

And one more addition...

Since I got to paint eGaspy (see previous blog) my conscience bothered me to paint Mortenebra who I actually got last year way before eGaspy. So after 2 hours of painting, here she is, Mortenebra, the techmarine of Cryx:

Tomorrow I will paint up her personal Skarlock Derilyss. Update you soon.

Finally!!!

Finally got off my collective arse and painted Epic Asphyxious. Here he is in all his errr notoriety!

Not bad considering I started around 9 am this morning.

Hope y'all like it and I hope to put him on the table this Saturday at Schizo.

Until next time. Hopefully Wrongeye and Snapjaw this time.

If I build it he will come.

Long time no blog! Kinda fell by the wayside so I will try to post blogs again.

So last week I bought my latest Cryx warcaster, Lich Lord Asphyxious or otherwise known as eGaspy. Kinda big with lotsa stuff to attach. I initially brushed the parts to remove any corrosion. Then I cut off the shafting of the weapon because the white metal tends to bend a lot and replaced it with a steel rod. Afterwards I attached both arms and let the glue bond overnight. This is what I started with today:

Last night I had also pinned the head like so in preparation for attaching it to the body:

The pin is attached to the base of the skull. Next I drilled a hole in the cowl where the head is to be attached:

And afterwards, attached the head.

Next I put a pin under the body. I had to do this because as you see from the pics above the base will only attach to eGaspy in a small area. Attaching a pin should go aways in meking the connection more stable.

Lastly, I drilled a hole to the metal base where the pin will go in and also attached the "souls" onto the base.

Next up, will be basecoating the base and then painting it before I attach eGaspy and then finish painting him up which hopefully will be within the next few days.

Until next time!

100 Point Match!

Had a 100 point match vs my friend Jeff Yu last Saturday, It was my first 100 point match in years. The last I played was vs Micheal Ang in Mark 1.

Anyway, here is a picture of my army:

Model list:

Scaverous
Deathjack
Nightwretch
Skarlock

Venethrax
Leviathan
Nightwretch
Seether

Bane Lord Tartarus
Bloat Thralls x2
Darragh Wraithe
Gen. Gaerlack Slaughterborn
Pistol Wraiths x2

Bane Knights max
Bile Thralls min
Blood Gorgers max
Blood Gorgers min
Mechanithralls min with 3 Bloat Thralls
Mechanithralls min
Necrosurgeons
Soulhunters min
Withershadow Combine

The game was Incursion and I got first turn. Basically ran up my army the first turn like so:

Jeff then advanced his army and Epic Stryker Advanced then Velocity-ed forward. At that point, I felt Scaverous had a chance to do an assassination run vs Stryker. Scaverous feated, cast Ghostly,went through the train wreck and Telekinesis-ed Stryker and placed him 2" from his last position. I then cast Icy Grip on him to lower his Defense further. Then Bane Lord Tartarus charged in and Cursed Stryker and Threshed and did some damage. The Bane Knights accompanying Tartarus then finished him off. The turn ended like so with me moving models up further and attacking some more models of Jeff's killing some Storm Blades(?) and Epic Eiryss on the other side of the table.

Jeff's turn he killed a lot of trolls as well as some Bane Knights, McThralls and a Soul Hunter and doing damage to a Bloat Thrall and some other models. Then came his assassination run. Caine killed a Brute Thrall blocking LoS to Scaverous then feated and Gate Crashed into Scavy. Shot after shot until Scavy was down to one hit point with one more shot to go needing a 5 but fate had other plans and the dice rolled 4!

After that it was formality already with Scavy casting Feast of Worms to lower Caine's Armor and boosted the damage roll dealing around 8 points of damage. The Bile Thrall unit came next and you get the picture.

All in all a new experience in Mk 2. Props to Jeff for an excellent game.

Death Couldn't Look This Bad Ass

I now present Scaverous, fully painted courtesy of Edward Fernando:

The detail on the model is amazing. There are skulls in his chest! The armor and weapon have lots of ridges and all. This is officially my favorite model in the Cryx faction, surpassing Venethrax.

He's also a big mother! Here's a pic of how big the guy is compared to Terminus, one of the largest models in the PP line:

Note Scaverous is on a medium base.

Games-wise, his spells are quite nice. This caster is a spell slinger definitely. Between Death Ward, Excarnate, Feast of Worms, Ghost Walk, Icy Grip and Telekinesis, he should give the opponent a hard time.

Hoping to use both Scaverous and Terminus on the tables soon.

Enjoy the pics!

Scaverous, Scaverous would you do the Fandango...

...
Thunderbolt and lightning
Very, very frightening me!

:D

Terminator

I unveil Terminus, Lich Lord of Cryx. One of the earliest Lich Lords of Toruk, he is now at Immoren leading the forces of Cryx in their assault on the mainland. Thanks to Edward "Emp" Fernando for his excellent job at painting him. Here he is in all his glory:

Improbable Dream - Update

Painting for a toutal of 15 and a half hours. Trolls just need to have their bases painted but the figs itself are done except for the armor washing. To wit:

The following models are done except for basing. I'll get to that later but the figs are done:

Resting at the moment. Confident I can field a fully painted army for the Call to Arms 2011 League. :)

Improbable Dream - Painting 24 Models in a Total of 24 Hours

Yes, 24 models in 24 hours total. I am joining the local Warmachine Hordes League and one of the bonuses is playing a game with a fully painted army. I had to paint 24 models the breakdown of which are as follows:

a. Slaughterborn
b. 16 Blood Gorgers
c. 3 Brute Thralls
d. Necrosurgeon and
e. 3 Stitch Thralls.

I focused on the Bloodgorgers first. I initially basecoated them with grey primer:

Then I went to Edward "Emp" Fernando's place for a couple of hours of painting because he had some paint I needed. I used Trollblood Base for the skin of my Bloodgorgers, seeing as they were Trollkin only under the wings of Cryx. They came out like so:

I finished painting the skin while at Emp's place. At the same time, I also painted the body of the Brutes and Stitch Thralls in Thrall Flesh. So total at Emp's place was 3 hours thereabouts. I had to pick up my kid from his school so I continued painting at home, putting Boltgun Metal on the armor of 7 models (Slaughterborn and 6 Bloodgorgers) as well as picking out some details for me to follow the next day. Came out like this:

So today I continued painting the models. The Trolls are almost all complete, to wit:

I also almost finished painting a Brute Thrall as well as did some work on the Necrosurgeon.

Here's a pic of Slaughterborn, almost done:

Basically a total of 7 hours for today. Not bad I guess for speed painting. Anyway, hope to finish everything by tomorrow by finishing the remaining Brutes and Necrosurgeon as well as Armor Wash-ing all the figs.

Anyway, until next blog.

PS Thanks to Emp for letting me use some of his paint.

New PAL additions

Added two new PAL planes to my fleet of diecast airliners. PPC brand from PAL Inflight Sales bought via my sister in law who came home from HK via PAL. Top is 1/500 scale A330 and the bottom is 1/400 scale PAL DC-3. Enjoy!

Lich Lord Convention

Had a Lich Lord Convention yesterday at Edward Fernando's (Emp) place. Me, Emp and Fred Escalona had a casual day of gaming yesterday. We started after lunch. I unfortunately arrived way past the 11 I promised because had to attend a Parent Teacher Conference at my sons' school and it had a nice seminar after the conference as well.

We had 3 games with Emp winning both his games against me and Fred while I won against Fred. Fred brought his buwaya army and it was an interesting take on a new Merc army. Very powerful army where the entire army can be taken down by the knockdown feat.

I played Venethrax and since Fred had a Hordes army, it was a bit in my favor because Venny excels at killing beasts. Venny took only 2 or 3 swings to kill a beast.

Against Emp's Terminus, it shows how hard it really is to take a camping Terminus down. Arm 24 is really difficult to break as I proved when Venny tried to charge him. I rolled badly also and that basically was the end of that as Terminus returned the favor in spades.

After the gaming day as well as discussing the current situation on the invasion, picture taking with the Lich Lords present. Until next convention (sabi daw Wed next week uli).

Terminus

My latest Cryx caster: Terminus.

Big dude on a big base. Should be interesting to use though want him to be painted first before I use him. Just finished basing him for now. Hope to be able to use him in the near future. Until next time.

ANG INIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!

Nuff said!