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.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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.
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.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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.
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.
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.
Friday, February 17, 2012
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!
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!
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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:
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.
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