Sorry I have been doing alot of things lately here is some more updates from Joey’s Menoth. Soon to come, Durthu’s Wood Elves.
I have more pictures with the bases done, I will post those as soon as they upload.
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Went to the first tourney of the Escalation League I am playing in and it was a good time. Got to see Jon and that was awesome. Travis showed up later and that was epic because of his new facial hair and an awesome painted necromancer. I am playing Wood elves this year for some reason, well mostly because I like hard games and don’t want to walk across the board in ranks of a million to randomly win games. All the games were played on a 4×4 table with preset terrain.
The list I took was:
Level 4 Sorceress
Alter Noble w/Wildfire Blades, Potion of Str, Helm of the hunt
16 Glade Guard with Standard, Flaming attacks Banner
8 Dryads
10 Wardancers
Great eagle
I knew going in that this list was soft and would have a hard time taking on anything with block troops but I was hoping to use some of the terrain to my advantage…….then I showed up and there was little to no terrain on the tables. Open ground warfare is NOT was wood elves excel at. This got me worried and I would have to play a bit passive against some armies to make the best of a bad situation.
Game 1 Brettonia – Micah
Level 2 Wizard on Horse
BSB
9 Knights of the Realm
30 Men at arms
3 Pegasus knights
2 trebuchets
Micah is a good player and he wanted to bring bretts because wanted to play something different as well. Good on him! We had a pretty tough game. My eagle was on my right flank and made a bee line for his trebuchets knowing I could score quick points since he would be moving at me as fast as he could. This worked out for me because he flew his Peg knights over to try and stop the eagle, which they put those guys out of my lines for 2 turns. My eagle kills one trebuchet, goes off the board, then flies back on next turn and sits in front of the other one. He made his 50 points quickly. His knights came darting for my lines, but they were met with wardancers in their flank and my alter noble crashing the other side. Too bad Micah doesn’t fail ward saves. It was a good stand for him because that would have been game. The wardancers get stuck in combat for the rest of the game until they lose 6th turn and get run down. Before they left though, they killed the level 2 and half of the knight unit, so I didn’t feel too bad. His knights didn’t get free reign of my lines. Shot peg knights and beat them in combat when they charged my dryads, they held and the archers flanked and delivered the final wound. The dryads holding actually gave me the cause to get a minor victory. Was a very good game and Micah and I both had a few rules questions because we hadn’t played in a while. Was a good game to start the tourney on and get of a few of the rules straight.
Minor Victory 1-0
Game 2 Lizardmen – Stetson
Sauras Scar vet with Sword of might
Level 2 Skink priest with Diadem of Power
3x 10 Skink Skirmishers
20 Skrox
20 Sauras warriors
2x Salamander
This list was my worst nightmare. A lot of shooting that wounds on 6 and template weapons!! I knew that I needed to kill those things ASAP. Well too bad the terrain was not good. Giant river flowing thru the middle of the board and only 3 ways to get across it, a trench that was big enough for 5 25mm models wide and 2 bridges. It was basically a 40k table that we used for fantasy that day. It was rough for both sides, but with him having blocks of infantry, he would just sit on the objective in the middle of the trench, and I had no way to surround him and get a multi-charge off. So I just tried to pick off small units, but I only killed the Skrox unit and a Salamander. He got my dryads and great eagle and that was it. This was a fairly boring game because of the board set up. Stetson is always fun to play and great to just banter back and forth with during the game.
Draw 1-0-1
Game 3 Ogre Kingdoms – Kevin
Tyrant with Enchanted shield
Butcher with Scroll
9 bulls full command
2 mournfang Cav
3 Maneaters with poison and scout
Kevin and I have a history in tournaments. We played first round a few months back and a 7th edition throw back event. He didn’t play much of 7th ed and so I introduced him to my skaven army with 436 models no magic and no shooting. I showed him how Plague censor were amazing in 7th as 8 of them chewed up 30+ marauders in 1 combat.
We joked about it before we started the game. I had no idea how this ogre book played. I haven’t even looked at it since release a few months back. So my objective was to take out the smaller, faster units and then run around the bigger unit and try and pick it off with shooting or the right time with a charge. This was the only game my magic did anything as well. He set up the maneaters on my left flank and in scouting range. Then his cav were in his deployment zone behind them. I knew he would be on me fast. He pushed up his cav very fast and had a bee line for my archer line, until my might eagle swooped in and made him charge a different direction away from everything. Best 50 points ever spent was on this eagle. I put my dryads in front of the man eaters and let him charge me. I did 4 wounds and he did 4, and my dryads stayed after losing combat by 1 because of his charge. My eagle got destroyed and he decided just to reform, which was fine, it meant he was still a turn away. My alter noble ran in and killed the last 2 maneaters without the potion of strength and was saving that for the cav combat he would be in when he got turned around. The archers shot and picked off one of the cav models leaving 1 left. His bulls slowly made their way right down the pipe at me. A couple of turns of shooting at bulls got a couple of them down, my alter noble made sure to kill the last cav model to sure up those points. This is the only game magic did anything and it was the last two turns when the bulls and the characters in the unit were left. I got dwellers off two turns in a row killing the butcher and 6 bulls. My archers shot on turn 6 and killed the last of the bulls leaving only his tyrant on the board at the end.
Massacre win 2-0-1
Finished 4th overall and that was ok with me. After seeing the tables with only 1 table have forests at all, I was pretty sure I was looking at a 0-3-0 record, but things worked out in the end. Can’t wait til next month were we add another 250 points to the list.
Well I finished up the models I was working and primed more last night. These next few models are going to go a bit faster because of the amount of armor they have. The Bronze has been turning out so nice on the armor, I am going to make the infantry armor bronze and jack armor white to give a good contrast to the army. Here are a couple of group shots so far for the army.
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Still dislike painting those daughter of the flame models and I hope the paint job doesn’t show it. More tomorrow and on a high note, my wife found her camera cord so I can use it to set up a picture taking station somewhere and get better shots.
So started banging out more models this weekend. I am to the highlighting and finishing stages of these guys so they look a little rough but here is an update.
Here is The Covenant and Severius.
The Covenant
Daughters of the Flame
Daughters of the Flame
Choir of Menoth
More Choir
You can see things look rough still. I will spend a few hours smoothing things out and then move on to the next unit. Hoping to get to the warjacks by Thursday
After a few tried I finally got it done with Temple Guard. I am happy with the robes and shields came out. The purple looks nice too.
of course my camera does me no justice, but you get the idea. More to come tomorrow night. I also realized I really really still dislike painting human flesh
So last night I decided to add purple on to this Temple Flame guard units and to my surprise, it dried to this awesome shiny texture….DAMN YOU VALLEJO!!!! After doing some reading, apparently this is common with the blues and greens from this line of paints. Yay!! Purple has blue in it and I get a shiny bottle. Anyway this is what it looks like.
FUN right! I am going to highlight the edges tonight and then coat it with testors dull coat. That is suppose to make the shiny parts go away. I have 10 guys that look like this now and I need to do the shield, weapons and then the whites and highlights and I am done. Might have these guys knocked out tonight with out the dull coat on them. Just another part of the process. Start with flat colors and work up to highlights, rinse, repeat!
A buddy of mine is asking me to paint his Menoth army for Warmachine for him. I have about 3 weeks to finish it and send it to him. The first things I am starting on are the units for the army. These are the start of the Temple Flame Guard.
I have to paint about 12 of these guys. What I like to do for painting many models at once is assembly line paint. I put them all together, prime them, and then paint one color on every model at a time. For this since I will be doing alot of white for this army I have primed these models white and then I like to add a light brown wash on the models to see the depth better. On all white models it can be hard to pick out some details. Another technique I will use sometimes is to use a white primer and then dust the model with black spray primer and it gives a grainy texture, but will so the depth. Anyway, more to come later. (oops I forgot to remove some flash on this guys shoulder)
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