Mystery Forge?

Ok. So some of these names are just getting silly. Here's my latest finished model for Convergence, the Enigma Foundry.

The foundry is a repository for Convergence souls lost on the battlefield. It holds them, repairs the bodies and places the soul back in to fight again. It's a pretty damn good recursion mechanic. In game this lets you either bring back 3 small or 1 medium based infantry model per turn. It also can just straight up repair models, but that's a secondary function only. It has decent stats for a large based solo, but that large base also works against it since it will almost always be visible in the lists it gets put into.

It was a surprisingly fun model to paint. Part of that though could be that I just finished the Axiom and anything compared to that was going to be easier. Here are the pretties.

......That's all folks!

No. I'm not going to stop writing shitty blog posts. That's not what this is about. Just wanted to take a second and show off my completed 50pt Syntherion T4 list.

So, now that's done, what's next? Well, I've started test playing a Lucant list at 35 points and it did fairly well last Wednesday. Lucant's feat makes him a very tough scenario caster and the sooner you jam a zone with infantry the better and more your opponent has to try and dig you out. It's a totally different play style from the Syntherion Vector wall, but I'll get use to it.

Looking even further into the future, I would like to finish up an Iron Mother and Axis list. Also looking at doing a Hordes army, just not sure what. Right now Circle, Trollbloods and Skorne are all viable candidates. Just have to wait and see what jumps out at me.

Primed and Ready!

Finally finished my Prime Axiom for Convergence. This is the big boy of the faction, their colossal and he brings the hurt in a big way. First up he has two tow cables that do an automatic point of damage. You may be thinking that one damage isn't a lot, well, when you consider it's tied to a drag move, it sounds a bit better. It hits with the cable and then drags you to within melee range and then punched you with a P+S 20 fist. That fist just happens to have sustained attack, so now I hit you for free. On full focus he can shell out as many as 7 melee attacks. He also has an Accelaspiker that is POW 11 and autofire 3 with a ROF of 2. Add Hot Shot from Syntherion and watch the infantry go bye-bye. He also has the ability to launch any of the Convergence servitors. I've mainly been using the reflex servitors so far since they seem to give the most bang for the buck so to speak.

I have to say this was one of the most difficult models I've ever put together. I have around 19 pins in it to try and make up for PP's poor model construction. I also had to find another way to mount it to the base since the rock he comes with makes for a better poop prop than a pile of rocks. Anyway, enough of the talk, here are the pretties.

That's it for now. My painting table is kinda cleared off for now. I'm sure it won't take long till it's full again.

Warmahordes BatRep INCOMING!

Dusted off the mini's and headed to the Gopher to play some warmachine. I was not disappointed.

Ended up playing against Trollbloods and the Miserable Meat Mountain list. I had heard really bad things about how hard this list was to play against and was a touch worried. I can't remember everything he had, but there were the standard issue Warders with a krielstone unit, Mulg the ancient an axer and eGrissel. Looking at the list there was just a ton of high armor and a lot of wounds.

My list:
Syntherion
Corollary
Assimilator
Cipher
Prime Axiom
Galvanizer
Diffuser
T.E.P.
OD
ADO
Attunement servitors

He lost the roll to go first, but I let him have first turn since I had decided to play more defensively.

He set up his warders and the stone unit in the middle, caster, mulg, Axer and rune bearer (aka Troll Moses) on my right side.

I tried to keep everything very centered as I already had the axiom and the TEP in the center of the board.

First turn.
Top: eGrissel uses dash and all of a sudden there are trolls all up in my space. Everything ran and he was coming fast.

Bottom: I move everything forward but did not run. Took a pot shot with the axiom but was out of range.

Second turn.
Top: Again with the dash and again with the running and also eGrissel popped her feat. Now he's literally on top of me. I have no space to charge and no way to not get sucked into a long drawn out slugg fest that I'm not sure I can win. That's why I did......

Bottom: I ran away. Or if you want to get fancy, I executed a tactical retreat. I could have killed somethings on this turn, but it would have left me in an awkward position and poised to get the brunt of a counter charge. So, I ran everything backward and hoped that he wouldn't have enough charge range to catch me.

Third turn:
Top: He did exactly what I needed him to. He moved his trolls in between two pieces of terrain and that clumped them up nicely. He didn't get the charge off and now he just had to wait to receive what I was going to give him.

Bottom: Swinging into action. TEP moves forward, drops out +2 damage dice and +1 shot for his servitor config. He loses 3 warders and 2 out of the stone unit. Damn theses things are tough. Speaking of tough, he would have lost more if he hadn't had that. Assimilator goes next and with hot shot up he takes out a couple more, totally wiping out one unit. Really starting to chew through the fat now. Syntherion is next and he blows his feat and recasts hot shot on the cipher.  Cipher charges Mulg and takes a shot at the warders. Yeah, that was a wasted shot. POW 6 just isn't going to hurt these guys even on 3 dice. So he punches Mulg a couple of times to no real effect. Axiom activates and drops 3 more warders due to the fact he's awesome.

Fourth turn:
Top: Everything he has left moves up and begins swinging at my forces. Assimilator takes some heavy damage, the corollary almost dies, and Mulg leaves me only one box on the cipher. Most importantly eGrissel has moved up closer to the fray. He runs some guys to surround Syntherion and forces me to consider what I'm going to do next turn.

Bottom: Ok. So two of my heavies are hurt bad, I have a fresh Prime Axiom and a fairly fresh TEP. And a Warlock who is dangerously close to me with an open lane in front of her. My plan was simple. It was either going to be me or her. I dole out focus to the Axiom with the corollary since Synth is camping all of his in case he has to clear off the two guys on him. Declare my target, measure for range, and... she's in. Boost to hit with the tow cables and do my best Scorpion impression "Get over here!" and now have his warlock in my grasp. Take my free melee attack and put about half her damage on one hit. Take my accelespiker shots and finish the job. He rolls his tough check and passes. Take my extra melee attacks, kill her again, and passes tough. Spawn a reflex servitor, kill her again, passes tough. Move my diffusor over, shot hits, kill her again, passes tough. Move my TEP, flame the little bitch, passes tough. Second shot with the TEP, kill her again. This time it sticks. He made five tough rolls in a row on a model who shouldn't have lived through more than two of those attacks. Heres a couple of pics of the end.

It was one hell of a fight.

This post is a little TEPid

Finally getting around to posting up things I've been painting on. First up is the TEP for Convergence. This is the battle engine for those crazy, math loving freaks and it is awesome.

T.V. time out

Gonna take a moment out of painting and such to talk about my other favorite thing to do. No, not that. Get your head out of the gutter. I'm talking about TV.

I recently just started watching "Game of Thrones" (yes I'm a little behind, but I'm poor and can't afford HBO) and I have to agree with everything I've heard about the show. It is absolutely gold. My wife and I both love it. I kinda wish now though, that I hadn't always approached it with the attitude that I would never see it, and so I never really stayed away from the copious amounts of info that are on the interwebs. As such, I know just about every major plot point that's going to happen in the seasons coming up. The fact that I know all that and STILL want to see it says a lot for the show.

In other TV news, the new Doctor Who series 8 started last Saturday and was it ever a doozey. This is the first episode for Peter Capaldi taking over the reins from Matt Smith. It was altogether frantic and very confusing and that was exactly the point. We're suppose to be in the companions shoes in a way and in this episode we're made to feel the same way she is and to almost the same degree, the way the Doctor is feeling. This regeneration seems more breaking to him than the others. It takes him longer to pull himself together (I'm still not sure he's together by the end) than I've seen before. I'm not sure where this season is going to take us but I get the feeling it will involve war of some sort. There were several over the top references to how his new face seems angry, furious (especially his eyebrows) and more frowney. Since you can't really discount anything said in a Moffet run episode, my guess is this Doctor is going to have to go to several dark places and he's going to need those qualities over time. I'm really looking forward to this new season.

Lastly on the TV front it's football season again! Hoping against hope that my Cowboys can do something with this season, but I doubt it. Their defense is even more sub-par than it was last year and the still have Tony Romo at QB. Until we can fix those two major issues "Americas Team" is just gonna struggle. We've been there before and come back from it, I'm sure we can do it again. Even if it is a terrible year though, we can always rest on the fact that we've won more superbowls than the Chicago Bears.

Warhammer League Update

Nearing the end of the current (and my last) Warhammer 40k league. We're 6 weeks in and have played 750, 1000, and 1250 point levels so far with only the 1500 games left to go. So far I'm doing very well, although I think it has more to do with the fact that I'm bringing a Wraithknight and a wraithlord in low level games. It's a very dick thing to do considering there is little that can do anything to them at those point levels. The firepower the knight can bring is just stupid and I've had a couple of games now where it cleared half the board alone. Add into that the wave serpents and other tricks and things I'm doing and it really feels unfair. I've only had two games where I didn't score at least two of the three objectives and I've had 4 games that have been total sweeps. Again, I'm not trying to brag here or in anyway try to imply I'm some awesome player that can't be beat. This is just a testament to how well written the Eldar codex is. With 2 weeks left I'm at 64 points. That sounds like a lot to me, but I don't know how far ahead I am at this point. I'm hoping to end my warhammer run on a high note, but that gets me thinking. Is running an overpowered list that just seems to remove armies a high note or is it just low brow dirty fighting? Never had to struggle with that much since the Eldar have always been kind of a middle of the road army and I've always just played them for fun. Now, they seem to be over the top and it just isn't that much fun anymore. Even in my last game I should have lost terribly, but by the sheer amount of options I can pack into a list, I turned a sure loss into a tabling for my opponent.

So I guess what I'm saying, is that I'm bored. I put an army out, and if the dice tilt even slightly my way, I come out on top. That's no longer fun for me. So, I'm going to finish out the league and then be done with 40k. Hopefully I can get a few games of Warmachine in before the girls get here, otherwise, I'll play when I get the chance. Good bye 40k and thanks for the memories.