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Barbed wire is the only solution. A few anti-armour mine would be useful too.

Or train your IG army to attack the cat on sight. There will be losses, but with a few super-heavies and a good HQ choice to motivate the troops, victory will be yours. Don't forget to use your fast-attack choices to cover your flanks, the second cat will probably try to outflank you.

Well, one of the cats is called Cookie... and that kind of sounds like Creed

And my wife is quite knowledgeable about cats (and not some kind of "let the cats do whatever they want" cat lady ) - I just wanted some advice from my own point of view on how to live with cats and Warhammer

As a Catholic, this isn't something I usually suggest. But there is always divorce.

Get a dog.

Your just going to have to be careful. Nothing from warhams is cat proof. When I made my warboss, I pinned the hell out of him (mostly metal) and after he was assemble I dropped it, but I made it strong enough and it didnt break. My wife's cat decided to try its luck a few days later, and snapped off an arm, his gun and his Iron Gob.


So, just be careful, cats are the devil

Ratius wrote:

Tell your wife she has to get rid of the cats.

Or just get rid of the wife.....

That only works if she takes the cats with her.

I leave my army in my army case.

My army will be fine until my cats figure out how to operate zippers...

I haven't had them chew on anything while I was working on it, or anything, though. They ARE a fan of waiting until I sit down, turn my light on, wet my brush and open my first paint pot to decide that they NEED attention NOW, and the only way they can get it is by sneaking past my armpit up into my lap...

Not really advice for helping you avoid damaging your models but go and get a laser pointer and amuse the hell out of yourself by teasing them with it!

get one of those spray bottles from the garden centre, fill it with water and when your cat goes to bite/chew a model give them a little spray in the face. They'll soon leave them well alone.

one of my old mogs would run and hide when we got the flea pump spray out, she hated it beyond reason so i'd use it as a terrain piece and she'd stay the heck away from the table.

Jihadnik wrote:Not really advice for helping you avoid damaging your models but go and get a laser pointer and amuse the hell out of yourself by teasing them with it!

This. Used to do it with our 6 cats... Run the dot on the floor up to the edge of a piece of furniture and turn it off - they'll sit and wait for it to come back out for ages!

Ours are totally uninterested in any of my WH gear - I leave models all over the place safe in the knowledge that they won't have any feline attention... (Children on the other hand...) But as has been mentioned before, it depends on the moggy. You'll be best off developing your strategy based on observation of the enemy's tactics rather than trying to pre-empt him.

I own a dog and she's not once tried to attack my models. All she does is sniff them, realise she can't eat them, and then goes back to sleep.

I love dogs.

L. Wrex

Well cat proofing your hobby station is one thing. Cat proofing your gaming table is worse!

I just dont let the cat in when im not in my room (the door is closed) and whenever I am in the room I have to check if he's not doing anything.

When were gaming the cat (called ... dun dun dun Sabbath, cause its black) is kicked out of its own room (where we keep all of the cat stuff) and that usually works well.

I didn't close my room once and guess where all of my plastic marines went off to, the cat stole everything lol. Didn't brake any of the stuff though.

BUT!

Cats are good in one thing. Whenever a bit is flying through the air and bouncing off the floor (no carpets though, cause they silence the noise) cats usually have the bit in their sights and tend to run after them. It's a great thing when you need that little piece that just sprang from the sprue found.

Get yourself a pet.
Preferrably a nice adult python or boa constrictor.