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I thought the bird poop was just terrible light reflection until I saw the comment.

@Alfndrate: As far as it goes with me, err on the side of it being a poop joke.

I am going to have to add that to my cav bases. lightbulb!

So, I have a game scheduled on Thursday. I just made up a list.

6000ish points.

That should be fun.

I was hoping to have Karl Franz painted for it, but that won't happen. I need to paint up Valten on Horse, Luthor Huss, a stagecoach, and a few swordsmen.

No flagellants unfortunately. One cannon. Maybe two if I get one painted in time.

I'll hopefully have some pics taken. I'll do my usual half remembered rambling of a battle report.

Empire v. Chaos. End Times all the way.

I'm looking forward to some of your pictures!

I played a Storm of Magic game with a few friends Sunday just past. So much fun! Sure, we were stomped badly (LoC & Undead Legion vs. 2 elf players and empire). But it was great fun!

Best of luck!

Okay Moonpie. Thursday is almost over. Where is the battle report?

Image dump commence!


















Here you can see all the pics of the setup. It was a really popular post on the store's Facebook and I stole the images, with manager's permission.

I don't know that I can totally remember all that happened. There was no time for note taking. The whole day was setup, battle, tear down.

Some highlights on my part were:

Singular cannon blows up. Forgot to assign my engineer to help, borrow a misfire die, explode on the first turn. Typical.

Bloodthirster charges elite Greatswordsmen. They fail Ld for Terror and run off the board with their 2 wizards and captain. Failed 3/4ths of all of my terror/fear checks in the game. Not cool.

Halberdiers take out both Belakor and the Bloodthirster(not singlehandedly). They were eventually ground into the mud and destroyed by two Giants and a Gorebeast Chariot. The giants were just impossible to take down. They one by one picked up every character in the unit and either stuffed them in a bag or threw them at the rest of the unit. The Halberdiers started with 50 models in the unit and were killed to a man. They never ran. Oi for the Second Besters! Oi! Oi! Oi!
Good first showing.

Celestial Wizard off by himself does nothing the WHOLE game, except get himself in the way of Archaon's sweeping advance, then gets obliterated. He fails to keep from overrun and goes off the board. That was nice.

Valten turns out to be a Chaos killing beast. Matt was rolling his eyes at his stats, so I said, "That's how I feel about every model in your army."

It's good to remember that you have hatred.

Archaon almost had Valten's number. It goes another turn and Valten dies pretty much.

Archaon cast the Shadow End Times spell 3 or 4 times, plucking up his Skullcrushers and plunking them behind or to the side of my whole army. My knights and militia in the middle were turned around backwards by turn 2. Not cool. It cost him though. The first time he cast it, he miscast and killed all but one of his Chaos Knights. Later in the game, I plunked the last one with a sniper shot from an Engineer.

I still love the End Times Metal spell. I had the Gold Wizard in the militia and dubbed them the "Golden Hobos." They took on 2 units of Chaos warriors, Nurgle and Slaanesh. They routed the Nurgle, who rallied, then slaughtered and ran down the Slaanesh about 2 turns later.

I somehow survived both of my flanks crumbling. It was definitely a game where another turn ends it for me, but I think I won. I think Matt thinks he won. I don't 100% care, because it was a seriously great throwdown. I know he took some post carnage photos. If I can get ahold of them I will post them.

It was one of those great games where all you can do is goob about what happened and talk up how awesome the rematch will be once you paint this or that.. I have GOT to get KFA done for next time. If only to have 24" bubble of Ld 10. I need my second BSB(yes, it's legal). I need to up the swordsmen to 40ish. Flaggelants, of course. And also, finish the IC knights for a 40 hoard.

Good game. Fantasy rocks.

Those are two massive armies! Looks like it would be a lot of fun.

If I were you, it might be worth putting a few pieces of terrain down, just to make the game a bit different. At the minute, it looks like you could just push everything forward as a line. At least with terrain you have to think about maneuvering around it.

Yeah, we discussed putting down terrain and decided against it mutually. For such a huge game under the circumstances I think we were lucky to get in a full 6 turn game. There was still a lot of maneuvering due to both of us being able to teleport whole units and him having flying units. Also, I was forced to do a lot of decision making as to where I would cast what spells as I was so heavily invested in Wizards. My average, unbuffed troops can't beat his, but if I augment mine or hex his, the playing field gets leveled. So, that made it so that my battle line's strength fluctuated depending on the turn.
Next time, I will spend the 5 points to get the Gleaming Pendant for the Greatswords to give them a reroll on their first failed Ld test.

Looked like a great game moonpie with lots of lovely painted minis.

Some really well painted models on the tabletop there-great stuff. Shame about your cannon blowing up on the first turn!

Awesome looking game mate, how long did it take you all up with set up/battle/gloating/tear down?

@GiraffeX- It was nice that it was fully painted. I come from the old school on playing in a GW store and just feel wrong putting anything on the board in there without a paintjob. The Luthor Huss and Valten got done night before.

@angelofvengeance- My cannon blows up everytime. Always. Usually first shot. The one time it didn't I rolled a 1 to wound and then it blew up. My opponent cracked up. Not to be mean, but just because it always, always happens.

 moonpie wrote:
@GiraffeX- It was nice that it was fully painted. I come from the old school on playing in a GW store and just feel wrong putting anything on the board in there without a paintjob. The Luthor Huss and Valten got done night before..

I'm the same as well, goblin green bases for the win

That makes me want to play GW's silly square based game...

 Alfndrate wrote:
That makes me want to play GW's silly square based game...

It's such a good game. I understand the detractors, but usually what they say is why I like it.

"But you need like 50 models for one unit." Yes. But, this ^.

"It takes too long." Yeah, but this^.

I am excited for the new edition, whatever it is. I hope it still allows for big huge throwdowns though. I can't imagine that it doesn't.

I present to you crappy pics of Karl Franz!







I've had him for a long time now. I felt I absolutely needed to get him painted. KFA as people call him, is absolutely the best beat stick ever. I got tired of painting him halfway through and just did it to finish it. It's not awful. Better than some can manage, I guess, but I still know I could do better. Oh well, now I can have him in my games.

If I get better pictures, then I will post them.

Pity those no-good pictures. It seems that would be great. Certainly deliver better pics will surely be excellent...

What .. another butt shot... not unexpected but still....

Tiger's a$$-end looks good... from what I can see.

Stripes look awesome! Now go get a real camera and give us a good shot of it!

Crappy camera already acknowledged. This was sort of a proof of life post.

Hi, I am alive and still painting.

On a side note, I have gotten into flat painting some too.

http://www.strathmoreartist.com/cards-atc.html

I like these. Though I am pretty crap at it.

So, I have to leave for work tomorrow morning in about 4 hours.

That sucks, so please appreciate this.

Some of you may know that I work in management at a movie theater. Tonight I did a quality control screening of Mad Max: Fury Road.

I will not give away any details. I am pretty sure that I am not allowed, though you can read reviews from critics, watch multiple trailers, and see many featurettes and interviews regarding the show.

So, I will just tell you how I felt about it.

It was so amazing I teared up. It was gobsmackingly smashiferous, poignantly plosive, daredevilly divine, and evocatively eviscerastic. Go to hell, spellcheck, for I am forced to invent new words to describe it. You have heard and read the uselessly trite adjectives slapped on to garbage puked onto 1s and 0s and j**ked off onto silver screens before, but this movie is actually those things. It is monumental. It is jaw dropping. It is a roller-coaster ride. It's a roller coaster ride with a mad man hanging onto the side of your car, cackling madly and trying to shoot you in the face while the whole thing threatens to go off the rails and a metal band sets fire to the fat lady singing.

GO SEE THIS MOVIE!

GO!!!

I need to invent a more potent punctuation than an exclamation point to punctuate that sentence.

If you miss this movie in theaters you will regret it. Guaranteed. If you watch it on some puny television in the privacy of you home or god forbid some asinine device, you will have failed.

Do not do that. Go to the theater. See it as soon as you can. Watch it with your fellow gamer buds, because this is the business. This is what over a century of cinema has been building up to for adrenaline junkie, scifi hound, wierdo nerds like us. This is the pinnacle of the mount of any radness you have ever witnessed.

Go see it. This is me doing you a favor.

Yess! Booked to see this movie on Saturday night 8pm and again on tuesday night 9pm your quick review bodes well!

I'm all over it. I was a sophomore in high school when saw the original Mad Max before anyone (in our area at least) had ever heard of it... it was just the second show of a double feature. My buddy and I were blown away. Hope that happens again.

So you are saying it is a complete 180 from the trailers? It looks like, imo, a bastard love child between Zac Snyder and Michael Bay with a dash go Del Toro thrown in.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
So you are saying it is a complete 180 from the trailers? It looks like, imo, a bastard love child between Zac Snyder and Michael Bay with a dash go Del Toro thrown in.

Well, if that's what you got from the trailers, then there is no hope for you.

But, in short, no. It is not what you are describing.

Nothing like that.

Not at all.



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I will quote Matt Goldberg from Collider.com, who I almost always hate reading because I think he actually hates movies, but he hits the nail on the head when he says, "Mad Max: Fury Road is the action movie we’ve forgotten to demand, or perhaps we never knew we could ask for."

Well, a friend wants to go see it in Imax next weekend for his birthday, so I guess I'm seeing it.

If its an over stylized explosionfest we are going to have words. Not nice ones.

It's just a movie.. Have a willing suspension of disbelief. After all Stallone played Hamlet iirc and Tom Cruise plays a spy.. not to mention that someone actually put up money to produce Glitter and Gilgi. So go see it and suspend my witty friend. Suspend!

Or go for the popcorn!

Saw it tonight, loved every second of it, hanging out to see it again on Tuesday!

Saw it yesterday..

I thought it was great.. Very much like the originals. The vehicles were so cool, All the apoc setting and characters were cool and spot on. War boys! all great. The only thing that put me off was the story wasn't about Max and more about Furiousa