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So we have a new player in our area and he was interested in trying out some warmachine so i split my khador up for a quick 25 point game. and he solo'd irusk with sorcha like a champ




Second round he borrowed some cygnar from another regular for a 50 point game.


It was a little silly since a large chunk of both our armies were immune to blast weapons-him for trenchers being trenchers in trenches and me for solid ground.

It ended up being the gun carriage that won the day for me. it circled around the back, managing to trample through a horde of trenchers and right over sloan.

Faced off against the crucible guard tonight. my friend picked up a new warcaster (in a tank)

I decided to go manOwar heavy with Irusk II to make things interesting.








The game was pretty bloody, and i think it would have gone worse for me had solid ground not made me immune to blast damage., even so near the end of the game it became something of a stalemate with his warcaster freezing any unit that got to close to her before she re-positioned away. i ended up just fighting off the rest of his army since i could not get to her.

Problem solved-don't play SR scenarios. we don't and the game is fun.

or at least a good, defined and fully official smaller format a-la Brawlmachine and/or both a 25pt and 50pt format. That would work wonders for the game.

Our group also plays infantry machine-50 points-no warcasters and no jacks/warbeasts without a jackmarshal equivalent .

The concept is that in the universe warcasters are incredibly rare and valuable assets that only take to the field under the most demanding situations. the rest of the time the regular army fights without them.

This is my infantry machine force-

 LunarSol wrote:
The problem I've always had without scenario is there's nothing to force engagement. The game gets very kitey and small threat range advantages become game defining. As soon as someone realizes they can just back up the clash that makes the game really exciting kind of vanishes. It's fun, but lacks a lot of the tension that makes the game stand out in SR.

Never had that problem, when we play for fun we are not just trying to play keep away.

Hopefully our cygnar/circle orboros player will get some games in against the crucible guard this weekend so you can see some different battles.

I was playing my own game a few table down so i only got a few pictures of this battle

circle orboros wolf themed army VS an infantry heavy crucible guard.

with Kaya the wildheart VS the marshal general gearhart-

Another quick update. our circle player did a battle against legion

Well in all honesty the guy playing legion usually paints almost nothing for any game he plays, he just wants to play so he tends to have lots of plastic grey armies. he also literally just bought several of his minis this week so he could get his army up and running. not complaining though it gets him to play something other than 40K.


The circle player does fantastic work when he does paint stuff, he is still deciding on what paint scheme he wants for his circle army.

Even more battle

One of our regulars got gifted a trencher cygnar army so after adding a few more units to his force we had a little battle action against our legion player.


It started out well for cygnar but legion managed to turn it around in the last 2 turns. there was no caster kill but cygnar was forced to retreat.

A little twist tonight.

Infantry machine-the way the rest of the army fights when the warcasters and their jacks/warbeasts are busy somewhere esle.

Cygnar VS Khador

Trenchers




manOwar force



The meeting



The aftermath-



A second game for the infantry -trenchers at 75 points VS legion

A new player joined us today, hope he becomes a regular. it's nice to see a convergence army on the table.

Been a while since my last battle, but this one was a nail biter

Khador VS legion of everblight

Irusk II VS Thagrosh the prophet

It was straight forward enough at first with the 2 titanic slow armies as they barreled into one another.

The durability of the gun carriage surprised him and i made several tough rolls on my manOwar solos

It turned out to be a close run thing in the end. Irusk failed to hit (on 7s) with his last couple melee attacks leaving thagrosh alive with just 3 wounds

Victory to everblight, but just barely.

marxlives wrote:
Seeing your posts encourages me in my EO efforts. Thank you for sharing your scene!

It just shows the game is still good and fun to play despite some in the community.

Best of luck, you have to build communities if you want any other game system to flourish outside the GW monster.

I didn't start out with that long list of current games i play in my SIG if somebody else had not made the effort.

I hope it's not a problem if I add some of my photos

Not at all, keep them pictures coming. it shows that WM/H isn't as dead as some people think it is.

Yeah we were super busy last night and one guy came in to play WMH but all of our WMH players were in other games. i counted it up and we have active players for-

.Khador(me)
.crucible guard
.cygnar(dedicated trenchers)
.circle orbos/cygnar general
.legion of everblight
.convergence

Well it has been quite a while but i finally got time to get another 50 point game in tonight.

It was late so we just went for a straight battle.

i decided to do something odd and take out my gun carriage for a host of manOwar infantry.



The table was set up as a ruined village



The deployment-






The game turned into a total nail biter. the trenchers took an early lead, but the armor of the khador forces managed to protect them long enough to get them into close combat.

At the end it was down to a single would on both warcasters with Irusk II squeaking out a narrow win.

Is there any other color?


Irusk's feat "desperate ground" is really not all that impressive but it worked out well this game allowing me to ignore the trees and critically wound his caster with my manOwar striker who had "fire for effect" on him. and then i charged into him with the manOwar infantry who were under the effect of "battle lust".

Yeah i like Irusk as a tactical commander, i actually run him as as supreme commandant Irusk, but i hate the model with the flag so i use his original mini.
Making my entire force immune to knockdown and blast damage is rather nice with "solid ground". having him grant all my infantry "tough" is just a bonus.

I mostly got him to support the gun carriage and behemoth, then i got Sorcha later to play more with my clam jacks.

Through a bit of misfortunate events, it took us several weeks to get this game set up.

Our circle player got around to building and painting his storm raven colossal So of course i wanted a crack at it.

I ran a different list from what i normally do with Sorcha 1 and a very close combat-oriented force.





The beginning didn't really start out well for me, i lost all my manowar basic infantry and my sniper solo. i did manage to kill his wyrd, stone alter and most of his right skin walker unit(thanks to that manowar suppressor).

The bird did most of the damage for obvious reasons then it jumped over my jacks(after taking some damage) and went after Sorcha, taking her down to 4 wounds. Since i went first i popped my feat at the start of the next turn freezing his entire army save his warcaster. since the bird was frozen Sorcha got boosted damage against it, then i moved the spriggan in and finished it.

At that point he conceded the game since the rest of my army was about to go deal with his skin walkers.




While i was playing another game a couple other players did a game of trolls VS Legion.

The end came when one troll managed to get to thagrosh and toss him into the middle of 3 troll warbeasts who had not yet activated. the Legion player conceded, as the likely hood of thaggy surviving that were slim to none.

We just went with what was on her card for the feat, colossals don't show up to often so we didn't think about it.


As for the painting part, that would require them to

A want to paint (the legion player paints almost nothing for any of the games he plays, but he is starting to make an effort now that he has moved away from GW plastic).

or

B have the time. the troll player just dug out an old army he had stuffed in a box since he is actually trying to assemble and paint his skorne, his job requires some very long hours(days) away from home, so his time is limited.

A little silly game tonight-50 point infantry battle-
no warjacks/warbeasts and no warcaster/warlocks.

Just the rest of the army doing its thing.
Crucible guard VS legion of everblight.

warmachine is stronk again.

Had some great games going on tonight. intorducing new players to the game.

game 1 was a veteran battle at 50 points of infantry machine-no casters or jacks/warbeasts

legion of everblight VS crucible guard.



Victory -legion

Game 2 was 2 brand new players with 2 new armies battling it out at 25 points.

retribution VS grimkin-not something you see all that often (Murder crows showed themselves after this pic was taken).



victory-retribution

the grimkin player is thinking about doing a bird themed list with another clockatrice and more murder crows.

The final battle was a 50 point legion VS retribution battle.

I missed the first half of this fight. the retribution player had already lost most of his solo's and the legion player had lost a couple untis as well.

So tonight's first game i didn't get to see much of as i was off in my own game. one of our newer players is building out his skorne army so he only brought what he had so the list wasn't really optimal.

To many war beasts and not enough fury to go around.




He has alot more for this army, he just has to assemble it. maybe this helps motivate him.



The second game i played in.

Khador




VS legion of everblight



At first i didn't think it was going to badly but we had a bit of a rules mistake on the hell mouth which led me to mis-position several units allowing the legion player to make a caster assassination attempt on superme commandant Irusk(II) It would have been legions win had he not had 2 bad rolls and ran out of fury as he had gotten Irusk down to 5 wounds.



As it turned out it became a reverse caster assassination, since it was about my only option with 6 models left and no jacks.
fortunately, he had his caster right up in front of mine thanks to his murder spree to try and kill him.

More games this wekend-

Legion of everblight VS retribution of scyrah-50 points-victory legion







The next game was shrunk down to a 25 point game yes more warmachine

skorne VS grimkin-25 points-victory skorne






I managed to get my khador in for the last game against skorne at 50 points. kahdor victory

You are welcome to join us, you do not live that far away. we usually have people start showing up after 3pm on Saturdays at the game matrix in Tacoma.

We can also give you some run throughs of other games if you are interested (we bring spare armies for people to use).

It is very easy to do-pick the models you like and then find a warcaster/warlock who best fits your army.

you can look through everything on the privateer press card database for free to see which one works best.

I play khador specifically because i wanted clam jacks and the gun carriage. i ended up going with irusk II because he is a great support caster. i picked up sorcha I later when i added more melee elements to my army for an alternate build.

Maybe it is because i have been a mini gamer for decades, but i didn't find it that hard to build an army. the rule of cool has always been my biggest motivator.

our grimkin player is expanding his army. got his skin and moans in as well as his harvest wagon. he was trying out the heretic for his castor this game.

We did a brutal game against my manowar centric army with irusk II. i got pretty mauled this game. the devastator was down to about 4 boxes with just his movement and right arm left.






i got lucky in the very end with my man o war striker tank and pulled off a narrow victory.








I watched a bit of game 2 VS legion of everblight. the legion player was running a couple models he had never tried out.





turns out he found a combination death blossom bomb completely by accident. apparently, the seraph can grab and drag a model with him and place it within 2" after it finishes its move.

So, he grabbed his forsaken (with 5 attack dice) and dropped it in the middle of the grimkin army for lethal effect

So our legion player found a deal on a bunch of menoth stuff and boom-new army to try out.




The battle for game 1 was against the retribution force.

Turns out those combined fire AOE rocket tubes are painful enough to even hurt the elves







Game 2 the circle player pitted his wolves and the storm raptor colossal against the church.







This game ended up being far closer than the first with both warcasters/worlocks badly hurt.

Menoth barely squeaked out a win with a last minute castor kill.

One fo the guys remembered to bring in his objective markers, so we did something a bit different tonight.

The everblight player got a new battle engine (the throne). I also just got all my updated unit cards so we were both trying out some new stuff.

Objective wise my forces were just too slow to capture points. but it was still a fun game overall.

On a small side note, because of the points cost changes i was actually under enough to put in a second gobber tinker, but i had to run a proxy since i do not actually currently own 2

With the newest updates for WM/H i managed to have some extra points left over so i picked up a few used models to add to my force.

I now have all 3 of the clam jacks, which is the reason i chose to play khador to begin with, and i added a full battle mechanic squad as well as an officer attachment for it.

The battle tonight was a 50 point game VS menoth.

A with a large chunk of my force being both steady and sturdy as well as having a couple models with "girded" added to irusk IIs solid ground it turned out i was much more resilient than i thought.

It did take my entire army 2 turns to kill off all his pikemen, but then their mini feat bumped the units armor up to 23 IIRC.

The mechanics and the tinker were the MVPs of this game. my jacks and manowar solos took piles of damage, without the repairs i definitely would have had a different game.

The game turned out to be pretty intense as well.