Catching up

Subhedgehog here folks.  It’s been a while since I posted anything – due in large part to not having played a whole lot of Hordes in the late stages of 2010.  But if we’re being honest (and you are being honest, right?) mostly I was lazy.  I have recently been handed the reins to this site, so I guess there’s no time like the present to change my miserable ways.

So, what has happened since my last post (dated April 18th, 2010…  Ouch.  That’s a while)?  Well, aside from uninteresting mundane details of my life, I have done something drastic.  I was feeling a growing dissatisfaction with the Hordes mechanic, particularly in late stage turns or non-scenario play.  I looked over the Focus / Fury fence and saw green grass, rainbows and unicorns.  Wanting me some of that awesome fairy-dust fuelled horse-flesh for myself, I swooped in on some timely deals offered by local gamers and picked up a decent assortment of Khador forces.  With the Forces of Hordes:  Khador book firmly in hand, I found a few casters that I really liked that also, conveniently, had a lot of overlap in their tier lists.  I ended up, after a few months of other deals and new model purchases, with these fine red-clad murders:

• The Butcher of Khardov in his apparently classic pose
• The Old Witch and her be-crowed pal Scapjack
• Kommander Strakhov

Of course there is an assortment of units, solos and jacks to go with them.

Not only did I pick up another faction, but I also did something shocking to those who have enjoyed my “silver ghost” painting scheme for a couple of years:  I painted a jack!  Without further ado, I present to you “Llama the Ramma”

I still have a few things to do, such as a little dry-brushing on the base, add some ash waste flock and paint the base ring.  I also messed up on the piston heads.  I was rushing to get the jack done and grabbed some quicksilver instead of pig iron…  Should be easy enough to fix, maybe a quick wash would darken it enough.

And why was I painting things?  Well, other than the desire to stop having to wear a brown paper bag over my head when gaming with my snazzy bare metal figs, I was trying to put in at least a token effort for GottaCon, which was in Victoria over the past weekend, Feb 4th to 6th.  More on that later!

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