Reminder: Strategies League continues April 3rd, through April 24th

Don’t forget folks, Strategies Games has a ladder league running continuing tomorrow, April 3rd. From Strategies newsletter here are some additional details:

• Models must be fully painted
• Players need to supply their own dice, rulebooks, etc
• 25 to 29 points on April 3rd. Ask staff for details.
• New players welcome
• Play as many games as you like.

The action is scheduled to begin at noon.

Cheers!

Shattered Grounds: Windless Wastes Final Standings @ One Stop Shop

The Warmachiners (and Hordes..ers…  Hordesists?) have wrapped up their Windless Wastes league after the Thursday game day at One Stop Shop.

And the winner is: Drum roll please….

Will (aka: Will), with 28 league points.  Well done Will, for bringing glory to the coldly calculating sell-sword, half-sized Rhulic Mercenaries!  Apparently, getting paid massive sums of money to fill all and sundry full of holes then hacking up and burning the remains is a good game plan.

Second place went to Trent, with 27 points.  Trent is no doubt sobbing quietly into his beer over the missed opportunity.  His last game was a ground out match against Karchev in the dreaded Shot Clock scenario, where the half-man, half-machine had a huge advantage.  Think of the prestigious contracts he could have garnered with his mercenaries had he been willing to cut corners and sell out for one more measly point.  Ah well, he can still hold his head up high.  Second is better than third, right?

Speaking of third, Ben (aka: bwafer) ranked third!  Strangely enough, the current holder of the whipping boy trophy is the one doing the whipping lately, with a strong showing at the helm of his impressive Cygnar force.

Dan, with whom I am sadly not acquainted to online, took 4th place.  He had to watch sullenly from the sidelines as the podium finishers were paraded around One Stop Shop in a chariot gilded with gold and drawn by jet black stallions.

The OSS league had 10 participants this time around, many of whom are newer players.  If I can shark up a more complete list of points, names and factions I will post it here.

Quick mid-week update

I haven’t made much time for warmachine-related painting this week.  I have been spending my hobby time basing my Blood Bowl elf team in preparation for the Rat City Rumble tournament being organized by a buddy of mine down in Everett.  There will be members of the RCR league, some folks from Oregon (I think they are Ordo Fanaticus) as well as at least a handful of Thunder Bowl players.  Already over 30 coaches pre-registered, so it should be an awesome time.  It is being hosted at the AFK Tavern, which looks like an awesome place to get your game on.  Food, beer and Blood Bowl?  Yes please.

Attending that tournament will also keep me away from and Shattered Grounds league action this weekend, so I have made plans to get down to Connections on Renfrew and get in a game this evening.  Hopefully I will have my wits about me sufficiently to write up a battle report on the proceedings.  Stay tuned!

Shattered Grounds 2011: Windless Wastes @ One Stop Shop

The ever-ready to entertain PG Darren has announced some details about One Stop Shop in Tinseltown Mall hosting Shattered Grounds.  Here’s what Darren said on vancouvergamers.com:

Darren sez:

So I’ll be running the League again at the store. The main Warmachine day is Thursdays and I’m going to try to host a final event this time as well.

Also I was talking to some of the Victoria guys at Gottacon and they we’re interested in combining our leagues together, so I’ll let you guys know how thats going to work once I get a little more info from them about it.

From the Privateer Press Website: The kick off to the 2011 WARMACHINE and HORDES league season launches February 7th! The Shattered Grounds league throws players right into the trenches of the Iron Kingdoms with a wholly immersive experience as they fight for the glory of their faction.

Each season focuses on a specific location in the Iron Kingdoms that players worldwide will battle to control, and each season brings players new, original fiction detailing some of the men, machines, and beasts of these conflicts. Join the fight and determine the fate of the Iron Kingdoms with Shattered Grounds league events! Tour 1 of the 2011 league season takes place in the Windless Wastes, where Khador, Cygnar, and Pirate forces square off. Each player that participates in the league will receive a unique Windless Wastes rank insignia patch. As the 2011 Shattered Grounds leagues continue, each participating player will receive another rank insignia patch that adds to the prior patches to form a higher rank.

-Darren

In case you missed it in bold, above, OSS hosts HordesMachine on Thursdays.  Plenty of gaming to go around.

Shattered Grounds 2011: Windless Wastes @ Connection Games Renfrew

Heads up Warmachiners, the Shattered Grounds leagues are back for 2011.  PG Geist has put out a call on the vancouvergamers.com forum with some information about how you can come out and participate in the action at Connection Games‘ Renfrew location.  For those too lazy to click the link to Geist’s post, I will reproduce his missive below:

Tour 1 of the 2011 league season takes place in the Windless Wastes, where Khador, Cygnar, and Pirate forces square off. Each player that participates in the league will receive a unique Windless Wastes rank insignia patch. As the 2011 Shattered Grounds leagues continue, each participating player will receive another rank insignia patch that adds to the prior patches to form a higher rank.

The league runs from Monday Feb 7th  to Sunday March 6th. So come on down on Wedensday evenings until 9pm or all day Sunday from 11am -6pm for confirmed table space for warmachine gaming at connection games on Renfrew.

People are able to get in games any other day of the week but please be mindful of other players and remember that we are sharing the space on other days.

Important date: Saturday March 5th –  Magic the Gathering: Mirrodin Besieged Gameday
Therefore there may be no space or limited gaming space available for Warmachine on this Saturday.  Please call on the 5th to confirm space availability if you plan to come in.

For more information on windless wastes go to:

http://privateerpress.com/organized-play/leagues/windless-waste

Here you will find Images of the League coin that goes to the top ranking player,  The rank insignia patch that everyone gets for participating in the leagues,  as well as the rules for shattered grounds and windless wastes.

There are also special cards for this season that replace the units normally available so make sure to check those out as they present some new and varied options for your force!

I look forward to seeing everyone over the course of this league, be they new players or veterans returning to the leagues!

See you there!

-Lucas Smith
PG Geist

I’m looking forward to getting some more HordesMachining in, as I missed a lot of the league action in the last half of 2010.  If you’re looking to set up an opponent, head on over to The Connection section of vancouvergamers.com and post up!

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!

eGoreshade

I’ll have to take some photos to show it off but Chad dropped off the eGoreshade that he painted for me. Not only is it the usual stunning work we all expect from Chad but it was done in an evening.

I am slowly working my way through the various Cryx casters and unless they add a ton of them in Wrath I might have them all painted up fairly soon.

Even more Legion

So my Legion collection got even bigger, and better painted, this week as I picked up some more painted Legion figures from Chad. I added:

Terpah
Striders
Strider UA
Deathstalker solo
Lylyth

All are excellently painted and will look even better when put next to the primed figures that make up the rest of my Legion force :-)

Reasonable Dream update

So I started working on my Cryx for the Reasonable Dream Challenge. Well not entirely. I say down to start painting some Cryx and so what did I do? Started painting Terminus who isn’t even on my list :-(

I am not sure why but what it did do is make me think about redoing my list and adding two different warcasters. The main reason for this is that I don’t actually like Epic Skarre and Goreshade sounds like fun but not anywhere near as fun as Terminus :-) How can you not like someone who tosses Thralls in the way to deflect ranged attacks?
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Legion explodes

Well my Legion army has exploded in size in the last few days. I finally assembled my unit of Grotesques and a friend was selling his Legion army, including some nicely painted pieces, to help fund a wedding and so over then weekend I picked up

• painted Forsaken
• painted Warmonger Warchief
• Warspears
• Raek
• Incubi
• Seraph
• Legionnaires
• Absylonia
• Shepard
• Angelius

The Legionnaires have been sanded and primed, the Incubi, Raek and Serpah are assembled and basecoated so I’ve got quite a few new units to add to my pool of available minis for Hordes games.

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