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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More assembly

I took some time this evening to finish assembling some more figures for my Cryx army. This evening I put together a full Black Ogryn unit, the new Iron Lich figure, another Warwitch and I did some repairs to one of the Soulhunters. I’m hoping to have all the bases sanded and the figures primed this weekend as I want to use some of them in our next Warmachine gaming day.

I think that the Black Ogryn will prove handy when fighting the Skorne or Protectorate who have access to a lot of units with Shieldwall and high ARM.

More Warcasters assembled

After Sunday’s games at Strategies I came home and assembled Venethrax and Epic Asphyxious. There are a lot of Hordes players at Strategies and Skarre and Feedback laden Raiders are a little less effective against them. I have also been wanting to get Epic Asphyxious into a game and so I spend some time pinning and assembling him. I’ve never liked the soul effects on his base so I didn’t use them and I have instead used part of a GW Flight Base to have his floating over the base.

After putting them together I realized just how large they are. Venethrax is easily more than twice the size of a human figure. I thought Goreshade the Bastard was big but both of these casters are larger than a light Warjack.

100pt Cryx v Cygnar battle report

Last Sunday Ben and I went to One Stop to have a massive, for me, 100pt Warmachine Mk II battle. We started at noon and I think that we only managed to finish 3 and a half turns before I had to go. It was an insane game as we had way too many figs to use properly (at least I think) and even working at breakneck speed the game often bogged down as we both considered the best way to move our troops or take out an opponent.

Despite this I had a lot of fun but I’m certainly not trying something like this again until I get a bit more experience with my army and with the game. You can see a gallery of some, blurry, photos that I took that show some of the action.
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100pt Cryx v Cygnar photos

Some photos take at the 100pt melee that Ben and I played at One Stop last Sunday. Check out my battle report and hopefully Ben will have some time to post his thoughts as well.
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Updated 100pt army list

I’ve made some small changes to the proposed 100pt list for my game this weekend. I removed Skarre from the list. The Withershadow Combine can allow any Caster with them in their Control Area to upkeep a spell for free and this is wasted with Skarre. I’ve added the Cankerworm (seems smart if I am using Asphyxious) and put Deneghra in the list instead of Skarre. It seems more fitting thematically.
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100pt battle musings

Ben “Whipping Boy” Wafer and I will be having a 100pt game this weekend at One Stop pitting the might of Cryx against Ben’s effete electro-weenie Cygnar army. I like to re-iterate Ben’s “winning” of the Whipping Boy trophy at the last Steamroller even to salve my own wounded ego about my inability to beat him since then.

This will be my first 100pt game using the Mk II rules and I think it will be the biggest game of Warmachine I have ever played and certainly my first game with two casters.

This is the tentative list I will be bringing.
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