Tag: Age of Sigmar

New Year Old Army

Here we are, quite a bit in the new year already. My last post was from November in which I had just finished my warcry terrain.

Since then I’ve mostly been attacking my ginormous pile of shame again. Although the pile is considerably smaller now than it was a year ago, there are still several armies worth of unassembled mini’s waiting for me to get started on them. With that in mind I’ve spent the final month of 2020 assembling and priming a bunch of old Skaven from the pile of shame and also worked on organizing the pile into some manageable projects for 2021.

After going through the whole thing I’ve decided to go for the completion of 3 old projects in 2021. Hopefully I can work on these simultaneously to keep my interest.

1: Skaven

I have a lot of Skaven models stocked up from years past. Some of them are metal models from more than 15 years old, a bunch of plastics from around 10 years ago (mostly clanrats) and some stuff from only a couple of years ago when I bought some start collecting pestilens boxes. Would be really great to get this finished since it’s been on my list literally since the beginning. Worth it for the peace of mind alone.

2: Word Bearers

Now that I’ve managed to completely finish my Raven Guard army as well as my small Talons force, the next Horus Heresy project has been in the making for at least 2-3 years. I’m done with planning and purchasing now and want to really get paint on these models. If I don’t have a finished word bearer by the end of january I’m going to feel very sad. Getting everything in the box done by the end of 2021 should leave me with something around 1 to 1,5k. Which should be perfect for ZM games or small centurion games. Really looking forward to that!

3: Indomitus Space Marines

This is going to be a completely new project! But should be very fun. I received my Made to Order Indomitus box in November, so I can also feel like I’m working on a new project this year. I really liked the space marines in this box and I have a lore idea to theme them as a successor chapter to my 30k Raven Guard. Going heavy with the Vulture theme I’ve already tested the colour scheme somewhere last year and was quite satisfied. Going to save these ones as a way to reward myself in between working on the Skaven and the Word Bearers.

In December, the only game I played was against Dirk’s new Thousand Sons army. It looked amazing, but the game was lost quickly when I threw everything at the blade occult, but failed all of my wound rolls on an orbital bombardment (6 ones on 8 dice).

I did manage to kill the Knight as my sole accomplishment during the game.

I also had a game in the new year already against Alpha Legion:

Once again I lost the game badly, but enjoyed using my new flyers again. Killing the AL warlord was a highlight for me (maybe I killed Alpharius?!).

The last game I played only recently against Dirk’s ogor army. Was a fun game and a real smash fest. We made a mistake on the objectives which, combined with Dirk’s double turn, swung the game heavily in his favor. I probably would have won if we had played the objective rules correctly.

Slaanesh army also looking gorge as usual.

Final thing I want to mention is that I spent some time last month looking into some foam and bags for old projects (Empire, Warmachine and Chaos Space Marines). Now 3 of my old armies are fully painted as well as safely packed and stored, which is a pretty nice feeling. Hopefully I’ll be able to do the same for my Slaanesh and Raven Guard as well soon.

So, that was that for the first 2021 update. Hopefully lots of progress in the next post!

Thanks for reading!

Second Wave

Well, here we are. Smack in the center of the second wave of the covid pandemic. I’ve still been getting games in since we’re still allowed a maximum of 2 visitors at home, but work has become superbusy due to everyone falling ill. I find myself with increasingly less time to devote to writing blogs and keeping up with the hobby online. So here’s a simple post with a few cool foto’s and some super short battle reports.

The Alabaster Host once again enters conflict with Itiklik’s Starhost. Foiled in their attempt to defile the Seraphon Realmshaper, the Hedonites nevertheless cause a lot of pain and misery in the badly lit jungles of Ghyran.
The during the last battle (we were allowed to have) at the FLGS, the Raven Guard were out-infiltrated by the Alpha Legion and though the bloody battle on the ground was lost by the Ravens, the XIX dominated the skies with their twin Xiphon aces.
At the height of the raging pandemic, Legio Praesagius moved out on Legio Krytos as they were walking a retreival mission for a fallen titan crew. While the warhound Rubblemaker extracted the crew, the guns of the Praesagius titans faltered in the extreme atmosphere of the combat zone. Legio Krytos, perfectly at home in caustic environments, stole the victory as the reaver titan Warrior’s Scorn ambushed it’s counterpart. Legio Krytos only lost the warhound Ruinstalker in return as Rubblemaker left the battlezone with it’s objective intact.
In need of some better Age of Sigmar terrain for home games I got this Warcry battlefield set. Maybe I will even play some warcry games on it sometime.
Final battle of this blogpost saw the Skaven of Clan Thikket move against a newly grown Sylvaneth force. Clan Thikket’s grey seer was unable to prevent the magical advance of the living trees, losing a warp lightning cannon and a doomwheel early in the battle. As the Treelord Ancient stood unmovable on it’s chosen place of power even the brave sacrifice of over 80 clanrats could not turn the tide in favor of Grey Seer Kreukel. Realising that these places of power were unvaluable to the Skaven cause anyway, Grey Seer Kreukel and Clawlord Hitskink proudly and safely exited the field.

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Covid Campaigns and the Ravens’ Flight

In the last few weeks of the summer I’ve still been getting in games where I can. The way that local gaming has been hit by the crisis is starting to become increasingly disheartening. Everyone I know is doing their best to keep gaming, but without an open hobby night at the local gaming store a big part of my reason for being in the hobby is starting to fall apart. Some people (myself included) have tried to counter this by organising campaigns. Even though we can’t all participate at the same time, we’re hoping that linking the battles online will provide at least a little more motovation to keep us playing. I’ve therefore included a few report stories with the pictures. One campaign is an Age of Sigmar campaign that I’m participating in with my Hedonites of Slaanesh and the other is Titanicus which I’m doing with my Legio Krytos.

Age of Sigmar: The Alabaster Host

In the Seventy Fourth Palace of the Great Dark Prince
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In the seventy fourth palace of the great dark prince
We are waiting on the host
We don’t have to boast but we’ll make a toast
Bottoms up be sure to rinse
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In the alabaster palace of the great dark prince
Where we like to take things slow
There will be a show we don’t have to go
We are easy to convince
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In the silent palace of the great dark prince
A strange song always plays
Like a winding maze it goes on for days
If you heard it you would wince
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In the neverending palace of the great dark prince
People like to settle down
Upside down they frown all around the town
And we haven’t seen them since

Two mysterious statues flew down from the skies above the realm of Chaos. Although a riotous war was waged between the Maggotkin of Nurgle and the Alabaster Host of Slaanesh, both warhosts left the field with only a single statue in their possession.

“The Seraphon of the Koatl’s Claw constellation clashed with the hedonites of the Alabaster Host over a formation of five nurlge plague loci. After quickly claiming the prime locus, Greater Daemon Minertia the Elegant was banished by the Koatl Saurus Guard. Arcane infection and disease caused havoc among the closely cavorting daemons and saurus in the center. Meanwhile speed of the slaaneshi godseekers pushed the battles for the flanks past the saurus knights to claim even more loci in Dark Prince’s name. Abandoning all concern for claiming the plague loci, the saurus army unleashed their full bloodthirst and started tearing through the hedonites in earnest. With only a few daemonettes remaining after the battle, Koatl’s Claw returned to ghur satisfied. The plague loci however, were thoroughly drained and subverted by the power of Slaanesh.”

Adeptus Titanicus: Legio Krytos

simulation XX.IX.011 – sub axiom maniple engagement – blasted barrens – single fortification – nemesis: legio gryphonicus – prime stratagem: encircle and close engagement – result: loss / chronomatic insufficiency – prime causality: unreliability reaver class machine spirit / overdefensive warhound class stratagem

The shitty thing about this phase of the pandemic in the Netherlands is that our group can only play 1v1 battles at the gaming store as long as we book a table in advance. Also, the gaming store now only has room for 3 tables max. Gaming at home is still possible, but dependant on who you’ll allow in your house, how much terrain you have and how much room you have.

The part that falls away is the spontaneous, communal, social way of playing games. Megabattles, teambattles, campaigns, lengthy painting table converations. These were the kinds of things that were, to me, the ultimate reason for doing this hobby. Even though I’ve enjoyed most of the battles I’ve played since lockdown. It feels like dry bread compared to the mighty feasts that I’ve dedicated myself to for the past 15 years.

Long story short: I’m having a tough time with all of this and I can’t wait for the pandemic to be over. If this keeps going long enough I’m going to have to rethink my hobby in a fundametal way.

As a final thing I wanted to show a quick shot of my two Xiphon’s that are now finally done. Over the next few days/weeks I’ll be varnishing the entire army and declaring it finished. Hopefully I’ll have some time to make some full army shots.

Finally. The Last of the Ravens are complete!

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