"Game over man!"

Well, was intending to make a battle report for todays games, but I got pretty much raped by my own dice so, meh. Jocke fought a very solid game but I think my rolls f*cked me more than his tactics. The game came down to one wound in round seven, I was close to tying him with my last terminator but failed the last save in close combat.

I always try to learn something new with every game, but after this one I feel kinda confused.
I guess I need to finish my landraider or bench the LC-Terminators, because deep strike and reserve rolls is starting to really annoy me.
I messed up with the lesser daemons and forgot that they could come down on the DP which was contesting his objective.
The new oblit felt very lonely, and died before he could really accomplish anything, so he will probably be benched untill I can finish his friends.
Death Company are mean, and a Storm Raven loaded with a DC team, chaplain, and a DC-Dread, will tear you up if they get the charge, but that I kinda knew already...
I probably should stay away from reserved units altogether, CSM doesn't get enough for their points to survive that much focused firepower. Even with everything in cover, I lost way to many units just from shooting.

Overall I will have to retool my list for the rematch next week @ 1500pts, I just can't shake the feeling that CSM is kinda lacking versus other MEQ

The Weekend failure orks, done!

20 green failures! :)

Once upon a time I got a severe case of hubris and decided to paint 30 orks in one weekend. That didn't end well, and suddenly I had 30 plastic reminders of my bad conscience. Every time I picked up a new figure, painted something else or just didn't give them attention, I felt bad.

Painting should be fun. Once it doesn't, stop painting and do something else. Set realistic goals. As in my case, perhaps 10 of them. It sucks really bad having something nagging on you when you're in the mood for painting something else.

Of course, if you really have to get stuff painted. Like if you're attending that tourney in 2 weeks and everything still is grey plastic. Paint. Paint like a madman and embrace the suck. If not, make sure it's fun to paint so you don't end up with too many "I really need to paint these but I don't want to". Hobby should be relaxing and not work.

Fire up some podcasts, make a cup of tea, relax, paint & smile. :)

Weekend Challenge: 30 orks... pt II

It's already a fail, sort of. I realized pretty quickly that painting 30 orks would make them look way below the standard of my other orks (see the previous photo). So I cut it down to twenty, and decided to use a zenital/glazing technique on the ten shootas. Kinda like how I did the runtherder for my grots (tutorial coming on that one). And it also means that I can concentrate on painting the nob properly.

So far I've blocked in all the colors on the sluggas. What's left is painting the straps – which they have a ton of – and then washing & highlights.

There will be no Malifaux-opening stuff before the 30 ones are done though. Hopefully the Malifaux stuff will be delayed a little.