Video Battle Reports 3 - 6

So I failed to keep up with the video battle report posting so to catch the blog up here are the videos we have produced and posted on Youtube since the last blog post.

Battle Report #3:

Battle Report #4

Battle Report #5

Battle Report #6

We have agreed to do a weekly Friday release so there should be a video up once a week all through 2014.

Butcher 3, Damn you Privateer Press

As I pack my models up for GenCon and get ready to head out they have to release this video:


MUST.....RESIST....MUST....FOCUS ON....EVERBLIGHT.....ARRrrrgghhhh..

Tale of Ever-Teal : Part 1

This past weekend was very good to me.  I was able to acquire a large amount of Hordes: Legion of Everblight, and it has ignited the blight in me and is slowly taking over in my heart.  I love to go to local stores swap meets in the hope of finding the ever elusive "Diamond in the Rough".  Most of the time I get something, it's just a matter of is it something I "need" or is it something that my eyes fell on and I said "Sure I would paint that".  This Everblight army fell into both categories.

See long before I ever ventured into Trolls I was looking at the various Warmachine and Hordes factions and my first eye catching interest was in fact Everblight.  More specifically the Throne of Everblight their battle engine.  With it's drooling maw and sharp teeth, mutated skin wrapped in armor, writhing tentacles and sheer size my little chaos heart leaped with joy.  It has mutation, and tentacles, and mutations, and a being to worship like a god, and mutations, and dragons....and mutations.  It was only more interesting that they were "evil", which I like more cause I never have been very good at being "Good".  Hell my own troll army has a Japanese Magi Daemon for a Dire Troll Mauler.  Evil is my thing...did I mention mutations?

Warmachine & Hordes - 50pt Battle report - MENOTH vs TROLLBLOODS

Gave it a shot at my first video battle report.  Was definitely a creative experience, lots of room to grow.  Hopefully this will become a new hobby within a hobby for me.  Time will tell

Games Workshop (GW) Online Policies: The first ripple effect

So Games Workshop (GW) has laid out new policies for online sales and bits sales to put a tighter reign on their product and IP.

• Games Workshop Trade Documents

Many are screaming at it with hate (I would bet most are people not playing GW game anymore), and some are coming at it with statements of "business as usual".

Now I am not going to profess a Masters in marketing, but I do dabble in the field of marketing and sales and I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that this will have a HUGE impact on GW in the coming years.  Don't believe me, well we now have evidence of the first ripple effect in the form of Mini Wargaming shutting down their online store.

You have been warned.....

NOTE: None of these policies are optional nor have they had their sellers response.  These are mandates that GW has pushed down with retort of do it or lose your license.  Not that it's ethically wrong for a company to do it, companies do it all the time.  I mention this note because it helps to understand it from the retailers side of the issue.  They have no resort.  They either comply or else, not the best business relationship situation.

What the hell is this?

So the popped up an image over on Matt Wilson's twitter and from the looks of it, it's clearly a troll.

http://privateerpressforums.com/showthread.php?146293-New-troll-sculpt

However the troll community has a mention of this possibly being the Black Troll that wonders around eating zombies for left behind.  Could this possibly be a Minion model instead of a Trollbloods?  Could it be possible for a dual faction single model release?

All I know is my first reaction when I saw this was.  If I get this model I have to paint it up a Demon.  The tongue just screams Gene Simmons

TempleCon 2013 Announcement: New Faction - Convergence of Cyriss

So the new faction was announced at TempleCon 2013 and it is to be another Warmachine Faction called the Convergence of Cyriss.   The linked video at the top will show you the preview specifically for them.  So finer points of what you can extract from the video are:

• When Warjacks (called Vectors) spend focus you can place that when spent allocate the spent focus to other near by Vectors
• Vectors in a battlegroup share the MAT and RAT of their warcasters
• Warcasters give something to jacks in battlegroup via their individual Field Marshal Ability. (ex. Arc Node and shield guard)

Lets see.  Knee jerk reaction: