Bonn's Cantina Games III

Alrighty folks,

today me, Arides, and Chronos went to attend Bonn's Cantina Games III's Warmachine/Hordes tournament as Team "Marth & the Machines". It was a three round event with eight teams total.

For our 'Caster's, we chose Magnus Xp (Bad Seeds) & Gorten (Highborn) [me], Cpt. Darius (Field Test) & Cmd. Adept Nemo [Arides], as well as Irusk & the Butcher [Chronos].

After pairings were announced, each team got to see the other's nifty folder (which the EO's made for us), and then there was a round of betting power tokens. Ten of those were given to each team leader in  the first round, and all those you bet were collected after betting. The winning team would chose a table, one of their players, and a scenario for that table. The other team then announced whom they paired up against that, then proceeded to allocate their remaining players and a scenario each to the other two tables, upon which the other team chose whom they'd send in on that.

I probably did the most sensible thing ever before a tournament, and looked at all the scenarios, contemplating which of our 'Casters were suited best to each. This allowed us - even if we lost the bet - to get exactly the scenarios we wanted. It might get us into sucky matchups, but hey, we did definitely have a scenario angle.

How did it work out?

Dice Rage Live Ep. 9

Last night we had the ninth episode of Dice Rage Live, which might've been the last on a regular schedule. And we were missing Blog, who was on Game Store Duty!

Topics:
• Recent gaming progress
• 5th Anniversary of SteampoweredTV
• How we got into gaming, making videos, and how things unfolded
• L&L spoiler swooning
• Comments (often on painting)
• Announcements

Hidden among that:
• Building a community, Distributors and Game Stores
• Observations on modern social/economic stuff
• And stuff.

Enjoy!

Khador 2013 - Part 12 "Oleg Strakhov"

Alrighty then... this time for Khador 2013, we'll be entering completely new areas. That may be kind of a shock for some of you, as we're going to talk about Strakhov, and he's been out... like forever? Ok, it's just FoW: Khador, but I must admit that I have never played him. I don't even own him.

That's seriously tops the last articles craziness! So why am I doing this? Well, in the team tournament end of June, Chronos, our third member, will be featuring both Irusk and Strakhov. And I want something for him that he can read, so I don't have talk all the time. With Irusk, I could bring in my own play experience - with Strakhov, I have none. So I am also doing this to broaden my understanding of the caster, and then extrapolate (or theorymachine) from there. I already have an idea about Eliminators...

So we're going to look at Strakhov's card, closely. Closely enough to discover strengths and weaknesses. And then, we'll once again look at the Khadoran line-up and see whom he jives well with, and who should stay at home. And then we'll try to build an 50 pt list or two. Enjoy!

Zombie Swamps, first sketches

Thanks to Bill / Terrainaholic for the inspiration!

• One 25 point army, w/o a Warcaster or mercenaries (trying to 
  leave a undead infested swamp) 
• Count Tzepesci (opposing them)
   • Four Spawning Points. They generate d3+2 (or d6?) Risen 
     during each of the Undead player's control phase. Place them 
     within 2" of their respective spawning point. These models 
     act like solos, unless handled via Mob Mind, below.
   • Four Gallows Groves. When using Count Tzepesci's special 
     abilities, the undead player may use them as points of 
     origin.
• Four potential points of exit.
• The escaping player wins when 50% or more of his army leave the 
  table, or Count Tzepesci is slain. The undead player wins if 
  those conditions are not met.

• Preferred Terrain: Hills, Water, Forest, the odd ruin.

Khador 2013 - Part 11 "Gurvaldt Irusk"

A serious businessman!

Well, it's been some time since the last article in this series. I should mention that, at least from my current viewpoint, it doesn't look like I'll be going to a lot of tournaments this year, but we'll see. The next one coming up are Bonn's 3rd Cantina Games, where I'll be participating as part of a Team - but I won't be playing Khador.

"What?" You may ask, and wonder why I'm now starting to look at Khador again anyway. See, Arides is playing Cygnar. Chronos - who replaces Fiona - plays Khador and Trolls, but his selection of Trolls is not big enough for two 50 point lists. So I switched from Khador to Mercenaries.

In this - and the next - article for Khador 2013, I want to provide you with an in-depth look at the two Casters that Chronos chose for his line-up. First up is the man, the name, the legend - Kommandant Gurvaldt Irusk. Some may think the guy's been done to death, but who knows? We could run into sth.!

Being widely regarded as Khador's strongest 'Caster, I want to look at the why that was the case, also why it still is the case after the advent of colossals. We'll also keep an eye out on things he strongly dislikes. Even though it's probably worth a lifetime-achievement, I also want to indulge into which selections are good with him, and which aren't - or which are surprising, yet not obvious. Lastly, we'll also go into list construction options. Enjoy!

DiceRage Live Episode 8

A little late - but just a little.

This time, we were joined by John Christensen AKA MenothJohn (from "Painting with MenothJohn" and Guest/Contributor to a number of Podcasts (such as "Lost Hemisphere")).

Topics?
• A little Q&A
• Trolling, done right!
• Hating on Nascar
• Thunderbirds
• Dissing of Southerners
• CoC
• PP Forum madness

Among all this, several very good gold nuggets of wisdom are hidden, so it pays of to watch it in whole. Enjoy!

Dice Rage Live Ep. 7

Yesterday, we had fun again doing Dice Rage Live, which resulted in a pretty concise episode - with the regular tangentials. But actually - tangents are very important when talking about the math-faction that is the Convergence of Cyriss!

Topics:
- Recent Gaming Adventures
- Convergence of Cyriss Consildated
- Comments
- Playing Epic Haley is...