Falling up the Stairs (07) - Day of the Tentacle

For this post, I want to present a "fun" deck. It's not necessarily good - it may be, though, with some tweaking, I guess.  Maybe. ;-)
It basically came into its own with the "Forbidden Ritual" card and the Tentacle of "N'Zoth"

It's for the Warlock. I call it "Day of the Tentacle".
Yes, I'm that 80's.

Khador 2015, Part 04 - Whispering Occult Secrets

So, on Murder of Crows Ep 9 we got all giddy about Zerkova2 (man, that still feels strange to type) possibly having Spell Piercer... ...and a day later, there's a spoiler from the Riven Bonds league, showing us this:

It's nowhere near the greatness that would've been Spell Piercer (which still is up in the air), but it IS good. Follow me beyond the break to preliminary list considerations based on this spell alone.

Creativitymachine - Fiona the Radiant

So, as follow-up to the last Creativitymachine, I present to you my wife's Warcaster on the gaming table. This homebrew was led in design by two (and a half) ideas: 1) She's got a great distaste of injustice - the prime time to use the phrase "...in the name of Justice" [that's a Sailor Moon reference - deal with it]; 2) Her nickname's Fiona - so how about an "evil" twin (which by math laws has to be the good one, then)?

If you need to take it, here's the break:

Creativitymachine - Supreme Kommandant Marth Fright

   In this article, I'm going to show you what rules I came up with for "myself" as a Warcaster. That one actually has a bit of a backstory - for M&tM S5, I wanted to have "Break Images" - basically still pictures a channel would show right before and after the commercials. To that end, I got the offer from Paul Villar (from Play it Painted) to draw a WM image of me, and the only guidance I gave him was "sth Iruskesque."

   The following homebrew rules mainly stem from the fact that my rendition is holding a pair of dice. But all the crunch will come after the break - so you can get out of here if that's not your cup of tea. ;)

Crypt Lord Pentaverous / Forge Master Pentaver

Yes, I can't nor won't stifle my creativity most of the time. Which generally turns out to be sth like "The Numbers' Game" or stuff such as the Queen of Shadows or this.

I'll go into the Crunch after the break so you have a chance to GTFO in time. ;)

The idea of this homebrew Character/Warcaster is this: In the 40k universe (well, that's a bad start already), a Necron Overlord set forth on a Odyssey to find a way to finally stop their arch-nemesis (which I recall was 'Nids. There actually was Character like that, the "Silent King" or sth? Dunno.). However, the warp had a funny day, so the Overlords ship materialized on - pardon me, in - Caen. Partially, I might add.

He's awake and very observant of the surroundings, but he can only access rudimentary systems of his ship (like, the Sensors and Crew Teleporter, but no Weapons, Barracks, etc). His agenda is regaining Access to All Areas. Out of all the warring faction's, the Asthetic of Cryx (and his own similarity to an Iron Lich, and Gaspy in particular) appeal to him, but he can also affiliate with the Convergence. 

"The Numbers' Game" update 02 - the location statcard

You may have guessed already, but this type of campaign is in a real need of a better name.

This time, I'll hit you up with all the stats of a location (whereas earlier campaigns had a fortification value at best), and their baseline meaning in the campaign.

Gangs of Immoren!

This is another idea of mine regarding a campaign system for Warmachine/Hordes. It's based on my old Theatre of War system, but resembles a system that is both stripped down, and spiced up. And modified. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Read for yourself, and enjoy!

(note: I'm open to suggestions/ideas/constructive criticism!)

Dice Rage Live Ep. 1

Yesterday - or, in a way, today, since it crossed midnight over here - there was the first installment of "Dice Rage live", hosted by TinmanXL, and joined by Blog, Orsus, and me. Topics covered:
1) The Factions of Warmachine and Hordes
2) Bog wild speculation/discussion of the Convergence of Cyriss
3) Advice for new players joining the hobby
4) Painting update

Yet basically, we talk about whatever we want. This is the first episode, we had to do some global goofing-off. ;-)

And in between: Technical issues, tangents, and fun!
Enjoy!

New Year's-Machine

To celebrate 2013, Arides and I have been cooking up a scenario for the event. Progress is slow but steady:

SR 2012, standard deployment (even though radial deployment is in discussion). Spread across the board are an odd number (say, 5) of objectives (firework stashes), following the regular objectives rules (can't be affected throughout round 1 and all that), with two significant differences: a) the card has two sides, b) any model b2b can activate the objective through doing a special action.

Creativitymachine: The Queen of Shadows

Not so nice a lady

For this installment of Creativitymachine, I'm striving to put some WM/H rules behind a beautiful model from Freebooter's fate. I got a pair of Brotherhood miniatures already, posing as my second Eliminator team, and I'm quite inspired to use more models from that range as Kayazy models in the Khadoran army.

The model is called "Queen of Shadows" and in my opinion, that already makes for a fitting title for a Warcaster. A Khadoran Kayazy Ally Warcaster, to be more precise. For all her abilities and spells I went to the actual FF rules for inspiration.

In the following crunch part, I'll strive to give explanations why particular choice were made (or wishes are uttered).

Theatre of War - Developing a WM/H-Campaign...

...with more of a strategic focus. A sketchbook. The current Theatre of War I'm running my campaign with, I cooked up all alone in my room. This time around, I'll post progress, development, and stuff on this blog, to keep you updated.

And what would be greatly appreciated: Feedback via comments.

S.C.R.A.P. - Blueprint 01

This is the first post for Secret Cygnarian Research and Accelerated Prototyping, or S.C.R.A.P. for short.

I came up with this idea because I had the feeling, that every time someone brought up something "homemade", it was like every thing for max. 12 points in total. And I found myself stuck with the same question again and again: "Have you ever tested this monstrosity or do your friends not allow it?"

So I said to myself (freely adapted from Mythbusters) "I'm not just designing these things, I putting them to the test." And the first fruit of this questionable endeavour is a character warjack based on the Stormclad, called "Project: Durandal"