Road to the con 2012

With just 82 days left to Genghiscon, I only have 1 table close to done. Aaaahhhh! Ok, I'm done freaking. Maybe. Anyway, my mountain board is mostly done. I have painted the bases since the picture was taken, and plan to add snow later today.


I have also finished my hanging tree up to moss, now I just need to find some. I also have 7 graves sculpted. I need to add some masaleums and get some fence. That board needs 10 more pieces, so I will see what I add.
Well, back to the stone.

State of the 'faux

I really need to stop. Played John again, he brought arcanists again. Ok, so I started with good intentions, play the Viks, don't wreck his day. He flips slaughter. Crap! My Viks feed my opponents models. I should have stuck to it, but I'm weak. I went with Levi. I face stomped him. BUT, if he had kept Marcus alive, or killed Levi when he was at 1 wound, he could have still gotten 2 for his strategy, just because a desolation, the spawned spa, and a hooded rider gave him a huge boost. In the end, with Marcus dead, I got Turf War, Stake a Claim, and Assassinate. A good game, way closer then the final totals would leave one to believe.
I see my failure, and I strive to correct it.


Games 2 and 3 were versus Tim's Sonnia. Both end in a draw, both because I get uppity at the end and make a mistake. The first round was the Viks. They are my go to versus Guild. Sonnia and Hoffman are both good versus Leviticus, and get no real bonus against the Viks. Lady J is beat stick versus beat stick, happy to do it. Perdita is on whether I can get there sneaky. Anyway, so I take my stand by. I had this one, Reconoitre, I had 3 zones, he has 1. He has bodyguard, its a waste of my time. I have break through and something else. I fail to move my Vik into his zone, giving him Hold out and costing me Breakthrough. A 4 point swing from 7-3 to 5-5. I think. Looking back, I think he had stake a claim, and Taelor owned that building. Hmmmm...
Anyway, game 2(3) was just as bad if not worse. Shared deliver message. I ran Levi up. Before turn 4. *sigh* Anyway, he gets 4 there, I wipe his crew. I had just Sonnia opposing me. I run forward, forgetting insignificant models can't deliver. All I have to do is box her, put an engine up and use Levi to guaranty another turn, but I get pissed and just ice Sonnia, ending it 4-4.
I always have a rough game versus Tim, he messes with my chi. And he all but heisted my models to make his crew for the last game.
Focus is key. Lesson still not likely learned. Key to beating me: irritate me until I say screw it, and end it by any means possible.
Ah, well. CW, flipping fate.

Malifaux comes to Genghis Con!

Well, it is official, I will be running a small demo on Friday and a 16 man tournament on Sunday. I hope to draw players from all over the state. Now I just need to build 8 beautiful tables to play on. Ok, nice tables. I have my mountain table ready for paint. A bayou table that needs gremlin tents and paint. My Boomtown table has just 2 buildings. A graveyard table that needs everything. A sewer table that needs additions. A little Ten Kingdoms that needs a concept. 1 table will likely be terraclips. And that should do it.
I hope to get some sponsorship from Total Escape, Enchanted Grounds, Troll Country, and Haunted Game Castle.
Well, to the grind stone then.

State of the 'faux

K, so its been a while. I won my first tournament, totally stomped the other guy. That's right, a two player tournament. I didn't actually stomp the guy. He was playing Rasputina, so I was pretty experienced playing against it, and I took Leviticus, as he is my go to versus Arcanists. It was a Halloween themes shared strategy, which was basically multi-treasure hunt. I ended up wiping him off the table. I just knew his crew. In the end, I would have had time to get more pumpkins to my zone, and we were tied when we called it. Great guy to play against, I think I gave him some useful pointers with Raspy. I dropped out of raffle for Miss Demeanor, so he walked with that. We also didn't end up playing for prize money, and I didn't pay to play. Great experience, was worth the drive for me. I wish there would have been more people, Mate set up a great event, and nobody showing really sucks. I did get some eyeballs though.
The week after that was all Feast prep, so sadly, no Malifaux.
This last week, I managed to get in 3 games! All against John, who I haven't played in a while. I used Leviticus all three games. The first game was bad for John, with Leviticus doing what he does.
Game 1 was Arcanists. My first game against Marcus. I ate Myranda for a Waife. It just continued, till only Marcus was left. John was very unhappy, stating that Leviticus could not be beat. With two waifes, it is a very difficult proposition, but not impossible.
Game 2, he played Nicodem. I offered to play Viks, but he wanted another go. He brought Killjoy to kill my face, using a Desperate Merc to bring him out. I use my belles to pull the Merc toward, he thinks I am going to kill it, pops Killjoy, who I eat for a Waife, job done. It went down hill from there.
K, he is done. Then he picks up Collette, and decides he wants another round. Cool, asking for Leviticus, cool. I wanted to try the new canine remains he just gave me. I am a fan. I turned Cassandra into the Waife. Hooded Rider took out the Gunsmith, for Grudge. Taelor and Johan ate my lunch money at 1 wound each. I made some mistakes, including forgetting reactivate on Collette, so I lost Leviticus and both Waifes in one turn. Only left Hooded Rider, who get charged by Johan, but kills him with Noon, which gets slow to die and the rider dies. With a draw for extra turn, John manages to get all 5 dynamites, ending it 6 to 4 him. A good game, and my first lose with dual Waifes. I started with 8 stones, and that was a mistake. I should have brought more models and less stone. Leviticus runs well with a measly two stones, but the out activate mechanic of his crew can't be ignored.
Well, that was my last couple weeks. Several good games of Malifaux. I finally got my other Waife based and I have painted up my canine remains. The canine remains is pissing on a tombstone, and I think it turned out really well. I still have Miss Demeanor staring at me from my bench, I just need to dig into her.

State of the 'faux

Been a little bit, so I thought I would throw up a quick update. After my painting class at Tacticon, I thought I should finally put my hand in on some blending. The hooded rider you see above is exactly that. I blended almost everything. I really like how the muscle turned out. I used pallette spectrum blending, and I think I have the hang of it. Now I have to blend all my single models now.
I also played my first game with my first rider. I have no idea how I like him. It was a game against Jay's Rasputina. He ran Rasputina, dual silent ones, 3 gaming, and a cerebus. I danced my SPAs forward, formed a Desolation Engine, and kinda sat in the open. Turn 2, my engine killed a silent one, then died, followed by the 2 SPAs, while the rest of my crew moved up. Jay, of course, stepped way back into the left corner, away from my stuff. A quick look at the table told me that Jay was gonna hide, I had a Belle on each flank, Leviticus and his Waife in the center of my edge, and the rider towards the center, behind trees. With the Viktorias, I would have to try and find a way to crack that shell, though I'm not sure I could have pushed him back so easily. However, I'm play Leveticus, its Reconnoitre, I have soulless life and exterminate constructs, I can play this game. So I do. Leveticus sits in the back blessing the waife, and using death's lesson to insure she kills him, creating a SPA, which will combine on 6 to create a new engine. Both Belles hide behind trees, and the rider sits near the center to take on Cerebus should he hunt my right bells. Meanwhile, Jay decides to move his crew up the left side. With my belle over there hidden, my engine coming from that side, and being right in Leveticus's threat zone, I'm none to worried, heck I may even get exterminate, which I wrote off. I think Jay is seeing he may have held back to long, but maybe not. Then he moves his Cerebus towards my right Belle, here it is, the rider moves up, I don't think he is in range, but still hoping, making sure I am getting as close as possible. The whole time Jay is watching me like a hawk, I say something, he says something, I point out it won't make and prove its a inch short. He said something about just a fun game, I said he never played one, and its over. He got all hurt, we had a discussion about the definition of a "fun game", and I spend the rest of the day watching John vs Other John play Collette vs McMourning. It was a pretty interesting game, both guys new to the game, I think I am going to try and snag one or the other for a game this Sunday.

Tacticon day 2

Ok, so this should have been posted WAY earlier, but who was gonna read it anyway ;-)

K, so day 2 of the 40K tourney, I am sitting 1 draw 1 lose. Not sitting pretty, 20 points, I think I'm running 2nd of the 3 guys from the store. I enjoyed both of my day 1 games, and both were against an army I had never played. Day 2 started facing Chaos, the army I play. Interesting. He is running 1 squad of oblits, defiler, a unit of noise, another of plague, 2 units of marines, landraider with kharne and some berserkers. I think I had this in the bag from the start. I played well, killed what I needed to, its a favorable match up, and he held his defiler in the back for fear of the oblits. Drew C&C, I won everything else. Great opponent, great game.

Game 4, versus vanilla marines, and here the fun ends. Dual landraiders with termies, razor spam. Went almost all reserve, deploying a single devestator squad, or rather half of it. First turn I wipe the devs off the table, second turn his razors come in, raiders do not. This is good for me, if I can take them out, I can take my time on the landraiders. Immobilise one, stun the other that flanked, the one that came in his edge just sits there the whole game. Spend the rest of the game much the same way. Turn 5 is a draw, 6 I'm hanging on, but of course it goes to 7 and I get tabled. Not a good opponent, argued everything, I was wrong once. Apparently he had a history at the old store of being a not so fun opponent.


Game 5, versus Nids. He is running horde, hormagaunts, termagaunts, ravenors, terranifex, 3 single zoanthropes, hive tyrant. Lots to kill, likely more than I could. The main problem was that I had never seen ravenors ran effectively. I think some better target priority there would have helped, they are what beat me. Everything else I dealt with or hit me late enough to just be a nuissance. Also, not a real enjoyable game, and tabled me top of 5.

At this point I was kinda in a grumpy mood, and since I was already planning Malifaux at Genghis Con, not planning to be back I'm February. With wrecking crew running things, I don't think I will be alone. WOO, more people for Malifaux.

Day 1 Tacticon 2011

Day 1 is done. It went alright, with a draw then a loss. Game 1 was against Eric with Dark Eldar this time. He was the player I played round 3 at Genghis. Another good game, coming down to the final turn. I took kill points, he took capture and control, and we tied seize ground. My first game against DE was enjoyable, and my second game against Eric.

Game 2 was against Adam Tricola, a good player, usually runs Space Wolves, but took DE this time. I saw the postings and knew I was in for help of a battle. He did not disappoint. I fought hard, but too many targets and no mistakes to take advantage of left me unable to score any points. I truly enjoyed this game as well, and it showed I lack against horde anything. I hope to make top tables again to play Adam, he usually isn't in my neck of the woods.
Looking forward to tomorrow, being firmly in the lower ranks, I don't have to care as much, and can just play the fun. If my opponents follow suit, I will be in good shape.

How many DE can you shove in one corner?