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Battle Report: Game One, One Day Event, May 1st 2021

Howdy everyone. This past Saturday, May 1st, I got to play my first in person Warhammer in over a year at a small (8 person due to COVID) event at a board games bar in Grand Rapids, MI. I ended up 2-1 and finishing 4th out of 8 due to missing an objective. I beat LRL and Cities and lost to Nurgle. One note is that I played the Krulghast as only protecting against wounds, not against mortals. Another is this event was using the smaller boards that we've all heard are rumored for the new edi

dmorley21 in Battle Report

May 3, 2021

Avatar of DOOoh you get the idea.

Still a work in progress, but having so much fun with drybrushing, washes, more drybrushing, more washes... I’m usually fairly uptight about where my brush puts paint, so this makes for a fun change.

Ravenborn in Daughters of Khaine

April 29, 2021

Temple of the Shattered Veil

Balance as a Wicked Problem

What is a Wicked Problem? It is a concept originally derived for social/political planning problems by Rittel & Webber in 1973 as having 10 characteristics (borrowing from Wikipedia for this): 1) There is no definite formulation of a wicked problem. 2) Wicked problems have no stopping rule? 3) Solutions to wicked problems are not true-false, but better or worse. 4) There is no immediate and ultimate test of a solution to a wicked problem. 5) Every solution to a wick

Beer & Pretzels Gamer in Balance

April 28, 2021

Gorthor21's Hobby Corner

Warriors of Lag

It’s been a long time but I finally finished the chaos warriors minus a few that need static grass. I’ve started my knights using contrast colors but at this point I’m gonna need to do a lot of silver. Hopefully these guys don’t take as long as the warriors. I have some 40k stuff I have planned to paint.

Gorthor21 in Tzeentch

April 27, 2021

Dooooooom snek!

Alright, back to the evil snek girls! I took a break from my girls to work on Cities of Sigmar (dark elves, of course), then some Yu Jing goodness for Infinity, but the release of the new endless spells for DoK, and a new army book has me excited about working on these again. I felt the previous DoK book had one very powerful list option, which felt a bit OP to me. I game with a small group of friends that has limited gaming time, meaning we’re fairy casual and don’t have the time

Ravenborn in Dooooom snek?

April 24, 2021

A Journey into the everwinter and maybe more.

The Beastclaw are finished.

Well, the beastclaw are done. Overall I really enjoyed painting this army to 2000 points, there is a ton more detail on these than I first thought, Still have 10 mournfang to do but thats a problem for future me. I have started my backlog of terrain for both AOS and 40K. I hope you enjoy.

sainted75

April 6, 2021

Gorthor21's Hobby Corner

Progress in warriors of tzeentch

Did a little painting tonight and put base coats on the warriors and the lord. A few more simple things and these chaos warriors will be ready for basing and making my squad a horde.

Gorthor21

March 14, 2021

Gorthor21's Hobby Corner

Tzaangor Enlightened

After what seems like an aeon I have finally finished my Tzaangor Enlightened and Shaman. It didn’t really take more effort than the guys on foot I just felt unmotivated to get them done and had lots of mistakes to clean up. I got a good haul from Christmas with some more chaos warriors and a lord of change which should be really fun to paint. I also started the changling so hopefully that doesn’t take 3 months to finish up.

Gorthor21

March 10, 2021

Slave to Alearum

My Ulgu Slaves so far

In this mad mad year I started my long awaited project: Slaves to Darkness. Chaos warriors are the reason why i joined the world of warhammer and wargaming, so it's a great pleasure for me to share this pictures. Some kit is still missing, but is my shame pile (the unpainted models)

HMB

March 8, 2021

Ultimate Bragging Rights Unlocked

The first set of Ultimate Bragging Rights (beating your opponent with your own list and then turning around and under the same conditions beating them with theirs) came about in arguably the most predictable way. The player who had built the Khorne list actually had even more experience playing Mawtribes so when the tables flipped, even though the opponent’s list they were playing wasn’t the Triple Frostlord build they’re known for running they still had plenty of familiarity with how the fact

A Journey into the everwinter and maybe more.

March 4, 2021

Stardrake......Done!!

So, I have finally finished the stardrake, taken since 8th january and its been done along side the beastclaw raiders, some terrain and more dark angels for my 40k army. Im pretty happy with how its finished, except for the purple armour plates, not sure if im happy as I think they look a bit dust from the drybrusing. I will see how I feel in a few days, I may end up redoing them. Its all had a coat of Vallejo matt varnish and the metals and armour plates have been ard coated to match the rest o

sainted75

February 28, 2021

So Close, Yet So Far Away

No Ultimate Bragging rights were achieved in the first week of flipped tables in Zoom League for a replay of Shifting Objectives @ 2K with players now using their opponent’s lists. Until late in the game it looked like Bonesplitterz were going to pull out their first win. Somebody apparently told Pebbles, or Rogue Idol, that Forgeworld had decided to cancel him and he didn’t take it well as he moved into the middle where it preceded to put a beating down in the early rounds; wiping out a u

February 24, 2021

Loriels Blog of Painting / modeling / battlereports

Strategy: Nighthaunt vs. Kharadron Overlords

In this series, I’ll be highlighting how to play Nighthaunt effectively against different armies. I’ll only be doing armies I have faced multiple times. The first I’ll start with is Kharadron Overlords, an army I know particularly well as I’ve also started playing them. Quick Matchup Thoughts While many armies and players dislike the gameplay against KO, I find that Nighthaunt versus KO matches are a lot of fun for both players and make for a pretty equal matchup, though I’d ho

dmorley21

February 21, 2021

Emerald Watch - Lumineth Realm-Lords

Loriel

February 18, 2021

Loriels Blog of Painting / modeling / battlereports

Emerald City - Warcry terrain

Loriel

February 18, 2021

At the Turn: Having Gone 3-0 am I Destined for 0-3?

With a win against Mawtribes my Fyreslayers managed to go 3-0. Yet, once again, how I won gives me hope that I will manage to pull off “Ultimate Bragging Rights” at least once as we flip the table and start playing our opponents’ list. To make for a more interesting tactical choice with the center objective in Focal Points we’d made sure the objective could be contested on two levels. As can be seen in the picture above those on ground level would be in the 6” zone of control but

February 16, 2021

A Better Nighthaunt: Battleline (Part 2)

One of the strengths for Nighthaunt is that the army features a really strong group of battleline units. Chainrasps are a great, cheap horde unit. Grimghast Reapers make for a good elite, anti-horde unit. Spirit Hosts are resilient and can surprise an opponent with mortal wounds. Hexwraiths are really fast, and have some play in either battalion that they're featured in (Death Riders and Dolorous Guard). Still, I would make changes to each unit. If you read my previous post, that won't be

dmorley21

February 15, 2021

nighthaunt A Better Nighthaunt: Overview (Part 1)

So while this blog is going to cover a lot of different things, I wanted to start by talking about what changes I would love to see for Nighthaunt. It's been discussed on the dedicated army forum on this site ad nauseum, but the army as it is does not do well at tournaments typically. This makes sense as the book is an older book, features weaker units, had some of their points dictated by how units played in a different army, and is a difficult army to play. So we all know the army needs change

dmorley21

February 15, 2021

The First Rule of Fyreslayers... Fyreslayers vs Bonesplitterz - Scorched Earth @ 2K

... as I understand it is keep your key units in their buff bubbles. I broke that rule and turned the game into a slow attrition battle that I barely came out on top of. My opponent had more experience playing against Fyreslayers than I had playing with them. With a double battalion they were going to have fewer drops than I would and thus would choose priority. When they placed their big block of Arrowboyz on the front edge of their deployment zone my guess was they’d use their pre-R1 m

February 9, 2021

Fear of the Activation Wars in Khorne v Mawtribes - Scorched Earth @ 2K

Most of us have probably succumbed to it at some point in our playing - that fear/obsession over one particular aspect of our opponent’s list that causes us to make choices in our turn to address it that ultimately prove sub-optimal in many other areas of the match and ultimately self-defeating as at best we delay what we are worried about, not entirely derail. The last time these two players had gone head-to-head it had been Mawtribes v FEC with the double pile-ins of Feeding Frenzy playi

February 6, 2021

Batrep or Scouting Report? Fyreslayers vs Khorne - Shifting Objectives @ 2K

Will have to wait to actually get the full flavor when the tables do flip but the mere knowledge that in a few weeks I’d be on the “other side of the table” piloting the Khorne list added a lot of flavor to my in game experience. Jumping to the conclusions: First, this was my first time playing Fyreslayers (opponents first time playing Khorne so even footing there) and I left the match feeling good overall about how I played but positive that there was still plenty of room for improve