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If you having Horror problems, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 wounds in my unit of 1.

I don’t believe LVO had new Tzeentch.

I fell behind and stopped posting for at least a week, probably longer. Basically, work finally got back into the swing of things after the Christmas and New Years Holidays, and my last week just saddled me with things to do (coming home late, having to grab something to-go for dinner, instead of doing home cooking and eating at 8, so we could get fed in a timely manner), and my hobby took a backseat to life. I'm now "over par" when it comes to the 400 painted models portion of my challenge. (I also realize that sports metaphors are usually wasted on the miniature gaming community.) The part that makes me feel bad isn't that I'm currently behind the curve, but that I don't know how far behind that curve I am. Here's what I got done since my last post: 1. Finished another 3 Blue Horrors, as far as I can tell. Probably the closest I got to finishing something. 2. Finished priming the rest of the Tzeentch Army. That's an accomplishment, considering the whole of my last weekend was swallowed whole by a visit by my mother staying with us. I don't regret it one bit, since it probably saved her close to $600 staying in a hotel, and I got to see her for the first time in a while. 3. Painted a Kairic Acolyte in the color scheme I initially thought of (and while not what I was going for initially, which matches closer to the box color scheme, I still like well enough) I've painted the flesh bits on a few more Kairic Acolytes, and hopefully I can get back in the hobbying saddle again. Happy Hobbying!!!!!

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It was June by a day

Two Player Sets From Memory: AoS Starter (July 2015) Blightwar (2017 I think) Soul Wars (June 2018(Thanks Zanzou)), Tempest of Souls, Storm Strike. Realm of Chaos: Wrath and Rapture (Dec 2018/Jan 2019) Carrion Empire (Feb 2019) Looncurse (Apr/May 2019) Feast of Bones (Oct 2019) Aether War (Jan 2020) I can remember the armies in the XMas sets, but not the names (All Late Nov, Early Dec) 2019: SCE (Sancrosanct), Gloomspite, Nighthaunt, Skaven 2018: Daughters, Idoneth, Slaves, Seraphon 2017: Kharadron, Tzeentch, SCE (Vanguard), Death 2016: SCE, Khorne, Ironjawz, Sylvaneth

I think there’s a lot of good points here, including #2, which we have even before all the meta changes. Counterpoint: Battalions. They are more restrictive than the sub-faction AAs, have just as many rules tied into them, and still cost points. I’d also be interested if they move into other game design territory such as getting points to take weaker abilities.

Yes, but actually no. Sub-Factions weren't designed by the GW Teams to be balanced against one another. They were designed to be flavorful versions of each army. Matched Play on the other hand, which is the only format where points matter, was designed by the GW Teams so that two individually built armies can be balanced against one another. From GHB 2017 (Sorry, it's the only reference in front of me on my phone at work): Matched Play doesn't currently balance sub-factions. I believe OP is suggesting we should use points to balance them against one another. I am pointing out that in a competitive environment, all of the players of one faction didn't even try out one of the other sub-factions. I believe that competitive players are doing the math and trying to take the best option to win. Thus when I see all of the players who have picked one faction and have picked only one sub-faction, I'm inclined to believe there is something with the format that isn't balanced (aka it's broken).

There are about 150 lists currently up for the event at LVO. The highest played army is OBR at 19 players. All 19 are playing Petrifex Elite. I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure that’s an indicator of brokenness.

Are you building your OBR with some Fava Beans and a nice Chianti?

Thought of another: I have a ton of new people and 40K players looking into Sigmar, they ask how to get started and maybe one of the hardest things that everyone misses and even when it it pointed out isn't the easiest to read is how to build your army and what abilities you get. For reference, it's Page 15 of the Core Rules. It should really be a) Placed near the beginning of the Core Rules, and b) Bullet-pointed for beginners to know what they are looking for.

I don’t think I can stress enough, that I think GW has been doing a fantastic job over the past 5 or so years. However, these few things stick in my craw a little: 1. Either Dreadscythe Harridans or Myrmourn Banshees should be Battleline If in a Nighthaunt army, so I can do my all female Nighthaunt army. 2. Pusgoyle Blightlords should be min size of 1, so that when I build the lord of afflictions, I still have a use for the other model. 3. Deal with the remaining Metal/Resin models. I would hate to see it go from the army list, but either give us a plastic Slann or let the army go without one. Nurgle and Skaven have a few old models that can get fixed or go too. 4. The model/book release schedule last year was inane: Two armies often shared the spotlight when, even a book update, should get at least a week in the sun. Then new armies were being entirely released in a week (GSG, HoS). Then they got a release in one week the same week as another army book update (OBR w/Ogors). And we had Warcry. And we had WU, Blood Bowl releases, and about three other games, and 40K stuff. 5. Stocking issues with Two-Player Boxes. I think this may have been fixed with Feast of Bones and Aether War. 6. The one off figures in Two-Player Sets need clampack releases. 7. Please stop jacking up prices on things, most just tend to scare off new people.

*Ambushes you before you leave* Hello Peter, What's Happening? Um, I'm going to need you to come in tomorrow, so if you could be here around, 9... that would be greaaat, m'kay? *Begins to Walk Away, then turns around* Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Uhhm, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in, ah, on Sunday too, kay? We, ah, had Disciples of Tzeentch Battletome release too and ah, we need to sort of play catchup. Thaaanks.

I don’t know why, and maybe it’s just Warmahordes and Guild Ball models (I haven’t done a GW metal model in forever) but from my experience, I found that washing the pieces in soap and water increased the ability to glue from 0% to 99% (there were still some joints that never glued). Think it has something to do with the mold process. Is it anything like any of the other Steven King TV series? IT was okay (the end of that book was weird anyway), but I’ve heard bad things about the rest.

I don’t know why, and maybe it’s just Warmahordes and Guild Ball models (I haven’t done a GW metal model in forever) but from my experience, I found that washing the pieces in soap and water increased the ability to glue from 0% to 99% (there were still some joints that never glued). Think it has something to do with the mold process. Is it anything like any of the other Steven King TV series? IT was okay (the end of that book was weird anyway), but I’ve heard bad things about the rest.

I would have agreed six months ago, but as someone who just got a Warhammer store, our game scene has grown exponentially, from like 3-5 active people at most to that as a minimum on weekends and as many as 20 during prime game time, which the FLGS never saw. That was 40K. AoS grew from 1 (me) to 4 active and about 10-12 who play. That’s a win in my opinion

Fyreslayers and Hedonites: Both had rules that weren’t in the book but in White Dwarf instead Beasts of Chaos: Received a decent book at the time, but have never had a chance since. FEC and Daughters: One list to rule the meta, and in the darkness warp it. Skaven, Cities, Gloomspite: Should each be 3-5 separate Battletomes Otherwise, I’ve thought they’d been pretty good.

Its one ability, on one model, not the entire army. Get off the cross, we need the wood.

I don’t think it’s this. The Daemon Prince of Nurgle scroll isn’t separate from the new plastic model in the AoS app anymore.

It has been a little over one week since I started the blog and 2020 hobby quest. So let's see what else I did. Painting the Brimstone Horrors knocked off 10 of 10 models for the first 9 days, so I'm not stressing about the painting goals. There will be bigger obstacles to come, I'm 100% sure of it (two ominous laughs). What you haven't seen that I have built/painted: 1. The aforementioned Rats from Carrion Empire that I built in the last post. 2. I completed the generic Chaos Spawn in a Red->Blue transition, and one of the three Flamers that I have in generic Flamer paint scheme (Talassar Blue and Fire Colors to start, I think I added a few greenish and purplish colors to add contrast): 3. 10 Blue Horrors and the other 2 Flamers. I put blue onto all of them, and three of the Blue Horrors currently sit complete. 4. A completed piece of Warcry Terrain that was a testing ground for what I wanted to use as my paint scheme: Prime semi-light Grey, Prime White from a 60 degree angle and upward. Stone in Basilicanum Grey, then Drybrush with Grey Seer (yes, I like the color for edges) Wood in Wyldwood, then Agrax Earthshade, Seraphim Sepia, and/or Gore-Grunta Fur to provide variation in wood planks. Metal grates in Balthasar Gold, then Nihilak Oxide In my humble opinion about the old sculpts, the eyes on most of them are tiny and really hard to paint. I thought the Screamers were hard, but the Chaos Spawn was a whole 'nut-er level of difficulty, and it was only two of them Happy Wargaming!

Damn. All of those painted models are fantastic. How long did that take you? WOuld you be willing to commission an army for me?

It looks very nice! Be sure to give it plenty of time to dry. Do you have a quick list of all the paints you used?

Why is an army that gets it's posterior handed to it on a regular basis playing a player who is 4-0 on the last table of a tournament?

There was a nice pattern of all four factions getting half a box's worth of release. The first three boxes were nice because with a Start Collecting set you then had a pretty sizable chunk of army to own and play with (besides Gloomspite which didn't have one, and OBR, which doesn't, but is a good start on its own). Aether War is a weird set. KO entirely overlaps it's SC and has no Arkanauts as True Battleline, or behemoths to fill a collection itch. The Tzeentch side with SC has a good fill of units, but the side in Aether War feels like it's missing a true Battleline as well. Tzaangors or Kairic Acolytes instead of Screamers would fill the set's hole nicely, but neither fit the "Sky War" narrative of the set. Maybe in conjunction with Arkanauts instead of the second set of Balloon Boys? Maybe I'm making hay over nothing. I have though we would get a soft edition reboot for Summer; So we get New Stormcast (whatever new chamber gets opened) vs a New Destruction faction. That would probably mean a Chaos vs Death set in the Fall, or a gap filler for Spring. If it was a gap filler, I'd say OBR vs Slaves with the teased book coming out, but we just had OBR, and Slaves just got a SC with new stuff. I will say my local store manager said that two player box sets were something they wanted to emphasize this year. He doesn't strike me as someone who has any sort of inside track, but if he was really getting this from GW management, I like the prospect. I almost entirely buy these boxes these days.

#5 on my list is do the Plog/Blog Thing. I don't really know why more people aren't taking advantage of it here. I mentioned a few other things during the new years post, like build the things, paint 400 things, and avoid spending too much (although I have fallen face first into the DoT release and I am hoping it sticks for the rest of the year).