[Aiden's Thoughts: Maggotkin of Nurgle]

yh the arch warlock on BW is a very good shout

[Tzaangor Skyfires & Shaman]

they look good man!

12 plague toads next!

[All new terrain for AoS]

I'm doing the same at the moment, I picked a couple sets up. Will post some pics when they are done

[The Lords of Change]

ah all good, found some pine bark nuggets =)

[The Lords of Change]

beautiful work . Where do you get your bark chips from for basing Steve? I looked around on ebay last night and could only find a bulk order of soft rubber playground ones, and I don't need 18kg of them =)

[Founded a sweet games club , The Miramar Freebooters!]

Yeah we are lucky to get to use it , they are super supportive and nice!

[Founded a sweet games club , The Miramar Freebooters!]

 I forgot to mention the scenery is all unpainted/base coated because we only just started up! Expect some better looking tables over the coming months (hopefully!)

[It's a wrap!]

On 15/11/2016 at 6:19 PM, Dez said:

I hope your arm heals up and we see you back around here soon!

It's getting there...Papa Nurgle bestowed the gift of Shingles upon me and It was one of the most painful things I've experienced in my life!

 

I think I'll be back in January work permitting

[Inepticon '16]

On 25/10/2016 at 3:06 PM, Nick Jebson said:

the rule was actually if it is 50% covered it gains a cover save even if it was in the open, so people could still target them but you would get +1 to your save

a good right up and congratulations on the win. im taking some of the things i learnt and implementing them into my Dark elves for Warhosts

ah ok damn, think we might have been playing that wrong then not sure. If we did at least it was consistently wrong all the way through and for both opponents and not just in one game, but still wrong nonetheless!

[Inepticon '16]

ah yeah good point will edit that out. I thought I'd read the same in the Warhost pack but I'm wrong.

Yeah it would've been good to see you there man, my buddy from the UK who's at Weta too came to spectate and ended up buying an entire death army at the bring and buy tables so he'd be very interested to meet you and get advice! 

I found I could exploit it by using bigger models to block LOS for my weaker characters, so behemoths suddenly became duel purpose and super valuable pieces of LOS blocking/moving terrain, which was nice for my plague furnaces as they don't have much combat potential and are best served just sat around not doing much casting prayers or blocking off charges.

In the final game against Shaun I used my furnace to advance a unit of no save Plague Monks up close enough to his general (whilst also blocking LOS to my general as well) so that they got close enough to get a final turn charge off and win the game on a minor. Kind of like a trojan horse thing.

You can also exploit the facing direction and just sit a behemoth sideways on, on its oval base, so in the case of my plague furnace it's base has a bigger footprint/cover benefit, cheesey but totally legal. I have two plague furnaces, and with these rules they suddenly become worth their points whereas before they were pretty useless.

[PestileNZ - Rats in Middle Earth!]

16 hours ago, Dez said:

Awesome, glad to hear you made it ok...and you brought all your stuff with you? Looks like you had more hobby stuff than anything!

Lioks like you learned some lessons in the last 2 events, congrats on placing!

well about 100 or so paints in one of those Citadel Hobby boxes, brushes, some bases and some mediums, with some clampacks & plastics too. Also I'm taking a few things out for people form WHW . Then the army in the KR case is about 2.5k pts.

Thing is, I would've left it at home, but stuff costs over double here in NZ, it's super expensive to buy over here.

There's also a projector in there to watch movies on.

I've got an apartment sorted now so will slowly get set up.

Next event is a narrative event called Inepticon on the Kapiti Coast.

[Warlords, Pestilens, NZ, Bring the Foulrain!]

You too bro, hopefully see you at some more events down the line!

[Warlords, Pestilens, NZ, Bring the Foulrain!]

20 hours ago, BDJames said:

We have a great scene in Portland.  I hope you both make it here!  Check out Northwest Age of Sigmar on Facebook, as well as www.ordofanaticus.com which is the main local club and message board.  We have a 30 person tournament this October annihilation5.splashthat.com and this will be the first of many to come.

I'll defo look you up man! Will save your digits.

14 hours ago, Percivael said:

Great report James! Sounded like a lot of fun. Wish I could of been there. I have my first tournament very soon at the Facehammer GT. I say well done for taking a fluffy list and trying to make those pesky Pestilens work! Army looks great too - a really glowing green just like the guy on the battletome cover.

thanks man! Have a great time, that will be a good one! Yeah the battletome artwork was my inspiration good spot

[Warlords, Pestilens, NZ, Bring the Foulrain!]

I'm hoping to come back to Portland Oregon to work at Laika again, so we might be able to arrange that =)

[Finished first unit of Skaven Stormfiends]

Nice! Thought it looked pretty professional! Thanks for sharing TP.

[Finished first unit of Skaven Stormfiends]

how do you take your photos? Do you print out a backdrop and use a light box? Or are they photoshopped onto the BG? The lighting is great, reflections are a nice touch too. Beautiful work.

[AOS Open Day at WHW World]

 

1 hour ago, Dez said:

Thanks for the report James, sounds like it was pretty good! My own experience is with Games Day in Baltimore and Chicago, though one day I'll make the trip to the UK (I have family there). Heh, I'm wearing my 8th Edition Fantasy shirt from GD right now Very very busy lots of people, so I really like the idea of the grass roots approach for a more personal touch...though I think it would have been nice to have more of the 'face' of GW there. 

Can't thank you enough for the mug and shirt, Ironjawz iz best!

You're welcome man, it's all good, I'll ship em out tomorrow with tracking info and they should arrive in about 5 working days. Ps I love 'Mericuh , I think I left my heart in San Francisco , and Portland OR is probably my favorite city in the world so far! You are very lucky to live over there man!

[AOS Open Day at WHW World]

1 hour ago, RuneBrush said:

Was ace meeting you on the Sunday   Hadn't thought about having some of the community leaders "featured" at an event like this but can see how it'd be a real plus point

Yeah I mean I think the success of AOS has a lot to thank them for to be honest. They should all be Knighted! Was cool to meet you too. Wish I'd got a TGA selfie with you and Darren!

 

[Early days, a summer of firsts]

I got a game in against @CyderPirate aka Scotty from Rygas on Weds eve n Exeter, which was a lot of fun we had another game of AOS going on next table to us too so looks like AOS is growing a bit at Rygas which is cool too!  First time playing the Escalation battleplan from the GHB which really makes you think about your deployment a lot, 2000pts, Slaves to Darkness Vs Pestilens.

Pestilens pulled it out the bag for my first AOS win, but only with some lucky shooting from the Plagueclaw in turn 2 and sheer weight of numbers. Also the mortal wounds dealt back from casualties rule on a roll of a 6 from the icon of Pestilence seemed to come into play a lot, as did my 6up ward save from the Congregation of Filth formation.

Beginning to wonder if 1000pts better suits the gaming club format , so will start trying those smaller game sizes out next. I have seeds of Hope on Sunday week which turns out is also 1000pts format, so looking very forward to that and AOS open day next wknd!

[Early days, a summer of firsts]

he has a facebook page. Although I haven't been on it yet, he just asked me to post pics when they are all painted up on there. I just emailed him to start with . I had seen someone else post some movement trays they had just bought from him on one of the fbook sigmar pages, so I ripped the photo and sent it to him via email and said "can you make me X amount like this?". He is pretty thorough, will send you a screengrab of his design software before he cuts it to make sure its correct if its a custom job.

[Early days, a summer of firsts]

More Movement Trays

I had some better movement trays made by a guy called the Laser Cut Architect. I got 2 Plague Furnace bases custom made especially to fit 32 plague monks around the outside and turn it into a movement 14 chariot! And a load of random horde trays (also got some 32mm ones not pictured) He is a really helpful guy who will go above and beyond to make whatever you need, and is extremely fast and great comms, very good experience overall, ok value for money too compared to what else is out there.

      

 

 

 

[Early days, a summer of firsts]

2 hours ago, Ben said:

That games club looks really great!  Did you pre-arrange a game or were you able to pop in and find someone to play? 

Yeah I'm lucky it's 5 mins from my Mums place in Exmouth where I've been staying while back in England.  Had to pre-arrange on the Facebook group and it took about 2 or 3 weeks to find someone up for a game but I found a great guy to duke it out with so very happy. Once we started other people started saying they will join in soon so hopefully we'll get more games going in future..

[Early days, a summer of firsts]

Managed to get my first ever visit and game in at my local gaming club Exmouth Imperial Wargamers club on Weds, the club has been going in Exmouth for over 15 years and plays a variety of historical and sci fi / fantasy wargames such as Bolt Action, X wing and 40k. We played Gift from Heavens with legacy W.Elves vs Pestilens, was a fun game and nice to meet all the guys for the first time, we were the only AOS game going down but I'm sure the scene will grow there , big ups to Paul for a fun game! So far I'm P:3 W:0 L:3 with Pestilens!

[The Tribe Assembles]

+1 . I have 30 Pestigors for my Nurgle toys just waiting for the day!

[Early days, a summer of firsts]

Gaming Aids

Been getting a load of gaming stuff together recently , mostly because as a new player, I need every bit of help I can get to make my games run smoother and faster and so with that in mind I have put together a nice customised counter set to help me remember rules for my Rotbringers, Nurgle Daemons and Clan Pestilens stuff. I made custom counters for any abilities or effects that last a whole turn, as well as things like Prayers, Spells and Command Abilities, which are all color coded and grouped by shape, so I can remember what the hell it is I'm doing! This is partly down to finding it hard to remember the rules for Plaguemonks as they are so complex to use, but also partly down to being tired when I play games and also being a newbie. I get my stuff from Counter Attack , they do a lot of customizing options for measuring gages, dice, counters etc

http://www.counterattackbases.co.uk/aos-augment-marker-set-set-of-10

 

 

I also use Ben Curry's excellent scenery (and soon the buff dice) which are available here on the TGA.

 

The KR dice case is a nice way to keep everything all together in one set and has a handy card holder on the inset for which I used as a holder for Ben's awesome scenery dice card (listing the rules for terrain) as a handy quick ref guide.

I also invested in a cheap tablet from Amazon, the Lenovo A7-20 is a good little tablet coming in at around £60 , its only 8GB in Memory but you can add an SDcard, which I plan to keep all my DLC on. The 7inch screen size is fine for reading warscrolls off. The App doesn't seem to tilt when horizontal though which makes my cases backstand obsolete , hoping that gets resolved later down the line.

 

Seeing as I am running a pain in the butt horde army,  I figured I had better make some movement trays as well to save time on turn 1 getting into position. I picked these up from an ebay seller Hurlbatgames who make excellent MDF and Plastic movement trays and bases http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/hurlbatgames?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2754

 

I also bought a large metal KR case to transport stuff around as I am headed up to WW for Seeds of Hope and Warlords over the next month or two

J.