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    So I've had a -lot- of fun today, building up myself an engineer and a volley gun for my freeguild!!
     
    Any fans of the monster hunter franchise will notice that gunther's long rifle is actually a gunlance! Complete with stabby bayonet and a scope for the range finding optics. I'm quite happy with this guy, he looks truly mad and ecstatic with his big guns!


     
    And next we have the volley gun! Known as Die Grosse Kanone (the big cannon in german) this is gunther's personal volley gun he built himself and as such is ramshackle and full of love (and gunpowder)



     
    The big gun will also get an eccentric crew built for it soon too so look forward to that! I might add some more components onto the gun too. Like a big crank on the back!
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    So I have a busy week ahead of me!
     
    I've got a 3v3 game organised next week of order versus khorne. We will have myself and my freeguild along with Dan & his Pheonix Temple & Chris and his freeguild. It's going to be a tough game and we're likely going to have to try and win it through cunning, attrition and a boat load of shooting!
     
    So what I have available so far, in various stages of painting:
    10 gunners
    10 guard w/ sword and shield
    10 guard w/ militia weapons
    1 freeguild general on foot
    3 demigryph knights
    1 cannon (albeit lacking in dwarven crew)
     
    What I plan to finish building this week:
    1 general on griffon
    10 greatswords (mostly done just need to do a couple heads. They're a jaguar warrior conversion so take time to build but should be quick to paint)
    20 guard (I hate building the guardsmen so this will hurt)
    10 crossbowmen
     
    Possibly 1 luminark depending on how many points I have left as it would be nice to have something to buff my teammates. Also a 30" range gun will be nice for upsetting bloodsecrators.
     
    I'm going to be detailing my progress on the blog and also brainstorming some lists. Should be good fun!
     
    I do love my freeguild but they are a pain to get built and painted sometimes  At least the demigryphs were fun when I did them. Also note to self: Buy some rocket batteries at some point... and make an engineer.
     
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    So today was an epic clash between my disciples of tzeentch and my friend Dan's vicious mixed elf army! His elves are all linked by a firey colour scheme and pheonixes hence the name fire elves.
     
    My tzeentch are instead linked by the fact they all refuse to die. I may be bad at killing but at least I hold out well
    For our scenario we had to try and hold both objectives with no enemy models near them to win.
    It was a super fun and close game with lots hinging on lucky (and unlucky) dice rolls. I tried out 6 skyfire and oh boy is it much better than 3! Though had difficulty displacing dans eternal guard and his phoenix tore through my warpfire dragon. I had a lot of units hold on well though and my 20 tzaangors took MVP for me for just holding their corner for practically the whole game! fending off dragon knights, bleaksword and a hydra!
    I made a lot of mistakes and forgot some things as it's been a while since my tzeentch force came out to play. As usual they did really well at holding their ground and a few tricks allowed me to keep some of his units locked in combat to keep my objective safe. I also played some of my units a bit poorly, although they did well my tzaangors were locked in a corner all game and my warpfire dragon drawing the attention of a phoenix and his guard really hurt. He should have instead launched forward to mess with the eternal guard on Dan's objective. I also didn't use my destiny dice enough which was very silly of me. It's a powerful mechanic and I need to utilise it better.
    Unfortunately I forgot to take notes for a full batrep so I shall remember for next time but it was nice to get more playtime with my tzeentch and tzaangors and they definitely remain a firm favourite for me. So many attacks! 
    Next steps with the army (besides painting) are gonna be test out horrors some more as extra shooting and cheap wounds could be useful and see about maybe a second tzaangor squad. I also need to really practice different things with them and nail down a good list mixing the DoT and STD units. Regardless I'm constantly learning new things and really got to see my strengths and weaknesses today.
     
    Below are a couple of late game pics (apologies for my lack of paint, it pains me too). And sorry for this odd and sparse recount! Better to remind me to write it down next time! Regardless it was a fun clash and ended in a draw. I shall have to organise a rematch sometime and do a proper writeup.
     
    Me and dan will join forces next week for a 3v3 vs khorne where my order boys will come out for a spin. I'll try and get notes and a batrep for that!


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    So as anyone who knows me will know I often hop between projects a lot ans I'm awful and getting painting finished. But I'm trying to change that.
     
    My golden horde topic over on painting and modelling shows some of my more recent conversions which I need to get painted up, along with my daughters of khaine melusai.
     
    Though recently I've mostly been working on my dark eldar for 40k and pretty happy with my archon. I think my skills are really improving!!
     
     



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    So finally finished (besides her base) the horse mounted version of my vampiric big boss Cassia. Still not sure on a full name though I'm sure I'll think of something! (Any ideas do let me know!)
     
    And of course it wouldn't be Cassia if she wasn't covered in the blood of her victims... She will be getting her inaugural games in tomorrow as we practice for our path to glory firestorm campaign and I will try to post some battle reports here. Hopefully with pictures though most will be unpainted alas... (Sorry, it's a long process!)
     
    Anyway here she is in all her gory glory!



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    So we're back today with more dynamic death... Deatherizers (okay I'm bad at alliteration) because after painting dragon Cassia the only logical step is to paint her up some blood knight bodyguards right? (10 of these buggers to do...) And of course a neigh neigh horsey riding version of Cassia because I don't always want a dragon riding general... Especially not for our upcoming path to glory / firestorm campaign where the general must be the same in each game! (But I'm totally allowed to field her as a vamp lord or lord on dragon)
     
    As you can see this random mounted vampire lady I made a while back works well for cassia (just ignore the slightly smaller nose... Necromantic vampire magic for you...) And you may have noticed this well dressed Cassia doesn't have her dinner all down her well have no fear, once she's finisher I will go mad with the blood technical paint and make her suitably red
     
    I'm planning to go ethereal looking with the horsies hence the green for cassias horse and the grey initial coat for a bloodknight. You also get to see Cassia's progression over the course of this evening. 
     
    (Alsowhat you can't see is one knight has a broken lance... Budget cuts and all... I might try and fix it later but tbh he is easier to transport like this)





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    So today I had a lot of fun painting up my vampire to sit on her zombie dragon
    Need a good surname for her but I'm getting there. Then it'll be onto actually creating some background for my soulblight army. She's already going to have the nickname of 'the bat queen' for employing large use of her bat-like gargoyle followers (counts as fell-bat conversion, pic below) and of course regular bats (gonna have to get myself bat swarms just because they can be useful for protection)
    She will also have a horse mounted model that will be painted up later but I'm proud of how she's turned out. Good fun applying the blood too obviously she's just a messy eater.





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    So I decided to do a small story to start fleshing out some ideas for my Ashen City characters, I feel that since chaos is always represented as hate filled people who abandoned their humanity that it would be quite fun to try and explore those that couldn't quite fully abandon everything that made them then, to explore how they deal with repressing that tug of it. I figured it would make for better protagonists to not be completely devoid of humanity and emotions. This is very much a first draft and subject to change. At the end of the day chaos is still a collection of people, and especially an empire couldn't just run itself on greed hatred and strife alone.
     
    Maeve stared at the mirror, she could see her reflection staring back at her bearing the same fair skin, short black bob of hair and athletic frame. The reflection even wore her clothes and mirrored her movements as one might expect but it was the red eyes instead of her usual amber that drew her gaze coupled with the wicked smirk the reflection bore even as Maeve herself frowned. She should have been used to seeing this but it always made her heart sank when she was force to remember that her mind and body were not fully her own and hadn't been for longer than she could remember. The daemon inside laughed silently at her from the mirror, taunting her as it often enjoyed doing. Maeve's vision turned red, with a yell she unsheathed one of the many daggers hidden in her dress and hurled it at the mirror, the crackling red crystal blade shattering the glass on impact. 
    "Is everything alright in there your highness?" came the deep voice of one of her door guards.
    "Send a raven to the fighting pits, tell them to ready their best fighter. I need to kill something." Maeve yelled back. She took a deep breath, composing herself before beginning to head to her personal armoury, rage and bloodshed should sate the daemon for now and at the very least a good fight always helped her feel alive.
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    Maeve ran a bloody hand through her hair, smoothing it back as she leant against the wall. She couldn't keep the grin from her face, her heart was still racing from the match but as alive as it made her feel she couldn't quite quell the sadness in the back of her head, the lamentations for the loss of her humanity. She wondered why she still felt this way, she was so sure that most of the warriors within her empire had long since abandoned their hearts without regret but for her she could never quite let go of those feelings no matter how blessed she felt by the gods and no matter how many empires she burned to the ground. The door creaked open and Maeve looked over to see a large armoured woman enter, spiked of red crystal jutted out from her armour accompanied by a large horn of the same substance implanted into her. The woman gave a nod to Maeve and moved to sit next to her.
    "I saw the fight." the woman said, her voice rough and deep far unlike the softer more pleasing tones that Maeve would speak in though this woman was a fighter rather than Orator. "You scared the ****** out of some of the new bloods when you disembowelled the guy, they're gonna need to toughen up if they ever want to see real combat."
    Maeve gave a grin to the woman, nudging her with her shoulder "That it? No 'well done Maeve you're the quickest blade I've ever seen', just 'recruits these days are soft'" she joked, mocking the other womans gruffer tones.
    The horned woman just frowned at her, if anyone else spoke to her like that she'd have ripped their arms off and beat them to death with them but she had history with Maeve, the closest thing she had to a friend. She knew full well how much of a weakness it was to care for another, especially one who could resurface the humanity she buried long ago but she also couldn't do without the woman, she found the reigniting of emotions to be almost addictive.
    "Adira..." Maeve began, voice faltering slightly as she looked toward the other woman "I saw her again... the Daemon." she said, voice a mixture of worry and anger "It's getting more frequent, the ****** really wants control."
    Adira simply looked at Maeve and shrugged "You'll just have to keep fighting it." she paused, sighing a little "If it takes control I'll kick its teeth in till you're you again... you know that." her voice quieting a little, as if part of her was ashamed with wanting to help someone "Just... don't let anyone else know you're like this." she said, almost scolding in her tone "You'll look weak and then there'll be a coup. And I guess.... I'd rather not see you killed by some muscle headed upstart who doesn't know how to run an empire." 
    Maeve gave a soft smile to the woman "Thanks..." she said quietly as Adira simply gave a grunt in response and began to move off. She sat in contemplation for a few more moments, she had to keep up the persona of the Emberqueen, the fierce and unshakeable leader both charismatic and brutal enough to rule. If anyone besides Adira knew about her doubts, about her weaknesses she'd likely have a knife in the back and watch all she had built turn to ashes. She'd come too far and sacrificed too much to lose it all now and she wasn't going to let anything stand in her way.
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