Warmachine

I've been listening to a new podcast "The D6 Generation".
The hosts of it are big supporters of the Privateer Press games (to the point that the first couple of shows sound like "Why Russ Wakelin hates GW").
I tried a demo game with a guy at the Silver Dragon a couple months ago (sorry if I forgot your name, man) and enjoyed it, even though the guy demonstrating it with me was a douche and made a side comment at how 40K is brainless, I really like the mechanics of damage allocation and the focus but I'm not sold on the skirmish level of it.
I play (or try to) 40k because I like having squad A go hide behind that ruined building while squad B runs up the center to do whatever.

My other issue is that I am not sure my wallet can handle another miniatures game...hrm...

BFG Progress

Worked on the BFG fleet last night. Over the weekend I worked on my BFG fleet, I got my Brute Ramships all primed and got my Kill Kroozer and Terror Ship painted. I thought I needed some more detail on those two so last night I went ahead and added some more detail to them with checks on the tail of the Terror ship. I added a white stripe to the underside of the bow of the Kill Kroozer to have dags or more checks. The ships are almost solid colors with metallic weapons and launch bays. The Terror ship is red, the Kill Kroozer is blue. I think the capital ships will be solid colors like this and my escorts will be more metallic with color highlights.

Naming the fleet:
In nautical lore it's bad luck to have an unnamed ship, so I wll be naming my ships.
Flagship - Hulk - will be named the "Waaagh!mato"
I am thinking of orkifying some other ship names for my fleet:
SS Minnow, Nautilus, Orca, Red October, Argo, Octopus,
Also orky words:
Dakka, Zap, Boom, Waaagh!, Grim, Gork, Mork
Ideas:
Jolly Waaagh!ger
Noah's Ork
No, Siriusly

Minor work

So I'm still working on this stuff. What's on deck:
1.) Plague Wing - may be changed to Sons of Mortarion, thinking of changing up composition. Still modeling the basics, HQ, troops and such. Waiting on some Cadian flamer backpacks to mix into the rest (skull+crossbones=awesome).
1a.) Modling daemon prince, attached right leg yesterday, left leg going on tonight then going to greenstuff the holes and seal it better.
1b.) Rhino needs more greenstuff work, TBD.
1c.) Need another rhino.
2.) Battlefleet Gothic - Started painting my Ork BFG fleet. I like the look so-far, but the limited pallette is not quite right, i think i'll add in some more orky looks tonight, checks, dags, etc.
3.) Aeronautica Imperialis - I'm hooked and I haven't played on game yet. I'm trying to get some fellow gamers to place an order with me to Forgeworld and have the order shipped to one place so we can save on shipping. No luck yet, if I don't hear from them by 7/4 I'll place my order without them.

Long time, no post

Sporadic posting.
Little work has been done on the army. I've got my Daemon prnce in the works, I've got my Rhino in the works, I've got a box of Chaos Space Marines which I haven't touched. I've got a fleet of Ork BFG ships in the works.

Just got wrapped up with World of Warcraft (see blog).

I have a houseguest until Tuesday 4/1, but after that I'm going to try to set a daily goal of spending 1 hour modeling/painting/whatever.

This army has not been abandoned.

Keep looking back for more progress.

Zombie Nurgle

I think possibly I will use zombies as Plaguebearers (lesser daemons) in my army as they can be fielded without taking up a slot.

B&C Thread - "Zombie Themed Nurgle Army?"

I found pictures of the conversion of Zombie parts + Marine parts that look cool and relatively simple. if i was to do this the list would look similar to this:

Chaos Lord - MoN, Plaguebringer, Terminator Armour
Plague Marines x7 - Champ, PFist, Plas guns x2, Rhino, Icon
Plague Marines x7 - Champ, PFist, Plas guns x2, Rhino, Icon
Lesser Daemons x7
Lesser Daemons x7
Lesser Daemons x7
Lesser Daemons x7
Lesser Daemons x7
(insert something to take out tanks, termies w/combi meltas, Drednaught, Bikes with Meltas)

Gametheory - MathHammer 2/6/08

I was reviewing an older post about mathhammer and my orks vs plague wing and was curious about what the new orks would do to plague marines.

Orks are now striking at +1I and +1S on the charge.
Still 2 base attacks, +1 for 2 hand weapons, +1 for charging.

1 Plague marine strikes 3 time on the charge @ I3 (1 base, +1 for 2 hand weapons, +1 for charging)
WS4 means 3 strikes @ 50% to hit = 1.5 hits
S4 means 50% to wound = .75 wounds
Ork 6+ save is 16% to save = .63 unsaved wounds
Meaning that 2 Plague Marines (46 points) are needed to kill 1 ork (6 points).

on the other hand...is a different set of fingers...

1 Ork strikes 4 times on the charge @ I3 (furious charge) (2 base, +1 for 2 hand weapons, +1 for charging)
WS4 means 4 strikes @ 50% to hit = 2 hits
S4 (Furious Charge) means he's wounding on 5's, 33% to wound = .66 wounds
Plague marine 3+ save means 33% chance to miss save = .22 unsaved wounds
4+ Feel No Pain then drops that 50% more to .11 wounds
Meaning 10 Orks (60 points) are needed to kill 1 Plague Marine (23 Points)

Rhino #1

I started on my first Rhino ever. It seems to be going smoother than my Leman Russ for my orks. I didn't foul up the tracks, however the floor of the vehicle almost got fouled up hardcore. i couldn't line-up the roof after attaching the floor and there were all sorts of gaps.

so i tore it apart and clipped off the four tabs on the floor to get it to fit. i fit in the wall between drivers and passengers and the roof and front panel. i rubber banded it together as i went to bed, there will need to be some conversion work on it, pustules, buboes, etc. i think it needs a nurgle icon on the front panel just below the viewing slits.

for paint, i think catachan green and rotting flesh will work well on it. some of my rust on the tracks.