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Lano Plays: WarmaHordes Journeyman League, Week 2

Hello people, ladies and gentlemen, fishes and turtles, and that ONE person who looked at my blog from Iran...

Unfortunately, you won't find anything to do with how to kill Americans, you got your hopes up when you googled "Warmachine" probably... Silly muppet, if you genuinely do play WarmaHordes... Then hi!! 

So this week, is week 2 of our Journeyman league. Most people are ready for their games, unfortunately two of our entourage wasn't present today but they'll hopefully get there games in next week. 

Well my 15 points was a little difficult to choose from to be honest. Only having 3 points to spend, I thought is go funny and take a Razorback Crew.  Now, I saw this model in the Miniature Empire store, and during the sale I just had to pick it up! It's the perfect base size, and it suits my theme ideally. May I present to you, the Pig-A-Pult! It's originally a Malifeux model, but it was the same base size as a regular Razorback Crew.  Here he is!

Now I do realise some of you may be shouting, "They're Shit!" But hey, it may be true that artillery have the short straw in many ways and faults, but I've picked fashion over substance, and he looks beautiful!

I know I haven't done the tactica for the battle group yet, but il try do it all in one blog post!

At 2 Weeks, each list is 15 points... With his new Razorback deployed, painted, and ready to smack shot up, Lord Carver feels confidence in riding the storm.

The first game was against Cynar. Although it was a practise, and the pigs got warmed up, they got blasted with a lot of arcane blasts etc, but the Batten Down the Hatches kept them safe till all the objectives were secured and won on scenario.

Second up was Magnus from Riot. He felt semi confident, after which I told him that the Warhog in my list was the only hard hitting model I had. Which promptly led him to target the Hog.

I decided to shield my Warhog with the two Gunboars, this allowed my Warhog to get into combat safely with the help of some slamming from my light war beasts. With everything knocked down, my Warhog forces himself for more STR for the cost of a fury and d3 damage. Then charges to try to finish the mangler. He clears up nicely,

Leaving Magnus watching and shitting his pants!

Magnus at this point said "Fuck it, I'm going To Smack something... 

*hopefully it won't be my lovely face..*

Magnus however fails to achieve anything. With the combination of bad dice rolls, and more swearing/noise than a group of black men in a fried chicken shop, Magnus knew his time was up, and the Warhog, the one he wanted to try remove early, comes in with Carvers Feat and absolutely ruins Magnus. 

GG Riot!! 

The only other game I had pictures of was Cygnar vs Mercs. The picture below shows the destructive power of the renegades creamed of doom. 

Unfortunately, it didn't do a significant amount of damage.  Other than this I apologise for not taking as many photos in store!

Lessons learnt today:

1) slamming your own models works. 

2) Carver is a very good mid range caster.

3) Don't write a blog at 3am. I should be asleep!!!!

Lano Plays: WarmaHordes Journeyman League Week 1

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and every pony! 

It is I, and today I have a surprise...

So all my posts recently have been of Everblight and the painting leading up to this journeyman league. Well you see, I visit a place called Dark Sphere and walked out with a lot of new toys... FFS... 

So may I introduce... The NEW battle box, Lord Carver, The Bringer of Most Massive Destruction, Esquire III.

Yes that's his full name and I appreciate you use his full name please.

Accompanying him is his Battle Box, a Warhog, and not ONE BUT TWO stupid Gun Boars... 😒

Stupid things couldn't hit a barn door...

Anyway, a tactica on these Beauties (in the eye of the beholder) will be put up later for you other people to spy and note down. Because I know there are people who will read this and try to gain some advantage!!

Down below, I played with a new iPhone app called WOWfx... Go check it, it makes things pretty...

Now back to the games, and loads of opportunities for Photo porn. My first opponent was Anthony, who has been featured in my blog before. 

Madrak and his Battle Group step forward to begin the carnage!

Both armies line up to run at each other, my Gun Boar "Iron Pig" attempts to let a shot off but comes out short. Under the cover of Lord Carver, The Bringer of Most Massive Destruction, Esquire III's Batten Down The Hatches, the pigs walk up without fear of damage, ARM20/21 is a difficult nut to crack!

Meanwhile, a turn later, Gun Boar "Bang" hits his target but deals a measly 4 Damage. These guys are going to have to do better than this!

"Iron Pig" camps into the Cover, and with the help of Batten Down the Hatchs, he continues to try blast away at the Impaler. He hits 0 times but does deal 1 Damage with a blast, stupid Gun Boars...

The turn after, Lord Carver, The Bringer of Most Massive Destruction, Esquire III urges his minions on, re assuring them of the safety Batten Down the Hatches. 

The War Hog runs into the front line to stop the Impalers from throwing their jungle man spears at him. 

Lord Carver, The Bringer of Most Massive Destruction, Esquire III joins the fight! He pop his feat, and starts to get to work on the Impaler in front of him. Needing 5 to hit, he hits a measly twice out of 6 Attacks!! The fucking Impaler is still standing... It doesn't matter, Iron Pig will deal with them... I thought, well, I believed... But ALAS!! Allah really doesn't like pigs because he too can't hit a fucking thing... Missing his attacks on the 3 damage remaining Left Impaler... Now that has really screwed my plan, I was hoping for the Warhog to get into Madrak and kill him...

I'm going to try take the consolation prize and kill both his Warbeasts off, which means his last beast, the Axer can be easily delt with the next turn... But look, my Warhog takes 4 attacks to kill the Right Impaler, and the one with THREE damage survives 2 attacks... FUCK MY FUCKING LIFE...

This is a shit game...

Needless to say, Madrak popped his feat... Killed everything... 

This is how I imagined it to look like... Because TBH I was fuming at this point...

With Madrak killing both my Warbeasts on the front line, his Axer, brimming with fury ready to be unleashed, charged my remaining Gun Boar... And that's all he wrote...

Starting with a loss, only way is up!! 

Now going on across the board were loads if other games. 

Anthony took on Riot, which was a game of twists and turns.

Epitomised by this scene, a Renegade unleashing his load into the middle of the Trolls. Pun intended.

That game ended with Magnus the Pussy Taitor taking a cheap Shotgun shot at the Impaler, and a random bullet eyeballing Madrak... Sounds silly? Because it was!!

My second game of the evening was against Convergence of Cyriss. The annoying re spawning of Robots and the spinning Spinny Top nature really annoyed me, but I eventually managed to punch through and kill Syntherion.  A great game of trading blows.

That's all for this Blog,

But what did I learn today?

-Carver can't hit things...

-Warhogs can't hit things...

-and Gun Boars aren't Fun Boars!

Goodnight all!

Lano Paints: WarmaHordes Journeyman League Harrier Lesser Warbeast

And that's another Warbeast down! 

And with that, my Battle Group finished! 

Il post some photos up later of the completed group!

Here he is!

 

To be honest I didn't spend ages painting him. Between university and a job, I have little time to get painting done unfortunately. 

But, once in our painting career, I'm sure you can emphasise with me, that at one moment, you add a little TOO much detail and you ruin a model? Yes, I think I may have done just that!

In celebration of my harrier being an absolute annoyance in the past handful of games, I thought he deserved some much needed battle blood. I only put a little on, but unfortunately, looking  at him now, I think it was a little too much. 

The blood effect took the colour away from his teeth which I thought really stood out. Which I liked because it's like, " hey I have loads of teeth, I'm going to chomp ya ya cunt!"

Excuse the English. 

I may have go over the blood effect with some base colours.

Anyways, it's here below.

Now time to talk TACTICS!!!

For those who are in my journeyman league and are reading this, I'm going to throw you a bone. If you're Mr Mike "I'm gonna punch ya" Dunnage, then you've already been on the receiving end of him/her/she/it.

It's animus is very useful. For one fury, it allows my next melee attack to automatically hit, then it expires.

So if your hitting high defence models, this animus is perfect. 

Although it is only RNG Self. So it's either going to be your Harrier or 'Lock dealing the hits. 

Great for use against high level Caster/Locks like Ashlynn. 

So it's use is pretty straight forward, pop animus on your caster for an assassination run, auto hit, pop animus again, buy attack etc rinse and repeat etc .

Where this animus comes in useful, is on the Harrier itself. For two fury, you pop your animus, you charge a target, you kill it and you run away with it's Sprint ability( Sprint allows you to make a full advance (SPD7) at the end of your activation if you killed one or more models during you activation, ignoring free strikes)

 

Pretty simple, pretty effective!

Use Harriers to hunt solos or important UAs. 

Hear that fellow Journeyman players, he's coming for your UAs and Solos!

Now for the few down sides this animus can present.

Obviously, RNG Self, but hey, we already have Eyeless Sight, no need to get huffy.

Also, critical hits.

Because the animus skips the dice roll to hit, you can not benefit from the Critical Hit effects from your melee weapon.

Eg. Rhyas with Critical Decapitation. 

Because she did not roll to hit, there is no Critical Decapitation.

And that's about it people.

Not much more for me to say than to say thanks to those who read my stuff.

I have people from across the seas reading my stuff, even a few people in Mexico!

And to those who are spying on my Journeyman league army, "Sod off ya cheatin' Basterddd"