July review and August goals

July's over as well. Not as bad as I expected, but not great either (at least from a hobby perspective).

D&D went swimmingly, the adventurers progressed to the next level of the Undermountain. We'll miss some sessions now that holiday season is upon us, but that's life.

MAGUS totally floundered, we missed some sessions and August will be dry as well. We'll have a go at a season finale in September, and maybe try something else in the meantime.

Surprisingly, my Warhammer morale got a boost with the first narrative game I played, in an up-and-coming series against Orks. Expect this to continue instead of matched play games.

On the hobby side, July was... OK, I guess. I did not start on anything new, however I did finish a bunch of stuff. I'm now doing the final stages of my converted Imperial Guard infantry unit, and eyeing some slaaneshi daemons instead. I still wasn't able to get in a game of Sigmar with them, but hopefully it will still come up this year.

For August, my primary goals are finishing what I started (as always). In the unlikely event that I'll get everything done, I have more slaaneshi stuff and more guard stuff primed, and more guard stuff to assemble and work on, in the pipeline. 

An unexpected help for all this comes from a Youtube channel I've discovered, called Warhipster. This guy really leverages Contrast paints, which is right up my alley. I already used some of his tutorials, more or less 1-to-1, on Kriegers and slaaneshi models.

Finally, honorable mention goes to the fact that today I am exactly on target with the "1 miniature painted per day" thing, with modifiers of course. Low effort commissions and repainting second hand minis helped a lot, but I'll take the win and try to keep it up. August might break even as well, and we'll see after that.

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Showdown

We picked up the adventure mid-chase, as the adventurers were stopped by a large cloud of magical darkness. Of course they managed to dispel it on the spot, laying eyes on an evil statue. Ireth was stunned by the shear malefic influence, but Groin successfully restored her. Onwards!

Dark skin (Contrast)

  

Painting Commissar Severina Raine

Introduction

Any Guard army needs a commissar, especially now that they are actually useful. Here's my Commissar Severina Raine model, which I assembled and primed some time ago. I dug her out, did a minor conversion, and painted her up to serve.

The Atican campaign

It has been some time - several years, all of 9th edition, in fact - since I did narrative games of Warhammer. Well, we thought to rectify that. The edition is still young (I played two matched play games beforehand, and my opponent, none) but why not start in force. Our original idea was a crusade, but as we have not yet seen the crusade rules for 10th, we settled on a full-on narrative scenario (of my own devising) for our first game.

And so the orks invade the Atican system, home of my own guard regiment. Clashes in space and the lucky landing of a single rok on an outlying world provides justification for a low-point game. Can Castellan Mother Theresa and Sister Lucy defeat the orks, while also playing to the whims of Inquisitor Caecilia and her faithful Interrogator Clotilde? Or will Warboss Edkrakka and his retinue, Beastboss Gitstompa (and his faithful squigosaur Missiz Muncha), Grokkit Scrapfinda (riding Ed Buttacup) and Da Surgion, gather enough of a Waaagh! to overwhelm the imperial world?

Stay tuned to find out!

• Mission #1 Story
  
• Mission #1 - Delaying action
  
• Mission #2 Story
  
• Mission #2 - Raid the Ork camp
  
• Mission #3 Story
  
• Mission #3 - Raid the excavation
  
• Mission #4 Story
  
• Mission #4 - Necron beacons
  
• Atican campaign summary
  

Mission #1 - Delaying action

The Guard forces dug in in the ruins of an abandoned imperial watchpost, right in the path of the orkish advance. Heavy weapons teams took up positions in the ruins, while infantry squads took cover below. Empty Chimaeras, having ferried their cargo here, were used as further roadblocks. Interrogator Clotilde joined her krieger retainers, keeping a tight leash on the Eversor Assassin.

Not much later, the first fume belching contingent of xenos appeared on the horizon, with many more of the aliens trailing behind on foot. Their singular goal: get to grips with the enemy and swamp the imperial zone.

Mission #1 Story

Castellan Mother Theresa leaned over the hololithic display, her augmetic eye changing focus every couple of seconds with a loud whirr. A bright red rune signaled the xenos landing craft in the dusty outback. There was no reason to engage them yet. She looked over at Sister Lucy. 

'Very well. Fortify the nearby city and wait for the xenos to wear themselves out in the wilderness. Let them-'

'You shall do no such thing.'

Painting Steeds of Slaanesh

Lots of slaaneshi soldiers ride these steed-daemons .I decided to paint them separately from the riders. The paint scheme is loosely based on a Warhammer TV tutorial, but I replaced the regular acrylics with juicy Contrast paints. For the second batch, I followed the exact same steps, but switched up the paints.

Astra Militarum vs Space Marines, 11.07.2023

For my second game of 10th edition, we busted out the Leviathan mission deck. We played Tactical mode obviously, since it was a first glance at the cards for us.

Battle round 1

The only unit of mine that was (mostly) visible was a crew of heavy bolters. They immediately got Oath of Moment'd, but they did manage to shoot once on Overwatch, doing nothing. Notice the nothingness on the ruins, bottom left.

On my turn, I surged forwards towards the objectives. The secondaries were not achievable.

Painting skeletal riders

Back to ancient miniatures. These are Warhammer Fantasy, probably Vampire Counts, skeletal knights, sitting in the closet and biding their time. I re-discovered them during moving and decided on slapping on some paint.

Dirty red cloth

 

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Hunting the scorpion monster

Having recovered from opening the door and destroying the statue, the adventurers looked around the area to find several doors and stairs, as well as the central pit. Let the search begin! There was some treasure around, but the paladins detected undead in the pit. The best way to avoid a trap is to spring it, and so the adventurers marched down.

Dark red cloth (Contrast)

 

Painting LOTR dwarves

I bought some dwarves, including Gimli himself, already assembled and primed. This should fix my lack of dwarven miniatures. 

Astra Militarum vs Dark Angels, 28.06.2023

A bit late to the party, but here's my first 10th edition game. We started out small, using 1000 points armies and the simple battle plan from the core rules.

June review and July goals

June's over, still going slow. Life will never get back on track, or so it seems.

D&D lost some steam due to a couple of missed sessions. The party is still battling the scorpion monster.

MAGUS - kind of the same, though they are battling monsters of a different sort.

I managed to get in a single game of Warhammer 10th edition. At least that was nice, I like the changes.

Hobby side was OK for the first half of the month, with models painted and conversions in progress. I lack the energy right now to carry on, I'm playing Warhammer Gladius on and off. I love it, the none-too-serious quotes are amazing.

I primed some slaaneshi models and almost finished some guard conversions, so I'll try and chew my way through as many as possible during July. I don't expect much.