Well, it's only been seven months since my last update, so no one is probalbly reading this anyway! Our Tale of Gamers fell through after twenty five points, though I did manage to get that point level painted up and finished. I'm taking a Cygnar break, maybe indefinably as I dive into Trolls. The new releases and upcoming book have really hooked me and brought me back. The release of the cards really really helped as well.

I have always loved the troll models and it always pained me when the faction just kinda sucked in mark one. I had to use the craziest tactics to etch out a win. Now I just play the game (my favorite of which is Sea of Trolls aka How Many Medium Bases Can I Fit in this List?) and have a lot more success. Mark two has also brought a lot more diversity to the faction. I don't start at one hundred and six points (ten points for champs now!) and start building my lists. I probably realistically start at three points with a Fell Caller and move on.

That said, I've decided to get all of my trolls painted. This will be a mammoth understaking as I have just about everything except a Bouncer and Thumper Cannon. I've picked a list to start working with (Sevwalls Calandra/Burrowers list) and will add variations later using Gri and Saxon Orrik. I'll add more to up the point totals and move on. I so far have Calandra, a Bomber, Impaler and fell caller finished. The Chronicler is 75% done as is the Hero. Just need the Runebearer to get all the solos finished. Till next time!

Well, just a small update before getting the Cygnar forcebook tomorrow I hope. I've gotten the new resculpt pCaine finished, as well as the Black 13th and three of the six gunmages. The gunmages are all going "B13th" with black coats, dark grey pants, and subtle dark blue trim in a few areas (or in the case of two of the models I painted, none at all) pCaine is painted very similiar to my avatar picture here, with grey coat and blue accents on the legs and arms. I've enjoyed the challenge thus far, but I'm starting to feel a little burn out with the Gunmages. I'll have done six models in a similar style, and still have four more to go! Just have to hang in there. That round two is calling.

If I stick to my plans, I'll only have four models for round two (JMWC, Squire, Versh, and eEiyris) to paint. While the tier list looks interesting, I want to get some stuff done that I feel like I might play more often than two hundred gunmages. The unit is great, but you dont' need really more than one. I could slip the Rangers in with eEiyris and Squire, but that ups my model count for the round, and makes the next teir ackward (I'd planned on dropping a Charger on the JMWC for the 35 pt list along with six Trencher Commando's) Thankfully we haven't had to commit to anything beyond the 15 points, so I'm not worried... yet. Hopefully I'll have pictures next time I post!

Tale of Some Armies

Well, it's been six months since I updated this thing so I figured I'd give this thing a whirl. The guys at my LGS (Hobbytown USA Plano, TX) have decided to do a Tale of Four Armies style event for the next rest of the year, or at least until October. The idea is to get a fully painted list and incorporate some of the new stuff coming out at the same time. So there you see most of the rules. Every two months we have to get stuff painted, and then up the point level. First Tier is 15, then 25, then 30 and then finally 50. I decided to run Cygnar and try to get some of it caught up painting-wise. My initial 15 point list looks like this:

pCaine -6
- Cyclone 9
Gunmages 6
- UA 2
Black 13th

Always liked Caine. Not for the teleport-all-over-the-field nonsense, but as good ranged support caster that can strike hard and fast with his army. I love the new model, probably more than the original and even rivaling one of my all time favorites, epic Caine. So that decided, I liked what the Cyclone offers, dropping templates that say “no” to engaging my Gunmages or two hand throwing stuff that need delaying/deading. The rest is obvious; I also wanted to get a chunk of gunmages finished just in case Caine's tier list is cool.

The list will suffer throughout the year against high armor. Caine does not run heavies very well (because he's a focus hog) and I won't have a true beatstick in the list. Moving up to Tier 2, I plan on putting a JMWC, eEiyris, Harlan Versh, and a Squire. Thats it. Probably should bring in some stormnouns or what not, but I want to go with a Reconnaissance theme in the list, so slow, hard hitting stuff doesn't look like it will work well. After that, i want to bring in Trencher Commandos and later Rangers as they booth fit the sneaky feel in the list. Will I get run over? Oh yes. A lot. Maybe every game. But I'll look good doing it!


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