An Intro

  
     Hello, I guess I'm an author for the blog so I figured I would give a short intro about myself. My name is Nick and I live in Minnesota. Short enough?  In all honesty, I am a tabletop gamer through and through. Futuristic battles, skirmishes, and death are exciting. For some reason I never got into video games, but I can live with that. At the end of the day I enjoy the excitement of living out a battle vicariously with little men.

Eh, close enough

          I started out playing Warhammer 40k with some friends back in 2008. I have a decent size Tau army, along with a Grey Knight army built out of the cool 3rd edition models. 40k, however, is not why I'm here. Infinity is the word of the day. Over a year ago I got lost in the war gaming section of the internet and found out about the game Infinity. I thought the idea was cool. Then I saw the models. Initially enthralled by Pan Oceania, I saw the Shang ji with a combi rifle; a part of the Yu Jing faction. A short while later I bought the model online along with a Guilang skirmisher just because they looked cool.

I may be bad at taking pictures. By "taking pictures" I mean painting.

     I thought that was it. I asked a couple of my friends what they thought and nobody wanted to shell out the cash to get started. (Coming from 40k players!) I also picked up some Warmachine stuff for the same rule of cool reasons. Unfortunately the same thing happened to Warmachine, no one wanted to start a new system.
      Going back to 40k for a minute, I was still deeply involved in the game this whole time, and went to a team tournament with a Tyranid player. We did okay, but the main take away was we were invited into the Frozen North Gaming Club. I noticed Scrap Square posted about a game called Dropzone Commander on Frozen North's Facebook page. We got to talking and I almost bought some stuff but it was out of stock. Eventually time went on and I forgot about it. Later on, he posted again about Infinity. I already had some models so we set up a game. I had never fully played before so it was definitely an experience. I had a lot of fun so we set up more games, and now we try to get a match in once a week or so. A couple of other people play, but not as often. So here I am now; two large forces for 40k, a small collection of Cygnar for Warmachine, the start of an Axis Dust Warfare platoon, and a growing Yu Jing Infinity team. That should keep me busy.

6th Edition thoughts

Psst I made that :D

So I originally wrote a legitimate thing about sixth ed and such (down below) but recent events have made me just look at 40k in general.

And how horrible its rules/mechanics are.

Lets start with saves shall we?

To win warhammer, you can just roll dice. Not even thinking at all, just put your guys on an objective and roll high. The saves mechanic is broken because there is no torrent of fire or anything to get rid of saves permanently.

Which in real life terms is like an enemy standing in front of you with just a armour plate on for protection over his abdomen and you just constantly shooting him there and the  bullets only having a small chance of penetrating it. When instead you could... ya know shoot him in the face?

I mean 40 guardsmen rapid firing at a terminator sarge with out a helmet on and not one of those shots hits him in the face?

Sure you can fail your armour save and die representing one of those lucky shots! But what if that doesnt happen? (harlequins with 2+ rerollable) How realistic is that? Not at all, thats why its retarded.

In dust you dont take a save for every shot, you can only take a certain amount of saves dependent on the type of armour you have. That kids, makes sense.


Now cover..ah cover I love it. If your getting shot at and duck behind a wall. Why do you do that? TO HIDE AND MAKE YOURSELF LESS VISIBLE. Well not in 40k! No you hide behind that wooden fence to protect your space marine armour from plasma guns that just seem to bounce off that wooden fence. BUT DUDE YOU CAN FAIL A COVER SAVE WHICH IS REPRESENTING THE COVER BREAKING AND STUFF! What if he doesnt fail his cover? And that plasma cannon explosion that 100000000000000000000million times hotter then the sun just bounces off that wooden fence, is that realistic? No.

Cover should make you harder to hit, not give you another save.

Now...wound allocation :). Picture this: 1000 guardsmen are charged by a tactical squad led by a captain with a chainsword and bolt pistol. They all rapid fire their 2k shots...All into him...any of the bullets go back and nail someone in the back? (other then look out son) NOPE! They all just pepper that captain till he falls over then the rest of the shots hit the guy behind him.

This is just stupid, if your shooting hundreds of bullets at them some of the bullets wont hit the front guys.
Is that realistic? No.

The best part of the whole game (40k) is that...adult men play this competitively, and act like its one of the most important things in their life.

Now people may argue that:

It isnt supposed to be realistic! Its warhammer!

It doesnt matter if its warhammer or not this is how this stuff works, all this crap leads to a confusing retarded game. Its insanely un cinematic and slows everything down.

Its been like this for years! They cant change the game to fit a certain type of people needs!

Well considering people "play" this at tournaments and get serious about winning it. They might need to change that....





So comment/whatever I'll be over here playing infinity/warmachine to my hearts content!

Hobby Update: Cult of Destruction

So a bit ago I picked up a box of Chaos Termies to kit bash with GK termies and make a Pali squad cause I wanted to make Pheonix Guard/Draigowing. Then I thought, I'm a big of enough douche already and I know I'm getting a new dex soon anyways. So like with the last box of Termies I had gotten I realized I could now have 9 Oblits instead of the usual 3 that I run. Plus the fact that there is an Apoc Formation called THE CULT OF DESTRUCTION made me wanna do I more.

So I went to work early on this week on these guys. And I have a absolute blast converting Oblits. Now the theme is slaanesh, as is everything with me. Now the only speed bumb is that I couldn't find the random termies I was making into a Dark Apostle in termie armor/Oblit Chaplin. Thus I used a spawn stand in!! XD

Hope you guys injoy, I am planning on having these all modeled in about a week and a half, then painted in another. So yeah...

So yeah, eat your heart out Hannibal

Dark Star GT picture vomiting/crappy report

Heres my barely 3 color min army in all is glory

Crappy display board is crappy, touched up like 2 hours before tourney with air brush

First round opponent: Loss, twolves got in my face too fast and GH wouldnt fail armour, I did get too close though.

This won players choice or something

Counts as GK made my camera blur

Super sick terrain here

Best prizes there

Cool themed GK army with like dice and templates

THIS LIT UP AND MADE NOISES, BEST TERRAIN EVER.

Look at all that LOSB terrain, first round table too :)

Second round table, my models kept falling off those hills

Second round opponent, tabled him 4th turn.

The best marines ever

Best painted right there guys

Intense SW player is intense

Is this a mermaid or a jack hammer?

So yeah, list looked like:

Haemonculi
Shatter shard

Baron

2x 3 trueborn blasters in venoms

4x squads of warriors blasters in venoms

18x hellions with Sarge with agonizer

1x 4 man wracks with venom

2x ravagers

1x razorwing


Uh, boring text bat reps yay!


First round was SW

I got first moved up, he came on (DOW) i killed almost all his LF
He jammed midfield like all SW players do, i for some stupid reason dont back up
I kill most of troops jamming midfield but he saves like 40+ 3+ on one squad who then just start like stunning my vehicles XD

I think im low on time so dont activate some stuff and t wolves om nomm nom

Im left with a ravager.



Second round was BA
First turn I immo his LR, detonate his SR and blow up his baal
He does nothing to me
I kill everything on foot, immo a DC dread,
He hops out of LR, bum rushes up, i kill them all for tableing



3rd round
More BA!

He had like 30 assault marines on foot, a razor, honour guard, baal, and 2 libbie dreads with a speeder, oh and mephiston

I blow away a dread
he runs towards me
I kill some stuff
He runs up, mephi pops a venom.
I kill honour guard that were providing FNP to everything and i kill pretty much his entire army
tableing

4th round was IG
Oh god, like 18 auto cannons with like 230 guys on foot? LR executioner and hydra
He gets first...
him: "Okay! This will go well if you dont steal the init-oh god you did!
I killed like 115 models first turn
He pops a few things, i eventually table him and my hellions owned a ton of em too XD.



5th round
GK ahh I was wondering when they would rear their heads.

He had like, 2x psyfelman, libby, SR death star with paladins and 2x strike squads and stuff,

It was intense with it coming down to me nuking his libby with a shattershard and the pallie squad with the hellions, then my haemie taking llike a kajillion psycannon shots and living for the tie.

In the end I won a kroot shaper in the raffle, then they started giving away plaques and stuff.

Hey i got best dark eldar! I got a plaque and stuff too!

I got like 19/45 on sportsmanship like i always do :3. I got 20/40 on painting.

I ended up 27/58 and would have gotten like 18th? If i had gotten at least 30 sportsmanship, its funny because all the other DE finished better then me but i still got best DE Yay pointless soft scores!

Well my after thoughts of the tourney were...I want to play more warmachine