9th Age Chaos Mortals

Hey dudes.

I can't comment at work, but I can make new posts. This is largely a reply to Jed's post about his empire army. I thought it would be cool to post my WIP list as well, and hopefully start a trend and some upbeat discussion.

I'm also going to mention the paint status of these models. This is mostly for me as a reality check. I think this chaos army of mine could really compete for painting, if I can buckle down and get it done. It sure is nice to not have to worry about exams.... suckers.

Without further ado........

My Empire for 9th Age

With little prompting, we have almost all decided to play in a 9th age tournament. As I don't really have an army, I figured I'd cobble one together out of shit I found in the Darkster's basement. Considering he had the majority of an empire army lying around this wouldn't be totes impossible.

My list is below. As well as the models i have /need. Advice would be welcome, especially on magic items.

(2400pts) Empire of Sonnstahl \

Samurai Update

I ordered some bases for my new DBA stuff, opting for wooden bases this time around. I like the steel for magnetising, but I think the wooden ones look better having a deep edge.

While I wait I'm painting up a few single samurai for potential skirmish/test colour purposes. From this selection I think the red really stands out. Still want to try some more colours. I concocted a rusty looking orange that I think has legs.

The lighting  in my room is kinda weird, this picture is really washed out. The green tie-dye shirt makes an awesome backdrop, in my humble opinion.

Later, nerds.

Sewer Scavengers

As cool as 15mm (or 10 or 6, no not 6) is for actually gaming, I can't get over how much fun 28s are to paint. I picked up these sewer scavengers essentially for no reason at all. I know they'll get used for some sort of Jak themed sci-fi skirmish, one way or another.

This band of merry men is like 99.9% painted. I'll probably never finish them. Such is life. The models are crooked dice sewer scavengers.

Samurai

The other day I left work, feeling very sick, only to come home to a box of shiny new 15mm saumrai from Peter Pig. I bought them for dba, list IV-59(b), which is post mongol invasion Japan (around 1300-1500). All the samurai are blades, mounted samurai are cav, ashigaru are whatever they're equipped with (light spear in this case), and the warrior monks are warbands. It seems like a fun list, probably plays exactly like polybian romans, and should be very powerful against other infantry based lists.

Some 6 Pounders

Look! I've got some 6 lbsers now. I added them to my 1420 point Canadian Infantry list. I like the addition.

They're very useful for defending my infantry from assaults. They're a nice round anti-tank 11. I'm a big fan of AT 11. It's perfect for dealing with those pesky late war Shermans and StuGs. I like AT 9 guns like the 7.5cm infantry guns of the Germans for defending against tank assaults but I've found them lackluster when it comes to actual ranged shootin.

Their only downside is that they can't fire bombardments. I was also looking at putting something like mortars in the list instead, which would allow me to pin as much as I want, but despite my Fireflies I feel I don't have enough anti-tank.

The difference between AT 10 on the Shermans and AT 11 on the 6 lbsers feels huge. Against an Up-armoured Easy 8 it allows you to destroy it at range, which is very handy. Plus it prevents almost anything from getting a save from side shots, which ensures my infantry's safety.

Model wise, you'll notice that these guys don't have gun sheilds. That's entirely cause I got them for free. A guy in my gaming group bought some of the plastic soldier company miniatures to use to make 6 Pounder GMCs. His turned out cool, but he used the gun sheilds. That's okay though, cause it means free guns for Jed.

However, the guns need gun sheilds. My plan is pretty simple: make shittay ones out of cardboard, then make little cam nets to throw over the guns. I'll post pics as it goes. I figure, worst case, 7 dead in horrible cardboard accident, and I'm out some free models.

Finally. Blogger deleted my last post. It was mostly me rambling about how awesome gaming is. It's lost forever now, remember it fondly.

Jed out mother fuckers.

Battle Report on My New Table

So this was my first game on my new table. Here it is, all set up looking pretty. Ther's a couple of the starter set houses that I hate on it, but those will disappear within the first few turns as I got frustrated then bought real ones.