2020 Painted Vs. Purchased Vs. Played

2019 was a tough year for hobby purchases. Star Wars Legion Starter Set was one of those purchases. (which was an overnight shift impulse buy. But really, you need TWO to get enough tokens, figures and dice, so it was only a matter of time before I grabbed a second one. Besides you need two Lukes and Darth Vaders in one army right?) Which I did paint the Stormtroopers late last year. And of course, I had jumped on the Sisters of Battle HYPE train too!

SO I figured I should keep a record of what I am painting vs purchasing. I will be starting a Slaves to Darkness army now that they just got a new update.... oh and the BATTLEFORCE box that I purchased at the beginning of last year from Thunder Games and gifts during boxing day.

Painted

Star wars Legion
1 Bossk
1 Darth Vader
28 Stormtroopers
4 Speeder Bikes

1 Dewback Rider Nov.

Total: 2 Characters, 28 Troops, 5 Mounted Troops (35)

Age of Sigmar

2 x Warcry Objectives
1 x DIY fantasy Terrain

1 x Awakened Wyldwoods (3 trees) Sept. 4
1 x Azryte Townscape

1 x Witch Aelves Nov.

Slaves to Darkness
Karanak

3 x Khorne Bloodletters

10 x Khorne Bloodletters Sept. 4

3 x Khorne Bloodcrushers Sept 4 

20 x Nurgle Chaos Warriors
20 x Chaos Marauders
5 x Flesh Hounds

1 x Chaos Chariot

4 x Magore's Fiends
(67)
Total: 5 Characters, 54 Troops, 5 Elite, 4 Mounted Troops, 3 terrain set, 2 objective

Warhammer 40k

3/4 Set of Sector Imperialis 

1 x Canoness Praxima

1 x Diologus

1 x Tech-Priest Manipulus

1 x Repentia Superior

10 x Battle Sister Squad
3 x Acro-Flagellants
4 x Sisters Repentia
5 x Seraphim Squad

5 x Sisters Repentia

5 x Dark Eldar Wyches Oct

7 x Howling Banshees Nov.

3 x Kastelan Robots Nov 

1 x Penitent Engines

3 x Kataphron Destroyers Nov

1 x Wave Serpent Nov.

(54)
Total: 4 Character, 25 troops, 3 Elite, 5 Vehicle, 1-3/4 Terrain

Necromunda

1 Exotic Pet

7 x Goliath Gangers Sept

1 x Barricades & Objectives Set Oct

Total: 8 Troops, 1 Terrain/Objective set 30

Gaslands
3 Performance cars
1 Van

Total: 4 Vehicles

Board Games
22 Mice & Mystics Figures

Total: 5 Characters, 17 Troops

Osprey/ D&D
7 x Samurai
3 x Bamboo Terrain
13 x Neanderthals

1 x Medium Slaad

2 x Small Slaad

Total: 7 Characters, 15 Troop, 1 Elite, 3 Terrain
(26)
Total Painted:
23 Characters
148 Troops 
9 Mounted Troops
5 Vehicle
4 Cars
10 3/4 Terrain Sets
4 objectives
(249)
Purchased

Crossed out figures that are painted.

Age of Sigmar

Slaves to Darkness
Dark elf sorceress (using as chaos sorceress)(ebay)
Aspiring Champion on mount
(trade) Darkoath Chieftain
Dark Elf Beast tamer (conversion for Slaanesh champion?)

(trade) 20 Chaos Murauders
10 Chaos Marauder Horsemen (TG&G)
3 Slaves to Darkness Endless Spells

Azyrite Townscape (4 large pieces, 1 scatter, 1 objective)

Total: 4 Characters, 20 Troops, 10 Mounted Troops, 1 Set of terrain, 3 Spells

Daughters of Khaine

1 x hag witch
1 x blood wrack medusa
1 x blood stalker
1 x blood sister
2 x lifetakers
3 x heartrenders

7 x sisters of slaughter

Total: 2 Characters, 7 Troops, 7 Elite

Daemons
Ogoroid Thaumaturge
Sylca Anfingrimm
Older Daemon Prince Metal with wings
Azazel (needs arm and head)
Plastic Daemon Prince
Karanok
Greater Daemon of Slaanesh
Keeper of Secrets

39 Bloodletters (21 Metal) (3 painted)
8 Rat like Flesh hounds metal (1 painted)
5 Flesh Hounds
3 Slaanesh Fiends

3 Bloodcrushers

Terrain

Corpsewrack Mausoleum

Total: 8 Characters, 39 Troops, 16 Elite, 3 Mounted Troops

Warhammer 40k

1 x Sector Imperialis Ruins  (traded)
1 x Sector Mechanicus Alchomite Stacks

Chaos
1  x DaemonPrince Metal without wings
10 x Chaos Marines
10 x Cultists

Dark Elder
18 x Metal Wyches (a couple broken wyches and kalabites 2nd edition)
3 x Reavers
10 x Kabalite warriors

3 x Hellions (trade)

Space Marines
28 x Space Marine Tactical Squad
10 x Intercessors
5 x Hellblasters
3 x Inceptors
1 x Ancient with Banner
2 x Lieutenant
1 x Captain

5 x Grey Knight Squad

Sisters of Battle
10x Battle Squad (birthday gift)

9x Repentia Squad (5 painted/traded rest)

1x kitbash Dialogus

1x pentitant engine

3x Arco flagellant.

Skitarii

3 x Kataphron Destroyers 

1 x Belisarius Cawl

1 x Onegar Dunecrawler

Eldar
Jain Zar

Necromunda
Barricades
10 Escher Gangers
10 Goliath Gangers
7 Cawdor Gangers

Blackstone Fortress
Escalation (5 characters, 7 Troops)

Ascension (2 troops)

Star Wars Legion
2 Taun Tauns

1 Dewback

Board Games
4 Fallout Heroes

D&D Miniatures/ Indie games
20 Ghost achipeligo Tribal
13 Cavemen/ woman
7 Star Breach kill team
4 raptors

1 Colossal Skeleton

2 Scorpions

1 Elf thief

1 Succubus

1 Snake Shamen

Trades/sold

9 ripper swarms & metal broodlord for 3 eldar scourge, succubus, keilghor and devestator squad

Rubric marines 10

Total: 10 Character, 89 Troops, 2 Mounted Troops, 2 Set of Terrain

Grand Total: 18 Characters, 144 troops, 15 Mounted Troops, 2 Set of Terrain

VS.

Painted Total/Purchased Total:  12% Characters, 53% Troops, 27% Mounted Troops, 4 Cars, 22 board game figs

I'll also be keeping a running tally of how many games I get in throughout the year. I feel this will help me see how much I am actually playing Vs. buying each month. Gathering data about types of games, size of games, and frequency will help keep me playing and hopefully also giving me painting goals for the months coming up.

January

4 Player Kill Team @ Prairie Expo (100 pts) Adeptus Mechanicus

February

Warhammer 40k Escalation League (750 pts) Death Guard (Drake)
Warhammer 40k Escalation League (750 pts) Death Guard (Kyle)
Warhammer 40k Escalation League Practice (1250 pts) Death Guard (Andrew)
Warhammer 40k Escalation League (1250 pts) Death Guard
 (Colin)
AOS Skirmish 250 Renown (Sylvaneth vs Slaanesh)

March

Blackstone Fortress at Toon Con
Gaslands Tutorial at Toon Con
Hellboy Tutorial at Toon Con
Necromunda Tutorial at Toon Con
Warcry (Sylvaneth vs. Savage Orks)

April

Warcry (Sylvaneth vs. Khorne Daemons)

July

WarCry Campaign (Sylvaneth vs. Khorne Daemons)

August

Warhammer 40k Crusade 25PR (Necron vs. Adepta Sororitas)

Warhammer 40k Crusade 25PR (White Scars vs. Adepta Sororitas)

WarCry Campaign (Sylvaneth Vs. Khorne Daemons)

Warhammer 40k Crusade 35PR (White Scars Vs. Adepta Sororitas)

Warhammer 40k Crusade 35PR (white Scars Vs. Adepta Sororitas)

September

Warhammer 40k Crusade 35PR (White Scars Vs. Adepta Sororitias)

October

Warhammer 40k Crusade 45PR (white Scars Vs. Adepta Sororitias)

Escalation Practice Game (1250pt)

With the Escalation League bumping up to 1250 this week, I started playing around with lists. Andrew set up a afternoon game this past friday. At his house, we played on his board, which was set up for Kill Team mostly, so the size of the table was a bit off but that just meant that we got into combat a bit faster. The battleplan was The Scouring, with the three basic goals as well as one objective being worth 4 points at the end of the game and another worth only 1 (all others were 2 points) at the end of the game.

Our first turns weren't too exciting, and I didn't really look at how fast my Plague Bust Crawlers really moved. For some reason I just guessed at 5" which is 4" short of their base movement. Always good to READ your states instead of guessing at them. Death Guard have a stratagem 

Andrew's Librarian had one hell of a Psychic Phase, rolling double ones then re-rolling a one for a command point. It's second psychic power went off, but once again he rolled double 6s for Perils of the Warp. The Librarian barely walked away from that phase. I think the rule is, if your opponent re-rolls for another 1, you need to buy them a beer. If they do it twice, you need to buy them new dice. Both our dice were pretty bad this game.

Plaguebearers protecting heroes from being sniped and were a good distraction.

Objective #1 was the Superior Objective, on the opposite side of the board for me.

My Daemon prince always sticks his head deep into trouble. He WAS over by the plague bearers in the picture above but was taken out by a Terminator squad, he didn't go down without a fight though.

I piled in all my units into the Landspeeder, forgetting that vehicles have a chance to go boom. Silly Chaos. I didn't get many pictures during the game, there was a Whirlwind in the back of Andrew's deployment zone that got 12 shots one shooting phase, only doing 2 damage to a unit because of nurgle good/badness. He also had a Devastator squad that was doing some good damage to the Rhino as it was rolling up to the objective.

Pretty close game, both of us had some pretty heavy loses by the end of round 6. This list was fun to play with, I think once the Escalation gets to 1500 points, a Hellbrute would be nice to add with their double firing stratagem against closest units, but I'll see how this list goes. I have a game this coming Monday night after donating blood.

Coming Soon!

Finished up the Chaos Chariot I have been working on for basically the month of February. Magnetized the horses so they can be exchanged for the Gore Beast if I decide to change it up.You'll get to see the whole twisted family of crazed Chaos worshippers, once I get some good light for pictures.

Look back at 2019 and hobby goals for 2020

I've been meaning to post a wrap up to 2019 for a bit. Looking over what worked with it and what didn't. I think I'll try for more compass goals this year. Something that's interesting to guide me in a direction of hobby improvement but doesn't need to be a goal.

Let's take a look at what I thought I might get up to in 2019

- Try Malifaux - I have the minis, might as well give it a go.

- Paint up Blackstone Fortress - excited to get this game on the table and introduce some of my friends that don't play much tabletop games. The minis are really nice too.

- Play Test of Honour - A samurai skirmish game? Count me in! I have been looking at Mutant Chronicles - Mishma for awhile now, but figured it would be just another game to add to my ever growing pile. When my girlfriend and I were in Calgary, we went to Sentry Box and they had almost any game you could think of! We both picked up a box to play against each other. Might grab the starter box later this year too.

- Play more buy less - Last year I was a bit aimless with my purchasing, figuring I would eventually make this unit into a kill team or use that in D&D. It felt like I didn't appreciate what I already had (pile of shame pictures to follow later this month.) before moving to the next big purchase. With that said, I have the battleforce box of Slaves of Darkness and some Vostroyan Firstborn coming in. I have always wanted a small group of Firstborn, and with kill team, that's all I need! There is always one (or two) more things on the way, such is the hobby.

- Post more often on blog - If I have more games set up, I should have more interesting items to post on the blog. Win/ win right? Last year I didn't really have a goal with the blog, just a place to throw up some pictures, but I want to make it into a journal, with updates to projects and to help keep the motivation high.

So, definitely not 5/5. Think I forgot about my blog for most of the year. However I did get more games in and participated in two tourneys!

I'd say I did two out of the five.

I completed all of the models on Blackstone fortress and have played about 5 games if it. It's great not having to play the same characters in the campaign. Not feeling the Ratlings tonight? Throw them in their stasis bag with all their upgrades until you do. Don't want to burn heretics with Pious Vorne? Then you must be an agent of Chaos that needs to be burnt!

Kill team made up of most of my games last year, I even got my brother, Shawn, into the game. First time for him to play Warhammer as far as I know. He has been taking his time with figuring out a paint scheme and assembling them, but we have had a few games.

The other half of games I played was full 40k with my high school buddy, Pilon, he doesn't have a first name I don't think.... We also tried apocalypse but we were playing the movement and shooting wrong.

The Vostroyan Firstborn, I have since painted in the #minivember and I have the Slaves to Darkness on the paint table right now.

Test of Honour has been discounted on Warlord Game's site, and the new starter set doesn't seem worth it with just rules and ONE figure. The first starter set came with a mix of Ashigaru Spearmen and bow men, to have 20 for each person. Might need to track down the first edition, it's a good deal for how you get in the box. I hope to get the Bandits and Brigands onto the paint table at some point during the year. Rachel seemed to be interested in doing the same with her's as well.

What's the plan for 2020?!

First off! My hobby room has become a bit of organized chaos. I'll be looking into getting better storage for all the models and terrain I have. Clean up bits and label storage for each faction. Definitely got a lot of work with this one.

I have two armies I'd like to paint up, Slaves to Darkness, I'd like to get the battleforce box finished by the end of the year. However, priority one would be to get 1000 points painted to start playing with them. Sisters of Battle would be the second army, maybe adding in Skitarii Kastelan Robots for apocalypse games.

With all the daemons I bought, I'd like to strip them and get them on the table. Maybe making a Kill Team of the metal khorne models now that there are rules for them. I'd also like to kitbash the Daemon Princes from that lot, make the old crouching metal one into a Slaanesh Prince. Really my main goal is to make sure the daemons get played and what isn't needed gets moved.

As always, I want to get more games in during the year. This year I'll be tracking how much I have been playing and of what. I joined the Escalation League at Comic Readers, which is a really good way to get games in. So far only 2 for the league, it has just moved point count to 1250, I had a practice game with my friend, Andrew, today. Gave me a good idea of how my list would work.

I'd like to get a group together to try out Warhammer 40k: Wrath and Glory, I have Dark Tides and Blessings Unheralded that I could try out. Looks like a fun system that is focused on creating a narrative instead of building up characters which is interesting for a RPG. The Age of Sigmar RPG also comes out this year (maybe Q1), could also look into that.

Improving my painting is also on my list, be it getting faster at painting, trying out new techniques or experimenting with new paints, washes or anything else.

Coming Soon!

I'll be posting my painted vs Purchased/ acquired list soon. I currently have a Chaos Chariot on the paint table so that should get finished soon.

Sylvaneth Vs. Hedonites of Slaanesh

After buying a large lot of Sylvaneth, Rachel has been asking to play skirmish more often. So on Sunday late afternoon we started, but didn't have time besides setting up.

Rachel's 252 renown Sylvaneth

The Sylvaneth had the Command Trait - Warsinger - +2 to charge while 12" from General. Deadly Harvest Spell - D3 Mortal Wounds for anyone 3" of caster and the Artefact - LifeWreath - on a 3+ roll in the hero phase, heal D3 wounds to each unit.

My 252 renown Hedonites

Decided to try out a slaanesh list after purchasing some older models. I don't have the battletome for them so I used what I found on the internet. I didn't notice at the beginning that Skirmish 2.0 actually has its own alligence abilities, command traits and artefacts. Makes sense as The Masque was a bit of a beast. 

Rachel's Kuronoth Hunt spots it's prey...D3 damage is no joke!

Monday morning we started to play. We setup up Hold the Centre from the skirmish battle plans. The middle was worth 2 Victory Points and the other two that were 10" away were 1 Victory point  Rachel won the first roll off. Moving carefully towards the objectives, I did warn her about how fast Slaanesh were. Her Kuronoth Hunter took out my Seeker that wasn't behind cover... Need to make the new player feel like she is winning to begin with right?

The Masque and a daemonette charge the Branchwych on their turn 1.

The Branchwych was able to get a Deadly Harvest off doing 3 wounds to her but The Masque has Inhuman Relexes, which is a Disgusting Resilience, but on a 4+ instead, which she blocked all three wounds. This is the second time my hero shrugged off this spell like it was nothing, the last time it was my Spoilpox Scrivener.

Silly Jon thought that The Masque was also a wizard, which is why I had a piece of fluff behind her as a reminder that I "cast" Mystic Shield. It didn't actually do anything but it was one of the mistakes I did in this game.

The fiend runs into combat, finding something more enticing to kill then citizens, racing passed the objective.

Once The Masque was in combat she was unstoppable. With the command Trait, Skintaker, it let her heal every time she killed something in combat. Combine that with her Staff of Mask ability, that let you choose to heal D3 wounds or add D3 attacks (already a base of 6) to her melee weapons in the Hero Phase. I also coupled that with an artefact, the Rapier of Ecstatic Conquest (probably don't want to touch that, not sure where that's been.) Which makes wounds of 6 deal an extra mortal wound.

Dryads weren't touched the whole game, they did kill off all the Daemonettes before they could attack.

Despite killing off most of her army, Rachel was able to hold more objective. Or at least went for more objectives, the Hedonites were a bit too excited by the thrill of combat to hold objectives. I did try to get one of the daemonettes on the center but was shot by a large tree boy. 

Rachel stomped my forces points wise, 12 to 1. What can I say? Slaanesh likes inflicting pain more then sitting on objectives, that's more of a nurgle thing. 

Coming Soon!

Before the match Rachel was looking at her models, wanting to paint more then play, so hopefully she will finish off some more figures for our next bout! 

I have ordered Gasland templates, hope to get a game or two in before my Birthday Party. Might paint/kitbash some models for my birthday once my Chaos Warriors are done.Was planning on renting a space but decided that going to Boards N Beans would be cheaper, kid friendly and had no cats for the many people that seemed to be allergic. 

New Year, New Game System

For awhile now, I have been looking at Necromunda, thinking that the model range looks great. I heard that Shadow wars played like old Necromunda, which I enjoyed, but the new Necromunda is a bit of it's own beast rules wise.

The Dark uprising box was exactly what I was looking for, an easy entry to the system with everything needed to start playing. I was definitely put off with the price, and the Corpse Grinder cult didn't really speak to me, so they would've been sold off anyways. To eBay I went, finding a deal on the rules that came with Dark Uprising, dice, scatter terrain, counters and templates. (which I still had from the Dark Vengeance set I purchased when I was getting back into the hobby)

I didn't pick up a gang yet, figured I would read through the rules and fluff before getting too far into the game. Reading up online, it seems that I'll also need the Gangs of the Underhive book as well if I am not playing the Corpse Grinders or Palanites. With newer gangs out, it's only a matter of time before an updated Gangs book is published. I am in no rush at the moment, with my other hobbies taking up most of my painting time.

Speaking of which....

Less Nurgly Warriors, blessed with tufts of grass.

All 10 together.

Pretty happy with how they look mixed together. I went with a simple base, might add snow to it later. 

GW just announced that Slaves to Darkness will also be getting rules for War Cry, looks like Warriors will be one of the units that can be used, as well as Chaos Marauders, and Chaos Marauder Horsemen. Excited to get this army on the battlefield but still have 10 more to go. I bought a metal Morathi to use as a Chaos Sorceress Lady. I might paint her in the future, but she is paint rather well and I have the rest of the battleforce to crack through (including a Warshrine and Chariot)

The local shop is also running a Warhammer 40k Escalation league from January - March, it starts at 750 and goes to 1500. I was thinking of using an army besides my Death Guard, like Tyranids or Eldar, but I have close to 1500 of Death Guard already painted and assembled so I might as well use what's ready. I'll post some battle reports from that. 

Coming Soon!

With my birthday in February, I was thinking it'd be fun to get some of my friends to play gaslands. Hopefully I can convince them to paint up some of their own cars for some CARnage. Ha! 

Chaos Warriors of Nurgle

I got a start on the Chaos Warriors painting up a group of five to see how I liked the colour scheme that I had seen online. I kitbashed the older models with the Putrid Blight King box. These boxes are an amazing deal for any nurgle player, roughly a full sprue of extras that you could use after making the unit of 5. 

I don't think I'll have quiet enough bits from the blight kings to do all 20 Warriors, but to have 10 or so mixed in with the regular ones will give these more static figures a bit more of lively feel. 

Coming Soon!

More Chaos Warriors! 15 to go! Might split them up between other painting so I don't get burnt out on them. 

Slaanesh beckons....

Well, this wasn't quiet part of the plan. Okay, so I didn't really have a plan. I was going to paint my slaves to darkness battleforce and the sisters of battle before getting any new projects. But then......

That's a lot of DAEMONS!

 I did ask for some Greater Daemons on the forums, so this is definitely not that big of a surprise. I hope to use most of the Daemons in Wrath and Glory. Specifically the Bloodthirster and the Keeper of Secrets that was sealed (which I promptly opened to see if it was metal or resin, and it's resin.) This is what this lot included....

39 Bloodletters (18 Plastic/21 Metal)
1 Daemon Prince Metal
Bloodthirster
Karanak
13 Flesh Hounds (8 that look more like rats and one with a Scorpion tail?)
3 Bloodcrushers

Keeper of Secrets
Forgeworld Greater Daemon of Slaanesh
3 Slaanesh Fiends (one missing an arm)
Azazel, Daemon Prince of Slaanesh
Chaos Spawn (Scyla Anfingrimm)
1 Mounted Aspiring Champion
Ogroid Thaumaturge
6 Flamers metal
2 Daemon Prince (one 40k Metal/ one plastic)
Metal Abaddon

With this lot though, I could easily use them as their own army or an ally for the Slaves to Darkness.

Bloodmaster - 3 power level/ 56 points
Skulltaker - 5 power level/ 84 points
Karanak 4 Power Level/ 70 points

Bloodletters  4 Power Level/ 70 points
Bloodletters  4 Power Level/ 70 points
Bloodletters  4 Power Level/ 70 points

Bloodcrushers 8 Power Level/ 141 points

Flesh Hounds (10) 8 Power Level/ 150 points

Total of 40 Power Level
Total of 711 points

That's a pretty good start for a Khorne daemons army for 40k.

The Metal Daemon Prince could be used as a proxy for a Bloodmaster that gives +1 Strength to Khorne Daemons that are within 6" of him.

The list I made with these Khorne daemons is similar to the 40k one, adding in Scyla Anfingrimm, who gets more attacks as he gets wounded! Also Scyla is eligible to attack from 8 inches away, piling in 5" when it's his turn to fight.

Leader
Bloodmaster
Skulltaker
Scyla Anfingrimm

Battlelion
Bloodletters (20)
Flesh hound (10)
Bloodletters (10)

Other
Blood crushers (3)

Total: 950

Clearly the 50 remaining points would be used for an endless spell, that is if Khorne didn't despise all things magical.

This Aspiring Champion will fit in well into the Slaves to Darkness army, throw a shield in his hand and a fresh coat of paint on him and his ride. He will slay many foes as a mounted Champion of Khorne.

   

The daemon Prince here is specific to 40k, I have this exact model in my nurgle army, good thing I kept some Crypt Flayer wings for such a project. Maybe I'll make this one worship Khorne.

The Bloodthirster is painted quiet well for what I'd be using him for, might need a light dusting and possibly more detail on the base. That might be for when my other projects are finished.... yeah, right.

        The Slaanesh side of things, I do have 10 daemonettes, 5 seekers and The Masque to go along with the fiends and the greater daemon.  Probably not the best start of a list but could be worked with, but not starting building that list for now. Not sure what Abaddon will turn into, or if he will just turn into a generic Chaos Lord.

Coming soon!

Progress on the Slaves to Darkness army? Sisters? eBay purchases?! Who knows.... Well this time I do, I have some Chaos Warriors finished up that I'll be showing off.