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.

The Dark side calls....

This week I have been finishing up the Imperial side of the two core sets of Star Wars Legion.... Oh and Bossk, because who doesn't like a crocodile bounty hunter?

          Bossk has one scene in Empire Strikes Back with all the other no name bounty hunters. Boba Fett just got luck and figured out where Han Solo would be. He also doesn't talk, better make a figure of that guy.... I mean I bought it so clearly there is a demand for it.

"Okay you two, stop trying to shoot each other."

         I have a prettt good start to a first list. I finished up Dark Vader for a commander, he is more on the expensive side, at 190 base then he can take his force powers and such. Legion is played with 800pts, so that's already 25% of an army there. Hopefully, I'll get some games in with Vader, but I'll be painting up a Dewback and Lord Krennic which will give me more options as Krennic is only 90 points or so.

Sisters of Battle box

       Flipping through the Sister of Battle codex for some fluff about the different Orders, hoping I'd find a paint scheme that I would enjoy as well as the history of the Order that stood out. I have narrowed it down to three...

Order of the Valorous Heart

      Each Order focusing on how it's their leader was martyred. The Order of the Valorous Heart are stone walls, they endure all trials that are thrown at them. Their leader was captured, her eyes gouged our by at death cult. She was forced to listen to thousands of inoccents tortured before her, some being part of her own order. Her comrades would endure the tortore silently as to lessen her pain.    sisterhood takes this to heart. If they need to poison the water supply on a planet to draw out their enemy they will and thrive through the battle. 

Order of the Valorous Heart

       The Order of the Golden Light had been confirmed twice to have been martyred in battle, only for golden-clad Sisters to appear nearby the war zone.

Order of the Sacred Rose

The Order of the Sacred Rose, these Sisters believe completely in the Emperor's will. Even when one of their Sisters fall, they know a martyred soul can spark a fire in a thousand souls. They are usually seen followed into battle with throngs of their followers, hoping to witness a miracle.

 I enjoy painting up models in more unique colours schemes, and both Sacred Rose and Valorous Heart are really good for fluff. I might need to add in a few of each into my army, I mostly bought this box for Wrath and Glory, if I can find a group that would want to play it. Having a fully painted army of only one Order isn't necessary, and one of the downsides to getting this box is that you only get one special weapon for each Battle Sisters Squad as well as the Seraphim. No Heavy Flamers or Plasma/Flame Pistols here unless you kitbash them or buy a box of multi-pose models.

With the Pre-release Adeptus Sororitas box I have:

HQ
Canoness - Power Sword 3PL (49pts)

Troops
Battle Sisters Squad x5 6PL (60pts)
Battle Sisters Squad x5 6PL (60pts)

Elite 
Acro-Flagellant x3 2PL (45pts)
Sisters Rependia 4PL (60pts)
Rependia Superior 2PL (35pts)

Fast Attack
Seraphim Squad 6PL (72pts)

Heavy
Penitent Engines 5PL (100pts)

Total of 34PL (471pts)

A pretty good start to an army, I could even add it to an Admech list as a Vanguard Detachment, we shall see.

Coming Soon!
 
          I'll be taking a closer look at my Star Wars Legions core sets that I have painted up over the holidays. And hopefully digging into my Slaves to Darkness battleforce that I bought last year! (as seen on my Pile O' Shame 2019!)

Blog? What Blog

      Hey guys! I am alive and have been doing a lot of  gaming and painting since.... uh basically last year around this time.... I'll get better at this I promise! Let's go back in time and see what I was up to in 2019!

                 My FLGS, Comic Readers, hosts the Prairie Game Expo at a community center for one day of gaming that is free to the public and is a great way to learn new games and meet new people. This year they added a painting competition, I entered my Horticulous Slimux and my Carnosaurs, but he wasn't quite done. Lots of very talented artists, I didn't take any picks of the other entries, but there were some Star Wars Legion, Warmachine and both Warhammers. I mostly entered to give me an incentive to paint this guy up, I like he turned out pretty well.

I finished off all of Blackstone fortress miniatures, I'll need to take a picture of the other enemy units later. I have played a handful of games. Characters that aren't played are stored in "stasis" to keep their gear for next time, which is nice if you want to try out another character.

Purchased and painted all of Resident Evil 2 The Board Game (also finished the Remake too). Enemies react to the players, which gives the game a really tense feeling.

Picked up some Savage Orks to use for WarCry, still haven't gotten around to playing the game yet!

Painted up some Eldar for Kill Team, which turned into a bit of an army as I bought the Wake the Dead half from someone.

Start of the Vostroyan Firstborn Kill Team, glad to get these guys done in November as I had bought them when GW had them on Made to Order at the start of the year!

#minivember challenge in November, 30 models in 30 days. I was 5 models short, which I finished early December.

      My girlfriend, Rachel, bought some Sylvaneth awhile ago, but got a huge lot from one of our friends (thanks Michael!) So it was time for her to learn how to play, I started her out with the AOS 2.0 skirmish. Highlights of the match was my general struggling off 3 mortal wounds (bless nurgle!) from her general's spell and the stalemate between four dryads and my plague drone above, it didn't help that the Dryads had a -1 to hit due to their tree behind them

Finished off to core sets of Stormtroopers for Star Wars Legion.

          I did participate in two tournaments this year, one was a learning process for me as I hadn't played much of my Death Guard for the first tourney. The second one was a four player doubles tourney, it was nice to have a team mate and only 1000 points to worry about.

Opening the vault

             A dense fog wafted through the corridors of the ancient vessel as Amallyn Shadowguide stepped off the Maglev with the small group of Rogue Traders. The path split, the eldar veteran pulled her rifle up to her chest and scanned the left. Then the right.... her keen eyes trying to pierce the darkness. Pausing. A mechanical whir forced her eye to the scope of the gun. But it wasn't mechanical at all that too her first bolt of fire. A patrolling guard almost walked passed the corridor if it wasn't for the 3 shots fired at him, two of which brought him to the ground. 

Yes, the gretchins are the spindle drones.

         Yes! It happened! My D&D group wasn't able to come together (fully), so we/I forced/begrudgingly agreed to learn Blackstone Fortress. The first round was a bit rough, looking up rules, and figuring out how the hostile enemies played out depending on certain situations (no line of sight, multiple PCs, etc.) I also decided to skip the reinforcement step as well. But my group seemed to enjoy, specifically Andrew. He was one of my friends that started playing when we were in high school. We both fell out of Warhammer for years, but now with games like Kill Team, Blackstone Fortress, even 8th edition streamlining the rules. It's definitely making a come back. 

       Pious Vorne was eager to enlighten the heretics that squatted in the Emperor's holy vessel. Anyone who doesn't believe in the Emperor is judged by flames!

The zealot traitor guards charge into the flames, several being burnt to death as Pious sets the room ablaze.

Janus unleashes a volley of rapid fire shots, but the guards keep coming.

         With the first game under our belt we can start playing more seriously, maybe even a legacy game.

Things to come!

Escalation League started, no games yet, but will have time off soon for Warhammer games. Comic Readers has also announced a Kill Team League which I joined, my skitarii will see the table soon.

    

Pile O' Shame

      Whelp! This is a bit embarrassing! Every year I dig through my D&D miniatures, tabletop game and board games and I try to figure out what I need to focus on for the year to paint. 2018 I got a bit carried away with how much stuff I bought compared to how much I got painted or played with. I feel it's important to see your grey tide for what it is and realized what you can get to or what you should sell off. With Kill Team, I find it easy to fall down the rabbit hole. I mean, it's only like 5 miniatures, oh but wait, I should get a commander and maybe some units for some variety... well I might as well make another army. Been there before!

Before I get to my grey tide, I will show off all the models that I did end up painting in 2018.

Excited to field my Harlequin, might need a commander though....

Start Collecting Clan Pestilens Box, Nightvault, Saurus Guardians and a butt load of nurgle!

Endless Spells (excluding Prismatic Palisade) and my custom Feculent Gnarlmaw

      That's not quite all of the figures I got finished, but it's close. I also painted the Kill team starter set terrain and a death world box of terrain too, but they aren't quite finished. That at least looks like a lot of work!

         And now for the pile!

Blackstone fortress!

Chaos has corrupted my paint area, figuratively and literally!

H&T was cheap, thought they would make good D&D figures.

Assortment of Battletech, Tau, Orcs and Bones minis

KT box is finished, my death world terrain was missing a piece so GW sent a new box of terrain to add to my pile.

Test of Honor is assembled! Haven't had to work with metal models in awhile.

My Boxing Day order from Thunder Games and Gifts! But which God will they worship?!

Oh boy! That's a lot to paint and play with! Both things I will aim to do more of this year. And of course, I have some Vostroyan Firstborn coming in the mail. They will fit nicely into kill team. I traded the genestealer Hybrids in the Kill Team box for the Ogryns, maybe they too will be come a converted part of the vostroyan firstborn, only time will tell!

Things to come!

        Beginning in February, I'll be organizing a Age of Sigmar Escalation League. It will be fairly beginner friendly, mostly aiming to get more people into the hobby. Quiet a few people getting into the game for the first time or trying out new armies, so it should be fun! Till then I'll continue to pluck away at the Blackstone Fortress, hoping to get 2 more heroes finished and get a game in.

2019 Hobby Resolution

            Looking back at 2018, I didn't get many of the items on my to do list done. Mostly because I was distracted with other newer and shinier things (curse you Kill Team!) The only thing I managed to do was assemble my Malifaux crew and play more games. At the start of the year, I was in a skirmish group, which helped move my painting along. Every game you played, you would get more points to spend on units, meaning more units to assemble and paint.

        But I did get a fair bit of painting done. This year I started adding bases to my units making them feel more immersive on the tabletop.

Completed Painting List

Nurglings (3)
Saurus Guard (8)
Clan Pestilan Start Collecting Box
Putrid Blightkings (5)
Tau Ethereal
Plaguebearers (10)
Myrmourn Banshees (4)
Skitarii Rangers/ Vanguard (5 and 5)
Harlequin (6)
Malign Sorcery Box (Only Prismatic Palisade left)
Custom Feculent Gnarlmaw (2)
Nightvault Warbands
Sepulchral Guard
Owlbear
Space Hulk Genestealers

       I started to work on my Space Marines in Space Hulk, cutting up the bases to use the Necromunda bases. Then don't convert very easily. Once Christmas hit though, my girlfriend bought me Blackstone Fortress. Let's just say it moved Space Hulk off the table for a bit.

2019 Hobby Resolution

New year's resolutions are better if they are compass goals, they are something you are interested in learning about, wanting to try, or would better yourself in someway, but it's more about the journey and the people you meet with similar passions that make it worth while. Without further ado, here is my list.

- 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.

Games workshop just posted some amazing miniatures. I guess getting the Ambull and Skitarii Kill Team box won't hurt right?

Next time on Jon's Hobby Desk

I'll be working diligently on Blackstone Fortress till my Vostroyans show up. Once my hobby room is a bit more organized, I'll show you my grey tide that has gotten a bit mountainous.