Return of the Drak...

Guess who's back... back again... 

After an astounding run of 12 games (1 draw, 11 losses...), Lady Genevieve is going to take a short break. The Daemon Prince of Slaanesh, Drak'nyah the Ascendent returns from the Chaos Wastes at the head of a mixed raiding party. 

With his former Lieutenant, Hirad Bonehelm having shifted allegiances to Khorne at the collapse of Archaon's force, Drak'nyah embraced his ascent to daemonhood and has been biding his time before getting ready to re-enter the Old World.

The hooves of his raiding party rumble like thunder and the peoples of the civilized world bolt their doors and cower in dark corners....

I should have kept more of a note of my Chaos results, but before the Vamps stepped in I think I had run 6 or 7 games, with 3 wins or so - we'll see how we fare tonight...

Chaos Kiiiniggits

 

Resting in Peace....

Last week I got in my first game post-Storm. Stephen's Ogres met my VC on the field having avoided each other at 2 tournaments. Where Liddle's Ogres had munched their way through me in relatively quick fashion, Stephen and I had a more relaxed, but still competitive game - he's trying to teach me to think more like a tournament as the scene round here is more competitive than I'm used to (as I've mentioned before). I rejigged my list slightly, dropping my L1 Vamp to boost both Genevieve and Kruger, and came out with a 7-13 loss. Turns out that I can put the hurt on Ogres when I hit them with the Ethereals (and when there's no magical shooting to nail said ghostly units!).

I'll be taking him on again tomorrow with a further tweaked list: Genevieve on the Abyssal is resting for the night, and her sister Marie will take control, alongside Kruger and Vorash as I try out a mini-scream list for size.

Thursday has another game lined up, and I think I'm resting the VC altogether for this one. Cry Havoc 16 looms on the horizon, and I feel the call of Chaos once more - time for the Slaaneshi Warriors to boot up and march to war...

The end of the summer looks like it might bring another 1-dayer in September, I think that's the perfect chance to push another 2500-3000pt army and make it 2 completed armies for the year, but Empire or Dark Elves, that is the question?! My VC project has been a lot of fun, but time to shelf it for a bit (still over 1500pts of bits to build and paint, and I'll be honest, I'm a bit burned out on bones!)

Coming off the back burner in the next few weeks will also be Malifaux, thanks to the arrival of both my M2E Starter set, and some lovely resin bases - time to get painting!

Armies of the Iain-perium

A quick rundown of my armies and their status:

Fantasy 
(Armies saved for posterity after the death of the Old World)

• Warriors of Chaos 10500pts mostly built/painted
• Skaven 1500-2000pts built, plenty still to go
• Dwarfs  6000pts ish, about half built
• Empire/Men  4400pts ish, mostly unbuilt
• Dark Elves  3700pts ish, mostly unbuilt
• Orcs and Goblins  3700pts ish, mostly unbuilt
• Vampire Counts  5400pts ish built - mostly built/painted
• Daemons of Chaos  2100pts ish, mainly Slaanesh, to be built/rebased from 40K

40K 
(More collected than played)

• Imperial Guard Praetorians & Steel Legion in progress
• Inquisitor & Retenue built
• Dark Eldar  mostly built/painted (thanks to Matt) built, likely to be sold
• Eldar Mostly unbuilt, likely to be sold
• Chaos Marines  Mostly unbuilt, likely to be sold

Scenery sets  

•  Some random bits built - loads in the wardrobe of sprue...

Wow, where did 2.5 years go?

Hmm, no posts since I started at my current job... I wonder if that's a coincidence? On the plus side, 2013-now have included a fair amount of gaming, a lot of models added to the Chaos Warriors, some start on the Vampire Counts, a Games Day, a year long WFB Campaign, and the return to the Praetorians and 40K, via some Eldar...

I'll trawl through my photos and maybe post some of the best...

2014 The Hellstriders - not as effective as I'd like, but very pleased with the paint job

2014 - Sword n' Board Warriors and the plastic Chariot - at Warhammer World for a beat fest with Matt C's Beastmen...

2014 - My dragon ogres facing off against Dave J's warshrine...

My Warriors on the right - oh yeah, 2014 I completed a Realm of Battle board in this natty winter scheme

2015 - 40K Campaign - the Praetorians facing off against the Tau

2015 - 40K Campaign - the Praetorians facing off against the Tau