3 25 point bat reps. PMakeda vs Kreoss. Morghoul vs Severius & eLilith.

3 25 point games were had.

Morghoul  vs  Severius.  

He sits the Reckoner out of what he thinks is the Gladiators threat range. Gives it vision and the book says no spells. 

So a Nihilator charges the Reckoner to remove vision. The Bronze back gets Abused and kills the Reckoner

Summary : I grind him out due to abused rushed Gladiator killing his heavy. Although we forgot about the book stopping me from Rushing. But no big deal Morghoul  could have easily stepped away from the book range. Seriously down on scenario and model count he concedes. 

Tough rolls passed: 0

Win by forfeiture. 

Morghoul vs eLilith

I'm bad at game  so Morghoul cuts for one and maltreatment so he can abuse and rush both cyclops up to engage Liliths beasts.
Not engaging the Naga however.
Using all his fury and not using the Gladiators animus also however. 

Lilith feats, clears some space and the Naga comes in from down town to critical  poison Morghoul in the face and one shots him. To the box, cause he cut for one. Lol.

Tough rolls passed: 0

Loss by Assassination.

pMakeda vs pKreoss 

Accross the battle field stands Kross lining up against 25 points of pMakeda.

The plan was to bait out the pop and drop and transfer the damage off to to the Cyclopses. Then tie up the ranged jacks with Nihilators while the Gladiator gets to work.

Unfortunately or fortunately Kross didn't go for it. 

Makeda feats and the only tough rolls I pass all game are passed now.

The Reckoner comes in from down town but after some anal measurement on my behalf it lands just short of the Gladiator,, but shoots it for good measure.

Makeda charges and kills the book. The Gladiator takes out the Reckoners  cortex and right arm. The other Menoth jack comes in closer.

So the Gladiator kills them both next turn. Yay Skorne. 

The Gladiator finally takes out the scenario objective letting Skorne get 3 points.

Menoth must respond by getting in the zone and going for a hail Mary assassination. Makeda sits happy on 5 boxes and carves her way through the remaining Choir to win on Scenario.

Tough rolls passed: 2 during feat turn.
Win by scenario.

Battle group  complete. Next step the Nihilators.

Mostly finished pMakeda.

So today I realised I may not actually end up buying any Skorne infantry at all. Except maybe Incindearii. Simply because Gators and Frogs are so good.

Anyway here is my shiny Makeda. She doesnt pop enough for me but I am feeling a bit more satisfied with her than most of my painting done this year.

Next up is finishing the swordsmen.

Paint scheme test. Extoller Soulward.

So I have been practicing with the airbrush for a few months now. I am happy to say that I can almost mix paint to the proper cosistency and I think I have pre shading down. 

However everything after that is a travesty. 

I havent mastered taping off or using blue tac to cover areas, my colored layers are always too thick and I lose the effect of the pre shading. If I paint its mostly the same effect.

The gloss and wash approach is semi successful as either I am going too heavy on the wash or mixing my own wash with paint thinner is insufficient. I keep getting dried lines splotching around it.

On top of this my pallet is a bit thin, I have lost my skill in hghlighting by brush and my matt varnish is a far cry from Moana.

Pre shading and a few coats of white on her dress and it looks ok.

 However the white green and red look seems to be ok. The next step is to try it on some swordsmen and see if I cant get more work done with the air brush.

Welcome to the back of the bus.

Blah blah blah stuff.

Going from Ret to Skorne, where I usually spend my time figruring out assassinations has made a lot of the Skorne casters look strange or downright bad. It just goes to show how faction tunnel vision can effect your view of the game. "How do people play this faction, my other one is so much better"
Admittedly most people dont have a Grass is Greener HERE perspective. This could mean that either Skorne is really bad or my perception of Ret is way over blowen.

Its time to learn to Skorne

Part of this move is because I got free minis, Part of it is because Skorne is officially bad, part of it is because the last 3 Ret casters have either been rather dissapointing (eVyros) or more of mostly the same thing, Issyria, Thyron. Ok cleaving jacks are pretty awesome and Issyria is great but its still just roll more dice!

Of course the real reason is because I want to be able to beat Gator players.