Brother Glacius

I live in NE portland and have room for a table in my house. I'm fairly new to 40K for this latest edition. I play a variety of armies though. Drop me a PM and we can see if we can meet up soon.

Well of course you haven't. Since you read what I have posted on the forums, and hear what I say in person. :)

And Torg, I'm serious about giving KoW a try. The game lets you field almost all of the models from the GW range, but play with much simpler rules. Plus, you only remove models when a unit is dead, so it looks good on the field until then. :) If you ever want to give it a try, let me know. I can supply multiple armies.

So Gordi and I threw down some KoW last night. We ran 1500pts and rolled a standard kill mission. Basically, you needed to have more than 300pts than your opponent on the field left. I fielded elves, which consisted of my HE and WE models. Prince on Dragon 2 regiments of spears (20 each) 1 regiment of seaguard (20) 1 small reg of high guard (10 swordmasters) 1 regiment of archers (10) 1 small reg of knights (5) 1 regiment of forest shamblers (think 3 treekin) 1 regiment of sylvan cousins ( 20 dryads) 2 bolt throwers He was running Kingdom of Men (empire) general on horse priest reg of knights (10) reg of knights (10) reg of mounted sergeants (10) reg of spears (20) reg of spears(20) reg of footmen (20) empire foot knights reg of footment with GWs (20) greatswords reg of handgunners (20) cannon mortar He might have had one more foot unit..but I think that was it. we filled up our sides of the table fairly well. There was a mix of hills, forests and ruins on both sides. I won't try to give a blow by blow because I just don't remember everything. What I can say though, is that it was a very fun game. At no time was there any hint of blowout or a feeling that you can't do anything. Hitting never got better than 3+, and wounding never got worse than 5+. The turns went fairly quickly due to KoW's system. When it was my turn, only I rolled dice. My opponent didn't have to do anything but give me stats, and that was restricted to a unit's defense and their nerve value. So when attacking, I rolled based on my unit's attack value and their combat skill (melee or ranged). After those hits were done, I roll damage based on opponent's defense. If damage was done, a nerve test was then taken against them. We went through a full 6 turn game fairly quickly considering the number of units we had and that we hadn't played in quite a while. I think we made a few mistakes, but not horrible ones. In the end, my elves won. Completely due to the fact that my dragon stayed on the table. He did a great job of wiping out most of my army. I only had my dragon, my swordmasters, and one unit of spears left. He had his mortar, his priest, and his sergeants. Several times the game swung based on a good or bad roll. For instance, his handgunners on turn 1 shot my seaguard. He needed 6's to hit and roll 8 hits on 10 dice. He then wounded 7 times and sent the unit running off the field. His mortar hit 4 times during the game, sending many units of mine off as well. On the other hand, my dragon was able to take out both his units of knights (the first in a combo charge with two other units, the second after putting lots of wounds on them through shooting). My bolt throwers didn't hit very well during the game, even with Elite status (allows one reroll). But my archers were great at putting one wound on a unit and then rolling a high nerve test to shake or break them. The best part, was there was no unexpected. There was no super combo of nastiness or doom fort. No stream of powerful spells. It came down to positioning and wound concentration. Both of us sent off units with a lucky roll, or failed to send them off with a poor one. But none of it game breaking, or rather enjoyment breaking. I can't wait for KoW2.

you can also try kings of war. I played a game last night and it was a blast. And I was able to use models from both my high elves and my wood elves.

there is no pleasing you people. That is a gorgeous model. Go ahead and sell your Skaven if you're not happy with that.

just been reading the WE book...not bad at all. I think any of the elven armies right now are pretty good to go with. Lots of flavor and nice options. Just saw Hobbit today, and man, do I wish the WE stag looked like the one in the movie. That was sweet. Wish the dwarfs had access to pikes like the movie too. Or the ram cav! yeah...kind of hard not to want to play fantasy after that movie.

Please head down to the Rogue Trader forum and find a great deal on Space Marines. :)

If I can have dibs on the valks, I'll go in.

That is pretty cool.

I'm still playing, although Neverwinter has really sucked me in lately. I'm part of a nice casual Kurita unit. They play fairly regularly. Let me know if you are interested.

JM, I think you got the army part wrong. Everything I have read so far basically says that a Wizard has to roll dice to see how many to cast or dispel. So if you use your army, or are dwarfs, then you get to choose.

still available if anyone is interested.

So need just a few HE models. Looking for 10 plastic phoenix guard, 2 plastic silver helms, and maybe a new phoenix model. The actual elves are the most important though. Have various to trade or willing to purchase.

Anyone else see that billboard next to the Moda center for Spirit Mountain Casino featuring Dungeons and Dragons? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1c9GyPKscg How do you post a vid?

Well, they did actually make something. You can't really fault them for wanting to get some sort of return. And a $1 a list is not horrible. That means any of the large books will fall under $20 easily. I'm just bummed there are no midwar lists.

you can still come to gamenight at the clubhouse though V.

I'll wait until they add a multiplayer component.

Still waiting for those darn forgefathers

New updates. Several are for the league before rampage, and then a new rampage recap post.

Hey hey hey! I complain when I win!

that is [big bad swear word]ed up, get your head checked.

You know, he is entitled to his opinion. Let the man blog.

I know he becomes a warmachine, but I don't recall it mentioning anything about miscasts. If the anvil is an item, a miscast causes the item to be destroyed. If it is innate, then he just can't cast any more that phase. So its a pretty big deal which way it goes.

So if the Anvil miscasts, does it go away?