Devo

I haven't been building (or painting), but that should change soon. Back to the craft table! In the interim, this is the army list I'm contemplating taking to the OFCC: MASH 2800 point Empire Army Lords: 444 Wizard Lord Level 3: Life [goes with Halberds] -- Opal Amulet: 4+ Ward vs. first Wound Arch Lector w/Heavy Armor, War Altar -- Enchanted Shield, Dragonbane Gem Heroes: 555 Captain BSB w/Plate Armor, Shield, Pistol [with Halberds] -- Dragonhelm -- Sword of Anti-Heroes: +1 Attack and STR for each hero in base-to-base with unit -- Luckstone: Reroll first failed armor save Captain w/Plate Armor, Shield, Pistol -- Pegasus w/Swift as the Wind: reroll 1 on Charge distance -- Helm of the Skaven Slayer: Fear and +1 armor; Skaven Hate captain Warrior Priest w/Heavy Armor, Shield, Barded Warhorse [with Knights] Warrior Priest w/Heavy Armor, Shield [with Greatswords] Witch Hunter w/Brace of Pistols, Ironcurse Icon [with Greatswords] Witch Hunter w/Brace of Pistols [with Halberds] Core: 816 Halberd x 51 [6x9 w/heroes] w/Full Command + Detachment: Swordsmen x 25 + Detachment: Archer x 5 Knight x 9 w/Standard, Musician -- Steel Standard: Ignore penalty for barding, reroll 1 on charge/flee/pursue distance Special: 734 Greatsword x 20 w/Full Command + Detachment: Militia x 10 + Detachment: Archer x 5 Pistolier x 10 w/Musician Demigryph x 3 w/Standard, Musician -- Gleaming Penant: Reroll first failed leadership test Rare: 250 Hurricanum Luminark ------- 2799

We're still juggling our team name. Will it cause confusion if we put in a temporary name now and then need to change it later?

My first thought was Team Better than Average. HZ's suggestion made me think of Team Second String, which lead to Second String Theory. On the army front: This is not a new position for me, but less than half my army is assembled and absolutely nothing is painted. I've got some work ahead of me!

I have a feeling you're more up-to-date on the armies out there. I'd follow you as captain, Rudra.

Curses! I missed out on most of the league and now it looks like I'll miss the finale. I just got back from a week in Florida and I'm not only extremely tired, I'm not ready for a 2000 point game. Ah, well. I hope to make the Rampage. Sundays just aren't an open day for me, so it's always been hit and miss. I made it to one night, though, which is a start! And now that I have an OFCC team, I'm pumped to get my army done.

Sorry, gang. I should have gotten back with you sooner, but I was out all last week. Looks like we have an awesome team coming together. Kremmet, what are you planning on bringing? Devo: Empire Rudra34: Beastmen Nephren-Ka: Ogres Kremmet: ? Is anyone volunteering to captain this venture? I'd be willing to step up if no one is eager for the job.

I have armies you could borrow....

When are team payments due? I need a team, too, but I was waiting for Evan to find a home first, since he posted first. Maybe we should just team up, instead, and look for others to join us?

Thanks, Brick. Those look a little too modern for me. Maybe they're not so bad, though. It might be the backpacks that are throwing me off. I only got two hours in on my project last night. Two more liter-bearers done for my pistoliers. One left to do. The Empire Archers have had some really good pieces for this particular effort. Sadly, it's going to be a real hit-or-miss unit, given how easy they are to kill, but they're looking good. Still no pictures, Burk.

The second (and, happily, last) installment

And, what the heck. I'm reposting the story, seeing how I have it here at work.

The fluff-bit that I wrote up for this army in the last Escalation league had them facing off against Nurgle. It helped shape the army, a bit, and added a lot of character.

I'm out of town on the 27th. I guess that gives me more time to get my army built!

The fleeing peasant was my first liter. The zombie and flagellant sprues have some excellent pieces, too. (If you can deal with shovel-handed zombie bits.) Only got two done tonight. I need to get my stuff organized!

I've edited my Work in Progress message (#2) with the next unit on the block. I should really be working on my halberdiers, but today's project is Pistoliers. They'll be liter bearers, which means running a single unit of 10 Pistoliers. I'm seriously contemplating putting a captain in with them, to give them some punch in melee and some staying power. Maybe a Witch Hunter, instead? I knew I'd be running into this problem, but I'm running out of models to use as wounded. Specifically, models to use as wounded who are lying down. I've got more than a dozen gurnies, operating tables, and liters running through the army and I'm worried that all the bodies will look the same, since I need to use the same base pieces to make my wounded. Ah, well. We'll see how it goes.

I'm not sure I'll make this. My plans for Sunday are creeping up into the evening and I might not be free until 7 o'clock or so. Ah, well. More conversions for the next time I show up!

How much work do you want to put into it? You could build something that represents ogres, but is actually a gnoblar. For example, constructs driven by gnoblars, ala Labrynth, for those few ogres you need.

I haven't restored my gallery since the refresh of Ordo. I'll take care of that some time this weekend, probably.

I'm learning how to play the army in the escalation league here. From memory, this was my army last Sunday, a bit under 1700 points: Wizard lvl 3 (Life) Captain on a Pegasus; pistol, platemail; dragonhelm Captain BSB w/pistol, platemail, shield Warrior Priest w/hand weapon, shield, heavy armor Halberd x 44, full cmd +5 archer detachment +20 swordsen detachment IC Knights x5, musician, std Pistolier x10 Greatsword x20, full comand +5 archer detatchment Hurricanum

Work-in-Progress Thematic Elements Characters -- Life Wizard, Warrior priests, surgeons: all will be represented by Sisters of Sigmar models. Captain on a Pegasus (built, unpainted) -- My "incoming wounded" chopper; a pegasus bearing a liter with a wounded soldier Hurricanum (90% built, unpainted) -- one of the devices built by a mad scientist who feels he owes his life to the church of Shallya. A frankenstein-styled device meant to resuscitate the recently killed. Luminark (40% built) -- Another mad scientist device, meant to pump healing energies into the nearly-dead Halberds (build in process) -- a 6x9 block, the center of which is the surgical tent. Inside the tent will be surgical tables, surgeons, and patients, both standing and laying down. There will be a line of wounded, leaning on halberds and the like, going into the tent. A center-piece of the army, this element will be the element that is least likely to be recognized by itself. Greatswords (build in process) -- Going with a "grail reliquae" feel, with an honor guard taking the body of their lord away from the front lines. Pistoliers (built, unpainted) -- liter bearers, which, sadly, means I'm running them in a unit of 10. Each liter will have a wounded soldier with a medic riding along to keep them stable and ward off any enemy with their pistols.

So I'm back into playing Fantasy. I had been playing Fantasy for years, focusing mostly on undead but wanting to play Empire. I collected empire models by the bucket-load (plus a host of Bretts) but never got around to building and playing a cohesive army. I played a number of games with a thrown-together, haphazard force, but now I want to finish a real army. I am a project-driven player. The creative process of building a converted-to-theme army is what drives and interests me. After a number(!) of projects, I think I burned myself out. When I ran out of projects, I stopped playing. Now I'm back. So if this works out, it will be a blog, of sorts, for my Shallya-themed Empire army. Shallya is the goddess of mercy and healing (and childbirth, but we're ignoring that part). This will be a mobile-hospital theme, taking M.A.S.H. as my inspiration; down-playing the TV show elements and concentrating more on the general concept. There are some fun, thematic conversions that I'm looking forward to -- and a few that I already have done. I think the thematic elements tie well to the mechanical elements of the army, which is always a bonus.