My hobby mojo ........ IT'S BACK!!!

Mojo

As the title suggests my desire to build, paint, and play is back after a bit of an extended hiatus. Over the last fortnight we have started playing a 6e City Fight campaign at the local club, and it's really kickstarted my love for the hobby, the new Chaos Codex may have had something to do with it as well.

With the campaign starting off at only 750pts, I decided to start a new army. The new Release of the new Chaos Codex made the choice easy, I've been toying with the idea of starting a Chaos army for a couple of years, and this seemed like the perfect time to start one. While I like to win as much as the next gamer, at the moment I'm not overly concerned with the overall combat effectiveness of the army and it will be growing naturally over the course of the campaign as I build a narrative around the events that play out on the battlefield and across the city of Vogen as a whole.

Vogen

The way things stand at the moment my Khorneate warband is lead by a hulking brute in Terminator Armour that just happens to be an expert on all things stealthy, having rolled up the Master of Deception Warlord Trait, we had the option of keeping our initial trait across the campaign if we stuck with the same force. The way the campaign is being run it is allowing me to run this initial force as a harrying force, impeding the movement of the forces of Order and causing mayhem behind enemy lines, and then allowing me to try out a couple of different lists, as the forces of Destruction try and batter the city into submission.

Some of the players in the campaign have been writing some short stories around the exploits of their forces and posting them up on the clubs forum, the work by Tyranidlord are well worth a read.

So, now onto the painting;

I got keen the other evening and built and mostly painted this little guy in a single sitting, probably not my brightest moment as I hadn't done a test mini for the colour scheme yet, but he seems to have come out okay. He will be my Kharn counts as, he needs to be something special with an axe that big.

Counts as Kharn

I've started converting a squad of Obliterators as well, while I quite like the current miniatures I just can't justify the AU$83 for the fine cast box at the moment, and hey mine will have a nice cartoony charm.

Obliterators WIP 1

Until next time (which will hopefully be soon) .......


Mark

Mark:Time to start winning.

Those of you who have been following Project Circle have probably noticed that things have been a little quiet over the last month or so. Truth be told I have been grappling with a couple of issues in the real world. The beginning of August saw me reach my 12 month anniversary of being made redundant and as a result unemployed, this sent my depression/anxiety into overdrive and I ended up in a very dark place. The mother of all panic attacks last weekend prompted me to seek professional help once again, and I'm now on the way back up, swallowing my pride, taking antidepressants, started a new job, and heading back to the shrink. I was initially diagnosed around 3 and a half years ago, and I hadn't realized just how far I'd fallen after some early progress. My intention isn't to burden you with my problems and I normally try to avoid talking about the "real world" here on the blog, but this is something that I needed to get off my chest, and those of you have hung around deserve an explanation in regards to my absence.

OK all done with the serious stuff, I think. For obvious reasons I haven't done a whole lot of hobby related activities over the last couple of weeks but I did manage to get this guy done. He is a little shinny due to the fact that I used the more robust brush on varnish, that isn't quite as matt as it's label suggests so that the paint job will stand up to the rigors of Mordheim and Role Play, as elves with two-hand swords seem to be rather popular with my local players.

I did keep up with running the RP group, not something that I'd recommend while being as depressed as I was. Between putting yourself in the spotlight and the antics of players the nights don't end well, but it did mean that I was socializing which helped even if only a little. As far as the campaign goes the Pirate themed campaign I mentioned a wile ago ended with a TPK, and we have now turned our attention to the Land of Cheliax, a nation ruled by Despots and Devil binders. Running a campaign in an area where people disappear for relatively minor transgressions, with a party that ignores the law and goes out of the way to frustrate the authorities is a challenge. I'm not sure they appreciate just how much attention they have on themselves at the moment, but it should be entertaining over the next couple of sessions.

On the wargaming front I picked up some Infinity miniatures in the form of a little retail therapy, and had my first game last weekend (pre-panic attack) against Jamie from Toy Soldiers, the force that he threw up against me can be found here. I had the most fun I've had rolling the bones in a long time, Jamie as always was an awesome opponent, but the game just seemed to click with me and there is just something about rolling d20's. I'm running Pan Oceania: Military Orders and my 200pt force consists of Gabriele de Fersen and four Magister Knights, 2 with AP CCW, 1 with light shotgun and, 1 armed with a missile launcher (20" scatter FTW). After popping a SAS trooper with a panzerfaust on the first turn and conjuring images of Iron Man's mini rocket from the first movie I was sold. Of course the fact that the final turn of the game came down to our Lieutenant's both ready to fall over at the hint of a strong breeze helped as well. I'll have my revenge on Wallace next time.

Next Time Wallace, Next Time.

Happy Gaming.

Mark

Mark: Illness, Injury, Reminisance, and Insperation

Over the course of the last couple of weeks things really havn't gone acording to plan. After spending a night playing Pathfinder Role Play with a couple of friends who were a little under the weather and I ended up contracting whatever vile contagen they were carrying. I knew that it was a risk but, I didn't have the heart to ask them to leave it's a 50km drive to my place for them.

After recovering from my malady, the owners of the house I'm renting decided to replace the front fence, that was to be honest being held up by little more than the front garden. And being the nice chap that I am, I offered to help, ignoring the fact that I had injured myself earlier that day and started digging holes for the new fence posts, blessedly the timber delivery was a day late and it gave my a day to recuperate before aggravating the injury concreting the new posts into the ground, and so on and so forth until the fence was finished. And of course being the proud (or stupid) Australian man that I am, I didn't make a single mention of my injury the entire time. Of course slamming my finger in the door so hard that the corner of the door actually cut my finger wasn't an enjoyable experience either.

Sometimes I  think I make Odie look smart.

And so ends my long winded and slightly depressing reason as to why I haven't been posing and painting progress reports recently and why I missed what should have been Project Ultramarines #3 last weekend.

But it wasn't all misery and pain though, because of the fact that frustration reduces my attention span to that of an ADHD goldfish I found myself going through all manner things I haven't been through for some time (some boxes should never be opened) which led me to the big brown box of books, so named because it's a big brown box filled with all of the Rule, Source and Army books from 4th through 6th edition Warhammer. This took me on a lovely trip down memory lane, bring back memories of my poor wood elves being torn apart by 10+ attack Chaos Lords on Chaos Dragons, and nigh unkillable 1000pt Slann Mage Lords, come to think of it those Slann's all had multiple ward saves was that even legal.

The real gem's were at the bottom of the box, one each of the four original mono god volumes of Liber Chaotica. These were given to me by a friend shortly before I moved and I completely forgot that I had them. I've always wanted to build a Chaos Army for 40k but I've struggled to find direction, there are just so many diverse themes that to choose from that I've never been able to settle on any. But after flicking through the Liber Chaotica's and reading this post from Do You Have A Flag? I think that I have found some direction. It's all still just a mess of Idea's at the moment but it will be centered around a group of Fallen Angles, which will work nicely with my Dark Angles thematically.


My first project for the army will be to make a Defiler using the hull of a Leman Russ as a starting point and have it come out some where between this Khorne engine of destruction sketch from Leiber Chaotica (to the left) and an AT-TE walker from Star Wars: Clone Wars. (below Left)

Now before I finish I want to bring your attention to Montie Cook's A+ Campaign. I'll be joining in and trying to make the internet a nicer place to play, at least for the month of August.
 










Until next time .......

Mark