Age of Sigmar

My gaming mojo was reinvigorated in 2016 with Age of Sigmar. The advent of points values and the establishment of my gaming space, along with a load of painted terrain, has seen me playing more gaming than I have since high school. I'm in love with the streamlined ruleset, the sense that the entire game was designed around the principle of "does it make sense?" and the fact that the games are very tactical and the units feel like they should. I've been playing dwarfs and warriors feel stout, slayers feel like the berserkers they are (deathblow!) and cannons are terrifying. the flame cannon is nearly broken, but when it's on the table it becomes a prime target, so it's damage output tends to get limited as it's destroyed early in the game. Or it doesn't do much damage... Needless to say, I'm hopeful that 40K will undergo a similar treatment as WFB did, not blowing up the entire world. but a streamlining to make playing the game more fun.

Warriors of Chaos

Painted these lads up in the fall of 2016, just getting to post them now. They're the start of a chaos army, painted up as a tribute to the era when these came out.

Not dead yet.

It's but a wild, rough, fun year. Moved house last October and didn't have a hobby space operational until May or so. Been working on that since and getting my hobby mojo back. Age of Sigmar has been a breath of fresh air and inspired me to get moving on some fantasy projects.

Terrain from GW, 6 forests, some walls and a tower, and Tabletop World, windmill, house, and well. And a big block of Skeletons finished in just 2 days.

And playing a bunch of games, more than I have in years.

A few months ago I had a friend laser cut this for me, and since my hobby space is almost operational, it took a little time yesterday to paint this up. There are magnets sunk into each of the holes so that you can move the pegs to their respect turns.

Painted it up with a Rustoleum bronze color and a light coat of Montana Gold... gold. A little dark tone wash and some Nihilax (?) Oxide, and job's a gud un.

30th Anniversary Space Marine Celebration

With this milestone upon us, I offered to display some of my RT marines at my local GW store. With enthusiasm, the manager accepted. It was fun to show him the classic minis and some other rarities that were in the cases I brought.

Here's what in the case.