with a few months left I am getting really excited about Warmachine MK2. Not just the updated rules but also the releases what come with it. The basic heavy warjack's (the ones that featured in prime and prime remix) will be released as a single plastic kit with parts to make 4 variants. Yes all have a 4th variant which is brand new and I am looking forward to Khadors new variant the DECIMATOR!!!
This is a true Khadoran Warjack Sporting a chainsaw on one arm and a rifled cannon SWEET!!!
But that is not all these jacks have undergone a facelift. My beloved Khadoran jacks now have the same design as the Extreme Juggernaut which is mouth watering good.
Also with the latest version of Warmachine they are releasing faction books. The 1st to be released being Cygnar. This book will be the definitive guide to Cygnar holding unit rules, painting advice, information on the organisation of the Cygnaran military and much more.
So mk2 looks like it will be fun joy fen out
Showing posts with label Cygnar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cygnar. Show all posts
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Sunday, 2 August 2009
Enter The Cygnaran Military
So Friday was our latest session of my Iron Kingdoms Campaign which this week was "filler" (also reffered to as a side quest). I did start out writting this almighty side qwuest as I decided not to use the one what comes with the WitchFire Trilogy as I thought my group could do with somethign a little more intresting. But digreessing I had started to write up the nights quest but unfortunatly things got in the way like work. And wehn I sat down to finnish it I got interupted by mr selly comming over however it did mean I got a new player yays. Hes playing a Nyss rouge whos armed to the TEETH. Its all pretty cool.
So I decided to Wing the rest. Herse how it went down.
The Arcane Mechanik doing some work for the union overhears 3 men talking to a sailor from his point of view he could see they were Cygnaran Military, he approachesthem gets there story.
The Cygnarans are looking for a group of smugglers who have stollen a vast quantity of cortexes and jack parts (including military grade parts and cortexes). The cygnarans almost had them the other day but thenwell there was the whole undead army attacking Corvis and the group of SMugglers slipped out of there grasp. Now they need help tracking these smuglers down.
So our mechanik goes to find his adventuring party who had been held up in a tavern since the events of the longest night. He walks in to find our gun toting pirate swigging down as much rum as possible and our one armed "dirty harry" gun mage boozin and flitin with a nyss.
He explains the job shows em a picture of there target. The Nyss had seen him in the undercity however she was too sloshed at the time to give an answer and passed out.
The next morning the fun ensues the gun mage and nyss wake up i nthe same bed arcane mechanik comes up to find our gun mage and nyss in a wtf/what in mororws name is going on. So the mechanik asks the nyss if she has seen the man there looking for she had but wanted half the reward which didnt go down well with the group one thing led to the nyss pointing a dagger at the mechanik and the gun mage pointing a gun at the nyss' head which lead to the nyss revealing the Grenades under her great coat attached to string so if they do anythign she releases all the grenades everybody go boom. so the mechanik grudgingly agrees (mainly because he dosent want to be a smear on whats left of the tavern walls).
So they head into Corvis' seedy underbelly where on there way to the bar the nyss last saw the suspect they were ambushed by a gang who wanted all the Crowns (gold) and any other belongings. Unfortunatly the group got there arses handed to them and the party stood ther victorious wit hour pirate now in possesion of a Radcliff Firestorm Pistol from the gang leader.
When they get to the bar they ask around specificaly at the bartender and after being pretty much robbed blind of a fair few crowns get the information on where there target and his smugling crew were hiding out.
They go and check the place out they find 2 guards at the door. The rouge finds a back route but its got alot of rubble around it but she thinks he can get by without making any sound.
So they make a plan Nyss will sneak orund the back and if needs be ambush the enemy if things go badly. The rest of the party were to bluff there way in under the guise of having information on the men tracking them down. it worked (my rolls suck balls).
Wo the Nyss gets in noproblem after sneaking in and unlocking the door. the nyss finds herselves in a dinning hall where two people are talking about getting out of the city one of them has a Khardic accent.
The others entyer through the front and meet the leader of the gang known as boris.
He offers them many crowns for them to take care of the cygnarans and all the jack parts they had aquired except for the cortex'. After the group leaves the Nyss over hears a conversaion between the Khard woman and boris about how they intend to kill the party has done the job.
So the Nyss gets out and relays the information to the party who decide they best ally with the Cygnarans. SO after meetign trhem at there place they com to agreement the reward plus they hget to keep anythign they find so long as its not property of the Cygnaran Military or the Cortexes.
So the group works together to flush out the smugglers. This was goign to be a intrestign fight as I was hoping they would walk in the front which they did and they would be met by one of the smuglers go for a item under a tarp what happened to b a cygnaran chain gun. Unfortunatly The party didnt get much in the way of a challegne as the Nyss primed a flash grenade and tossed it in stunning the smuglers whic where then picked off quickly.
By the end of the battle The arcane mechanik was hauling off a nomad and a mule minus the cortexes and a few parts like arms and heads.
The gun mage came away with a quad iron and the pirate came away with a rifle.
All in all they were happy rewards better than money I belive. Unfortunatly the Khardic woman had vanished along with a cortex.
After stashing the jacks at a steamo storage unit a cleric approache the party and informs them that Father Dumas has summoned them. And thats where we left it ready for the next part of the Witchfire.
Right this post has taken me a flipping weke to write between sleeping and working so now I am gonna sleep as you know were RPing tommorow also I need to finnish Writing the Cygnaran soldiers stats as I think they will make great alleisl ateri n the game.
So I decided to Wing the rest. Herse how it went down.
The Arcane Mechanik doing some work for the union overhears 3 men talking to a sailor from his point of view he could see they were Cygnaran Military, he approachesthem gets there story.
The Cygnarans are looking for a group of smugglers who have stollen a vast quantity of cortexes and jack parts (including military grade parts and cortexes). The cygnarans almost had them the other day but thenwell there was the whole undead army attacking Corvis and the group of SMugglers slipped out of there grasp. Now they need help tracking these smuglers down.
So our mechanik goes to find his adventuring party who had been held up in a tavern since the events of the longest night. He walks in to find our gun toting pirate swigging down as much rum as possible and our one armed "dirty harry" gun mage boozin and flitin with a nyss.
He explains the job shows em a picture of there target. The Nyss had seen him in the undercity however she was too sloshed at the time to give an answer and passed out.
The next morning the fun ensues the gun mage and nyss wake up i nthe same bed arcane mechanik comes up to find our gun mage and nyss in a wtf/what in mororws name is going on. So the mechanik asks the nyss if she has seen the man there looking for she had but wanted half the reward which didnt go down well with the group one thing led to the nyss pointing a dagger at the mechanik and the gun mage pointing a gun at the nyss' head which lead to the nyss revealing the Grenades under her great coat attached to string so if they do anythign she releases all the grenades everybody go boom. so the mechanik grudgingly agrees (mainly because he dosent want to be a smear on whats left of the tavern walls).
So they head into Corvis' seedy underbelly where on there way to the bar the nyss last saw the suspect they were ambushed by a gang who wanted all the Crowns (gold) and any other belongings. Unfortunatly the group got there arses handed to them and the party stood ther victorious wit hour pirate now in possesion of a Radcliff Firestorm Pistol from the gang leader.
When they get to the bar they ask around specificaly at the bartender and after being pretty much robbed blind of a fair few crowns get the information on where there target and his smugling crew were hiding out.
They go and check the place out they find 2 guards at the door. The rouge finds a back route but its got alot of rubble around it but she thinks he can get by without making any sound.
So they make a plan Nyss will sneak orund the back and if needs be ambush the enemy if things go badly. The rest of the party were to bluff there way in under the guise of having information on the men tracking them down. it worked (my rolls suck balls).
Wo the Nyss gets in noproblem after sneaking in and unlocking the door. the nyss finds herselves in a dinning hall where two people are talking about getting out of the city one of them has a Khardic accent.
The others entyer through the front and meet the leader of the gang known as boris.
He offers them many crowns for them to take care of the cygnarans and all the jack parts they had aquired except for the cortex'. After the group leaves the Nyss over hears a conversaion between the Khard woman and boris about how they intend to kill the party has done the job.
So the Nyss gets out and relays the information to the party who decide they best ally with the Cygnarans. SO after meetign trhem at there place they com to agreement the reward plus they hget to keep anythign they find so long as its not property of the Cygnaran Military or the Cortexes.
So the group works together to flush out the smugglers. This was goign to be a intrestign fight as I was hoping they would walk in the front which they did and they would be met by one of the smuglers go for a item under a tarp what happened to b a cygnaran chain gun. Unfortunatly The party didnt get much in the way of a challegne as the Nyss primed a flash grenade and tossed it in stunning the smuglers whic where then picked off quickly.
By the end of the battle The arcane mechanik was hauling off a nomad and a mule minus the cortexes and a few parts like arms and heads.
The gun mage came away with a quad iron and the pirate came away with a rifle.
All in all they were happy rewards better than money I belive. Unfortunatly the Khardic woman had vanished along with a cortex.
After stashing the jacks at a steamo storage unit a cleric approache the party and informs them that Father Dumas has summoned them. And thats where we left it ready for the next part of the Witchfire.
Right this post has taken me a flipping weke to write between sleeping and working so now I am gonna sleep as you know were RPing tommorow also I need to finnish Writing the Cygnaran soldiers stats as I think they will make great alleisl ateri n the game.
Friday, 31 July 2009
IOSAN "Jacks" have "Beam cannons"
Ok I got alot to blog about and I think im gonna have to use multiple posts cause im WAAAAAY behind on my bloging. So 1st blog is alll aboot No quater 25 and the awesomeness that is the retribution. So we got a sneak peek at one of the new casters stats and Wow. But wht im more intrested in ios the jacks or myromidins as they are known. Guts and Gears has a great article on how they work and I must say I loved the fact that they have a bonejack size damage grid but also have an energy field which can be used to fire a a beam of energyh at a opponent. BEAM CANNON!!! HELLS YEAH.
So I think thats a big plus for the Retribution and If I ever bring them into my campaign (and as we are currently in 603 Ar and the Retirbution are like 608 AR its gonna be a while) i think one will just charge up and blast away a small squadron of trenchers for shits and giggles.
SO whatesle did I enjoy. Well a whole Article on the Sailing Vessels of the Iron Kingdoms. Main reson we get a little sneaky nibble of Zu the land over the waves. I like the idea of Cygnatr and Ord being the two Nations pretty much on par with naval Technology and Khador just compencatign with BIGGER ships pretty much. Oh and Cygnar have subs go Cygnar.
There is a side note about the Cryxian fleets which is of note as well.
So Ayacon is a few weeks away now and is already cost me an arm and a leg on hotels (lastm inute problems what can i say it happens :) ).
Cant wait gonan be alogn friday but will be wel lworht it :D.
Also now have a laptop otw which is also costing me a small fortune.
Oh and I gotta resubmitt all my coursework barring one by the 18th and my pcs still ... BALLS. Right next up a tal kabout my campaign so far as we had an awesoem session Friday night.
So I think thats a big plus for the Retribution and If I ever bring them into my campaign (and as we are currently in 603 Ar and the Retirbution are like 608 AR its gonna be a while) i think one will just charge up and blast away a small squadron of trenchers for shits and giggles.
SO whatesle did I enjoy. Well a whole Article on the Sailing Vessels of the Iron Kingdoms. Main reson we get a little sneaky nibble of Zu the land over the waves. I like the idea of Cygnatr and Ord being the two Nations pretty much on par with naval Technology and Khador just compencatign with BIGGER ships pretty much. Oh and Cygnar have subs go Cygnar.
There is a side note about the Cryxian fleets which is of note as well.
So Ayacon is a few weeks away now and is already cost me an arm and a leg on hotels (lastm inute problems what can i say it happens :) ).
Cant wait gonan be alogn friday but will be wel lworht it :D.
Also now have a laptop otw which is also costing me a small fortune.
Oh and I gotta resubmitt all my coursework barring one by the 18th and my pcs still ... BALLS. Right next up a tal kabout my campaign so far as we had an awesoem session Friday night.
Friday, 5 June 2009
1DVD volume of Slayers = 1 session of D&D
So its been a 2 weeks give or take since I got back from London Expo YAAAAY. Much fun was had and i me Scary go Rounds John Alison WHOOOOT. Among other things I brought some more shineys (mm shineys). But not much for myself this year as previous expos why you ask. I had to buy the missus her shinnys for the celebration of the day of her birth. So was kinda happy shes into all thigns geeky made buying her shinnys easy whilst there. Have to say grr to Ryan for buying the only 2 copies of night school that we could find at the expo, havign your sister ready to slaughter you is one thing but slaughter me over manga is something entirely new.
Then therse the freebie goddie bag. This year at 1st I wasnt impressed with the goodie bag a DVD a Hell Boy figure and wwe stickers and albume plus the usual extr gubbins of a poster and flyers.
But then We get Sundays goodie bag 2 Hellyboy figures 3 yes 3 DVD's and the wwe stickers i shall thourghyl burn those later.
SO I now have 2 copies of slayers volume 1, Escaflowne volume 5 (to go with my 1st 4 volumes of the series) and gundam wing volume 8.
Now Slayers is somethign ive been meaning to watch but hadnt got round to then volume 1 lands in my lap I think hey lets see hwat its liek then.
So im sitting there watching the 1st 6 episodes and by the end of it although im not a adict it has however made me chuckle.
Why? simple answer its a anime about a D&D campaign in my eyes. Ok not just D&D (for those who have been brain dead since the 1970s or who just dont care that means Dungeons and Dragons) it's a session of any pen and paper Fantasy RPG. Your main character a sorceres who makes thigns go boom and loves treasure. She is accompnied by a dim wit fighter. So far the bases are covered. Sorcerer hordes the lovely precious loot and then sells it off yada yada. Oh and then they find in the loot a powerful magic item. There then attacked by unknown assailants for this said item what a evil mastermind wants.
Yeah this has all the makigns of a D&D game. Coem on from a Games masters perspective at one tiem or another hav you had players whove had those kind of sterotypes?
Answer YES
Do they horde there treasure likme anything?
YES
From the players point of view arent you always finding strange magical items you have no use for what your then attacked for later on thus leading you into one hell of a plot
YUP.
Oh and the 1st ep yeah fighting a dragon is that tough ie good luck makign a dent on it.
and vilalgers beging for your help. Hey i got a big sward i wear armour sure i can help ... for a price.
Anyways DMed my 1st session of Iron Kingdoms using pathfinder. Was good ony 2 could make it 1 being the ever lusious missus. So the arcane Mechanik and the fighter (pirate yaar) aka the missus defended the caravan from th Swamp Gobbers I had the caravan leader and his driver get into action and tossed otu a freep otion considering it WAS 2 against 12. bur rhey came out on top. Havent calculated EXP yet as havent decided yet if im using the standered experience progression or the slow or quick one. I fell this decision must be made before next session.(next week I hope). SO yeah they made it to Corvis made it to the temople and to see father Dumas and off they go checking on grave robbign sites. It made me laugh when the arcane mechanik said in person to the Father about walkign dead and zombies oh hoho I had the dear fathers eyes light up. I dont think zombies is a normal occurence in Corvis now is it.
Down Side I forgot to introduce one very delightful young lady to the party bu they did spot her i nthe upstairs of the temple. So when they head back il lbe sure to introduce them.
Now I roughyl know what all my players are now going to be.
As ive stated so far I have a:
The Nyss barbarian and Paladin are lovers (out of game and in (couple players tsch)). As I asaid the paladi nis goign towards Warcaster (which he can meet the 1st pre-requisite at level 10). So i helped him out by advising him to put some of his skille points into and most of those skills are corss class ouch.
THe Barbarian as shes Nyss I made her a deal she can have a Nyss claymore but she gets very little starting gold (everyone got 300 shes got alot less). She agreed as she got the shinny big katana lookign blade.
Dont know the rangers motivations part from he wants to go rifleman.
The Fighter I designed to the girlfriends specs (she dosent like doing all the stating so i get lumbered with it). She wanted to be a pirate so I made a fighter based around her pistol and sword. Hope it will work out. She is a pathfinder fighter however so it may just (yay awesome pathfinder classes ftw).
Are arcane mechanik I think has are mad inventer poitn of the Iron Kingdoms universe covered.
The sorcerer. Kaiketsu always has to be a more comic relif character. I love it and hate it. When he said to me he wants to make a magical girl type of character I knew this was gonan be one of those times i mutilated a young puppy. To be honest after workign it out it wasnt so bad. A sorcerer with a air elimental blood power pool not oo shabby to be honest, oh and a scythe and her spells focus around buffing people.
After talkign with Kai about his religion and human sub species we worked round the idea of why a 14 year old gil was wandering though the Cygnaran countryside. being of sulese heritage Situated her birthplace in the protecterate of menoth. As Menites dont like spell casters she would probaly have been burnt at the stake not good. So instead she ran away from her family and escaped into Cygnar.
I think my players all wih little or no experience of the average D&D session outside of my table will find Kai a scary individual.
Well thats all for no I must be gttign rerady for work. Accursed Luna for gettign me adicted to Vocaloid. Accursed Girlfriend for showing me very sexy outfits she was thinking of buying. Accursed internet distracting me.
Then therse the freebie goddie bag. This year at 1st I wasnt impressed with the goodie bag a DVD a Hell Boy figure and wwe stickers and albume plus the usual extr gubbins of a poster and flyers.
But then We get Sundays goodie bag 2 Hellyboy figures 3 yes 3 DVD's and the wwe stickers i shall thourghyl burn those later.
SO I now have 2 copies of slayers volume 1, Escaflowne volume 5 (to go with my 1st 4 volumes of the series) and gundam wing volume 8.
Now Slayers is somethign ive been meaning to watch but hadnt got round to then volume 1 lands in my lap I think hey lets see hwat its liek then.
So im sitting there watching the 1st 6 episodes and by the end of it although im not a adict it has however made me chuckle.
Why? simple answer its a anime about a D&D campaign in my eyes. Ok not just D&D (for those who have been brain dead since the 1970s or who just dont care that means Dungeons and Dragons) it's a session of any pen and paper Fantasy RPG. Your main character a sorceres who makes thigns go boom and loves treasure. She is accompnied by a dim wit fighter. So far the bases are covered. Sorcerer hordes the lovely precious loot and then sells it off yada yada. Oh and then they find in the loot a powerful magic item. There then attacked by unknown assailants for this said item what a evil mastermind wants.
Yeah this has all the makigns of a D&D game. Coem on from a Games masters perspective at one tiem or another hav you had players whove had those kind of sterotypes?
Answer YES
Do they horde there treasure likme anything?
YES
From the players point of view arent you always finding strange magical items you have no use for what your then attacked for later on thus leading you into one hell of a plot
YUP.
Oh and the 1st ep yeah fighting a dragon is that tough ie good luck makign a dent on it.
and vilalgers beging for your help. Hey i got a big sward i wear armour sure i can help ... for a price.
Anyways DMed my 1st session of Iron Kingdoms using pathfinder. Was good ony 2 could make it 1 being the ever lusious missus. So the arcane Mechanik and the fighter (pirate yaar) aka the missus defended the caravan from th Swamp Gobbers I had the caravan leader and his driver get into action and tossed otu a freep otion considering it WAS 2 against 12. bur rhey came out on top. Havent calculated EXP yet as havent decided yet if im using the standered experience progression or the slow or quick one. I fell this decision must be made before next session.(next week I hope). SO yeah they made it to Corvis made it to the temople and to see father Dumas and off they go checking on grave robbign sites. It made me laugh when the arcane mechanik said in person to the Father about walkign dead and zombies oh hoho I had the dear fathers eyes light up. I dont think zombies is a normal occurence in Corvis now is it.
Down Side I forgot to introduce one very delightful young lady to the party bu they did spot her i nthe upstairs of the temple. So when they head back il lbe sure to introduce them.
Now I roughyl know what all my players are now going to be.
As ive stated so far I have a:
- Arcane Mechanik
- Fighter (she be a pirate YAAAR)
- Paladin who wants to go Warcaster
- Nyss Barbarian
- Sorceress
- Nyss IK ranger going towards rifleman
The Nyss barbarian and Paladin are lovers (out of game and in (couple players tsch)). As I asaid the paladi nis goign towards Warcaster (which he can meet the 1st pre-requisite at level 10). So i helped him out by advising him to put some of his skille points into and most of those skills are corss class ouch.
THe Barbarian as shes Nyss I made her a deal she can have a Nyss claymore but she gets very little starting gold (everyone got 300 shes got alot less). She agreed as she got the shinny big katana lookign blade.
Dont know the rangers motivations part from he wants to go rifleman.
The Fighter I designed to the girlfriends specs (she dosent like doing all the stating so i get lumbered with it). She wanted to be a pirate so I made a fighter based around her pistol and sword. Hope it will work out. She is a pathfinder fighter however so it may just (yay awesome pathfinder classes ftw).
Are arcane mechanik I think has are mad inventer poitn of the Iron Kingdoms universe covered.
The sorcerer. Kaiketsu always has to be a more comic relif character. I love it and hate it. When he said to me he wants to make a magical girl type of character I knew this was gonan be one of those times i mutilated a young puppy. To be honest after workign it out it wasnt so bad. A sorcerer with a air elimental blood power pool not oo shabby to be honest, oh and a scythe and her spells focus around buffing people.
After talkign with Kai about his religion and human sub species we worked round the idea of why a 14 year old gil was wandering though the Cygnaran countryside. being of sulese heritage Situated her birthplace in the protecterate of menoth. As Menites dont like spell casters she would probaly have been burnt at the stake not good. So instead she ran away from her family and escaped into Cygnar.
I think my players all wih little or no experience of the average D&D session outside of my table will find Kai a scary individual.
Well thats all for no I must be gttign rerady for work. Accursed Luna for gettign me adicted to Vocaloid. Accursed Girlfriend for showing me very sexy outfits she was thinking of buying. Accursed internet distracting me.
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