ok before we get to the ranting lets look at a shinny new retibution warcaster Ravyn she looks shinny.
But none the less lets begin the rant its a classic. I HATE MY JOB!!!
Yeah last night was hell on earth got in at 6 to find it was all go. Pot wash was crammed up no one was working on it GAH. I jumped straight in we had to have two people working on the make table makign dah food prep sucks. The boss was meant ot be helping i nthe kitchen but didnt see him till late. Went and got most of defrost doen before i I ran out of clean pans and had to go to do potwash.
Oh and no one broke down any of the work surfqaces so I was essentialy left to close the entire kitchen myself JOY.
So yeah 2:30 this morning i slugged my corpse back home and went to bed annoyed that I start at 12 today and im closing again WHY!!!
so yeah anyone got a better job out there let me know.
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Monday, 13 July 2009
lets delve deeper into geekside
So here I go im gonna try and talk for a few minutes about something not made by Privateer Press or D&D related.
SO Warhammer 40,000 it is then. Now for years I played 40k because it was the only minatures game I knew what dealt with somethign what wasnt you know lets go reenact history with some minatures. Of course now there are many games for me to play and get my geek grove on. But before then I musty have spent alot on 40k. I know one of my last major purchase makes my spendature on 40k HUGE. when Appocalypse came out I brought a battle company I still havent finnished painting it.
But anyway after a while even though I love the 40k universe to bits and I honestly do im slowly giving up on the game as a whole. The reason why is that I odnt like the format anymore especialy with the armies. Also im cheesed off ive had to change my army books like several times in the past 3 or so years.
Now the new rules are good yes compared to 3rd and 4th ed rules which well 3rd was dreadful 4th was a improvment and 5ths gettign there. But what got me the most was the new format of the army books in 5th edition.
Now i understand the reason for it al lthe info in one sectio nand less serachign for how much this upgrade costs and what these special rules do but for me the customisability is gone.
i mean with the last Imperial gard and Space marine codex you had the options of running a default bog standared army picked fro mthe army list or you could take special traits. I had a space marine army limited on fast attack choices but had tactical marines equiped with a pisto land melee weapon rather than the standered bolter. I could make my assualt marines a little tougher for 3 extra points and takign them as elite choices. Essentialy I had 5 assualtt squads i na army and melee equiped tactical units. I enjoyed this load out.
With my guard I had made it so I hasd a rifleman regiment with a force of guardsmen who could scout through terrain and could take snipers in those squads.
But now i can take certain units and do fun stuff like, Take a chater master kit him out with a bike and take a bike squad as retinue and bike squads as troop choices but tis nto as fun. It has less fun options.
Sayign that I did enjoy appocalypse the expansion the made. Jsut the idea of takign 9 years of minatures stickign them on the table and going all out awesome. Just hard to find a opponent for a game with my shcedule is impossible as they take time. By time last game I did we started at 9 am finnushed up at 5pm and had what 5 turns i nall. Madness.
now they have a new expansion Planet strike. This looks to be fun I suppose the idea that the defender will have a hard time as the enemy will just keep on dropping in but to be honest im not going to buy it. Not for now. Time to put the crazyness of buying too much 40k, well for a while anyway. Prehaps il lbuy more when the battle company is painted. And the banblade is built .. .and painted.
I want a Titan but anyway on to somethign else.
Alistair my Arcane Mechanik in my IK campaign has been picking my brain about what he can build in time. He was going to make a flyign disc these are now flying boots. The airship options in there. A rail gun came up today but the one I want to see is the Giant Riding wolf.
Ok so we were bouncing ideas of awesome ideas he was thinking of a mechanika horse with compartments for storing equipment. Thinkign storing all equipment would be a obeslete idea he decided upon storing just weapons. So yeah then I said that was like clouds bike fenrir. Then we got talkign bout fenrir from norse mythology. this then turned to a mechanika Wolf powered by a storm chamber al could ride and store weapons in it. Hes now worked out what rune plates he wants to add to it to make it faster make it jump and now wants to add a warjack cortex to it. This thing will be expensive and excesivvly awesome. Says hell draw up the plans in game soon hehe cant wait, but i will have to as you know hes only level 2 hes gonna have to be alot higher to build it.
Right im done good night all
SO Warhammer 40,000 it is then. Now for years I played 40k because it was the only minatures game I knew what dealt with somethign what wasnt you know lets go reenact history with some minatures. Of course now there are many games for me to play and get my geek grove on. But before then I musty have spent alot on 40k. I know one of my last major purchase makes my spendature on 40k HUGE. when Appocalypse came out I brought a battle company I still havent finnished painting it.
But anyway after a while even though I love the 40k universe to bits and I honestly do im slowly giving up on the game as a whole. The reason why is that I odnt like the format anymore especialy with the armies. Also im cheesed off ive had to change my army books like several times in the past 3 or so years.
Now the new rules are good yes compared to 3rd and 4th ed rules which well 3rd was dreadful 4th was a improvment and 5ths gettign there. But what got me the most was the new format of the army books in 5th edition.
Now i understand the reason for it al lthe info in one sectio nand less serachign for how much this upgrade costs and what these special rules do but for me the customisability is gone.
i mean with the last Imperial gard and Space marine codex you had the options of running a default bog standared army picked fro mthe army list or you could take special traits. I had a space marine army limited on fast attack choices but had tactical marines equiped with a pisto land melee weapon rather than the standered bolter. I could make my assualt marines a little tougher for 3 extra points and takign them as elite choices. Essentialy I had 5 assualtt squads i na army and melee equiped tactical units. I enjoyed this load out.
With my guard I had made it so I hasd a rifleman regiment with a force of guardsmen who could scout through terrain and could take snipers in those squads.
But now i can take certain units and do fun stuff like, Take a chater master kit him out with a bike and take a bike squad as retinue and bike squads as troop choices but tis nto as fun. It has less fun options.
Sayign that I did enjoy appocalypse the expansion the made. Jsut the idea of takign 9 years of minatures stickign them on the table and going all out awesome. Just hard to find a opponent for a game with my shcedule is impossible as they take time. By time last game I did we started at 9 am finnushed up at 5pm and had what 5 turns i nall. Madness.
now they have a new expansion Planet strike. This looks to be fun I suppose the idea that the defender will have a hard time as the enemy will just keep on dropping in but to be honest im not going to buy it. Not for now. Time to put the crazyness of buying too much 40k, well for a while anyway. Prehaps il lbuy more when the battle company is painted. And the banblade is built .. .and painted.
I want a Titan but anyway on to somethign else.
Alistair my Arcane Mechanik in my IK campaign has been picking my brain about what he can build in time. He was going to make a flyign disc these are now flying boots. The airship options in there. A rail gun came up today but the one I want to see is the Giant Riding wolf.
Ok so we were bouncing ideas of awesome ideas he was thinking of a mechanika horse with compartments for storing equipment. Thinkign storing all equipment would be a obeslete idea he decided upon storing just weapons. So yeah then I said that was like clouds bike fenrir. Then we got talkign bout fenrir from norse mythology. this then turned to a mechanika Wolf powered by a storm chamber al could ride and store weapons in it. Hes now worked out what rune plates he wants to add to it to make it faster make it jump and now wants to add a warjack cortex to it. This thing will be expensive and excesivvly awesome. Says hell draw up the plans in game soon hehe cant wait, but i will have to as you know hes only level 2 hes gonna have to be alot higher to build it.
Right im done good night all
Super Size my Warjack
Yeah so I went to The privateer press website this morning geared up to see what ne Shinny Retribution stuff there would be on the site today. There wasnt, instead however my taste buds were overjoyed to chew on the news that Warmachine has finnaly got a extreme sculpt.
For those who dont know Privateer Press do on occasion amazing culpts of iconic units, These minatures have amazing detail and a dynamic pose Plus a larger than normal price tag. For Exmple So far theyve done the Circles Warp wolf and The tollblood dire troll. Wel lnow its Warmachines turn.
Ladies and Gentlemen I Give you the Jugernaught EXTREME SCULPT. excuse me I need to freshen up.
Anyway This is Khadors classic warjack its awesome the pose is amazing, but the best part is that this sculpt towers over the normal jugernaught sculpt. Heck I do belive that this Jugernaught would make the behmoth blush. Fully possible goodness people FULLY POSSIBLE!!! It means when puttign it to gether I can put It together however I want AWESOME.
Now I just need some extra Cash to buy one .... Hope they got some in November still.
For those who dont know Privateer Press do on occasion amazing culpts of iconic units, These minatures have amazing detail and a dynamic pose Plus a larger than normal price tag. For Exmple So far theyve done the Circles Warp wolf and The tollblood dire troll. Wel lnow its Warmachines turn.
Ladies and Gentlemen I Give you the Jugernaught EXTREME SCULPT. excuse me I need to freshen up.
Anyway This is Khadors classic warjack its awesome the pose is amazing, but the best part is that this sculpt towers over the normal jugernaught sculpt. Heck I do belive that this Jugernaught would make the behmoth blush. Fully possible goodness people FULLY POSSIBLE!!! It means when puttign it to gether I can put It together however I want AWESOME.
Now I just need some extra Cash to buy one .... Hope they got some in November still.
Friday, 10 July 2009
It went well
Before We begin this little uhh rant will talk about events that Happen in the Longest night (part one of the witch fire trilogy) So you know this is spoiler time so you have been warned.
WARNING WITCHFIRE SPOILERS!!!!
ok you have been warned.
Just as I thought we would finnish the longest night ... yeah it has slipped from our slippy grasp ... as you see i lost track of time and we well as the longest night began we had to say goodnight. But you know I enjoyed runnign this session
Mr X and Miss Y unfotunatly did not show for reasons. but ok So we got on with it you know the other 4 were here whoopie.
So yeah we got through Fort Rhyker as our paladin walked off our clint eastwood gun mage shwoed up. And in there 1st encounter suffered a new hosue rule of mine. Limb loss. Now you see the Iron Kingdoms has this great section on prospheticlimbs. Problem is therse not really any rules for losing limbsin D&D so I made some up.
Essentialy it works like this. If criticaled by a foe and does enough damage to leave you with 2 HP or lower, the player has a 15 % chance of losing a limb which is determined by the roll of a d4
WARNING WITCHFIRE SPOILERS!!!!
ok you have been warned.
Just as I thought we would finnish the longest night ... yeah it has slipped from our slippy grasp ... as you see i lost track of time and we well as the longest night began we had to say goodnight. But you know I enjoyed runnign this session
Mr X and Miss Y unfotunatly did not show for reasons. but ok So we got on with it you know the other 4 were here whoopie.
So yeah we got through Fort Rhyker as our paladin walked off our clint eastwood gun mage shwoed up. And in there 1st encounter suffered a new hosue rule of mine. Limb loss. Now you see the Iron Kingdoms has this great section on prospheticlimbs. Problem is therse not really any rules for losing limbsin D&D so I made some up.
Essentialy it works like this. If criticaled by a foe and does enough damage to leave you with 2 HP or lower, the player has a 15 % chance of losing a limb which is determined by the roll of a d4
- Left Arm
- Right Arm
- right Leg
- Left Leg
As such ouchies.
A player can try and attack al imb without criticaling and this will incur a -6 penakty to hit the limb of choice. If hits there is once more there is a 15% chance that limb is lost. If you critical whilst attempting to hack off al imb the chance of success is taken to 25%.
Any weapon held in the afore mentioned hand is dropped.
This can only be preformed ith a slashing weapon.
So yeah 1st encounter our newbie gunmage has he goes to open a door as he does the thrall warriors open the door commign out to see what the commotion is (someone used the dumb waiter >.<). So yeah 1st round sekelotn equiped with a great axe Criticals confirms Percent Cleared and swossh no n gun arm gone .... oh dear. So after that we had a armless gunmage badly woudned wanderign around. It was fu neveryone enjoyed that I think it added a bit of the of balls this may be a problem factor. Although un the Acane Mechaniks case it was along thel ines of:
"So When Can I make mechnika limbs again?"
I am enjoying our Arcane Mechanik he is most delightful.
So yeah they get through the fort with Minimal fuss. I sped up the fort a bit and they arrived in the court yard to find you know alot of Undead standing at attention. This is not good for them. so they go over to the big stained glass window and see Alexia and her undead Coven well building the thrall army. Now this is hwere my party supprised me.
Instead of doign the classic party so yeah lets try and blow em all up NOW the Arcane mechanik finnishes perring in the windopw turns to party realys information and jsut says.
"So Whos up for running the *BEEP* away?"
a unaimous show of hands goes up from the crowd and they leg it before they are noticed and on the way out blew up the drawbridge and you know then they hear hundreds of clankign armoury sounds and instead of stoping and watching the undead army and alexia from the other side and you know no wity banter they legged it jumped on nthere horses and bolted.
They tell helstrom and its off for some r&R whilst they await the enemy. Rest up recover from wound buy more toys etc. And then we began with the 4 thralls through the mist and by the end of it everyone wondering where the hell did they coem from. They expected a attack from the gates not from the inside. Instinctevly they think ahh somethigns gone horribly wrong at the gates best go check it out. and we neded there.
So all in all its been a good ngiht and the end of the Longest Night is almost here will Alexia finnaly get what she wants who knows.
Also they know the inquisitons are about and possibly after them. I also gave them a gistory check into Vinters reign a little. Why because I think Everyone in the Iron Kingdoms should Know that VINTER RAELTHRONE is #1. I am a big vinter loyalist what can I say.
So yeah afterwards helped the guys pick some new minis out of the iron Kingdoms range showed em the Iron Kingdoms etc and generaly got soem feedback. Thumbs up all round whoop. Now to just get this over and done with so we can move on to part two.
Cant wait to see what these new palyers wil lbe like.
anyways I just got out of a mettign with some friends about somethign secretive and Kylies upstairs awating me so I shall bid you all Good night.
things can only go up from here ... im serious I dont think im going to rant today.
Honest to god I got like nothing to rant about. I mean it. Tonight I shall host my 1st of many sessions in person ... AGAIN.
WHOPEE.
I now get thursdays and Fridays as regular Days off ... WHOPEE.
D&D every week. WHOPEE
Paladin came and aksed to be let in after reading this blog apparently he had al il chat with miss Y and has promissed to keep her on a leash shes on prohbation with the group ie if they dont enjoy her being on the table shes out so to speak.
I apparently have 2 other people who want to join. WHOOPEE!
never met them .... uh yay?
So yeah tonight will be good I hope I will post later for the pre game rant.
Oh yeah tonight we should finnish the longest night aka part 1 of the witchfire trilogy.
WHOPEE.
I now get thursdays and Fridays as regular Days off ... WHOPEE.
D&D every week. WHOPEE
Paladin came and aksed to be let in after reading this blog apparently he had al il chat with miss Y and has promissed to keep her on a leash shes on prohbation with the group ie if they dont enjoy her being on the table shes out so to speak.
I apparently have 2 other people who want to join. WHOOPEE!
never met them .... uh yay?
So yeah tonight will be good I hope I will post later for the pre game rant.
Oh yeah tonight we should finnish the longest night aka part 1 of the witchfire trilogy.
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Im having a good day
I really am nothing bad has happened yet. I am feeling splendid works ... ok. My Ik group will be meeting at my place this friday for once minus mr paladin im affraid to say. Kai is unfortunatly going to be late for the session possbily but we will see.
Ivw handed over my D&D 4th Ed Players handbooks to my cousin for the moment as I have no use for them as you will know if youve read my blog me and 4th dont mix. I feel however his friends who are of a much younger generation will enjoy the new system more. We shall see.
Anyway he loaned me i nreturn a few animes I hadnt watched yet one was a box set he wanted to sell he handt really liked it. My cousin can have his fiver I LOVE this show Otogi Zoshi is amazing you need to go watch it now!!!
But yeah thats what i been doing all week im happy.
There is not one thing im not happy about. Black cat bases where is MY PACKAGE!!!
Yeah I ordered some modren day street bases for my infinity minatures and a prirate for kylie for dnd which mua will be painting. Another minature for me to use as a practice mini but I ordered them Friday its now 1 am on Saturday stil no sign.
But hye thats not all that bad the bases only cost me 4 pound for a pack of 12 and the pirate was only £1.50 so a good deal in all.
I cant find my arcane machanik. Ever since I moved back from cambridge hes been mssing. This annoys me as his paint job was looking fantastic I had also made him a awesome base and now I may never see him again. Also cant find my Tau remora stealth drones I brought at Golden demon 08 jsut great.
But hye cant wait for Friday. The girlfriend wil larrvie we shall snuggle for a bit people will arrive and then we wil lgather roudn my table I shall pull out my pc and my dms matt and ... I need a DM outfit... I have a jedi robe ... that will do. We shall gather we shall introduce Maverick Gun MAge guy and we shall party litteraly. CCause I dont have to draw anymore flamign maps for glittercomm this week. WHOOP!!!
Yeah well be back to ranting next time folks also I suppose wel lget back to looking at the shinny retribution units.
Peace out folks
Ivw handed over my D&D 4th Ed Players handbooks to my cousin for the moment as I have no use for them as you will know if youve read my blog me and 4th dont mix. I feel however his friends who are of a much younger generation will enjoy the new system more. We shall see.
Anyway he loaned me i nreturn a few animes I hadnt watched yet one was a box set he wanted to sell he handt really liked it. My cousin can have his fiver I LOVE this show Otogi Zoshi is amazing you need to go watch it now!!!
But yeah thats what i been doing all week im happy.
There is not one thing im not happy about. Black cat bases where is MY PACKAGE!!!
Yeah I ordered some modren day street bases for my infinity minatures and a prirate for kylie for dnd which mua will be painting. Another minature for me to use as a practice mini but I ordered them Friday its now 1 am on Saturday stil no sign.
But hye thats not all that bad the bases only cost me 4 pound for a pack of 12 and the pirate was only £1.50 so a good deal in all.
I cant find my arcane machanik. Ever since I moved back from cambridge hes been mssing. This annoys me as his paint job was looking fantastic I had also made him a awesome base and now I may never see him again. Also cant find my Tau remora stealth drones I brought at Golden demon 08 jsut great.
But hye cant wait for Friday. The girlfriend wil larrvie we shall snuggle for a bit people will arrive and then we wil lgather roudn my table I shall pull out my pc and my dms matt and ... I need a DM outfit... I have a jedi robe ... that will do. We shall gather we shall introduce Maverick Gun MAge guy and we shall party litteraly. CCause I dont have to draw anymore flamign maps for glittercomm this week. WHOOP!!!
Yeah well be back to ranting next time folks also I suppose wel lget back to looking at the shinny retribution units.
Peace out folks
Sunday, 5 July 2009
more gold from Privateer Press
Privateer have released more images of some of the new units for the Retribution army As well as the usual command attachments theyve previeed the Arcanist there version of a mechanik and a sniper of all things.
The snipers fluff just shows how iscolated and secretive the elves are. They want no outsiders to get in AT ALL. Why because they dotn want no one to know there goddess is dying which they blame human magics and there arcane machines for.
Also the new Grind website is UP whoop plus a awesome 3-D trailer to go with it which i think is FANTASTIC
When I look at the image of what you get in the boxset with the coloured plastic units with interchangable equipemnt my Mind harks back to a board game made by Mb Games and Games workshop.
Yup thats right Old Geeks i am talking about that awesome board Game Space Crusade.
So anyways what we gettign for our money. answer is a awesome game board 2 pilars to act as obstacles the Grind ball a game board and 10 jacks 5 khadoran 5 cygnaran. Get this Khador are getting light jacks for this. is this a sign of the future for khador. Probaly not as this Warjack was made by another company for the express use of a demo project in this other companies new game development tool.
Any way that what I gots to say for now. Well except Thanks to PVP when me and kylie finnaly get a place together we will be gettign a kitten named Scratch Fury Destrioyer of Worlds ... Thanks PVP
The snipers fluff just shows how iscolated and secretive the elves are. They want no outsiders to get in AT ALL. Why because they dotn want no one to know there goddess is dying which they blame human magics and there arcane machines for.
Also the new Grind website is UP whoop plus a awesome 3-D trailer to go with it which i think is FANTASTIC
When I look at the image of what you get in the boxset with the coloured plastic units with interchangable equipemnt my Mind harks back to a board game made by Mb Games and Games workshop.
Yup thats right Old Geeks i am talking about that awesome board Game Space Crusade.
So anyways what we gettign for our money. answer is a awesome game board 2 pilars to act as obstacles the Grind ball a game board and 10 jacks 5 khadoran 5 cygnaran. Get this Khador are getting light jacks for this. is this a sign of the future for khador. Probaly not as this Warjack was made by another company for the express use of a demo project in this other companies new game development tool.
Any way that what I gots to say for now. Well except Thanks to PVP when me and kylie finnaly get a place together we will be gettign a kitten named Scratch Fury Destrioyer of Worlds ... Thanks PVP
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