Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game…

THIS WEEK

It’s Spring Break, that means my wife is home for the week. Home life is good, my son is now five months old and growing more independent. Also, with Spring Break here I can finally get outside and start thinking about summer. With that said, I’ll be turning my attention back to my armies in earnest. My goal is to get 1-2 units finished per week. There will be a fair amount of back and forth between the Warriors and Ogres, as I’d like to get them both painted up pretty quickly. And after this week, I’ve got only a few models left for the Warriors to be finished – so I’m feeling good about that.

MALEVOLENT CREATIONS

This week I put the finishing touches ...

Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game…

THIS WEEK

I’ve been all over the place this week, both literally and figuratively. An old friend died over the weekend, so I spent the early part of last week out of town to attend the funeral. I got home and slowly got back to work, in the past two weeks I spent a little time on all three of my armies. It’s about time to focus though, I need to get an army in fighting shape, it’s just a question of which one. We’ll see where the dice land…

MALEVOLENT CREATIONS

As stated earlier, I did take my first shambling steps with the Vampire Counts army...

Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game…

THIS WEEK

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks coming to grips with the new Warriors of Chaos army book, I’ll admit it’s definitely taken away from my time working on actual models. I’ve gone through roughly 10-15 different iterations of my main list, but I’ve narrowed things down to a point where I feel pretty confident in my army. Meanwhile, I’ve gotten a little work done on my Ogres, and I’ve just about got everything I want/need for my Warriors and Vampires, with such low model counts in the Ogre and Chaos armies I suspect I’ll be working on the Vampires before too terribly long.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to get my office back in order...

Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game…

THIS WEEK

It’s time for something completely different, well mostly different. As I said last week, I’ve got a lot planned this year, and to start I want to get my Ogre army off the ground. This week, I spent a lot of time cleaning pieces and assembling units for my 2500pt list. Getting to grips with these has raised a few questions though, and I’m in the process of resolving the issues that have arisen (Mournfangs and Sabretusks in particular). But first, let’s take a second look at the list itself…

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THE LIST

This is an MSU style list, there are 11 drops so deployment will actually be in my favor most of the time...

Welcome to Idle Hands, my weekly segment where I discuss conversions, painting, and strategy for the Warhammer tabletop game…

THIS WEEK

On Saturday GW released the new Warriors of Chaos Army Book along with a bevy of models from the frozen North. I made a trip to my local gaming shop to pick up the essentials: the new Army Book, a pack of Lore Cards, the newest White Dwarf, and a Chimera kit. I spent the weekend pouring over the book, there are plenty of beautiful pictures throughout the book (some new, some old). And of course, it’s all full color in a hard back binding. With Shiloh behind me and a year worth of other tournaments to look forward to, it’s time to start plotting my year.

THE QUE

There’s actually four separate army lists I’m hoping to finish this year, starting with the O...

The following is my first Battle Report, this is also the first in a series that details my games during the Shiloh Slaughter 2013. Coincidentally, the last games I will be playing with the old Warriors of Chaos book…

GAME 1 – ROBERT BAKER, DARK ELVES

I was still blinking sleep out of my eyes when I sat my board on the table across from Robert Baker and his Dark Elf infantry army. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this list, it was actually the first time I played against Dark Elves and I wasn’t accustomed to seeing an all infantry list, so he had the element of surprise going for him.

This was a very straight forward scenario, the only real tricks were blind deployment and terrain features...

It has been several weeks since my last update, I have been preparing for the Shiloh Slaughter. This weekend I and all of my preparations were put to the test, so how did it go?

PREFACE

There are a few things I would like to get out of the way before we get into the meat of this thing, for starters this will be a somewhat abridged review of the weekend in general. I do have notes that I will be using to write up Battle Reports from my five games, but that will be later. Those will likely be presented individually as I intend to go into them in some detail. Additionally, I’d like to thank Brian Preece of T Shirt Explosion and the volunteers that worked so hard to make this a great weekend. And last, but certainly not least – I’d like to thank my opponents...

I’ve played Dungeons and Dragons for years, I’ve never played the healer. It’s a shitty, thankless job. And no one (really) wants to do it. So, I’ve assembled a celebrity dream team for a game of Dungeons and Dragons, who would I choose for the group I’d play bitch for?

THE ROGUE

Curtis Armstrong – Better Known as Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. This is going to be a somewhat controversial choice I think, for starters he’s definitely the oldest member of the team. That alone would suggest he should probably be running this thing, but frankly I think every member on this team is capable of running a fun game, so what I’ve tried to do is work out where each guy would fit best...