Strictly Average

5.24.2013

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Yeah, I'm not sure where the words went, either.

5.22.2013

Forge World Greater Daemon of Nurgle

5.04.2013

This Helldrake is a first for me... can you guess it's secret?

Not trying to be cryptic here, but this is a pretty interesting milestone for me. Anyway, this model isn't 'done' per se, because I have some detailing work yet to do. But as it is currently, it meets the three color minimum guidelines used by most events where painting counts - and I think it looks pretty cool already.

How many of you can guess what happened here?

(No sarcastic as hell, "You put glue and paint in a bag and shook it," answers, Master Manipulator!)

Okay, maybe this game isn't fun - I'm just curious if it's obvious or not. More later.

4.30.2013

Warhammer 40K: 8000 per side...

This past weekend I joined the Mighty Mighty Carlos, the Hoff, and Doug in an underground bunker (no kidding) to play a massive Chaos Vs Imperial 16K slugfest. It was glorious.

There was no rhyme or reason, it wasn't a tournament or any sort of tournament preparation, it wasn't competitive and it took all freakin' day... but the day passed quickly in a whirlwind of models, dice, and beer. It was fun for fun's sake, and it restored some flagging passion for the hobby. I highly recommend it.

What follows is a general pictorial. I've enlarged the pictures you may be interested in taking a closer look at, or you can roll through them quickly and breeze off to another part of the Blogosphere.

The Imperial line with four fortifications. The Mighty Mighty Carlos played an entire battle company of Dark Angels, and Doug played Guard with Allied Blood Angels.

The Hoff and I were tripping over ourselves in the deployment zone. It's fair to say a goodly chunk of the army remained in reserves. We have very little shooting to speak of, having both opted (independently) to unleash close combat hell on the Imperials.

I took four Greater Daemons and five Daemon Princes. I couldn't start the game Zooming, so I hid on the left flank. My army was intended to be entirely Khorne, but after discussion we wanted to make sure all four powers were represented. My army was mostly Khorne, with a few heavy Tzeentch and Slaanesh heavy hitters thrown in, but the Hoff absolutely flooded the field with Zombies. Typhus hung out with his retinue of Plague Marines. His Daemons mostly represented Slaanesh.

The extreme left flank. There's a building in the Imperial deployment zone I intend to use as cover to avoid getting shot out of the air.

The game is well advanced. This mass of white marines is Doug's Death Company. Read that again.

The housekeeping was pretty ridiculous. Psychic powers...

This is the bottom of two.

The Bloodthirster versus Mephiston! I thought the Collar of Khorne would defend me from his Force Weapon, but after reading the rules it looked like these two would kill each other on Initiative 10. Then Mephiston rolled 11 to activate his Force Weapon, and only the 'Thirster was left standing...

Yeah.

At this point, Chaos has stormed the board, but casualties on both sides were fairly ridiculous.

The Hoff took Warp Talons. As he kept reminding us. I guess it was his nod to fair play or something!

The right flank was firmly in our evil grasp...

At this point, Daemons have swarmed the fortifications - I don't think we actually took a swing at the building, though I intended to try Smashing it.

This is what the Imperials were faced with. Chaos numbers were telling. There was I think 140 Zombies alone.

And that's that. It only went to Turn 4, but by that point it was fairly obvious Chaos had won the day... and everyone was ready to call it a day. Good fun.

4.28.2013

Latest High Elf Image! And it...

...doesn't mean a thing to me.

(Really?)

Really.

Yeah, this was an evil trick.

You saw the High Elf image...

...then saw the rather leading title...

...promising some brand new 'High Elf image' that, for whatever reason, 1) I have and 2) you haven't seen.

When all I really wanted was to drop a quick picture about the army I'm working on for Wargames Con.

I'm putting together a Khorne Daemonic List for Wargames Con.

That's all I wanted to say. That's it - nothing doing 'round here!

4.25.2013

Daemons, Daemons, Everywhere...

I suppose I shouldn't get too behind on this blog, but I've been having a lot of fun painting again so it's been hard to break away from the game room.

Most of these, of course, are Daemons of Chaos, painted for the Tim That Can. I threw in some other random pictures, but the last image is the army I'm working on for Wargames Con.

(A new favorite!) Anon: I haven’t even bothered playing a game of 6th yet, cause I have read the rules, and actually understand how they interact with units. I know my armies no longer function how they should, and so I need to change them.

Strictly Average: 'cause 6-inches is all you get.

Stalking Jawaballs since 2009.

Jawaballs: "My butt just tightened up."

Brent, preferred 2-to-1 over Not Brent in a recent, scientific poll.

Brent: emptied the Kool Aid and DRINKING YOUR MILKSHAKE with an extra-long straw.

Unicorns don't exist.

Home of the Stormbuster, the Dyson Pattern Storm Raven.

I'm a comment whore and this whore is getting no play.

Not Brent hurts Brent's feelings.

I think, therefore I blog.

"You should stop writing for everyone else and worry about your crappy blog." - Anon.

Not Brent has been spotted lurking around with a green marker.

He's not like a bad guy from a cartoon, all devious but never quite evil, Not Brent is bad beans, man, bad beans.

Dethtron: "Again I feel obliged to remind you that trying to sound smart only works if you are."

MVB: "I am not one to join the unwashed masses of self-titled 40k experts out there distributing advice from their blogs about exactly how your list should be built..."

Shiner Bock on tap: that's how I choose hotels.

Strictly Average: The Home of Hugs and Gropings.

Don't feed the trolls!

MoD: "Welcome to Brent's head."

Competitive is Consistent.

Dethtron: "...you could use that extra time to figure out a way to get your panties unbunched and perform a sandectomy on your vagina."

Dethtron: “When calling someone an idiot, it's generally best to avoid making grammatical mistakes.”

Warboss Stalin: "You know, if it actually WAS funny, maybe I wouldn't mind."

Mike Brandt: "It's not a successful bachelor party if you don't misplace someone".

"The Master Manipulator (every store needs one): "...now, enough stroking."

Kirby: "I don't know about gropings. Seriously, Brent, keep it in the pants, please."

Loquacious: "No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get Hugs & Gropings or Stalks Jawaballs into Brent's little tribute."

Captain Kellen: "I rate this article a Brent on the Faith Hill to Nancy Pelosi scale!"

Drathmere: "Come for the balls, stay for the Brent? Kind of disturbing, man."

Go no further, lest thee see something thine eyes would fain look past!

Isabelle: "So, thank you for supporting your local and not so local unicorns. A noble gesture like that can show some scared kids out there that they don't have to hide from everyone and it's ok to be who they really are."

There is nothing more interesting than We The People... in all our beautiful, ugly glory!

On Internet Advice: You see, I have an almost religious belief that's it's a huge, colossal waste of time.

...I think I'll call it the Gun Shy Pattern Stormbuster, because after the Internet destroyed my first humble effort, I find I'm a bit worried about the reaction to this one.

Lauby: "Is it left over from that time you thought that you could just complete step one 12 times to meet the mandates of that court order?"

Not Brent: "I guess we'll have to read on and find out. Signed, Not Brent. Especially today."

Cynthia Davis: "I think the scrolling text is from Glen Beck's new book."

Grimaldi: "Spamming certain units creates interesting possibilities but also fatal weaknesses."

Purgatus: "Math can inform decisions. It cannot make decisions."

Thoughts? Comments? Hugs and gropings?

You'd be that much quicker to figure out what I mean when I refer to a Unicorn if I covered it in a rainbow flag.

SinSynn: (To Brent) "Curse you and your insidious influence on the internets..."

Dave G (N++): "You know you're an internet celebrity when your following is more akin to tabloids."

I prefer the term Internet Personality (or IP) myself, seeing as how I coined it.

Lauby: "Your attempt to humanize him as failed. I feel nothing but scorn for his beard - it's like a warcrime or something."

BBF: "I've always thought you are a good player but I finally figured out that you are a great player. It's hard to see sometimes because your personality is engaging, sincere and quite charming - to me that is kind of a rare combination."

'Clearly cheating?' I didn't misspeak: you jumped to conclusions. If you'd like to apologize I'll be happy to send you an autographed picture of my ass.

Ass.

I thought I was doing alright before I realized I was losing.

Age and treachery beats youth and vigor every time.