Monday 30 June 2014

A nurgle Knight is born!

So after a weekend of finishing off my Knight of Nurgle is complete. I need to get some better pictures together but I have actually made a short video to try and show it off. I'm not sure how well it works but I'll link to it anyway.



Generally I am not sure how well the Deamon army I am building is actually going to do in games. Its slow nature and low ranged damage potential means it just gets hammered before it can get over the board. The Soul grinder is the number one priority for all anti tank weapons. Zero anti air cover outside of the soul grinder means that's once its gone I am very exposed.

For all the chat deamon psychics breaking the game in 7th edition, I have not fund this. Even with 3 of them in my army I can very rarely get more than 2 or 3 powers off a turn, and I have periled so many times in the few games I have played.

Over time I will improve my ability with the army but I think mono builds are unworkable and should be only attempted if you don't mind having very hard fought battles that you are likely to loose. It should be noted I have only played Eternal War scenarios so far. I may try Maelstrom of War at some point but I have heard bad things about it so I shall wait and see.

The rest of the week will consist of working on my Beasts of Nurgle. I hope to have the conversion work done on these by the next time I post here. I should also have a few pictures of the Nurgle Knight. Oh and if you have name suggestions for the the knight let me know. Currently refering to him as 'Knight of Nurgle' is a bit long winded.

Wednesday 25 June 2014

Time to revive the blog

It looks like I have been a little slack in posting here in the last couple of years, but its time to revive the blog. Maybe even attract some readers.

So a lot has happened since I last said anything on here. My ork army was completed and has competed in a couple of Throne of Skulls tournaments. I have got 'Prophet of the Waaagh' in 2 of these (best ork player for those who don't know). I also won Best Army at one of these. This is possible my greatest moment gaming wise and something I probably won't be able to surpass. I know I am not a Golden Deamon standard painter so winning this for my Mexian Waaagh Nids is something I am very proud of.

I have also moved jobs. I now have an hour or so commute each way every day. This gives me loads of time to ponder about stuff and I have a load to say about the hobby and modeling in general. But I will come to this in future blogs.

For now I have moved on from my very successful orks to a very tricky to use Deamon of Nurgle army. They are slow and cumbersome to use. I am enjoying playing them, but I think victories will be few and far between.

There is something else about this army that I should mention. I will be using Eldar models. They will be converted to be corrupted and I have already made a good start on this work. As normal for me, my favorite model is also turning out to be the worst on the table top. The soul grinder is a brilliant thing on paper. But as it is my only vehicle, it attracts so much fire power I have not seen it last past turn 3 in all but 1 game. But its looking pretty good from a converted model point of view. I have based it on the beautiful GW Eldar Wraith Knight that has been infected my nurglings. It is now decidedly less good looking. This is the work at a previous stage (I will take more once it is completed in the next week).





I'll post some updates a lot sooner I hope, and may even keep this up for more than a couple of weeks.