Neoscream's Painting Table: 29th of July 2017

Hi everyone and welcome to another blog post. Ok, not much to talk about in life so here is a bit of personal Warhammer 40,000 news.

Last weekend, a new FAQ for 8th edition Warhammer 40k was released. In it, they have finally made T'au Shield Drones useful again as they now have a 5+ save against wounds. Hippy, I can use them again.

For those who are interested here is a list of all the T'au stuff I currently own.

• One Ethereal. (An old conversion using Games Workshop bit).
• Two Commanders.
• One Cadre Fireblade (not official miniature) which could be pushed to two if I use the nude sniper.
• Commander Shadowsun (not official miniature) with no Command drone.
• Four nine man Strike Teams. I just need a couple of extra figures to make it ten man teams.
• Two fifteen man Kroot Carnivores teams.
• Six Kroot Hounds.
• Two Kroot Shaper.
• Two three man XV25 Stealth Battlesuit teams with one figure extra.
• Three three man XV8 Crisis Battlesuit teams with one figure extra. Can be used as XV8 Crisis Bodyguards.
• An XV104 Riptide Battlesuit.
• Two MV84 Shielded Missile Drones.
• Two eight man Pathfinder Teams. Might be able to push to three six man team.
• An MV31 Pulse Accelerator Drone.
• An MV33 Grav-inhibitor Drone.
• Two MB3 Recon Drones.
• A TY7 Devilfish.
• Twelve MV1 Gun Drones.
• Seven MV4 Shield Drones.
• An MV7 Marker Drones.
• An XV88 Broadside Battlesuit.
• Something like five Big Gun Drones which are useless without the Forge World Xenos Index.

I do plan on building another Ethereal based on an idea I have thanks to Gundam Seed and all of Macross. A pop princess. Nothing to with the new deck I have for Cardfight Vanguard. The basic idea is to find a female singer figure with a long skirt that covers the feet so I do not need to replace the feet and has a fringe that covers the forehead (but I could always green stuff a fringe).

Painting

This week I have managed to finish off: A Sorcerer's Cabinet with a Book (ok these were meant to be in last week’s post, but I forgot to put them in the photo), a Bookcase, the Cleric Hero, Blaine and the spar Necromancer from Dungeon Saga; Three Ruins from Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings (however, as it is a second copy of the ones I did last week painted in the same way, I will not be doing photos of these); a female Storm Giant (painted to be a Frost Giant for Frostgrave) from Reaper Miniatures Bones; rebasing and updating of my Commander Heavyarms for my T'au army; and Chaser from Wargame Exclusive which will be used as a Cadre Fireblade for my T'au army.

Dungeon Saga (oops the bookcase was upside down)

T'au

Frost Giant

I forgot to state last week that I had removed to Shield Generator from Commander Wing Zero and added a magnet to the arm. This will allow me to add an extra weapon to Wing Zero based on what I need. I have also done the to the right thruster of Commander Heavyarms too.

I have also been working on (not painting) some T'au stuff I bought from eBay like a Riptide Battlesuit. I am currently painting Trista and Astrid from Reaper Miniatures Bones; Scooper from Sphere Wars; the 2015 Salute figure; and Tinkerbell from Tale Of War Miniatures.

For the backlog, I have for you all two Warmachine figures. These are the Trenchers Officer and Sniper for Cygnar. I have converted the Sniper to be a blue haired female Sniper. My standard for most snipers.

Well, that is finally it for the backlog. All officially done now.

Gaming

Cardfight Vanguard Tournament

On Saturday I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for a Cardfight Vanguard Tournament. There was sixteen of us. Some new faces and some returning. I had brought the new Bermuda Triangle Chouchou deck and a couple of boosters of the new Bermuda Triangle set. I was treated to try out the new deck, but I decided to use the deck I was first thinking of using. Exxtreme Battler Nova Grapplers.

On the first round, I was up against Nana who was also using an Exxtreme Battler Nova Grappler deck. It was a close game, but I managed to win.

On the second round, I was up against Pete who was using a Shadow Paladin. Sadly I lost this round.

We stopped for lunch and I managed to get a game of Future Card Buddyfight with Bredon. I was using my Quartet Five Hero World deck while Bredon was using a Chaos Dragon World deck. I sadly lost the game. We did try to do a second game. However, we ran out of time. Sadly it looked like I was winning.

On the third round, I was up against Wai-Yin who was using our beloved Touken Ranby. Damn it, I wanted to use my Blaster Royal Paladin deck against her. She managed to win this round. After the game, we chatted and managed to fix things between us. So we are friends again. She is just VERY BAD at communication and has some major problems.

On the four and the final round, before the top eight playoffs, I was up against Sadie who was using Dark Irregulars. I managed to win this game.

Sadly I did not make it to the top eight playoffs. However, this was due to the strength of schedule. Pete ended up winning the tournament. Maybe due to no Shell as she was away.

During the top eight playoffs. I teamed up with Wai-Yin in a duos match against Jordan and Alex. I was using my new Bermuda Triangle deck (borrowing some Bermuda Triangle Strides from Jordan), Wai-Yin was using an upgraded Pale Moon deck, Alex was using a Granblue deck and Jordan was using a Tachikaze deck. We managed to win against them. I still need to get used to how the deck works more and improve it beyond the Trail Deck. Sadly that means dropping the Cute stand trigger "Chouchou, Namig". WTF! One of my decks without stand triggers.


Malifaux

On Monday I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for a game of Malifaux. I was playing against the local main man for Malifaux (who is a Henchman for Wyrd Games), David Brown. He was trying out a new crew (for him) lead by Brewmaster. We decided to use the Gaining Grounds 2017 Schemes and Strategies deck. The strategy was "Guard the Stash" and the Schemes I picked were "Eliminate The Leadership" and "Frame For Murder". I might have the wrong name for the second Scheme as I do not own the card and could only find a list of names with very little rules without buying and downloading the cards, which I might do next week. I decided to go with Misaki. For those who do not know, I am a Ten Thunders player. My team ended up being:

Misaki with Stalking Bisento and Recalled Training
Shang
Ototo with Call of Thunder and Recalled Training
Samurai with Favour of Jigoku
Katanaka Sniper
Oiran
Two Torakage

It was a good and somewhat close game. However, David won with ten victory points to my seven. There was a funny moment when David took control of Ototo for an action and had him kill my Oiran which I stupidly had too far in the face that she was the target of "Frame For Murder". It was a good fun game. I can not wait for Simon to move back to Milton Keynes and join in with Malifaux and other games.


HeroClix

On Thursday I went down to York House for some games of HeroClix. This week's we continued the 'Teenage Kicks' scenario. 400 points. It is time to find the most Kickass Teenage Supergroup. Six teams enter the arena in a battle to find the ultimate champions. All players will play each team at least once. Darren S supplied the teams and the teams are Runaways, Young Avengers, New Mutants, Teen Titans, Ravagers and Initiative. The image next to this is of the team lists. Last week I played as Young Avengers, Ravagers and Teen Titans, so that leaves the other three teams for this week.

On the first round, I was up against Adrian. I ended up with the New Mutants team while Adrian ended up being the Young Avengers team. Sadly I lost, but I did give the young Avengers a run for their money. Also, Darren won his game against Michael.

On the second round, I was up against Michael. I ended up with the New Mutants team while Michael ended up being the Teen Titans team. Due to the problem of randomising teams, I had to use a team I have already used. Due to this, this round was a friendly game. I managed to win this round despite rolling four critical misses. Also, Adrian won his game against Darren (by cheating).

On the third and final round, I was up against Darren. I ended up with the Initiative team while Darren ended up being the Runaways team. Like normal against Darren I lost. Also, Adrian won his game against his brother Michael.

As I still need to play Runaways and Michael still needs to use Teen Titans (officially), this will be continuing next week. Or at least for the first round. However, we do have an overall winner and an overall loser already in teams as well as an overall winner player. Young Avengers is the best team, Ravagers are the worst team and Darren is the best player (as always).


Future Games

• On Monday the 31st of July, I will be going to Wargames Workshop MK for a game of Kingdom Death Monster.
• On Thursday the 3rd of August, I should be going to York House for some games of HeroClix.
• On Saturday the 5th of August, I should be going to Wargames Workshop MK for a Future Card Buddyfight Tournament.
• On Monday the 7th of August, I should be going to Wargames Workshop MK for a game.

Well, that is it for this post. Until all are one with the Lantern-Spark.

Neoscream's Painting Table: 25th June 2017

Hi everyone and welcome to another blog post. Due to a lot of late nights and early mornings as well as watching WWE shows with my dad, I have not done too much.

I was planning on talking about the new Warhammer 40,000 last week, but due to time, I did not. If you have not heard, the eighth edition of 40k was released last Saturday. It is a complete remake of the system just like second and third editions than a rules update that fourth to seventh were. I use to play 40k back during the second edition to not long after the release of fourth. Over the time I have gotten rid of most of my 40k stuff, apart from my Tau stuff (but it looks like I did get rid of some sadly) and anything that can be used for Necromunda. I decided to pre-order the "Index: Xenos 2" book, as it has rules for the Tau (apart from Forge World stuff) so that I had the rules for my Tau if I ever decided to try the eighth edition, I could. Painting my Tau Pathfinders for Shadow War Armageddon has gotten me in the mood to dig out my old Tau stuff and try out the eighth edition. So I have hunted down as much of my old Tau stuff I could find. I managed to find seven Crisis Battlesuits (including my old Commander), twenty-five Fire Warriors, thirty Kroot, two Kroot Shapers, eight Kroot Hounds three Gun Drones (got to be more somewhere), six Shield Drones and my Ethereal. No sign of my Stealth suits or Hammerhead. Maybe I sold them at Campaign and forgot about it. I might be able to gain two Crisis Battlesuits, two old Stealth Battlesuits and a bunch of Fire Warriors by reconverting a bunch of my old "Lost and the Dammed" back to normal Tau. Without the reconverting, I worked it out to be less than 1,500. Damn. It is not over two thousand. I also will need to do some repair work. I have also managed to arrange a game of the eighth edition for Monday.

Painting

Sadly this week I have not managed to do any painting. Been recovering from a lot of late nights and early mornings because of gaming and work. However, I have managed to build up all the Wild West Exodus figures I got from Wargames Workshop and the extra six Tau Pathfinders.

Here is this week's catch up photos. This time I have some Malifaux stuff. There is Shenlong, Sensei Yu, Katanaka Sniper, three Ten Thunder Brothers and two Peasants. The reason why the Katanaka Sniper is on her own is that I forgot her.until I was adding the photos here.

Next week will be Arcadia Quest.

While hunting for my Tau stuff, I also dug out my Inquisitor stuff. I took out the finished/good ones for display. Here they are:

There are two I wanted to highlight. First is my Rogue Trader that was converted to be Zechs Marquise from Gundam Wing.

The other is a bizarre conversion I did that served two prepuces. As a demonically possessed Tau Steal Battlesuit in Inquisitor and a demonically possessed/Demon Prince Tau Crisis Battlesuit from my old "Lost and the Damned" army. This was pre KDM.

Gaming

Future Card Buddyfight Nationals

On Sunday the 18th of June, went down to IQ Gaming in Huddersfield for the Future Card Buddyfight Nationals with Liam, Crawford and Blake. I am going in the deep end here. I had only played about four games before going, and the first twenty episodes of the original anime experience. Oh, I am doomed. I was using the Hero World Quartet Five deck I got from Crawford. Quartet Five is basically Power Ranges/Sentai. Because of the deck, I decided to wear my Green/White Ranger t-shirt that I got from Loot Crate.


Before the tournament, I got in two practice games with Blake and won them both.

There were at least fifty-seven players turned up for Future Card Buddyfight. Due to numbers, it ended up becoming six round, instead of the five they first thought. Also, only seventeen players turned up for the last Luck and Logic Nationals that was running at the same time.

On the first round of the tournament, I was up against Crawford who was using a Star Dragon World deck on table seventeen. Why did we travel all this way just to play against each other? Lol. I through it would be a clear victory for Crawford as he was much more experience in the game and he was the one who built my deck. However, I managed to pull off a close win. Also, Liam won his game and Blake lost his game.

On the second round, I was up against a Katana World user called Dan on table three. It was a clear loss. Also, Liam and Blake lost their games and Crawford won his.

On the third round, I was up against a Dragon World user called Sam on table seventeen. Sadly I lost this round. Also, Crawford and Blake lost their games and Liam won his.

On the fourth round, I was up against a Dragon Ein user called Nicky on table twenty-two. I shockingly won this round. Also, Blake won his games and both Liam lost theirs. However, Crawford decided to drop.

On the fifth round, I was up against a Star Dragon World user called Mark on table thirteen. With his Jackknife, I was destroyed in next to no time. Also, both Liam and Blake lost. Liam decided to dropped.

On the sixth and final round before the top eight playoffs, I was up against a Dungeon World user called Iain on table seventeen again. That is three games on flipping table seventeen. Sadly I lost again. Also, Blake lost his game.

So none of us made it to the top eight playoffs. I got thirty-sixth place and Blake got forty-first, and we both won a pack of Standard size Ultra-Pro sleeves. As Liam and Crawford dropped out, they were not given a place.


KDM WWMK

On Monday I went down to Wargames Workshop MK like normal, but this time I was playing Kingdom Death Monster with my group from the store. Even tho she said she would be coming, Wai-Yin never turned up. No words why. To be brutally honest, I am feeling super upset over it. I am at the point of even dropping her as a friend and from the group. Ok, there is more to it then I am willing to say here, but this is more or less "the final straw that broke the camel's back" (hope I get that saying right).

Anyway, the rest of us decided to hunt down another level one Gorm. All of us apart from Michael had to use new survivors as our main ones had to miss the hunt due to disorders. Following the Fire Emblem theme (my main survivor is called Marth), I decided to name mine Tharja (there is an image of her to the right). The hunt was not as bad as the past hunts have been lately, and we defeated the Gorm in two turns (or was that three).

The Settlement event this time was "Triathlon of Death". We mainly choose survivors that are not being used anymore. Basically, Adrian's two past survivors and Bob's main survivor who can only do every other hunt. We could have chosen Wai-Yin's old character. However, I decided to choose a character we used once, Char, for the chance to improve her. Char did gain +1 Strength and Understanding, but she has to miss the next hunt. No big deal, we were not planning on taking her anyway.

With the resources and endeavours we received, we managed to get the Sauna Shrine innovative, made Leather Boots to finish the Leather Armour set, and taught both mine and Bob's main survivors the Mammoth Hunter Fighting Art thanks to Sculpture.

The next game will most likely be the 10th of July with this group as I am unable to transport KDM next Monday (also Bob could not make it) and the following Monday will be Frostgrave.


HeroClix

On Thursday I went down to York House for some game of HeroClix. This week's build is 500 points. Dormammu has taken Wanda Maximoff to be his new Dark Bride, time for a mystical hero to save the Universe from their Reality Warping Potential. If your team contains a figure with the 'Mystical' Keyword you can re-roll one die roll a turn (your team may not contain Scarlett Witch or Dormammu). While at IQ Gaming I brought some HeroClix boosters. I decided to use several of them in my team, which ended up being an Avengers themed team who were:

Luke Cage (008 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 50
Black Panther (007 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 30
Captain America (011 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 50
Iron Fist (012 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 50
Iron Man (053 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 165
Swordsman (008 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 50
Firebird (011 Marvel Avengers Assemble) 105
=490 points

On the first round, I was up against Adrian who was using an Excalibur themed team. As I was setting up my figures I release according to the dial and card, the version of Iron Man does not have the Flight ability or any Improved Movement. WTF. Apart from some versions of the Mark 1 or some Buster and past armours, Iron Man has alway be able to fly so I never looked. This made the figure looked VERY over pointed. Anyway, it was a tough battle, but sadly I lost. Also, Darren S won his game against Michael.

On the second round, I was up against Michael who was also using an X-Men themed team. I managed to win this game. Also, Darren won his game against Adrian.

On the third and final round, I was up against Darren who was using an Excalibur themed team. Like normal Darren won this game, without losing a figure. Also, Adrian just managed won his game against his brother Michael.

Afterward, we learned the Iron Man figure I had been using was errata and he was meant to have the Flight symbol instead of the Boot. Damn it, things might have ended MUCH better.


Cardfight Vanguard Tournament

On Saturday I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for a Cardfight Vanguard Tournament. I was planning on post the blog before this, but I still had too many photos to add and a couple to still take.

I was not sure which deck to use, but as John was using Nova Grapplers and I had to work on my Stride Deck for Dimension Police Cosmic Heroes as I just got the Dimension Police GB8, I decided to try out the Royal Paladin deck again. There was a huge turnout with something like twenty-two players.

On the first round, I was up against Jasper who was using a Granblue deck instead of his normal Oracle Think Tank deck. I lost this round. I could not pull any trigger cards to help in my defense.

On the second round, I was up against John who was using his new Nova Grappler deck. Sadly as I could not pull a single grade three Blaster, I could not keep up. I lost this round. I really need the new "New Style Blaster, Llew" card from the next set.

On the third round. I was up against David who was using a Link Joker. With a double critical in both games and bad draws, I lost this round as well.

On the fourth and final round before the top eight (instead of four due to numbers) cutoff, I was up against Blake who was using a Gold Paladin deck. My luck decided to change and I managed to win this round. However, with only one round win I did not make the top eight. In fact, none of our locals made into the top two. Yes, shock horror Shell did not win the tournament, but she did making into the top eight and Liam made it to the top four.


Future Games

• On Monday the 26th of June, I will be going to Wargames Workshop MK for a game of Warhammer 40,000 eighth edition.
• On Thursday the 29th of June, I should be going to York House for HeroClix.
• On Monday the 3rd of July, I should be gaming at Wargames Workshop MK from some Frostgrave.

Well, that is it for this post. Until all are one with the Lantern-Spark.