Busy post today, so let me just go ahead an outline what I'm going to talk about up front:
• Warhammer End Times: Nagash
• Malifuax
• Dreadball
• 6 Month Hobby Challenge
Let's dig right in...
Nagash
To sum it up in 3 words?
BUY IT NOW.
It is - without a doubt in my mind - the single best book Games Workshop has ever put out.
The artwork is gorgeous
The new story is AMAZING. I will pre order every single book in the series JUST BECAUSE OF THE FLUFF. I mean, it is truly the end. Nagash has returned, the world is in ruins, nations are crumbling - everything to make Fantasy GRIMDARK. It is amazing. I don't want to spoil any of the story, but seriously folks, it is ABSOLUTELY worth the money in this case, which is amazing for GW.
Now the rules.
I CANNOT WAIT TO HAVE SKAVEN WARLOCKS SUMMONING ZOMBIES.
The conversion ideas alone - making them steampunk, warp stone powered Zombies - makes me quiver with excitement. The lore of Undeath is amazing, and it really isn't that bad. I don't care that it's a money making gimmick for GW. I love it. I will summon all of the zombies and corpse carts and CAVALRY FOR MY SKAVEN.
Let's take an in depth analysis of the lore of Undeath:
ITS AWESOME AND LETS YOU BUY MORE COOL STUFF.
The campaign is amazing. Can't go into much detail because it involves so much of the story. If you have Tomb Kings, VC, Empire, Chaos, Brettonians, Skaven, Dwarves, High Elves, or Wood Elves, this campaign will not disappoint in the slightest. If you've got the others, just wait till the next book comes out - rumor has it the next book will feature Chaos, which I'm sure will mix Daemons, Beastmen, and Warriors all into one army list led by Archeon.... Educated guess on my part - so don't come after me with torches and pitchforks if I'm wrong.
The few other notable things are the new rules for Lords and Heroes - letting you take up to 50% of your armies points from each category respectively. I for one will be making use of this to bring in Vermin lords and more Warlock Engineers just for the sole purpose of summoning more huge blocks of Zombies. With allowing me to summon hordes of expendable minions, now that frees up points in my army that would have been used on Skaven slaves to be used on more important things... Like Clanrats... Or Giant Rats....
But I digress.
All in all, this first implementation of the End Times is absolutely fabulous. If you only buy one other book for Warhammer Fantasy besides the rulebook and your codex, buy this.
FINAL RATING 10/10 - must have.
So, with that being done, I'd like to say thank you to those of you who have made it this far, and want to go ahead and move right along into my second topic:
Malifaux
It's been a busy semester here at University so far, but I have managed to sneak away and corner my good friend Michael into playing a game against his brother so that I could see what this game is actually like. Now, I have a personal disclaimer: when I first saw Malifaux, it was in first edition. It was awful. The rules were so much of a cluster fluff, that the first game I tried to play I just ended up walking away. It was that bad....
I now redact all of that hate, and am here to tell you that this game is the shit. Pure and simple. Watching Sonya Cridd and Rasputina go at it on the table, only for it to come down to a red jack being pulled for a lucky shot on Rasputina to end it? Phew! Crazy game! And I love crazy games. So, I pulled out my old Collodi crew and dusted them off. Hopefully by the end of next week, I will have played atleast 1 game of Malifaux, so that I can post some photos and talk about it indepth.
Dreadball
So this should be even faster - I saw a few videos of DB for the first time in a bit, and totally fell back in love with it. Really going to try and push it on my group to get into some DB seriously.
THE 6 MONTH MOUNTAIN REDUCTION CHALLENGE
So, this is my big personal challenge for the year. I had originally signed up for Garagehammers 2400 points in 12 months challenge, but finances and time made sure that I wasn't going to have any such luck. However, I think that this challenge will be much easier to deal with in the fact that it just has to be models that you already own, and you can't buy anymore anything - with one $20 or under exception, and birthday/Christmas as well. But, even with this simple task, I have struggled to get started. I hopefully will have completed an entire 10 man Gutter Runner unit by the weekend, so I can focus on something else this coming weekend.
I challenge every person who reads this to commit to the challenge, or atleast attempt it. It's a good way to get through some of those models that are never going to get done otherwise (here's looking at you Skaven Slaves).
My plan for the challenge is to complete my Night Runner units - all 4 of them - my Poisoned Wind Globadiers, and atleast 3 skaven characters, as well as my Malifaux Collodi crew done by the end of October. That's ~60 models in a little less that 2 months, which I think is doable... If I sit down and do a little bit of work every other day.
CLOSING THOUGHTS
Well, I'd like to finish by once again apologizing for my lack of posting consistently. It is something it try and do as often as I can - but time is tight right now that I am back at college, so look for one or two updates a month, unless something awesome comes up that I have to tell you immediately. So, until next time, happy gaming.
