Some motivation for you my fellows! Happy Wednesday (or whatever day you guys are reading this, except Tuesdays, they can go rot in Hell). Hope all of you are doing well! Today I have lots of talk about Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower - nothing crazy like a review or anything, just some quick thoughts on it. I'll also be discussing the future of my Skaven and my Bloodbound, as well as some of the plans for my other armies - INCLUDING A FLASH SALE!
Let's go ahead and get started on this amigos, and see if we can keep moving forward!
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Silver Tower.
This is a game that, quite frankly, has been one of the best purchases I have made in a long time. For $150, you get 51 models, plus an entire board game! $2.94 a GW model? Uh, yes please. Plus a board game, that's actually quite an exciting time!
I mean, our group has REALLY, REALLY enjoyed this game, probably more than any other board game that we have played lately. AND as an added bonus, a couple of people from our gaming group have bought AoS models to use in the game, which means they are one step away from buying into AoS itself! Truly, a win win for the community here in Atlanta.
As of this writing, we are 5 pieces into the campaign. All we have left are the shards of Life, Fire, and Light to collect. (Yes, the piece of light is the tutorial game. Yes, we died. Horribly). I have been playing as the Fyreslayer Doomseeker. Our group has evolved with their characters into a mostly chaotic group from there. We have a Dark Elf Assassin, an Exalted Deathbringer with Impaling Spear, and a Slaughterpriest with the sword and hammer. Tonight we will have a replacement for the guy with the Slaughterpriest, so there will be a new hero.
The game plays great, and each of the trials is unique - which makes its awesome for replayability. My personal favorite trial has been the quest for the piece of Azyr and the piece of Ghur. Not to get into the story too much, but both of those quests feel very much like they should, and if you are a fluff-nut like I am, then the story coming to a head in both of those is very satisfying.
We all gathered together to try and get a good bit of it painted, and - as the caption states - we managed to get basecoats and highlights on just about everything from the box! Which was awesome, because now everything looks pretty good on the table already. These models just eat up the paint, they are a breeze. Some of the best models in a long time (so since the last AoS release basically).
I highly recommend picking up the game. The only complaint I have, and that our group has had, is that the beginning of all of the trials feel very similar, and not a lot happens until you get into the thick of the various trials. From that point on you feel like you are completing the quests in unique ways, facing the myriad challenges with wild abandon.
11/10, would buy again.
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So, on to the second point! What am I working on currently, and how will we continue to move forward? Well, dear reader, that is an excellent question!
I am finding myself more and more at a hobby cross roads. I have always believed that one should have a couple of main games that they play and enjoy with people all around them. However, that has - over the course of many moons - turned into a plethora of games that I no longer play or have the desire to even look at in some cases (Uncharted Seas you sad, wonderful game - RIP). So I have many, many models.
It is time to cut them down, dust out the cupboards, cull the herd, etc. I have the following that is all going to be looking for a new home soon:
- Firestorm Armada - Terrans (Stripped)
- Firestorm Armada - RSN (Stripped/unbuilt)
- Firestorm Armada - Relthoza (Unpainted)
- Firestorm Armada - Dendrenzi (Unpainted)
- Firestorm Armada - Misc. (various)
- Guildball - Alchemists (everything but Compound from the line, all but 2 painted)
- X-Wing (I don't even know, I really just want to put all in a box and get rid of it)
- Malifaux - Lucius (unopened)
- Malifaux - Lady J (built, unpainted)
- Malifaux - Ten Thunders
- Misaki Box (unopened)
- Metal 10T Brothers (unopened)
- Samurai (2 assembled, 1 on sprue, unpainted)
- Malifaux - Misc (Again, just want to box and get rid of it)
- Age of Sigmar/9th Age/Kow
- I have a box of misc. Dark Elves, nothing spectacular, mostly Corsairs that are not assembled and some other bits and bobs. I would just want to pretty much give this away.
- Warhammer 40k
- This is an oddball for me. I have a lot of Chaos Stuff, but none of it is very exciting. I am just looking to get rid of this so that I can justify - in my mind atleast - starting fresh into a game that I have abandoned for so long.
- I also have vanilla Space Marines that have some Black Templars painted up among their number. I could be convinced to get rid of these too.
For all of these, just ask me what I have through email (olearypr@gmail.com) and I can send pictures and hash out prices. I am looking to get rid of a lot of this, so I can't imagine asking more than around 50% Retail for any of it.
I'd be willing to look for some trades as well, including the following:
- Imperial Guard - Catachans a plus
- AoS (ordered by level of desire)
- Skaven
- Khorne Bloodbound
- Tzeentch Daemons
- Savage Orcs
- Uncharted Seas (ordered by level of desire)
- Ralgard
- NEW SCULPTS Empire/Humans
- Elves
- Sky Pirates
- Dragon Lords
- Anything else would be a case by case basis.
As for things that I am actually working on, besides flash sales, I am just working on painting up more rats for the Rise of Empires in the Age of Beasts Campaign. I have been slacking lately, and then with Silver Tower popping up all of my painting time has been sunk into that. For this month, I would like to actually finish my half done Plague Censer Bearers and all of my Warlock Engineers and Arch Warlocks. IF I get that done, then I would be happy to finish up my Stormfiends and get my Verminlord built.
On the NEW 40k front, I would love to start building a Catachan force. Something totally unique from all other armies I have collected. Plus, I should probably play a good guy at some point in my tabletop escapades.
Looking forward to writing to all of you again in the near future, hopefully with some painted models and empty shelf space! Until then, happy gaming!
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