So, I put the two small terrain sets together last night and made a huge 18'x24' terrain piece that I think looks fricken awsome, but I wondered if it's maybe too big. I placd my sandbag sets around it and it makes an awesome central objective to try and maintain and control. What do you guys think?

Since John hasn't responded to my last few IMs about how he wants these..I'm posting what I've done so far anyway. So here's the squad post-priming:




And here's the first two "finished". It's really a quick and dirty paintscheme, but I think they look pretty decent. I have no idea how to base them because I'm still waiting to hear from John on that.






Thoughts?

So tonight the Farsight Enclave suffered a massive defeat against the forces of the Biel-Tan Swordwind. The brave Eldar stemmed the tide of imperial aggression of the destructive T'au Empire. Moments before the battle actually began, the Eldar Farseer in command of the war host commented on how lucky the opening stages of the battle had been for them when the T'au railguns were so effectively neutralized allowing the mechanized Eldar force to sweep across the battlefield unopposed.

Shas'O Vior'la Shovah Kais Mont'yr rapidly redeployed his forces, leaving the battlefield to the Eldar. O'Shovah's proximity to an Imperial shrine resulted in a rapid response force from the nearby Sororitas chapter of Our Lady of the Sacred Martyred Heart under the command of Cannoness Mary Agnes.




The fervor of the Holy Sisters as they engaged the T'au with blessed bolter, flamer, and melta was too much for the already shell-shocked Farsight, and they were forced to withdraw after sustaining heavy casualties.


(Yes, Karen finally won a game)

The List is turned in and except for some basing and a few decals, my army is finished.

My last GH squad is about an hour away from being complete. I just have to paint, and attach their CC weapons. Then I have the 2 Termies, and the squad of scouts.

So here it is...the project I've been working on. Note that the models are actually just slotted onto the bases and the basing isn't finished. And at least two of the models aren't actually finished either. But I'd like to get your thoughts on this monstrosity anyway.

Oh and yeah it's sorta my entry for a 40k Unit in the painting competition.

Oh Yeah..... That's what I'm talking about.....

My first unit is finished. My squad of 15 blood claws are 100 percent done. I should be able to finish up the 10-man squad of BCs tomorrow, and hopefully one of my Grey Hunter squads as well.

If you need.

So I was pondering entering some models in the painting competition. The thing is I really don't know if what I want to do qualifies. I was thinking of creating an elaborate scenic base and entering my Inquisitorial acolytes from our Dark Heresy game as a "unit". I have been considering even painting up an Inquisitor to lead them. Obviously I'd need to rebase the entire unit and mount them on something scenic. But I wanted to include the the Sanctioned Psycher, Arbitrator, Assassin, Guardsman stormtrooper, Ordo Militant Sororitas, Sister Hospitaller, and Techpriest Magos. I had thought about including the guy with the psycannon as an interrogator explitor, but I'm not sure about the model (I would still need to drill out the psycannon barrel for sure but even so). And as Jason and I discussed one weak model will damage the whole entry. Anyway do you guys think this would even qualify as a "unit"? Would the addition of an Inquisitor help? Any ideas for a scenic base? Thoughts?

I mean someone has got to keep an eye on the dogs so they don't get into anything.

Blood Bowl! Okay so I went ahead and purchased blood bowl. It's not terrible.. but it is frustrating..

I'm pretty sure each of us would play our respective races if we were all to play, as such I went ahead and picked Skaven.. (Yay rats!) And because I figured I'd enjoy it more, I decided to play the game in blitz turn based mode instead of in real time..

Holy crap its hard. I have played 6 turn based games at this point ( they are long ) and have tied 2 and lost the rest.. I thought I was going to get two other ties, but they ended up with the win after all.. I never ever came close to winning.. Not even remotely..

Each time I played it was either Humans or Dwarfs and let me tell ya.. they are harsh.. The Dwarfs were kicken my ass no matter what..

For grins, I played one final game vs Dwarfs in real time.. I murdered them.. I had 7 touch downs at the half. I'm not sure why the game plays so completely differently turn based vs real time.. It's pretty clear the AI wasn't written by the same guy or that something is wrong.. I don't know if "turn based easy" is broken or if "real time easy" is broken.. ones too hard, the others too easy..

Either way I'll probably keep playing turn based for a while until I'm just fed up with it.. If one of you guys wants to play we can probably start a league..

That is all.

I need to finish my pod racer now!