New blog, who dis?

Weirdly, for me, this blog post is going to primarily consist of pictures!

It's been a minute since my last post, and I've been working (like, real job working) a whole lot, so hobby stuff has been just bits and pieces here and there.

First up, Warhammer Underworlds:

Some cool 3D printed terrain for the "blocked spaces" on the gaming boards that I painted up. 

My son's warbands! I did the basing on them for him (at his request) so that everything matches, but otherwise he painted these himself! Super proud.

Garrek, before I did the blood on the severed head and painted his base. I really wanted to focus on the skintones for these guys as their focal point, so everything else was just done to a level of "serviceable" for my standards.

Pic 1 of the completely finished Garrek's Reavers warband.

Pic 2 of the completely finished Garrek's Reavers warband.

In-game shot of our first fully painted game! I think the boy is just now starting to figure out that I'm a goofball, swing-for-the-fences style of player, so I'm always going to try for the high-value, high-risk objectives typically requiring all of my own guys to die in a blaze of glory. If I end up winning this way (like I did for this particular game) it's a huge swing at the very end, going from 2-3 glory points to 8+ in a single card. 

I've also been working on my Guild Ball Miners, and actually got in my first learning game with my good buddy Wargamer Ramblings against his Morticians. I have to confess, even just from the one game, I really like the structure of this game. I definitely want to play more soon.

The movement shenanigans of the Miners, I'll admit, is a pretty interesting thought puzzle for maneuvering across the pitch. We only played to one goal (because I'm slooooow while I learn, I'll admit) which ended up being the mighty Fissure (aka the tank) driving the ball up and dropping it into the goal from point-blank range. 

Shaft, pre-powdah

Shaft, pre-powdah

Shaft, post-powdah

Shaft, post-powdah

Mule, in progress

Mule, almost finished...

Mule, finished and running away!

Junkrat (I'm calling him that because c'mon, that's who he is), pre-powdah

Junkrat (okay, okay, it's Fuse) post-powdah

Junkrat's dirty backside

Fissure, in progress (still need to finish her up)

Spade, in progress (in the final stages)

So all said, I have probably 1-2 more nights to finish out the Miners, and then it will be on to the Word Bearers (finally) in preparation for NoVa!

Under the Worlds of Warhammer

It's been a minute, I'll admit. And yes, I've been working on stuff.

Is it stuff for NOVA?

No, of course it's not.

Aside from piddling away on other things, my main focus these past few weeks has been Warhammer Underworlds. A self-contained board game where each player has a team and a deck, each team is set without the trouble/need of constructing unique lists, and it has strict guidelines on deck-building... ? Hell yes!

While I've eyeballed the miniatures for over a year now, I never attempted to look past the surface at it, despite hearing good things. That is, until my son became interested, seeing something about it in a warhammer painting video on YouTube.

So we picked up the core box (the first one, called Shadespire) and split it, with him taking Steelheart's Stormcast Eternal team and me taking Gerund's bloody berserkers or whatever they're called. We've actually both been working on painting, too, with him painting the Steelheart team up in the colors of the Lions of Sigmar. I've been enjoying the palette cleanser, focusing my time on experimenting with painting flesh tones.

So buff.

So angry!

I started with a glaze basecoat of rosy flesh (vallejo colors) and have just been building layers of depth using glazes of purple (a vallejo color that is nearly identical to GW's old Warlock Purple) and the Army Painter Red Tone wash.

I haven't managed to get much further than that, though, because we've been playing too many games! I don't think I've played any miniature game this much in a decade.

The miniatures are the "push fit" kind for quick assembly, and come in different colors of plastic so you can play almost right away.

Another game I remembered to take a picture of, with the minis in varying states of completion. As you can see we picked up some cool 3d-printed, surprisingly cheap terrain on eBay to fill the "off limits" spaces. 

Naturally, since it's so easy to simply buy new teams, we had to expand our collection a bit...

The boy picked up the Stormcast Farstrider team, and I got the team of gobbos (Zarbag's Gitz), but we just built his immediately so we would be able to get a game in before dinner.

Unfortunately I foresee a sort of "collect 'em all" mentality creeping in for me. All of the teams are just so cool!