We will pee on all the trees you love!!!

At toms insistence, edited the initial post thingy.  Mainly as I had for got to before.  Erm, oops?

So those WiP shots of the Feral:







Seems my usual luck of a decent shot on auto hasn;t really worked, had to use dakkas auto adjust for these ones and the next lot to get details up better.  Had taken em in daylight but still cam out meh.

Chose to start on the feral as it's a staple of the battlegroup, can find a spot in a lot of lists, I like the simple but useful warping options it has.  Arm 20 with Kromac and an armour warp?  Oh yes!  Hunters mark something, warp for speed while under lightning tendrils from Kreuger for reach?   Mwahahaha 15 inch of threat range!  Plus it's kinda iconic.  Was going to go greys across all the warpwolves but decided for this one I'd aim for a little of realistic wolf colouring with added challenge do it all by brush past undercoat and base coat to get my ass back into doing stuff.  worked not bad, I'd still love to strip it and redo it, might do that after painting two factions, but maybe I'm being overly critical.

For the skin wanted the grey in there still, so used that to add highlights to the basecoat, and going for a winter theme so the blue on the armour fitted well, wanted a rich deep blue rather than an iseblue which will probably end up on most capes etc.

Next up a bit of progress on it so you can see where it ended up with the armour done and little more highlighting.





Can also see now that there is paint on it, also missed some mould lines in the bloody PVC.  And I thought I did not bad getting them

Also done him a friend, also mainly battle box orientated, but I like the regular argus.  Nifty animus which comes in handy, the combo bite is handy for a P&S 16 hit fast with high def and doppler bark can be useful if you can hit.  He can also slam and headbutt, which is another important thing.  Loss of a 4 point argus while getting them done, normally not too bad.  again, lighting, way too dark in the pics despite being outside to get the layers showing.  I'll be trying again, but wanted to do the update.  Accomplished finish the warpwolf, and done an argus, next up probably a caster, second argus type and a stalker and some basing.

Good lad Alec! They look very cool, be nice to see you down the club at some point as well

So after three days where all the painting I pretty much got done involved washes and drybrushing the bases were finally finished off last night!



So this morning put some stuff on two of them!



And got the flash onto the argus, hopefully show that I DID highlight it... even if the colours will be off



Next up need a load more bases doing for when stuff is painted. Also need to decide if the infamous black for druids would remain black in the winter or if they'd get the greys and whites out to bland in a bit. These Circle folks, they're squishy so need all the help they can get!

Current plans are repaint Kaya and the winter argus with a second argus and get a stalker done as well as a lot of undercoating. Failing that more stuff for the Kreuger list I've been playing with lately and quite enjoying!

Better pic of the feral

Hadn't realised that I hadn't updated stuff since last week, thought I had put the quick rundown of the tourny up. (Backup gaming pleadge) Here we go, copied and pasted in all its glory!

So latest news, Not the WTC yesterday! 4 round 35 points tournament, nice and fast games. Kicking myself. A lot. Dunno quite what happened to my brain but it didn't want to wake up I think!
Lists I took along were roughly the two 35 points lists i had been leaning towards, though at the last minute they got shaken up, and as it was last minute, no practice with them. As it was stuck to one list, the last game was going to have a bit of a change however dropped the wrong card down for caster. Damn them having both the same name and me too busy chatting to my opponent to notice! Still was a fun game.

List one.
PKrueger
Feral
Stalker
Gorax
Gallows Grove
Druids with UA
Min bloodtrackers with nuala

List two:
EKrueger
Wilder
Stalker
Ghetorix
Gorax
Druids and UA
Stones and UA

Game one, Rob Ivey, Menoth.

This list appeared to be dude spam, and had dropped Krueger1 into it. As it was, it was havily skewed to armour containing Durst, flameguard and UA, 2 reckoners, a devout and 4 paladins. As Rob had been playing in the DS slow grow I knew he had been honing this list and getting it painted up very nicely. I made a tonne of mistakes in this game, possibly tunnel visioned was the first. I charged a reckoner with a stalker, intending to hit it a couple of times, splat a falmeguard and lightning strike away. Remembered: That's what I wanted to do, to cast the animus through Krueger and leave Krueger out as a tempting failed assassination target for Durst setting up a counter slapping.
Failed to remember, this turn: Hit the bloody flame guard and sprint away.
So yeah that didn't work. Rob said he learned a lesson a the following turn though. He took the dangled assassination, failed to hit enough times and I transferred enough that Krueger was ready to slap back.

Now my plan here was: Primal the gorax, walk up to durst put him on his ass. Stab once with Krueger, then autohit consectutive attacks from his spear if that failed. Finish off with the feral in walking distance with reach from lightning tendrils. I had also planned the sprinted away feral to be part of this. He wasn't. See above.
So started with some druid spelling in combat for the force push to line up durst, one missed but had pushed him enough. Walked the gorax up, no fury on it, forced a power attack (forgot it was free from being damaged) boosted to hit. Failed. So, do I then buy a couple of attacks to ping health off? No, I forget (we rolled afterward the game to see it'd have done it easily) I move on (stupidly). Importantly if the gorax had hit what happened next wouldn't have. Feral walks up, hits, takes a retalitory strike. Confident theres enough boxes I'm still feeling confident. Rob rolled a 5 for damage spiral, spirit went. After initials, it was Kruegers turn, boosted to hit the initial attack, done some damage, bought more attacks at boosted damage due to Dursts armour, left him on 4 HP. Time was called around there, Rob taking the game on control points.
It's important to note that when I realised during setup how skewed to armour rob was I knew the druids force bolts and them and the bloodtrackers would need sacrificing to stop control points being gained and try to win by assassination, Rob was on for the win if he hadn't been lured out to end the game there and then.
At the end of the day he took first place, I joked he must have been glad my brain wasn;t in gear, he agreed. Glad he went on to win all his games, he has put a lot of effort into learning durst and getting the army painted to an extremely lovely standard.

Result: My brain needs something. Anything. A kick maybe? Style loss Big Grin

Game Two Ross Baker, Circle Orboros.

Once again K1 dropped, both Ross lists had a weakness to it. He dropped Grayle, pureblood, stalker, moonhound, blood pack, min wolves of orboros, stone with UA. Wasn;t worried aside from the bloodpack and the ability from spells for them to ignore LOS and blocking models. Planned to have Krueger hide behind a wall which was just outsie the zone, moving forward only to feat and hold onto transfers that turn then pop back. Guess what my screw up forgetting was this game eh?
Turn one, advance deployed bloodtrackers walked forward, javelined the enemy objective off the table, then reformed back, druids went up, popped clouds, counter magic, Krueger and battlegroup advanced to behind the wall. Ross then advanced most of his army running. Next turn was the odd javelin/force bolt with my stuff staying in the zone threatening control points unless he came foward. His turn by mostly runs. So, my turn moved up, popped feat. Blood pack took a fair amount of damage but no kills, moon hound wounded, wolves pretty much destroyed, prey moving to the bloodpack. He went, a stalker charging in, missing bloodtrackers with all the attacks, the pureblood advanced to spray, boosting attack and damage on Krueger, managing to wound him, transferred to the gorax. So my turn. Had the stalker hit where applicable, forgot to reform the bloodtrackers. Mistake one, though not an important one. Feral went up slapped the pureblood silly, finished the stalker to make sure though instead of slapping the pureblood silly. Forgot to move Krueger at all. Back behind said wall. Didn't move druids either for some reason, or bother activating the Gorax from what I remember. Yep screwed up bad.
Ross threw the feral, hitting Krueger (forgot to check range on the throw see if it was possible to hit as well here) Krueger hit, some infantry cleared away in front of him and with 3 seconds left on his turn he managed the assassination.

Result: wondering what illegal substance my brain needs to get going style loss.

On the lunch break chatted to a guy interested in starting up in WMH, helped him see what he'd need to start up with, his options (battlebox, 2 player box, all in one army boxes) bit about the factions, the basics of playing how it's easy to learn, tougher to master etc. Was a decent wee hour spent chatting.

So post lunch, game 3 v Ban Salmon, Legion of Everblight.

Ben made the right drop into me I feel, putting down Vayl2, 2x angelius, spawning vassel, full raptors, Anyyssa Ryvall, sorceress on hellion and 2 shepards. He deployed heavily onto his friendly zone side, I faced that with infantry and put the battlegroup centric. He went first advancing aggresivly, I advanced catiously, aware the raptors are pretty handy shots, moved Krueger and battlegroup up to tag the friendly zone. His turn two he advanced up, missed some shots, tagged the sorceress into his zone and put up the nothing of mine can shoot within 8" of it. With the range of 7" on the bloodtrackers I was understandably sad about that. Then he charged in with both angelius, one targeting the gorax, the other a druid. The druid one splatted a druid the gorax one wounded the gorax with an initial then his turn ran out. He didn;t at this point take the xtension, which I think would have changed the game as that bast as refuged.
My turn the feral took out the angelius on the left, clearing it out of his zone and the stalker took out the other by the gorax. Krueger stayed in the friendly zone, furthest edge over to the centre in order to put deflection up, as there was nothing to threaten him the next turn barring Vayl's spells, whoch handily would fail due to counter magic. The druids fell back a little to use the counter and put up clouds and the bloodtrackers fell back to not lose them for nothing.
Next turn his raptors advanced and took the odd pot shot taking a bloodtracker down, sorceress advancing up again to limit their return fire in my turn. He finally also got a ashredder out and attempted to chomp the feral, failing to hit.
My turn I was on four control points, used the stalker to destroy his objective and feral/druids/trackers and Krueger to clear out the zone.

Result: A surprising win for me. I think as it was afternoon the brain had woken up.

Game 4: Tom Uden, Menoth.

Menoth again, meant to throw Ekrueger down for a change, put PKruegers card to the top instead, meh, fair enough, the list was seeing use. Faced off against Feora 2! With her he had some Zealots, a mechanic, choir, redeemer (which got preyed and he was very careful with, putting it to the back of the board), templar vanquisher and the other jack I cannot remember, possibly the reckoner again I think.
We deployed pretty central, Tom spent opening of each of his turns firing rockes, seeing where they deviated. I ran the bloodtrackers up intent on sticking the reckoner with javelins, which in turn had him keep it at the back edge most of the game. His jacks he kept close to Feora2 (with a spell active for more armour, which I kept forgetting about, sound familiar?) and ran hi Zalots up. I advanced carefully behind the druid screen with the battlegroup, getting Krueger into contact with my flag by turn two to take a point, feating but failing to finish the zealot unit so the last man managed to contest in Tom's turn. Couple of turns later the redeemer was down, Feora the prey Target and in range of the feral.
Weighing my options up, I k now I needed to force pull a jack out the way of her. Remember the armour spell thing? I didn't. I used the trackers first, which failed to do much due to the bonus armour, force bolts the jack away them weighed up options. I could tornado Feora down but if the die came up higher than a one for distance thrown, the feral wouldn;t finish the job off that turn. Krueger was on fire by this point, another spiked fire roll and a beast was gone, his jacks were in a good position to stop the druids, one of the wolves and the trackers from attempting it next turn. I went for the shoot at her option.
Two chain lightning spells missed, kruegers shooting attack hit, done some damage. Up stepped the Feral with a charge. Missed initials. Bought more attacks. Missed them. Tom was shocked. My head was in my hands. At this point time was called, but would been interesting to have another full turn to see how Tom would have played his turn out though and see if I could somehow take Feora out or hit 5 CPS.

Result win by 1CP to 0, at dice down.

So a good day overall, though despite the mental, remember stuff all the previous fortnight (mainly use the bloody animi first!) my brain rebelled, slightly kicking myself. Went 2 for 2 which for a first tourny was better than I expected. Annoyed at myself a bit, with forgetting steps and worse forgetting the things I learned from the early games, see what your opponent can do to kill your caster, protect them from it. Game two, moving Kreuger behind the wall would have upped his Def to 21v throws and bloodpack and been out of Grayles charge range, which was indeed the plan after the feat, brain went. Forgetting additionall attacks on assassination was a moment I could have slapped myself and the final game despite being told each turn the spell she was upkeeping, forgetting about it as there w=no counter down for it (same with the raptors game 3 with stealth, counter didn't move with them)

Still there is always next time, any future 35 points tournys I'd certainly go to as it was a very relaxed atmosphere and well ran, games went fast an hopefully next time will play someone I don't have the option to play regularly Wink


So from here my plans are:
Play the Krueger 2 list now, at 35 points
See about expanding both lists to 50 points, the first especially as I like it and think it'd be a good one to expand first.
Paint more of the things!!!
Go to more tournaments
Get the events I would like to run hammered out and booked in at Dark Sphere.

Still really not happy with how she has ended up, needs a bit more work, but done enough that I hit her with some varnish in the meantime and stuck her ona base ready to get wintered up with the rest:



Going to drybrush speed paint the two stone unit next probably just to have the feeling of I'm getting stuff done

Apparently it's pledge time, and not just to help the wooden stuff shine. So, done the club thing, and put an early one in as Tom said they were weekly. So paint Ghetorix is the next one, have a done a stalker to tabletop too, though varnish misted it up today! Pics of that when it is sorted. So stretch goals for the painting: PKrueger, Gorax, second Argus.

No doubt i'll rip through some painting and endup doing different stuff to those three things.