Another January Gaming

Here's another battle report without pictures.  We got in another game in January recently.  This was nice because it wasn't too long ago when we played last.  This time I decided to play Ossyan with Battle Mage support.  The scenario was to hold the middle, with a kill box of 36in x 8in.  Opposing me was Lord Commander Stryker and his lightning happy army.  It was an extremely close game between the two forces, and it was finally decided by Stryker overcharging and making an assassination run in the 3rd round.  At this point, the Cygnar 'Jacks were taking a pounding and his infantry were being shot up.  The Retribution also took heavy losses to the Battle Mages, Stormfall Archers, and the Mage Hunter Strike Force, but the Myrmidons were barely scratched and pEiryss was moving to a vantage point.  Lord Styker made his move and tried three times to strike Ossyan, missing on all three.  Stryker then activated his feat and took down Ossyan in one melee strike.  It wasn't until after the damage was done before I realized that Ossyan had his upkeep spell on him, allowing him to disengage and move 3in away before the strike could have occurred.  This would have given Stryker one more shot at killing him on the feat move.  With this in mind, Bob gets the win for this battle because of my lack of knowing my 'caster's spell and for Stryker's feat that may have won him the game.

LordChiHuaHua's Warmachine Mercenary Army

Here's the entire Mercenary collection of LordChiHuaHua.  He claims it is of 100 miniatures.

Hobby time: Alten Ashley

For Christmas this past year, I went with my standard gaming gifts to friends.  Typically, this meant getting a blister of a model and letting them build and paint them.  Not a problem for most of the friends.  However, one friend prefers the gaming and less about the hobby portion.  As a challenge to myself, I took it as a chance to build, paint, and base a one-off for his gift.  Picking a model for his army was tough, not knowing what was in his collection, with a focus on Cygnar and some mercenaries.  I decided on the Minion Mercenary Alten Ashley, hoping he hadn't picked it up yet and that it would be useful at tournaments.

January Warmachine Gaming

So I was able to work on, build, and primer up the majority of my Retribution of Scyrah Warmachine force.  This is really a force of 2 warcasters, 2 warjacks, a Mage Hunter Strike Force with unit commander, a Stormfall Archers unit, pEiryss, a Ghost Sniper, and an Arcanist.  This gives me a flexible set of options to learn the army.

Happy New Year and 2013 Resolutions

It's January 2013 which can only mean one thing:
New resolutions and a review of 2012 resolutions: