Alamo Terrain

Why have I been quiet so much lately? Part of it has been exhaustion - I've been doing a lot, and haven't taken the time required to update this blog. Part has been frustration and stress. As a case in point, when I took over TO responsibilities at the Alamo, I decided two things needed to be done: I needed a piece of mysterious terrain to go on every table, and I needed a building to go on every table for one scenario. The Alamo has 38 tables. From the end of Bayou battles until the Alamo, I designed, built, and painted 76 pieces of terrain. Some of them got documented, so I'll share them here!

Quake City Rumble 2014 - Armies on Parade

Sorry for the delay in posting; real life has intruded harshly and I have a huge backlog to get through! First, paint contest entries and armies seen at Quake City Rumble, in San Francisco mid-summer 2014

Bob Felix's Orc BSB

Joe Rogers's Dark Elf Lokhir Fellheart

The "Hentai Monster"

Mike Adkins's Arch-Lector of Ulric

Joel Boccio's Exalter Hero of Tzeentch on a Daemon mount

Larry D's Brettonnian damsel

Mark Cox's Wizard Hat Skaven Warlord on Palanquin

Casey Clements's Empire BSB

Tony Pacheco's Chaos BSB

Casey Clements's Empire Halberdiers

Bob Felix's Rat Ogres

Joe Rogers's Chaos Hounds

Mike Adkins's Knights of the White Wolf

Tony Pacheco's Dwarfs (with Minotaur hired swords)

Ryan Smith's Warriors of Tzeentch

Ryan Smith's Dragon Ogre Shaggoth

Edward Oh's Greater Daemon

Bob Felix's giant thing

Casey Clements's steam tank

Scott Silvestra's hellpit abomination

Joe Frith's giant

Mike Sanders's trolls (I think)

Bob Felix's river trolls

Mike Adkins's demigryphs

Zach Lopez's Nurgle BSB on daemonic mount

Joe Frith's Thundertusk

Ryan Smith's skull crushers of Khorne

On to armies!

Ed Phillips's daemons

Rex Olivieri's Kislev Brettonians

Texas War Games Con 2014: Armies on Parade

A selection of Warhammer Fantasy, and Warhammer 40k armies that were set up Sunday morning at Texas War Games Con. Very limited commentary, as I was focusing more on taking pictures and less on taking notes.

  

Mierce Waelwulfas: Unboxing/Assembly

I had a little brown box come in the post last night. I wonder whatever could be inside...

WiP: Malacant, Servile Champion of Dis. Or Slaanesh.

Ryan tackles one of the amazing demons of the Mierce Miniatures line, after the jump.

Darklands Battle Report: Angelcynn vs. Fomoraic (499 gold)

Mierce Miniatures is currently doing their third Kickstarter, to fund and flesh out the rules for Darklands. To date, there haven't really been a lot of battle reports showing how the game works, and whether or not it's fun! This the first of a couple of battles I hope to do over the next few weeks, showing off a few of the models Mierce produces, giving a bit of background into the world they're playing in (which isn't that far off from our own), and highlighting some of the rule differences between this game and others that are currently out there. Today, it'll be the Angelcynn, the skindancing Angles, versus the monstrous beasts of the Fomoraic Sea Devils!

More skirmish combat and definite shrinkage, after the jump.

Darklands battle report: Norse vs. Khthones (499 gold)

Mierce Miniatures is currently doing their third Kickstarter, to fund and flesh out the rules for Darklands. To date, there haven't really been a lot of battle reports showing how the game works, and whether or not it's fun! This the first of a couple of battles I hope to do over the next few weeks, showing off a few of the models Mierce produces, giving a bit of background into the world they're playing in (which isn't that far off from our own), and highlighting some of the rule differences between this game and others that are currently out there.
Skirmish combat and a lightning bolt or two, after the jump!

Balancing the scales in the Darklands

In this post, I take lots and lots of models from Mierce Miniatures, and take pictures of them side-by-side with Games Workshop, Reaper, and Rackham stuff. The goal: see just how amazing Mierce Miniatures truly are!

The picture above has sat here teasing what's about to come for about a week; I'm glad to finally show it off! That poor, diminutive Space Marine has no idea what's in store for him...

One of the most popular posts I've ever done on here was the one where I showed all the Mierce models I had assembled standing next to other things. Well, since that time Mierce has run another Kickstarter, and I've assembled a whole heck of a lot more models! How many more? Well, the overflow went off my paint desk, and I had to use a 6' gaming table to hold them all!

If you want to see how big these beasties are, just follow the jump!