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Heard for the very first time through casual conversation on a OT thread about a possible AM codex update? Searching the news/rumors section and the Internet in general has yielded little to no information. I'd like to hear more, though.

I played the first half of the Star Wars Imperial Assault "Twin Shadows" mini campaign today.

Verena Talos seemed completely awesome and a badass.
Loku Ka-shoot-me-in-the-face seemed pretty cool too, those recon tokens and combat sensors combo are a beast.
Biv Bodhrik seemed pretty good but we couldn't help but ask "wouldn't Gaarkhan be better?"
Saska Taft... Was kinda useless. Well, not kinda, very much was useless. She seemed to be the weakest character I've seen played.

As the Imperial player, I went for the Precision Strike deck. Combining that with snowtroopers (yes, on Tatooine, but meh, sue me ), they seemed to be pretty darn good. They'd probably be kinda weak if it weren't for the 'reroll attacks' attachment I gave them.
Heavy Troopers, I wasn't too impressed with. Sure, they're like a more mobile E-Web in some ways but... Urgh. At least they were tough to kill.

I don't know how other peoples Imperial Assault campaigns go, but generally for me, units that specialise at being at very long range just don't work for me, as either the rebels are going to be running AT you, or they're going to be running away from
you round a corner.

Rodian Hired Guns are surprisingly handy wee jerks.
And the Fettmeister was pretty darn cool for the short time I used him too.

Building some more Veterans for my Imperial Guard

Interesting Compel, interesting. May end up getting that expansion/whatsit at some point, I liked paining through the rest of the IA box.

Trying to paint some Orcs today.

Put together 4 bases of Resistance Freeriders and 4 bases of UCM Mortars

nobody wrote:
Put together 4 bases of Resistance Freeriders and 4 bases of UCM Mortars

Nice! I have a group of Gun Technicals and their Kraken on my painting table right now. Been working on putting together a pair of J-19s for a big game next weekend against PHR as well.

Filling in those goofy skullz on dark elf shields. I has a plan.

 Nightwolf829 wrote:

nobody wrote:
Put together 4 bases of Resistance Freeriders and 4 bases of UCM Mortars

Nice! I have a group of Gun Technicals and their Kraken on my painting table right now. Been working on putting together a pair of J-19s for a big game next weekend against PHR as well.

I also have 4 Scimitars, an Alexander, and 2 Cyclones that are waiting for it to warm up again so I can prime and paint before I assemble. I may be waiting a while.

nobody wrote:

 Nightwolf829 wrote:

nobody wrote:
Put together 4 bases of Resistance Freeriders and 4 bases of UCM Mortars

Nice! I have a group of Gun Technicals and their Kraken on my painting table right now. Been working on putting together a pair of J-19s for a big game next weekend against PHR as well.

I also have 4 Scimitars, an Alexander, and 2 Cyclones that are waiting for it to warm up again so I can prime and paint before I assemble. I may be waiting a while.

I've been waiting for over a month to prime the parts to my Tau Stormsurge. Hoping we don't have to wait until spring...
Anyway, I'm putting the finishing touches on five of my Breachers, then I can get to work on the other five.

Currently preparing around 2,000 points of Mantic Abyssals, along with a few Reaper models to use as unit leaders.

The Auld Grump

Painted my rot bases to about 90% completion and primed my orc vampire and a large triceratops.

Played more X-wing against the AI, Luke+Y-wing vs Vader and 2 TIEs. First game, I called it quits after Vader one-shotted Luke on the second turn, on the second game I managed to make it all of 4 turns before Vader again mullered his son. The Advanced Targeting computer, combined with an Engine upgrade to keep him on their tail/at Range 1 is just brutal. I might try and recreate a bit of the Rebels series tomorrow, solo Vader against a full Rebel fleet and just see how he does...

Getting ready for a Frostgrave campaign, so a buddy stopped over and we had a few games to tweek our lists.

Im a big Mordheim fan, so I'm really gonna enjoy this!

Starting to work on my other five Tau Breachers, as well as assembling some Kroot and Drones for my Tau army.

Putting together the last of my BaC Marines.

I'm about to start my second Army.
Necrons it is....


On the other hand, my Tau are progressing nicely.

Painting the 2nd Hero model (Baldric) from my friends copy of Zombicide: the Black Plague. And this time he's paying me!

My first painting commission.

Finishing off my Riekland warband for Mordhiem and working on a Scratch built Robobrain.

Robobrain, neat.

Building a cabin. Maybe there will be woods, maybe not, it's a mystery even to me.

Starting terrain for Guild Ball:



Going to be spraying tonight, now that the weather has come back into the 30's. Maybe I'll spray some other minis, seeing as how we'll probably be snowed in these weekend.

 GrimDork wrote:
Robobrain, neat.

Building a cabin. Maybe there will be woods, maybe not, it's a mystery even to me.

I've been looking into terrain for Muskets & Tomahawks, and was thinking about how to build or where to buy cabins from.

And then I stumbled across these at the local craft store:



Perfect for 28mm miniatures.

That really isn't bad at all. I did mine with slats of wood instead of the traditional log, but log cabins are totally a thing.

For the past week I have been trying to paint up what I have left for a 4k game at WHW on the 31st January. Where I am impressed at what I have accomplished so far I'm starting to realise that I am not going to get painted all that I want.

Having a target though is a good way to get through all of your outstanding stuff and some bits that I haven't used in ages are finally done. It's also nice to see that, where I am not a great painter at all, that I am improving and picking things up as I go.

This evening I will be trying to get through 5 Daemonettes and my final Plague Marine.

After that I have a GUO, a Defiler, 5 Plaguebearers and arms to attach and finish off and bases to do... oh dear ...

Finished up my first 10-man legionary Word Bearer squad last night. One 10-man squad of smurfs and the other WB squad and my BaC set will be completed.

Just made the other half of my combat squad, which involved the magnetizing of all the heavy weapon options......

In the future I might just make one shoulder and then magnetize right below that for ease and less cost in shoulderpads

Took some photos of orcs and misc fantasy models. Started a giant bug and some misc items floating in my desk.

I did a thing! A crazy box unboxing-ish thing.

Sweet, gonna have to watch that later.

Im thinking about Frostgrave as I shovel out of 40" of snow.

Did something of a 'bits box challenge' earlier, to see what I could come up with from only a pile of spares and some Green Stuff... I'll wait until they're painted before I consider them a success, but so far, so good; I've cobbled together a knight/adventurer type and his manservant, and some kind of Fire Elemental Spirit Thing...

I painted one Ork Boy, for a grand total of one painted Ork. But seeing as I've only had Guard till now, I guess this is the official christening of my second army.