And the cycle starts again

Monday has come around again, its a bit wet, quite warm and work has started.

At the weekend I got some more Circle faction models for my beginning force, a minimum unit of wolves infantry and some shifting stones. Hopefully tonight I'll get the wolves infantry built up and possibly undercoated. I should have also got a woldwyrd and druid wilder to go along with them.

First set of circle pictures will be when they are all undercoated.

Weekend was quite quiet.

Video for the Day

Short animation, called Ruin, post-apocalyptic setting: http://vimeo.com/38591304 

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Found in space: HELLO BACK (5,4)

A dismal defeat

Last night, my Khador forces were soundly trounced. A combination of bad force selection (light infantry against heavy armour never good), bad deployment (way too strung out), poor dice rolls and an opponent who had a plan, stuck to it and did it well, combined to me having my worst outing in a long time. Shall have to rethink some of my lists, need to come up some better heavy hitting forces.

Today normal weather service has resumed, and the drive from Glasgow to Edinburgh was absolutely brilliant with the rain coming down, the spray from the road and it coming off every truck and lorry on the way through, a boat would have been helpful.

No picture today, don't think anyone wants to see the rain and am still working on some models.

Tried yet again to put my feral warpwolf for my circle force together, and yet again failed. Managed to get the tail to stick but the arms keep falling off.

Video for the day: 

Haven't managed to watch this yet, but it could be interesting, would like to hear some thoughts, Electric City Episode 1: http://electriccity.yahoo.com/ep1-en-truth-or-consequences.html

Puzzle for the day:

At the sound of me, men may dream
Or stamp their feet,
At the sound of me, women may laugh
Or sometimes weep. Who am I?

A bright evening and a bright morning

Sunlight, in Scotland? Last night and this morning have been rather bright affairs, photographic evidence from the west of scotland from last night below, look at the blue sky and general lightness.

A Picture from the main street

Today is warmachine day, hopefully get a good game in after work today. Am going to try and get my circle faction kickstarted as well.

Hopefully before next week I will build up and maybe have started painting the four new assault kommandos and the two eliminators I picked up at the weekend.

Video for the Day

Short film, I think called The Cathedral: http://vimeo.com/16441202

Puzzle for the Day

Fill out the quote, which has the vowels, punctuation removed:

mnrmrrdytrpynnjrythnbnftbcsgrttdsbrdnndrvngplsr

Post Colossals Monday

Well Monday morning again.

Not raining, and a good drive in.

A tiring but enjoyable day at the Colossals free-for-all event. My first experience of a Warmachine event, it was good but even though this was a less formal event, you could see how some of the people were very competitive, maybe a little too much so. The scoring did skew itself to those will large faction collections and specific lists. Even so, I enjoyed the four player games, but the scenario was quite hard to win there for anyone.

I managed not to come last, thanks to help from my niece who did a lot of work on my sanctuary piece which scored me three points for having it, this meant I did not come last and came joint 8th. A picture of this is below. I also managed to lose every game I played, although did a fair bit of damage along the way. Taking out Deathjack of Cryx was fun for me as that jack always causes me problems.

The Assist from My Niece, the Sanctuary

Taking out Deathjack

Video to Watch

Geek and Sundry have a web series called TableTop, hosted by Wil Wheaton, which introduces tabletop games and explains a bit about them with some invited guests for TV, Comics and the games industry.

This is the first episode, featuring the game Smallworld: http://youtu.be/X9QtdiRJYro

Puzzle for the Day

Which of these numbers is the odd one out:

5, 13, 29, 59, 101, 109