Blood Bowl Finals...

4 players, single elimination.  This is me vs. Skaven.  Were it a league game, he would have been hurting for his next game - but alas and alak, it was was a resurrection style.  So, even though I beat the tar out of him, he did end up pulling a 2-0 victory (and, I do count my lucky stars that I kept him to just two scores). 

There was no quarter offered, and I didn't make any obvious mistakes...  there's just something about a gutter runner with mv 10 and sprint..  :)

On the painting side of things - it was a reasonably nice weekend, and I was able to get all the bigger bugs primed.  Tomorrow, if the weather holds I'm going to try and get the hormagaunts and gargoyles primed.  This whole "not having a garage to spray in" is getting kinda old.  :)

Game 8 - Khemri vs. Norse

Last game of the regular season.  It was a beat down of the Norse.  2-0 TD, Casualties were 5-0...

So, as it sits for the season, my Mahrek Mummies are 6-1-1, currently valued at 1.610m gp with a full 16... mummy... roster.  I will be giving up some inducements come tournament time.  :)

Game 6 and 7 - it was an Undead weekend

Game 6 was vs. a new Vampire Team.  ended in a 1-1 tie (Go For It on my eighth turn of the second half to score - anyone want to guess what I rolled?).  Casualties, however - I was up like 4-1.

Game 7 was vs. a experienced Necromantic team.  This was was a 3-1 win for the Khemri, with the casualty count being 7-3 (he regenerated 3, I regenerated 2.... no long term effects for ether of us though).

I was hoping to get a Game 8 in, but it was a quiet day down at the game store.

Last two games of 2012

Got two more games of BloodBowl in today.

First up - Vs. My old Nurgle team (literally, he bought it from me after the last season).

It was a bit odd playing against my own paint job.  This one was a grinder.  It was a 0-1 loss for me, Casualties were 3-0 in my favor though.

Second game of the day was vs. a new player's Orc team.

He's using the Puppet's War Orc heads (they look gooooooood).  When his team is painted, it will look nice.  This one was a... what's the phrase... ass beating.  Yeah.  I put 2 guys in the Dead and Injured Box, 4 in the Knock Out, won 3-0, received 2 casualties (no long term effects) and walked away with 80k in winnings.

BloodBowl - Winter Season, Day 1

So, as I walked into the gaming store this morning, the league commissioner informed that there was "a target on my back."  It seems several people wanted to get their games in with be "before I got a chance to level up my team."  'Cause, you know, playing Khemri is just a power build...  :)

I offered to roll up with him first round, so that everyone else would get grumpy that they didn't get to "beat on me first."  Unfortunately, he had grabbed the wrong BB case that morning, and had to run back home to get it.  Knowing that it might take him a good half hour - I choose to challenge the person I saw next.

This picture is from the setup of the pasting I gave the Dark Elf team on Game 1.  One would assume, that he saw how well I did with my DE and decided it was easy.  Now, to be fair, the first die roll of the game for him was a "one", followed by a burned re-roll and another "one"... and it went down hill from there.

I was able to shut him out 3-0 (yes, with a Khemri team), only put one guy of his out for the next game, and walked away with 60k in winnings (no advancements).

Game 2 was against a 6 saurus/6 skink Lizardman team.  This one I had to work a little more to keep in the win column.  It was still a 2-0 win - but I had lots of guys in my "Knocked Out" part of the dugout.  I just couldn't get my hands on the Skinks... even throwning 3 die blocks, I was getting effectively 3 pushes.  He would get saurus' on me, get me down and then bring a skink over to curb stomp me.  Let's just say the ref was busy with the red cards for both teams though (I think I had 4 skeletons kicked out).  Ended up winning 60k and Fan Factor went up again.  I used the winnings to buy the last Tomb Guardian and banked the 30k.

After a quick lunch I dragged the Human player back in for one more game of the day.  This one went better for me - which, sounds kind of conceited as I did win the other two with no real downside...

This game ended at a 2-1, he only had 1 player who was going to miss the next game (3 that were out through injuries).  I only picked up 20k in winnings (even after the re-roll for winning), FAME did go up and I picked up a Skeleton leaving 10k in the bank.

So, after 3 games - I've got 4 Tomb Guardians (one with Mighty Blow), 2 Blitz-Ras, 2 Throw-Ras (one with Leader and one with Kick-Off Return) and 7 Skeletons (two have been MVP, so this close to leveling).  Team Value is 1,220,000gp.  I think after next game I'm going to pick up 1 Coach and 1 Cheerleader - I had a lot of Cheering Fans / Brilliant Coaching today - I didn't have the FAME for any of my games.

Random pictures from this weekend...

Got two games in this weekend with my Descent of Orks list.

Game 1 on Sunday - Vs. Dave's Dante led Sanguinary Guard army.  We played The Relic.  The game ended on Turn 6 with his Storm Raven chasing and killing my assault squad with a Sang. Priest and Astorath joined to it.

Turn 1 of Game 2.  IG with SW allies.  This was a Purge the Alien.  It ended with one of his Vendettas (of the two he had) running away from a full assault squad.  (9 to 5 point win).

I then went home and was able to put close to the final touches on the Khemri team.  Spray sealed (pictured below), and then flocked them.  So, that just leaves the numbering to do and they're done.

Basing 2/3rds done...

Need to do the white bits for numbers, spray seal, and flock.

Khemri - Post-dip pictures

Got them dipped and inside about 3 seconds before the rainstorm started...  :)

 

   

 

They should be dry enough to do some touch-up and base work tomorrow night.  If I needed to, I could work with them tonight, but I'm willing to wait the day.

I'm using water-based stain, mostly for the easy of cleanup and the viscosity - the oil based stuff has to be thinned with mineral spirits or such to be workable - otherwise it's *WAAAY* too thick.

Have I mentioned lately that I love my wife...? No? Well, I do.

This weekend my lovely wife not only did the normal wife/mom stuff - she also painted my new BloodBowl team.  :)

These were usually painted late in the evening, after the kids were asleep.

Here's a little time-lapse set of photos.  One taken after each "painting session".  I was hoping to get them dipped today, but kids and work had other plans for me (that, and I can't seem to find the latex gloves...).

The Tomb Guardians - half done.

Tomb Guardians, done.

Most of the "skeletons" done (along with some of the counters)

All but the Blitz-Ras and Throw-Ras

Halfway through the Blitz-Ras and Throw-Ras.

All setup and ready for the dipping sauce.

I'll get some pictures up after they're dunked (so, probably tomorrow night).

Khemri - now with more pictures

First up - team photo:

That's 8 "Skeletons", 2 Throw-Ra's, 2 Blitz-Ra's, and 4 Tomb Guardians.

Next is a close up of the Skeletons:

I've added a back plate to the skeleton's to put number on them (since the rest of the team are intended for "Fantasy Football Games" - they've got the plate).  It's a chunk of plastic card that I punched through a hole punch.

Two of the four Tomb Guardians:

Blitz-Ra's:

Throw-Ra #1 (palming the football):

And last, the Throw-Ra #2 (kicking the ball):

Here's a close-up of the football - the model is a "running/kicking" pose - one leg up - to me, it looked like he was kicking a ball...

I'm hoping to get these guys (and the turn counters) at least primed this weekend.  Not sure - this is the first building/painting I've done in the new place - much less space and no garage to spray in...

Alt BloodBowl figures - shipping times, etc.

So, to build my next season's BB team (Khemri - see previous post), I had to do some digging to find the models I wanted.  After finding them, it was a matter of figuring the best way to get them for the best price.

Wargods Horde Mummies (Skeletons) - Since they're so out of print I really had two options.  FRP Games (a wonderful online store that carries almost everything, has quick shipping, and reasonable prices) and eBay.  Good prices if you can find them and snag them.  This set I found on eBay - knowing what I would pay at FRP to have them shipped gave me a "don't go over $x" amount.  Got them for about 65% of retail - although I did suffer a little in shipping time.  Auction closed on Sept 12, they were shipped the 17th and I received them the 20th.

Willy's Miniatures (Rest of the team) - I tried to get everything from Impact!  But he didn't have any of the "Egyptian wights" (Blitz-Ras) and let me know it was going to be a bit before he did.  So I ordered the Mummies (Throw-Ras) and the "Egyptian Mummies" (Tomb Guardians) from him.  They were ordered on the 7th, shipped on the 20th (Impact does say it could take up to three weeks to ship - so, no issues), and they arrived on the 24th.

The Egyptian Wights - I had a choice to order from him directly or go with something like Comixinos.  Both are out of the EU, so I knew I would have a little bit of a delay for the shipment.  Willy charged €1 less for shipping than Comixinos did... so I went with him.  His ordering system's a bit weird, basically you email him and let him know what you want to order, he responds with a total, and you paypal him the money.  Here I was pleasantly surprised - I ordered on the morning of the 12th, they were shipped on the 17th, and I had a delivery notice sitting for me on the 26th.  Did I mention they were shipped Registered Mail?

I'll do pictures of the full team later tonite - I need to finish building the Blitz-Ra's.

Work in Progress shot - Khemri BloodBowl

Willy Miniatures "Egyptian Mummies" as my Tomb Guardians and "Mummie 2" as a Throw-Ra, and finally a Crocodile Games "Horde Mummy" as my Skeleton.  What's not pictures (cause I'm still waiting for my shipment from Spain) is the "Egyptian Wights" I'm using as my Block-Ra's. 

The big mummies are on 30mm bases - as they didn't quite fit on a 25mm...