A Big Table and Big Terrain

Today, I had the opportunity to play in a pretty fantastic multiplayer game.  After not giving my opponents a very competitive run for the past two games, it was nice to be able to sit back a little and just try to do cool stuff. 

It was a big board with lots of dead stuff

We played an objective mission on a double sized table, with an objective in each deployment zone and another in the center.  This was my first experience playing against the Necrons codex.  I can't make any judgements about the book, due to the way we played, but there are definitely some things I liked.  The Doomsday machine is pretty sweet.  With an army full of Terminators though, that thing became target priority number one and died quickly.  Mindshackle Scarabs are amazing against some things and not particularly useful against others.  War Scythes terrify me. 

Deathmarks? Meet Lone Wolf...

All in all, I'd call it a book full of interesting things.  The game itself was well played on all sides.  It's too easy to gang up on one player, but I think it was played evenly throughout.  At the last, I fought a teleporting squad of Necrons off my objective, then had a chance to score the objective in the center of the table, when my Thunderwolf and a lone Terminator finished off a Plague Marine squad.  Unfortunately a Greater Daemon chose that moment to make his presence felt, charging across the Fortress of Redemption and wiping out the last Terminator.  I can't complain too much.  I think I made three Crux Terminatus saves in a row at one point.

A nice fulcrum, perhaps

I finished the High Elf menhir that I've had for quite some time.  I picked up a few of them with a big Forge World order several years ago, and just never got around to finishing any of them until now.  This is the first of them.  I thought it would be a great piece to experiment on with my new airbrush.  It wasn't a perfect process, but it's only the second time I've used it.  I didn't mask the lines well enough, so I had to do a lot of clean-up.  Not a big problem, considering the time I was able to cut off with not having to do multiple layers of white to cover mistakes and get a smooth surface.


List building has been occupying a fair amount of my brain space during the quiet hours.  I'm considering attending a Con in the near future and if I'm going to play in the 40K tourney, I'd like to bring some of the more visually impressive elements to bear while remaining somewhere close to competitive.  Of course, a Land Raider and four Thunderwolves including a Lord isn't exactly cheap, so it might come down to really sacrificing some things.  That's a scary notion though, with only have twenty scoring models in my list as it is now, so paring that down doesn't seem like a good idea, but where else to cut?  Those are the puzzle pieces I keep playing with. 

I've been playing a lot of Dominion online lately.  I feel like the layout of the site lets me be more detached and analytical about card selection.  I'm also pretty sure that I'm less attached to my deck, so I'm more likely to go with strategies in which I'm trashing a lot of cards.  I definitely recommend checking it out, whether you already enjoy Dominion and would like to play more often than random game nights, or you wanna give a set a test run before picking it up.