Saturday, December 17, 2005

If you guys haven't seen it, go run out and rent/buy/borrow Paradise Lost (1 and 2.) It's the documentaries about the West Mephis 3. www.wm3.org Shit is insane! Fuck the bible-belt inbreds of the world. Jesus.
Edit: Plus the soundtrack is all classic metallica. Gotta love it.

Jael! Good to hear from you man! Yeah, one day my AOL had some new name for me so I figured it's been so many years, they expired Lil Rudy I guess. Good luck with the pill slangin!

<3 you all!
A word of advice

Do not use old primer. I had three cans of primer from the El Segundo days. Two of them were partially used. If you have cans that were used some 4 years prior and then you bust them out again, you will be disappointed. What resulted was a couple of my minitures had extra chunky primer. Kind of like the old Floquil days for those of you that used that crap from the Paul Frieler days. I guess the nozzles had some shit in them. The unused can worked fine. Moral of the story. Pay the $10 bucks and be happy.

D>M>

PS Its cold.

Friday, December 16, 2005

SF Con '06

Damn. FOr some reason the whole Dennis quiting the of his new promotional position is just too funny. Dennis if you go through with it, wow. A story for the grand kids I should think.

I am slowly working on my mini's. I had forgotten how dreadfully slow I am when painting, but I have been happy with the way things have been turning out.

I look forward to throwing down gloves with someone other than Jorn. Not that he isnt fun to play, but variety is the spice of life and so far I have had a steady monogamous relationship with Jorn. I need to get some more experience, sleeze around a bit. I say the more the better.

D>M>
No Reason SF-Con '06

So, the plan is to invade SF for a no reason con, other than I need to get out of the house cause Leslie is having an all weekend baby shower with her friends! Man, what a rube. My house is being invaded by the ladies all weekend, and there are 3 of them sleeping in my bed, and what do I do? Leave to hang out with boys. Good thing I'm married, cause I don't got a players bone in my body....

My plan is to leave thursday night (Jan 12th), and return Sunday /afternoon/night (Jan 15th). Is anybody with me?!?! Warmachine all weekend! Maybe some pizza and some beer!

Talked to fARTichoke last night, and if he can swing it he might make it up, which would be sweet. If Denis goes through with the most punk rock move of his life by accepting a promotion at work, and then quitting the day he starts, he will be in! If Mike ever checks this blog again, or returns from England (which is where I think he is), Mike is in. If Rudy wants to play Warmachine, he is in!

All I ask is that everyone pitch in some cash for the gas-guzzler!

Okay. I have 13 miniatures to paint by that weekend. Vlad, 3 Widowmakers, 3 Greylord Ternions, mortar gunner, mortar crew, Reinholdt, a Devastator, a Manhunter, and Kommandant Irusk.

I will post regular updates.

Also, I am compiling all of the interesting War College stuff from the link that Jon posted into a manual for all to read. It is really a fine read. Good stuff!

SFNRCon '06

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Also:

Might be a little rough trying to get a tournament-sized chunk of time away from the family just a day or two before JesusChrist's!Mass. But, lemme see what I can get accomplished.
My name?

Ted Nugent. Nice to meet you.
Yeah! that'd be superb!

Downtown is the place to go if ur a local and you know the joints. I doubt there's anymore penny slots. We gotta come up with some rowdy nicknames in case we finish in the top 10 (final table) and bring some accessories to boot. I was thinking we'd stick to the low buyin tourneys, becuz well, it's nice to take other peoples money BUT.... (fiddles with the odds chart)

I'll be in vegas from the 22nd eve, to the 25th morn. Let me know if you are available on one of the two days 23rd, 24th.

EDIT: This is a total beginning to a chevy chase movie
Oddly enough, since moving back to Vegas I haven't gotten out to a casino to play live poker. I've played online a bit, but due to time and life-responsibilities I just haven't been able to get out and get it done for real. Maybe I could talk the wife into a night out with ya, and we could go hit some tables and take some poor old downtown people's mon-ay? That'd be fun! Maybe hit the 'shoe or Fitz' or something.

There's always dime craps as well, as I recall. Hard to beat that.

Good times.

What day(s) will you be here?
Sounds great Avon,

I'm there, whenever that things going, going. My ex girlfriend will be in texas, so i doubt she'll be attending, seeing that we broke up anyhow... /sob as usual, I'll be the only odd one out that is not a couple attending this event, so if you guys don't mind having a mid-aged bachelor in your midst, I'm good! well... maybe me and francis can be friends just for the party and make it a roman party. /cry
Rome series is awesome! I wished there's more fighting. One of these days they should make a miniseries more on combat and combat. I'm sure there'd be a good audience for it.

We can probably find something to do besides golf and warcrack. These kids hasn't invited us into the treehouse, so we'll just have to do something cooler! do you play the texas hold em tourneys? maybe we could do some low buyin pokerin then!

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Warmachine Battle College! Interesting stuff.
I do not golf, but I drive a mean golf-cart! And, I believe my father in law has a membership at a nice course we could maybe make use of if you're interested. I dunno. Maybe I'll whip up a quick 500pt tinfoil Warmachine army and we can have at it. All the kids are doing it! We'll be cool, too.

/cry
Haha. Yeah, Cryx are tricky li'l guys. That game was my first try with the Iron Chef Asphyxious and he is just an amazing bastard. He would kill dwarves, grab their souls for focus, then use his super-cheap "now I move 10" away through walls and terrain" spell. Enron couldn't really get him, but in the end it didn't matter because I couldn't stop him from getting away with the trezor. Anyway it was fun but we really need to rewrite the rules for the Treasure scenario to make it quicker.

Anyway. So yeah, warcasters are balls rad, but they're not really intended to be the guys out in the thick of things. I usually find that when I am fighting with my warcaster, I am about to lose. For the most part you want to keep them just close enough to make their spells useful and give focus to the warjacks. There are certain guys who might be exceptions. The Butcher seems like one and so does Vladimir.

I recommend cherry-picking scenarios from the Escalation campaign. Look them over and possibly adjust them for 500 pts (although most scenarios would probably be OK with 750). The first Khador-Cygnar scenario has Khador defending a guard tower, and if Cygnar doesn't capture it after 8 turns you start rolling for the arrival of Khador's reinforcements (and thus the end of the game). Maybe 6 turns would be more appropriate for a 500 pt game.

Anyway even though the campaign as it stands is sort of cumbersome and unrealistically long I think there's a lot of good stuff to be mined from it.
Ja _El

Aimey and I are having a few people over. I think Jon and Janice will be attending as well. If you are in town come join us try and finish the beer of death. If you are around we should bust out some games too.

War casters can be tough to kill if the player uses them conservatively. Nearly everytime mine has been killed is when I take a risk with them. Although sometimes you need to. Some are better at avoiding death than others. Cryx seems to have a lot of good defensive characteristic for their casters.

Bortz
Fun Fun Fun

ELzar: Jon and I had similar experiences in the begining, but that has changed since they. We tend to be a lot more reserved with our casters and only use them directly in combat if they are able to use a some sort of trickery to get out of trouble fast. Read: Cryx Bastards. Or they will get used in dire, I gotta do this or die scinarios. The last game I played with Jorn for 500 points, I killed every guy on the board while has caster danced around like a little bitch. Cryx is slippery. In the end I did not kill his caster and left the board with the objective. Our game lasted nearly four hours. A bit of gritty battle and a little bit of inexpierence on both our parts with new jacks/casters/units etc...

More on this later
i'll cry if i want to

1) I'm late for this party, again! and with risk of sounding like a complete noob, (U dumb N**B!), I remember having the toughest time killing jons spellcaster. I had all three warjacks alive and his spellcaster just mopped up a few of my warjacks before I was able to finally take him down. Now, has the game changed or you guys found some new rules?

2) let's get it on! in vegas! do you play golf?
Warmachine and You

Played a quickie with Denis this weekend, it ended poorly for everyone's favorite hottie, Sorcha. She was unceremoniously shot 8 times in the back while on the ground by some gutless long-gunners while she was recovering from a passing eathquake. Which brings up my next question about Warmachine and you.

Denis and I play our games to the death of the warcaster, and the games seem to end rather shortly, and without any other troops really getting in the mix at all. We both like to see what the casters can do, but it seems the first person to move the caster into a position to really be used effectively, they are counterattacked and smeared across the earth.

While it is fun, it leaves somewhat of a empty feeling when it is all done and said, at least for me. We have these kick ass mini's and all this firepower and brute strength on the board, and it comes down to who moves their caster out from behind the wall of steel first.

Is this your experience, too? Of course, this will all change when we start to play scenarios, and if we ever use two casters. I didn't really follow either game played at GenCon so I don't know how it worked out there.

Either way, it is fun, and I am still addicted, I was just wondering if there Denis and I were missing something, since we only play each other.

Monday, December 12, 2005

Two things:

1) If you're in Vegas and wanna hook up, let's bangagong.

2) Toy Yoda: CLICK MEH
Some stupid kid

now ownzorz "Lil Rudy" on AOL and AIM. I guess i still had it in my system and for some odd reason i thought it was rudy. He was just full of sugar and spice as all pre-teen 10 year olds are these days and can't spell worth a dime.

sooooo... i've made my decision, and i'm importing a bunch of vitamins to the philippines. Its my first order, so i hope it'll pan out. Investment is always risky, and I wish there was 100% chance that I know exactly if I'll be able to sell any of it. But either i'll be extremely healthy with 5 years supply of multi vitamins or not! Of course if I'm stuck with 5 years of multis, i will gladly ensure my fellow AT team members health as well!

I'll be back on the 21st and so i will call whoever is in town and up for gaming. Actually I'll be in Las vegas with my mom but, i'll be back by end of year. Any new years parties invites????


Johnny

Sunday, December 11, 2005

My team sucks so hard. Feh. Depressed.

P.S. Sorry about my FHL team. I swear, it's not my fault. I've pre-programmed them in for the rest of this month.
I heard that they had 8 of 12 episodes in the can before he went koo-koo banannas. I assume that these are they.

RIP Richard Pryor and Eugene McCarthy.