Site Quarantined due to a Nurgle infestation!

Yes, this about sums it up...

Yes, the great unclean one and its countless minions not only launched an all out assault on me last week but had all but claimed total victory by Wednesday. The only reason I even had a Thursday post was because it had been written and scheduled earlier in the week. Regardless, anything even remotely hobbyish ground to a halt and has been at a stand still ever since (unless this meager post qualifies?).

Currently the battle for my survival is still raging, but hopefully the forces of good...(or well, at least my side in case 'good' isn't a proper definition) will have wrested back the tide of contagion to make a proper post later this week. No, I won't have worked on anything new, but I do have a little bit back log that needs blogging about.

The metal lives...(army list/brochure and some other stuff).

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Just a quick post about 2 things.

First off, there was some inquiry to my mention of the Necrons which I fought at the 2006 Altanta Games Day. That Necron army took best appearance, due in part to the judge (as well as probably everyone else who got a copy) being blown away by the list, much less the army itself. I still have a copy of that army's list and have scanned it in for viewing below.

As I said yesterday, I played my Silver Skulls vs. this list in the first round and it was a good ol' fashioned slugfest which I ultimately lost. However my opponent was most entertaining to play against, his army was beautifully painted, and it even had green LEDs lit up inside the monolith. Sorry, I have no photos of his army, though if he reads this, I'm sure he'll be amused to know that copies of his list still do exist.

..and on a different note, my Daemons are going the way of ebay currently. Never really fond of them, I got a cheap codex for them after the lesser daemons got punted from the CSM codex. However what little I have doesn't justify the $50 codex, just for an allied contingent that I'm really not interested in. Harold will retain his name and instead become a Nurgle Sorcerer, who will instead lead some cultists around rather than some daemons.

With the first batch paid for, I've picked up a handful as dirt cheap 2nd ed marines to flesh out the Storm Wardens and add a bit more bulk to the Dark Angels. I also have a bid in on a battlemech, and just this morning I ordered this mini:

Note the hand on the end of the lance, which is giving the enemy the finger...

Hilarious model! I've already dubbed this guy 'That Swine from Altdorf' (he'll be painted accordingly) and he shall be my Stirland Army's mascot (counts as: BSB).

Harold (of Nurgle)

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I hope everyone had a good Christmas and will be enjoying their New Year's holiday. Most may have today and tomorrow off, whereas some (like me) won't. Actually I only have to work (or rather be at work) today. As I wasn't here last week (when arrangements for working today were made),  I was out of sight and out of mind. So I'm the only one here in my department. The options given last week while I was in Florida were use a vacation day (I used the last of mine last week) or be dragooned into inventory today (ugh).  EXCEPT, that was all planned out last week.

So when I arrived this morning to find electricians tearing out the ceiling in my office to replace the light fixtures, I had to hunt around to find my supervisor (who was about to leave) and he sent me to the guy in charge of inventory.

'Nope, we have too many people already, we don't need you. Don't you have a vacation days left?  No? Well, go and hang out in your office and we'll come find you if we need you, I doubt it though.'

Which is why you find me blogging away...Happy New Year folks! lol. Normally I update this on my morning break, however today is nothing but a 'break'. Now as exciting as that was, I doubt you're still reading or you thought 'TL;DR' and just skipped to the picture below, and...uh, yeah, about that.

Warning: Looking too long at this guy may cause nausea...

One of the gifts I received this year for Christmas was the Nurgle Chaos lord. Its a WHFB mini (on a fancy resin base from which a strighori vampire-turned-chaos fury was recently removed), and is made of plastic. It has just as good of detail as a FAILcost mini, yet is in an infinitely better material. So why GW continues to use FAILcost is beyond me.  Anyways, when I received the Red Corsairs, they came with a healthy sized Daemon contingent. However the new CSM codex ommitted the generic daemons, and so they'll now function as allies, and Harold here will lead them as a...herald.

Seriously, what did you expect?

According to the fluff, plague bearers whom are born from those who fall to Nurlge's plagues. However those poor souls with strong constitutions, and whose bodies resist Nurgle's plagues for far longer than the average joe, result in longer incubation times resulting in an exalted plague bearer who is birthed into a Herald. That's how the fluff explains it.

However this being chaos, I'm sure there's more than one way to create a daemon. All followers of Chaos hope to one day achieve the immortality of daemonhood. Most that do, are the champions of the traitor legions and blessed as such they can thus lead their lesser minions for an eternity of destruction. Well, in my guestimation, Harold was a mortal commander who led his unit into Nurgle's thrall, and for this act was granted 'apotheosis' into a daemon. Rather than a daemon prince though, Harold was raised him up to be a Herald (Nurgle is known for his sense of humor...), and thus rather than the leader of a vast warhost, Nurgle has doomed him to an eternity in middle management.

Edit: It looks like I'll be finishing out 2012 with a game of 40k against my Arch Nemesis: Screech and his vile legions of...something. Huzzah!

Christmas Presents!

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This weekend, Eldar of all sorts took to the table in what was a brutal and bloody battle. I was going to make a battle report on that this morning (and save this post for later in the week), but our combat cameraman was unexpectedly waylaid by Hobbits, and no pictures have arrived yet. No matter, will get to it in a few days...

That's a lot of WHFB for someone who doesn't play WHFB...

Tis' the season and all, and I've both received and given toys for Christmas (lol, i recall as a kid dreading growing up as that would no longer mean toys for Christmas...). At left you can see what I've been generously given thus far (and with maybe one exception, is likely to be the extent of this year's 'toys' allotment).

RTVoril gave me the Ciaphas Cain Omnibus. While I've already read that its been a while, and having just finished the best of hammer & bolter it'll keep me entertained during my lunches thru the holidays. Besides, this time of year and the current shopping frenzy, i don't want to go anywhere near a bookstore...

Murl gave me gift cards both for Christmas and a much belated birthday present (gift cards are always accepted btw) and so along with some paint (I always need paint), I got the watchtower. I was telling Screech that I'm still not sold on getting an Ork flyer. So rather than get something I'll use once every 2-3 months I got the tower. He threw his hands in the air and laughed at me saying: 'oh, so instead of something you'll use once in a while, you got something you'll never use?'

Damn it, I hate it when that boy's gotta point...

It'll be painted as the 'castle' to be defended by my little contingent of Stirlanders, not that I ever use them or even have a fieldable army. In reality it just means that at we'll least have some actual WHFB terrain now when playing Mordheim. Which means I'll use it almost as much use as a bomma of some sort. Speaking of Screech, he gave me the other two boxes there. The Chaos Lord will be used as a herald (the painting of which was already started) to lead the Daemon contingent that came with the Red Corsairs, and I just recently gotten some more Catachan arms to make more beastman IG. Thus I had been hunting on a good deal for some more ungor. Well there's no better deal than that!

Note the shield of one of my deceased Skaven on his base...

Going back to Mordheim, one of the gifts I gave to Screech was a painted handgunner for his Reikland warband. He's got two of them, and one of the two rolled 'the lad's got talent'. and I can never tell which is which. To be honest the damned things are disgusting to the point that they make Telion look bad! In general My rats run as fast as possible & from cover to cover in a desperate attempt to get into close combat before getting gunned down. Anyways, at least now I'll be able to tell the difference between the character and the scrub.

I also have another WHFB mini to be given as a gift. While I prefer not to show who's getting what before they get it, I have no idea as to when I'll be seeing Madival, other than it'll be sometime after Christmas. So as this is my Christmas post, it's been posted here.

I hate undead armies, probably because I hate zombies...

 Anyways, this guy didn't come out at all as planned. This is the driver from the corpse cart. However he was obviously not intended to be glued to a base, so no amount of weighting could keep him upright with the torn corpse on the end of his spear. Its a shame as that corpse was why I chose this model, it's tattered uniform was going to be painted in the colors of Nordland which is the army of his usual WHFB opponent Bob...oh well. Given my complete lack of green stuff skills, i couldn't hide the seams on the sides of his cloak. Makes me wonder if they're photoshoped out of the box art...

I figured he'd make for a good Necromancer but in painting him I realized he's actually a vampire with fangs and an armored breastplate. Meh, those two things aren't too noticeable, so could easily be used as either (especially as I already have 2 Strigori for him in varying states of disrepair).  He's painted in the colors of Sylvania prior to its annexation by Stirland and while a simple addition, I rather like the arm coming out of the ground. I didn't have any skeleton arms, so its obviously someone recently deceased. Or rather as a Necromancer/Vampire would see it: 'here comes one more recruit for the cause...'.