Hehe I would hide your wifes hydra and save your high elves the humiliation when it munches your army to bits time and time again - Solves the base issue too!

Looking forward to seeing more - I did laugh when you were discussing how cat proof your army is lol!

Russ Veal wrote:Hehe I would hide your wifes hydra and save your high elves the humiliation when it munches your army to bits time and time again - Solves the base issue too!

Well at the moment I'm struggling with how best to teach her to play the game - we had a 2k battle yesterday which was our largest so far (previously we've just played 500 - 1000 point games).

It was a bit of a massacre (of the Dark Elves) even though she did field a Hydra, a lvl 3 sorceress and a Dread Lord. Having killed her sorceress in the first turn after some stupendous magic dice rolls (aided by the sorceress being out on her own with only woods for cover) I managed to put a wound on her Dread Lord in turn 2 with some shooting. "How many wounds has your Dreadlord got?" I asked, just to check she knew her stuff. "Three" she replied. "Hang on," I respond, "how have you got a Lvl 3 and another Lord character when we're only on 2000 points?". Sigh.

Admittedly I didn't take a soft HE list - as I couldn't be bothered to write a list up in the time available I just used a list I'd had down as a potential for a game I had the day before.

Was a bit of a cock-up all round anyway - I forgot to take a fear test when charging her cold one knights but she forgot to test for stupidity for them all game as well (and as I don't play against them that often I didn't remember to prompt her to check for it).

I think I'm going to have to start writing her lists for her as she keeps fielding rather small units of Black Guard and Executioners, takes 2 units of Corsairs (been trying to steer her away from them to something more useful, is a bit too cautious with her stuff (not marching it up to get in my face meaning I could magic & shoot it down before it got too close) and hasn't been putting shooting on units that can take it (Dark Riders, Corsairs).

Just went to move some bits out of the way and the Hydra went tumbling to the floor. Surprisingly all the heads and the legs stayed on but the tail has come off. As if i didn't have enough stuff I'm trying to paint and assemble.

On the plus side, I'm told I should be getting my laptop back on Thursday, so I should be able to upload some more pictures this weekend.

Thats a sneaky way of dealing with the hydra - I think that belongs on a tactics discussion

I was going to say if only it was as easy as that to kill them in the game...

cerebros wrote:On the plus side, I'm told I should be getting my laptop back on Thursday, so I should be able to upload some more pictures this weekend.

So much for that. Dell must be one of the most incompetent bunch of %&^"*^ it has ever been my misfortune to deal with.

After phoning up to check why I didn't receive my laptop yesterday I was told that it was out for delivery today and given a waybill reference. I duly plug that number into the courier's site and nothing can be found. Phone the courier who refer me back to Dell.

Next person I speak to at Dell says he can't find an actual consignment number but gives me Dell's customer reference number and says that the couriers will be able to trace the delivery based on that.

Back onto the couriers and they've got nothing for delivery to my office today. So basically Dell didn't send it Wednesday in order for it to be delivered yesterday like they said they would and they also didn't pull their fingers out and send it out yesterday for delivery today. If I'm lucky I might get it Monday...

Despite planning to get a load of painting done this afternoon instead I spent most of the time trying to put the tail back on the wife's Hydra after I'd given up trying to prise magnets off the bases of some of my metal models (the ones I didn't add with a blob of green stuff so that the magnet was level with the base - going to have to try and get some solvent sometime soon and get them off).

Having a good look at the fit of the tail and the amount of green stuff I'd applied I decided the main cause of the tail coming off (apart from the impact when it hit the floor) was that due to the atrocious fit of the tail the square nub on the tail barely went into the hole on the main body of the Hydra and the green stuff I'd added didn't fit into the gap much - I'd more put a covering over the gap than filled it in.

So, this time round I've added a couple more pins to the tail and tried the Milliput I've got for filling in the gap (just to see if it's any easier to use than green stuff). Currently I've left the Milliput to cure while I continue mulling over how to attach the Hydra to the base.

Just got my laptop back.

Assuming Dell haven't managed to mess it up in any way while doing the repairs I should hopefully be able to upload the newer pictures tomorrow night (assuming I remember to).

Good timing too as I've slightly broken the missus' netbook (well, is it my fault that it won't update itself properly? bored techies will tinker...)

Well as I've already got bored of wading through my backlog of emails here are a few photo updates.


First off here's my converted Spearman champion.


Before Green Stuff (ignore the slight splodge on there, had a brief go and then decided to try again but take a photo first)




Next up is the Champion after I've done my Green Stuff-ing.





I didn't get the armour quite as good as I was hoping but I think it's a reasonable first effort. I'm more annoyed by the fact that I couldn't do anything about creating a shoulder piece that worked so that it mirrored the piece you can see on the left shoulder there.


The hydra after its tail amputation (regenerating monster indeed):




And finally my Great Eagle (which I don't think I've mentioned before)

Jeepers! It's been a fortnight since that last update. Where has time gone?

Well I know where my laptop has gone - back to Dell. Or rather it would have if them using the wrong post code didn't for some reason mean they did not then call back for 2 working days to tell me when the pickup would be (even more annoying since the address they got the post code from is only a mile from the correct address).

Anyway, painting at home has kind of ground to a halt at the moment as i just can't seem to drum up the enthusiasm for it. It's also not helped by the missus now working shorter nights (only until 8 p.m. instead of 9:30) and having more nights off at the moment which means I'm getting fewer chances to sit down and concentrate.

I have, however, done some more on the assembling side of things. Having finally got the tail back on the bloody hydra I'm currently assembling a few of the missus' other Dark Elf bits, primarily as in an attempt to get her to get stuff painted I seem to have taken on the role of chief assembler. Unfortuantely, after opening up the various blister packs so I could trim off and file down I hadn't done anything with the bits for a while until the cat started knocking over the blisters and dumping the bits everywhere. With that in mind I thought I'd better get on and stick things togther (unfortunately what mostly seems to stick together is the skin of my fingers to whatever it is I'm trying to glue - for the past 4 nights I've gone to bed with a layer of superglue and green stuff on my fingers).

Additionally, I have finally, FINALLY, gotten round to assembling my first batch of High Elf steeds for my Dragon Princes (including green-stuffing the really bad joins) as well as sticking bits of brass rod up where the sun don't shine of my first five Dragon Princes. Having put holes into the saddles of the steeds and tested inserting and removing the knights I'm pleased to report that this looks like a workable solution, so now I just need to get on with painting them.

The only painting I've been doing consistently for the past couple of weeks has been at work where I'm now doing base armour coats on the remainder of my White Lion block and my Phoenix Guard. The Phonex Guard seem to be the HE infantry equivalent of the Dragon Princes in terms of painting in that there's a lot (albeit not as much as with the DPs) of armour to paint that would definitely get me down if I weren't just doing 2 - 3 models a day.

Next week I should be able to start on cloth as I've now got some 10ml paint pots off ebay to decant my pots of Foundry paints into (although given the lack of painting going on at home I could probably how just not bothered and taken the Foundry pots to work).

Oh, and on a final note, I ended up buying another HE mage from ebay when I did the maths and realised all my current lists call for 2 mages on foot and I only have 1.

Anyway, hopefully my laptop will be back soon and I can upload some more pictures.