History Will Be Made!!

This coming January either a Black man will be sworn in as President or a Woman will be sworn in as Vice President!!

I have been fairly luke warm on McCain up till now. His policies on immigration, gun control, global warming and several other issues had me back peddling and wondering how the hell he ever got the Republican nomination.

Then Obamasiah gives his acceptance speech, all the media hailed him and were ready to have the coronation next week.

Then McCain drops this bombshell and goes and names Palin, the governor of Alaska, and a woman his VP choice. WOW!! is all I have to say.

She is a staunch no BS conservative. She does have a thing for global warming, but isn't a spend a Trillion dollars to do nothing kind, including threatening to sue W for naming polar bears endangered.

She is a former runner up to Miss Alaska, is a lifetime NRA member, hunts, fishes, loves outdoor sports, has 5 kids, and is everything McCain is not.

This was a Fantastic choice and the timing couldn't have been better. I can't wait for the debates now. I think McCain can hammer Obama, as long as he doesn't get the questions ahead of time. And I got the feeling Palin is going to destroy Biden. She is supposed to be good. REAL GOOD!!

Finally, something to get excited about with the Republican ticket.

Until next time...

1st Centaur Chaos Knight

Tonight I finished up the first Centaur chaos knight for the new warriors of chaos book. As I will be running my Centaur army as chaos marauders and knights.

So here you go.


This is a shot of the left flank. I think the tatoo on the left back haunches came out well.


This is a front shot, and came out a bit bright from the flash.


And finally the right side.

Would love to hear some comments on him.

Until next time...

More Warriors of Chaos Goodness

Or would that be Evilness??

Anyway more gleaned out of the ether of the web.

1. Confirmed marks:
Khorne = Frenzy
Nurgle = Cloud of flies (anyone in combat -1 WS, anyone shooting at them -1 BS).
Slaanesh = ItP, and characters get ASF.
Tzeentch = +1 ward save (so 6+ if you had none?) and +1 to cast if you are a wizard.

2. Any unit in army may re-roll PANIC checks.

3. Definite on the War Alter. Works similar to the Cauldron of blood. And can give a unit a roll on the chaos gifts chart per turn. It is a chariot type model.

4. Chaos Knights are base strength 4. But come standard with a sword of might, so str 5 magical. You can replace their magic sword with a lance for str 6 goodness, but lose the str 5 and magic. Cost around 40 points each. Compare that to 45 points each for chosen knights now, that are the same except these have magic weapons.

5. Marauder horsemen, Giants and Ogres may be marked.

6. Ogres have Chaos armor. Not sure if it comes standard, or you buy it.

7. Characters may have 50 points of Chaos gifts on top of their 50/100 points of magic items.

8. Gaze of the Gods Table:
Roll when Character wins a challenge (does NOT include beating champions. damn)
Character kills a large target. (I like that)
Troll regenerates 2 or more wounds.
Chosen at the beginning of the game.
War Alter 1 unit per turn to roll.

Roll 2d6:
2 = become stupid. (ok, a bad one, but not horrible and trolls laugh.)
7 = Nothing
11 = Cause Feer (read this once so not positive.)
12 = roll again twice.

3-6 and 8-10 give different benefits including stat increases.

9. Looks like the only way to have the monster horde is to take the Troll King special character. So I'm guessing trolls become core there.

10. No marauder hero as previously rumored. Thought it was too good to be true.

11. Forsaken: Move 6. Attacks D3 + 1!! Cost around 16-17 points.

12. Chosen are WS 6.

Well, there is a dozen new rumors for now. They are looking good. I'm starting to get pumped about getting my centaur army painted up now. Can't wait to get my hand on the books.

Oh yea, to go ahead and make it an even 13.

13. Spearhead release on Oct 18th.

Until next time...

Wars, Rumors and Rumors of Warriors

With the new Warriors of Chaos book coming out in November, rumors are rampant and spread around all over the net. I'm trying to compile them with some effort and bring them to you here in one post, or several. ;)

I'm very excited about this new list for 1 huge reason, they are bringing Marauder horsemen back into Core for the list, after moving them to special for the WD list. (what a crock that was.)

So my centaurs will be moving back into the realms of chaos, unless the point costs is just too prohibitive.

So without further ado...

First off is the Spearhead box set to be released in late October.
It is suppose to contain:
The Warriors of Chaos Army Book
5 Marauder horsemen
5 Chaos Knights
10 Warhounds
10 Chosen (these would be foot warriors)
6 new character models

The army is supposed to look like this:
Core:
Warriors
Marauders
Marauder Horsemen (!!!WHOOOHOOO!!!)
Chaos Hounds

Special:
Chosen Warriors
Chaos Knights
Warrior Chariots
Dragon Ogres
Chaos Trolls
Chaos Ogres
Forsaken

Rare:
Chaos Spawn
Chaos Giant
Hellcannon
Shaggoth
Chaos War Alter (Possibly)

Army rules:
1. No more undivided mark. Instead all units may re-roll failed psych tests.

2. No more chosen knights.

3. Chaos Warriors: M4 WS5 BS4 S4 T4 W1 I5 A2 Ld8 Chaos Armor (4+) 15 pts
+1 point for a shield.

4. There is a gifts table, that the chosen and characters roll on. Low is bad, med good, high, very good.

5. Each time a character wins a challenge they get another gift.

6. There is a Troll King special character.

7. You can build an all monster list.

8. Chaos Knights are just incredible. WS 5 or 6, Str 5, T4, chaos armor, barded steed and shield for 1+ save. Equipment upgrade for +1 str (morningstar?) or some new special weapon, no lances. 2 Attacks each. So basically the old chosen.

9. Mark of Khorne will give frenzy.

10. Mark of Tzeentch may give +1 level. So heroes can be level 3, Lord level 5. (very much a rumor, unconfirmed.)

11. In one of the magic lists, maybe Tzeentch, is a MM that is strength 2d6. So 2-12. And if you roll 11 or 12, it simply destroys the unit!! Uhmm, I have seen this in 2 places and both places called foul. I'll have to see this to believe it.

12. The pic for the marauder horsemen
shows them in Light armor and shields. And yet are still supposed to be fast cav. So armor 4+ fast cav?? Or is this a take a shield and lose your fast cav ability. I hope not. I'd love my horsemen to have 4+ save and be fast cav. Come to pappa.

13. The Chaos Trolls are supposed to be just broken. One unconfirmed rumor says for every 2 regeneration rolls they make, they gain a gift. See 4 above.

14. Marauder horsemen are now supposed to be str 4. So imagine throwing axes at strength 5, and with flails, strength 6!! Oh yea!!

Well thats it for now, I know I'm forgetting a few things. I'll keep you posted as I find out more.

Until next time...

Some Hillbilly pics

Here are some pics from my games at the Hillbilly.
As always, click on the picture to enlarge them.


This pic was game 1 vs Ben Nietzel and his great looking Dark Elves. The white fig in the middle was cousin Ruby.


Here is the left flank as Dark Riders, witches and a chariot race across the board.


This is the left flank at the end of the game. The cold one knights had crushed Ratspawn and his body guard. But I still had a lot of Rat Ogres left on the board.


And here is the cneter with my herd, hounds and spawn. The spawn is holding onto Ruby. The shadow warriors tried a latch ditch effort to capture her, but failed.


Here is my 2nd battle vs Ty on the mushroom board. He fought his Orcs and goblins hard but in the end, I pulled out the minor victory. Mainly because that lone Rat Ogre on the far bottom left lived.


Not much on the left flank at the end. My herd by a lone fanatic and his Black Orcs that took a 3 unit charge and wiped them all out.


Onto game 3 vs Todd Thacker and his Fall Wood Elfs. Great looking army that kick
ed my butt pretty good. You can see my whole right flank is gone.


I held most of the left flank, but with holding 2 more quarters and a banner, he was able to pull out the victory.


Then Sunday morning came and I pretty much forgot the camera. Didn't take a shot of my great game with Andonti and his Lizardmen but did get a pre-battle pic from Shane and his Lizardmen here.



Well hope you enjoyed the battle pics.

Until next time...

Dark Knight some Spoilers

To get off politics and back into things that are a bit more important. I got out to see the new Batman movie, Dark Knight last night.

I know I'm a bit late on it, as it's been out 2 weeks now. Problem was the wife didn't really want to see it, so my son and I went.

WOW!!! that was just awesome.

Christian Bale puts on another very worthy effort as the dark knight himself and did it well.

But my hat has got to go off to Heath Ledger. I figured all the "talk" was due to his death before the movie opened. But it is not. I think he did a better job than Jack for the Joker. It was just incredible. I don't know how else to say it. They writing for his character was top notch. The magic trick, the story of how he was scarred. The bank robbery, the hospital scene, the fights with batman, the chase scene with the police prisoner truck, the social experiment at the end, wow, just wow!! I just want my phone call. ;)

Aaron Eckhart as the DA Harvey Dent / 2-Face, was a very strong performance. And the makeup for 2-face was the best I have ever seen before. The camera angles were just top notch and the flashing away instead of showing his face, making you want to see it even more. Great direction.

Great supporting cast of Michael Caine Morngan Freeman, Gary Oldman, and the list goes on.

Maggie Gyllenhaal, did a fair job stepping in for Katie Holmes, but on closeups you could see the lines on her face, and just didn't come off as the beautiful Rachel brought up in the first story. She did do a fair job with the acting though.

Did have one huge problem with the movie. SPOILER ALERT!!!

Who the hell didn't bother to search the engine rooms of the Ferries before they left?? Huh?? And from what I could see, you couldn't miss the bombs.

Besides that one big hole in the movie, which is big enough to drive a Mac truck through, the rest of the movie was solid, and thought the story was top notch, even if a bit convoluted.

It is a full 2 1/2 hours and felt like they could have left the Harvey 2-Face story for the next movie. But I guess they didn't think he could hold a whole movie on his own. Or they wanted to complete the story to the point where batman really is a full on wanted criminal for murder.

I definetely give it 3 thumbs up. I'm sure the Joker has a couple extra laying around. So if you haven't seen it yet, and are a Batman fan, get off your butt and go. It is dark, the way batman and the dark knight should be done.

The next one should be really good. Rumors have Johnny Depp as the Riddler, Angelina Jolie as Catwoman or Philip Seymour Hoffman for the Penquin. Would love any of those.

Until next time...