I fell asleep last night watching Red Dwarf, then woke up again at 2pm, my mind doing ponderous windmills. So, I gave up on sleep and watched like four more episodes until I fell unconscious again for a few hours. Dawn came soon. I am majorly sleep deprived.
Against my better judgment I filled a mixing bowl with generic brand Capn Crunch and sent my pancreas running for cover.
I took Willow for a ride in the stroller. It snowed overnight, the mountains are powdered with it, and there is perhaps a good inch layer on the trees.
I tried to be on time for church, but didn’t make it. Next week it shall be! For some reason I’m in a real funk on Sundays. There are like six families in the ward having a hard time right now so I’ve nothing to complain about.
Maybe I’m “crashing” around church time.
We cooked up some dumplings for dinner, so delicious and filling.
We “gobbled” three families: leaving cookies with a note to forward it to others. We were gobbled earlier this week.
This is the astounding new Queek Headtaker model. It makes for a great Warlord as well.
Today I hung out with the family for a few hours, watching kids cartoons and eating breakfast with my lovely wife. I have a lot to get accomplished at the studio (had, I guess) so I headed down around 10am or so. My wife headed up to visit her sister along with all the kids.
I’m just hanging out down here by myself. Yup all by my pitiful lonesomes. It’s pathetic. I’m really down in the dumps.
My inbox is cleared.
I’m going to go home and hang out. I’ll be on and off, so if you’d like to set something up that would completely make my night.
I ate an omelette and orange juice for breakfast, kitty corner at the dining room table with my wife, sitting primly in silky pink pajamas. We talked about money, plans for the kids, and the daily news.
At the studio today there were at once eight people in, coming and going with various projects.
I have models on hand for several armies, as I’ve mentioned before:
Lizardmen
Imperial Guard (see below for general list– this isn’t set in stone, you can add/subtract things)
Skaven
Space Wolves
Orks
Orcs and Goblins
Khador
Just email me for details. I can get them started straitaway.
I have a dream that one of these will be set up by the end of the day on Saturday.
I’ve become quite a fan of Red Dwarf. I also rediscovered an old favorite album: Hounds of Love by Kate Bush.
I used to listen to this tape when I worked for Raven Maps back in Oregon as a single young man, I think 19-20. I was the sole warehouseman, packing and shipping giant maps. I was by myself down in this huge building. I loved it. I got to organize everything. I improved the methods of packing. I got the job because the owners frequented the video store where I worked before that. I earned $3.55 an hour. When the Map job was offered at $7.50 an hour I thought I was the richest man on earth, nearly double raise. I used to buy cookies at the Cookie Connection just up the street. There was a girl named Tamara (not same as my current wife) there who I had quite a crush on. She ended up marrying the owner of the local bike shop.
I played a couple of games for the studio Warhammer Fantasy Campaign, in the 300-400 range. We’re trying to get everyone worked up to a full 2000+ pt army. I’m the only one who works at the studio with a full army (Dark Elves). Here are the army types and point totals:
I take that back; Janene has a 1500 pt Dwarf army. She is refurbishing it and adding some cool current edition models.
I left a bit early. Sarah was just finishing up packing, a monster day of packing, and just barely making it to the Post Office. It probably won’t be until over the weekend that confirmations will be out. So, rest easy. If there were any stragglers I plan on getting those out Saturday (tomorrow).
I gave my wife a much-needed break to go out to some Twilight shindig with her girlfriends. I got to be home with the kids, each one a delight. Not an ounce of frustration (tonight!). I fried up some dumplings, put them in a giant shallow bowl with soy sauce in the middle with several forks and a huge glass of orange juice and another of milk, and we all ate off the same dish. And a side of green beans. Deeelish!
Here is a view from the plateau on which Spanish Fork rests, looking south over the dales and farmland. It doesn’t show, but I’m a good fifty feet above this valley.
Life is so good. I have this last year, been waiting for the other shoe to drop. How could life be so sweet and not have some terrible punishment in store? This is not what is waiting for me. The thing that I thought would be the best case scenario is only the foothill at the base of the Mountain of Goodness that the God of Creation has in store. He is full of grace and mercy. The only question is will I open my hand broadly enough to receive it. Will I have the courage and faith to embrace it?
When things go wrong I start to waver, perhaps like Peter on the water. I clamber for the edge of the boat. I must have greater faith that the Good Lord is showing me to something good.
Hey, saw your post in the blog, thought I’d give you some thoughts on that (I used to play chaos.)
First off, I think chaos terminators are far superior to normal termies. For one, their guns are actually twin linked bolters, as opposed to storm bolters that normal termies carry. Though they don’t get two shots from 24 inches, but they are twin linked and rapid fire. Next, they get normal power weapons as opposed to having power fists stock. This is good because it lets your thin out the ranks of termies before their power fists get the chance to attack you. And, for the same price as a normal termie (40 points) you can have your chaos termie as a champion (3 attacks, and everyone in the squad can be upgraded this way.) This will help you wipe out a termie squad before they even have a chance to fight back.
Chaos rhinos are also pretty useful (seeing as how oceanic eldar cant kill them 🙂 Seeing as how 5th ed is all about mech, chaos rhinos can fill their role as transports well because of demonic possession. While it is 20 points, it lets you fearlessly charge your rhino across the board and into your opponents face (so what if it lowers your BS to 3, not like your supposed to be shooting with a transport much anyways.)
Defilers are also amazing. I would recommend two. This way if one gets shot to hell you still have another. The battle cannon seems like the most useful weapon on a defiler, but most people aren’t aware of its prowess in close combat. If you get one, give it all close combat weapons, and charge it (or use the battle cannon if it still has it) and use fleet to get into the opponents face. Defilers are probably the most fun heavy support choice in the chaos list.
If you plan on giving your regular marines a mark, the one that I recommend is mark of tzeentch. A 5+ invulncertaintly helps them capture objectives. Slaanesh is also really useful against regular marines as you can attack before they do and hopefully wipe them out. Mark of chaos glory also helps in case you lose combat and need to make a reroll for moral. (Dont forget a termie squad can deep strike and not scatter within 6 inches of a mark)
Finally, I would recommend taking at least one squad of berserkers in a land raider. This allows you to rush your berserkers into combat and then assault out of their transport. Possessed also fill this role fairly well, but a pricey value.
Hope this helps, I got a couple more ideas but let me know what you think. Oh and the eldar army turned out great 🙂
I’ve been able to see the Doomwheel in action a few times.
Like most Skaven machinery, it has a chance to work spectacularly (eg double-time it across the board and Terror three units off the board) or to actually kill your own guys.
The Doomwheel is a wrecking machine, virtually no down-side. Let’s take a closer look.
Defenses The Doomwheel is Toughness 6 and has Wounds 5 and a 4+ armor save. It also causes Terror. This puts it on par with a Giant for overall durability.
Movement The Doomwheel moves 3d6″ a turn for an average movement of 10-11″. This makes its overall movement better than a chariot of cavalry on average since this is not slowed by models being nearby (ie it has no March move, it just trundles along at a steady pace). Even better, it does not need to have line of sight to charge, it can just zig around the board without a care in the world.
The machine does suffer d3 S4 hits if it moves into difficult terrain, but so what? On average that’s two hits, and each one needs a SIX to cause a wound. It takes d6 S10 hits if it moves into a building or impassable terrain. Ouch. But at least it’s not automatically destroyed.
Ranged The Doomwheel shoots three lightning bolts every turn. They hit automatically. Strength is an Artillery dice.
I’ve started watching Red Dwarf on Youtube. That show is absolute genius. I love it. I can’t get enough. Smegging Hell, I get at least three good belly laughs per episode.
My main concern right now is that we’re a bit light for December. See last post for details.
I have the following armies on hand (unpainted/unassembled) if you want to dive in headfirst I can get them started the next day.
Lizardmen
Orcs and Goblins
Space Wolves
Orks (40K)
Skaven
Khador
Getting home tonight was an absolute delight. My house is warm and happy. I just love my wife and kids. Little Willow was in the center of the kitchen floor in her purple Bumbo (a soft sort of low chair) eating mashed potatoes. They were all over her face. She was squealing and smiling with delight. Later, as I was laying on the couch watching TV, my wife brought her in after a bath, with her pink sleepers on and I just got to snuggle with her and smell her delicious hair. She was smiling and chirping and making her monosyllabic baby-talk.
