Well, the first annual Nitz in Your Face tounrament came and went. We had, at the apex, 8 players. That was a pretty great turnout for the first gathering. Guys came from as far as North Dakota and Missouri to play. We ran three tables in my house, one in the basement and two on the main level. It was a fun time, with guys getting a chance to play mulitple battles at a wide arrangment of points values. The dragon gaming goodness was capped off with a Arena of Death battle. Each person had 500 points to spend on a tooled up character, as well as 250 points to spend on a assistant character to help him. In the end, a tooled up (illegally) dwarf slayer combo ruled the day, slaying the Dark Elf Dragon on the final turn. Here's a few pics from the weekend.

This past weekend marked the 1st annual (hopefully) Nitz n' your Face tournament at my house. Pics and details should be posted within the next couple days. It was awesome!

quick update - some basing

Got some quality basing and matt varnishing done this weekend, so here are a few pics of my army as it stands now. They aren't very good, but I'll try to fix them this weekend. Also put in a pic of one of my two reaper bolt throwers, and the basing I'm using, as seen on my black guard/iron gut unit.

Bloodbowl and Basing

Just a quick update today. Driver and I played some bloodbowl on Sunday night, which was great fun. We were both rusty, so it took a while to refresh the rules, but it really is a great game. We made it through a half before we decided to call the game, with my UNI humans team edging out his Dark Elf force 1-0. This has inspired me to revisit my bloodbowl teams and try to get them painted up. To that effect I finished up most of my Human team (modeled after my college and college friends) and began working on the dark elves I aquired off e-bay. Unfortuantly, those elves supposidly came "painted" but it was pretty substandard, so I'm trying to improve them slightly. On the WHFB front, I have begun further work on basing most of my models. Once I finish that, most of my army will be ready for the table top. The witch elves, shades, a chariot, and one more unit of spearelves are the only units I have yet to start. I'll post some pics of all the finished units when i get the bases done... hopefully by sunday.

Here are some better resolution pictures to take a look at. my dark elves. I am not a very sophisticated painter, but I'm working on it. Enjoy. Feel free to drop me a comment or question.

ok, clearly the pics are terrible. I am researching picture taking techniques as I type this, and I will try to do better next time guys.

Here is my current DE list. It is based around a 2250 point force, which seems to be the gold standard for tournaments now-a-days. This is the 7th incanration of this list, but I suppose that is what happens when you collect and develop an army over 3 years... haha.

The list - names to follow

General - Nobel - Crimson death (Str 6), cold one, full armor
Nobel - Pegasus, Death Mask (terror) halbred, full armor, x-bow
Nobel - Steed, halbred, x-bow, full armor
Soceress - lvl 2, dipsell scroll, +1 Spell

15 warriors - naked
15 warriors - naked
15 warriors - naked
5 dark riders - naked
5 dark riders - naked
5 Cold One Knights - War banner
2 Cold One Chariots - + spears and scythes
6 Shades
12 Witch Elves - full command, + manbane for hag
2 Reaper Bolt Throwers
4 Ironguts - full command, masquerading as Black Guard

Dark Elf Updates

well, my dark elf project has been a long time running. I originally concieved the idea to do the dark elves after the Hillbilly 05. Since then, I have slowly begun painting and collecting them. World of Warcraft sort of curtailed my minitures hobby for a long time, but once I gave that up, I was able to focus more attention on my fledging dark elf hobby. In doing that, I really began to make some headway on the army. The past few months have been crazy and so my progress has slowed, but I am now heading into a time I can again get cracking on these guys, and I hope to have them ready for the 08 tournament season.

Image one is my Black Guard, which I will actually be using as DoW ogres. Image 2 is my finished spear elves regiment. Image 3 is my sorceress, which will be a level 2 magic caster. Image 5 is my noble on cold one, using a converted carnasaur to show what B.A. he is. I apologize for the blurriness of the pics. I don't think that my camera nor my photography skills are good enough to do much better. Let me know what you think with what you can see.

*edit: I am doing some research on taking better miniture photos, I'll try to get those up!

Hello...

Welcome to my blog about my hobby of dragon gaming. For me, this could include any number of various nerdy games, however, I will mostly focus on Games Workshop games. I am currently working on an Ultramarines army for 40k and a Dark Elf army for WHFB. I will hope to chart the progress here.