Thundercliff Peaks, New from Privateer and more....

Its Shattered Grounds time again. Thundercliff peaks!
The map and all rules can be found at Privateer Press Events
The league goes live from tomorrow until May 15th.

There are 2 running in Cornwall UK this time around at

North Cornwall Beasts and Bionics (NCBB) and
Mad for Miniatures(MfM), Mid Cornwall Gaming Club

The MfM league started this friday.
Seeing there arequite afew new players its keeping to the Battlebox or 15 point games.
10 games each ending in a Battlebox tournament. All count as 15 point games so its 2 point for playing and 1 for winning.

Night 1 went really well.
The league ladder started as so-
1. Richard
2. Lisa
3. Ian
4. Darren
5. Hannah
6. Andrew
7. Matt
8. Steve
9. Anj
10. Claire
11. Luke

2 of each Warmachine Battleboxes, 1 Legion of Everblight, 1 Talion Charter Mercs (I like to be different) and 1 Retribution of Scyrah.

After 2 games each the ladder now stands at
1. Darren - 6
2. Andrew - 6
3. Matt - 6
4. Steve - 6
5. Anj - 6
6. Hannah - 5
7. Claire - 5
8. Rich - 4
9. Ian - 4
10. Lisa - 2
11. Luke - 2
12. Mark - 0

Ok ok. I lost both my games. But had great fun with a new Warmachine + Hordes community doing it.
(Damn Lylyth and Feora!)

Next week Im lined up to play Rich and Anj. Both Khador. Going to hurt I think!

The NCBB league also starts next week. Full rules can be found HERE
Cant wait. I do like 50pts of screaming Pirates charging half way across the board on turn 1!!!!
Will also add the second part to the 2011 league patch.

Kernow-Machine!
Cornwalls first official Steamroller tournament is becoming very popular already.
Only a couple of places left. Get in there quick if you want to play. June 4th at Mad for Miniatures

all info can be found in my last Blog Post


New from Privateer Press
Got 3 new previews to show you this week. And also the list of whats coming in JULY!

First off we have Kommander Harkevich. Khadors new Warcaster in Warmachine: Wrath

Furry hat, goggles, big beard and a Steam Mace just equal WIN to me!

Next is Harkevich's new Character Warjack - Black Ivan

Its an upgrade kit to the plastic Warjack kit. Looks amazing. That claw looksreal mean and the face seems to be saying 'I gona crush you!' I can see the shoulder spikes being added to many more Khador Jacks aswell.

The final pic is for Cryx. The new Bane Thralls Unit Resculpt

Stunning! Just.....WOW! Thats about all I can say about them really.

And to finish off today we have the July Releases taken from TGN. Check out the link to the left >>>

Warmachine

• PIP 31078 Cygnar Storm Strider Battle Engine (white metal and resin) – $84.99
• PIP 31091 Cygnar Gallant Heavy Warjack Character Upgrade Kit (white metal) – $13.99
• PIP 32085 Protectorate of Menoth Blood of Martyrs Heavy Warjack Character Upgrade Kit (white metal) – $13.99
• PIP 33087 Khador Black Ivan Heavy Warjack Character Upgrade Kit (white metal) – $14.99
• PIP 34093 Cryx Erebus Helljack Character Upgrade Kit (white metal) – TBD*
• PIP 41083 Mercenary Warcaster Captain Damiano (white metal) – TBD*

Hordes

• PIP 71064 Trollblood Trollkin Scattergunner Officer & Standard Unit Attachment (white metal) – TBD*
• PIP 75036 Minion Targ Character Solo (white metal) – $13.99

Monsterpocalypse

• PIP 50035C Monsterpocalypse DMZ Battle Miniatures Game Expansion – $239.94

No Quarter

• PIP NQ37 No Quarter Magazine #37 – $7.50

Being a Merc player I cant wait to see what Damiano will look like. And what he will do.
And being a Minion players Im looking forward to Targ aswell. Think he may be a Farrow. Same name as Dr.Arkadius's assisstant in the story from Forces of Hordes: Legion of Everblight.
Could he also be the Farrow in the back of Dr.As artwork? Ohhh I hope so!

Monsterpocalypse DMZ (Dangerous Monster Zone) also has me excited.
PP are going from random pack collectible to open pack models. Now you can buy exactly what you want.
My Martian Menace and Planet Eaters (out of the new 2 player starter sets from my amazing wife) are awaiting reinforcements.
I hope it will also draw more attention to the game and get some new players interested.
Cant wait to smash more cities!!!

Thats all for today now folks.
Too many pictures in this post? Maybe
Do I think they all look great? Yes!

May your random number generator cubes do you well. (Better than mine did me this week anyway)

Cheers all

Ian
PG hendybadger

KERNOW-MACHINE!! Cornwalls First Official Warmachine + Hordes Tournamnet.

Its finally here. KERNOW-MACHINE!!!!
Cornwall first official Warmachine and Hordes Steamroller Tournament.

WHERE - Mad for Miniatures, the Market House, St.Austell, Cornwall

WHEN- June 4th, 10am start

WHAT - Steamroller Warmachine + Hordes tournament.

This event will use the official Steamroller 2011 rules. Can be found at Privateer Press in the Organised Play section or downloaded directly HERE (click to download)

There will be
16 player places available
4 rounds which all will play in
4 different scenarios, 1 per round
Baseline painting requirements
Baseline victory requirements
Baseline final standings

The entry fee will be £10 per person
(To be paid beforehand. So we can get the pack out and army lists returned)

Prizes
1st - SR 1st place Certificate + Coin. £35 Mad for Miniatures voucher
2nd- SR 2nd place Certificate + Coin. £25 MfM voucher
3rd - SR 3rd place Certificate + Coin. £15 MfM voucher

Best Painted - £15 MfM voucher
Best Sportsmanship - £10 MfM voucher

What you will need
- 2 legal 35 point armys lists from the same Faction. Each to be used in atleast 1 round.
(to be submitted before hand)
- The models for above lists (obviously)
- 1 Objective marker on a 50mm base and 1 Flag marker on a 40mm base.
- The Steamroller 2011 rules
- Templates,Tape Measure, Dice, and Tokens you will need for you games.
- Lunch or some money to get lunch. (Lots of places to eat close by)


WANT TO PLAY?
For more information or to take part in this event please contact me (Ian PG hendybadger) at hendybadger@aol.com

Hope you rlooking forward to it!
I know I am!

Shattered Ground: Thundercliff Peaks @ NCBB , Legion Battle Engine + More

Shattered Ground: Thundercliff Peaks will soon be starting at North Cornwall Beasts and Bionics gaming club. Our first night will be April 21st.
We will be using the main Shattered Grounds rules. They can be found a couple of blog posts down, on Privateer Press or on Privateer Events.
But with a couple of small alterations.

Games
Games played at the club count towards you league score. If you cant make a club night then we will arrange something else so you dont fall behind.

Games are not to be played against the same person twice in a roe on a club night.

50pts will be the max points limit. You can play more but will only get the league points for a 50pts game.
(This is to give the people with smaller collections an equal chance of winning)

Any games played outside of club hours will not count towards you league score but will count as a map point if 35pts or over.

The player thats lower down the league ladder picks the map area to be played at AND the points size of the game.

Combat Engineer Commendation
The get the Commendation you need to create 1 peice of scenery for the club to be used in Warmachine and Hordes games. This is to be finished by the last night of the league.
The best piece will be voted on by all players and thw winner will get 2 official Factions patches of thier choice.

Battle Dressed Comendation
To gain this commendation you need to paint 1 unit during the course of the league

Participation Patches
Each player will recieve the sceond part of the 2011 Shattered Grounds participation patch.

Sportsmanship award
On the final night each player will vote for the person they consider to be the best sportsman during the league. The winner recieves a bonus 3 league points!

Final Night
'Thunderdome!!!!!'

The final night will be a selection of 4/5 player 'Thunderdome' games. Each to count as a multi player 35pt game.

The rules are here-

Warcaster Thunderdome is a 4-player format.

Each player’s army consists of three Warcasters/Warlocks from the same faction. Each Warcaster/Warlock choice can only ever bring one model to the table. No Halfjacks, no Keg Carrier, only one Coven member, Goreshade has no feat, etc. Yes, this makes some casters a bad choice in the format.
The Warcasters are considered to be each others battlegroup.
The field of play is 36" on each side. Deployment zones are a 10" bubble at each corner. There is a 12" hill in the center of the board, and an 8" impassable wall extends from the center of each edge toward the center of the board.
Models cannot be healed and cannot regenerate power fields in any way. Once damage is inflicted, it cannot be removed.


Warlocks use the mechanics for Focus instead of Fury– they gain their full Fury value at the start of the turn, and overcharge instead of transferring. Warcaster Thunderdome is intended to be a very fast format.
While there are no timed turns per se, players should be punished with badgering and verbal abuse if they play slowly or waste time strategizing. Plan on your opponent’s turn– when it’s your go, GO!

Mutators (Optional)
At the start of the first player’s turn each round, roll a D6, and immediately execute the according mutator:

1- Immediately push each model 3" toward the center of the table (closest models first to avoid logjams).
2- Models generate two additional focus/fury this round. Immediately put two focus/fury on each model.
3- Each player selects one warcaster/warlock he controls. That model may use its feat this round without “expending” its use of the feat, even if it has already been used.
4- Upkeep spells have no effect this round (though they remain in play and can be upkept).
5- Models gain one additional initial attack this round, ignoring rate of fire.
6- LOS is restricted to 8" this round. Models cannot ignore LOS when attacking.

So, What do you think?

You ready to play?

Legion of Everblight, Thorne of Everblight Battle Engine
Yesterday Privateer Press showed the world the new Concept art for the Legion of Everblight, Throne of Everblight Battle Engine

Now thats creepy. I like it!

Tournaments

The planning for the first ever Cornish Steamroller Tournament is going well. June 4th at Mad for Miniatures.

Will update with more info when we have it.

A couple of others idea have been flaoting around aswell.

Both from the PGs around the world

1) The EPIC FAIL tournament

You create the worst possible list you can. The when playing a game you swap armies with your opponent and try to make your army lose.

The winner is the person that has the army with the most losses.

2) the Acheivement Unlocked tournament

Each player has a list of situations, rolls, things to do in game etc. Each has a points value.

Just like collecting achievements on an Xbox game you try and get as many as possible during your games.

The winner is the one with the most points at the end.

What do you think of those then?

Thats all for today people.

May your random number generator cubes do you well

Hendy

Lock & Load Extended + Farrow Slaughterhousers!!!!

Hi all

Privateer Press have just announced that the Lock & Load gamefest will be extended to include alot more for the event goers.
Original post - HERE
For more info on Lock & Load, PPs first massive event, check out thier Main Site

Would love to go myself but its a long old way across the pond. Cant wait to see all the pics and reports afterwards though.

And today we also have

The first look at models (probably) from Hordes: Domination. The 2011 Hordes expansion due later this year.
The Farrow Slaughterhousers (check the link for a full 360 veiw of the leader. Its stunning!)

Bloodthirsty, tough as nails, and strong enough to hack the arms off a gorax, slaughterhousers serve as vicious shock troops in farrow warbands. Heedless of danger, slaughterhouser units charge recklessly into battle, cutting a wide swath through the enemy with their massive pole cleavers and shaking off wounds that would kill or incapacitate lesser farrow.

Im so happy I just picked up Lord Carver and Dr Arkadius.
Who could turn down a pig called Bringer of Most Massive Destrucion, Esquire the 3rd?

The Slaughterhousers description gets my brain going. Tough? Reach? Berserk? Thresher? Who knows?
Whatever the rules will be, I want them!!!!!
Will be a great close combat unit addition to the already amazing Farrow line.

Thats all for today though folks.
Will be back soon with the setup of Shattered Grounds: Thundercliff Peaks @ North Cornwall Beasts and Bionics

May your random number generator cubes be faithful!

Cornish Steamroller Tournament + Warmachine News

Could this be the first Steamroller Tournament in Cornwall?
As far as I know, yes!
The Cornish Steamroller!!!!!!!
(I promise to think up a better name for it though)

Its still only in the planning stages but at the moment we are looking at-

Standard Steamroller rules - can be found by clicking HERE or downloading them from the Privateer Press main site

Sat June 4th
Mad for Miniatures
35 points, 2 lists (each to be used atleast once)
Untimed 4 rounds. (Everyone gets 4 games)
4 SR2011 Scenarios
16 places available
Baseline painting, Victory and Final standings
£10 entry fee

The prizes will be added to but these are what we are starting with-
1st- Certificate, SR Coin, MfM voucher £?
2nd - Certificate, SR Coin, MfM voucher £?
3rd - Certificate, SR Coin, Mfm voucher £?
Best Painted - ?
Sportsmanship - ?

As you can see its still in the planning stages. The final setup and prize list will be posted as soon as we have it.

Whats the Warmachine news then????
(yes I heard you)

First off we have the Retribution of Scyrah Heavy Rifle Team

The cannons used by the heavy rifle teams of the houseguard are deadly effective pieces of Iosan ordnance. The heavy rifle crews are adept at picking apart enemies from well across the battlefield, and the heavy bolts fired by their cannons can penetrate thick armor with appalling ease.

I love it! I have been umming and ahhhing about restarting my RoS force. But this makes me want to go for it. I want to take things down with a real big gun!. (But hope I never face it!)
The rules can also be found in the current issue of No Quarter #35.

Next up we have a nice scale shot of the Cryx Wraith Engine and the Cygnar Storm Strider from Adepticon 2011

Being next to a selection of different models it really shows the pure size of these creations. They are HUGE! Cant wait until I start to see them on the field of battle,

On a personnal note Im still having abit of Faction ADD. And SMS (shiny model syndrome)
Currently Im working on
Mercs: Talion Charter , almost 150pts of Pirates. 1 unit and 3 Jacks left to get. Until Wrath anyway
Cryx: Pirates. Just gained my Casters to add to my undead pirate units
Minions: Blindwater Gators. Nice size of around 35 pts at the mo. So many more I want though.
Minions: Thornfall Farrow. Just started but cant wait to 'Let slip the HOGS of war!'

And in the planning stages
Mercs: Searforge Dwarves + afew other Mercs to play about with Four Star and Highborn


And to finish off, I discovered this week I have a couple of high ranking PP/Cerberus staff readers. Hello to you!

May you random number generator cubes please you.
Hendybadger

Shattered Grounds: Thundercliff Peaks @ Mad for Miniatures / Mid Cornwall Gaming

Cornwall now has another Shattered Grounds venue! Yay!
Mad for Miniatures instore club Mid Cornwall Gaming Club will be running Thindercliff Peaks.

As usual the Shattered Grounds rules and info can be found at Privateer Press Events

Here is the summary of how it will work at MfM from Ego Ninja

Shattered Grounds: Thundercliff Peaks
(April 15th - May 14th)

To take into account the large number of new players taking part in this leg of the Shattered Grounds league we have made a few changes to the core Shattered grounds rules.

1. ALL games will be either Battlebox/Warpack OR 15 points.
2. ALL players will have 10 games over the course of the league, chosen at random.

Pre-league event

All players have unitl the last day of the league to make one item of scenery for the club.
On the final day of play all players will vote on the best item of scenery with the winner getting a £10 MfM voucher.

League finale

Our last day of play will be a battlebox tournament, held on Friday 13th May.

So far we have 11 players signed up!

Matt - Legion
Hannah - Menoth
Darren - Cryx
Lisa - Cryx
Rich - Khador
Claire - Menoth
Andrew P - Khador
Steve - Cygnar
Luke - Retribution of Scyrah
Ian - Talion Charter
Andrew B - Cygnar

Any Faction that doesnt have a Battlebox/Warpack will have 11pts that can be a Warlock/Warcaster and Warbeasts/Warjacks only

I will keep the results and reports of how the league is running updated here on the blog.

Bless your random number generator cubes!
Hendybadger