2015- My Hobby Goals for the Breathless Host

Hi All,

These are my Hobby goals for 2015, and I plan to use this post as a reference for review in December to see if i have been shameful in my hobby or if I have met and perhaps even exceeded my goals for the year.

If i manage to complete everything below and more then i shall reward myself with what i havent a clue, but i am sure to think of something. Only time will tell, but hang on to you hats here comes the good intentions.

Painting
Vampires
Bring my army up to 2500 points
Repaint my 100 skeletons to refresh the scheme.
Paint my 40 Zombies
Paint what ever else is required for the 2500 points.

Wood elves
Finish painting
6 Waywatchers
20 Wildwood rangers
15 Wardancers
1 Shadow Dancer
12 Wild riders
6 Sisters of the thorn

Dwarfs 
Start painting and collecting my new Throng up to 1000 points.
No idea what this will entail, but i will leave this target at 1000 points.

Tournaments
Attend three this year which i hope will be
Cancon- It is on and then some booked in and ready to go.
Rumble in the Bronx- Hoping to get into this awesome event.
Third to be decided- see what comes up through the year.

I may also try my hand again this year at Dueling gamer's if it also occurs.

Well that is my goals set, lets see how they play out.

Cheers
Lupus.

2015 -Cancon list

Well Christmas has come and gone for yet another year, and as i sit and lament about the empty trifle bowl and how it never seems to last past boxing day, I though that whilst my lad was having his afternoon nap I may as well post my army that i will be taking for Cancon, I will be honest here,

SO THAT I WILL STOP TINKERING WITH IT.

Without further ado coming in at 14.7 on the Swedish comp score is my 2400 points of Weaver Corinath's host from the Ashen Halls.

Lord 255pts - 40sc

Spellweaver- Corinath

Lv4- Lore of Life

bow, scroll of shielding, opal amulet                                    

Hero's 487pts - 34SC

Shadowdancer -Bedwyr the swift

Ironcurse icon 

Obsidian Trinket                                                                    

Captain BSB- Aneurin

Light, bow,spear

Enchanted shield,dragon bane gem,Hail of Doom                        

Spellsinger – Ferastella

Lv1- Lore of beasts- bow

dispel scroll, ruby ring of ruin                                                        

Branch wraith – Dura                                                                          

Core:- 600points -20sc

5 Glade riders

inc muso-                                                                                             

12 Glade guard, muso- singer goes here

Trueflight arrows                                                                                    

18 Glade guard, muso, standard- lichebone pennant

trueflight.                                                                                             

Special 628pts - 29sc

5 wildriders

shields                                                                                                   

5 wildriders

shields                                                                                        

28 Wild wood rangers

-Light armour, great weapons,

Full command - flaming banner                                                       

Rare 445pts -30sc

Treeman                                                                  
                          

6 Waywatchers                                                      
                         

1 Eagle                                                                
                            

1 Eagle                                                                    

So here is my take on a combat based wood elves, My lack of anti armor except for my 6 way watchers will  make my army very match up dependent.        
      

Western Clash- The results

On the weekend just gone I attended the 13th Western Clash in Melton hosted by D6gaming.

My objectives for this were as follows
Top 10 placement which out of 16 attendees should work out for me.
Win 1 game
30 bp's overall.

This event was billed as a practice event in the lead up to Cancon.( Which as you should be aware is the next major tournament i will be attending)

The guys at D6gaming did a great job of running the event, and they have a good setup as well.

Anyway on to my match ups but I will not post my wood elves list or the lists or names of my opponents as i did not seek permission, and to be honest i can not really remember them at all.

So without any delay

Game 1. v's Bretts
A nice double lord Bretts list.
I lost this game 13-7, I struggled to kill his knight units but handled the chaff okay.
Highlights

• Bret lances hit hard.
• Beast magic can make units beasts.

Not bad for a first round loss, so i was in good spirits going into game 2. and only 3 bp of my goal.


Game 2. v's Wood elves
A mirror match  against a very interesting Treespirit List let by an Ancient

This game i won 17-3, it is always fun to see what other gamers think of the same race as yourself.
Highlights

• Dwellers can be beastly as can +4 Toughness on a unit.
• I need to remember my Army special rules- arrow of kurnos i am looking at you

Game 3. Dark Elves- Hellbron list
Going into the last round i was fairly apprehensive as Hellbron is a beast and can put out insane damage, i had a lot of luck in this game and my oponnent had some rolls not go his way.
Highlights

• Dark elf dimensional cascade 1st turn gave me magical dominance.
• A lucky spell took care of Hellbron and so i was up 700 points before the end of turn 1.
• This guy was a pleasure to play against and took all the upsets in his stride.

In the end I won the final battle 16-4


The final wash up I placed third, behind a Vampire list and a Mono khorne daemon list.

So how did my list go in the end, it still requires tweaking and changes, but i met my goals for the event.
Top 3 placement
won 2 games
40bp's

Anyway please excuse the lack of detail and pictures, but once my list is submitted in Jan I will provide unending details, that will bore you, and of course some not so pretty pictures.

Cheers
Lupus

Western Clash - A warm up event for Cancon.

In an effort to kickstart my painting again i have signed up for  Western Clash in Melton Victoria a small 20 person 3 games 1 day affair.
I will be using this to tweak my Cancon list as it is advertised as a Cancon warm up event.

So going into this event my goals are

• Help decide my spell lores
• Have fun
• Win one battle
• Score 30 battle points.

Minor goals i will admit, but i am not that savvy with my wood elves as yet, so it is best to be conservative.

Anyway less blogging, if i could blog less than this for the moment, i have figs to assemble and paint.

Cheers

Lupus

All quiet on the painting front.

With October almost over I find that the urge to paint again has returned. With any luck with less then three months to Cancon my new additions will be ready to to roll and I will get a 20 on the painting score.

Time to lay down the Guantlet: Cancon Grudge match

Ferastella lady of the Ashenhalls  sat in contemplation of the weave , it was constantly in flux with the visions and patterns changing at a rapid pace, the only discernible image that she could identify was the death of a Treeman ally at the hands of a Bretonnian Lord with a glowing sword, this must be avenged she thought.

She summoned her herald and bade him to summon her glade guard, the Bretons would feel her wraith at a tiny hamlet that her people once called  Can'ber-ra.

Hi All ,

This is basically the fluff for a grudge match challenge against Josh Crouch my oponnent in Game four of Axemaster, which i hope will agree to a rematch at Cancon game 1.

I expect that he will accept the challenge as he is a top bloke, and i can think of no better way to start an event then with a sure fire fun game.

Cheers
Lupus

Wood Elves : Colors of the Forest Spirits

Hi all,

I just thought I would record the colors that were used for my wood elves, so that if anyone was interested they could try them, but mainly so they are where I will be able to find them.

I may even add pictures, once i get the quality issue solved.

Dryads
Dryad Flesh
Base coat Iyanden Darksun 
Drybrush of Bleached Bone 
Wash of Devlan Mud 

Bark
Base coat Calthan Brown
Drybrush of Bleached Bone 
Wash of Devlan Mud 

Autumn Leaves
Base coat Mechrite Red
Highlight 1 of Fire Dragon Crimson
Highlight 2 of Macharuis Solar Orange

Treekin
Bark
Base coat Calthan Brown
Wash of Devlan Mud
Drybrush Snakebite leather

Autumn Leaves
Base coat Mechrite Red
Highlight 1 of Fire Dragon Crimson or Blood red
Highlight 2 of Macharuis Solar Orange

Fungus
Base coat Kamando Khaki
Wash of Devlan Mud 
Highlight of Kamando Khaki

Vines
Basecoat of Dheneb Stone

Spites
Base coat Hormagaunt Purple 
Wash of Leviathan Purple
Highlight of Hormagaunt Purple 

Drycha
Bark
Base coat Calthan Brown
Wash of Devlan Mud
Drybrush Snakebite leather

Flesh
Base coat Iyanden Darksun 
Highlight 1 of  50% Iyanden Darksun and 50% Bleached Bone 
Highlight 2 of  50% Highlight 1 and 50% Bleached Bone
Wash of Devlan Mud 
Highlight 3 of 50% Highlight 1 and 50% Bleached Bone

Autumn Leaves and Hair
Base coat Mechrite Red
Highlight 1 of Fire Dragon Crimson
Highlight 2 of  50% Mechrite Red and 50% Macharuis Solar Orange
Highlight 3 of Macharuis Solar Orange

Spites

Base coat Hormagaunt Purple 

Wash of Leviathan Purple

Highlight of Hormagaunt Purple

Dryad Filler
Stone
Base Coat - Charadon Granite
Highlight 1 of 1/3 charadon granite and 2/3 Astronomican Grey
Highlight 2 of Astronomican Grey
Wash of Devlan Mud

Dwarf Flesh
Base Coat - Tallarn Flesh
Highlight 1 of 1/2 Tallarn Flesh and 1/2 Elf Flesh
Highlight 2 of Elf Flesh
Wash of Devlan Mud

Treelimbs
Base coat Calthan Brown
Wash of Devlan Mud
Highlight 1 of 1/2 Calthan Brown and 1/2 Snakebite leather
Highlight 2 of Snakebite leather

Spites

Base coat Hormagaunt Purple 
Wash of Leviathan Purple
Highlight of Hormagaunt Purple

Ropes

Base coat Kamando Khaki
Wash of Devlan Mud 
Highlight of Kamando Khaki

Dwarf hair

Base coat Mechrite Red
Highlight 1 of Fire Dragon Crimson
Highlight 2 of  50% Mechrite Red and 50% Macharuis Solar Orange
Highlight 3 of Macharuis Solar Orange

Treeman
Bark
Base coat Calthan Brown
Wash of Devlan Mud
Drybrush Snakebite leather

Fungus
Base coat Kamando Khaki
Wash of Devlan Mud 
Highlight of Kamando Khaki

Skulls
Base coat Kamando Khaki
Wash of Devlan Mud 
Highlight 1 of Bleached bone
Highlight 2 of skull white

Spites and Tongue

Base coat Hormagaunt Purple 
Wash of Leviathan Purple
Highlight of Hormagaunt Purple

Horns

Basecoat of Bestial brown

Highlight 1- 50% Bestial Brown , 50% Bleached Bone

Highlight 2- 50% HL 1 , 50% Bleached Bone

Highlight 3- 50% HL 2 , 50% Bleached Bone

Highlight 4- 100% Bleached Bone

Highlight 5- 100% Skull White

Autumn Leaves
Base coat Mechrite Red
Highlight 1 of Fire Dragon Crimson
Highlight 2 of  50% Mechrite Red and 50% Macharuis Solar Orange
Highlight 3 of Macharuis Solar Orange


Cheers Lupus