Or: A game of Warmachine sometimes feels like being force choked…
Welcome to my next article on HCO. This time, we will dive into a psychological aspect of the game: Pressuring your opponent and being pressured. This article will show you how to apply pressure in the game.
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With any game system that you play as either a GM or a player with a PC, the freedom to make the game yours should be driving factor in why you play it. Making a game yours and when I say your game, I mean all the players as mentioned above. This means changing things such as world history, the level of technology or magic flavor as presented in the game system, the races and almost any other element you might think of.
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The other Day, I was – Shocked? Honored? Humbled? Proud? Amazed? whatever – to read Simon Berman’s Privateer Insider, and find one of my minis pictured on the page. Wow. Once again thank you Simon.
Simon Berman: One of the fringe benefits of this job is that I get paid to browse the Miniatures Painting and Modeling Forum where our extremely talented hobbyists share their work. …
…Autumn Stone is working on a beautiful Circle Orboros that began with the 2012 holiday bundle. I love the way a single color change can shift the feel of a whole army’s look. In this case, the inclusion of a deep blue gives the army a “spring” feel—very appropriate for Baldur and his story of rejuvenation.
The 40th episode of REMOVED FROM PLAY. Hosted by Charles (Omnus), and Emanuel (Bloodrath). In this episode we talk about Huge bases…a lot. But we have fun with it. We also announce the winner of the the Tactical Tip Challenge!
Enjoy the 40th Episode!
I have been trying really hard to figure out how I feel about our Gargantuan. There are definitely some minor tweaks that would help it so much. Two more range, one more armor, 4 more boxes, 1 more pow on the gun, 1 more Fury, 1 more speed or simply drop its crappy animus for an animus legion already has that may actually get used. (Dragon’s Fire, Tenacity, Spiny Growth, Repulse etc) One or two of these would ease the minds of almost all the Legion players but why get caught up in what could have been. We have the model and it’s time to figure out if it has a place in our lists or not.
Some of you may recall our article on the Secret Weapon Miniatures: Tablescapes Kickstarter a little while back. Well I am back with a personal hands on look at these game boards. SWM was nice enough to send over two of their Scrap Yard tiles as well as a couple of the matching base sets to take a look at. And I have to say these do not disappoint!
There is currently around 56 hours left to get in on backing this project on Kickstarter. The project has already been successfully funded but they are still working towards stretch goals.
Ever find yourself in that situation where you didn’t jump on something your friends did and when you see the item in their hands you are cursing the fact you didn’t jump on it as well? This is one of those times.
This is my new article series about playing Cryx from the perspective of a competitive player that has primarily played Beast Heavy Legion. AKA…me. So a little about me. My name is Charles Arrasmith. I go by Omnus on all the forums. My nerdness runs deep in this game. I run a forum for organizing the players in my state (Washington), I am one of the hosts of Removed From Play, I play competitively but I am also a Press Ganger and a Judge for Warmachine.
I did have a brief moment where I thought that I should play a caster that wouldn’t infuriate my opponents. After further deliberation I came to the conclusion that Cryx lacks such options. It would be better to just accept the tears gracefully and do my best to enjoy the salty flavor. Lich Lord Asphyxious Yes, Gaspy2, the model that probably causes more tears than other model in the game. Except maybe Gorman. Play both of them at the same time? Hilarious!
I initially wanted to stay away from playing the undead portion of Cryx and concentrate on abusing Merc models and Satyxis. But I struggled with my paint scheme. Eventually I decided that I would try for a Lich King-esque feel to my army. An Icy, Frozen Cryx army which I haven’t seen much of. Obviously this got me really excited to paint Bane Knights which also got me thinking about the Casters that make the best use of them. Gaspy not only fit the bill but would also fit the paint scheme really easily. After accepting that I was going to delve in the dark undead side of Cryx, I had a question occur to me…
As I am mainly playing for attrition in my games, I see many mistakes that especially new players make when they try to play for attrition. This stand-alone article will focus on the biggest misconceptions that I see that new players have.
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The 39th episode of REMOVED FROM PLAY. Hosted by Charles (Omnus), and Emanuel (Bloodrath). In this episode we are joined by Jay Larsen from the Chain Attack Podcast. If you haven’t listened to Chain Attack before…you are seriously missing out. Go here…http://www.chain-attack.com/ and start enjoying nearly 100 Episodes of awesome. Just don’t tell anyone you just recently heard of them…people will think you have been living under a rock.
If you haven’t listened to RFP before, here is how I (Omnus) think of the podcast…
The goal of Removed From Play has always been to provide listeners with an experience that reminds them of talking with their friends at an LGS. We talk lists, what we have been painting, events we have recently attended and whatever subjects are plaguing us that week. While doing this we want to be informative, but to a larger degree…entertaining. We also want to achieve all of that while being constructive and honest. My hope is that everyone that listens to RFP feels that we do exactly that.
Enjoy the 39th Episode!
Hello and welcome to my first article for Hand Cannon Online! In this series of articles I will be talking about the product of a crazy brainstorming session with Geist about the theme possibilities for my army for the Journeyman League I am running at my LGS.
I had let my local players choose the army I would play and they chose Circle of Orboros, which is an army I know nothing about and an army that always takes me by surprise when I face it on the table. Luckily the new Journeyman rules include the alternative battle boxes, which presented the option to run Baldur and his constructs–an army I was thinking about playing a few years back.
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