My most recent game of Fantasy saw us roll the Watchtower scenario. Now, Skaven have two ways to destroy buildings and I was equipped with both. On the first turn I rocked the building with Crack's Call, destroying it. The rulebook fails to provide an answer for what happens if it is destroyed, we assumed that it still counts as the main objective. However, since it's now a ruin you can have multiple units in it, so it's not as simple to determine the victor.
To resolve this we decided that if one side had the ruin with no enemy units touching it, it would be a win. If there were an enemy unit "contesting" the objective (touching it) we would go to the secondary victory conditions provided in the rulebook which were victory points.
So is this the best way to resolve the problem?
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Poisoned Wind Mortar
This was another exercise in speed painting. Due to having two children, one of them a fussy baby, my painting time is drastically short. The aforementioned Sanctum Imperialis represents a few weeks of working in bits and pieces. This one I got done in three days, once again working a few minutes here, a few there. Skaven are really nice for speed painting because it's easy to get good results quickly.
I'm sort of pleased with the glassy globes, I could have done better if I had put more time into it. I think I need to make the clouds a bit more irregular, but as is I think it's good for a speed paint job.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Sanctum Imperialis
Here's the Sanctum Imperialis I built and painted as a commission. I added a custom third story balcony complete with battle damage.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Swarmlord WIP
Here's my current Swarmlord. The arms are magnetic so it can be a regular tyrant if I wish, I customized the tail to make him stand out a bit more and that weird double-tail thing in the codex picture doesn't do it for me. I'm still not satisfied with the swords, I think they need some detail or more hollowing, I'm not sure which. I'm open to suggestions on that.
Monday, December 6, 2010
The Mighty Warpfire Thrower
This was something I did to try and paint faster than normal. All in all I think it took me about two hours. I could have got it done quicker but I took extra time with the flames as well as weathering the metal. You can see I attempted some glow effects near the burning rat.
I think I should have mixed some gray with the green for the smoke. I'll do that on the next one.
I think I should have mixed some gray with the green for the smoke. I'll do that on the next one.