Kieron Allender is a bad, bad man. In discourse surrounding the impending END TIMES… thing… for WFB, I happened to hint that I’d happened to consider doing a Chaos army again (as I generally do on an annual basis, presumably when the Stars are Right), and he happened to suggest a way of using the newfangled “half your points can be spent on Lord choices” mechanic and the presence of Chariots in the Chaos Core section to build a very small army. I happened to have been thinking about Nurgle and scratchbuilding/kitbashing, albeit in a 40K context. The notions… sort of… came together, and now my brain teems with notions.
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Coremachine – Onward Into Battle
What? You want your Warmachine Correspondent to do some actual Corresponding about Warmachine? All right, fine, get off my case… So, last time, I rambled on in some effort to introduce Warmachine and Hordes to the Corehammer crew and anyone else who happened to be reading, and promised a walkthrough of a sample turn. Thing is, the shortest walkthrough I could come up with was over two thousand words long and about as interesting as Rimmer’s Risk story, so in an effort not to bore your bollocks off I’ve made some videos instead.
Oath of Moment Painting Challenge: Death Dies Hard
I’m not normally a man who has dead lead lying around the place. If I haven’t bothered to paint something, chances are I haven’t bothered to play something, and if I haven’t bothered to play something, chances are I’ve sold it on for something I do want to play. Thing is, every now and then, I score a bargain, like this Imperial shitload of Cryx, to which I just can’t say no.
Of course, I do have to paint the damn stuff, and considering how much I pissed and moaned about painting up a dozen Retribution infantry at a time, there could be something of an issue here: which is why, not putting too fine a point on it, I intend to cheat like buggery.
REVELATIONS – Fields of the Nephilim & The Mission (Brixton Academy)
Six years of being a) broke and b) the sort of wazzock who’ll spend his spare money on toy soldiers despite a) have taken their toll: my beard and I haven’t been near a ‘proper gig’ that you have to pay money to get into since 2007, despite living just down the road from Manchester Academy for a year. This year, though… this year Fields of the Nephilim were playing half an hour’s Tube-and-walk from me in Brixton, within two weeks of my birthday, and the usual objections drifted away like Homepride on the breeze. The only downside, I thought, was that I’d have to sit through a Mission set…
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Coremachine – All About Warmahordes
Warma… hordes? What are you on about, beard-face?
Warmahordes is a portmanteau, that’s what it is. It’s a way of referring to two games by Privateer Press that are set in the same world, use ninety per cent of the same rules, and are cross-compatible with one another.
Warmachine’s the older of the two by a good three years, and sits nicely in the steampunk – I’m sorry, ‘full metal fantasy’ – corner, with lots of goggles, firearms and big stompy robots. There are elements of that in Hordes, the junior game, but Hordes has more big stompy monsters and shirtless barbarians and mysterious druids in amongst its trolls with rifles and cyborg pig-monsters. They’re kind of opposite sides of the same coin, that coin being the Iron Kingdoms, which is the D&D setting Privateer Press was originally set up to distribute.
The Harmonica Man – Introducing Von
A/S/L
28/M/Sarf Lahndan mate.
What got you in to gaming?
When I was just an ‘orrible little lad, I didn’t have any friends, so I used to spend every evening in the library. One of the first things I picked up for my own sweet self was a Fighting Fantasy gamebook (I think it was Master of Chaos). I cheated my way through that one, really liked it, and must have been the last person to like it since the library sold off its entire stock a month or so later. I bought the lot, including The Ridding Reaver, this strange document that suggested you could do something like this with other people, and that got me started on Advanced Fighting Fantasy, and sitting around at school reading Out of the Pit attracted the attention of some lads with a Citadel Miniatures catalogue – this was 1995, when Tom Kirby’s “every schoolboy in England should have a football, some sort of games console, and a Warhammer box under the bed”. I never got into console gaming and I prefer sports where you get to stab people, but I did end up with a Warhammer box or two. Or more. Most of the lads got bored by the end of the year. I didn’t.