Firestorm armada 2.0

If you missed it last weekend Spartan games released the fleet guides for the core races in 2.0. You can find them for free here. Now I have spent some time reading through them and overall I like the changes. It will go a long way to correcting the problem of MKx always being better then MKx. The things I am waiting to see are however not covered in them. Mainly how well the different wings now work and what exactly some of the special rules do. There are quite a few MARs qouted in the  manuals that until I see how they have changed or what they are I am holding off. This is because they will influence quite a lot on how well balanced the game is. The big changes I liked are as follows.

1. customizable models based on type not what MK
2. A focus on needing the smaller ships
3. being able to add escorts and such to all the bigger ships
4. being able to upgrade a lot of things and even get ride of MARs in some cases.



After that I am drawing a blank mainly because as I said everything else will depend on what the rulebook says. The only drawback I am looking at is I have way to many capital sized ships for everything except the biggest games. I would have loved to have seen an option were for x points you could squadron Battleships/carries.

Another great announcement early this week is the sets they will release as well. A cruiser based set and a carrier based set. I am very excited by the cruiser sets because this is one of the main things I need to add besides frigates for my forces. The carrier ones I am not to excited for mainly because I already have a carrier for each of my forces. However it maybe valuable in the future. The pics look nice too. The cruiser sets come with enough pieces to build what seems to be 3 cruisers either as regular cruisers or heavy cruisers. The main thing I am waiting to see is the price. If they are comparable to the DW ones I am psyched to get a few of these in my hands.

aruki

Painting update

Been doing a lot of work on epic here is the finished rhinos for the 1st company and the 8th company.

You can further see the progress so far on the 1st and 8th company troops. So many little blue men...

So
 Dec:  10 points
YTD: 360.75 points
As a side note after finishing these my hand started acting up again so I am not painting at the moment. More as soon as my hand cooperates.
Aruki

Painting ideas for a lot of upcoming projects

Alright with the hand out of commission I spent a lot of time thinking about paint schemes. Below is what I am thinking of for different projects. All the projects will be using vallejo game color paints. Any comments, ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


tau
Base (already done)- Cayman Green 067
Under suit- two options here dessert yellow 063 or beasty brown 043
Sept markings- orange fire 008
other details (eyes, leader marks etc)- mutation green 105


Phr-
Base- orange fire 008
highlights- gold yellow 007
shadows- hot orange 009
metal - gun metal 054

Shaltari
Base- moon yellow 005
shadows- sun yellow 006
details- electric blue 023
metal- gun metal 054

FSA Terran
Base- ghost grey 046
guns- gun metal 054
engines- escorpenes green 032
details- black 051
shadows- wolf grey 047
squad markings- black 051


Well those are my ideas. Please leave any comments or ideas you have since nothing except the taus base has been done.

Aruki

November round up

This month was a good month in terms of painting and spending.


I managed to not spend any money this month so the total still stands at -$423.01.



Painting wise I did better then I had done in almost the whole year with only 1 month being better.

Nov: 64 points
YTD: 350.75 points

So all and all a good month. I also broke through my 5000 actual points painted by quite a bit and managed to complete another goal for the year my Roman army.

This coming up month will be focused on epic 40k stuff. I hope to be able to do a decent number of models but we shall see.

Aruki