F***ing Khador Bullshit

Those were the words spoken by one of my best friends after he lost to my pButcher list.  I got in 2 games this last Friday evening and it was a blast.

The first was a 15 point game vs. my buddies Retribution.  Lists were:

pButcher
Juggernaut
Destroyer
6 Iron Fang Pikemen

Garryth
Manticore
6 Invictors
Narn
Eiryss

This was one of the longest and most tactical 15 point game I've have played so far.  His Manticore charged my Juggernaut and though he put up a valiant fight, the Manticore eventually wrecked the Khador machine.  My Destroyer spent most of the game disrupted by Eiryss and lobbing unboosted shots at his units.  My Ironfangs and his Invictors took turns punching each other in the face.  My opponents downfall was when he underestimated the distance between Butcher and Garryth.  Garryth had popped his feat and was not in Butcher's front arc so he felt pretty safe.  But even without being able to spend focus or being able to charge, Butcher still advanced into melee range of Garryth and popped Blood Frenzy and hit with his one attack.  Then dropped 4d6 + 16 on poor Garryth.  Needless to say they had to sop Garryth up with a mop after this game.  The funniest part was my opponents reaction.  He was piiiiiissed....I guess he thought he had me right where he wanted me.  He went into an alcohol fueled  tirade.  I haven't seen a rant like that since 5th edition fantasy, it was priceless.

Upcoming Games

We've got a game night planned this upcoming weekend.  15 pts Khador vs. Retirbution, 25 pts Khador vs. Cryx, and 25 pts Cryx vs. Retribution.  I'll post up some pictures and some short recaps when it's all said and done.

The Butcher and Me

My journey into Warmachine has been a winding road.  I started off playing 40k back in 1992 during the Rogue Trader days.  The stone age of Warhammer. Army lists were scattered and hard to interpret, the models were a shadow of what they are now and most of our games came down to a wounded Avatar shredding the last couple predator tanks for the win.  Since then I had stuck with 40k through thick and thin.  Many editions have come and gone (although the skeleton of the rules is basically the same).  I played hundreds of games, owned more plastic than I care to admit, and unfortunately witnessed a lot of negative changes in the way GW does business. 

Within the last few months I felt my passion for 40k start to fade.  The nerfing of my beloved Tyranids didn't help, but I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to put my finger on it.  I actually bought The Butcher of Khardov and Epic Nemo before I ever started playing becasue I liked the models so much.  In fact I actually put the Butcher on ebay at one point and he didn't sell.  So finally I broke down and painted him.  He turned out so great that I wanted to get him on the table.  But I didn't have anybody to play with yet.  I mentioned to a couple local buddies that I was thinking about starting Warmachine (this was right around MK 2 release).  At first I didn't really think it had taken affect on them, but about a week later one of them called me back and said he had ordered a bunch of Retribution stuff and even bought some painted stuff from ebay.  Thus the first shot was fired.  Now, I play Khador, and 2 of my buddies play Cryx and Retribution.  I sold my Dark Elves and Imperial Guard on ebay.  We haven't played anything else since...and we are loving it!

I hope to use this blog as a creative motivator for myself and to chronicle battle reports that we have locally.