055 - Molly is the one for me!

I tried out a Molly Squidpiddge-led crew yesterday and I was very impressed indeed! She has such amazing synergy with her crew that it makes up for the fact that some of her abilities are sub-par. After lookkng at her again, I genuinely now think she could go toe to toe with Hamelin, Chompy, Kirai etc and come out on top.

For this reason I've decided to make Molly my exclusive competitive Master for the rest of the year. Move over Pandora, there's a new girl in town!

Mike

026 - First game vs Nicodem (The Invincible)

Last week I discovered just how resiliant Nicodem can be.

Although I won the game comfortably (in fact for Turns 5 and 6 it was Nicodem on his own versus my entire Pandora crew) it quickly became apparent that he was never going to die even with every one of my models trying to take him down.

The reason? A horde of Mindless Zombies surrounding him which he could sacrifice in order to negate any attack against him. Fighting through the zombies was impractical, as he would just resummon them in the following turn from the corpse counters they left behind.

I know now that choosing the Assassinate scheme against Nicodem would be a bad idea! It also gives me some incentive to get my Nicodem painted up, as he's been sitting in my figure case for months ever since I picked him up cheap on eBay. He'll make a nice brawl partner for Seamus (whose also noted for being rather tough to kill!)

Other highlights of the game:

Mortimer dying after hitting himself 3 times on the head with his own shovel.
The Dead Rider running away like a little girl then getting clobbered by Coppelius.
Lelu obviously forgetting to sharpen his claws before the game, meaning he failed to cause any damage in 3 activations of strikes, including letting a Mindless Zombie escape unhurt.
Pandora coming worryingly close to getting crushed by a summoned Flesh Construct before a Sorrow came to the rescue with a timely Paralyze.

I've also now given myself a personal scheme for future games of Pandora vs Nicodem. If the chance comes up, my aim is going to be to successfully cast Reanimator with a Sorrow, after Linking it to Nicodem - just for comedy value of course, and to see the look on my opponents face when I turn all his Mindless Zombies into a Flesh Construct or Rogue Necromancy under my own control.... Mwah ha ha ha....

Ok so it needs a 17+ with 2 crows to cast, so the Sorrow needs to cheat in a crow and burn a Soulstone and hope for another, but it'll be worth it when it happens! It didn't work out this game, but there will be plenty more chances to come - a few people at the local club have said they'll be grabbing Nicodem for themselves once the incredibly cool Avatar form is released.

Mike

014 - Madame Sybelle, Mistress of Pain

Here's a close up look at the finished Madame Sybelle, my first Ressurectionist model.

I took some time over the highlights on her PVC clothing to try and make it look different to just normal black cloth. The highlights are quite extreme and linear and there's practically no blending. For her skin, I didn't really pre-plan the colour, I just slapped a green wash over Dwarf Flesh and then re-highlighted with Elf Flesh. I think it looks suitably rotting, and the white eyes make her look nice and zombified.

I'm quite happy with the base, which was made with a chopped up paperclip and some Green Stuff that I scraped into with a pin. I don't have much sculpting experience so the result is a little choppy. Although a cobblestone base insert would probably give the same effect and look tidier overall, I like the fact that my bases will have that unique touch.

So, what do you think? Does she float your boat?

Mike

006 - Madame Sybelle WIP

Just a quick work in progress shot of Madame Sybelle, to show what I'm going for on my Resurrectionist bases. My thanks go out to Ratty on the Wyrd forums for the inspiration to try something a little bit more demanding than what I'd usually do.