List of Honorable Dead update

It has been decreed by Morrow that on the 9 Day of the 3rd Month in the 12 year of the 21st Century, Kara Sloan did add the name of Magnus the Traitor to the List of Honorable Dead!!!

List of Honorable Dead

That is all!

Will the real Kara Sloan please stand up?!

Kara Sloan is back!!! And not just back…but back with a vengeance!  I had a friend of mine do a conversion on her to make her look more like the Artwork, which in my highly opinionated but honest opinion is how she should have been sculpted in the first place…with her gun down in the firing position.  Thank you Erik V. for the awesome conversion!!!! 

I got in a game with her last Thursday night down at Matrix Games against Scotty who had a very speedy Amon Ad-Raza list.  Man...all that adrenaline pumping goodness I get from playing her came back in a rush.  I had the model advantage this time around, amazingly enough since Scotty played pretty ‘Jack heavy list. But I still felt the overwhelming pressure of how to overcome the speed in his list.  

Captain Kara Sloan

* Defender 
* Hunter 

Arcane Tempest Gun Mages
* Gun Mage Officer
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team
Harlan Versh, Illuminated One 
Lady Aiyana & Master Holt 
6 Precursor Knights 
* Precursor Knight Officer & Standard 
Reinholdt, Gobber Speculator 

Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord

Vs.

High Allegiant Amon Ad-Raza
* Castigator
* Devout
* Vigilant

2x Allegiant of the Order of the Fist
Exemplar Errant Seneschal
10 Exemplar Errants

* Exemplar Errant Officer and Standard
High Paladin Dartan Vilmon
Knights Exemplar Seneschal
2x Paladin of the Wall 

The first round was everyone moving forward to getting into position with little actual action happening.  Scotty ran all his forces forward which put them in prime range for the Kara’s Feat on the second turn.  The poor Knights Errant just got riddled with bullets something bad.  The unit basically disappeared in a haze of bullets.  Kara Sloan missed a shot due to being out of range and then did a whole bunch of lack luster damage to one of Scotty’s heavies.  The return round saw all but two of my Precursors wiped off the table and I lost a few ATGM as well.  My Hunter got hurt pretty bad and basically became a I-hope-I-hit-something ranged Jack.

The third turn was the break turn for me.  The way I look at it with Kara if I can’t win it by the end of turn 3, then I am dead…and when the pressure was on, Kara did not disappoint.  In the previous turns I had put a random smattering of damage into Scotty’s Castigator but not enough to really remove it from the board or cripple it in any form.  Ad-Raza was hiding behind the Castigator well within his charge range…so I had to kill him this turn or I was toast.  I popped a combined ranged shot Ad-Raza with the ATGM which the Vigilant opted to eat.   Then I activated Kara Sloan…

One shot into the Castigator, Hit, Boosted the damage and rolled Pow 12 + 4D6 for a 6,6,6,5 . . . for 35 total points of Damage.  I can just imagine as the 50cal Magically-enchanced Sabol Round just ripped that Castigator into pieces and then Ad-Raza’s eyes got as big as saucers as all of a sudden he was starting down the barrel of a Sniper Rifle with a very calm and composed Kara Sloan ready to pull the trigger. 

Tick, tick, tick…time slows down

Kara slowly pulls the trigger on her sniper rifle

BOOM!!!!!!

Roll to hit, boosted just to make sure.  Hit!

Roll for Damage, boosted, of course

The dice hit down on the table…6,6,6,4

34 points of damage

Ad-Raza’s head evaporates into a cloud of red mist.

The retort of the rifle is heard across the battlefield…

Holy Shitballs!! Both Scotty and I are looking at each other across the table in stunned disbelief at the damage rolls that just happened. 

SHE’S BACK BABY!!!!!!

P.S. I passed my Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam...now I can get back to painting...starting March 1st =)  HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Pics to follow soon!! Man I love Kara Sloan!

Stoopid Tinbitz...

STOOPID TINBITZ!!! Blech...so much of this particular color is used when I paint up my Warjacks. For any metal it is my basecoat, it is the shade that starts it all. Once I get the tinbitz down I then drybrush on the Boltgun Metal to give the appearance of aged metal. One of these days I will have to attempt the rust-stains when I get more experience with washes. As much as I hate the tedium of doing one color for so much of a model it really does make a difference for my metals. If there is any bronze on the model, it gets painted on over the boltgun and then highlighted with a bit of gold and silver.



For this Defender I have chosen to paint up the model just like the picture in the Prime Mk. II book so there will be a lot more bronze on the model than on the first Defender I painted up. I think the biggest batch of bronze will be on the ball'n'socket joint for the arms. They should look similar yet different enough so as not to be confused when they are on the table.



I put some paint on Kara but I think I am going to finish up the Defender first. It should paint up fairly quickly since there is a limited palette on for the Warjack vs. the tripling of paints that is going to be on Kara.

List of Honorable Dead

Kara Sloan she has assassinated the following Warcasters/Warlocks.

Gorten Grundback
Supreme Kommandant Irusk
Feora, Protector of the Flame
Pirate Queen Skarre
Adeptis Rahn
High Allegient Amon Ad-Raza
Madrak Ironhide, World Ender
The Butcher of Khardov
Grand Exemplar Kreoss
High Executioner Servath Reznik
Supreme Archdomina Makeda
Lord Assassin Morghoul
Magnus the Traitor (added 3/9/2012)

More will be added to the list of Honorable Dead as she kills them.