Old Man Logan Review

I have decided to try a written review since no one seems to look at the video ones: not to mention the time it takes to make one. I finally got to read “Old Man Logan” after hearing so much about it.

 

            The story takes place 50 years after the Villains of the Marvel Universe unite and slaughter the Heroes of the world to take control and shape it in the way they see fit. The United States was split up between the leading Villains from west coast to east coast The Hulk, Magneto (who was over taken by the new King Pin), Osborn, and the Red Skull. Logan (Wolverine) is one of the few Heroes left in the world and is living in near poverty with his wife and kids in Sacramento under the Hulks district. The Hulk in this book is raging hill billies with a gi-normious family of inbreed children and are ruthless land lords of California. Logan is falling behind on his rent and this is causing problems. Logan has sworn never to act in violence due to the events that laid out later in the book during the Villains raise to power. Logan gets a massive beat down at the hands of the hill billy off spring of the Hulk, and this is the driving force of the story. Logan has to pay the rent (I feel like my name is Logan), while in bed healing up from his injuries he is visited by an old friend Clint Barton(Hawk Eye of the Avengers) another of the remaining ex-heroes who is suffering from glaucoma. Clint offers Logan a way to pay the rent by being his wing man for a delivery across the country.

 

            This story is a road trip across a post apocalyptic America with our favorite mutie Wolverine. The story is amazing and there are several great story line pay offs. I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it. If I tell you any more I would ruin the story and world have to write spoiler ever other line. Check it out tell me what you think.

Coming soon

Coming soon AvX and old man Logan reveiws. As soon as I have time to read them.

How to strip of Paint off Models

Thought I would share how to strip paint off of old models seeing that I got some off ebay that need to fit in to my army. Not that my painting is super good but....

So here is what you do take some pine sol and put it in a cup just enought to cover the models and then cover with a plastic bag or tin foil to keep out debris. let the cup sit over night sit.
 
The next day remove model from cup. I recomend using a glove and you will see why in a second. Take a used old toothbrush that you no longer need or a gold wire brush works even better. I used the sink in my garage becasue of the fumes, if you dont have a garage an out side water spigot works just as well.


You can now see why you need the gloves, it is a bit messy and the old paint will stick to your hands.



With a little elbow grease thye will look just about new.

Presto now they are ready for for my sub-par paint job.
Yeah I will not have to proxy my Wizard and War Priest now.

Empire List 1.1

Here is the new list knowing that I can run up to 2500 points opened things up a little. I am sure there are still tweeking to be done and other complet versions to try, but here is the 1.1 list.

	points	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	units	Points
Lords														Total	2493
														Lords	565	23%
Karl Franz	340	4	5	5	4	4	3	5	3	9		340		Heroes	161	6%
silver seal=4plus ward
Deathclaw		6	6	0	6	5	5	4	5	8		225		Core	1300.00	52%
blood roar (enmy rolls 3d for ld) terror														Special	312	13%
Heroes
battel wizard	100	4	3	3	3	3	2	3	1	7		100
(magic item 50) dispel=25 channelling staff=15 plus1 to chan												40
War Priest		4	4	4	4	4	2	4	2	8		65
(d3 stat boost) 4plus ward (magic item 50) dispel=25 bwh=16												41
Witch Hunter		4	4	4	4	4	2	4	2	8		50
brace of pistols=5 (magic item 50)												5
Core
Halberdiers	6.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	30	180.00
Sargent=10 musician=10 standard=10												30
Spearmen	5.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	15	75
sheilds=15												15
Archers	7.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	10	70
Knights	22.00	4	4	3	3	3	1	3	1	8	15	330
preceptor=10 musician=10 standard=10												30
IC Knights	25.00	4	4	3	4	3	1	3	1	8	15	375
preceptor=10 musician=10 standard=10 (magic standard=50)												30
crossbow	9.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	10	90
spearmen	5.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	15	75
shield=15												15
Special Units
Reiksguard	27.00	4	4	3	4	3	1	3	1	8	6	162
captian=10 musician=10 standard=10 (magic standard=50)												30
hellblaster												120

First Time Back

I finally got my list and most of my army together so I am ready to play. It has been about 5 years since I played last and this is a completely different army then I used last time, so I did not really figure on winning. There have been some rule changes so I had to used to them, not to big a deal. The biggest thing was learning how the army works in real play as to on paper.

So I go down to the closest game store last Wednesday because I learned that when people mostly play fantasy. I find a game get set up with this kid Tyler and ask “what army do you run?” He says “Oh, Warriors of Chaos.” I’m thinking oh great this is going to suck. Fist time back new rules new army and up against the most kill happy hard as nails army in the game. Also I had up to this point never played a WoC army: but by reputation alone not psyched about it.

Tyler was pretty cool in filling me in on new rules and changes as we went and was not a rule Nazi: just a friendly game.

Chaos knight and Muraders on the right

Warrior Nugling and what ever there war alter thing is and Demon Prince in the Middle and some lesser Demon somethings to the left. Also lvl 2 mage.



Left to right (how we do it in America son) Inner Circle Knight, reg. Kights



Cross bows, a block of Halberiers with a war priest with detchements of Spears and Archers. Hiding in the back I have my lvl 4 proxy of a Wizard (waiting on model in the mail thats what happens when you buy from the U.K)

the Black thing is Karl Franz on Deathclaw (I'll expalin in a min.) 2 Cannons and some ill placed Rikes Kights: with a witch hunter floting around for no reason.

Start Turn 1

He wins first turn and move froward jumping his Demon Prince Forward and make some other little move I also do the same uneventfull turn 1 stuff. Magic cast all dipelled no big deal. His Cannon fails what ever test it needs to be use full. My cannons do nothing due to bonching and rules that i look up later tell me that some thing I was told about the cannon in this game not quite right. Next time Gadget.

Turn 2



Demon Prince Slams my archer, Chaos Knight in to my spears. I Learn a Leason on how not to use detachments. Me thinks to keep the base unit ahead of detachents.   I am not sure if thats as true as he said; we will see in the future. Spears run off after loseing combat.

Turn 3

Uneventful magic he cast rot and rolled bad causeing very little damage to me. I regen some wounds with lore of life. I get ant-sy and charge with my Knight.

Lose badly with my IC Knight which run off the board eventually.

On My turn Karl Franz Kills Deamon Prince which is explanded to me after the game was a destraction because the demon prince in not that tought, but looks scary.

Knights win combat on Warriors and run them down. Made me happy =)

Halbards Charge Chaos Kights: Lose battle but stick.

Turn 4

Nurgling Charge Halbards Spears Rally. Rikes Knight move some where they can do some good, becuase there stupid general put them be hind some crossbows.

On my turn I charge my Rikes Knight in to the Nurglings and Spears into the Chaos Kights.  Karl Franz goes to kill some war machines to get me some more points.

Turn 5

Lose all Infantry in battle, Knight do Damage to Nuglings.

Karls wipes out cannon

I lose my cannons and every thing on the right side of the board.

And lose just about every other Combat there is for the rest of the game leaving me at the end with only Karl left. Sooo.....I lost, But leard some good lesons.



Now when I made my list I did not know how many points they usally play so I was under pointed by about three to four hundred. Tyler let me make some quick changes and let me use that black model for Karl because I had brought him on horse back. I think a diffrent magic would have been good and a few other things I will Tweek. Next time will be better.

Hero Quest Pics

Here are some random pictures of my old Hero Quest Game. I never really got to play it and ended up trading it for the Battlemasters set that I am now converting to a WarHammer army. LOL gate way drug I guess.

I started playing Hero Quest with my cousins when I was younger: trying to capture my youth.

But who could not love a game that looks like this: with all the doors and furniture it really captures the imagination. 

I had started paiting them but never finished.

What do you think of my smurf of death? I have a unit of night Goblins painted the same way.

Cheap Movement Trays

Being short on cash I have to make some movement trays. So here is the way I did it. I started with a minilla folder and marked out how big I would need to cut out.

Then I took some cardboard and cut thin strips. I guess you could use cardboard for the whole thing. I have seen them made out of cereal boxes.



Then I used some tacky glue to stick the strips on to the cut up folder around the edge.
Then cut to size.






Seeing that I always have a can of flat black sitting around I sprayed it down.


Ta-Da!

I have used the plastic tray and they are great but the price was right. Plus you can make these to any size you want: Bounus.

Standard and Musician

I had 2 halbairds that had the axes broken off so I decided to make them part of the comand. I took some bits from the spear men and added them to the models. I shaved the sheild off the one and chopped of an arm to add the drumb and the drumb stick. For the standard I took a broken lance and topped it of with the skull. What do you think? Not to bad.

The List 1.0

Here is the first list I am going to be running hopfully this wensday. I am assuming that they use a list of about 2000 points and made the list where I can dump a few items if I am over. I was used to playing 2200 and you still cant take every thing you would like. Try as I might just could not get Karl Franz in to the list with a lvl 4 wizard and I dont want to run a list to light on magic. I am going to use the lore of life for the buffs and regen. The units will be made up of a big block of halbers and lots of knights. We will see how it goes.

	points	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	units	Points
Lords														Total	2077
Battle Wizard		4	3	3	3	4	3	3	1	8		165
upgrade lvl 4=35 (magic item 100) dispel=25 book of ashur (+1 to cast and dispel rolls)=70												130		Lords	478	23%
General	95	4	5	5	4	4	3	5	3	9		95		Heroes	147	7%
war horse	18	8	0	3	3	3	1	3	1	5		18		Core	1020.00	49%
Heavy Armor=4 (magic items 100) sword of bloodshed(+3 attacks)=60 barded=6												70		Special	432	21%
Heroes
War Priest		4	4	4	4	4	2	4	2	8		65
extra weapon =2 (magic item 50) dispel=25												27
Witch Hunter		4	4	4	4	4	2	4	2	8		50
brace of pistols=5 (magic item 50)												5
Core
Halberdiers	6.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	30	180.00
Sargent=10 musician=10 standard=10												30
Spearmen	5.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	15	75
sheilds=15												15
Archers	7.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	15	105
Knights	22.00	4	4	3	3	3	1	3	1	8	10	220
preceptor=10 musician=10 standard=10												30
IC Knights	25.00	4	4	3	4	3	1	3	1	8	8	200
preceptor=10 musician=10 standard=10 (magic standard=50)												30
crossbow	9.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	10	90
crossbow	9.00	4	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	5	45
Special Units
Reiksguard	27.00	4	4	3	4	3	1	3	1	8	6	162
captian=10 musician=10 standard=10 (magic standard=50)												30
cannon	120.00										1	120
cannon	120.00										1	120