This blog belongs to a couple of fools who decided to take up Warmachine. Hopefully you will either find something educational or at least get a laugh from our newbish ramblings.
I am Chunky, and fellow blogger/skanky ho will be Skell.
I found out about Warmachine Mk2 via the D6generation podcast, which is a pretty general gaming podcast with a couple of keen Warmachine players on it. It sounded like a pretty good time to jump into the game, as I imagine there will be a lot of other newbs jumping in. I had also recently started playing Malifaux, and was finding I very much like the intricate interactions thatcan be made in these skirmish games, especially since I've become tired of the time investment and lack of balance in the GW systems I've been more familiar with. Of course, when you live in regional Australia, its not a given that you'll be able to sustain a player base for any other game system, but apparently Lismore (the town I live in, about 45,000 people) used to have a number of Warmachine players.
I thought initially I would be a Cryx player, as I liked the look of some of the models. I bought the rulebook and read through the fluff and the minis gallery though, and decided on Khador, and specifically Vlad.I really like the Vlad fluff, and the Vlad model seemed really nice. I bought the Khador book and started planning out various Vlad forces.
I went to Brisbane, which is our nearest capital city to pick someone up from the airport, and went to a store there to kill time. The one thing they had at the time for Warmachine was the Menoth book, and I was keen to see if the Vlad/Vindictus story continued, so I picked that up. Really liked the look of the models, and on reading their fluff, they didn't seem like as big a douchenozzles as in their rulebook fluff, so I started to take an interest in them, thinking they could be my second faction.
I was back in Brisbane again on the airport dropoff, and this time went to a store more known for Warmachine, and picked up some more stuff. I got the Cygnar book (don't worry, I still think they're mostly a bunch of botches, though I think Stryker is cool), as well as pVlad model and Reznik, who simply looks pimp. Imagine my disgust when I got home and went to put minis together only to find out that Vlad was wearing clown shoes. I cut the bastards toes off and they still looked ridiculously large. Well, I thought, there are two other Vlad models - wait no, apparently he has multiple pairs of fucking armoured clown shoes - WTF?
So, needless to say, I immediately switched faction to Menoth. I think I will have to come up with a basing scheme for Khador that will hide Vlad's feet in a snowdrift or something.
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