Steam & Sorcery

After playing Skorne for the past few months, I was itching to get back to my first love: Cryx. I wanted to see what I could do against Donna's new Circle list. She took to the change from Protectorate to Circle quickly and was already working out some nice strategies and combos. I feel comfortable running my Cryx into her Protectorate & wanted to test my established Cryxian tactics against her Circle army. Scenario & Terrain We rolled a d6 to choose the scenario & played Brawlmachine Scenario 3: Ignition 2. There is a circular zone centered on the battlefield with a rectangular zone 4" to the right of it. There are 2 flags centered between the player's deployment edges. One is 4" to the left of the circular zone & the other is centered in the rectangular zone. For our terrain layout, we used a  random terrain generator . A rubble pile (1/2 obstacle with cover, 1/2 obstruction) about 12" from the far table edge and in line with the left flag. Abou...

I first started painting minis about a year ago when we started playing a game called "Battlelore". The minis in that game are small; measuring in at 22mm scale (contrast to the 30mm scale of Warmachine). Being so new to painting minis & dealing with such small models, I kept it simple.  I watched a bunch of YouTube videos & learned about base coats, washes, & dry brushing. As I started painting up the Battlelore models, I continued to watch more videos. I learned about things like shading, highlights, glazing, etc and thought, "yeah...no". There's no way I'd be able to pull that off on these little things at that time. Not that it was impossible, but more that it was beyond my skill / comfort level back then. It was multiplied by how small the minis were. I painted them all with base coats, gave them a wash, maybe drybrush, and called it done. I was quite happy with the results. The most adventurous I'd gotten was to attempt to paint stripes...