The Meredius scourge has arrived!

Well after several months I got around to finishing this guy.

Aiakos the Scourge of Meredius, or the “I’m not an amalgamation of the Predator and Scorpion!” mini-warcaster.

This was the model I threw into the Warmachine: Tactics Kickstarter for. Sure, I could have waited two weeks after the Kickstarter ended and just got the almost identical re-sculpt of him, but whatever.

The only beef I have with the model is his little ponytail. It looks a bit silly, but I guess they couldn’t get the long hair modelled like in the artwork.

 

I LOVE FOOTBALL!

The best time of the year has officially started. The next 20 weeks are relegated to all kinds of football! The best time of the year for me!

Well actually one might call it an emotional roller coaster every Sunday that Denver is televised. I tend to be excessively jubilant, melancholy and incensed several times with the span of a game. I cheer on players only to curse their existence plays later when they fail. I ride the highs and lows of every game and occasionally drag people and pets along with me.

It is the best time ever!

Football season is here once again!

Embrace the madness! Grab a fast pass seat on the couch beside me. For the crazy train that is watching grown me beat each other up and down the field in the name of the most glorious game ever is now in full swing on multiple levels.  Fall has begun!

FOOTBALL SEASON IS HERE!

Weekly schlock and 90's

Oh the 90’s. It was a strange and magical time. If you weren’t a boy in the hood, strapped, a menace, a new jack hustler, a dead  president, or juice on a Friday then what were you? Well you were either some various version of In Living Color or Kid and Play.

What happens when two high school students, one a straight laced A student and the other a student who is one strike away from the “big house”, swap identities?
You get an retelling of the Prince and the Pauper with an L.A. public school as the back drop, or as it is known Class Act.

Duncan Pinderhughes is looking to graduate high school with top honors, until he realizes he needs to pass phys ed. Which we all know that egg head who lie their booky-books can’t pass. Meanwhile, newly released from juvie, Michael “Blade” Brown needs to graduate high school as part of his parole. Both of them are starting school on the same day when low and behold a tragic mishap occurs. Due to some clumsiness Duncan and Blade’s school records get swapped. Now the smart kid is a thug with a scary rep and the thug is the uber nerd. Oh how the hilarity ensues!

BATTLE CHASERS! Video game?!

Well this looks to be happening.....or is it?

Back in the 1998's Joe Madureira released a fantastic comic called battle Chasers. it was a steam punk high fantasy tale that was awesome and looked even better. However, Joe Madureira being Joe Madureira slowed to a crawl or got distracted by something shiny. This caused the comic to stop.

Oh Red Monika! We missed you!

Now if you have never seen this then I urge you to go find it. The artwork is just incredible. The story has the makings of a great fantasy tale. It just sucks that it stops without warning.

Labor Day weekend nature review

Labor Day weekend started with a 10 mile hike that was more workout or homework than relaxing and enjoyable. Now the locale was visually appealing, but this was a training hike by the pace that was set.

Now Sunday was a hike to look around, keep a slow pace and get some photos. Well that is what we were planning.

We zipped over to the Raccoon Lake state park and while the majority of people there were boating or swimming, we hit the trail.

Ian plays Undercity

I had the chance to try Undercity out this past weekend. I had high hopes for this game.

These hopes were not squashed.

Undercity is a four player co-op dungeon crawl that has mechanics loosely based on the Warmachine/Hordes game and the Iron Kingdoms role playing game.

Set in the Undercity, which is…..well under some city in the Warmachine world you control one of four members of a mercenary party called the Blackwater Irregulars. They are comprised of a trollkin warrior, a gobber mechanic and his warjack, a gun mage and a mad bombing alchemist. They are on a series of missions that have them exploring and killing their way in, through and around the Undercity.

I grabbed the gobber, Pog, and his warjack, Doorstop. They looked more fun to play than the other three characters.

Pistol Wraith...before the errata

It’s not that I dislike the pistol wraiths that are currently out there, it is that I just wanted to convert my own.

I really like the cairn wraith from G.W. and I think it would look great on the battlefield. I never had a reason to get one of these until now.

This guy will be the base for my pistol wraith.