The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

A month for the Motherland

Hello folks!

My lack of recent updates has been due in large part to my law school final exams pulling up on me at high speed, but now that I'm all done with those it's time to get back into wargaming.

For whatever reasons, I've been losing interest in 40k a little bit recently. Perhaps I'm just growing tired of the way Games Workshop does things. Other than the new ork walkers, I haven't bought anything from them in ages, and I don't really plan on doing so.

Instead, I've been finding myself fascinated by Warmachine. I've been playing a lot of Warmachine over VASSAL in the past few days to get a handle on the rules and how the game operates, and I think I've reached a point where I am comfortable with it now.

I've dropped a fair bit of money on a nice collection of Khador models - all new in blister. I am currently looking at:

• The Butcher of Khardov
• Karchev the Terrible
• Kommander Orsus Zoktavir
• Supreme Kommandant Irusk
• The Old Witch and Scrapjack
• A War Dog
• Ogrun Bokur
• Beast-09
• A Kodiak Heavy Warjack
• A Spriggan Heavy Warjack
• A Beserker Heavy Warjack
• A Juggernaut Heavy Warjack
• One of the new plastic Khador warjacks that can be made into 4 different kinds
• A full unit of Kayazy Assassins with Underboss
• A full unit of Iron Fang Pikemen with Kapitan and Standard Bearer
• A unit of Widowmakers
• A unit of Battle Mechaniks
• A unit of Doom Reavers
• The Great Bears of Gallowswood
• Man-O-War Drakhun
• Man-O-War Kovnik
• A Koldun Lord
• Kovnik Grigorovich
• 2 Manhunters
• Yuri the Axe
• Fenris

All told, it's a sizable amount of stuff. Now, with that said, I'm laying out a couple goals.

My ultimate goal is to have all of this built, based, and painted. Initially, I figured I might be able to pull it off in a month's time, but I think that's unrealistic considering my previous track record... particularly considering how slowly I work.

With that said, I'm dedicating the next month of my work to nothing but Khador, and I'll see how far that gets me. I would like to reach a goal of 35 points of  Khador done within this timeframe... I was considering doing a 'build everything first, then paint everything' approach, but some models, like the Iron Fang Pikemen, can't be built completely prior to painting; their shields interfere with painting, which means I have to do those separately and then attach them. Given how disorganized I am, leaving parts unattached and loose like that is a terrible idea for me. So, I'm going to go unit-by-unit, I think.

To cut down on the administrative end of the web site during this time, so I spend more time working on the Khador and less time tinkering with the site, I'm not going to be subcategorizing this work - for now. I'm going to try and post regular updates (at least daily) with the fruit of that day's labors. This will all be lumped into the Khador category for the time being. After I'm done working on the Khador stuff, in a couple weeks time, I will go back and sort the posts into proper subcategories.

So, off we go! Hopefully, those of you that play 40k and visit the site because of it will give Warmachine a look. I'm really much more impressed with that game than I am with 40k, because the gameplay is a lot deeper. 40k is checkers; Warmachine is chess.