Thursday, 21 August 2008

Pathfinding blog-land!

In the last 6 months I have been trawling blogs to discover those gems that are available out there. I fell in love with blogging from the start discovering others around the world who had the care, attention and linguistic skills to bind the reader to their work.

So first of all I want to thank Darkwing at 'Arcadia Prime':- The battle reports are very tidy and well written , while the battles are awesome in scale and reach. Morkany Beach was frankly nuts!

'From the Warp' - possibly the most exciting constructions, help sheets and ideas spew forth from this orafice from Ron Saikowski. He is a phenomenon who sets the bar really high, with quality ideas and and almost unstoppable production line of 40K stuff! His feedback is also very supportive and positive!

The next shout out goes to 'Admiral Drax' my fellow Brit. Never has so much been produced for so little by so few in a shed in Devon, keep it up!

'The way of Saim Hann' has moved into a new realm, podcasts - and they are really good, homemade obviously but insightful, full of demonstrated tactics and cheats for playing the sneaky Saim Hann.

The next spot goes to'The Inner Geek' who is snowed under in Titan parts and yet makes the time to comment on evryone's blog's. He is a one man audience! And his blog's great too, although obvious drained by the size of his forgeworld at the mo'!

Finally I am continually astounded by the exemplary work of 'Bell of Lost Souls' - they are the team that puts the bullet into blogs and continue to outdo, outwork and doctor to all our 40K needs. If you have not been here.... shame on you!?! Get there now and honour the Fly Lords of Terra!

Well that's about all I can think of at the moment, I read so much and love watching the updates and developments throughout blog land. Thankyou to all those who create, demonstrate and spread their knowledge and share ideas. If you too have a great blog that I haven't mentioned, flag it up. As ever Pathfinder will be watching.

Devilin out

Storm Bolters!?!?!

Disappointing dimensions of a storm bolter

The bits and bobs from Bitzbox have arrived ... and the Dreadnought storm bolters are well, tiny?!? At once a huge amount of despair descended - how could this be, they cost me 60p each. What a waste - and then it occured to me...

Why does a ripper gun have to look like a ripper gun, why not kit out all the Orgs with storm bolters, but downgrade them to ripper guns. After all, they'll look awesome with Storm bolters under their arms, the Kochi force is a "Adeptus Mechanicus" force, and if the storm bolter shoot like ripper guns - well they are being fired by an Og!?

Then I had another thunk, the "Orgryn proof" rule give +1 Strength for using the Rippergun. How to overcome this? With a great big mallet? Therefore, we'll have 6 Orgs with underslung dreadnought storm bolters and wielding the following close combat weapons:
  • Broken wraith lord sword for my Bone 'Ed.
  • 8' Concrete Post
  • Imperial Guard Lascannon baseball bat
  • Tank Tread knuckleduster
  • Barrel on the end of a tow cable whip
  • 2 Handed Chimera Track Guard
Problem solved...

Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Bits and Bobs

In addition to an enormous order of mini's, I've also been cruising BitzBox, looking for likely candidates for RipperGun conversions. Further to a detailed search, I landed upon the Dreadnought Stormbolter as a starter for ten - hopefully the scale won't be too far off and won't disappoint.

I'm really looking forward to going to town on these Ogres and coming up with some clever designs, they're Warhammer look is .... well quite scottish in a Mel Gibson's William Wallace meets Rab. C Nesbitt way... but I don't think that works for 40k.

I enjoyed Turtleboy "Vietnam" style cigar chomping A Team Orgryns, but are they the best design. Unlike most Imperial Guard units, abhumans can't be upgraded with camo. But the Bone'Ed can have carapace (which I will take full advantage of). In addition, I intend to kit the Bone'Ed out with something nut cracking, like a powerfist, but chances are 3 S10 hits with no save won't be allowed in the rules...

So people, what style do you suggest:
  • Vietnam Vets
  • Scottish Widows
  • Uber Ninjas
  • Sumo Club
  • 1970's Pimp Ogres
  • Agro Weight Watchers
I'm open to ideas...

Oh and I bought 3 more plasma guns for when those SMurfs go darkside.

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Negative, Negative - just impacted on the surface!

Look like we'll have to hang onto our hats for another day in Gotham... just had confirmation that everything ain't in stockville and therefore some additional orders will have to be dispatched...