Warmachine

Been a while. I've gotten into Warmachine during 2012, and thought I'd post my impressions. First, for my first faction, I decided on Khador. I usually go for a more "fiddly" army, like the Tau, but I wanted a straightforward army for Warmachine, and Khador are pretty straightforward. Big, tough, smashy. I started with, appropriately enough, the starter box, and used Prime Sorscha as my warcaster.

I am not fond of Privateer Press resins. At least, the starter box ones. The flash and cleanup on the Khador Warjacks was time consuming, and never got to a point where I was happy. Cleaning a mould line over a rivet is a bitch and a half. I got them to the point where I could live with it. Snow, I decided to do snow bases with bits of battlefield debris sticking out. Sometimes this worked great, and sometimes it was just eh. I got a small packet of watch parts to dress the bases as bits of wrecked Warjacks, and glued them to the base so that they would stick out of the snow. The actual stuff I used for snow was simply baking soda. DO NOT USE BAKING POWDER. It's easy to get the two mixed up if you're not familiar with them. The effect was fine, but I really would like to try a proper snow effect next time, as the baking soda seemed to yellow a bit after applying the sealer.

The game itself I really like. I like how colorful the Warcaster characters are, and that every unit has a distinctive ability. The armies tend to be smaller than 40k, and thus it's a bit easier to collect. It helps that the group I joined was just starting an escalation league, and so we started out with very small point value games, and worked up from there over the course of a few months.