First Night at the Creative Biscuit

Riot of riotville let the gang know about a quaint little crafts-cafe in South Woodford where the proprietor is a WarMachine player with a hankering to get back into the game. Tim, genial chap though he is, clearly didn't realise what he was getting himself into, letting the rambunctious (as the evening proved) Nomads crash by.

It was a pretty good turn-out: Jeez-George; Macca; riot; shaggy; mr2key; jiri; DAMON; Neil; Russ; and of course our generous host, Tim. Lano, though, couldn't make it, which was a pity as he was the only gaming regular not present.

Ah well... on to dice-rolling. jiri & DAMON set up a small game of Warhammer Fantasy on one table, Macca and riot had a loud and jolly(!) time playing another Mordheim campaign game, Jeez-George and Russ floated from table to table while Tim, mr2key, shaggy and myself had a couple small games of WarMachine.

So, representing the Motherland!

Tim with Strakhov:

And shaggy with pVlad:

Representing the drunk Trolls, mr2key with... actually, I can't remember which caster he's got... I just get flashbacks of pFeora surrounded by flames... *ahem*:

And of course... my lot:

mr2key and shaggy had a quick 15pt game, while Tim and I went for 25pts (as he already had a list sorted). It being a very long time since he had had a game, we took it easy and introduced him to the various tricks and shenanigans (shaggy's favourite word... for pretty much everything I play!) that Retribution has (considering he had never faced them before). He was naturally a tad rusty, but knew his way around the elements of his force. I was, unfortunately for him, though, a tad slam-happy! Force Hammer and the Banshee's Momentum knocked things about and in turn 3, I noticed an opportunity and we went through my assassination run. We chatted for a few minutes while mr2key (who forgot about his Trollkin Champs having 8 hitboxes each!) was gradually cleaned up by shaggy who is now thoroughly addicted to Signs & Portents and the WGDS's mass of sprays! Strakhov is a new caster as far as my experience against goes, and though I know his feat (probably better to play Rahn rather than Kaelyssa given that her feat makes it impossible for him to do likewise) and immunities, I knew little else. A few neat spells makes him a curious Khador caster, the notoriously ponderous faction... and in Tim's case, a nicely painted army, too!

There was then (just) enough time for me and mr2key to play 15pts (almost all of which was painted! w00t!):

pFeora
Vanquisher
max. Exemplar Cinerators
Nicia, Tear of Vengeance
and a Vassal of Menoth (wrong model, though, I think he used a Choir leader... well, some dude with a cross on a stick... either way, AKA 'the boobs', as one model he's used on previous occasions is basically a nekkid woman in the wrong scale made by Reaper! Heh!)

vs.

Kaelyssa (PLEASE let that be pKaelyssa with the coming of Reckoning... even though rumours are it'll be eRahn we'll get... *sigh*)
Banshee
Fane Knight Skeryth
Narn
Arcanist
House Shyeel Artificer

Well, the gist of it was that we ran at each other, the Vassal kept doing Ancillary Attack on the Vanquisher and the Banshee was set on fire, but it went out pretty quick. And depleting focus (two boosted attempts of Arc' Bolts against Nicia... both missed)... the Banshee, though, moved to within Stealth range and flying off she went. -_-

The next time he tried it, though, he set his own Cinerators on fire! Turn 2, I feated, and he ran to engage.

The Banshee proceeded to fluff his lines and hit twice out of five attacks with fives to hit! Uh-doi!! *ugh* Thankfully, their return hits (they oddly don't have Reach... even though I compared their swords to the Sentinels' Great Swords... which proved to be much shorter... yet gave my chaps Reach... uh-wha?!) didn't do much either. In the meantime, Feora was off blasting Narn in the face, which seemed rather petty tit-for-tat... my acrobat for yours!

Feora turned away from that and feated herself just as the Banshee and the Pain Knight continued clobbering the Cinerators. Enliven put on the Vanquisher turned out to be pointless as Kae Arc'Bolted it letting the Pain Knight poke it a couple times for good measure. However, she was starting to get a bit crispy...!

Yeah, the fire went out on the Banshee... even though it needed the help least! *sigh* Anyway, after Kae was primely placed needing to help the Knight out, Feora legged it in to pour some more fiery hate on her. Her first flamethrower hit took Kae down to 6... the second... down to 5! But that's the end of the good news for me, she remained on fire and I rolled an 11 for damage... more lemons!!

LAWL!!

And that was literally the last roll of the dice for the evening! Thankee Tim, hope to see you again soon, thankee riot for setting the whole thing up, thankee mr2key for the ride home, thankee shaggy... actually, I'm not thanking you! =P

B.