Malk's Wargaming / RPG blog

A new journeyman league has started up at Drawbridge Games in Castle Shannon. I’ve started up Skorne army and will be playing Beast Master Xekaar throughout the league. My list for Week One: Skorne Battlebox Xeekar1 - Cyclops Raider - Cyclops Savage - Titan Gladiator We’re using the journeyman rules with only two minor variations.  The first is that you get a free “Do Over”.  Namely if you add something that it turns out you hate you can replace it the next week.  Secondly we allowed a caster swap at week 1 so that player who wished to keep adding to their faction of choice could have a little variety. In regards to scenario we played the mangled metal which is required for weeks one and two.  The downside to this scenario is that it lacks board objectives and some matches devolve into who wants to hide behind a forest or obstruction the entire game.  Personally I just go all in when a match goes to this point so that I can move onto a more interes...

July has been an exciting time at Drawbridge games in Castle Shannon for our privateer press players.  With the release of Mark III we were really excited to try out the new rules and perhaps start new factions.  We’ve had a pretty consistent core group of players and we were all looking forward to starting a new league and getting some new models painted up. Since we were starting a new Journeyman and most of our core players weren’t planning on playing Cygnar I went ahead and pre-ordered the new box set as well as the models for what I would need to get to a 75 point list.  I was very excited to get my trencher army put together with my ending warcaster being Caine2. Fate decided I would be taking a different path unfortunately.  Upon receiving my new battleboxes on the 30th I was dismayed to find my Cygnar box had a mis-pack and Maddox arrived with two sword pieces and no torso.  The other hitch was that the trencher box and UA I had ordered were no show...