Armies on Parade 2022- Best of the Rest Silver!

Quick post with Twitch clips for my Silver entry into the "Best of the Rest" Category for Armies on Parade 2022!

I entered my Titans of Legio Pelagos, the Abyssal Wardens (at the absolute last minute I might add) and managed to take home a trophy! And you can see some images on Warhammer Community here!

Well this is where the Twitch Clips were suppossed to go BUT after an hour of messing around and they still wouldn't play in an embedded viewer, I just have to leave you with the links:

Twitch Clip Part One 

Twitch Clip Part Two

Adepticon Photodump 1- Adeptus Titanicus

Going back an doing things I should've done A LONG TIME AGO. Starting with some photo uploads from Adepticon. Here is all of what I took during Titanicus. If you have never seen Titanicus in action, you should swing by at a large con/event, because it is always nothing but pure hobby love on display!

Planetary Empires/Mighty Empires: Expansions that Need to Return

Remember these sets?

I really really wish I had bought them back in the day. They cost an arm and a leg on Ebay now and no one is selling them really. Why? Because they are still infinitely useful and cool, so who would want to get rid of them?

If anything, they are more useful and cool now than every before. That is because each core game has 3 methods to play, one of which happens to be NARRATIVE. There is nothing more narrative than a well organized campaign, and a map based one at that. I really wish I could play in one. Add to that the Crusade system in 40k AND you are just begging for a reason to do campaigns.

And then there are specialist games too. Adeptus Titanicus and Aeronautica Imperialis both lend them selves well to a map based campaign system, Titanicus in particular. And then the big daddy of Horus Heresy itself. All of these games expansions ARE campaign books. 

Heck, with some ingeniuty and clever hobbying, you could even make a great underhive map for Necromunda, allowing you to track gang territory and add some depth and realism to raids and the game as a whole.

The potential to work these into supplements, like they used to with WHFB with things like Blood in the Badlands, is incredibly high.

They would also make the perfect feature for a set of articles over the course of several issues of White Dwarf, and could cover multiple aspects of the hobby, from modeling your map to playing the campaign. And then these would be the perfect tool to utilize to introduce fun new narrative based rules, stratagems and mini campaign in both White Dward and Chapter Approved or the General's Handbook.  Environmental and Warzone type rules are the most obvious, giving in game effects for fighting in a jungle or a rad desert, ice wastes or an urban sprawl.

It would be even cooler if then there were faction specific or bonus tiles sold in specific kits. Special tile in a White Dwarf. Faction tile in a start collecting box. Manufactorum tiles in the 40k terrain kit. Civitas tile in Titanicus Terrain. Etc. Etc. You get the picture. Give people a reason and desire to get a full set of tiles in their Planetary/Mighty Empires expansion, and then reward people with those expansions for continuing to purchase GW kits and armies.

There is just a ton of reasons why this should happen and none why it shouldn't.

Now I understand there are plenty of 3d printing options out there for these, and that really is a great solution if you want a table. But in terms of full support it is lacking. I really believe the modern GW could really maximize their supplements with a tool like this, just flushing out campaign rules and providing even greater reasons to use things like the Crusade System. 

And there is a PERFECT opportunity coming up for GW to bring this system back, as there is game coming with a locked map, with factions tied to specific regions, and the greatest potential for meaningful, impactful campaign play. I am of course talking about

Imagine setting up your Empire Map and fighting off the forces of Archaon coming from the North, or challenging other players for control of the Border Princes. Think of purging woodlands of Chaos Beastman or marching out to besiege a Dwarven hold. 

C'mon GW. This is basically a money printer for you guys. Easy to produce cheaply, yet highly desirable and useable by many many hobbyists. The fact there are so many 3d printing options out there for it only reinforces that it is a desirable commodity. So what are you waiting for?

Slow Play Episode 1- Hobby Intro: An Allies of Inconvenience Special Segment

Welcome to Episode 1 of Slow Play! This will be an occassional addition to the main show, in which one or two of us will take 15 to 30 minutes to discuss random aspects of the hobby, conduct interviews, and generally focus on something OTHER than the latest hotness in the world of wargaming.

For this first episode, your host of Allies of Inconvenience- Evan "Gothmog" Valdyke - discusses what he collects hobby wise, from 40k and BFG to historical wargames in 6mm scale.

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The Post of Quarantine- 70 days of Isolation, 30 to go

Well this year has not gone according to plan. I am sure most of you would agree. It most certain has not for me. Shortly after Adepticon became Adeptican't, I had to go to a 103 day training course and have been stuck in a hotel room every day since then. I did bring a ton of Hobby stuff with me, but in general motivation has been low and the environment not entirely conducive to hobbying and in particular, painting and blogging. A Hampton in hotel room was not designed to be a "hobby haven" for sure, but I've tried to make the most of it.

At this point I am down to my last month, and will try and get some more content up here, but I haven't had much to talk about without releases from GW and every event cancelled. And the lack of access to my camera gear means hobby posting is limited too. However I do have some psychic awakening books on the way to me here, so I should be talking about that soon.

In the meantime, you can see my hobby progress best on my Instagram @SepulchreofHeroes and if you haven't yet, follow us on Facebook for the best hobby related memes.

Anyway, before I left I did some preparation for my exile
-Organized, Primed, and Basecoated for contrasts all of my ASoIF models (over 220 models)
-Primed and prepped all my Aeronautica Imperialis
-Assembled, Primed and basecoated a Pallas Grav Tank
-Basecoated 6 Plague Ogors

I also packed up all my Titanicus with the hope of getting a game in in the local area, but COVID restrictions have entirely prevented that and I don't hold much hope of being able to play one in my last month.

With that done I packed up my Jeep and headed out.

What I have completed since being here
-2 Black Library Audio Books
-1 Horus Heresy Novel
-Painted 25 ASoIF models (The Mountain, Tyrion, A Captain, 11 Halberdiers, 11 Mountain's Men. Of note, I did them with Contrasts and they turned out great IMO as you will see below)
-Painted 7 Sanguinary Guard
-Assembled and Primed 50 Mk3 Marines for Horus Heresy
-Assembled an AT Warbringer Nemesis Titan
-Painted an AT Warhound Titan
-Cleaned and Assembled Constantine Valdor
-Assembled a Custodes Achillus Dreadnought
-Assembled an OOP FW Siege Dreadnought
-Assembled a Storm Raven Gunship
-Assembled a GW Human Blood Bowl Team
-Assembled a GW Orc Blood Bowl Team
-Assembled a GW Ogre Blood Bowl Team
-Assembled a GW Dwarf Blood Bowl Team
-Assembled a GW Elf Blood Bowl Team
-Assembled 2 FW Blood Bowl Minotaurs
-Assembled 3 FW Blood Bowl Star Players
-Assembled and Primed Samurai to Include

• 5 Wargames Factory Samurai
• 15 Wargames Factory Teppo Ashigaru
• 10 Wargames Factory Spear Ashigaru
• 6 Steel Fist Banner Bearers
• 4 Steel Fist Samurai Archers
• 4 Steel Fist Teppo Ashigaru
• 10 Steel Fist Foot Samurai
• 12 Steel Fist Mounted Samurai

-Primed over 25 Liazardmen Characters/Monsters
-Cleaned and Assembled all my Lost Kingdom Miniatures Models to include

• 13 Temple Guard
• 13 Saurus Warriors 
• 6 Chameleon Skink
• 4 Skink Heroes
• 10 Skinks w/ Spears
• 10 Skink Archers
• 3 Kroxigor
• 3 Ripperdactyls
• 3 Terradons
• 8 Saurus Cold One Cavalry
• 2 baby Salamanders
• Jungle Swarm/Baby razordons

Assembled all my GW Lizardmen to include

• Bastilidon w/ Solar Engine
• Kroq Gar and Grimlok
• Troglodon
• 12 Saurus
• 5 Skinks
• Saurus Oldblood
• 5 Saurus Cold One Cavalry
• 4 Scar Vets on Cold Ones

A quick gallery of what I have completed so far.

And have the following WIPs going on
-6 Muukali Riders
-6 Plague Ogors
-12 ASoIF Lannister Swordsmen
-BA Sanguinary Ancient
-The Sanguinor

Goals for the last month
-Paint some of my Aeronautica Imperialis
-Finish the Sanguinary Ancient
-Finish the Sanguinor
-Paint another AT titan
-Paint Constantin Valdor
-Finish one more unit of ASoIF
-Post a new podcast episode
-Post about War of the Spider

Showcase: Adeptus Titanicus Warlord Sinister Psi-Titan

Finished up my Psi-titan the other night and wanted to share it with you all. I still have some alternate weapons to paint for it, but I need Forgewolrd to open back up to get a few more, so in the mean time, since I have no immediate need of the model or specific load outs for games, I decided to call this one done.

I give you my Warlord Sinister Psi-Titan Occedentalis-Khronos.

This really is a great kit. The basic warlord is awesome and the forgeworld upgrades for this really have a lot of character and are nice and crisp in their cast quality.

Before anyone asks, the hazy black was just done by blending black and eshin grey.

Below is a collage of all the different runes/hexagrammatic wards I painted on, free hand. Mixed in Eldar and Necron to go with the lord of the Emperor. He made the Ordo Sinister titans, so I figuered he'd infuse their tech and witchery seeing as he has used/relied on it for numerous projects in the past (Imperial Webway, Void Dragon, Primarchs, etc.).

Oh yes... and Sieg Zeon!

And finally a close up of the Ordo Sinister logo I free handed, the banner I made, and the wrecked Legio Magna Warhound I put on the base. I'd been attracted to Magna as a possible traitor opposite of my Legio Pelagos loyalists, so I figured this was a good place to test. If I did them, I'd need to do something other than Mars basing, because they'd blend in too much (good from a real world perspective. Bad for making tabletop models pop). HOWEVER, using it as basing the close color is nice because it doesn't steal from the main attraction, the Warlord.

If you aren't playing Titanicus you should be. It is an amazing game, and they are amazing models. I hope you liked this one!