Gratitude
With two sick boys and a sleeping baby, my wife stayed home from church today. I went with my daughter. It was splendid. I actually got to listen and enjoy. Everything was just what I needed to hear, among which was a lot about Gratitude. I came away completely with tank on FULL.
Other than that I just ate turkey sandwiches and pumpkin pie covered in whipped cream. And watched movies on TIVO.
My new home teaching companion has the skill of making custom speakers from scratch. He hopes to make a business of it and I think he’ll do well.
Fateweavers: second incursion
First off, we’ve built this army twice. The first version was sold. The second version is at the studio right now.
What follows is one incarnation of the Fateweavers army. This is an all Tzeentch Daemons of Chaos army. The strength of the army is in the magic. The Heralds can have a power called Master of Sorcery which gives them every spell from a single one of the basic lores. This allows you to tailor your army to any particular threat. There are a zillion dirty tricks to play with this.
Against a heavily armored foe, like Chaos Knights, I like to take the Lore of Metal. It’s a lore not often used. The first spell allows for sniping of heavily armored enemy characters.
Bolt of Change is possibly the best magic missile in the game: 12+ to case, 24″ range and 2d6 S D6+4 hits. In the game on Saturday I got this off with nine S10 shots. Nothing can survive that. The key is to run enormous blocks of Horrors. They are super expensive, but they are the solid engine that runs the army.
One thing I want to experiment with is the Standard of Chaos Glory (all daemons within 12″ are Stubborn). This means that if I make the LD7 (typically) test then nothing happens. Daemons are very resilient. And even if I fail I only lose a few daemons. It’s essentially unbreakability. There is also a banner that reduces all enemy leadership within 12″ by -2. I’d like to try that one out on a leadership poor army that needs to pass tests to charge Fear-causing daemons.
On another note: this is a great army to make if you’re short on cash and long on money. You can scratch-build a lot of the stuff out of eight boxes of Spawn (about $190 USD) and a ton of tyranid parts. That’s the trick, you’ve got to have a friend with a lot of Tyranid extras. It’s very, very labor intensive though. My army has 90+ horrors in it and let me tell you it’s quite a trick to make each one unique but still have a cohesive look.
If you’d like the friendly folks at BTP to make you a Fateweavers army the cost is as follows:
1500 pts for $1150
2000 pts for $1350
2500 pts for $1550
3000 pts for $1750
2600 Pts – Daemons of Chaos Roster – Fateweavers
Lord of Change (1#, 630 pts)
1 Lord of Change @ 630 pts (Flaming Attacks; General; Hand Weapon; Level 4 Wizard; Causes Fear; Causes Terror; Daemonic; Flyer; Immune to Psychology; Large Target)
1 Dark Magister
1 Tzeentch’s Will
1 1. Flickering Fire of Tzeentch
1 2. Boon of Tzeentch
1 3. Glean Magic
1 4. Gift of Chaos
1 5. Bolt of Change
1 6. Tzeentch’s Firestorm
Herald of Tzeentch (1#, 185 pts)
1 Herald of Tzeentch @ 185 pts (Flaming Attacks; Hand Weapon; Locus of Tzeentch; Level 2 Wizard; Causes Fear; Daemonic; Immune to Psychology)
1 Disc of Tzeentch (Flaming Attacks; Causes Fear; Daemonic; Flyer; Immune to Psychology)
1 Master of Sorcery
1 Flames of Tzeentch
1 1. Rule of Burning Iron
1 2. Commandment of Brass
1 3. Transmutation of Lead
1 4. Distillation of Molten Silver
1 5. Law of Gold
1 6. Bane of Forged Steel
Herald of Tzeentch (1#, 165 pts)
1 Herald of Tzeentch (Battle Standard Bearer) @ 165 pts (Flaming Attacks; Hand Weapon; Locus of Tzeentch; Level 2 Wizard; Battle Standard Bearer; Causes Fear; Daemonic; Immune to Psychology)
1 Flames of Tzeentch
1 1. Flickering Fire of Tzeentch
1 2. Boon of Tzeentch
1 3. Glean Magic
1 4. Gift of Chaos
1 5. Bolt of Change
1 6. Tzeentch’s Firestorm
Herald of Tzeentch (1#, 165 pts)
1 Herald of Tzeentch @ 165 pts (Flaming Attacks; Hand Weapon; Locus of Tzeentch; Level 2 Wizard; Causes Fear; Daemonic; Immune to Psychology)
1 Spell Breaker
1 Flames of Tzeentch
1 1. Flickering Fire of Tzeentch
1 2. Boon of Tzeentch
1 3. Glean Magic
1 4. Gift of Chaos
1 5. Bolt of Change
1 6. Tzeentch’s Firestorm
Pink Horrors of Tzeentch (30#, 451 pts)
29 Pink Horrors of Tzeentch @ 451 pts (Flaming Attacks; Hand Weapon; Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Daemonic Icons; Causes Fear; Daemonic; Immune to Psychology)
1 The Changeling (Flaming Attacks; Hand Weapon; Causes Fear; Daemonic; Immune to Psychology)
1 Banner of Change
1 1. Flickering Fire of Tzeentch
1 4. Gift of Chaos
1 5. Bolt of Change
Pink Horrors of Tzeentch (30#, 403 pts)
30 Pink Horrors of Tzeentch @ 403 pts (Flaming Attacks; Hand Weapon; Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Daemonic Icons; Causes Fear; Daemonic; Immune to Psychology)
1 Banner of Change
1 1. Flickering Fire of Tzeentch
1 4. Gift of Chaos
1 5. Bolt of Change
Pink Horrors of Tzeentch (10#, 157 pts)
10 Pink Horrors of Tzeentch @ 157 pts (Flaming Attacks; Hand Weapon; Standard Bearer Std; Daemonic Icons; Causes Fear; Daemonic; Immune to Psychology)
1 Banner of Change
1 1. Flickering Fire of Tzeentch
Pink Horrors of Tzeentch (10#, 157 pts)
10 Pink Horrors of Tzeentch @ 157 pts (Flaming Attacks; Hand Weapon; Standard Bearer Std; Daemonic Icons; Causes Fear; Daemonic; Immune to Psychology)
1 Banner of Change
1 1. Flickering Fire of Tzeentch
Flamers of Tzeentch (4#, 140 pts)
4 Flamers of Tzeentch @ 140 pts (Flaming Attacks; Hand Weapon; Causes Fear; Daemonic; Immune to Psychology; Skirmishers)
1 Flames of Tzeentch
Flamers of Tzeentch (4#, 140 pts)
4 Flamers of Tzeentch @ 140 pts (Flaming Attacks; Hand Weapon; Causes Fear; Daemonic; Immune to Psychology; Skirmishers)
1 Flames of Tzeentch
Validation Report:
Army Subtype: Daemons of Chaos; Edition: 7th Edition; Game Type: Normal Game; Special Rules: Forbid Storm of Chaos, Forbid Albion, Forbid Lustria
Roster satisfies all enforced validation rules
Total Roster Cost: 2593
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Ingrate
Happy belated Thanksgiving to all. Thanks for reading and watching. Thanks for all the kind words of encouragement. And thanks most of all to BTP’s excellent clients who make the dream (for both me, the artists and our families) possible.
About Thanksgiving day:
I was a complete bear all day long. I was grousing and griping. I nagged the kids, grumbling at them to keep quiet, and why did they need to be in the same room as me? I groaned each time my wife asked me to help her out. In word and deed the polar opposite of the spirit of the day.
For the Thanksgiving prayer I went off on one of my stupidities where I ask God to smite any germs on the food, to cleanse it from unclean-ness and filth, and to commit genocide on the microbes that may be lurking in the turkey; to hunt them down and leave only a single survivor so it can tell the tale to any other bacteria that might come near the food. And so forth until all the young nieces/nephews are giggling and I can feel the burning stare of the good-woman’s disapproval.
As usual, Tamie made a whole spread of gourmet quality food from scratch: pumpkin, pecan, lemon meringue pies; and so on. She is a saint of some kind; mild, loving, unselfish, unpretentious, genuine, and a demon in the kitchen.
Then instead of helping out with the dishes I crawled into bed, put an episode of Red Dwarf on the laptop, and went to sleep. All this citing a (real) headache.
The tale of Friday and Saturday is one of making myself exceptionally useful, and being ever so pleasant. Saturday morning was a moment of paradise with the baby crawling around in our bed in her pink sleepers; she was propped up on my back watching Red Dwarf with me and laughing and giggling whenever I laughed. She doesn’t understand a word, of course, but she knows when a larf is being had!
I did make it down to the studio for a game on Saturday. I got to play a 2600 point game using the Fateweavers (pure Tzeentch Daemons). I love that army. Final score was something like 1800 to 2500. The Horrors burned almost the entire enemy army to a crisp. It was outstanding. That army is ever so fun to play.
In a subsequent game for the campaign at 800 pts (Warriors of Chaos vs my Dark Elves) I got all but tabled, a complete rout. I forgot to use the cauldron of blood twice, and on one occasion gave Bloodshield (5+ ward save) to a unit that already had a 4+ ward save. Pathetic.
Extra Hand on Deck
If you live locally (ie 20 minutes or less to the studio in Spanish Fork) and would like to give us a hand with Assembly during December and January please contact me at bluetablepainting@gmail.com
This could work into a more permanent arrangement, but not for absolute sure.
I need a well-adjusted and all-around happy person who can walk in knowing what to do. You need to have assembled several armies and know how to do quality work. Basic green stuff and conversion work a must. Scratch sculpting a plus.
If you want to apply, please send an email with “Assembler Needed- Your Name” as the subject line. In the body of the email put a short blurb about yourself and your hobby background.
Absolutely do not mention anything to do with protected class (eg race, gender, religion, family situation). I only want to hear things relevant to the job.
Please, only apply if you are local. I don’t want anyone to move here for this. And only if you have the skills needed already under your belt.
Basic Training Army Special
I’m starting a new special for December (and possibly January).
I was laying awake the other night thinking “What’s the least expensive an army could be done?” This was brought on by the multitude of inquiries I get for the cheapest route for getting a painted army on the board.
$650 for a 1500 pt army ($325 down pulls the trigger) That’s 382 UK pounds
$850 for a 2000 pt army ($425 down pulls the trigger) That’s 500 UK pounds
This is with BTP getting to choose everything (you pick 40K or Fantasy, but we pick which army), and painted to a basic level (L2).
The standard is we choose from more competitive armies with newer rulebooks: Orks, Space Marines, Tau, Eldar, Imperial Guard, Chaos Daemons, Chaos Space Marines. Unless you open up the possibility you won’t see Dark Eldar, Necrons, Daemonhunters or Witch Hunters.
Within this parameter, I promise to make the coolest army possible. But remember, I was going to call this the “Beggars can’t be Choosers” special!
All I need is a deposit to get started. You’ll have your army in about thirty days.
Here are some examples of armies we might do for this:
Tau 1500
2x Shas’o battlesuits
3x Battlesuits
6x Stealth Suits
24x Fire Warriors
2x Devilfish
4x Shield/Gun Drones
2x Hammerhead
Deathguard 1500 pts (actually a bit higher)
2x Daemon Prince with Wings
21x Plague Marines
3x Rhinos
2x Vindicator
3x Obliterators
Eldar
2x Farseer
10x Fire Dragons
20x Dire Avengers
3x Wave Serpent
1x Wraithlord
Open for Business
Hey all. I’m hanging out at home on Thursday. I’m ready to set up new projects. Still a few slots open for December. And January is wide open.
I’ll be at the studio for most of Friday and some of Saturday.
And will someone please move Stargate: Universe from the Sci-Fi channel to the Lifetime channel!
Holiday Hours
Blue Table Painting will be closed Thanksgiving Day (though I will probably be on line here and there), but open Friday for full-bore. I’ll be down at the studio Saturday as well. So, don’t hold off on inquiries and booking projects.
In fact, if you want to help old Shawn relax over the holiday, then bug me about a new project. Once I have it booked out to a certain amount I can breathe a sigh of relief.
Dwarven Fortification
This is a fortification made for our Warhammer Fantasy campaign.
Get a Dwarf Turbo army:
Dwarfs 1500 pts for $950
Dwarfs 2000 pts for $1150
Set it up today for a 3-5 week turnaround! You pay half up front and the other half when it’s done. We’re ready to start right now with materials on hand!
Dumpster Diver
By my desk in the family room I have a low trash bin (really a deep sweater bin conscripted for trash duty). Today I found Willow torso down and fishing around for goodies. She already had an apple core in her mouth. Inspecting it, washing it and finding it fit for human consumption I watched with intense curiosity while she annihilated the entire thing with her two bottom chompers. Outstanding.
It was like watching Mr. Peepers from SNL.
She is teething. Her nose is runny and she’s irritable. But she wants to eat constantly.
She is nearly one year old.
I have been sleep deprived this week. I can feel tired-ness in my bones. My eyes are heavy, but worry props them open. Last night I got a really good night’s sleep, then a reprise on the couch in the morning after an episode of The Mentalist.
My wife at this moment is making apple cider from a box of apples. She is constantly cooking and our larder is always well stocked. When she was young, a venerable Patriarch prophesied that if she would always be willing to serve her fellow man she would never want for anything. I have certainly seen both of those the last fifteen years. I have been the beneficiary. She goes through life without a single worry.
Another great thing about Tamara is that she is forgiving. She never bears a grudge, large or small, for even ten minutes. That makes for a good marriage. Food and Forgiveness. She is a Good Woman.
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl.
The last few months, any time I have found my usual good nature with church-related service, and indeed towards my fellow man, to be dampened, like on Sunday morning there is a sheet of lead draped over me.
That seems to have been lifted today. I was only a few minutes late to church. I actually got a moment’s peace. I just love church. It’s like taking a shower. I can’t imagine not going every week! My life has been so enriched.
I am breaking my conditioning. Everything on TV, Radio, and Print (with the exception of books) has been teaching me how to believe. It’s really starting to chap my hide. What if everything I’ve been taught is a lie? College sure was. Or what if there is a deeper layer even under all that. I don’ t feel at the present moment like taking this any further. You can breathe a sigh of relief now.
That’s the missing link with the banks (ie the fractional reserve banking thing). So there are huge profits that drain the resources of the general population. Who benefits? Does the wealth then become more or less evenly distributed back somehow? I don’t know. I have so many questions.
The kids have been taking music lessons for a few years now and it really shows. The can read music and belt out a few tunes. They love to sing, too.