What did you do today.

[me_in_japan]

They're still piss poor transports, though

Poor banshees left to languish on the useless heap, while the swooping hawks soar overhead juggling emp grenades and mocking the banshees' ineffectiveness

Today I have so far gotten gotten bugger all done, due to my son having his first real fever of his life. Poor we chap is lolling about like a sack of potatoes, running a temp of 39.2. I daresay I'd be a bit potatoey with that kind of fever, too. The doc says he'll be fine, btw, but all dad-time is cancelled for the next few days.

As for this:

BTW A little bird tells me that pleasent wishes for the anniversay of your birth are in order. Consider yourself congratulated. What did you get as a pressie? FW stuff?

Hah! I haven't gotten anything from Forge World for my birthday*. Not a bean, matey. So hah! Hah! And thrice hah! Oh, and thank you for the kind words re: birthday. 35 years old. Whoda thought?


*OKthisistehnicallyonlybecauseithasn'tarivedyetbutlet'snevermindthatshallwe?

[Mike the Pike]

OKthisistehnicallyonlybecauseithasn'tarivedyetbutlet'snevermindthatshallwe?

Oh. we shall mind
Whadidya get?

[kojibear]

"Prince of Purple"
Earning this title ranks up there with my wedding and the birth of my kids as one of the greatest days of my life. I'd like to thank the Academy, God and ......

That makes you the second to hold the title Mike

[kojibear]

Oh and happy birthday MiJ

*Psst. Wha' cha gettin' from forgeworld, eh guvna? Bit o' this and a bit o' that, eh? Eh?*

[me_in_japan]

Re: parties interested in wot I am awaiting from FW:

Bit of a mix, actually. I got Sayl the Faithless and his 3 headed chum, a pack of chaos dwarf characters and a flying swooshie thing of much loveliness

2 of the dwarves are for sale, if anybody's interested. I just want the one for painting up. Fiver apiece. Any takers? I want the chap with his hand out in an "avaunt!" Kinda way. The other two are up for grabs.

[Primarch]

Today and for the past few days I have been painting bases in what little free time I have had. Turns out that 30 bases of 40mm x 40mm take a while to paint. So very boring and time consuming. But they will look lovely once they are finished.

[Primarch_Vanguard]

@mike the pike, very nice wraithknight. Just ordered one the other day and if only it comes close to your paint job I'll be an happy camper. But 3 of em, damn, that's gonna be hard to knock down. My two riptides and wraithknight will have to give it a go! Battle of the mini-titans!

Today I finally got around to clipping out and shaving off the clippings on my riptide. So don't go picking up my challenge yet mike. It's gonna be next year by the time I'm ready for that battle. And then finished repainting some of my chaos army. I really wasn't happy with my army being so bright. It is chaos after all. I liked the green and it'll look much better on my Tau. My chaos is back to black as it was meant to be from the start. Gotta listen to that voice in my head.

And finally picked up some paint remover that worked decently well. I checked around for that green clean or whatever it's called but nada. The stuff I got works pretty well. So spent the last hour scrubbing the paint of 8 models.

Time to crash.

[Primarch_Vanguard]

Perhaps Mikes call to arms of 3 wraithknights has something to do with coming face to face with a Trygon, Tyrannofex, carnifex brood and Tervigon and swarmlord or something I remember him playing against on the next table. That's about 20 wounds between them or more. Damn, who was running that army that day? Lol.

[me_in_japan]

Without wishing to crush anyone's over-priced cheese dreams, I believe Pikey was just joking about having 3 wraithknights, in an attempt to wind me up.* He's well aware of my disapproval of GWs policy of "every new codex must have a Big Deth Robot in it. It must be bigger than the last Big Deth Robot and it must have cheesey rules so that everyone will run out and buy our new 100quid kit."

40k does not need giant robots. It's a marketing ploy, and makes the game boring. Not saying I won't play against folks who use em, but I will stand across the table from you and tut loudly every time you move your Big Deth Robot around. Fair warning

*actually, in my experience it's not unreasonable to assume that everything Pikey says is an attempt to wind somebody up. Usually me.

[Primarch]

@PV - 2 out of 5, looks like someone needs to resit 'Tyranid Bio-forms 101'
I had Trygons and Carnifexes and between them I think they killed a couple of wave serpents and a prism cannon. I was expecting Pikey to have a Wraithknight though. It was my humble units of gaunts and stealers that won me that game.

And calling cheese on a Tyranid list, do you also enjoy kicking puppies?

I'm trying to recall what was on your table.... a couple of vindicators, a soul grinder, a Blood Thirster and a defiler was it?