I have been enjoying the game for the last few months, and during this time, I have enjoyed reading about other people’s experience with building, painting and learning the finer details of a warmachine army. Looking at people getting their armies into shape, and learning how to use them has been a huge inspiration and I now feel that it is my time to give something back. While I am not as good a painter, player or writer as many out in the World Wide Web, I hope that some people will find my experiences helpful, and my painting inspirational.
Before I get
too deeply into my hobby, I will introduce you to me. I live in Denmark with my
girlfriend and our cat, I study in Copenhagen but will (I hope) be done within
the year, and I have been painting and playing with small toy soldiers since
1996.
I first had
a fling with Warmachine, or rather hordes back in 2008 (I think) during Mk1
where I got some store credit at my local gaming pusher. After buying loads of
random stuff one of the locals got me to buy the trollblood battlebox, a
krielstone, a unit of champions and a fell caller. He also gave me a diretroll
mauler. I enjoyed painting them, and tried to learn how to play the game. The
person who gave me my intro game was the least beginner friendly person in the
world, I moved my models, then Madrak was assassinated, and the guy spent the next
half hour telling my why the circle caster he had used was awesome. That game led
me to a few weeks of painting without playing, but I returned to the shop and at
that time, a league had just started, and I joined. It seemed like a laugh and I
lost 7 games straight, but it was okay because people was nice about it, and
taught me bits of the game between pawning me. Game Nr. 8 was my fist win,
against the nicest guy playing in the campaign. He looked like comicbookguy,
but rather than being sarcastic, he was the most enthusiastic person about the narrative
of the game I have ever meet, and it was a joy to play him. I played a few more
games until I meet THAT GUY. He played poorly, but had a better army, which
countered my army completely. It was a bad experience, I lost, and I felt
cheated. That got me to put the models on the shelf for a while, and before my
love was rekindled I was hired by a competing miniatures company, and put them
on hold. Last year my trollbloods were sold to a nice person who will love them
more than I did. I do however have some pictures from back in their prime.
In the next
post I will start talking about my return to Warmachine about summer 2012 and
the love affair I have going on with Cryx.
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