Gremlin dissection: Raphael Lacroix

In the next dissection of the gremlin crew we have Raphael Lacroix. He’s the “heavy damage absorption” gremlin in the LaCroix family.

The stats

He has some average stats and the only thing that springs out is his CG of 8. He’s also a height of 1.

The skills

He has the ability Reckless which gives him an additional AP at the start of the turn. This will cost him 1 wound.

He has fueled by panic ,which is an interesting ability. as long as he as 4 WD or less he gets a [+] to damage flips and gets no damage from the reckless ability.

He has hard to kill, which means you first have to bring him down to 1 WD. then you need another attack to kill him. So even if you do 15 damage, you can only get him to 1 WD first and then you need to spend another AP to kill him with an attack or spell. This is a nice ability to have.

He also has Armor +1 which reduces damage by 1 to a minimum of 1.

All this helps him survive a little longer and he gets a little better if he is down on wounds.

The actions

He has 2 attack actions: Big Honkin’ Stock and Big Honkin’ Gun.

The Stick has a Ml of 3 and does low damage. It also has the Dumb luck trigger, so that’s quite good.

The gun is a bit better with a Sh of 5 and a range of 10. He does average damage and also has the dumb luck trigger, so that’s better and he has hard to kill so he won’t kill himself by accident.

He also has a tactical action as a (1) action which lets you push up to 4’’ away in any direction, but you have to be engaged to use it, so that’s pretty average since I always want to be in combat with him except if he has only 1 wound left.

The tricks

If there is one upgrade I would give him it would be team work. It allows you to place (important) him into combat and push some other gremlin away from combat. You can potentially protect a vital piece and be a tarpit for the model he will be engaged with.

The looks

I like the previous model better than this one. It had some more quirkiness to it and it had a bit more character to it. It looked a bit more like its counterpart in my opinion. So I will be sticking with my old model for now.

The playbook

In my eyes he plays like a tarpit model. He can stay around for that little bit longer than usual. If you’re lucky you can even heal him up again once he’s down to 1 wound. You can also use him a bodyguard scheme perhaps since he has hard to kill. Besides that he’s an average looking model in my eyes and I don’t use him that much in the current games I’ve been playing.

Happy new year - my 2014 resolutions (Purdy Fireworks)

It's the first day of the new year, so I wanted to make some new resolutions for the new year.

This year I want to do the following for my hobby:




Painting

I still have a few models left to paint before I've got all my stuff done for the gremlin faction:

Zoraida
Bad Juju
3x silurids
McTavish
Wong
Avatar of indulgence (Somer Avatar)
Rooster rider

Need to buy
Gracie
Burt

Need to convert

Whiskey golem: I've bought some barrels from this website: http://www.renedra.co.uk/webstore.html#

Besides that I've build my puppet wars unstiched. This will give me more models to play with in for example a Zoraida crew or play a Seamus crew with just puppets. I am really impressed with the quality of the models.
I'll do a review of this gam later this year once I've played it some more.

Last year my master was Ophelia, but this year I'll probably focus more on the brewmaster and take him to tournaments. I need to get out of the safty zone of my favorite master and try to use some other models.

Besides that that's about it for now. I hope to contribute some more on the Wyrd-forum and perhaps on chasing bacon podcast. http://chasingbacon.podbean.com/
I've not really approached them, but maybe we can do something in the near future.


Gaming wise I've been buying a lot of games through bundles like the humble bundle website.
https://www.humblebundle.com/
I purchased more than enough games to try and play this year. I've also bought the Ultima series and look forward in playing some Ultima 7 or 8. I recommend http://www.gog.com/ for this. If you're into retro gaming then this is the place for you.



Anyways, have a great year everyone and may all your flips be Red Jokers.

Tournament: winter is coming (1-12-13) review

So the day started around 11o’clock and it was a 50 SS tourney fixed master , primarily wave 1 (although wave 2 was allowed for certain models). Also 3 set strats and 4 randomly chosen schemes. There was also a small achievement list and the winner from the list got a miss Terious.

I brought Ophelia and her crew. I became 7^th out of 14 players, not too bad. There were a lot of prices and it was all winter themed.

First was reckoning so I brought an elite crew (Lenny, Francois, Fingers, Rami ) to the fight against Ramos. The highlight was I killed Howard turn 2 since he overcommitted.

I took breakthrough which I got 1 point for, and plant explosives which I got 3 VP from.

I won the game 6-3

Second round was against the winner of the tourney with a rasputina list. The strategy was reckoning, so I opted for a lot of bayou gremlins.

The highlight of this game was that I couldn’t move Ophelia because of those dammed ice pillars, so I got stuck behind them for 3 turns. I had to rely on jug rocket to do some damage.

I took bodyguard on Francois, but I overcommitted him and lost him in the last turn. I also took distract and that worked netting me 3 VP for the distract. For the reconnoiter I got 3 VP mainly because he took 6 ice gamin and snowstorm so he could redeploy easier. Overall a fun and enjoyable game with some bad luck on both sides. It was 6-6 draw in the end.

The last round was turf war. I opted for a varied list with some low cost and high cost models like Fingers and Francois and Lenny. My opponent was a guild McMourning player and brought 2 dreaded austringers that are the bane of my gremlin existence.

 I took protect territory which netted me 1 VP in the end and I took murder protégé, which I took on nino. The reason was that in that way he needs to hold nino back more because I announced it. He can’t go out far and shoot. He needs to stay back and thus lowering his effectiveness in the game. In the end Ophelia killed him and I got 3 VP that way.

It was close until the end with McMourning and Sebastian both pounding first on Francois and then on Ophelia which both died in the end.

After the game there was a point swing because McMourning changed some schememarkers into his schememarkers. It was a fun game, but I wished I had better cards ( the best I drew was a 10 and draw the black joker every turn).

I lost this game 6-9.

Overall it was a fun day and I took home a laserlight to determine LoS. The sponsors were Trinket and Tokens http://www.trinketsandtokens.net and Sheepgames.

Thanks Puppeteers for a great day and hope we can do it again soon.

This is just in : Wyrd sale: very excited

Wyrd Sale update soon! But to tease you - Rules Manual, 8 unreleased crew boxes, 14 unreleased minion boxes, 4 Special Edition Crew, 6 past special editions, including the Carver for the first time, individual metal puppets, and free at certain order levels, a new special edition Perdita, and a Santana...Enjoy!! 

Maybe some gremlin love? Lets hope so.

Brewmaster crew done

Here are some pictures of my latest crew.

Only 1 model (pigapult) to do and my wave 1 gremlins are done.

Gremlin dissection: Rami Lacroix

In the next dissection of the gremlin crew we have Rami Lacroix. He’s the long range sniper wielding gremlin in the La Croix family.

The stats

He has a DF and a Wp of 4. He has 6 Wd and a Wk of 5. He has no Cg (not that you want to charge with him) and a Ht of 1. He’s an Enforcer, living and rare 1 characteristic. He is also a gremlin and a kin model.

The skills

He has the ability Reckless which gives him an additional AP at the start of the turn. This will cost him 1 wound.

He also has the defensive trigger “Squeel!”. You can get yourself out of combat if you have a mask in your hand. Although he only has 6 wounds so a hit or 2 will kill him. This can help with his survivability.

He also has the ability Aim High, which gives him the ability to target HT 2 models without penalty. So it’s great to use to shoot into combat. Add this with the great range and he can do that extra damage you need to kill off the enemy.

The actions

He only has 2 actions. A shooting attack and a tactical action.

The shooting attack has a range of 18!!! and can be doubled using the focus action.

It has one trigger which doubles the damage, but with low wounds it’s better not to use this action a lot. It has an average damage spread so great to pick off weakened models.

The tactical action is cast that makes a healing flip. It’s pretty ok for a (1) action.

The tricks

There are not a lot of upgrades he can take that are worth while.

These are 2 I could take if I have some points to spare:

Stilts can be nice for the additional height, so you can look over small walls and fences and the like. Also the damage prevention  from 1 ML attack can be nice to buy yourself more time. Although it doesn’t work with the squeal trigger so you have to watch out.

Another one : gremlin see will give you an option to remove conditions and you can use a (0) action for it. You don’t have any other (0) actions so this might be something to consider.

The looks

I like the looks, but my preference goes out to the previous model. It’s really a question of taste really.

The playbook

This model is a defensive model in my eyes. So try to keep it back a bit more than the rest. I have the tendency to chuck it forward and do a lot of damage early, but I think he is more of a control piece that should be treated as such. Try to get a good vantage point and stay there. Also he can help out in schemes where the opponent needs to get into your deployment zone. He can be a deterrent for that as well.

Besides that he’s a bit one dimensional. Shoot and then shoot some more. He doesn’t have unimpeded or the hunter ability like he used to have so he became a lot weaker than before.

WIP: bayou bases

So I'm working on my bayou bases for my brewmaster crew and I'll show you the first step in making them.

First I have bought some bayou inserts from Wyrd miniatures.

Then I used insta-mould to make some prints of the bases.

After that I used some grey stuff to fill in the moulds.

I then used some gale force nine magnetic 30mm bases and then I put the grey stuff onto the base.

The results are the bases you can see down below.