When I get into a new game, I need something visual to draw me to it. I consider myself a game player primarily, despite this blog, but I like cool looking things more than I like powerful things. (Malifaux is an excellent game, because everything is cool looking, and everything is powerful!)
When I first found Warmachine/Hordes many years ago, I looked though their catalog to find models that spoke to me. The Cyclops Brute in the Skorne faction was the model that did it for me, with the Immortals being the next ones. Then when the big stompy elephants were pretty cool looking (as opposed to all of the Warjacks of the game, which look bloody stupid!), I was sold!
This was the only model painted in the army for the longest time. When I got into it, I noticed that very few people had painted models, at all. (Todd, who is now an excellent commission painter, was an exception). I wanted to be different, so I painted this guy.
After I was unable to convince anyone to play it with me, he sat unused for a long while. He might have been the first time I used a GW wash and white primer! I remember his pants are white primer, with a red wash and then a black wash and that’s it and I thought they looked so cool! (I still kind of do, although I can see how simple they are :))
Still really love the look of the cyclopses in this game! Plus the fluff…they are all but brutal animals, but they can see into the near future and can predict what their opponent will do.
6 Comments
Kelly
November 24, 2015 at 2:37 pmNot to pick on WarmaHordes players, but they really ARE the Magic the Gathering crowd, only with unpainted minis. Most tournaments I’ve witnessed usually only have about 2-5% of the players with fully painted armies. I was asked to judge the painting for one large tournament, and it seemed like almost every player there RESENTED having me come by their tables and ask if I could have a look at their models.
More on this:
http://sableandspray.blogspot.ca/2014/09/painted-vs-unpainted-why-even-bother.html
Kelly
November 24, 2015 at 2:43 pmThat being said, those armies that are painted are usually breathtakingly gorgeous.
Craig Fleming
November 24, 2015 at 2:52 pmI went and read your article…only to find that I’d read and commented on it a year and a month ago. 🙂
One of the things the local WHFB crew hope to do when they all start showing up to tournaments is to see if they can increase the “soft scores”, that are traditionally not prioritized in WMH events. We come from a high soft scores community, and being able to continue that (while still beating face) would be really cool.
I almost went to Foodhammer, but decided not to. Partially because it wasn’t convenient time-wise, but partially because I didn’t have a fully painted army. Next tournament maybe!
Craig Fleming
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