More Deliveries

Life is still crazy, and I will be taking a break this week for self-care. Which may or may not include some gaming stuff for relaxation; as you're about to see, it will require further purchases.

I picked up the 1st edition Warhammer: Age of Sigmar box.

It was actually cheaper than the original price, and came with free shipping, so I jumped on it.

To my surprise, however - having bought the similarly-sized 40K starter that came out about the same time - it did not contain push-fit figures, nor "one-rule-at-a-time" scenarios, nor painting tips. It'll be a bit more work.

I haven't built anything plastic that wasn't push-fit in years. That's kinda the point of the Wofun Paperboys, after all.

I only cut out one before realizing I'd need
to sort them...

The rest of the contents.

The rulebook is not as beginner-friendly as the 40K starter; it contains the full rules of the game as they were at the time, and the included scenarios do not take you "step-by-step." Probably no point, as none of the included figures have shooting weapons or magic; simple heroic abilities are provided for commander figures. The scenarios do start out with smaller units and simple objectives, and are on larger tables than the 22x22inch paper "boards" provided these days. They are progressive, so that by the end you are using all four units, and a simple campaign bonus is included - if one side wins a Major Victory, they roll on a bonus table and may use that bonus once during the next game.

My next purchase from my Friendly Local Game Store (I recently discovered one about six miles from work) will be plastic glue, and some paint - most likely Army Painter, as I am assured they are of similar quality to Citadel but half the price. I am tempted by their version of Contrast, but the (excellent) painting guide I've found online specifically for these figures is pre-Contrast - the usual base-shade-highlight combo.

Colors required:

Khornate Chaos

• Black
• Brass
• Red
• Skin

Stormcast Eternals

• Blue
• Gold
• White

Both

• Tan undercoat spray (which I need for the Warhammer Alliance stuff anyway)
• Metal
• Brown
• Pink

My other delivery was my long-awaited copy of X-treme Dungeon Mastery, second edition, which finished its Kickstarter shortly after I started this blog. 

Though I've had the e-book and e-audio version for a while now, my hard copy and custom character drawing by Schlock Mercenary cartoonist Howard Tayler was in the very last shipment - probably because my character request was more complex than most:

What I was hoping for was a city-guard recruiting poster for my "Queen's Own Troubleshooters" campaign at work. Not a bad result. This will go inside the cover of my campaign binder - if I ever get the campaign back off the ground, which at present doesn't look likely anytime soon.

Finally, Lexi got another couple boxes to play with:

At least someone's happy!