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Not as hard to pin as I expected. |
After reading a recent 3++
post
about Hordes, a thought got stuck in my craw. The idea that warlocks
need more beasts than warcasters need jacks made me wonder if my desire
to run jack heavy might not be better suited to Hordes. When I first
started looking at Warmachine, well before I started playing, the jacks
didn't do much for me. They all looked basically the same, and while I
can appreciate the subtle differences between Khadoran and Cygnaran
jacks now the point still stands. There's no way you're going to
mistake a Circle beast for a Legion one though. Looks aside, once I got
into the game I wanted to run a handful of jacks, at least three, but
sadly the game just doesn't support it. Granted I could run Karchev or
some crazy pButcher list with a ton of Kodiaks and Berserkers, but the
system just doesn't encourage running more than two jacks per caster,
and even that's pushing it for some. So perhaps Hordes is the key,
where the beasts power the locks instead of the other way around. With
all this in mind I sat down for some pinning and got pMadrak assembled.
I wanted to put a beast together, but they're going to take some real
work to get together and my pinning skills, while getting better, still
need lots of work. Perhaps I'll get Madrak up there based and primed,
plus splash some paint around, while I'm on a
between-paint-the-target-goals hiatus. Maybe I'll get the beasts
together and start work on the battle group. More likely Madrak will
sit and wait for a while before getting any love while I continue to
plug away at Khador troops. Whatever the future holds at least I
finally cracked Primal and the Trollbloods box that have been waiting
for attention since they arrived at my door.
In other news, there's a battle report in the works. It might get finished tonight or it might get done sometime over the weekend. In the meantime, ratchet up your anticipation.
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