Tonight has been pretty fun so far! Mike came over for some more mans painting and instead of working on Tartarus I ended up playing a battle box game with my 16 year old sister. She's super annoying and her name is Jaime. The game was really fun though and I feel like she picked it up pretty quickly.
I don't actually own either battlebox...well technically I bought the Menoth one but it didn't have the Repenter so I just got reimbursed for it. A Devout filled the role. I played a Cryx list using Asphyxious instead of Deneghra, mostly since I haven't painted my Deneghra I got for free and am instead waiting for the plastic battlebox version. Enough of these boring details.
The game was pretty straightforward. I first introduced the different types of models and explained the importance of the Warcasters. We played a basic assassination scenario. There were some both exhilarating and depressing rolls throughout the game. Jaime arced an Immolation through her revenger and crippled both movement and arcing on my nightwretch. Ouch =[. She then charged my other nightwretch with her revenger(loaded with 3 focus) and nearly wiped out my Nightwretch. I think he had 2 health boxes left.
I didn't think much of it because I had a slayer ready to charge when my turn came around. Wellp. My turn came around and I did a total of 5 damage. Revengers are OP. I should've combo strike'd.
I was going easy on my sister in general so I charged her Crusader with pAsphyxious to show her how crazy feats can be. My plan was to introduce feats to her on my turn and then let her kill me with Kreoss' feat on hers. I wrecked the crusader with the help of Consuming Blight and left him there with 4 focus camped, instead of teleporting to safety as I probably would've done.
Shit hit the fan for Jaime on her turn. I told her I wasn't going to help her out this turn, but ended up explaining again that killing the warcaster ends the game, and told her that Kreoss is more than capable of fighting. She charged and popped her feat, knocking down all my models. I was glad and fully expecting a focus hogging Kreoss to kill Asphyxious. In the end, after letting her reroll tons of rolls, Asphyxious was 4 damage short of dying. I should've wasted those last 4 focus last turn, but Asphyxious with ARM 20 was too much apparently. She did light him on fire, but it only ended up doing another 2 damage.
The next turn I killed Kreoss because I didn't know what to do. She still had a lot of fun though and is talking about getting her own army, but she's poor and probably won't. But who cares. Good ol fashioned family fun.
And no, I'm not spelling her name wrong. My parents really did name her Jaime.
In other news, my wonderful amazing girlfriend is going to give me her digital camera so I can take tons of pictures! She's the best. She's also trying to figure out what to cosplay as at PAX East this spring. As cool as it'd be to see her dressed up as a warcaster or something, I don't think it's very likely. I never fully appreciated how abstract Warmachine/Hordes character design is until I suggested my girlfriend dress up in it.
