Diesel DM

Played in a 2-list, 35pt 10-minute timed-turn tournament on Saturday. As usual I was representing Cygnar, but I did add in a new caster: Captain Kara Sloan.

• Captain Kara Sloan +6

• Defender 9
• Hunter 6

• Officer 2
• Cyclone 9

• Captain Jonas Murdoch 2

• Journeyman Warcaster 3

• Charger 4

My second list was an evolution of a Stryker 25-pt list I had played in a previous tournament.  For those who have been following the Long Gunner painting fiasco, I have still not finished them, so I had to steal them off the painting table for this.

• Commander Coleman Stryker +6

• Ol’ Rowdy 9
• Stormclad 10
• Squire 2

• Officer and Standard Bearer 3

• Minimum Precursor Knights 5

• Officer and Standard Bearer 2

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Progress continues on the Long Gunners, though it doesn’t feel like the end is in sight yet.  I had hoped to complete them for the tournament on Saturday but that’s unlikely at this point.  So far the base coating is complete, the skin is fully painted , eyes are painted and hair is done.

Skin, hair and eyes painted

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After an exemplary showing in a 25-pt tournament, I felt the Long Gunners deserved to be up next for paint.  They set up on top of a hill turn one with pStryker providing Snipe and proceeded to make dual-shots all game long taking down a number of support models.  At 25-pts I had only used the minimum unit of 6, but I have 10 and the UA, so for consistency I wanted to paint them all at once.  I still haven’t decided for sure if this was a mistake.  Painting 12 models at once is a little much and it’s hard to feel like progress is being made.

12 Long Gunners on the Assembly Line

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The Cygnar Hunter is one of my favorite ‘jacks. He sports an almost reptilian stance, like a predatory dinosaur on the hunt. His face has a bit of a mean, aggressive look to it, while the top of the chassis has a refined aerodynamic feel.

When it comes to the game one of the biggest distinctions the Hunter has is Pathfinder. I wanted to embrace this as I based him to give it the feel that he wasn’t just out on a flat battlefield, but he was in rough terrain, on the hunt. I decided to have him just coming down a bank and stepping into a forest stream.

On the hunt.

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