Shadespire revisited

I decided to re-paint my 'pink' Sepulchral Guard.  I wanted to make them more purple.  So this time I added a blue wash to their cloaks.  That was 10 minutes well spent.  Holy shit, I think I'm beginning to get the hang of this 'basic colour theory' thing!  It only took me 8 years!

Before

I played a few tutorial games of Nightvault with Alistair down at Freebooters and dammit, I enjoyed them despite myself.  I usually sigh wearily when Games Workshop introduce more byzantine and esoteric rules to their games  (yeah, yeah you're a super numerate tactical genius and its all easy but I just want to throw dice and smash things).  However, the magic system is very intuitive and dovetails nicely with the current attack and action game mechanic.  We forgot to play with the red-hex death things so I can't comment on that.  I love the scatter template though, even though it was a bit underwhelming in a purely destructive capacity.

After

Alistair had bought the game, the Gitz and the snazzy Underworlds travel case because he's a complete fanboy.  I got to play the wizard Sigmarines and had heard bad things about them but they were ideal for a starter force.  A fully upgraded Averon Stormsire can sit back and blast shit off the table with lightning bolts.  He's a righteous dude!  You can get glory from casting spells and you become inspired by casting spells.  You can still cast spells even when you are unable to move or attack.  The only trouble was that stuff like Gambits are pretty low probability and only randomly turn up in your deck.  So I don't think I managed to cast any card spells at all during one game.  Which can make Ammis and Rastus a bit boring, but hey, they still hit things very hard with their swords and you can always tweak your deck.  I think they performed decently against the Gitz.  Alistair didn't have time to build himself a proper deck (I was just using the default), Sourtongue's ball and chain attack probably works better against hordes and they are very squishy.  On the other hand, they were much more thematic and their rules seemed more fun.

Then, of course, there are the Sigmarine models.  Good grief it must get terribly hot under all that apparel.  Would you like to wear robes over your robes over your full plate armour?  The wands are a bit fairy like. Rastus has definitely been eating too many pies and looks pregnant.

I'd want to do some hideous conversions with the Stormsire's Cursebreakers.  I was thinking that since my Sigmarines are all Celtic, I could swap out the wands for beer mugs and try to model them all drunk.  I wonder if Ammis would look good with a Witch Elf head?  I've got a few spares.  I could call her "Eilís" (my mother's name).  Maybe give them all red hair and insult Irish people everywhere.

A unique take on the Sigmarines.  It would be an interesting project.  Ahh crap, I think the game has its barbed little hooks in me now.  I'm going to have to buy it, aren't I?  God damn it.