Sealing Your Models with Tinted Floor Wax

A while back, I read on the PP forums that someone had done up a unit of sword knights by dipping them in floor wax. At that time, I'd just begun to consider sealing my painted models, and using something like Minwax as an alternative to Dullcote sounded interesting and very different.

The Impending Stormlance MegaNerf

Pretty much everyone expects the next errata to nerf storm lances in some way. Storm lances do pretty much everything. They can get POW16 shots with electroleaps when a firefly and Laddermore are around. They can make POW12 impact attacks en route to their targets, where they each get a POW15 charge attack, a shot that's up to POW16 with the already-mentioned boosts, and two electroleaps. We get it. They're good. So what will Privateer Press do about it? Let's examine a few of the posibilities that have been bandied about.

Jack Marshaling is OP

Alright, well, maybe only the Stormclad/SBC/Arlan combo is actually overpowered, but there are certainly some good uses for the ability in Cygnar. Let's take a closer look at the options for good jack marshals, and what jacks benefit the most from the jack marshal ability.

Cygnar Squire Assassinates All Other Crappy Caster Attachments

(or A Review and Assessment of Cygnaran Warcaster Attachments)

When I look at the lists I run, pretty much every one at this point has a squire. The squire is the only Cygnar attachment, and the most expensive attachment. But is it the best? When would you ever want anything else?

I Wish They All Could Be Character Warjacks

It might not be immediately clear from the title here what I'm talking about. I mean, you could sing that to the Beach Boys tune, but that's not what I'm doing here. Let me let you in on a secret: I name my models. Bit by bit, I'm making each of my warjacks, and every member of each of my units into a character model. Of course, the rules on the model won't change, but it's a lot of fun.

It all started with Roger. Early on, back in the mk2 days, my gun mage captain adept never got any work done. He was usually the first guy to die, and that after having spent a couple rounds doing nothing. I started visualizing him as Marvin from the old Superfriends cartoon, and I named him Roger. I played lots of games with Roger, and Roger was always totally ineffective. But he was my first faux-character model.

Shortly after that, I read Into The Storm and decided to name my stormblade infantry unit after the characters in that book. Madigan's Malcontents. I liked it so much that I made up names for my gun mages.

In reading the fluff, I found that many of the warjacks were named. So why wouldn't I do the same? I named my minuteman "Fiver" since he jumps, and named my firefly "Joules". My ironclad is "Bully", and my chargers "Whistler" and "Lil Brudder".

When I do these, I paint the jack's name on the back of its base in Cygnaran runes, and then on the underside of the base in English to make it easier to remember.

What I'd really love to do at some point is get a used stormclad and customize the crap out of it to make it resemble Headhunter from "Into The Storm". I could paint the warjack incredibly rusty, and then buy 2 or 3 Protectorate warjack heads, glue them to a small necklace linked chain, and hang it over the stormclad. It would be a fun project.

WarmaHordes: An EBay Buyers' Guide

In August 2015, I started playing Warmachine. I got the majority of my Cygnar models from EBay. Some people like to do this because you can get models already assembled and painted. Personally, I do it because you stand the chance to save a ton of money. I wasn't one of the guys who could drop $500 right off the bat to buy a full army. I started with my Stryker1 Cygnar battlebox, then within the next month or two bought the Black 13th, a Gun Mage Captain Adept, Long Gunners, and Arcane Tempest Gun Mages from EBay. I acquired models gradually, one or two per month.

All things being equal, I can see wanting to support Privateer Press. When prices are equal and models are disassembled, I'll buy models through a retailer like DiscountGamesInc or even Amazon. When possible, I've bought things at the friendly local game store. But for already-assembled dirt cheap models, there's nothing like EBay. Here are some tips to get the things you want dirt cheap.