Post by Fadril Adren on Sept 18, 2016 19:23:27 GMT -5
TALE OF X WARLORDS
X will be the amount of members who will dedicate themselves to this. It will be easy-going but consistent. No big charts and tables and nothing as time-consuming as an escalation (which would be GREAT.. but this is definitely easier and more suited to smaller entries.. especially with holidays coming up).
SO.. just what is Tale of X Warlords? Well, if you picked up your copy of the latest White Dwarf magazine, they have a section "Tale of Four Warlords" and this will be based off of that.
There will be monies that need to be spent on this. If you cannot/do not have the funds or do not wish to allocate them to this, then please do not commit. That said... it will NOT be expensive. The goal isn't to buy, assemble, and paint a whole army.... on the contrary... just a warband worth so fairly small overall. This is aimed at getting STARTED with a new army.. not completing a full 2000 points of it. It is also geared to slow to medium speed painters although if you are a fast painter... then you can paint more units! hehe.
Here's the plan:
* This will be starting in October and run for 5 months
* Each participant will need to:
1. Choose a Grand Alliance to represent (Order, Chaos, Death, Destruction)
2. Pick a faction within that Grand Alliance
3. Buy (or.. if you already happen to have the models equivalent.. cool!) a Start Collecting box of your chosen faction. Sorry Aelfs and Free Peoples... there isn't one yet of these. If you still wish to participate but only want a faction NOT represented by Start Collecting there ARE battalion boxes available online in many places.
* MONTH 1 - Assemble and paint entire Start Collecting box. Failure to do so will end up facing the scorn and mockery of their fellows.
* MONTH 2 - Complete (purchase if you don't have it, assemble, paint) a unit of infantry or cavalry.
* MONTH 3 - Complete a Monster (or.. if your faction has none...a large centerpiece model)
* MONTH 4 - Complete a mighty Hero model
* MONTH 5 - Complete 1 terrain piece or faction-themed objective markers.. or both!
CAVEAT - If you have time and would like to assemble and paint MORE than what's listed during any month, go ahead! Just know that what's listed is the MINIMUM REQUIREMENT.
Games will be played whenever players can get together. There will not be a tourney for this nor competition. This is simply a structured event to get a new army started in Age of Sigmar at the same time as other players and help encourage each other and progressively help painting.
Pictures WILL NEED TO BE POSTED on the LoreMaster's Age of Sigmar board "Tale of X Warlords" and linked to the Facebook group at least 1x each end of month to show everyone what you have done. This is done by creating a PLOG (Painting LOG) of your Tale of X Warlord Army as a thread of it's own and add to pics and progress information as you get them done. If you want to show other members your work-in-progress pictures throughout the month, you can simply just post those here on the FB group for those.
I encourage participants to get creative with their army. Make it YOURS. Write a background of them. Give names to your Warlord and his captains. Create cool unit names etc.
I would like to point out... if you already have bought a starter set but do NOT have it painted yet... you can still join this and participate as normal. The idea is to have a Start Collecting EQUIVALENT to begin with (so... most have 2 battleline type units plus 1 hero).
If you already have bought all the models needed to participate... some... or most.. but do NOT have them painted yet., you can still participate as normal!
- ROB