Ogre-nation!

Man oh man, what have I done! As Jordan and I were hanging out together on leave, we stumbled into our old GW romping grounds, and there they were, staring me in the face, OGRES! So, I started out by purchasing a box set of leadbelchers, and trying them out. So after our long anticipated battle, we decided to mess around and see what they were made of, holy cow! 4 lead belchers, vs 20 crossbowmen, and a mortor. First round, I destroyed a entire unit of crossbow men, 10 in all, in one shooting round! Right then and there I was hooked. The crossbow men went on to win, due to some mis-fires, and the fact we did not do any hand to hand. So we ran them again, this time like a real fight. First round, once again I managed to destroy an entire unit. After that, I charged the other unit, and they fled, due to fear. Soooo, I went after the mortar, but just when I turned my back, the crossbowmen cut me down, with a very well placed shot by the mortar. I thought, just 4 models took out over half of my empire warband, what would a whole warband of these guys do? So, here they are, I ended up with:

1 tyrant
1 gorger
2 lead belchers (4 in all)
3 bulls (6 in all)
and 10 gnoblers (32 in all)

Enjoy the pics! This is my warband, 499 points right on the dot!

Baby steps to get back in the game.

Ok, I lied on my last post, I did not get my cannon crew finished............... Sorry. I will be honest, I have been so busy latley I have not had time for my favorite hobby. With the deployment to Iraq looming in my future, I am running around like a chicken with my head cut off. We are looking like the date is Oct. 12th, so I have about 3 weeks to get everything prepared. GOOD NEWS!!!! I have purchased my very first home, in the great state of Oregon, in my old home town. There was a lot next to it for sale, so we bought that also, three housing lots in all, with 2 houses. So we are on our way in that department. There will soon be another addition to my family, we are expecting a baby girl in january, I will be gone =(, but still am very proud. I feel a lot more comfortable with my wife and little girl, and soon to be 2 baby girls in Elgin, around family, I can't think of another place in the world better to raise a family. But, ok enough about me, lets talk about what I am cooking up......... now that fantasy football season has kicked off, I am going to be around the desk and computer a lot more, thus enabling me to paint quite a bit more. I got a late start tonight, so I thought I would go ahead and finish up some models that needed their bases done, a treeman that jordan painted for my 17th b-day, and the first cannon that I painted up, part of the crew. Tomorrow, I hope to start on the crew, it took me a couple of hours at most to do 1 member so maybe I can pump one out. OH! and if I actually have people looking at this blog, be sure to check out jordan's link for the battle report, we finally threw down, empire vs skaven, but I am not going to ruin it for you, you are in for a treat, he did a awsome job on our report, I hope he is not wanting me to come up with the next one, his will be pretty hard to top....................