Using Makeda 2: My First Impressions

I've been having a lot of fun and success using Makeda 2 so far this edition, so I decided to write up a quick take on my experiences with her so far.

I love the pose on this model.

Wednesday Battle Report: Makeda 2 vs. Magnus 2 - 75pts

I didn't get the chance to play any games yesterday, so here's one of my battles from earlier this summer.  This past Friday's tactics post was about Ferox, so here's the game that literally sold me on them (right after this game I picked up Tower's min box of Ferox that had been hanging around since MkI, and ordered two blisters).  I was very interested to try them out with Makeda 2, and here's the list I played.  Be warned, the Ferox are proxied by whatever spare large based models I could find: Molik Karn, my Archidon, my Aradus Sentinels, and my Tiberion.  In fact, since this was in late June, we were both playing a bunch of new things we didn't own.  I'll try to keep all the proxies straight.

Mak3da Musings

I'm trying to try new things with Makeda 3 right now, to figure out what I want to do with her in the new edition.  I've tried the Mammoth build, and couple of heavy beast builds, but nothing has really clicked for me so far.  I've spent a lot of the weekend wondering what I really want from a Makeda 3 list, and I keep on coming up with things similar to the Brute Squad I was running in MkII.

Using Ferox: My First Impressions

One of my favorite things about Skorne right now is the all new Praetorian Ferox.  I talked up Ferox a fair amount in my take on growing a Skorne army through a Journeyman League last week, where I recommended Ferox if players were planning to switch to a troop-oriented 'caster like Xerxis 1 or Makeda 2 at the 50pt level, and mentioned them as an option with Xekaar when expanding from 50pts to 75pts.  This time, I'm going to take a look at the pros and cons of the cat-valry so people have a better idea of whether they want to invest in a unit.

Wednesday Battle Report: Makeda 3 vs. Calandra 1 - 75pts

Hi again everyone.  The Battle Report is a little later in the day today than I normally like to post it.  I spent most of the morning making some updates to the blog, and working on other things.  I'll explain everything on Monday.  Tardiness aside, I was able to attend WarmaHordes night on Tuesday, and I was able to get a game in.  I'm still experimenting with a Makeda 3 Mammoth list I built:

Building from the Battlegroup: Journeyman League with Skorne from 50pts to 75pts

This is going to be the last Journeyman League post I make this week.  The first post discussing the battlegroup itself is HERE, and the second post on expanding the list to 50pts is HERE.  In this post, I want to talk about taking your Journeyman force from 50pts to 75pts.  Up until now, I've recommended choice that let you build up a working core army list.  The last 25pts are going to give you some space to branch out a little more, and really decide what kind of list you want to run.  I won't talk about any of the Warlocks you might have switched to at the 50pt level, though I'd be happy to chat about them in the comments, or do a followup post at some point if there's enough interest.  I also won't make recommendations for specific point levels.  Your core list should have pretty much everything you need to get by, so I've organized my suggestions based on themes or strategies you might want to build on as you expand your list.

Building from the Battlegroup: Journeyman League with Skorne from 0pts to 50pts

My last Journeyman League post talked about the Skorne Battlegroup, and my thoughts on how to play it.  In this post, I'll talk about the options I feel make the most sense to add at each point level.  I won't recommend just one thing - making your own lists and experimenting with various combinations to see what works is essential to learning the game, after all.  My recommendations will either have some kind of direct synergy with the list, or will fill a common job that a lot of successful lists have.  I'm stopping this post at the 50pt level for now, because I want to give a fair amount of detail to the 50pt level, since a lot of options open up then.  My next post will talk a little more about filling out the last 25pts of your list, and how to approach larger games.