Eternal empire

So, I was never a Yu-jing fan. If you've been following this blog for a while you know I'm not fan of the swords into a gun-fight idea. Still, when they decided to remove the japanese from Yujing, things turned a lot for the better in my opinion. Yujing now looks like a very military based faction, highly armored, with some vanilla profiles that fit their idea of the "every man can be a hero" idea but plenty of good looking tech. Slowly I've been collecting Yujing models from tournament prizes and gotten some oldies from tr…

Sunglasses are mandatory

O-12 keeps coming along. This week I played my second tournament with them and while the end result wasn't as good as I expected, they were a ton of fun to play. I decided to bring my list fully painted for our next games, so this week was dedicated to Varangian guards and Cuervo Goldstein. Valkyrie and her ginger sister Since I saw Valkyrie at the interplanetario and saw her upcoming sculpt at the soldiers of fortune box  I was sure they were going to be my Varangian guard. Varangians are supposed to be caledonians but I soundly refus…

To keep the peace

It's been quite a while since my last painting update. Life has been a little bit busy between work and tournaments on the weekends. Last week I played my first games with O-12 and I really really loved their playstyle. It kinda feels very Nomad in a way so it was pretty easy to adapt to them unlike other armies I played before. Kappa's are not the most played troopers but they were my test subjects for the color scheme. I wanted to go for a police force look, as I use a lot of O-12 troops on the RPG as enforcers aligned with the player…