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Where: Miniature Market
Time: Registration at 12:30pm start at 1:00pm
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Tournament Organizer: Neomorte
Format: 35 Point Steamroller 2010 Mixed Format (Warmachine and Hordes)
Turn Time: 10 Min turns with one 5 min extension allowed per game
Round Time: 80 + 1D6 x 2 minutes
Prizes: To Be Announced
Number of Players: 24 (maybe more)

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I am playing a 35 point game using eSkarre against Nemo (Stryker on the table). My opponent is Ross.
First round I more or less ran everything up. Deathjack cast Death Ward and charged.
My opponent took out 2 Horny Raiders with Chain lightning. Took another shot with the spell and damaged the Sea Witch, destroyed a captain and most of the remaining unit of the Horny Raiders with the Thunderhead. Shot the Deathjack for 3 damage with the hunter.

Round 2
I ran the Deathripper. Moved up eSkarre. Popped her feat marking her, Deathjack, sea witch, the Thunderhead, and the Hunter. I then cast backlash on the Thunderhead. Charged the Horny Raiders and did 4 damage to TH (2 to Nemo). Moved up Cankerworm, ran the OBP shot with the remaining captain. Cast blood rain with DJ and got corrosion on the squire and Strangeways.

Squire died to corrosion. Strangeways beats corrosion. Nemo missed twice with chain lightning. Popped his feat disrupting all 3 jacks. Canker took 8, DJ took 9, and DR takes 7. Then moved back to about 2 inches from his edge. Jr. Cast Arcane bolt and shot at deathripper missing. Hammersmith moves back his movement. Thunderhead runs to the deployment and is hit with 2 free strikes taking a total of 3 damage while Nemo took 4. Lancer moved up and attacks the Deathripper for 1 damage.

Round 3.
OBP moved up and damaged the Lancer. Missed Jr. With a monkey. Charged with the Horny Raiders. Knocked down the lancer and did 2 damage to Neomo. eSkarre charged and destroyed the lancer doing 2 more to Nemo. (3 left). Moved up and so did Cankerworm.

Nemo supercharged the TH for 5 focus. Loco hammer for 1 and TH for 3. Hammersmith charged DJ and missed with all attacks. TH pulsing. Doing 7 and then sustained attacks to kill her.

While I did not go into this particular model with more than a desire to make Terminus stand “Captain Morgan” style on a treasure chest, after I inspected the model and how he went together I came up with the following list of changes:

1. Position of the legs. This was necessary to perch one leg on a chest.
2. Replacement of the hunk of metal that serves as a waist cloak. I don’t like it at all. I will replace it with something not so bulky.
3. Pointing his sword the other direction. I don’t think he looks very aggressive holding his sword behind him.
   
4. Change/replace his wings. With the release of the new conversion rules, I had high hopes I would be able to replace them with big bone wings.
5. Remove the head from the “frame” that is attached. I really like the frame attached to the head, but his head is incredibly unattractive, even for an undead model.
6. Reposition/alter the head…or just replace it. With the stock pose, Terminus’ head is tilted and looks like he is terrible depressed. Or needs to take a serious growler of a poop.
7. Incorporate a treasure chest. Oh it is happening. If by any chance it can’t he will be perched atop 2 rock pillars.
8. More Soul Cages. For a feat that focuses on the collection of souls, he sure doesn’t have nearly enough.
9. Even more Soul Cages. He might have one cool one, but with cutting off that huge chunk of waist cloak, so are the few cages he had.
10. Did I mention more Soul Cages. I wanna attach them with chain and have a them in several places on the model

So I set off to work. First, I took a jeweler’s saw to his waist cloak. 3 blades later, I was left with a right leg and a need to calm down. It wasn’t easy and I will have to cover up some of the damage with the new waist cloak I will have to create later. I bent the right leg to “Captain Morgan” standards with no real problem.

Next I cut the left leg in half and pinned it back together straight. This too was done for the “Captain Morgan” pose. After I had that assembled. I drilled pin holes in both legs and completely through the waist to attach the legs but I didn’t glue them down. I needed to be able to work with them to position them for the treasure chest and hopefully, make him stand a bit more upright than the stock pose. Like the Deathjack his stock pose is a pointed a bit oddly for an abomination and needs to be adjusted to properly convey the abject horrifying terror he should bring forth from his living enemies.

Try as I might, I simply could not get the treasure chest to work out. Sad as that is, I had to move on from the disappointment. Terminus is perched ever so angrily on two pillars of rocks. With some Flotsam and Jetsam, the base will look amazing. His stance is swept forward some what and his sword points forward as he seems to be picking out his next victim. On the side of his Withering Claw, it will get removed so I can replace it with a hook. The images below show the various conversion portions. Even the hook. I am very happy with it.