Paul Ascends Snow Lord's Peak

Lathered in sweat and grime, Paul and a group of beastmen slowly push a herdstone, end over end, to the peak's flat summit. 

This week's Snow Lord's Peak brought to you from Mount Columbia, Alberta.

The Snow Lord, leaning against a tree while smoking a pipe, follows their efforts bemusedly. 'Guys... Guys! What are you doing?'

Paul halts his efforts and wipes his brow, 'We met Noel on our way up and he mentioned that you needed some landscaping done up here. That Martin chap is a wonderful guy, but can be a bit of a menace with a pick and shovel, eh? Anyway, me and the lads thought you might like a Herdstone. Maybe you could use it as part of a water feature or something.'

The Snow Lord points at the huge festooned boulder with his pipe's stem, 'What about all those skulls on it? I'm not sure if Lady Sarah's going to be too wild about that.'

'Tell her they're from the White House.'

'Perfect. Put it by the pond, mate.'

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After their labours, the group reconvenes for a well earned beverage... or ten.

The Snow Lord smacks the foam from his lips and calls out above the snorts and bleating of the Beastmen, 'Now, I guess you'll be wanting your treasure, eh?' 

Paul nods and says, 'I hear you'll require a boon for it. Bring it on mate, we're game.'

'Okay, since you've done me a good turn, I'll give you your choice amongst three tasks:

1) A new unit for your growing Beastman army; 

2) A unit for your 'Mortal Gods' collection; 

3) or, something new for your Kill Team shenanigans with your lad Reilly.'

Wavering slightly, Paul looks straight into the blue monstrosity's eyes and slurs, 'I'll tell you what mate, I'm so up for this that I'm going to do all three of them. Howz that!'

Impressed, the Snow Lords raises his glass, 'You're on my good fellow. To sweeten the deal I'll also give you an extra point for each skull you can cram into your submission.' 

They all clack their drinking horns and glasses in raucous agreement.

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Wow, three tasks, Paul! We all very much look forward to seeing what you come up with. Have fun with them!

-Curt

From TomM: Sander's Sand Dunes: For Hashut! (55 pts)

In this challenge, we daring adventurers need to paint up something red.

And as I am in the process of both restoring, rebuilding and adding to a Chaos Dwarf army for the 9th Age (well, Infernal Dwarves they are called there), the first 5 basic warriors are completed for this challenge leg.

The models, being from Mantic, have my old (classic GW) colour scheme copied on to them to the best avail, namely the red armour with blue clothing and details.

I might even complete the other 35 I have lying around during the challenge, but so much things to paint, and being the wargamer butterfly that I am, it is not simple to keep focus... so don`t count on it just yet ;-)

So these guys grant me 5 times 5 points for 28mm figures, and the 30 for the location putting a nice additional 55 on the counter.

The goal is coming in sight now!

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Great work Tom.  I have always loved the big stove top hats that the old chaos dwarves wore.  They have such a distinctive style.  These new ones maintain a lot of that same character, and are from a much better game (in my opinion KOW is 100x better than AoS, but hey to each their own).

Nice to see your take on this classic look.  Keep those paint brushes flying!

-ByronM

MarkB takes Sarah’s balloon - Pauline Cushman Union spy (35 Points)

Having plundered my way through one path on the island I felt it was time to confuse my pursuers with a quick aerial getaway! I summon forth Sarah’s balloon to take me on this speedy exit!

As my payment for the ride I have painted a Union spy - Pauline Cushman. She was an actress in the North at the start of the war but ingratiated herself with the Confederates by getting sacked from her job for toasting the Confederacy! This was all a ruse to help her cover story that she was travelling around the Southern states looking for her lost brother. She wasn’t terribly lucky and got caught smuggling some Confederate battle plans concealed in one of her shoes.

Pauline will play a pivotal role in an ACW Sharp Practice scenario I’m planning for a game in a month or two. Doubtless she will be valuable as an objective marker in other games as the Colonel’s wife who needs a safe escort in other ACW or Pony Wars games. At a push she could be used into the Twentieth Century as a rather old fashioned refugee!

The figure is of course a rather distinctive 28mm Dixon’s sculpt. Rather oddly proportioned by modern standards but with bags of character!

I’m going to take the balloon to Mudry’s because I’ve got the next one ready to go, and it gives me plenty of options to continue the island pillage and plunder raid in several directions!

Total points: 

Challenge completed : 30

28mm figure : 5

Total: 35

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What a lovely little figure here with tons or character and colour. The photos are great too, I enjoy when people set up scenes with the figures as it adds a lot to the submission seeing how it will fit in to your games.

Great job on the fine details here like the hat decoration and the eyes.

- ByronM

From ScottM: Soviets at Mudry's Mesa (50 Points)

A short quick post for Mudry's Mesa. I went with the brand new shiny figs picked up after the challenge was announced. I picked these 28mm figures up back in early December along with some samurai figures from The Assault Group (TAG). A friend of mine is starting an early war Soviet army for Chain of Command and one of the support options let's you change out some regular rifle armed troops for some armed with the SVT-40. So here's a pack of 4 SVT-40 armed infantry.

Nice clean figs, not a lot of equipment, they painted up nice and quick. That completes Mudry's Mesa as we head back out towards sea.

So that should be: 4 28mm foot figs = 20 +30 (location bonus) = 50 points.

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Welcome to the mesa Scott, nice to have the company.  These guys should certainly add some firepower to any formation.  It is great to hear of more people playing CoC as it really is such a good set of rules.

Enjoy your trip around the island.

-ByronM