WARMACHINE

Just a moment ago I was trying desperately to start studying English for my English test the day after tomorrow. Then I had a great idea. What if I decided to write something to TRK instead of reading boring rules from the grammar book. That's more like a style for me I thought! I can learn English in front of the computer. Fantastic!

I am going to tell some of my thoughts of Privateer Press' miniature game WARMACHINE. (Yep. Its WARMACHINE, not Warmachine)

I have decided to start collecting and playing WARMACHINE. I got this idea when I was at ropecon this year. I saw guys playing WARMACHINE intro game and it look tempting. I didn't fell in love for that game right from the start. At first it more like looked interesting contrast for GW's games. Funny-looking robots smashing each others. Sounds like a great idea for me.

Some weeks after ropecon I heard that our dearest friend Olli the second had started WARMACHINE. That made me think the game even more. I wanted to find more information about this mysterious game. I opened my firefox, went to google.fi and searched for WARMACHINE. I found a site of the company which makes them. There was a good gallery with beautifully painted WARMACHINE miniatures.

I also found out that Finnish miniature forum Sotavasara (I almost wrote SOTAVASARA :D) had a lot of discussion about WARMACHINE. There was a presentation about the game written by Matti, the admin of Sotavasara forum. When I read it I was completely sold (can I say in English? :P). The game sounded a great fun with lots and lots of tactical elements. Every unit has tons of special abilities and it offers a lot of challenges for players. I would have thought that WARMACHINE is more like a showcase game, not a real tactical wargame like Warhammer. I thought like that because WARMACHINE game is more like a small skirmish than a huge epic like Warhammer.

The best thing about WARMACHINE is the miniatures. I have heard they are better quality than GW's models and I really like their theme. GW has a grim darkness theme but WARMACHINE is something completely different: it has humour. Warjacks are almost as cute as halflings or goblins but they are ten times as big. WHOAA!

Armies in WARMACHINE are a lot of smaller-sized than Warhammer armies. This gives me a perfect oppoturnity to make über showcase army. I'v failed it thrice but I won't make it this time. I have decided to start with mercenaries army. I will make a complete Rhulic army. Rhul is a kingdom in Iron Kingdoms (fantasy world of the game). Rhul is a land of dwarfs and it sounds like a good choice. It's been years when I have painted dwarves. Rhulic warjacks are the funniest-looking ones of the game in my opinion and that's my biggest reason for choosing them.

At last but not the least, HORDES. Its a game a lot like WARMACHINE but it has more fantasy elements. Both WARMACHINE and HORDES are based on a same Iron Kingdoms fantasy world. The best things about HORDES is that HORDES armies can play against WARMACHINE armies.

The biggest problems of WARMACHINE are availability and price. They are metal models so its reasonable that they cost more than GW's plastics.

I'm not trying to brainwash you guys. I just want to make you think of alternatives. Games Workshop is not the only miniature company and only way to find out if its the best or not is to try the others.

All of you guys know how fast I get ideas for new projects but after some days they are gone. I really hope that this isn't like that. Wait and see. That's all I can say about it right now.


Here are some links

Privateer Press
Roolipelit.net, a netstore which has all the models for WARMACHINE
Peliarkku. Same thing with this one but this one's cheaper.
Matti's presentation

Every WARMACHINE and HORDES race has its own starting box which costs 46 e from Peliarkku and 50 e from Roolipelit.net. Basic rules can be found from the net and rules for each unit come with the model. If some of you are interested in one ore both of these games, I suggest to download Armies of Immoren. It's an army builder program for these games.

Well, that's much more than I thought I would write so I guess that's it. Enough schoolworks for today.

Thanks for reading.

EDIT: I forgot to mention one thing. A couple of days ago I made some very sweet WARMACHINE terrain. They are really good for WM. They are so steampunk!