Musings of a Mercenary. Part 1 – The Question.

Hey folks, Harry here, or John Q., as you probably don’t know me from the PP forums. I’ve been playing Warmachine for about 5 years now, and one of the things that got me immersed in the game quickly was the richness of the Iron Kingdoms as a setting. Anthony and I have been friends for near on twenty years now, and have gamed together for most of that time, so when he mentioned his idea for an IKRPG game based around a mercenary company I was instantly interested.The idea of these little narrative write ups is to give an insight into how the game is developing from my character, Jannyth Carhannon’s side, alongside Anthony’s own articles from the GMs point of view. Hope you enjoy!

What I Learned on the Forums This Week 21

It’s been a slow week on the internet and I’ve been busy with my actual work since apparently this doesn’t pay me an real money. I’ve replaced one of my usual rants with a second Hero Thread this week to make up for the slowness. Hope you enjoy!

Nemesis: Major Haley. 5 – Returning of the Wandering Wordmonger

It’s been a while! Life has been hectic! You can believe I was moving house, and work has been hectic, but the truth, the real truth is more reductive.

Not unlike my actual face.

So let’s get back in the driving seat! Let’s dust off and get back on the horse! Let’s …something something wagon? This week we are covering Trollbloods and Retribution of Scyrah. For Troll bloods there are easier answers, as a Troll beast brick is basically unshootable, and very good against Cygnar. So we’ll discuss some other lists with an honourable mention or two.

For Ret I’m going to discuss the subtleties of the ‘easy button’ against two stormwalls. Not that it’s a difficult matchup if you’re careful, but it bears some thought on the matter! Of course, as always, be aware of the assumptions I’ll be making about Haley’s list.

How to Train your Warjack: Avengers! Ensemble!

Session One of most RPGs is Character Creation. From my experience, 90% of groups approach this as an individual sport, rather than a team one. Players come to the table with an idea formed in their mind about what they want to play – a combination of careers that can do some cool stuff (“I want to be a gun mage/ mage hunter”), or a personality (“I want to play an ex-solidier embittered by the war”, or a (narrative) archetype (“I want to be the heroic leader”)

However, I like to bring my groups down a different path – I like to do character creation with an eye towards creating an ensemble, instead of a collection of characters. I’m not saying that this is the “right” way to do things (RPGs are for each group to create in their own desired image), but I find that this approach leads to better stories (of the type I like to tell) that take best advantage of the RPG medium’s particular quirks.

Disclaimer: To avoid writing “in my opinion” and “in my mind” and a hundred other synonyms throughout the next several articles, please just assume they’re there.

Martin’s Martial Martyrdom: Part 4 – Mordikaar’s Moribound Minions

Ain’t M one hell of a cool letter? So then Morning Muchachos! Before writing the ETC battle report I thought it would be best to have some background for my Mordikaar list which I’m currently using and which completes my tournament caster triumvirate.

What I Learned on the Forums This Week 20

Holy shit, this is week 20 of On the Forums. I really expected to just run out of content and motivation after like four installments and I’m shocked both that I’m still doing this and that people are reading it. Thanks for sticking around guys!

What I Learned on the Forums This Week 19

After a nice week of vacation I’m slowly getting back into the swing of things. Rage levels maybe lower than average this week as a hangover from my very relaxing last week of not reading the Forums at all.

Martin’s Martial Martyrdom: Part 3 – The Skorne Pope, a Ghost, and a Titan walk into a bar…

Welcome back everyone, I hope your flesh hooks are hanging well today and everything else is dangling just fine too! As you can see I was forced by life-changing events (mainly overwhelming lazyness) to move to a bi-weekly schedule. Since I’ll take part in the upcoming ETC next week, this schedule will last at least for one more week.

This week my second favourite caster gets the spotlight together with his trusty sidekick as well as some statues and my favourite beast of them all. I will follow the structure laid down in last week’s article so take a comfortable seat and focus your eye lazorzz on the article.

The Best of the Forums 1

This weeks update is brought to you while I’m hopefully relaxing next to a lake and reading a very classy piece of literature. This week instead of my usual vitriol I’m focusing on some amazing threads from the Forums that have been around for a while but that you, gentle reader, might not be familiar with. I hope you enjoy.

What I Learned on the Forums This Week 18

Warning: If you have any love for Logic, Mathematics or the proper use of the English Language then you might want to stop reading now. If you read this weeks edition despite this warning please note that the author and his publishers are not responsible for damage to your keyboard or your face that may result. Thanks and have a pleasant day.