Warmachine: Gorten, Thumper & Jennifer

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Well, all VS and no… anything else, really… makes Gday an overly obsessed fanatic. Now, I know some of you are ready to string me up as a heathen for even suggesting that there was anything else out there in the world other than VS, but I come from a many years of gaming in an assortment of genres, including several years of slavish devotion to Games Workshop’s plethora of miniature games.

Now, over the years, GW has moved towards more and more plastic figures, while their prices have skyrocketted. Not only do you now get less figures for your money, but you get little pieces of plastic rather than solid chunks of metal. So sue me if I like to feel like I got something substantial for my money.

Thus it was with delight that I discovered Privateer Press’ Warmachine.

The figures? Metal. The prices? Quite reasonable. The genre? The coolest bit yet – Steampunk! Whoo! No stereotypical sci-fi, no cliche fantasy, but honest to goodness steam powered behemoths stomping across the battlefield. Just to keep the appeal broad, the Warmachine game’s even fully compatible with Privateer Press’ Fantasy-esque genre game, Hordes.

Anywhen, the point of all this was my wanting to post some pics of the three models I’ve completed thus far – Rhulic (ie Dwarven) Warcaster (ie Mage/General) Gorten Grundback, his Ghordson Driller Warjack Jennifer, and his Grundback Gunner, Thumper.

More VS tomorrow, I promise.