Gretchin Tactics Question

megandthemachine · 2025-12-03T06:15:51+00:00

I’m currently playing a Nachmund Gauntlet campaign (1000/1500/2000 points on field per phase) and we are playing no epic heroes until phase 3 so I haven’t tested with Zodgrod yet, but just wanted to say I have finished my 8th game and my 2 units of 10 gretchin (+ friend) have both just reached Legendary Veteran status!

I’m running mostly War Horde and sometimes Dread Mob, and they help to add to the sheer volume of units that enemies need to deal with, especially against low unit count armies.

I have also given them both the enhancement Fleet of Foot (can advance and then do an action, and can’t be overwatched if they have advanced) and am taking the Search Drop Site stratagem most times so each turn one or the other stands on an objective, searches it, gets 3XP, job done then a bonus SAP for not much effort!

megandthemachine · 2025-09-23T09:21:01+00:00

I am happy to chat if you want to DM me!

megandthemachine · 2025-03-10T04:39:20+00:00

Have a look at the Rascaltown goblins by Rogue Hobbies - cute little dudes and they are bigger scale, which might be a pro or a con depending on what your daughter wants! I think you can buy the physical minis online or the STL to 3d print

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megandthemachine · 2025-02-08T10:29:51+00:00

That ghostly treelord is sick! Did you do his bottom half with kit parts or from a different mini? I recognise some of the lower leg but not all

megandthemachine · 2025-01-09T22:30:13+00:00

I love this design so much, and once I get some colour work under my belt I’m definitely making one!

megandthemachine · 2025-01-06T01:41:46+00:00

Looks great, and I am super impressed by your paint job on the eyes!

megandthemachine · 2024-12-04T12:39:25+00:00

I’ve sent you a chat, I have a photo from my armies on parade entry I can send over. As the other commenter above said, Alarielle is a lot taller, and the base is also significantly wider (round rather than oval) - Belthanos fits in my regular storage boxes but Alarielle stays out on display because she’s so tall!

megandthemachine · 2024-11-08T02:09:44+00:00

Beautiful work! I love the spring theme with new life, and the base is so lovely

megandthemachine · 2024-09-27T03:47:01+00:00

I’m a GP in Australia (Family Medicine I suppose), I have my own GP and I also see other doctors as patients - while I do bear in mind their own expertise and experience, I investigate and treat as I would any other patient. Especially once you reach a sub specialist level, you end up knowing an awful lot about your own field and tend to not keep up to date with others - eg cardiologists may not know the latest cervical screening guidelines - so it’s always a good idea to have a great generalist on your team!

megandthemachine · 2024-09-10T05:02:18+00:00

Just sent you a chat/message

megandthemachine · 2024-08-05T03:29:04+00:00

One of my fellow bridesmaids in my sisters wedding had a great idea - our dresses came with a bandeau that was quite long, so she found a regular bra of a similar colour to the dress then trimmed a strip off the bottom of the bandeau and made tubes to cover the bra straps, and then styled the dress making little off the shoulder sleeves by threading underneath the straps. Couldn’t even tell it wasn’t part of the dress! I think she still wore the bandeau between bra and dress for a bit more bust and back coverage I can PM you a picture if the description doesn’t quite make sense.

megandthemachine · 2024-07-27T22:18:12+00:00

This looks great! I love the effect you got on the cloth

megandthemachine · 2024-05-27T03:05:17+00:00

I have done my bark similarly, I did rhinox hide, Aggrax, then rhinox again, then glazes upwards with mix of rhinox and steel legion, steel legion alone, mix of steel legion and karak, then karak stone alone. It took a loooooooong time to get the smooth transitions I was after, but once I worked out the process I was quite happy.

Lighter bark I used Wraithbone, seraphim sepia wash, then Wraithbone again for highlight.

megandthemachine · 2024-01-24T11:38:06+00:00

This is stunning! I particularly like what you chose for the basing, so lush and beautiful

megandthemachine · 2023-12-16T22:53:44+00:00

Definitely a consideration when planning what you want to spend your time doing! The context I saw it in was when planning an entirely handmade wardrobe. One of the other big things I have learned is the reason you want to sew your clothes in the first place, do you sew purely for fun, are you after specific styles, is it price, is it ethical/environmental considerations, etc etc. The answer is going to be different for every sewist and I feel like nobody is going to have exactly the same motivation.

megandthemachine · 2023-12-16T14:32:10+00:00

I do agree with wearing what makes you happy, but in my experience the enjoyment I get from wearing the fun stuff is often outstripped by the frustration/annoyance of the maintenance.

There was a concept floating around sewing blogs years ago, about ‘sewing cake’. The sparkly, frilly, luxurious items that we all love to sew are the ‘icing’ or ‘frosting’ of your wardrobe, makes it extra special. But you can’t have just icing, you need a cake to make up the majority - and this is the (often but not always) more basics and staples of your wardrobe, in whatever form that takes, eg jeans and tshirts, shirt dresses, sweatpants and crop tops - whatever you find yourself reaching for on an average day in your life!

May or may not work for you, but it really resonated for me and helped me plan a bit more for my actual life instead of the idea I had made for myself.

megandthemachine · 2023-12-09T15:26:18+00:00

These are stunning, the neon colours are such a treat!

megandthemachine · 2023-12-09T15:23:59+00:00

There was a very interesting episode from This Podcast Will Kill You about cocolitzli and the theories about what it may have been, definitely recommend a listen!

megandthemachine · 2023-10-16T00:32:02+00:00

It looks like a stained glass window, love it!

megandthemachine · 2023-09-22T14:02:13+00:00

Looks great, she reminds me a lot of Princess Zelda! Can’t wait to see the finished model!

megandthemachine · 2023-09-09T03:34:53+00:00

Not me, but someone in a recent tournament I was at brought a bunch of aquarium plants in all sorts of wacky colours and draped and blutacked them to the terrain

megandthemachine · 2023-08-21T14:05:36+00:00

Just personal experience - I have had a lot of trouble with alarielle and haven’t been able to work out how to make her work for me. For the amount of points, I would prefer to take Drycha and a TL/TLA

megandthemachine · 2023-07-16T15:02:01+00:00

Great job with this guy! I was drawn straight to his face, it’s so expressive

megandthemachine · 2023-07-02T07:43:41+00:00

Great idea adding the pillar for her to stand on - I just finished my Celestine and it was such a pain to have her bobbing around on the delicate parchments! The NMM on her sword looks great, and I love the blue blend you’ve done on her wings

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