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A huge thanks to my wife and friends, that helped me get everything ready for the tournament. I've always wanted to take part in one, but I've never had the motivation and speed to paint a full army. Today I leave for DC to take part in the NA tournament with my 2500 pt army. I have a fully painted army.....I'm so excited!

Sorry I haven't posted anything new....I know my millions of fans are just waiting with baited breath right now....I've been painting about as fast as I can. I've even convinced my wife to help all in the name of competing in this tournament coming up.

Well, I got a list put together....2,500 points...only one dispel scroll and 4 core units...I got a lot of painting ahead of me.

So here's the deal, I'm gonna try and get enough models together and painted for the North American Warhammer Tournament. If I make it great, if not, at least I will have a lot more minis painted. I will keep you updated on my progress. Later!

I've known it for a while, but never put it into practice with my High Elves....Black Primer coevers a multitude of mistakes.

When I started playing some 15 years ago I also started painting, and for some reason I started painting using a white primer, probably because I liked the way the colors popped. And I also found it difficult to get some colors to be true when painted over black. So when I started my high elf collection the were primed white. I've been through other armies, and primed them black and found it to be a positive experience, but couldn't bring myself to do it to me high elves....Until yesterday.

I primed my phoenix guard champion black, just to compare the results to my white lion champion. Not only do I like the phoenix guard better, but I finished him in about a tenth of the time. I'll try and post pictures later.

So I got the new high elf dragon in the mail the other day, and I finally got my plastic clippers back too =p. So today I set to putting together the dragon. I love the new plastic model. Its so much easier to work with than the mostly plastic partly metal dragon of the last edition. So far it seems to be smaller, than the old one, which is going to make it much easier to transport.

So far the only trouble I've had was in the legs. I had one leg glued on, and then for my next trick, I was going to put glue on the foot and hip of one leg, and glue it to the body and rocks while gluing the foot, which was on the body, to the rock. All while trying to not glue my fingers to the model.

More updates as I go.

I didn't use to think this, and the guy that won the European GT used them, and I can see where in rare instances they could be beneficial. That being said Seaguard are just spearmen with crappy bows. I guess it doesn't help that I don't have much love for spearmen in the first place, but wen you take away the archers ability to hit things from 30 inches away, you move them into range of just about every other missile troop. To make matters worse, they are really expensive.

Ok, so when are the rare occasions that you should take them???

The only time I can see taking them is when you have to play multiple games, using the same list. Even then, I would probably just take archers.