Hi guys… long time no see! Well after the 2 years of wasted time that is/was living in North Carolina the Jade Lantern crew (myself Nate “Jade Lantern” Lee and Traci “girlfriend of a gamer” Lee are back where we belong in good’ole Richmond Va! We are both excited to be back home and just loving being around our friends, being able to game regularly again, and just the good vibes from being home!
I want to jump back into my blog again because I wasn't really able to play much when I was down in NC and I almost feel like i’m starting over in a lot of ways. I never got to play any 40k while I was down there so I haven’t played 40k since I got back here and got a pickup game in with a friend, and it’s been almost 2 years since i’ve played Warhammer fantasy and it looks like GW is trying to kill that off or turn it into something else so who knows if i’ll ever even get to play that again.
Right now (until the new Eldar Codex Hits) my main focus is on Hordes/Warmachine and trying to become a force there. For my first blog back I want to speak about the faction I played that really got me into Warmachine and maybe next time ill start speaking about what im doing now and my idea’s and early rumblings with Legion of Everblight.
I played Convergence of Cyriss for a while and I still really love them but they are going to need time to grow and need some new models to hit so they can be a more complete faction. I am NOT saying you can’t win with them because I did win games and was able to put together some good reliable lists that had my opponent running away from me.
I was never able to play with them the way I wanted an although they do have a LOT of really nice combinations, some great things they can do with their casters and their Mech’s but in my opinion the faction has some GLARING issues that need to be addressed so that Convergence can be a “consistent” major player.
For instance the army is SLOOOOOW so something that would be a good fit for them would be a fast moving shock troop or maybe even just fast cav because fast cav for them would cover 2 facets that need to be addressed for the army. Also some way to increase the RAT for their servitor would REALLY help that army.
Servitors are really a nice addition and for pickup games you can have some fun with them but in serious competitive play they are much too random to rely on and you need to either have units you know can either get you out of a bad situation or that can soften the enemy up so the situation won’t be so bad.
There’s lots more but I think ill stop there, this is the most ive thought about Cyriss in months and I had a lot of fun with them but for right now they are going to go into the think tank and once the army has a few more strong additions ill start putting them back on the table but that won’t be anytime soon.
JL
