Warmachine

I picked up the plastic Khador jack set as well as 10 magnets to make the arms interchangeable. Last night I sat down to start working on building it, and I learned a few things that I thought others might like to know.

First, if you want your Juggernaut and Destroyer to have different axes, you will need 3 more magnets. There is a single arm piece that can then have the hand and axe attached to it. Since there's only one arm piece for both axes, then you have to use magnets to connect the hands at the wrist.

Second, there are four different heads. I'll probably just pick one, but you could also make the heads interchangeable if you wanted to do so. That means five more magnets.

Three, positioning the magnets is important. You definitely want to do magnet to magnet and not magnet to metal for the joints. The magnets Dave sells are strong, but they don't have an perfect grip on the heaviest arms like the Decimator's ripsaw. For attaching the magnets, I used a pin vice to pre-drill a hole where I wanted to put the magnet and then used a 1/8" drill bit to make the space for the magnet. I drilled the holes deep enough so that the magnet is flush with the surface in which it will rest. The magnets are definitely strong so you will want to be very careful about how you attach the magnets. When you have them all together, they stick pretty firmly together. You will want to take advantage of their combined magnetic fields by doing the same thing when you attach them. If you look at your jack from the front, you essentially are going to attach the magnets in the same layout. I learned this after I put in the left shoulder magnet and was attempting to put in the right shoulder magnet. Without using plastic tweezers, the first magnet was strong enough to flip the second magnet over if I tried to install it with the same magnetic poles pointing towards each other.

Privateer Press has a contest on their site to win a 35-point army:
http://privateerpress.com/warmachine-muster-the-troops-contest

To be eligible simply register at the Bell of Lost Souls forums (http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/index.php) and Lost Hemisphere forums (http://losthemisphere.com/forum/) and answer the question posed in these threads:

Bell of Lost Souls wants to know who is your favorite warcaster, and why? http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?t=6215

Lost Hemisphere is curious what your favorite warjack is and why? http://losthemisphere.com/forum/index.php?topic=43.0

You must use the exact same username on both sites to be eligible and answer the specific question. You must also answer the specific questions regarding warcasters and warjacks. Entries referring to warlocks and warbeasts will NOT be accepted.

I might enter just to fill out my Khador inventory with a bunch of stuff I don't have yet. ;)

Paul and I ran into each other on Wednesday and talked a bit about doing one of the Theater of War campaigns. Is anyone else interested? There's one in Apotheosis dealing with the Thornwood, one in a NQ dealing with Caspia-Sul, and a third in Evolution that escapes me at the moment. We would need even numbers of people for each faction. I might be up for doing both a Warmachine one and a Hordes one, too, if we end up starting both. If you're interested, post here or show up on Tuesday night to discuss.