The recently Gargantuans book release event featured an interesting two-caster format that I was really excited to try, but I’m currently on a bit of a break from my only army with multiple casters– Cygnar– and I only own one Legion warlock. Between the two options, making a new model to play with my Legion seemed like an easier task than somehow getting excited about my Cygnar again, so I investigated my options.

The thing is, though, that my lack of Legion warlocks isn’t an accident– I made an intentional effort to collect a single-caster force, and though I do eventually plan to add a second caster, this will require a completely from-scratch sculpt that I didn’t have time for before this event, so I needed to find another option.

This is how I found myself sitting in our store with a few associates, chatting about Minions. The Farrow and Gatorman warlocks are mostly played within the Minion Pacts, but they do still work for the main Factions when the format allows it, so I started looking at what these models would contribute to my army. Many of them immediately seemed to be way too Pact-oriented (Carver, Barnabas, Midas, Arkadius), while others just didn’t contribute much to my army (Calaban, Maelok). The only two who seemed like they might help were Sturm & Drang (a decent lockdown feat, and Telekinesis is always a massive boon) and Rask. Between the two, Rask had the less ugly model, so I shrugged and picked him up.

However, despite him being less ugly than the Pigtaur, I still really dislike the “RRRRAAARR ANGRY PIRANHA” face, so I decided to see what I could do to make him a bit more in line with my tastes.

Back on Lost Hemisphere, I maintained a list of all currently-available Privateer Press release information in a handy ticker in the sidebar. I did this not as a service, but rather for my own benefit– I could never remember when new models were set to come out, and that gave me a convenient place to stick the information so that I could find it when I needed it. The fact that other people could also refer to it was really just an incidental bonus.

I kept LH’s ticker updated in the months after the blog closed down, but at one point in March I ran into a weird technical issue on the LH server, and decided that rather than trying to fix it over there, I might as well do a bit more work and port the function over to my new site. I even added a few extra bells and whistles to the listing to make it fill out a page, since I didn’t have room for it in my sidebar here and the tiny vertical strip from LH looked really dumb sitting on its own.

And so, if you click the Releases link in my top menu, you’ll be taken to a page that looks like this:

Aside from the filler information about model type and count, which book it’s from, and the MSRP, I’ve also set up a quick icon you can hover over that brings up a thumbnail preview of the model:

One feature that was commonly requested on LH but which I decided not to add was a notation for when during the month models are scheduled to come out– eg, May 15th, instead of just May. I decided against listing this for two reasons– firstly, because the information isn’t usually available when I punch the models in 3 months ahead of time, and I don’t want to have to be constantly checking the Warstore to see if more accurate timing has been put up; and secondly, different pre-order sources tend to list different dates for some items, and I don’t want to get into the mess of “Warstore says the 15th, Malefic says the 29th, WHY U NO LIST MY FAV’RIT SOURCE SPUD”. If you want more accurate timing information, you’re free to do the legwork and look it up yourself.

So, there you go. It’s mostly there for my own use, but if anybody else finds it useful, I guess that’s a nice bonus.

And on a completely unrelated note…

Yes, I have some new models to show you soon, but I probably can’t post them until next week, as I’m currently prepping for an event on the 25th and terrain-making is eating up all of my blogging time.

Stupid terrain…

-Spud