Chatter Of The Squirrel

Book: Retribution of Scyrah

I’ve been promoting WARMACHINE in Malaysia for quite a while.

I earn points for my efforts. And managed to accumulate quite a bit of it. I can redeem these points for free products. Perks of being a PressGanger for Privateer Press.

Although I’ve been taking it very slow lately, I still have a quantity of points accumulated. The past year or two, every time I’ve tried to redeem them for products, the items had either been stolen, or been bounced back to the US. That had sapped my enthusiasm a fair bit, thus leading to my reduced efforts.

As they say, “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” I’ve made a few repeated inquiries, and I finally managed to get my predicament heard. About a hundred points had been lost for good, but I managed to get some points charged back and I was able to place a new order 2 months ago. This time, I had it delivered to a good friend’s house, cos seemingly the postmen on that route aren’t the lowly, scum-of-the-earth thieves that had been taking stuff meant for me.

And finally, I have THIS:

Which contained THESE:

These are mostly blisters I needed to complete my collection of the Pirates of the Broken Coast Mercenary faction, as well as the currently available selection of the new, 5th faction of WARMACHINE: The Retribution of Scyrah. These are elves that KICK BUTT!

Here’s a closer look:

I even splurged on the hardcover copy of the Forcebook. WARMACHINE is entering its second age, Mark II, with a revamp of many of its rules. The prior 4 factions will also be republished in their own individual Forcebooks. The Retribution book I have in my hands now is a glimpse of how those books will be formatted later.

There is lots of fluff. ie. the stuff that drew me into WARMACHINE in the first place. There’s a lot of it.

There are many pages pertaining to the history and military structure of Ios.

There are Theme armies for each Warcaster. For each theme, there are 4 tiers of requirements you can follow to get added advantages to your army.

Retribution gives us 5 new Iosian Warcasters. 3 Light Warjacks. 3 Heavy Warjacks. 7 infantry units. 5 unit attachments. 1 weapon attachment. 1 cavalry unit. 1 cavalry unit attachment. 5 solos. 4 character solos. 1 cavalry character dragoon.

And finally ending with painting guides for the most distinctive features of the army.

It is a thing of beauty…

Must make the time to build and paint up my army as soon as possible.

Movie: UP

Latest Pixar movie. Needs no introduction.

But remember the part in the beginning when the old man is alone at home, watching a late night shopping channel?

This is the ad that he was watching:

“4x Optical Zoom! Schneider Lens! Photo Printer!”

Ender’s Game

I got this joke.

I’m a geek. How do you do?

Photography: Export from Lightroom 2 straight into Picasa

Amazing LR2 plug-in found here.

A small plugin to be installed in Adobe Lightroom 2. And I can export a pic straight into my Picasaweb album. I dare say that the interface is superior to Picasa itself.