Khador is moving again. More battle reports incoming

Welcome back!

Nice write-up, you do a good job of explaining everything so it's easy to follow even if the reader is not familiar with many of the models involved.

I know what he means when he says that ARM 25 feels right. That is the point where random Trencher daggers and makeshift Zealot clubs and dinky dueling swords start completely bouncing off MoW, making them feel as tough as they look like they should be. None of that Stryker Mary-Sue “dies to a breeze” nonsense.

excerpt from the nonexistent Acts of War IV: Canon Fodder* book, found in a waste bin outside a particular contract author’s home

“Stryker whirled about as the enemy pressed in around him. A line of heavily armored Man-o-War marched in ponderous lockstep, shields raised to intercept all incoming fire. About him, the valiant Trenchers who had accompanied him from Point Bourne faltered, looking to the mighty and infallible Coleman Stryker for reassurance. If he did nothing, the brave, patriotic, great Cygnaran citizens under his command would surely die this day.

Stryker raised his pistol. “For Cygnar, the very best nation in the world! We’re so great and everybody else is dumb!” he shouted and pulled the trigger. His POW 12 bullet impacted on the nearest Man-o-War’s thick shield, easily piercing the inch of tempered steel like butter, blowing through both shield and armored shell despite him not boosting at all, because that’s what it does against ARM 21 and 8 boxes somehow. The shot took the vile Khadoran soldier directly in the heart, and the foul villain had only a brief moment to regret not being from Cygnar as the light instantly died from his eyes and he fell to the ground.

A bright circle of runes coalesced into existence around Stryker’s outstretched hand, as he simultaneously both cast Earthquake, toppling the Steady Man-o-War and their Officer, while letting loose a brilliant Arcane Bolt. The bolt of light -- the very first, most basic spell taught to all completely inept novice journeymen warcasters in Cygnar --  shot forward, and its inconceivably potent POW 12 cleaved cleanly through the entire row of Man-o-War, somehow managing to ricochet through visors and screw holes and exhaust vents and definitely not hitting the other 99.99% of HUNDREDS OF POUNDS OF HEAVY REINFORCED STEEL ARMOR. Stryker's men, bolstered by their warcaster’s display of completely suspension-of-disbelief-breaking courage and ability, surged forward. Their pocket knives and bare fists made short work of the Motherland’s so-called finest, because when you’re from Cygnar, every single attack always manages to kill ARM 21 dudes with a bunch of boxes anyway. They were all aware of the very well-known fact that every single attack made by a Cygnaran would be not only lethal but gruesomely lethal, and that there were never any wounded or prisoners or anything.

Surely the gods would smile on the benevolent Coleman Stryker this day, his just and pure radiance washing over everyone in eyesight. Despite the fact that just a couple of years before he had brutally murdered women and children and burned some Menite villages and unlawfully interned their civilian citizens in amazingly hypocritical displays of religious persecution, then never really suffered any meaningful consequences, Stryker knew that he was the best and Cygnar was the best and he would probably become an angel for being so good or something.”



* “Canon Fodder” is like a quadruple pun. Oh man.

As ashamed as I am to admit it, my imagination has been perversely fascinated by this idea all day.

Funnily enough I recently went back and resumed work on a Stryker conversion I started ages ago. Step 1 was was replacing the head (I really don't like it); that was the easy part. Replacing the sword has been proving much harder. I think I'm getting close, got a new sword in the printer right now. If only there were more hours in the day.

... Uh, what were we talking about again? Something about MOW?

Given how many MoW Stryker literally cuts in half during the various Acts of War books, I think the MoW armor actually makes their occupants more fragile. (Presumably, the iron in the MoW armor is internally radioactive, thus weakening the molecular structure of the armor and leaching the life from its occupants.)

Because, you know, Khador is only populated by stupid ignorant backwoods savages, and all their sniveling, cowardly schemes are doomed to not only utter failure but EMBARASSING SELF-SABOTAGING ULTIMATE FAILURE. :-P

FYI: the print of Strykers new sword failed. You know, in case anyone was interested. Guess I need to re-do the supports and try again.