tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54387151928677633662024-03-05T16:20:35.055-08:00Can't Paint Won't PaintA modelling blog for those of us that just aren't that good.Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-4955023236218374652016-08-15T05:59:00.001-07:002016-08-15T05:59:16.799-07:00New Project Time: Death Korps of KreigAfter a long period of pretty much giving up on war gaming I have got badly bitten by the bug again, I have returned to my roots in 40K and started a new Death Korps army.<br />
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Firstly we have the initial batch of infantry. So far the painting has been pretty slow going but I am very happy with the results.<br />
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The tanks on the other hand have been a lot of fun to do and quick to paint. I went with a run down heavily battle damaged look. (Sponson guns still to be painted)<br />
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Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-90460131667134585712014-02-01T04:51:00.000-08:002014-02-01T04:51:05.413-08:00Beastmen - First 500 Points DoneWell it's been a bit of an uphill struggle (More thanks to Dayz than anything else) but I got my first 500 points done before the end of January (At 22:30 on the 31st).<br />
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The two chariots where the last thing to be done, my first set of finecast models and I have to say I was very impressed, only a couple of small bubbles in places you won't see with loads of detail.<br />
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Biggest issue was forgetting to wash one of them before painting it resulting in the undercoat pooling and have to be scrubbed off.<br />
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I am finding I tend to get the majority of the model painted quite quickly the time consuming bit is all the little detail at the end. Not matter how through I am I always miss something that gets me frustrated and I make a mistake that has to then be corrected and the cycle goes on.</div>
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I am really pleased with the over all look of the army, I wanted proper chaotic evil looking I think that's a success.</div>
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So on to my 100 point army:</div>
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+++ 1000 Point Beastmen (998pts) +++<br />+++ 1000pt Beastmen Roster (Standard)) +++<br /><br />Selections:<br /><br />Beastmen (Standard) Selections:<br /><br />+ Heroes + (250pts)<br /><br /> * Bray-Shaman (125pts) <br /> Staff of Daroth (50pts), Wizard Level 1<br /><br /><br /> * Bray-Shaman (125pts) <br /> Dispel Scroll (25pts), Ruby Ring of Ruin (25pts), Wizard Level 1<br /><br /><br />+ Core + (415pts)<br /><br /> * Gor Herd (255pts) <br /> Musician (5pts), Standard Bearer (10pts)<br /> * 30x Gor (240pts) <br /> 30x Additional hand weapon (30pts)<br /><br /><br /> * Tuskgor Chariot (80pts) <br /><br /><br /> * Tuskgor Chariot (80pts) <br /><br /><br />+ Special + (333pts)<br /><br /> * Bestigor Herd (333pts) <br /> 25x Bestigor (300pts), Musician (6pts), Standard bearer (12pts), Standard of Discipline (15pts)<br /><br /><br />I was torn between a BSB or another shaman, in the end I couldn't fit a fully equipped BSB into the list and as much as not having the LD rerolls might hurt not being able to get a wildform off will probably lose me games.</div>
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The Bestigor where going to have to go in at some point, having the second big combat block that can deal with heavy armour is a good addition. It also helps break up the paining as by the time I get to 1000 points that will be about half the army done.</div>
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So it's two months to paint 31 models but I am moving house in the middle of it. This could prove quite a challenge.</div>
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Command group was relatively straight forward. Did some green stuffing of the banner not a 100% happy with the blood effect but decided it was good enough for a first attempt rather than keep trying to get it right and making it worse.<br />
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For the Shaman I decided to add a touch of white as it will make the characters stand out a bit and also I wanted to practised painting white.<br />
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I have used this as an excuse to finally take the plunge and do another WHF army and for my sins I chose beastmen.<br />
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So my first 500 points :<br />
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I went with the big block of Gor as it gets me through a big chunk of the painting. the level 1 with staff so he has a good magic missile to chuck out and when they get in combat wildform FTW!<br />
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For the paint scheme I didn't want to go with the usual brown and after having a dose of common sense and deciding to not do them white I went with purple. I want them to stand out and look evil and chaotic. Since the paint scheme is so loud I went with a subdued look for the base, some mud, snow and weathering powers.<br />
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I decided to do a quick and dirty guide to painting Germans. Part 1 will cover off the painting, part 2 the basing.<br />
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So here's what I am going to be painting up, some 88's already undercoated black. We will start with the guns, they are going to be done in pea dot cammo with a white wash.<br />
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So first up it's base colour time.<br />
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I am a big fan of he GW bases, they go on well and save a lot of time. Since we are putting yellow on it's going to take a few coats to get reasonable coverage.<br />
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This is straight forward enough, drown the bugger :) Anywhere there is a join or somewhere their should be shade soak it with this, neatness not required.<br />
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Next up a dry brush of a few more layers of middlestone yellow.<br />
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Then it's on to the cammo.<br />
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For this I used Olive Green and Flat Brown, long as your not too fussed about getting historically accurate colours and appropriate green or brown will do. First we paint some green splodges (technical term), this will probably take a couple of layers as we want this bit pretty solid.<br />
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Yup Marmite time (stick with me on this). Take the Marmite and paint it on the model anywhere there would be wear and tear or you just want to show off some paint from under the white wash like so.<br />
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So far so straight forward (now you can see the pea dot effect was talking about). Next spray it white.<br />
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You don't want it covered solid. Ideally you want to be just able to see the layer of paint below. Then comes the clever bit, take an old tooth brush and gentle rub off the Marmite.<br />
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Instant worn white wash effect :)Next up I do the carriages, a bit of metal on the cables and paint the lights just to add a bit more colour.<br />
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Then it's time to paint the crew. I made a slight mistake by gluing them on the base before doing the gun. After the spraying the paint is a tad thicker on them than I would like.<br />
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Shockingly enough we start with German Grey.<br />
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Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-54693997445745654062013-03-12T13:20:00.001-07:002013-03-12T13:20:49.425-07:00FOW Panzerjägerkompanie (Hetzer gonna Hetz)It's taken me a while to find a German list that interested me enough to build and pain. Was after something a bit different from the norm and I think I found it in the Panzerjägerkompanie:<br />
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<tr><td width="150"><span id="lblMotivation" style="background-color: darkred; color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Confident </span><span id="lblSkill" style="background-color: darkred; color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Trained </span></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span id="lblCompany">Panzerjägerkompanie</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span id="lblSubName" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tank-hunter Company</span></span></td>
<td align="right" width="150"><span id="lblCountry">German</span> <span id="lblPeriod">Late-War</span></td>
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<tr bgcolor="gray"><td bgcolor="gray"><b>Platoon</b></td><td align="center"><b>Qty</b></td><td><b>Unit</b></td><td align="right"><b>Points</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td>Panzerjägerkompanie HQ</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.145</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">2</td><td align="left">Hetzer</td><td align="right" valign="top">130</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Panzerjäger Platoon</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.145</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="left">Hetzer</td><td align="right" valign="top">260</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Panzerjäger Platoon</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.145</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="left">Hetzer</td><td align="right" valign="top">260</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Panzerjäger Platoon</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.145</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="left">Hetzer</td><td align="right" valign="top">260</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Pionier Platoon</td><td align="right"><span style="background-color: darkred; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Confident Veteran </span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.61</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />1<br />9</td><td align="left">Cmd Pioneer Panzerfaust SMG team<br />Pioneer Supply RSO tractor<br />Pioneer Rifle team</td><td align="right" valign="top">270</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Rocket Launcher Battery</td><td align="right"><span style="background-color: darkred; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Confident Veteran </span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.169</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />1<br />2<br />2<br />6<br />6</td><td align="left">Cmd SMG team<br />Kfz 15 field car<br />Observer Rifle team<br />Kubelwagen<br />15cm NW41<br />Sd Kfz 11</td><td align="right" valign="top">205</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Anti-aircraft Gun Platoon</td><td align="right"><span style="background-color: darkred; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Confident Veteran </span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.171</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">3</td><td align="left">Sd Kfz 7/2 (3.7cm) (armoured)</td><td align="right" valign="top">165</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Heavy Anti-aircraft Gun Platoon</td><td align="right"><span style="background-color: darkred; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Confident Veteran </span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.171</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />1<br />2<br />2</td><td align="left">Cmd SMG team<br />Kfz 15 field car<br />8.8cm FlaK36 gun (8 crew)<br />Sd Kfz 7</td><td align="right" valign="top">185</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" colspan="3">Company Points:</td><td align="right">1735</td></tr>
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I think the hetzer is a really cool looking tank and this list has lots of them, over all it's a lot more tanks than I see in most German lists while still getting a lot of good support.<br />
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Next up is the pioneers, I had initially planned on trying to paint them as historically accurate as possible but fast lost the will to live with that and went for various shades of grey...that's pretty much historically accurate in my mind :p<br />
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Again the marble dust was applied and it gives them a nice frosty effect. <br />
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<b><u>FOW Corrivalry Battle Report Feb 2013</u></b><br />
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Last weekend I attended my first maor Flames of war tournament, Corrivalry down in Daventry.<br />
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First things first my list, I took the 29th US infantry out of turning the tide<br />
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<tr><td width="150"><span id="lblMotivation" style="background-color: darkred; color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Confident </span><span id="lblSkill" style="background-color: darkred; color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Trained </span></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span id="lblCompany">Rifle Company (29th I.D.)</span></span></td>
<td align="right" width="150"><span id="lblCountry">USA</span> <span id="lblPeriod">Late-War</span></td>
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<td colspan="3" style="text-align: center;"><span id="lblCompanyType">Infantry Company</span>
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<tr bgcolor="gray"><td bgcolor="gray"><b>Platoon</b></td><td align="center"><b>Qty</b></td><td><b>Unit</b></td><td align="right"><b>Points</b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" bgcolor="#AAAAAA" colspan="4">Headquarters</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Rifle Company HQ (29th I.D.)</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.219</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">2<br />
2</td><td align="left">Cmd Carbine team<br />
Bazooka team</td><td align="right" valign="top">40</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" bgcolor="#AAAAAA" colspan="4">Combat Platoons</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Rifle Platoon (29th I.D.)</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.219</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />
1<br />
9</td><td align="left">Cmd Rifle team<br />
Bazooka team<br />
Rifle team</td><td align="right" valign="top">155</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Rifle Platoon (29th I.D.)</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.219</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />
1<br />
9</td><td align="left">Cmd Rifle team<br />
Bazooka team<br />
Rifle team</td><td align="right" valign="top">155</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Rifle Platoon (29th I.D.)</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.219</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />
1<br />
9</td><td align="left">Cmd Rifle team<br />
Bazooka team<br />
Rifle team</td><td align="right" valign="top">155</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Weapons Platoon (29th I.D.)</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.220</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />
4<br />
3</td><td align="left">Cmd Carbine team<br />
M1919 LMG team<br />
M2 60mm mortar</td><td align="right" valign="top">120</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" bgcolor="#AAAAAA" colspan="4">Weapons Platoons</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Machine-gun Platoon (29th I.D.)</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.174</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />
2<br />
4</td><td align="left">Cmd Carbine team<br />
Bazooka team<br />
M1917 HMG team</td><td align="right" valign="top">130</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Anti-tank Platoon (29th I.D.)</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.175</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />
3<br />
3</td><td align="left">Cmd Carbine team<br />
Bazooka team<br />
M1 57mm gun</td><td align="right" valign="top">115</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" bgcolor="#AAAAAA" colspan="4">Regimental Support</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Anti-tank Platoon (29th I.D.)</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.175</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />
1<br />
2<br />
3<br />
3</td><td align="left">Cmd Carbine team<br />
Jeep with .50 cal AA MG<br />
Bazooka team<br />
M1 57mm gun<br />
1 1/2 ton truck</td><td align="right" valign="top">105</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Intelligence & Recon Platoon (29th I.D.)</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.176</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />
1<br />
2<br />
2</td><td align="left">Cmd Rifle team<br />
Jeep with .50 cal AA MG<br />
Rifle team<br />
Jeep</td><td align="right" valign="top">65</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" bgcolor="#AAAAAA" colspan="4">Divisional Support</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Tank Destroyer Platoon</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.231</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />
2<br />
4</td><td align="left">Jeep with .50 cal AA MG<br />
M20 scout car<br />
M-10 3in GMC</td><td align="right" valign="top">320</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Field Artillery Battery (29th I.D.)</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.179</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />
1<br />
1<br />
4</td><td align="left">Cmd Carbine team<br />
Staff team<br />
Observer Carbine team<br />
M2A1 105mm howitzer</td><td align="right" valign="top">140</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Field Artillery Battery (155mm) (29th I.D.)</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.221</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1<br />
1<br />
1<br />
1<br />
4</td><td align="left">Cmd Carbine team<br />
Staff team<br />
Observer Carbine team<br />
Jeep<br />
M1 155mm howitzer</td><td align="right" valign="top">210</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Air Observation Post</td><td align="right"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">p.236</span></td></tr>
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</td><td align="center">1</td><td align="left">L4 Grasshopper AOP</td><td align="right" valign="top">40</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" colspan="3">Company Points:</td><td align="right">1750</td></tr>
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So just before I start with the battles I was rubbish at this event writing notes so I didn't get the names of any of my opponents. So apologies in advance.<br />
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<b><u>Game 1 - Dust Up (Fair Fight)</u></b><br />
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This Games was against a panther heavy wiking list.<br />
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I went with the good old wall of infantry deployment backed up by the 155's, a unit of 57mm and the tank destroyers.<br />
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My opponent deployed his panthers, a 10.5 battery and a short infantry platoon in the buildings to the left.<br />
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Panthers rolled forward, I managed to get three of them under a time on target bombardment with the 155's and did feck all...The artillery started the way it meant to continue most of the weekend.<br />
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Panthers lined up an started blasting away at the infantry and 155's well my artillery fails to kill any.<br />
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Turn three I get my first reserves on, the other unit of 57mms arrives with some flanking shots hopefully forcing him to turn and maybe getting a cheeky kill. Alas it was not to be as the Panzer Kanone blows them away without breaking a sweat.<br />
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Alas at this point the panthers come back and German armoured infantry rushes over to reinforce the objective I was pushing on putting an end to the attack. I has hoped to weaken the panthers before now or use the TD's to force them to keep facing the correct way but the artillery did nothing and the TD jeeps got stuck in the snow.<br />
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The game ended as a draw with no one taking any objectives my opponent killed one platoon to my now kills. So I came away with 3 points in the corrivalry scoring system.<br />
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I always struggle with in fair fights, I needed to pull the panthers in close to the infantry before my reserves showed up so I could assault his objective unfortunately as I find in these battle my objective is that well guarded most people don't even try and take it. and in the face of all those tanks my attacking infantry gets cut to bits giving up VP's. <br />
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<u><b>Game 2 - Surrounded (Defensive Battle)</b></u><br />
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This time I was up against a normal German armoured list.<br />
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There is something satisfying about struggling to fit your army in the deployment zone :)<br />
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Rather than just deploying his force on one side like most people my opponent split it, this threw a bit of a spanner in the works as I expected to be turning half my army around on the first turn.<br />
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On the other flank the north unit of tanks engaged in a fire fight with my other anti tank gun unit that they would go on to lose, while the south group took on the 105's managing to blow all the guns off before direct fire from the 155's and the north anti tank gun unit took them out.<br />
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I decloaked the TD's and engaged the advancing armoured infantry and also managed to bag themselves a tiger.<br />
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At this point I had blunted the worst of the German attack, they made a good drive at the objective but in the end I believe I managed to break them for a 14-6 win to me.<br />
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It's was a bread and butter match up for me I had all the tools for the job and the dice where quite kind to me this game.<br />
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Fighting a Stug battery this time. <br />
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Standard deployment, wall of infantry, 155's and both units of 57mm's in ambush.<br />
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With the return fire taking out almost all the anti tank guns!<br />
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Starting to run out of infantry now, the break through guns making a real mess, though most of what's left are bazookas forcing the tanks to keep away still.<br />
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At this point the artillery remembers how to work and starts popping tank after tank.<br />
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With a lot of the stug platoons now being down to single tanks the TD decloak and start engaging as well. I manage to finally break the stugs for a 17 - 4 win.<br />
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<u><b>Game 4 - Hasty Attack (Mobile Battle)</b></u><br />
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This was against the Beute StuG battery, I thought I was on to a winner here I have played Stug battery's a few times now and normally do really well...yeah hadn't really understood what I was up against here.<br />
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So normal deployment, 57mm in ambush.<br />
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Oh right it's french stuff the Germans took over and they are called StuG's and that unit there has 32" range RoF 2 break through guns...oh...baws...<br />
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Said guns proceed to take out the 155's, the 57mm's and start blowing chunks out my line, I mean big massive holes. I spent quite a few turns rolling to unpin and then doing nothing.<br />
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On my right the infantry advances while the half tracks lay down a stupid amount of fire (that killed shockingly little)<br />
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On my left I stay cowed while the Germans creep closer.<br />
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More smoke!<br />
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And on the left they aren't quite close enough.<br />
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This game ended 19-3 to me but that doesn't really do my opponent justice. I suffered badly from not knowing what I was up against and didn't really get to do much this game. Thankfully my opponent made his move a couple of turns too late allowing me to keep hold of my objective with quite a few platoons that where hanging on by the skin of their teeth.<br />
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<u><b>Game 5 - Counter Attack (Mobile Battle)</b></u><br />
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Beutpanzers, woo hoo tanks my antitank can deal with I thought<br />
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It just about all fits, stacked to the left you can see an infantry platoon and the TD's ready to run left to get to the objective.<br />
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And the race is off, I managed to land the 155's in the middle of that...nine tanks under the template, killed one and like a chump I left my AOP in range and site of the flack 88's, needless to say I no longer had an AOP.<br />
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I manage to delay them just long enough to get the infantry platoon dug in at the objective with the AT guns in the woods behind.<br />
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The game ended 15-6 to me, mostly thanks to the snow table and hills forcing the tanks to go the long way rather than any major tactical genius on my half. The artillery was in the bad books by the end of the game.<br />
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<u><b>Conclusion and stuff wot I learned</b></u><br />
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So I ended up 8th out of 78 players. For my first major FOW tournament I would say I am well chuffed with that.<br />
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On a rules side I need to make sure and get a good understanding of how my opponent plays hills. We tend to play them true line of site but I think I encountered about three other ways people play them this weekend so I need to get good clarification at the start of the game.<br />
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I also need to go read the US artillery special rules, I was playing a mish mash of this edition and last edition.<br />
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On a tactics side I need to work out how to win fair fights, I have yet to win one with this list. I always make a good shove on my opponents objective but all that does is encourage them to pull back and give up on mine.<br />
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Starting deployment I am going to try having the 105's on rather than the 155's as looking back most games I would benefit more from having smoke on from turn 1.<br />
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Once I get my current projects done I will go back and play around with the list, maybe get a second source of smoke or some tanks to help in the missions I have to attack.<br />
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That event it's self was fantastic, some lovely armies and the terrain was spectacular. I will do a photo dump below of some of the tables and armies.<br />
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<br />Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-87686676731245458322012-06-25T14:25:00.000-07:002012-06-25T14:25:50.324-07:00WHF Battle Report - Summer Incursion 2012<br />
Recently I took my Vamps on an outing to summer incursion a 2500 Warhammer Fantasy tournament at maelstrom games.<br />
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So to start off here is my list:<br />
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Lords</h3>
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<span class="battlescribe-bold">Master Necromancer (240pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Level 3 Wizard, Undead</span>
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<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
Earthing Rod (25pts), Level 4 Wizard (35pts), Lore of Vampires, Opal Amulet (15pts)
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</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Master Necromancer (255pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Level 3 Wizard, Undead</span>
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<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
Dispel Scroll (25pts), Level 4 Wizard (35pts), Lore of Death, Obsidian Amulet (30pts)
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</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="battlescribe">
Heroes</h3>
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<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Necromancer (65pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Level 1 Wizard, Undead</span>
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<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
Lore of Vampires
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</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="battlescribe">
Core</h3>
<ul class="battlescribe">
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Dire Wolves (40pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Slavering Charge, Undead, Vanguard</span>
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<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
5x Dire Wolf (40pts)
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</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Dire Wolves (40pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Slavering Charge, Undead, Vanguard</span>
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<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
5x Dire Wolf (40pts)
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</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Dire Wolves (40pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Slavering Charge, Undead, Vanguard</span>
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<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
5x Dire Wolf (40pts)
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</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Skeleton Warriors (195pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Undead</span>
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<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
Hand Weapon, Light Armour, Musician (10pts), Shields, Skeleton Champion (10pts), 30x Skeleton Warrior (150pts)
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<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Standard Bearer (25pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
Standard of Discipline (15pts)
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</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Zombies (158pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Always Strikes Last, The Newly Dead, Undead</span>
</div>
<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
Musician (5pts), 51x Zombie (153pts)
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</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Zombies (155pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Always Strikes Last, The Newly Dead, Undead</span>
</div>
<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
Musician (5pts), 50x Zombie (150pts)
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</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="battlescribe">
Special </h3>
<ul class="battlescribe">
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Crypt Horrors (380pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Poisoned Attacks, Regeneration (5+), Undead</span>
</div>
<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
10x Crypt Horror (380pts)
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</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Fell Bats (32pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Fly, Undead</span>
</div>
<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
2x Fell Bat (32pts)
</div>
</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Fell Bats (32pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Fly, Undead</span>
</div>
<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
2x Fell Bat (32pts)
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</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Spirit Host (45pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Ethereal, Undead</span>
</div>
<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
Spirt Host (45pts)
</div>
</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Spirit Host (45pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Ethereal, Undead</span>
</div>
<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
Spirt Host (45pts)
</div>
</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Vargeists (276pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Fly, Frenzy, Undead, Vampiric</span>
</div>
<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
6x Varghiest (276pts)
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</li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Vargeists (276pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Fly, Frenzy, Undead, Vampiric</span>
</div>
<div class="battlescribe-subselection">
6x Varghiest (276pts)
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</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="battlescribe">
Rare </h3>
<ul class="battlescribe">
<li class="battlescribe-selection">
<span class="battlescribe-bold">Terrorgheist (225pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">
<span class="battlescribe-italic">Death Shriek, Fly, Large Target, Regeneration (6+), Terror, Undead</span>
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</li>
</ul>
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<u><b>Game 1: Jake Corteen - Lizard Men</b></u><br />
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Light Slann<br />
3 Heros on cold ones <br />
2 Skink/Krox blocks<br />
2 Terradon units<br />
2 Salamanders<br />
Lots of skink skirmishers<br />
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I have played Jake before so I new this was going to be hard game. Jake plays a very cagey game and getting through all the skinks to get to the juice centre is a pain to do.<br />
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I deployed to the right of the centre to his army, the plan was to push him into the corner of the board where he couldn't escape. Use the varghists to sweep away the chaff from the crypt horror bunker while my chaff tried to take out the skinks or at least hold them in place.<br />
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Jake on the other hand turtle in the corner tucking the slann at the back with enough chaff spread out over the rest of the board to hold me up for six turns.<br />
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The terror ghast took out some scouting skinks on the left flank.<br />
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On the right flank I spread out trying to avoid the skinks getting behind me, again though I made the same mistake I made before and didn't leave anything at the back tot stop terradons getting around me.<br />
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As was expected the hero with the burning blade comes running into the front of the crypt horrors to pin them down.<br />
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This time I was ready for it and threw the vargs in the flank but failed to shift him. This was suddenly not looking very good for me.<br />
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With both those units pinned Jake started pushing forward.<br />
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The hero held for another round so now the situation was looking rather grim indeed for me.<br />
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Thankfully I finally got my head in gear and brought the terroghast over to clear out the hero and threw what remaining chaff I had in from of the skink/kroxblocks.<br />
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One block went into the zombies the other the flank of the vargs (the grey square) with a hero going in the front.<br />
Both units held, I through the crypt horrors into the side of the block engaging the zombies. with another unit of zombies going in the flank of the other with the other vargs up the back.<br />
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The crypt horrors took out one block and the vargs finally got through the other.<br />
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When the dust settled I had managed to pull out a decent win. Jake's dice where a bit unkind to him at a few crucial moments that let me swing what had been a close game into a big win for me.<br />
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For once I felt like I handled the lizzy chaff quite well, I managed to stop it clogging me up too much. I still need to work on an answer to those cold one hero's though they cause me no end of problems.<br />
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<i>Game 1 Score: 2500 BP 1190 VP</i><br />
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I suppose this i s a good moment to mention the scoring system. For their own evens maelstrom have their own scoring system. You compare the difference of VP's score the on a sliding scale this gives your your battle points (3000-250 for a massive win through to 1500 each for a draw) You then add on your VP's scored and that gives you your total.<br />
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<u><b>Game 2:Steve Slatcher Dark Elves</b></u><br />
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Level 4<br />
Level 2 on peg<br />
Cauldron of blood BSB <br />
Block of witch elves<br />
Block of corsairs<br />
Hydra<br />
unit of shades<br />
2*10 spear<br />
Large block of spear elves<br />
10 Coldone riders <br />
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Harpies<br />
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Steve turtled tight in the corner.<br />
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I deployed opposite with the vargs and terroghast in position to flank his army.<br />
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This led to one of my varg units failing their frenzy test and went charging into the middle of the army. This forced my hand and I shoved everything forward.<br />
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At that start of game Steve managed to not get mind razor much to my relief. When he played so aggressive it put me on a bit of a back foot I had assumed I would have another turn to get into position, thankfully I managed to take the charge and overwhelm them in combat. The varghists working to text book perfection.<br />
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<b><u>Game 3: Michael Biggs - Orcs</u></b><br />
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<br />Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-57017177391341830422012-06-10T15:05:00.000-07:002012-06-10T15:06:08.139-07:00FOW American InfantrySo I have been a bit rubbish the past half year at updating the bog. Going to get back to doing it more regularly.<br />
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Here is my current project, American infantry company for flames of war. I used a painting guide on the <a href="http://www.flamesofwar.com/Default.aspx?tabid=110&art_id=444">flames of war website</a>. I also went to a bit of effort on the base's as with the numbers I am using at the scale the bases will be a lot of what you see.<br />
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Still got all the tanks and artillery to do, once it's all done it will look might impressive methinks.Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-64056316889981815742011-08-30T15:21:00.000-07:002011-08-30T15:21:09.737-07:00Battle Report: Cardiff Carnage 2011Was just down at Cardiff Carnage this weekend a multi system event hosted by the Viet-Taff. I was playing 40k with my drop podding wolves.<br />
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Wolf Guard - Power Fist, Combi Melta (43)<br />
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9 Grey Hunters - Melta gun, Wolf Standard, Wulfen (150)<br />
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</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">So the first surprise was on the Friday night I found my list had made it into the dirty dozen, This is the 12 filthy lists that scored low on the comp...yup I am rocking the filth \m/</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">This I celebrated by drinking too much on the Friday night as I figured a hangover would make bugger all difference to the kicking I was going to get for my first 2 game as the dirty dozen have to fight each other then.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Really not what I need with a hang over, my worst match up for my list. The one hope I had was the mission you had to get as many scoring units within 6" of the center of the table so I was going to fall back on the old wall of drop pods plan.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">He came down in the middle using the pod to block the assassins off from the quick rout to the objective. He managed to glance the Chimera as well. Otherwise I didn't achieve much. In Gary's turn he shot off most of the squad that was in in the middle leaving only the wolf guard alive after the the rune priest took the shot for him. Thankfully the assassins failed there terrain check and didn't get to charge my only other squad on the table.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Next turn was going to important, my other dread came in. I used it's pod to block the arch way to cut off crow who was hiding the other side. Everything else opened up on the assassins killing a few I tend put the dread in to try and tar pit them for a turn or two alas Cotez managed to take it out this gave the assassins a run on my rune priests squad.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Thankfully being down to only four assassins not they ripped apart the squad but I had just enough left to take them and Cotez out. What was left of the squad got shot off the table next turn leaving only one Wolf guard again. The remaining dread got stunned and lost a weapon to crow.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Then my last squad showed up at this point I realised I could still win this, my storm bolters had been slowly picking away at the purifier squad left in the open. I actually had more troop choices left even if two of them where just loan guys so I dropped the pod in the middle and hid everyone behind it. </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">After this Gary realised the risk and started shooing away the pods and my other squad to try and get in. He managed to destroy a few of the pods but didn't manage to make them go boom so I could still hide behind them. So on turn five his land raider and Chimera rolled on top of the wreak with the land raider that managed to immobilizing it's self. </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">And with that the game ended on a draw Gary got bonus TP's for killing my most expensive HQ and having more VP's.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Final Score</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Gary: 19TP's 1501 VP's</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Me: 15TP's 771 VP's</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Conclusion</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">On the whole very happy with that result, Grey knights are my worst match up I was lucky I got the first turn but losing half my army so early meant I was stuck playing a defensive game. My natural urge to try and take out troop units proved it's worth as did the wall of drop pods.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Game 2: Seize Ground (5 Objectives), Spear Head</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Vet squad with triple Grenade Launcher</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Chimera</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Vet Squad - Auto Cannon, Camo-Cloaks, Sniper Rifles and joined by Gunnery sergeant Harker</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Banewolf</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">As we can see an army of pure filth well worth it's place in the dirty dozen (!)</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I won the roll off and let Chris go first, he caught me a bit off guard by deploying in the only table quarter with no objectives and infiltrating on of the vet squads to an objective on the other side. Thankfully on his first turn he moved out for there and spread out, last thing I had wanted was to be dropping in miles away from the objectives. I then dropped two squads and the dreadnoughts into the middle of all this, the prime targets being the plasma and melta squads.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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One of the squads dropped in behind the infiltrating guys who promptly tried to leg it.<br />
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And just as I get back into cover guess what shows up from reserve.<br />
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Thankfully Chris rolled enough ones for some of my guys to survive and take it out.<br />
At this point the game had swung well in my favour, another pod arrived and squad started hunting down the tanks.<br />
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I had managed to get guys on four of the objectives for the game ending giving me a big win.<br />
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Final Score<br />
Me: 30 TP's 1543 VP's<br />
Chris: 0TP's 643 VP's<br />
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Conclusions<br />
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One of the most enjoyable games I have ever played, Chris was great laugh my face hurt from grinning by the end of it.<br />
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My army worked perfectly, the alpha was good and just as I started to run of steam another pod would show up with reinforcements allowing me to keep the momentum in my favour.<br />
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Game 3: Capture and Control, Pitch Battle<br />
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Neil Trent - Black Templar's<br />
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Emperors Champion (Preferred Enemy Vow)<br />
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2 Units of 5 Terminators with 2 Cyclones each<br />
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2 x 5 man Squads with las Plas<br />
2 x 5 Man squad with Multi Melta, Melta Gun in Rhinos<br />
5 Man Squad in Rhino<br />
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2 Preds with Auto Cannon/Las Cannon Sponsons<br />
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2 Land Speeder Tornados<br />
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It's a good mission for me but there is a lot of AP2/3 in the list.<br />
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I was going first so I deployed my objective behind a bit of terrain towards the left hand side with the living lightning librarian squad on it. Neil put his objective on the right hand corner and then turtled up very tight in the middle of the board.<br />
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Since he hadn't deployed on his objective and had went quite tight I decided to try and take out the transports and try to trap his army in.<br />
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Both dreads scattered one landing out in the open. I dropped one squad and the empty pod between his army and the objective.<br />
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With my fire I managed to blow up one rhino and immobilized another. Then came the return fire, to say this was painful would be an understatement, both dread and their pods blew up on the first shots that hit them, the grey hunter squad got shot up and then the emperors champion and squad finished them off.<br />
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This was not looking good, first wave wiped out and to top it off all three remaining squads decided to show up at once. the only saving grace was Neil hadn't moved far out of his tight castle so my plan was to try and jam him in and delay him getting to the objectives.<br />
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On the right the plasma squad drops in to shoot something up while the other rune priest squad ends up tucked away at the back after a nervous scatter.<br />
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On the left the squad that went in to block that side had an even more brown trouser scatter. Thankfully they still landed with in range to melta something and blew up one of the Predators.<br />
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On the left hand side Niel counter attacked blowing up the pod, and killing a few guys before charging in with the terminators breaking the squad and sending them running.<br />
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On the right the terminators wade in again to the plasma squad.<br />
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I managed to kill a few but the squad still gets gutted.<br />
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After that it was time for me to play hide and seek, I made sure to target the speeders and take them out I just hoped after losing his transports Neil wouldn't have time to get across the table.<br />
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On the right my last few marines on his objective desperately tried to keep the distance open for as long as possible.<br />
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One the left the long march to my objective begins, with my rune priest ducking back down behind the cover.<br />
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On the right I was relived with Neil spilt the emperors champion off from a squad to go after the librarian that at least gave the squad on the objective a fighting chance.<br />
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It started to get really tense now 2 squads of two faced off against my guys.<br />
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But one wolf guard came through.<br />
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At turn 5 I was winning but we went on for turn six where my last guy on his objective was killed.<br />
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On the left the termies got a good move through terrain roll and then it came down to the run...<br />
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And the buggers got just what they needed to contest :(<br />
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Final Score<br />
Neil: 28TP's 1430 VP's<br />
Me: 6TP's 880 VP's<br />
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Conclusion<br />
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After the game I found out Neil was Bro_Lo from 3++ so I should have expected a hard game.<br />
Losing my first wave really hurt, I had expected it too get badly munched but not quite so easily. <br />
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I had hoped I could stand toe to toe in combat but that preferred enemy just beats your face in. I can never quite get the terminators and grey hunter match ups right either When I used to run a TH/SS death star with a couple of lightning claws in it I would charge grey hunters. I would rip the heart out the squad but lose most of mine in the process as well. Every time I try it though the grey hunters tend to just die.<br />
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Probably my biggest mistake was at the end, Neil pointed out I could have used the rune priest to block the terminators. I had kept him back in case the game went on for another turn as he would be usefully for shifting the terminators. Broke my own rule of "always play as if the game will end this turn" and paid the price.<br />
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So that's the end of Day 1, Day 2 will come later in the week.<br />
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Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-45919841536059969482011-08-22T14:20:00.000-07:002011-08-22T14:20:37.562-07:00Blood Angel AV13 Spam<div style="text-align: left;">Well I said I was going to wait a while before doing another 40k list then before I know whats going on I have this sitting in my house:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Yes my self restraint is as strong as ever...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Seeing the rise of grey knights and fed up in general of getting shot off the table I decided to lay some decent armour down. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Here is the preliminary list I am going for:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><h3 class="battlescribe" style="text-align: left;">HQ (100pts)</h3><div></div><ul class="battlescribe" style="text-align: left;"><li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Librarian (100pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Blood Lance, Shield of Sanguinius </div><ul class="battlescribe"><li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Power Armour</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Bolt Pistol </div></li>
</ul></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"></div><h3 class="battlescribe" style="text-align: left;">Troops (810pts)</h3><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul class="battlescribe" style="text-align: left;"><li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Assault Squad (145pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">4x Assault Marines (72pts), Meltagun (10pts) </div><ul class="battlescribe"><li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Razorback (20pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Twin Linked Heavy Flamer </div></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Veteran Sergeant (43pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Chainsword, Infernus Pistol (15pts) </div></li>
</ul></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Assault Squad (145pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">4x Assault Marines (72pts), Meltagun (10pts) </div><ul class="battlescribe"><li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Razorback (20pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Twin Linked Heavy Flamer </div></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Veteran Sergeant (43pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Chainsword, Infernus Pistol (15pts) </div></li>
</ul></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Assault Squad (180pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">4x Assault Marines (72pts), Meltagun (10pts) </div><ul class="battlescribe"><li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Razorback (55pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Lascannon & Twin Linked Plasma Gun (35pts) </div></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Veteran Sergeant (43pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Infernus Pistol (15pts) </div></li>
</ul></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Assault Squad (175pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">4x Assault Marines (72pts), Meltagun (10pts) </div><ul class="battlescribe"><li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Razorback (55pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Lascannon & Twin Linked Plasma Gun (35pts) </div></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Veteran Sergeant (38pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Chainsword, Hand Flamer (10pts) </div></li>
</ul></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Assault Squad (165pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">4x Assault Marines (72pts), Meltagun (10pts), Veteran Sergeant (28pts) </div><ul class="battlescribe"><li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Razorback (55pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Lascannon & Twin Linked Plasma Gun (35pts) </div></li>
</ul></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"></div><h3 class="battlescribe" style="text-align: left;">Fast Attack (435pts)</h3><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul class="battlescribe" style="text-align: left;"><li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Baal Predator (145pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Heavy Bolters (30pts), Twin Linked Assault Cannon </div></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Baal Predator (145pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Heavy Bolters (30pts), Twin Linked Assault Cannon </div></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Baal Predator (145pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Heavy Bolters (30pts), Twin Linked Assault Cannon </div></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"></div><h3 class="battlescribe" style="text-align: left;">Heavy Support (405pts)</h3><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul class="battlescribe" style="text-align: left;"><li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Predator (135pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Autocannon, Lascannon (65pts) </div></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Predator (135pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Autocannon, Lascannon (65pts) </div></li>
<li class="battlescribe-selection"> <span class="battlescribe-bold">Predator (135pts)</span><div class="battlescribe-subselection">Autocannon, Lascannon (65pts)</div><div class="battlescribe-subselection"><br />
All the remains is to see how it goes, watch this space... </div><br />
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</ul>Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-22262389058407354202011-07-29T08:58:00.000-07:002011-07-29T08:58:07.449-07:00Battle Report: Toy Soldier 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y315/WaltzJunta/Tournaments/Toy%20Soldier%202011/Army1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y315/WaltzJunta/Tournaments/Toy%20Soldier%202011/Army1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Well my weeks of painting finally paid off and I got my army painted up in time for toy soldier. Was well chuffed with how it all looked on the table, seven drop pods just looks ace.<br />
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Here is the final list:<br />
Rune Priest - Chooser of the slain, Living Lightning, Jaws of the World Wolf, Melta Bombs, Wolf Tail Necklace<br />
-125<br />
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Rune Priest - Murderous Hurricane, Jaws of the World Wolf, Wolf Tail Talisman, Melta bombs, Wolf Tail Necklace<br />
-120<br />
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Wolf Guard Squad<br />
Wolf Guard - Power Fist, Combi Melta (43)<br />
Wolf Guard - Power Fist, Combi Melta (43)<br />
Wolf Guard - Power Fist, Combi Melta (43)<br />
-129<br />
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Dreadnought - 2 Twin-linked Autocannons (125)<br />
Drop Pod (35)<br />
-160<br />
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Dreadnought - 2 Twin-linked Autocannons (125)<br />
Drop Pod (35)<br />
-160<br />
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8 Grey Hunters - Melta gun, Wolf Standard, Wulfen (150)<br />
Drop Pod (35)<br />
-185<br />
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8 Grey Hunters - Melta gun, Wolf Standard, Wulfen (150)<br />
Drop Pod (35)<br />
-185<br />
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9 Grey Hunters - Melta gun, Wolf Standard, Wulfen (150)<br />
Drop Pod (35)<br />
-200<br />
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10 Grey Hunters - 2 Melta gun's, Wolf Standard, Wulfen, Power Fist (205)<br />
Drop Pod (35)<br />
-240<br />
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10 Grey Hunters - 2 Plasma gun' s, Wolf Standard, Wulfen, Power Fist (210)<br />
Drop Pod (35)<br />
-245<br />
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Total 1749<br />
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<b><u>Game 1: Paul Burk, Space Wolves, Kill Points, Spear Head</u></b><br />
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I had played Paul a few times before and never managed to beat him so I knew I was in for a tough game and when I saw his list I knew I was in trouble.<br />
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Rune priest - Living lightning<br />
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3 Lone wolves in terminator armour with chain fist and storm shield<br />
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5 Grey hunter squads in Las/Plas razor backs<br />
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3 Packs of 5 Long fangs with missile launchers<br />
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3 Land speeder Typhoons with Multi meltas<br />
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I won the roll off and let Paul go first, he deployed tucked in the corner I put two dreadnoughts down tucked in my corner. Paul's first move was to spread out and take some pot shots at the dreads.<br />
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Now I was presented with a big problem, the three lone wolves, I knew how nasty they where but currently alive they where worth three kill points to me I decided one had to die and dropped the plasma squad next to it they managed to take it out. Another two squads dropped near the building in the middle and took out one of the speeders and dinged the other. The dreads managed to take out a razor back. Alas it did not all go so well I tried dropping one of the squads in near the long fangs as is fate it scatter off the table and died. 2 of the easiest kill points lost ever :(<br />
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After this we started trading blows but the loss of that squad was noticeable, especially in the later turns. I tried reinforcing my center and managed to take out another lone wolf in close combat and shoot up a land speeder and one of the grey hunter squads with the dreads blowing up another razor back.<br />
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By this point the momentum had really swung in favour of Paul I threw my army in where ever I could to try and scrape back some kill points but once the grey hunters where all committed to combat all his firepower turned on the drop pods taking him well clear of my ability to catch up.<br />
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In the end all I had left where the dreds and a couple of drop pods but I had managed to take a chunk out his army so I clawed back a few tournament points.<br />
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Finally score was a 17-3 loss with me loosing 1545 VPs but killing 888 VPs.<br />
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<u><b>Conclusion</b></u><br />
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This was always going to be a hard match up but the loss of that grey hunter squad really lost me the momentum, Paul's first turn of firing wasn't nearly as bad as I had feared so having another squad right in the middle of his army would have allowed me to make much more of a fight of it.<br />
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That 3-0 to Paul, I will get him next time. <br />
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<u><b>Game 2: Jamie Seddon, Dark Elder, Capture and Control, Pitched Battle</b></u><br />
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Was looking forward to this , never played the dark elder yet and and MSU list at that. I had thought a lot about how I would take on a list like that as it could out manoeuvre me very easily.<br />
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Plus Jamie was up for a good scrap, always a good sign :)<br />
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So onto the list:<br />
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Vect<br />
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Heamoculius <br />
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3 x 5 man true borne squads with blasters in dual cannon venom's<br />
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3 x 5 man wytch squads with agonisers in dual cannon venom's<br />
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2 Ravager's - Dark lances<br />
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Razor wing - 2 of the missile that wound on a 2+<br />
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For combat drugs he got +1 strength. <br />
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I won the roll and let Jamie go first he reserved everything so down came my first wave.<br />
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The squad with the living lightning rune priest and one of the dreads landed on my objective that was hidden behind a large rock. Another grey hunter squad and dreadnought landed in and behind a building that was near his objective in the corner.<br />
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On the second turn, vect and two of the wytch squads along with one of the true born squads arrived at his objective. The two ravager's came on in the middle and shot an arm off the dreadnought in the middle.<br />
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Next turn all three of my reserve squads arrived so I decided or death or cake at his objective, I dropped all three down but one of the squads scattered in front blocking a lot of line of site for the other.<br />
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A lot of shots later and two of the venom's where dead with one of the wych squads gutted.<br />
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In the middle the dreads managed to take out one of the ravengers. The remaining one started making it's way towards my objective.<br />
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Back on his objective vect and the wyches went to play with one of the grey hunter squads.<br />
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The results where predictable. I threw what attacks I had left on the wytchs and managed to take quite a few out.<br />
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Vect and co finished off that squad and launched straight into another, this was fast shaping up for a draw. In the combat with vect I had made all my attacks bar one little grey hunter with a powerfist I decided he may as well take a swing and vect since there was no way what was left of the squad would survive to hit again, needless to say he hit, wounded and vect failed his power field save that one little roll swung the gave hevily in my favour, without vect I could easily clean up what Jamie had on his objective.<br />
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He made a heroic charge against my objective with the remaining ravenger, razor wing and a unit of wytches.<br />
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He managed to blow up the dread and lat some serious hurt on the grey hunters but in the end they won through.<br />
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After that I was just on mop up operations and managed to take out the rest of his army.<br />
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After a very bloody game I managed to get a 17-3 win taking 1750 VPs but losing 969 VPs<br />
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<u><b>Conclusion</b></u><br />
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Vect is a best I got lucky stopping him when I did also getting all three reserves at the same time helped quite a bit as well.<br />
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All though I knew in theory DE where a glass hammer I didn't quite appreciate just how much, those wytch squads with an agoniser hit hard but have not staying power.<br />
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Jamie was a great opponent and took loosing vect better than I probably would have.<br />
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<u><b>Game 3: Mike Newman, Tau, Dawn of War, Kill Points</b></u><br />
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Yay Tau in kill point, brilliant I thought he gets one turn to stop me then I am in at him and victory is mine...as I discovered no one had explained this to mike.<br />
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So his Army:<br />
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Commander in a battle suit<br />
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Ethereal<br />
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3 Crisis squads with missile, plasma and drones<br />
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2 Units of fire warriors in devil fish<br />
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Unit of kroot<br />
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2 units of broadsides with missiles and drones<br />
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So I got to deploy first, Mike had his battle suits walk on first turn, the kroot outflank and everything else in reserve.<br />
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Not knowing where he would come on I dropped the two dreads between the buildings at the center of the table for some cover, with one grey hunter squad in the ruins on either side.<br />
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Mike walked on and managed to take out one of the dreads straight away and shoot up some grey hunters.<br />
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After this it was pretty much Zulu Dawn, Initially I was probably too timid but it wasn't long before I was throwing everything I could at him.<br />
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I started to roll up the flank but mike just fed me units and pulled back.<br />
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I tried cutting him off but I just couldn't get to grips with his army, when ever I started to get close he would just blow up a couple of drop pods.<br />
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I got him back in a corner but in the end it was just too little too late. It ended with a 15-5 loss for me with me getting 880 VPS and losing 1109 VP's.<br />
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<u><b>Conclusion</b></u><br />
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Ah over confidence is the mother of all sin. I went into this expecting an easy win, though the deployment put me on the back foot mikes target priority and manoeuvre kept me there. From my second turn I should have been running right at him rather than wasting time on ineffectual bolter shots.<br />
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On a side note the ethereal did him well, more than once it saved a squad from running off the table. <br />
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<u><b>Game 4: Sean Homan, Space Marines, Seize Ground, Spear head</b></u><br />
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At first glance I was rubbing my hands at the prospect of an easy victory but as I started to think about it I realised Sean had a really good marine list for dealing with my list.<br />
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Vulkan<br />
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Chaplin Cassius<br />
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Dreadnought with plasma cannon<br />
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5 TH/SS Terminators in a landraider redeemer<br />
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Tech priest with a thunderfire cannon<br />
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3 x 5 Scouts with a powerfist in a Landspeeder Storm's with multi meltas<br />
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10 Man Tac Squad - Melta Gun, Multi Melta in a drop pod<br />
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The dread and termies where in reserve so the scout speeders where my primary targets, I like to drop my pods on objectives, the last thing I need is one of them sitting near it making me scatter 4D6.<br />
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Sean went first and drop the pod aggressivly in the middle of the board with vulkan. The rest of his force hung back a bit.<br />
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I dropped in just nicely for shooting at the speeders, just as I am about to roll the dice to shoot Sean reminds me it's night fighting on the first turn, talk about a facepalm moment, I can't believe I forgot, needless to say I managed to do next to nothing bar shoot up a couple of tac marines.<br />
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Things went down hill very quickly from there, I managed to blow up 2 on the speeders but couldn't make a dent in the tactical squad.<br />
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His terminators with cassisus rocked on I really needed to neuter them fast so I sent in a unit of grey hunters not expecting to take them out but just kill a few to reduce there effectiveness, 11 normal and a rending wound later none of them died :(<br />
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I couldn't scratch the land raider either, on the whole nothing was proving effective. Vulkan then proceeded to run rampage through my lines.<br />
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I was surprised just how effective he is in close combat.<br />
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I eventually managed to kill him but he did more than enough damage. All over it was the same story, in the center my grey hunters got wiped out to a man.<br />
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I managed to secure one objective to the left but lost the dreadnought to a scout powerfist.<br />
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Despite my best efforts to kill the five remaining scouts to pull it back to a draw I just couldn't manage it.<br />
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In the end I lost 17-3 scoring 852 VP's to 1409 VP's.<br />
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<u><b>Conclusion</b></u><br />
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Firstly apologies to Sean, Most of the pictures I took didn't turn out, for the second day I hadn't noticed the camera was on a strange setting.<br />
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Really shot myself in the foot at that start forgetting about night fight, soon as that happened I should have went all out to kill his troops but I got caught up trying to kill the land raider and the terminators, very silly of me.<br />
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Very enjoyable game though, shows me I am going to need a lot more practice with this list to make it work.<br />
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<u><b>Game 5 Luke Dobson, Space Marines, Take and hold, Pitch battle</b></u><br />
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Luke is actually a warmachine player with out much 40k experience using an army he didn't pick...but after my last few games I decided to take nothing for granted.<br />
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Luke's list:<br />
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Librarian<br />
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5TH/SS terminators<br />
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10 Sternguard with power weapons<br />
2x10 man tactical squad<br />
5 man scout squad<br />
2 Godhammer Landraiders<br />
1 Landraider Crusader<br />
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Lot of AV14 there thankfully no redeemers<br />
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He set up in a building over looking the central objective with his tac squad and libby on the top floor and the sternguard on the second. he put the rest in reserve<br />
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I decided to turn the middle objective into a parking lot and block off the routs to it with drop pods. Since he didn't have a powerfist in the building I decided to drop the dreadnoughts upfront and see how they did.<br />
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We exchanged some fire, I lost a dread and the sternguard killed quite a few grey hunters, then all his reserves rolled on.<br />
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The termies ate most of a squad and the dreadnought but lost a few in the effort, I continued to parking lot up and try to take out the landraiders.<br />
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He tried to knock a hole through but the stormbolters on the drop pods finished off the terminators, the land raider on the left got taken out and the squad inside pinned.<br />
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After that I took out the tac squad on the left hand side and the game ended.<br />
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The game ended 15-5 win to me I got 810 VPs and lost 593 VP's<br />
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<u><b>Conclusion</b></u><br />
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On the whole I was quite lucky here, if Luke had just driven his <span class="mark" id="misspell-0">landraiders</span> on the middle objective first turn I would have had a hell of a time shifting them, once they where in reserve I knew I could use the pods to block most of his routes out his deployment zone.<br />
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So over all how do I feel about the list, it's good and I think it can do well about mid table but it will need a lot of practise. I finished 21st out of 32,my goal was to try and get two <span class="unmark" id="misspell-2">wins</span>, anymore I would view as a bonus overall I got 5180 <span class="mark" id="misspell-3">VP's</span> on the whole a respectable amount, much better than I would get with my last list.<br />
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Look at the amount of Grey knights on the top table I know it's got no chance up there so I have started work on my next list already. This one is good fun and I plan on using it for a long time but I want a bit more filth as well :)<br />
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<span class="unmark" id="misspell-cursor"></span>Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-60048711638290453022011-06-16T13:19:00.000-07:002011-06-16T13:19:09.812-07:00WIP Space Wolves Drop Pod List: Update 2Well the schedule has went out the window, Not quite sure how it happened as I lost a week's worth of painting because of practice for the unseen lurker event. Despite that I find myself well ahead of schedule.<br />
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As you can see I have got all the Grey Hunters done along with the Wolf Guard and the first drop pod. <br />
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First up we have the drop pod, this actually took a lot longer to do than I was expecting but I got the result I wanted. When I get all seven of them on the table it should look quite striking.<br />
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Next up we have the Wolf Guard, Some of the combi-melta are kit bashed, nothing fancy but on the table top they look as good as the real thing.<br />
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Then we have the wulfen, I wanted these to stand out from the normal grey hunters, so I made them dual wielding and painted them red.<br />
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Finally the Grey Hunters, I just have the banners to make up for them now. I managed to paint these a lot quicker than I expected, still not quite sure how I managed to do them so quickly as I am sure I was behind schedule.<br />
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Well off to a good start with 10 marines done last week keeping to the target. Starting to get a lot faster painting them as well. Seeing the 16 done so far has given me a lot of motivation, starting to see the project moving forward.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How the army currently looks</td></tr>
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Left to do<br />
<span style="color: red;">35 Grey Hunters</span><br />
3 Wolf Guard<br />
2 Dreads<br />
2 Rune Priests<br />
7 Drop Pods<br />
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Week 1<br />
<strike>10 Grey hunters</strike><br />
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Week 2<br />
10 Grey hunters<br />
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Week 3<br />
10 Grey hunters<br />
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Week 4<br />
9 Grey hunters<br />
1 Drop Pod<br />
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Week 5<br />
3 Wolf Guard<br />
2 Drop Pods<br />
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Week 6<br />
3 Drop Pods<br />
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Week 7 <br />
1 Drop Pod<br />
2 Dreds<br />
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Week 8<br />
2 Rune PriestsWaltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-40952565942979346102011-05-16T05:47:00.000-07:002011-05-16T05:47:00.207-07:00WIP: Painting Schedule, The challenge is onI have decided to make an all out effort to get my new army paint for toy soldier, it's not going to be easy but here is the schedule I have worked out:<br />
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Left to do<br />
<div>45 Grey Hunters<br />
3 Wolf Guard<br />
2 Dreads<br />
2 Rune Priests<br />
7 Drop Pods<br />
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Week 1<br />
10 Grey hunters<br />
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Week 2<br />
10 Grey hunters<br />
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Week 3<br />
10 Grey hunters<br />
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Week 4<br />
9 Grey hunters<br />
1 Drop Pod<br />
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Week 5<br />
3 Wolf Guard<br />
2 Drop Pods<br />
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Week 6<br />
3 Drop Pods<br />
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Week 7 <br />
1 Drop Pod<br />
2 Dreds<br />
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Week 8<br />
2 Rune Priests<br />
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This should leave me a bit of time spare for any last minute emergencies, lets see how it goes.Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-68955710104318434762011-05-14T09:51:00.000-07:002011-05-14T09:51:19.546-07:00WIP: First models roll off the lineWell got my first few done and based, took a lot longer than I thought.<br />
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Two main problems so far a) Still not layering the paint on thin enough B) Dust, lot of it about just now and it's getting on the models :(<br />
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The bases are from secret weapon miniatures, I did put weathering powder on these ones but I won't do it again, it's too messy with models this colour.<br />
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Rune Priest - Living Lightning, Jaws, Melta bombs<br />
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(Rune Priest's Squad)<br />
8 Grey Hunters - Banner, Wulfen, Melta Gun<br />
Wolf Guard - Combi-Melta, Power Fist<br />
Drop Pod<br />
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9 Grey Hunters - Banner, Wulfen, Melta Gun<br />
Wolf Guard - Combi-Melta, Power Fist<br />
Drop Pod<br />
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9 Grey Hunters - Banner, Wulfen, Melta Gun<br />
Wolf Guard - Combi-Melta, Power Fist<br />
Drop Pod<br />
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10 Grey Hunters - Banner, Wulfen, 2 Melta Gun, Power Fist<br />
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Drop Pod<br />
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10 Grey Hunters - Banner, Wulfen, 2 Plasma Gun, Power Fist<br />
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Drop Pod<br />
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2 Wolf Guard - Combi-Melta<br />
1 Wolf Guard - Combi-Melta, Power Fist<br />
1 Wolf Guard - Combi-Melta, Wolf Claw<br />
1 Wolf Guard - Wulfen<br />
Drop Pod<br />
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<u><b>Game 1 - Size Ground, Spear Head (5 objectives)</b></u><br />
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<u><i>Chaos List</i></u><br />
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Demon Prince - Wings, MoS, Lash<br />
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10 Chaos Marines - MoS, Melta Gun, Flamer, Power Fist<br />
Rino - Havok Launcher<br />
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10 Bezerkers - Power Fist<br />
Rino - Havok Launcher<br />
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2 Plague Marines - 2 Plasma Guns<br />
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Chaos Marines - Missile Launcher<br />
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Defiler<br />
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2 Oblits<br />
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Predetor - Auto Cannon, Heavy bolters, Havok Launcher <br />
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This was looking a bit tricky unlike my old list this one would be at serious risk from the lash.<br />
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<b>Turn 1</b><br />
Chaos go first and move out The Bezerkers moving to the bottom objective, the Noise marines going for the one in the center. <br />
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Fortune favours the brake and I didn't want to have to dig the chaos out that middle chunk of terrain so I dropped down to cut them off and try and crush that advance.<br />
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The rune priests squad and one of the squads with wolf guard, and the 5 man wolf guard squad dropped in an blew the demon prince and the defiler off the table.<br />
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<b>Turn 2</b><br />
I was feeling pretty good after that turn, that didn't last long. To paraphrase Admiral Beatty "There appears to be something wrong with out bloody power armour today" this was a start of a trend all weekend for me, though not drastically bad my power armour saves felt a bit low. In this case the rune priests squad took a pounding off havok missile launchers. <br />
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Then the noise marines charged into one of my grey hunter squads, that's to there +1I and my luck with the power armour the squad got mauled. In my turn none of my reserve showed up but the rune priests squad managed to get into the fight and take out the noise marines. The last wolf guard took out one of the oblits.<br />
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After this point I dug in near the central 2 objectives , the plasma gun squad dropped on the hill in the middle and shout up some of the plague marines the other melta squad dropped next to the bezerker. They took the charge off the bezerkers and where taken out out.<br />
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By the end I had two objectives and my opponent had one, with my drop pods covering the hill contesting the other one.<br />
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<u><b>Game 2 - Capture and Control, Dawn of war</b></u><br />
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<u><i>Tyranid List</i></u><br />
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Tyranid Prime - 2 Scything Talons<br />
Tyranid Prime - 2 Scything Talons<br />
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2 Zone Thropes<br />
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Doom of Mytan<br />
Drop pod<br />
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20 Genestealers - Brood Lord<br />
20 Genestealers - Brood Lord<br />
20 Hormagaunts<br />
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5 Ripper Swarms<br />
3 Ripper Swarms - Adrenal Glands<br />
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Carnifex - scything Talons, Crushing Claws<br />
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Was feeling ok about this match up. The doom could prove to be very effective against my army but I would just have to take him on the chin. the rest of his army I had the tools to deal with.<br />
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I deployed my objective in a wood, my opponent put his on top of a building on the right hand corner.<br />
He then deployed a unit of genestealers in the building in the middle of the table near my objective with the prime tucked in behind and the hormagaunts onto his objective.<br />
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<b>Turn 1</b><br />
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Most of his army walks on with one unit of stealers left in reserve to outflank. I drop in but have a bit of bad scatter the rune priests squad comes on behind my objective, one squad next to his and the last squad in from of his advancing units. My shooting doesn't achieve a great deal. <br />
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<b>Turn 2</b><br />
This doesn't go particularly well for me, the outflanking stealer squad arrives on and charges my squad that's next to my objective promptly doing a stupid amount of rending hits, it was only wound allocation that saved the squad from being wiped out. The squad that scattered in front of his army got charged by the rippers and one of the prime. 7 wounds off the rippers results in 5 dead marines, again with the not great. <br />
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<b>Turn 3 </b><br />
The stealers on the right finished off my squads, the last 2 remaining members just managing to escape. the squad in the middle was ground down till they had only one member left. T<br />
he other group of stealers started making a move to my objective. Thankfully all three reserve squads came in.<br />
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I decided the key thing was to preserve my objective so I dropped in two squads there bracketing the stealer squad that was in the open. The third squad I dropped in the right looking to lay some righteous bolter fire on the stealer squad there.<br />
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The stealer squad in the middle was gutted by the bolter fire then promptly broke and headed towards it's table edge, the squad on the right fared better and only lost a few members.<br />
The rune priest managing to jaws the carnifex<br />
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<b>Turn 4</b><br />
The doom lands right in the middle of my tree squads that where near my objective thankfully I only lost 6 guys from one squad everyone else managed to pass their leader ship. one squad took a charge off the rippers and one of the primes but managed to kill them going on to bolter the other prime to death leaving him with only a zonethrope for synapse. on the right the stealer squad charged my full grey hunter squad and started kicking their teeth in again.<br />
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After this the last zone throap bought it and the hormagaunts jumped off his objective and started hitting on of the drop pods, alas the last few stealers on the right managed to get the six they needed to get on to the objective to claim in and get a draw.<br />
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<u><b>Game 3 - Pitch battle, Annihilation</b></u><br />
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<b><i>Blood Angel List</i></b><br />
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Dante<br />
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Sanguinary Priest -Jump Pack<br />
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5 Sanguinary Guard<br />
5 Sanguinary Guard<br />
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5 Terminators - TH/SS<br />
Land Raider Redeemer - Multi melta, Extra Armour<br />
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Librarian Dreadnought - Blood Talons<br />
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Vindicator<br />
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8 kill points to my 13, and lots of things that love power armour in the open.<br />
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This was a very short and brutal game, not much in the way of tactics just a straight up fight.<br />
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In the end I did managed to table my opponent but I didn't have a lot left.<br />
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<u><b>Game 4 - Capture and Control, Spearhead</b></u><br />
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<i><u>Ultramarine's List</u></i><br />
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Calgar!<br />
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Techmarine - Thunderfire Cannon<br />
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5 Sternguard - 2 Combi-Melta, Lightning claw<br />
Drop Pod<br />
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Dreadnought - Assault Cannon<br />
Drop Pod<br />
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Tactical Squad - Multi Melta, Flamer<br />
Drop Pod<br />
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Tactical Sqaud - Las Cannon, Plasma Gun<br />
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Devastator Squad - 3 Heavy Bolters, 1 Plasma Cannon<br />
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Scout Squad - Sniper Rifles, Missile Launcher, Telion<br />
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Land Speeder - Multi Melta<br />
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His objective when on the top floor of a four story building that the tech priest reinforced, this was a daunting challenge, every floor have marines on it and thanks to Calgar they wouldn't be breaking.<br />
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His stern guard and dread drop near my objective, I counter drop and disabled the dreadnought and kill a couple of sternguard. the last squad drops on to the ground floor of the objective.<br />
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My squad that shot up the dreadnought got mauled by return fire, his tac squad dropped in near his objective, my rune priest squads took out the devastator squad in close combat. The sternguard squad was finished off by my grey hunters.<br />
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The wolf guard squad scattered in front of the tac squad though they opened up they didn't do much to them and after a bit of mutual spanking got taken out.<br />
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The rune priests squad moved up the building and engaged calgars squad but got got ground down. another squad deep struck in the bottom, took out the thunderfire got charge by 2 tactical marines and had a drawn combat! They also ran into calgar and got taken out.<br />
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In the end there wasn't anything to do but drop in the last squad to take out the speeder that was going to my objective and we ended on a draw.<br />
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<u><b>Game 5 - Pitch Battle, Annihilation</b></u><br />
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<i><u>Grey Knight List</u></i><br />
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Inquisitor - Terminator Armour, Psi-Cannon, Thunder Hammer<br />
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5 Terminators - Psi Cannon, Halberds<br />
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10 Grey Knights - Thunder Hammer, 2 Psi-Cannon, Psi Bolts<br />
Rino<br />
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10 Grey Knights - Thunder Hammer, 2 Psi-Cannon, Psi Bolts<br />
Rino<br />
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5 Grey Knights - Psi Cannon<br />
Razor Back - Twin Hevy Bolter, Psi-Bolts<br />
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5 Purifiers - 2 Psi Cannon, Halberds<br />
Razor Back - Twin Hevy Bolter, Psi-Bolts <br />
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Dreadnought - 2 x Twin Auto Cannons, Psi-Bolts<br />
Dreadnought - 2 x Twin Auto Cannons, Psi-Bolts<br />
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Probably my worst nightmare, I am dropping right into their perfect engagement range, lots of power weapons and warp quake.<br />
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The Grey knights move forward and after ten minutes of talking about how warp quake would screw me up promptly forgot to do it. Well never one to pass up an opportunity I went for it, in they dropped and managed to take out a rino and a dreadnought.<br />
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The Grey knights shot back and charged in.<br />
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And not much was left<br />
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And it went down hill from there no reserves showed up on turn 3 so all I had was two drop pods to shoot, after that I just deep struck away from the knights as I didn't want to get tabled :p<br />
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So 2 wins, 2 draws and a loss not too bad considering I had only two games with the list before the tournament.<br />
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What did I learn, Firstly this list is a lot of fun to play with, it's so aggressive, Loving having so many units floating around. The two draws I think I should have just went all out on their objectives, I generally did best went I deploy everything close together to support each other.<br />
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Looking forward to getting the 1750 version up and running.Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-19196606922701019982011-04-29T11:53:00.000-07:002011-04-29T11:53:43.953-07:00WiP: First painting attemptHere is my first go at painting my home brew chapter, think the scheme works over all but I need to water the paint down a bit, it's currently three layers of deneb stone and 4 of bone white. Need to be putting the bone white on thinner.<br />
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I only started 2 weeks ago but I have been a busy bunny.<br />
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<b><u>The Army </u></b><br />
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1750<br />
Rune Priest - Chooser of the slain, Living Lightning, Jaws<br />
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8 Grey hunters - Melta gun, Wolf Standard, Wulfen in a Drop pod <br />
9 Grey hunters - Melta gun, Wolf Standard, Wulfen in a Drop pod<br />
9 Grey hunters - Melta gun, Wolf Standard, Wulfen in a Drop pod <br />
10 Grey hunters - 2 Melta gun's, Wolf Standard, Wulfen, Powefist in a Drop pod<br />
10 Grey hunters - 2 Plasma gun's, Wolf Standard, Wulfen, Powefist in a Drop pod <br />
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Dreadnought - 2 Twin auto Cannons in a drop pod<br />
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5 Wolf Scouts - Melta gun<br />
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Wolf guard<br />
4 Combi Melta, Powerfist (three of these go with the Grey hunters and one with the scouts normally)<br />
2 Combi Melta<br />
1 Combi Flamer<br />
1 Power Fist<br />
1 Wulfen<br />
1 Combi Melta, Wolf Claw<br />
Drop pod<br />
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I set myself a couple of initial rules when building this list<br />
1) No Long fangs or thunder wolves<br />
2) Everything in a drop pod<br />
3) Boots on the table<br />
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My initially list was just grey hunters and dreadnoughts but I decided I really needed the wolf guard, the scouts are currently in even though they break rule 2 just because they annoy guard players.<br />
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The grey hunters I think are one of the best troop choices you can get, good at shooting with the two special weapons, good at close combat the wulfen and the banner are just the iciing on the cake.<br />
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The dreadnough is there to provide me a bit of token long range as after I hit the table I have no manoeuvrability.<br />
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The plasma gun squad is there to help against terminators or power armour in the open. I also made it and another squad 10 men strong just for a change as I was trying to make the list not too spammy.<br />
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I have had one try out game so far need a few more before I nail the list down.<br />
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<u><b>The Models</b></u><br />
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Every time I do a new army I always try to add some new skills to my painting and modeling this time it's going to be converting and highlights.<br />
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I won't be using the space Wolf models as I don't like them going for a home brew chapter using normal marines and dark angel vets as the wolf guard.<br />
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The paint scheme is going to be base on a combination of the Angels Absolution and the Guardians of the Covenant. For chapter markings I am going to use the genesis shoulder pads.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>For my wulfen I decided to give them the old Mk 6 helmets and two close combat weapons each (dual wielding is one of the themes I have went for), also thinking about painting them mostly the red so they stand out a bit more. <br />
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For the wolf guard I had to bodge together quite a few combie meltas, took me a few goes to get it right, up close it doesn't look great but on the table top it should be fine.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left is home made, right is off the commander sprue</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The grey hunters I went to town on had great fun with these some of the poses aren't too hot others I am quite chuffed with it's all a learning process though.<br />
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</tbody></table>I tried converting some of them up to hold the knives, initially I cut the hand up repositioned it and green stuffed the gaps it game a good effect though I had to go without a thumb as it was too small to glue back on. After doing that I took a pair of needle nosed pliers and just bent the hand and thumb around it's not quite as tight a grip but its a lot simpler and they get to keep their thumbs.<br />
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I have most of the army built now, the drop pods will be fully assembled once painted. The standard bearers need some standards, my missus as and all singing and dancing sewing machine so I am going to see it that can embroider some up.<br />
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For the scouts I am going to use normal power armour marines but give them some cloaks. I found a nice tutorial <a href="http://corbaniaprime.blogspot.com/2010/11/tutorial-how-to-sculpt-green-stuff.html">here</a>. So that's going to be something new to try.<br />
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Other than the scouts I have a few more wolf guard to build and the dreadnought, that could be problematic though as it looks like forge world are out of one of the auto cannon arms.Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-66881023578990869802011-03-21T10:25:00.000-07:002011-03-21T18:58:21.692-07:00Old Witch, Iron Fang Pike Men and Assault KommandosBeen a while since I have done an update, been quite buyst with my painting.<br />
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First up some Assault Kommandos. Got these to annoy Cryx players. Still not 100% sure of them yet but I have liked playing with them so far.<br />
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Next up the newest caster I am going to be trying out, the old witch. Had a lot of fun painting her and scrap jack, it's the first time I have used weathering powders on a models and the effect is really good.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is a close up of one of the bits the powder was used on, very simple to do and gives a much better effect that you can get with paint.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Also got around to finally finishing my Iron Fang Pike men, after the UA was nerfed I ended up dropping them from my lists but might start using them again. All the orgional spear shafts where replaced with brass rods that don't bend.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Got around to purchasing the big man, it's a bitch of a model to build, the parts don't fit well. Bit too expensive points wise but still worth having.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-63756097407962955872011-01-24T08:07:00.000-08:002011-01-24T08:07:07.169-08:00Battle Report 40K: The Open at the MastersI decided to go with my two normal lists<br />
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At 1500<br />
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Librarian – Terminator Armour, Storm Shield, Null Zone, Vortex of Doom, Melta bombs (145)<br />
6 Terminators – 4 TH/SS, 2 LC (240)<br />
Land Raider Crusader – Multi melta, Extra Armour (275)<br />
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5 Man Tactical Squad (90)<br />
Razorback – Twin linked Heavy Bolter (40)<br />
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5 Man Tactical Squad (90)<br />
Razorback – Twin linked Heavy Bolter (40)<br />
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5 Man Tactical Squad (90)<br />
Razorback – Twin linked Heavy Bolter (40)<br />
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2 Land speeders – 2 x Multi melta, 2x Heavy Flamer (140)<br />
2 Land speeders – 2 x Multi melta, 2x Heavy Flamer (140)<br />
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Predator – Auto cannon, Heavy Bolter Sponsons (85)<br />
Predator – Auto cannon, Heavy Bolter Sponsons (85)<br />
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Total Cost: 1500<br />
Kill points 13<br />
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At 1750<br />
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Librarian – Terminator Armour, Storm Shield, Null Zone, Vortex of Doom (140)<br />
6 Terminators – 4 TH/SS, 2 LC (240)<br />
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Land Raider Crusader – Multi melta (260)<br />
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5 Man Tactical Squad (90)<br />
Razorback – Twin linked Heavy Bolter (40)<br />
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5 Man Tactical Squad (90)<br />
Razorback – Twin linked Heavy Bolter (40)<br />
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5 Man Tactical Squad (90)<br />
Razorback – Twin linked Heavy Bolter (40)<br />
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5 Man Tactical Squad (90)<br />
Razorback – Twin linked Heavy Bolter (40)<br />
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2 Land speeders – 2 x Multi melta, 2x Heavy Flamer (140)<br />
2 Land speeders – 2 x Multi melta, 2x Heavy Flamer (140)<br />
2 Land speeders – 2 x Multi melta, 2x Heavy Flamer (140)<br />
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Predator – Auto cannon, Heavy Bolter Sponsons (85)<br />
Predator – Auto cannon, Heavy Bolter Sponsons (85)<br />
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Total Cost: 1750<br />
Kill points 16<br />
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Game 1 - 1500 Points, Annihilation, Spearhead<br />
Gary Marsh - Sister of Battle<br />
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2 Canoness<br />
5 Seriphim – 2 Flamer Pistols<br />
10 Sisters 2 Melta guns in a rhino<br />
10 Sisters Melta gun, Heavy flamer in a rhino<br />
Guard platoon of three squads with auto cannons and a bunch of power weapons<br />
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I positioned the speeders and the land raider to catch him no matter way he went around the terrain in the middles, using the preds to hopefully drive him around it and catch them between the speeders and raider<br />
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I left one razor back in reserve to stop my movement getting too jammed up and one squad of speeders to hopefully catch on of his tanks when it ventures too close to my table edge.<br />
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Sisters all in the missile with the guard blobbed in cover, 2 exorcists to start moving around the flanks<br />
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Playing aggressively Gary drove straight at me, popping smoke on both his rhinos.<br />
The speeders took a bit of fire and one pred went boom<br />
Speeder turboed into the middle while the land raider managed to immobilise one of the rhinos.<br />
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Turn 2<br />
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All the sisters piled out the rhinos and both the speeders in the middle got blown off the table.<br />
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At first I thought his deployment was a bit strange then I realised he was trying to bait my terminators into the sisters, he losses one unit then the bit platoon charges and overwhelms the terminators so I decide to go for the seraphim and canonesses<br />
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I then vortex of doom the seraphim only for Gary to tell me they where going to use the sister power that makes their save invulnerable for one phase...bugger that threw my calculations out a bit suddenly this wasn’t looking such a good idea. Thankfully the vortex still managed to take out a few sisters and one of the canoness.<br />
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At the start of the close combat phase he tried to make them invulnerable but failed, the termis proceeded to much threw them, I decided to him the canoness who only had one wound with the thunder hammers as I wanted to lock her in combat forgetting she had hit and run so bugged out and next turn used the vow to make her fearless so I couldn’t escort here off the table leaving me far to close to the guard blob squad <br />
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Turn 3<br />
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This is the start of the turn<br />
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And this is the end<br />
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The canoness felt the wraith of heavy bolters the terminators lost against the blob and got escorted off the table, the land raider ate melta.<br />
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I managed to take out one more of the sisters squads and a rhinos so when the game ended turn six in was a draw even VP wise it was 930 – 925 so a very good game that went right down to the wire.<br />
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If it had went on one more turn I would have been in trouble as there where no easy kill points for me to get my mitts on by that point. Gary did have quite a bit of bad luck, but most of the time I was never in position to take advantage of it.<br />
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Game 2 – 1500 Points, Capture and Control, Pitch Battle<br />
Paul Croghan - Space Marines<br />
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Master of the forge – Conversion beamer<br />
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10 Man Tac squad – Melta gun, missile launcher<br />
Rhino with a dozer blade<br />
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10 Man Tac squad – Flamer, Missile Launcher<br />
Rhino with dozer blade<br />
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Scout squad – 3 sniper rifles, heavy bolter<br />
Sergeant Telion<br />
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Two Dreadnoughts with multi melta<br />
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2 Landspeeders with 2 heavy bolters each<br />
2 Land speeders with multi meltas and heavy bolters<br />
2 Land speeder typhoons with heavy bolters<br />
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2 Preds with auto cannons and heavy bolters<br />
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Deployment<br />
I won the deployment roll and let him go first.<br />
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Paul deployed his objective on the middle floor of the building in the left hand corner mine went in my right hand corner<br />
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As you can see he deployed the width of the board, master of the forge on the top of his building, 5 marines on the objective and a dreadnought tucked away below.<br />
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I had 2 major problems here, The large amount of shooting that would be coming my way and the complete lack of terrain to hide behind. Before the game we checked it all out and other than the big hill in the middle there was no where to get a rhino sized unit out of sight (and even that was a bit dubious there) add to that most of the smaller hills wouldn’t even give it a cover save this was going to be hard.<br />
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So a cunning plan was required, I decided to put both speeder squads and 2 razor backs in reserve while deploying the preds and land raider on the far right, the idea was simple, throw the termie forward into the troops and try and draw him to the right while trying to destroy as much as possible. Then the reserves make a dash straight for his objective.<br />
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Turn 1<br />
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As I hoped Paul started swinging his army to the right to go for my objective, his firing managed to stun one of the preds.<br />
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Straight forward turn from me the land raider went straight forward and the preds engaged in some ineffective shooting.<br />
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Turn 2<br />
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Most of his army keeps making a bee line for my objective, the land raider blows up pretty quickly and the preds take some more damage<br />
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A couple of speeders arrive from reserve I decide to bring them in on the right as I need to stem the tide that was coming my way.<br />
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The terminators went in against both rhinos and the speeder squadron taking out both the rhinos.<br />
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Turn 3<br />
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In my turn one of the razor backs and the other land speeder squadron game on I decided to use them to prop up my right flank, the remaining terminator charged one of the tac squads that came out the rhino he killed a couple then they ran away. His other tac squad that was heading for my objective got charged by one of mine they then proceeded to flail away at each other<br />
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Turn 4<br />
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At the stage it was a bit tit for tat, I lost a razor back and the preds took some more damage<br />
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In my turn my turn my last speeder squad came on and killed one of his MM speeders. My remaining Razor back drove on to the wreck of the other one (I decided just to make my own cover). The last terminator join my tac squad in then fight and showed them how it was done ending that fight.<br />
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Turn 5<br />
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The last land speeder went for a hail mary on his objective <br />
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That was really it for the game, it ended turn six the speeder died and I ended up cowering on my objective<br />
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So what did I learn, Master of the forge with conversion beamer is awesome I want one. The twin heavy bolter land speeders where also quite impressive.<br />
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The terrain really did gimp me this game, It’s the risk I take relying on short range AV10 vehicles for my main anti tank especially in the face of all those missile launchers.<br />
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In hind site there was a rather easy way for me to win this, Paul had only left 5 men on his objective, if I had shot them up about turn 3 he would have real problems getting any troops back to contest it since they where all on the other side of the table.<br />
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Game 3 – 1750, Seize ground, Dawn of war<br />
Matt Cook – Daemons<br />
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Greater Demon in slannesh – Unholy might, Scorpified musk<br />
2 units of 5 fiends one in eachnwith unholy might<br />
3 flamers<br />
2 untis of 6 pluagebearers<br />
15 bloodletters<br />
7 horrors – changling, bolt of change<br />
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Three deamon princes with MoN, Iron hide, demonic gaze, cloud of flies and noxious touch<br />
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Well I got off to a good start here I won first turn so let him go first and didn’t deploy anything on the table, he then failed to get his preferred wave down.<br />
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My plan was pretty simple null zone and lots of shooting them move to contest as I was reasonable sure I would have enough speeders alive at the end to do the job.<br />
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Turn 1<br />
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In deep strike the demons<br />
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The key threats where then seekers and the Monstrous creatures in the army so with that in mind the speeders moved on to engage the seekers in the woods, the land raider made a bee line to the demon prince. The rest of my army came on the right side of the table.<br />
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In the shooing phase most of the seekers where taken out.<br />
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Turn 2 <br />
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The remaining demon princes, Greater Daemon and the horrors arrived.<br />
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The two plague bearer squads moved to consolidate on objectives, the seekers charged one of the speeder squads to minimum effect.<br />
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In my turn the terminators charged on of the Demon princes, managing to get 3 wounds on him, the rest of the army plugged away taking out the remaining seekers and heavy boltering the greater demon to death<br />
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Turn 3<br />
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The flamers game in and had a mishap so they where banished far away, a large unit of blood letters also arrived.<br />
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The terminators took out the demon prince but they themselves where also wiped out to man.<br />
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In my turn I started moving up to contest while managing to shoot another DP to death.<br />
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From this point my memory gets a bit sketchy (I forgot to take photos every turn)<br />
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They would eventually move to contest and objective on my side of the board<br />
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On the right the Libby got out the crusader to assault the horrors but it wasn’t needed as the crusader gunned them all down. The remaining demon prince took out a tac squad and Razor back<br />
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Matt had a bit of an uphill struggle here, I could out manoeuvre and out shoot him and without terrain to hide in it left him in a difficult situation, I didn’t play this one particularly well, I let the null zone wielding librarian end up out of position, I started moving too late to the objectives resulting in me only winning by one and if his run or difficult terrain roll had been a tad higher then it would have ended in a draw.<br />
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Game 4 – 1500, Take and hold (One objective in each deployment zone worth 1 point and one in the middle worth 2), Pitch battle<br />
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Nathan Roberts – Demons<br />
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Great unclean one<br />
6 blood crushers<br />
2 units of fiends (6 strong IIRC)<br />
2 units of 10 flesh hounds<br />
2 slanesh chariots<br />
3 units of pluage bearers<br />
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Deployment<br />
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I chose to go second and he got the wave he wanted.<br />
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Turn 1<br />
(forgot to take pictures at the start)<br />
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The blood crushers arrive smack bang in the centre with the 2 units of flesh hounds either side of my army with chariots, the seeks behind the blood crushers.<br />
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Staring all this down was highly intimidating, This battle was going to be over very quickly, I decided the blood crushers much die so most of my force moved up to engage them the terminators jumping out to charge.<br />
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One speeder squad moved to the left to flame some hounds to open and escape route.<br />
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Null zone went up, I flamed a few hounds then everything else shot at the blood crushers getting a grand total of one wound on them.<br />
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Well time for the terminators to rescue the day, in the charge and fluff every roll spectacularly causing a grand total of one wound and losing 5 to the return strikes.<br />
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Turn 2<br />
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The GUO and a unit of seeks deep struck into he middle of my army<br />
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On the left flank the flesh hounds went into the speeders, the chariot into the predator. The hounds didn’t do much but the chariot took out the predator.<br />
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And on the right the hounds went into a razor back, the chariot into the predator and the seekers into the speeders. The pred blew up the razor back was destroyed and one speeder died.<br />
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Baws this was not looking good.<br />
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My only hope was to scatter to the 4 winds and hope I could contest to a draw<br />
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What followed was lots of running<br />
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And lots of dying <br />
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I think at the end of the game I had the land raider, Libby and one tac squad left lost that one the full 20 -0<br />
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Game 5 – Seize Ground, Spear head 1750<br />
Apologies to my opponent I forgot to write down his name and army but from memory its:<br />
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Command squad – 3 Melta’s <br />
Chimera<br />
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4 Melta veteran squads some with heavy weapons<br />
Chimera<br />
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3 Vendettas<br />
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Plasma cannon russ variant<br />
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2 Manticores<br />
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Since I had take first turn and there was nothing that would block line of site this was going to be relatively straight forward, I was going to rush forward and give him one turn to stop me. I left one squad of speeders and 3 razor backs in reserve (Right now I can’t remember bring on the 4th razorback, I hope I didn’t forget it!)<br />
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Guard 101 really, hide in a corner<br />
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Turn 1<br />
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Seeders and land raider went straight down his throat, the preds managed to shake a gun ship<br />
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So what are the odds of one or two speeders surviving, bugger all that’s what couldn’t make a cover save (This was a theme through the whole game) all 4 died and a pred lost it’s turret.<br />
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Turn 2<br />
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Terminators go in, blow up a couple of chimeras<br />
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The turret less pred moves up to get in the way a bit<br />
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So can the terminators survive to next turn….<br />
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Na not a hope, the land raider was blown up by the first guard with a melta gun, I had hoped it would take a few more shots. Initially the terminators looked like they might just make it but by the end of all the shooting only one was left who charged a guard squad next turn and got beat down before he could do anything to it.<br />
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After this it was just a case of me trying to hold on enough to contest.<br />
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On the left flank they tried to hide<br />
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But failed<br />
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In the middle 2 marines survived till turn six by hiding under the piles of dead, seriously that was it a whole 2 marines<br />
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Needless to say that was a big loss, I hate fighting guard, I really need some decent LOS block terrain and some good cover saves to be in with a fighting chance needless to say I got neither this game.<br />
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Game 6 – Annihilation, Dawn of war 1750<br />
Matt Cook – Demons<br />
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Last game and I drew Matt again this time on a table with even less terrain. I won the roll and let him go first and again the wrong wave showed up.<br />
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I rolled on like this taking out most of a unit of steeds and all the blood letters on the first turn.<br />
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The greater demon died in a hail of heavy bolter fire and the terminators started munching demon princes<br />
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After that I just drove away from most of his army leaving just a couple of squads of plague bearers at the cost of the terminators and 1 razor back<br />
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It was a shame I had to meet Matt again for the last game, I understand why you have to play who your allocated up the top tables but down where we where it wouldn’t make a lot of difference. It was a really bad match up for him but he kept in good humour the whole game, a hard thing to do in that situation, much respect for that.<br />
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So on the whole not a sterling performance from me. The terrain really didn’t help and I made a few blinding mistakes as well (game 3 I kept forgetting to move stuff, and I wasn’t even drinking!).<br />
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Looking at the armies out there I think this lists days are numbered I can’t out manoeuvre the demon lists and I can’t survive in the face of the auto cannon fire with all there fragile speeders.<br />
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Here are some pictures of the armies up for best painted, some really nice stuff there:<br />
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I have put more of them up <a href="http://s1025.photobucket.com/albums/y315/WaltzJunta/Masters%20Open%202011/Painting/">here</a>Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-40683903277045249552011-01-11T14:36:00.000-08:002011-01-11T14:36:07.658-08:00Mycetic Spore Tyranids<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsHfjVgy_me8f65kDLlXspt7IbXBtBuRO0gvBlwZS3sDv1GY5QD4CfaS3THGgB6qeQ7P2Vpg9AJ1HpFSI9BpDBwaYda7utPmpzEF_87sPxYkhTCctFncmewvVsQIxUQzWnYs01exDaj56C/s1600/Cutenids.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsHfjVgy_me8f65kDLlXspt7IbXBtBuRO0gvBlwZS3sDv1GY5QD4CfaS3THGgB6qeQ7P2Vpg9AJ1HpFSI9BpDBwaYda7utPmpzEF_87sPxYkhTCctFncmewvVsQIxUQzWnYs01exDaj56C/s320/Cutenids.gif" width="285" /></a></div><br />
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I have got fed up trying to come up with a new marine list that excites me, I can come up with ones that work but not ones that really inspire me so I have went back to my half finished <span class="mark" id="misspell-2">nids</span>. <br />
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I originally started building a <span class="mark" id="misspell-4">nid</span> army a few weeks before the announcement of the new codex. Once the new codex came out I couldn't find an army that inspired me. The current crop of <span class="mark" id="misspell-6">tyranid</span> lists doing the rounds feel quite boring to me.<br />
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I have decided to give them another shot and try a deep striking <span class="mark" id="misspell-7">nid</span> army.<br />
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Here is the initially 1750 build I am going to try out<br />
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Hive Tyrant - Heavy Venom Cannon, Lash Whip and Bone Sword, Adrenal Glands, Wings, Hive commander<br />
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3 <span class="mark" id="misspell-8">Zoanthrope</span> - <span class="mark" id="misspell-9">Mycetic</span> Spore<br />
Death Leaper<br />
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4 <span class="mark" id="misspell-10">Tyranid</span> Warriors - Death <span class="mark" id="misspell-11">Spitters</span>, <span class="mark" id="misspell-12">Mycetic</span> Spore<br />
8 <span class="mark" id="misspell-13">Genestealers</span> - Toxin Sacs<br />
13 Termagant - Devourer, <span class="mark" id="misspell-14">Mycetic</span> Spore<br />
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<span class="mark" id="misspell-15">Carnifex</span> - 2 Scything Talons, Bio Plasma, Adrenal Glands, <span class="mark" id="misspell-16">Mycetic</span> Spore<br />
<span class="mark" id="misspell-17">Carnifex</span> - 2 Scything Talons, Bio Plasma, Adrenal Glands, <span class="mark" id="misspell-18">Mycetic</span> Spore<br />
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5 <span class="mark" id="misspell-19">Raveners</span><br />
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The Tyrant gives everything +1 to reserve roll so most of the army should come on in the second turn. <span class="mark" id="misspell-20">Zoanthropes</span> for the tank busting and Death Leaper to screw with <span class="mark" id="misspell-21">psyker's</span>. The <span class="mark" id="misspell-22">Tyranid</span> Warriors cause I like the models and they bring synapse and some more firepower. The <span class="mark" id="misspell-23">stealers</span> can out flank to hopefully get a charge off on the second turn. The termagants are expensive at 10 points each but 39 <span class="mark" id="misspell-24">str</span> 4 shots will always prove to be useful. Two <span class="mark" id="misspell-25">Fex's</span> for tin opening and 5 <span class="mark" id="misspell-26">raveners</span> for the same purpose as the <span class="mark" id="misspell-27">stealers</span>.<br />
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On paper the list doesn't look to strong but I have decided to give it a try out anyway and see how it goes.<span class="unmark" id="misspell-cursor"></span> Should make a nice change of pace anyway.<br />
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Quite chuffed with how these all look together, the bases are from Secret weapon.<br />
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Also got Piursk painted up, need to get a few mroe game sin with him but so far he has been working quite well.<br />
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Had a demo game a few weeks ago and loved it. It just feel right, tanks, infantry just work like you would expect them to work.<br />
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To start with I am going to do a mid war American rifle company.<br />
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Here is my starting list:<br />
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1 Company HQ @ 60 pts<br />
2 Carbine team<br />
2 Bazooka team<br />
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1 Rifle Platoon @ 150 pts<br />
1 HQ Section<br />
1 Rifle team<br />
1 Bazooka team<br />
3 Rifle Squad<br />
3 Rifle team<br />
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1 Rifle Platoon @ 150 pts<br />
1 HQ Section<br />
1 Rifle team<br />
1 Bazooka team<br />
3 Rifle Squad<br />
3 Rifle team<br />
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1 Rifle Platoon @ 150 pts<br />
1 HQ Section<br />
1 Rifle team<br />
1 Bazooka team<br />
3 Rifle Squad<br />
3 Rifle team<br />
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1 Weapons Platoon @ 120 pts<br />
1 HQ Section<br />
1 Carbine team<br />
1 Mortar Section<br />
3 M2 60mm mortar<br />
2 Machine-gun Section<br />
2 M1919 LMG<br />
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1 Field Artillery Battery @ 165 pts<br />
1 HQ Section<br />
1 Carbine team<br />
1 Staff team<br />
1 Observer Carbine team<br />
1 Jeep<br />
2 Gun Section<br />
2 M2A1 105mm howitzer (Gun shield; Smoke)<br />
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1 Field Artillery Battery @ 315 pts<br />
1 HQ Section<br />
1 Carbine team<br />
1 Staff team<br />
1 Observer Carbine team<br />
1 Jeep<br />
2 Gun Section<br />
2 M1 155mm howitzer (Bunker Buster; Gun shield; Smoke)<br />
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1 Self-propelled Anti-tank Platoon @ 230 pts<br />
1 HQ Section<br />
1 Carbine team<br />
1 Jeep with .50 cal AA MG<br />
1 .50 cal AA MG<br />
1 Anti-tank Section<br />
1 Carbine team<br />
1 Jeep<br />
2 M10 3in GMC<br />
1 M7 3in gun<br />
1 .50 cal AA MG<br />
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1 Intelligence & Recon Platoon @ 80 pts (Reconnaissance Platoon)<br />
1 HQ Section<br />
1 Carbine team<br />
1 Jeep with .50 cal AA MG<br />
1 .50 cal AA MG<br />
3 I&R Squad<br />
1 Rifle team<br />
1 Jeep<br />
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1 Anti-aircraft Artillery (Self-propelled) Platoon @ 80 pts<br />
1 Automatic Weapons Section<br />
2 T28E1 CGMC (37mm) (Awkward Layout)<br />
1 T28E1 37mm combination mount (Anti-aircraft)<br />
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Total List Cost: 1500<br />
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Infantry is the anvil, the artillery to force the opponent to come to me, some recon to limit their movement and a bit of anti tank and anti air. I have most of the infantry and artillery on order so hopefully I can start playing in the new year.<br />
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In other system I am continuing my quest to make a new 40k list, still playing around with various combinations, not got something I am happy with yet. <br />
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For war machine the painting goes one, currently working on a unit of IFP and it’s sucking the life out of my doing them I really hate painting units of WM infantry. On the once they are out the way I have very little left to paint of my Khador.Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228841259429984010noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5438715192867763366.post-2208247395069314862010-11-21T14:07:00.000-08:002010-11-21T14:07:57.558-08:00Madelyn Corbeau and the KodiakI appear to be on a roll with the painting just now so I am making the most of it.<br />
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Firstly Madelyn <span class="mark" id="misspell-0">Corbeau</span><span class="unmark" id="misspell-cursor"></span>, since I got her she has become a firm favourite of mine for my assassination casters, can't complain about +3" threat. Took me a few goes to get her done every time I would take pictures I would spot something in them that needed tidying.<br />
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Next up is the Kodiak, I picked this up cheap second hand so decided to get it painted, not really used it much yet but will work it into a few lists and see how it does.<br />
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