Exams and Slowness

    Oh hi there blog, I guess I haven't been seeing you much.
    Exams are done so it's back to warhammer time.  Today I put a bit more paint on some dark eldar warriors, and I have a third pain token marker in the works.
    The way our glacial (<- pacing, not theme) map campaign works is that you attack with your own armies and some places are defended with random made up armies if they aren't defended by another player's army.  I finally did my second attack with my army and beat those darn Brettonians last week.  It wasn't really a close game, as he was worn down to 1700 points and I had built my army up to a double hydra 2700 point monstrosity.  I ended up charging a 100ish man men-at-arms block with both hydras and a squad of witch elves, and that was basically the game.  I think after Christmas we may have to have a bit of a reform in the rules that speeds the pace up a little.  I also kind of want this thing to end, as I am really more interested in playing 40K right now.
    No pictures in this post, but if everything works out and I stay motivated I'm hoping to finally have the warriors and their raider done by the end of January.

There is, of course, one more important thing that has to be said here:
Merry Christmas!

Better late then never: Winter War report!

Howdy there internet, do I have a story for you!  On November 26th I attended a 40k tournament at the Sentry Box.  The interesting twist was that it was a spearhead game!  For those unaware of how these work, you can get the rules for FREE from the Games-Workshop website. My army list is in the previous blog post.
In the week before the tournament, I had to build and paint a Manticore, and a Colossus cannon.  Here are some pictures so you know I'm not just making this up.

                 Sprayed and ready to go.  The cannon was made out of the deathstrike missile and some other tank bits.

Catachan 516th Artillery Company

Time for the army list!  Having a subtle lack of anti tank weapons is a bit of an unfortunate theme with my Imperial Guardsmen, but I'm thinking this should be fun.  Also, I plan to get my Colossus Cannon and my Manticore spray painted tonight so I can start painting them tomorrow or Friday.

Quick Update

Hey there, looks like this blog has stalled as badly as our map campaign!  Here's a quick recap of all the gaming that has gone on since mythacon:
1) I won an awesome game using my dark eldar against my friend, who was trying out a conversion beamer grey knight list
2) I lost my first attack in the map campaign despite having a 500 point advantage against the defending Brettonians, and failed to defend towns against two different attacking lizardy armies.  When defending, I tried out Skaven (Clan Skyre-ish) and a high elf phalanx and enjoyed both games quite a bit.
3)Midterms!  These are probably the reason we haven't got much map campaigning in over the last couple of weeks.
4)Next weekend is the Winter War tournament at the Sentry Box, and the format for 40K is 1850 point spearhead.  I did a practice game against Chris's space wolves, and just barely lost due to my sentinal finally dying on the last turn.  To prepare for the tournament, I need to paint a few guys, build and paint a manticore, and convert my Gryphon into a Colossus.
5)Skyrim!  This might make it difficult to get everything ready for the tourney, but hopefully I can ignore this game long enough to get stuff done.  I probably played about 24 hours over the course of the long weekend, do I can probably do with a break now.

Aren't lists fun!  Pictures of the guardsmen should go up as I get stuff done over the week, along with the army list.

Mythacon Fantasy Tournament

Hi again!  Today's post deals with the Mythacon Fantasy doubles tournament.  Unfortunately, I didn't bring my camera out for this one so I'll have to keep it brief.
Once again I was subbing in for The Friend Who Couldn't Make It.  This meant that I got to pilot a Warriors of Chaos list consisting of:
1 Lv4 tzeench wizard with items that help him cast
1 Lv1 nurgle wizard with puppet
15 chaos warriors with mark of nurgle, halberds and shields.
5 knights of khorne
5 knights of khorne.

My partner had a Beasts of Chaos list that also followed the same basic battle plan of charge in and kill everything:
1 Minotaur Lord with some magic weapon
1 Minotaar battle standard bearer
4 minotaurs with full command
4 chariots

Mythacon 40k Tournament

Myth-a-con 2011 40K doubles tournament report

Fastest Fantasy Fracas

I guess I have to keep the posts going to keep my viewers interested.  Today I did a quick 2000 point fantasy game to get used to using warriors of chaos.  I'm going to be filling in for a friend who can't make it to a doubles tournament due to farming issues, and I get to use the army he made.  I boosted it from 1250 point to 2000 by adding some small units: 2 units of axe throwing horsemen, a slaanesh pleasure giant, and two units of seven forsaken.  The rest of the army was a couple of wizards in a unit of warriors and two units of five khorne knights.

I was playing against my partner for the tournament's beastmen army, which was basically an eight man minotaur unit (six plus general and battle standard bearer) supported by a couple of other units.

To cut a short story even shorter, we played blood and glory and I won on turn one.  His minotaurs failed their frenzy test twice, bsb re-roll didn't help, then charged my scouting unit of marauder horsemen and pursued another five inches.  This allowed me double charge (flank and front) with both chaos knight units.  I won the combat by nine and ran him down.

Is there a moral to this story?  It is hard to say, but I think we both learned valuable lessons from this to use in the upcoming tournament.  Don't fail frenzy tests, and use chaos knights to kill everything.

New Blog, New Dark Eldar

Hi everybody, and welcome to my blog.  To start things off let's look at some of the warhammer I've been painting.  First off some shots of the first three warriors I have done.