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.
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Sunday, 13 November 2011
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.
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.
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
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
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
Saturday, 24 September 2011
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
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.
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.
Sunday, 7 August 2011
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.
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