Tournament Ontological Persistence 2014 Report

Another year, another tournament.  Like always the TOP crew put on a great event.  If you need a refresher on my army list follow this link: Army List

Things with legs. 

Tournament Overt Paranoia 2014: The Army List

Time for the army list.  This tournament has the dubious honour of being my first event with the new Imperial Guard book and my last event of 6th edition 40K.  The limits on army list construction can be found in the link below, but the only one that really matters for me is that this is an 1850 point tournament.

http://www.tournamentop.com/

Tournament Octagonal Pentagon 2014: IT BEGINS

Another year, another flurry of blog posts!  This year's Tournament OP is a month away and it's time to get my 40k act together again.  I've been playing practice games to see if my new Catachan force can take on the competition and I'm thinking they are up for the challenge.  But first, I've got to paint some stuff!

Pictures after the break.

Theorycraft 2: Threorycraft harder!

So with another lovely Saturday* night arriving it's time for theorycraft!  Today we are looking at the Chaos Space Marine version of my Knights of the Broken Sword army list.

Theorycraft 1: Loyal Knights of the Broken Sword

Hey there internet, guess who is still alive!

I haven't got any tabletop gaming in a long time, so to build up intrest for myself and my friends I have been throwing together various army lists.  I thought it might be cool to share them on the 'net, so you get to see them too along with some of my thought process!

TEAM OP 2013 Report

The funny thing about setting deadlines on your own blog is that there isn't really much of an incentive to follow them.  That being said, I am sorry to all my loyal viewers who were forced to wait longer than I said they would.
With that out of the way, let's take a look at my Team OP experience!
Here's a link to my army list.

Game 1: Cityfighting against the Cadian Airbourne Division

TEAM OP 2013 picture dump

Last weekend I had a great time at the Team OP tournament!  It's going to be a couple of days before the final scores for everyone is released, so I'm going to wait until then for a full write up.  To tide you over, here are a bunch of pictures I got of the 40k armies people brought, plus the winners of the painting contests.

Team OP 2013 army background piece

We were asked to submit some sort of theme writing with our army lists in the Team OP tournament.  Here is mine:

+++/Username:

/set{user=LuPaul37c8}

+++/Password:

/set{password=P455W()rd}

+++/Password accepted, welcome to the Segmentum Obscurus Long Range Vox Network

+++/Thought for the day --- A flogging a day keeps the heretics at bay.

+++/Awaiting Command:

/set{recipient=Schola Progenium}

+++/Message recipient set to Schola Progenium

+++/Awaiting Command

/begin{message}

            Lords of the Schola Progenium, I have urgent need of information on the Adeptus Astartes chapter known as the Knights of the Broken Sword.  Though Colonal Straken has pushed aside my warnings I believe that these Space Marines may be agents of the Great Enemy.  Their armour appears to contain a chaotic mix of different styles and ages, and some even sport horns and the dreaded eight pointed star of Chaos.  The fact that they have the resources to run and maintain a Land Raider is especially worrying, and goes against their claims that they have been away from their manufactorum facilities and forced to scavenge their equipment. 

            Additionally, I have heard rumours from the men that these heretics have plans to deliver some sort of weapon to Holy Terra itself.  I was unable to determine the name of their leader, as it appears to be guarded by some form of cypher.  This potential threat to the Emperor himself only underscores the importance that this mystery is quickly investigated.

            Colonal Straken and the rest of these barbarous Catachans seem only too happy to work alongside the Knights of the Broken Sword, so commissar Varrus and I have been forced to go along with this in order to keep a close eye on the purity and dedication of the men. I will continue to send reports as the Colonal uses, or is used by, these ‘allies’.

-Senior Commissar Lucius Paullus

THE EMPEROR PROTECTS

/end{message}

+++/Send message?

/set{send=yes}

+++/Sending Message

+++/Transmission failed.  Signal jammed. 

+++/Remote override enabled.

+++/Awaiting remote command.

/begin{Self-destruct}

Team OP 2013: Preparation Complete

The painting is done, and I've got the pictures to prove it!

Group shot of the marines, with leaders front and centre! 

Team OP 2013, painting update!

What's this, posts on consecutive days?!?
That's right, time for an update on my painting progress.  I've managed to get the initial coats of green and metal done on the chimera:

Looks a bit streaky, needs more paint.