I snapped a few photos during the day, not too many though… I tend to find that getting my camera out and taking photos breaks the flow of the game. So I nip round during the break to snap some!
Also on the night before, me and Krom had a couple of games against each other using out Wing armies. Good old scrap between Deathwing and Wolfwing, naturally the Deathwing took the victory both times. I’ve included the images taken in that game here too.
The images are all slightly larger than normal, when you click and the viewing window appears, you can click, hold and drag the photo to move around within it. You’ll see what I mean.
I’ll also make a Gallery of all the events I’ve been too shortly!
Also, summarised battle reports will come later in the week when I get the results!
This weekend I’ll be attending the Vapnartak tournament, it’s a small 1000pt tournament with some restrictions on the Force Org-chart, but nothing that changes my army list luckily!
It’s supposed to be a fun tournament, hence the restrictions.
It’s also supposed to be a fast tournament, we only have 80 minutes for each game instead of the usual 2 hours. This is no problem at all to me… I only have 2 units, a Land Raider and a Dreadnought.
Here’s the pictures I tookof my last 1k army, this is my standard army for this level. I occasionally use a different list but this is my well tested army that’s done well in plenty of games.
I had a practice game last night against Tyranids (again, but a different person). Last week I ploughed into them and took them all on in combat, this week, because of the list, I decided to play a game of “cat and mouse”, making hit and run tactics on his units then retreating to the safety of my lines. My opponent had a Swarm Lord with a Tyrant Guard retinue, there was no way I was going near that thing, so I stayed as far away as possible whilst taking out his other units. There were also three Zonathropes, and boy are they nasty.. s10 ap1 lance weapon?! Luckily (and unluckily for my opponent) he didn’t do anything to my LR despite getting three shots at her. Also they’re a total pain to take down, I shot every weapon at them, and it took my two turn to take two wounds and down it. I guess that was just luck on his side.. which he needed after his powers failed to blast a whole in my LR.
Overall it was 5 or 6 killpoints to zero, so an excellent victory for the Deathwing!
This weekend we have 4 games, one of each of the standard missions/deployments, then the old “Cleanse” mission (table quarters).
I feel I shall struggle most with games 1 and 4 (seize ground and cleanse) as I simply don’t have enough units. There are also bonus points for other events that happen, such as killing the most expensive model, or HQ etc.
Overall I think it’ll be a fantastic weekend and I’m looking forward to it!
Also it’ll be the last tournament for my current Deathwing army before they go to their new home, so this makes the event special too!
I tried a few test schemes for my Necrons out, this one was the third and the one I’m going with!
It’s a mix between speed, ease of painting whilst still looking good (to me anyway), which is good as I need to get these done by end of Feb, and with the Deathwing Commission to be completed this month too, it’s going to be a busy month!
Luckily because of the paint scheme I can whack this scheme out no problem, as it’ll be one of those “I have ten minutes spare” jobs between lessons. The majority of the scheme is washes over grey, something I enjoy doing, with the lighting done last using normal colours. Finally a scheme where I don’t need to mix paints! The trickiest part will be getting the lighting in the correct places.
Had a productive day again!
The Battle Force Challenge is going well.. sort of, I’ve assembled all the Warriors, both Heavy Destroyers, the Scarabs and the Destroyer Lord. The Lord on foot is WIP and the Immortals are just awaiting their guns, the flayed ones aren’t assembled yet, but they’ll be quick to do.
For reference here’s what I can build from my Battleforce. The idea is the build whatever you can using only the contents of the box, there’s no points limit, but you must have at least 1 HQ and 1 Troops.
Lord
– Destroyer Body
– Lightning Field
– Gaze of Flame
– Nightmare Shroud
– Warscythe
= 210
Lord
– Resurrection Orb
– Veil of Darkness
– Staff of Light
= 200
6 Flayed ones
– Claws
= 108
6 Immortals
– Gauss Blaster
= 168
12 Warriors
– Gauss Flayer
= 216
10 Scarabs Swarms
– Disruption Fields
= 160
Heavy Destroyer
– Heavy Gauss Cannon
= 65
Heavy Destroyer
– Heavy Gauss Cannon
= 65
At the moment my main contenders are a Space Marine force with a Librarian and the contents of the box, a Chaos force with 2 Lash lords, Chosen, plague marines and Berserkers and a Ravenwing force with Sammy in his speeder, 6 bikes and a chaplain on bike instead of the attack bike. I heard that someone has done the Space Wolf force with 4 Wolf Lords though.. which will be fun to face. I’ve taken heavy Destroyers to tackle characters, their Strength 9 ap3 guns should make short work of any characters who decide to hang around on their own, as they’ll be little vehicles on the board.. thankgod the Imperial Guard force doesnt come with a Russ anymore! The hardest thing I’ll have to face will be Sammy, I plan to chase him down with my Scarabs!
Here are some pictures of today’s progress:
The main problem with converting Necrons is they’re tiny.. a slight slip with your knife and you end up with a gash in your finger! Sort of what happened to me today! So I couldn’t finish off the Immortals…
Tomorrow I’m back onto Terminators, hopefully we’ll see some Land Raiders this week!
Yesterday all my classes were cancelled, so I thought I’d finish of a project of my own.
I say finish.. but it’s 95% done. All that’s left is to sculpt some cloaks/robes coming from the crew. So far I’m really happy with how this model has turned out!
I used what was left of Sgt Chronus (UM techmarine dude..) and the rest of the metal bits were nabbed from the Master Jetbike. As mentioned all that’s left to do is sculpt some robes!
++FROM THE WARP++