My Sternguard. My crappy photography really doesn't do these models justice as i think they are the best looking unit in the army so far.
Thursday 30 April 2009
Month 2 Gareth and the Blood Ravens 5th
My Sternguard. My crappy photography really doesn't do these models justice as i think they are the best looking unit in the army so far.
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Month 2 - Ork 'Windmill' Objective
So I was rummaging around my bits box and found the Ork tent thing from the Warhammer battle for skulls pass set. And next to it a set of rotor blades from a plastic deffcopter. The lightbulb came on and quicker than you can say Big Mek's monkey wrench I had built a windmill effegy to Gork and Mork. Since this was made during the tale of three gamers I have added blood raven and eldar helmets to show off trophies.
So without further ado I present the Gork 'n' Mork Windmill. Locknut and his boyz believe the faster it spins the more Gork and Mork are favouring them. A full pelt spin means it's Waaaaaah time!
Vic
Month 2 - Blu'er and Hord'ier
As mentioned in the battle against the Avatar and Wraithlord, I struggled to wound these beasts. In fact I only had one rokkit launcha at strength 8, that was it! And to top the steep learning curve I charged the Wraithlord with a unit of ten boyz but only after finding out that strength 4 against toughness 10 Wraithlords meant that no wounds could even be made (the Nob also rolled a spectacular '2' and '1's to hit)
So with that in mind I painted up a unit of Lootas:
5 isin't a large number of boyz and neither is their BS2! but with 48" range and strength 7 at least I stood a chance at damaging the Wraithlord from afar.
Next, to add more shooty killyness I modelled up a unit of three killa kans with rokkit launchas. I'm really proud of the rokkit launchas conversion as they were simply snipped off of plastic deffkoptas and fitted into plasticard tubes. They just look the part.
And the last thing to do was to add another healthy dose of 20 boyz with shootas this time.
Taking my quota this month to 395 points (the spare 5 points I will use to upgrade one of the killakans with grot riggers or something) I also get 10 points for winning a battle last month too.
Month 1 Scores
Win against Gareth - 5pts
Draw against Foxy - 3pts
Models painted on time - 5pts
Month 1 total = 13pts
Gareth
Loss against Vic - 1pt
Draw against Foxy - 3 pts
Models painted on time - 5pts
Month 1 total = 9pts
Foxy
Draw against Vic - 3pts
Draw against Gareth - 3pts
Models painted on time - 0pts
Month 1 total = 6pts
Overall standings
1st = Vic - 13pts
2nd = Gareth - 9pts
3rd = Foxy - 6pts
Month 1 battle reports Vs Foxy
After the dust had settled closer inspection of the Foxy's list revealed that he had fielded 155 points over the 400 points per side limit for this months battles. Quite a sigificant advantage at this points level. Because of this both battles were declared a draw earning all generals 3 points each.
(above) Three killkans struggling to inflict any damage at all on the Wraithlord and Avatar (despite both being armless!)
However this did not cover up the fact that the two units responsible for the Ork and Blood Raven's defeat were the Eldar Wraithlord and Avatar, which could have been fielded legitimately. These high strength high toughness monsters proved very difficult to destroy! (In fact we didn't managed to kill them in either game)
Foxy month 1 painting quota
Month 1 battle reports Vic vs Gareth
(above) This was the set up on a 2x4 ft board the amazing firebase as the centre piece with the Blood ravens deployed on the left and Orks on the right. The base objectives were the green crystals.
(above) Turns 1 and 2 saw the Blood ravens advance as the Orks held within cover.
(above) As Pedro Kantor counts as model (Gareth hasn't named him yet) surged forwards the Orks broke from cover. Successful shooting by the killa kans took a wound of Kantor.
(above) Mig Mek Lock nut urged his boyz to mob the wounded space marine hero who falls under repeated hammerings from the back of an axe handle. Meanwhile in the North of the battlefield the other two killa kans add suppressive fire to allow the second Ork boys to advance round to the objective.
(above) Now was the time for a new hero to be born, the blood ravens sergeant stood firm as the consolidating Orks (after slaughtering Kantor) crashed into his combat squad. All the marines fell, but he hit back over-running eight ork boyz single handedly. Locknut managed to away (a tactic employed to ensure he could fight again of course!). The Ork momentum carried on the Northside as the second objective was wiped clear of marines.
Battle conclusion:
Gareth's flag - captured
Vic's flag - uncontested
= Win to Vic
Vic's thoughts:
It was my very first outing with the Orks and boy was I surprised at seeing how outnumbered the marines were. Fielding the three killa kans seperately allowed for them to switch around the firebase to provide covering fire.
I thought the battle was actually quite close if it had been a standard combat mission because of the late slaughter at the end by the Blood Raven's sergeant. This showed how vulnerable the Orks were in a prolonged battle against marines withouth their furious charge.
Overall a thoroughly enjoyable battle and refreshing to play at such a low points level. (Our regular gaming group has been playing 2000pts+ per player appocalypse for the last five games so this was quite a downscale!)
Gareth's thoughts:
What can i say? I once again fell into the trap of painting up models that look pretty but make no sense on the field of battle. In hindsight i could of fielded a standard Force Commander the 2 Combat squads and a Dreadnought or a couple of Land Speeders for my points. But what do i do? Spend all my time painting a 170 point Pedro Kantor (or bob as he will be known as until i can figure a better sounding name). Lets face it i was up against it. However thats not to take anything away from Vic and his green horde as they fight as good as they look. I don't think i could of done anything different given the troops (or lack of) under my command. Simply, Vic did what Vic does best and played to his armies strengths (in this case numbers) which is something i am trying to learn but then lovely new models come into stock and tactics go out of the window! Anyway, i have a few more things in the pipeline for month 2 so watch this space! Their will be xenos blood spilt!
Gareth month 1 painting quota
Monday 6 April 2009
Month 1 - The green and blue horde begins!
1 x Big Mek with Kustom forcefield and burna
1 x Unit of Ork boyz with Rokkit launcha and Nob and powerklaw. (split into two units of ten boyz for the 400 point games to fulfill the 2 troop quota on the force organisation chart.)
3 x Unit of killa kanz and big shootas (fielded as three seperate Heavy units at 400 points)
Here are close ups of the Ork Boyz
And the scratchbuilt killa kanz. Although not specifically painted as deathskulls at the moment, the blue was added after painting the browns as suggested in my last post as I had plenty of Ultramarines Blue lying around so in Orky fashion I'll do. (more on the way next month and a scratchbuilt deffdread coming too)