Hey gang,

 

I just got back from my third league game tonight. I won’t go into that much detail, as I am going to write a BATREP. Though I must say, WOW what a nail bitter. I Fought a Dante assault force from the Blood Angels. The army was fully painted and since we played a night before the actual league night, we had terrain. My opponent played a very sound and strategic game, but the Eldar had already searched the fates and found victory! Look for the BATREP
in the next day or so. Till then,

 

Keep rolling the dice!!

NOVA 2013 INBOUND!!!!

  Its official, I’m going to NOVA 2013! That’s right I will be dueling it out in the DC area once again. This will be my second time going to this event and I’m pretty stoked.  My first NOVA experience was in 2011 during the Hurricane.  It was well worth the 12 hour drive up Columbus, GA. Besides the Nice drive up, The Hotel was great. Top notch stay. I especially love the way NOVA host’s their GT. The bracket system after day one places you with your experience group or there about. So if you went 4-0 or 0-4, the next day you play people with the same score! This way it is still worth playing the next day, even though you won’t be GT champ.

  Also to make the NOVA great was the hundreds of raffles they gave out. You got more chance to win if you stayed at the Hotel, lost games, and just showed up! I mean every time you finished a game, you checked the white board….and Bam new list of name with goodies waiting on them!! So if the dice god’s left you, there was always something to win. I even got a goodie bag!!

  So I am looking forward to another great weekend hosted by Mike Brandt and his group of dedicated volunteers. Not only was it a great GT, but a great time had by all. So now my Hobby overdrive is in full NOVA gear. I still am waiting on a few things for my New Mech Guard force. The biggest is my paint from Badger. Next are the few models I ordered already. I really want to take a bit more time in doing this force. I want a little more FW bits to give the army its elite feel. I currently have my Chimeras and a Leman Russ on its way. So once this arrives and my paints..game on!

So as of now here is the List:

IG MECH GUARD:

Primaris Psyker

Vet Squad- PF SGT, 3x Melta, Chimera

Vet Squad-PF SGT, 3X Melta, Chimera

Vet Squad- PP SGT, 3XPlasma, Chimera

Vet squad- PP SGT, 3X Plasma, Chimera

Vendetta

Vendetta

Leman Russ Demolisher Pask

Leman Russ B-Tank (Pask Squadron)

Leman Russ Demolisher (Alone)

Manticore

So There it is. I swapped a few things out from my last list. Gave the Vet Sgt's a way to knock out Marines and such. Give me some input please!

Keep rolling them dice!

Week 2 League Play!!

 

Hey all,

Sorry for the delay on the feedback from the escalation league. For those who are not up to par, the league started at a surprising 1500 points. I am used to the point’s level starting at 750 to allow newcomers to collect armies over time. Though I do like that you aren’t playing skirmish size games for the first few weeks.  So you are randomly matched up with one of the 28 participating players per secession. Once you have been paired, you roll for the normal deployment and primary mission from the rule book. The refreshing part of each game is you roll for your secondary and tertiary mission on a premade chart. There are things such as more units in deployment, control terrain and table quarters. One that I like is you roll a d6 and you get a forge org slot (I.e. fast attacks, troops ect.). That is the force org slot you must wipe out to receive the points for the objective. Kind of cool if you ask me! Ok on to the game.

 I drew a Blood Angels player who name has been lost to the warp. He was kind of new to the game and had a mix of units. From what I remember he had:

Dante

2x Sang Guard

2x Sang Priest (one being the Brother upgrade dude)

2X tactical squads one in Rhino1X Storm Raven

Kind of small and pricey but that blasted Storm Raven would be my Bane!

My list in a quick round up consists of:

Farseer

2X 5 fire Dragons (1 squad in serpent)

3X 6 man Dire Avengers (all in serpents)

2X Vypers

2x Fire prisms

1x Falcon

The vehicle weapons all had mostly Shuriken Cannon with a few scatter lasers and Star cannons. The Farseer was stripped down and had only guide and two of the three stones. The Dire Avengers had an Exarch and he they had Bladestorm. Ok, enough of the lists onto the game. We rolled Dawn of war as our setup. Terrain was scattered, typical random game store terrain. Our mission was Purge the Alien. Secondary was Control the enemy’s deployment zone and the third was kill the enemy force org that was generated. I generated his elites and he generated my Heavy.

 
took the first turn and deployed pincer style with my prisms behind a large Fantasy style house.  The Serpents and vipers hung on the flanks ready to speed forward. He then deployed one Tactical in the open center board, and the rhino next to them. He held the raven in reserve as well as his secondary squad of Sang guard.
 

Turn 1.

With no night fight, fortuned my Prism and send my flankers speeding to his flanks. I blasted his tightly huddled tact squad with a prism blast that I beefed up with his wing mans help. I killed only 3 out of 8 hit thanks to feel no pain…grr. I also glanced the rhino once. Besides that I was not too happy with my turn one. My opponent moved his tact squad forward and his rhino moved toward the left flank and fire his storm bolter at my viper but failed to glance. Overall, a very lame turn 1.

 

Turn 2.

This turned out to be a better round for me. I once again fortuned my prism and shuffled my flankers around. I blasted the tact squad on foot to the last man, as well as killing his Sang priest. I also destroyed his Rhino and the embarked squad became pinned. In his turn he got his Raven in from reserves but not his other Sang guard. Dante jumped out of the raven with his Sang Guard quad just next to a serpent with Dragons in it. They shot 5 fusion pistols into the said serpent and it went down in a ball of fire. The embarked squad only lost one fire dragoon.  They passed their pin test.

Turn 3.

I kept up the fire with my fortuned Prism and killed two Sang Guard in Dante’s squad. I also killed Dante and his upgraded Sang priest with the blast since it was STR 10 AP 1.The dragons shot into the squad as well turning the last one into dust. I finished off the last of the tact Squad that started on foot as well as knocking out two marines from the freshly dismounted squad. On his turn he got his last Sang Guard squad in and dropped them behind one of my serpents. They fired their Fusion pistols but all he could manage was a glance! Close call. His raven moved forward and destroyed a Serpent with Avengers in it. All but two died in the explosion. They passed the pin test. He fired his Plasma cannon at a serpent but failed to pen.

Turn 4.

I turned my attention to the raven and dismounted my dragons in the falcon and tried to shoot it down. I managed one hit but only glanced. No other weapon hit the dang thing. As for his newly arrived squad I sent a prism blast into it and killed two. I also dismounted the avengers from the serpent he glanced last turn. They bladestormed the Sang Guard and failed to kill even one. The rest of the Army harassed his other Tactical squad. He then moved his Raven and attempted to blast my Starcannon mounted Serpent. He penned it but I jinked the shot with a 6…Oh yah!! His Sang guard shot into the Avengers and then assaulted the squad. I quickly just picked up the remaining 2 and he consolidated. His Tactical squad continued to push forward and failed to do anything with the Plasma Cannon.

Turn 5.

Night fight kicked in but all the units are no further than 12 inches from each other. I shot the prism into his Guard finishing the rest off. The rest of the force targeted the Raven and the tact Squad, failing to do anything big. He then shot at another Serpent but failed to pen! His last squad also took out my Vyper with bolter fire. The game ended with a roll of a 2.

So the Final roll up. I killed 5 VP and he got 4vp. I also had one unit in his deployment zone. I also killed his two priests so that game me a clean sweep. I won’t get all proud though. I left out a lot of coaching to my opponent. He was very new and had never played a flyer. He actually wanted to deep strike it in plain sight of my prisms. Still he finally got it and went on an ass kicking flight with his Raven. All his VP besides one came from the Storm Ravens fire. I liked my list. It was balanced but performed well against power armor. I took those Prisms knowing the group is power Armor heavy. I plan on keeping it the same for next week. It has plenty of templates as well as fire power. I still am a diehard vehicle player and HP won’t keep me down!! I do see me having trouble with large hoard army’s and Daemons. Luckily for me there are only 1 daemon player and very little Nids and Orks!! Well Till next time.

Keep rolling those dice

 

Tankertodd

ELDAR HOOOO!!

So today I am going to be taking part in a escalation league at a local store called Game Hounds. its located in Manhattan, KS about a few minutes drive from where I am at. I have stopped in and scoped it out after I moved. Its a video game gone gaming. They took over for  another store that went out of business, and is the main supporter for games in the area. A little tight but overall not a bad little place to get some pick up games in.

  As I said I'm joining their Friday night (Move over MTG) league play. Its starting out at 1500 pts and is allowing 40K approved FW stuff. Seeing that I don't have me standard competitive Guard to play....enter the Eldar. I saved this Army since they are due for a new codex in the next 1,000 years or so and well I need a Xeno force! My buddy George N. painted them up sweet and gave them some Airbrush love. So what am I taking here is the list..

1500 Pts -

HQ: Farseer (1 , 103 pts)

Elite: Fire Dragons (6 , 180 pts)Wave Serpent

Elite: Fire Dragons (6 , 180 pts)

Wave Serpent

 

Troops: Dire Avengers (7 , 224 pts)

Wave Serpent Troops: Dire Avengers (7 , 229 pts)
Wave Serpent

Troops: Dire Avengers (7 , 229 pts)

Wave Serpent

Fast Attack: Vyper Squadron (1 , 60 pts)

Fast Attack: Vyper Squadron (1 , 60 pts)
Fast Attack: Vyper Squadron (1 , 60 pts)

Heavy Support: Dark Reapers (5 , 175 pts)

Total Cost: 1500

So basically I plan on just guiding the Dark reapers from the back field and zooming the rest around. Well we will have to see how the Space elves fare! I will post some pics and Batreps of the nights fight. Till then

keep rolling the dice!!

And so it begins!

Hey loyal servants of the emperium, or those Xenos scum tuning in. Well it has started. I decided to make this Blogg to kind of document my hobby. sharing projects and various nonsense while playing 40K. I plan on blogging at least once a week to update everyone on what I am working on. I have a few projects in the works right now. one being remaking my Mech guard. I recently sold two out of three of my armies...I know booo...hisss. There where a few factors, first being I moved. Now that I am set back up its game on. Second, well I needed to start over and put all the experience I have into a new force.I wanted a awesome some looking and at the same time unique force to show. I really want this new force to be rock solid and classy. So how will it be different....well tune in periodically and you will see. I also hope to do some "How to" articles as well. well enough for tonight...Till next time, Keep rolling them dice!