Rampaging all over the place

Well it’s been a couple of weeks and due to real life (rugby, grand prix, couple of heavy nights out) I’ve not really done as much as I would have liked. I’ve managed to build a few extra bits and also placed yet another Forge World order for the last of the bits I need, a Spartan and a Typhon :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the painting front I’ve done the Rampager Squad, I can honestly say that they were a pleasure to paint, bags and bags of character throughout. There was stuff I wasn’t noticing until actually putting paint on them, like the guy with the swollen eye, I really enjoyed putting paint on these guys, I think they’ll stand out pretty well within the whole force.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve also got the first of the 2 characters done. I wanted a pretty stoic looking face so had a look through some Plogs on Warseer to see if I could find one that would suit and low and behold it was a friend of mine, Rev, who’s log sprung up the one I thought would be most suitable. The good old terminator sergeant head, just the right look I was after. You’ll notice that the Centurion hasn’t got any blood smeared on him at the moment, not really sure if I want to add some, I’d appreciate some feedback and thoughts on this. Does he need it and why etc.

 

And as I mentioned above I’ve also kept on building stuff, the first of the 2 Contemptor Dreadnoughts (currently on the painting table) and the 2^nd huge Tactical squad. All that leaves to build now is the Destroyer Squad, the Heavy Weapons Squad, a Praetor, the 2^nd Contemptor, a Land Raider Phobos, a Spartan and last but by no means least the Typhon. So 19 marines and dreadnought and 3 tanks, it looks a lot but hopefully it won’t take long. On the back of this stuff I also have the remainder of Craigs World Eaters to do as well! Best get building and painting!!

 

June Judgement Part 2

Sorry, not really got many pics for this post.

So game 2 was against Chef with his 5 (yes I did say 5) Techmarine list, the basics of the list were as follows;

Master of the Forge x2, 1 has a Conversion Beamer, both have servitors, 1 unit with Plasma Cannons, 1 with Multimeltas.

1 Ironclad Dreadnought in Drop Pod

2x Dreadnoughts with dual Autocannons
2x 5 Regular Scouts
1x 5 Sniper Scouts
1x Storm Talon
2x Land Speeder Storms
3x Thunderfire Cannons

Game was The Emperors Will with Hammer and Anvil deployment. In hindsight I gave Chef the wrong deployment side(I had the choice), I really should pay more attention to peoples lists at first look. Through the report the turns might not be quite right but it there or there about.

So my turn one I dropped in and pretty much did nothing L, well that wasn’t a good start although in return I probably lost 8 or nine marines and crucially didn’t give away First Blood, so turn 2 comes and just my Wolf Guard Arrive, that’s not so bad as at least it means I get a chance to have a pop at his Ironclads rear armour, manage to get 2 hull points off of it. Along with that I manage to clear the Sniper Scouts off of an objective, the Lord got rid of a Dreadnought but as a result was down to one wound (ouch!), and the other squads that came down in the first wave killed all of his Warlords servitors and were now locked in combat with the Warlord.

His Turn 2 saw none of his reserves arrive, the Ironclad and Thunderfire Cannons killed enough Grey Hunters to force a break check which unfortunately meant the left the board (much to my disgust), I think this was the turn I killed his warlord as well, might have been the following combat phase, memory’s getting a bit hazy. It also saw 2 of my Wolf Guard die.

 
My Turn 3 both of my other pods arrived, both towards his back line, one actually scattered 9 inches to where I would have preferred it which meant everything could get on to the rear armour of his 2^nd Dreadnought, he’d also brought one of his Techmarines down to try and shoot out my Lord the previous turn, the result of this turn saw the last Wolf Guard chuck a speculative Krak grenade at the rear of the Ironclad to see it go boom :D, the squad that just arrived did for the other Dreadnought and the lord did for the Techmarine that had tried to take him out the previous turn.

All of Chefs reserves arrived this turn, both Speeders with their Scouts came on his short board edge and the Storm Talon zoomed on the board, he managed to kill the last of the 3 Wolf guard, 6 of the ten strong unit that had taken out the Dreadnought the previous turn and a couple of the marines from the other squad that had just arrived but that was pretty much it.

Turn four saw me take out both LS Storms and all bar 3 of the scouts that fell out of them, I managed to get into combat with one of the Thunderfire Techmarines which stopped that shooting but failed the charge for the other. He managed to kill another couple of marines with the Storm Talon and I think one more from the heavily Depleted Squad at the other side of the board.

And that was pretty much it, the game ended at this point due to time, I think that was more down to us taking a bit of time to get started rather than playing slowly. Purely down to the couple of marines that Chef managed to kill I never had any objectives, I did however have all 3 secondary’s  to nothing for him so a 3-0 win to me, I also managed to get one of my secret missions.

 
Game 3 and final game of the event I was up against Martyn Powelland his Tyranids, his list was something like this (you’ll need to forgive me, I don’t know where things fit into the nids slots)game, Vanguard Strike, Purge the Alien;
 

Swarmlord

2 Units of Genestealers with Broodlords
2 Units of Termagaunts
2x Tervigons
2x Trygons
1x 3 Hive Guard
Doom of Malantye (sp) in a Mysetic Spore

His set up;

I for the life of me can’t remember the size of the units, this is how the game went, me first, 4 pods consisted of 2 Rune Priest+ Wolf Guard+Grey Hunters, 1 Lord +Wolf Guard with Combi Flamer+Grey Hunters, 1 unit of the 10 Grey Hunters unit. On the initial drop I killed one Tervigon, a couple of Guants and all the Genestealers bar the Broodlords who both took 1 wound. He managed to kill 5 of the Lords unit and Spawn 16 Guants (there was a double in there too), there was also 5 of one of the Rune Priests squad killed in combat which caused that unit to run. Taking a small step back in this turn, due to the Lords unit taking so many casualties it forced a break test, this was a bit of a crucial stage of the game. They failed the test which meant that the Trygon, Swarmlord and Broodlord that were shaping up to charge never got in, if they had it would have put a completely different spin on the game.

Turn 2 saw a Grey Hunter pack and the Wolf Guard arrive, I pretty much surrounded the Swarmlord and proceded to shoot him to death, I also managed to get both Broodlords this turn and the 2^nd Tervigon. His turn 2 saw one Trygon kill a Rune Priest and the remnants of his squad and for the life of me I can’t remember what the other Trygon did this turn, potentially he killed the 3 Wolf Guard that had just come in I also lost another couple of marine to the Hive Guard.

 

 

Turn 3 saw the last squad come in from reserve, they helped to get rid of the Hive Guard along with the other larger squad that was left, the Lord along with Remnants managed to get the last Trygon which meant all he was left with was the large squad of Guants that the Tervigon had Spawned in the first turn. Fortunately the Doom arrived this turn for him and proceeded to do what the Doom does best, pics are of my turn 3 start and finish.

 

Over the next couple of turns the Doom done what it does best, along with the pod it managed to kill a whole squad of Grey Hunters and the rest of the lords squad, the Drop Pods killed the Mysetic Spore and the Lord finished off the Doom after he had helped kill the last of the Guants. I think the game ended at the end of my turn 5 and resulted in a 17-7 victory to me. This was a list that really scared me, it’s the main reason I put the high strength stuff in and really why the Lord is there in the first place, so a good result and I feel vindicated in a few of my choices.

So the end result for the event was a 3^rd place for me, the best I’ve done in a while, so really chuffed, as I said in my previous post, the event ran really smoothly, I’ll definitely be attending in the future.

June Judgement

So on Saturday the 15th June I attended a local (ish) tournament at Salisbury Legion Wargames club, June Judgement. The event was 1 day 1750 points with 3/1/0 scoring system which also included secret missions that gave you 1 tournament point for each, VPs were used for tie break.

Got up nice and early on a Saturday morning for the drive over, it takes about 40 mins to get there from where I currently live so it's not too bad. I've been over to Salisbury a couple of times, I parked in the centre of town the first time I went over but have recently started using the park and ride as it's much less stressful than trying to drive around the one way system and certainly much cheaper than parking in town all day, It's free, all you have to pay is your fare into town which is £2.50 return, parking in town starts from around £7.50 all day.

The event itself was run at the Royal British Legion which is pretty much in the town centre so it's nice and easy to just pop out for lunch, as you can imagine the town has all the usual take aways etc. the local GW is also about 50m away just in case you need any supplies quickly.

So on to the tournament itself, as I've mentioned it was a one day event at 1750 points with 3 games and secret missions, as you all probably know I'm currently running the Drop Pod Wolves, here's the list I used;

HQ

Wolf Lord; Thunder Hammer, Storm Shield, Saga of the Bear, Wolf Tail Talisman, Runic Armour

Rune Priest, Chooser of the Slain, Force Stave

Rune Priest, Force Stave

 

Elites

Wolf Guard;   7 ,6x Combi Meltas, 1x Combi Flamer, 2x Power Swords, Drop Pod

Troops

Grey Hunters 1; 8, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Drop Pod

Grey Hunters 2; 8, Meltagun, Wulfen Drop Pod

Grey Hunters 3; 8, Meltagun, Power Fist, Drop Pod

Grey Hunters 4; 8, Meltagun, Power Fist, Drop Pod

Grey Hunters 5; 10, Flamer/Meltagun, Wulfen, Drop Pod

Grey Hunters 6; 10, Flamer/Meltagun, Drop Pod

 

So game one I was facing John Stewart with his Grey Knights/Necron combination, his basic list was this;

 

Brother Captain, Psycannon

Brother Captain Psycannon

2x Strike Squads, 2 Psycannons
3x Dreadknights, 2 with Incinerator/Psycannon, 1 only Incinerator

Necron Destroyer Lord, mind shackle scarabs
2x 5 Warriors in Doomscythes

 

The mission for this one was the Scouring and set up (not that I care about that) was Dawn of War, he managed to win the roll for set up and first turn. This Really had me worried due to Warp Quake, I did contemplate just putting the lads out on the table but just decided to crack on and just go for it. So the game started and as always if I'm not going first I'll more than likely just roll to see if I can sieze the initiative, my first bit of luck in this game, a six! Phew! Here's the resulting deployment of my first wave;

My first turn saw me take one of his strike squads down to 2 men which also saw his Warlord go down aswell. His retaliation saw him killing a fair few marines and assaulting a unit with his Necron Lord and one of the Dreadknights, the lord won the combat and my unit retreated away from him, I managed to take a few wounds off of the dreadknight and stuck in that combat.

My turn 2 saw all three of my reserves come down, which resulted in the majority of his other stike squad dissapearing in a hail of bolter rounds my lord and the remnants of his unit charged the Necron lord along with a Rune Priest who had split from his unit after they retreated, the lord put a couple of wounds on him which left him at initiative one for the next phase in combat. The squad in combat with the Dreadknight actually managed to take him down as well which meant at the end of my turn 2 all he had left on the board was 2 dreadknights, and a couple of strike marines who were locked in combat, a few Strike marines with a Brother Captain and a necron lord who was also locked in combat.

His turn 2 saw both of his reserves come on and kill a couple of marines, the small strike squad managed to kill a three man unit of Wolf Guard, one Dreadknight manage to kill another couple of marines but was well out of charge range, the other Dreadknight again killed a marine or 2 but failed to get enough on his charge roll, My Lord then put the Necron Lord out of his misery.

My turn 3 saw me finish off the remainder of the strike squad along with his other Brother Captain, the Wolf Lord charged and took a couple of wounds off of one of the Dreadknights whilst a squad along with Rune Priest charged the other and stuck, one strike marine held against 2 Grey Hunters.

His 3 saw both the Doomscythes zoom and drop their passengers onto objectives before turbo-ing off of the board, the Wolf Lord killed the Dreadknight he was in combat with and the squad that was in combat with the other stuck this turn as well, the strike marine stuck yet again with the 2 grey Hunters.

In my turn 4 the free Grey Hunter squads advanced towards the 5 necrons on an objective and killed a couple whilst the Wolf Lord joined the combat with the other Dreadknight and took a couple of wounds off of him (I think he killed him as we rushed the last few turns as the result was pretty clear at this point) the lone strike marine died and his doomscythes re-appeared and failed to do anything, I managed to clear the Necron Warriors off of the objective they were standing on.

So the end result seen me winning 10-3, so quite please with that, it was a great fun game to play. One point to note is that the Wolf Lords personal tally for this game was 1 Necron Lord and 2 Dreadknights at a cost of no wounds to himself!

I'll cover the next 2 games along with the final result in my next post.

Until then, here's some World Eaters;

Visions of Heresy

Well, I didn’t mean for it to take quite this long before the next update, but hey, that’s just the way things go sometimes, isn’t it?

 

Anyway, as I mentioned in my last post I’ve got a rather large project on the go right now, hopefully some of you will have picked up on it from the title of this post, it’s all Horus Heresy (HH) related. There’s really 2 parts to this, the first small part is some of my ongoing commission work, Sons of Horus. As you can see from the pics there are some boarding marines, some Justerian Terminators, a Contemptor Dreadnought to go along with them and Abaddon and Loken.

 

The basic brief for these was for them to be of a similar colour scheme to a unit that was featured in White Dwarf just after Christmas, a little brighter than the norm, with the Justerian and Contemptor in the black and red scheme. This is just the start of this commission I’m assured there’ll be plenty more of these to come.

 

So, that’s the first part, the next much larger part is a combined project that I’m doing with Craig, the lad who bought the first lot of World Eaters off of me. Throughout our various dealings back and forward we’ve become pretty good friends and he recently asked if I fancied going to the HH Betrayal campaign weekend at Warhammer World (WHW) near the end of August, I looked in to it and thought well why not, it'd give me a bit of a deadline and purpose to get painting another army.

 

Now the thing is between us we need a 6000 point army selected from the Legion army list in the Forge World (FW) Betrayal book. Tallying up what I’ve already painted for Craig comes to around 2000 points which means I’ve still got to paint 4000 points of World Eaters for the event!

 

With that in mind I’ve made a couple of large FW orders and also made a start on painting. The basics of my list are as follows;

1x Praetor (love the new FW Praetors, got them with the 2nd order :D)

1x Centurion (Legion Champion)

2x Contemptors

1x 8 man Rampager Squad

1x 10 man Destroyer Squad

2x 20 man Tactical Squads

1x 8 man Heavy Weapons Squad (Autocannons)

1x Phobos Land Raider

1x Spartan Assault Tank

1x Typhon Heavy Siege Tank

So really, 68 marines, 3 tanks and 2 dreadnoughts and that’s not including the rest of what Craig needs but he’s looking at needing 22 marines, a Land Raider, a Rapier and a big Mechanicum Cohort. The only things I still need to get are the Spartan and The Typhon, so I’m almost there as far as purchases go. Here's a pic of the first box of stuff I got;

 

So yeah, I’ve got just over 2 months to get this all done along with a house move somewhere in the middle, I do have a couple of weeks off of work at the beginning of August though, I will try and get alot of it done before then.

 

So far I have 10 tactical marines done and should have the rest of that squad done by the end of next weekend, so there will be more pics then.

 

Think I’ll get it done in time?

Lets get going again

Right it's about time I got this thing off of its feet again and started to get some more regular posts out for you all.

Here's a bit of a run down of what I've been up to over the last few months.

First up I'll start with the wolves, as you can see from the picture above my Space Wolves that were featured in the main 40k rule book have increased in size significantly. A few months ago I was talking with a good mate John Jasinski, we were chatting about army's and stuff as you do, at that point I was still a bit frustrated with 6th ed 40k and still couldn't really get the feel for it. John suggested I go back and try something I did for a while through 5th ed, Space Wolf Drop Pods, knowing I had an event to go to about 3 weeks later I thought why not, I have a bit of time off of work, I reckon I could get it done. So I got home and got into the book and came up with a list, let John have a look, tweaked it where needed and submitted it for the event with about two and a half weeks to go.

So with the list submitted I started sorting out what I needed for the event, on final tally I had to paint up 24 Grey Hunters, 2 Wolf Guard, a Rune Priest and 6 Drop Pods!  Ooh...... Didn't realise it would be quite that much, it's was going to be a bit of a slog. Well it was quite a tough couple of weeks as I had to balance real life(looking after my 5 year old daughter whilst mum was at work) the FW open day and a lot of fitness in there as well. As you can see from the pic above I did actually manage it all with a day to spare as well, some more close ups below.

The event I attended was the Aldershot Ardboyz 1850 tournament based in the Games Shop in Aldershot, I'm not going to do a full report on the event as it's a bit of a distant memory now, needless to say, I had a great time, won 3 lost 3, came 13th overall(out of 32ish) and managed to pick up best army which was nice considering the effort I'd had to put in over the previous few weeks.

 

After that event, the next thing I was planning was ASMOH over at Triple Helix Wargames, unfortunately due to real life issues I just couldn't make it :-( never mind, I had Throne of Skulls coming up in a few weeks so I could start planning for that, at least I wouldn't have to worry about painting anything else for the army.

 

In the mean time I thought I'd best get on with some more commission work and managed to get 20 World Eaters assault marines done.

 

 

 

Managed to get these done a few days before ToS which meant I had a couple of days to chill and spend some well deserved time with the family before being away for the weekend.

 

Throne of Skulls was a cracking weekend, had 5 great games with some nice opponents, if you've never been to a ToS event before I strongly recommend trying one out, it's very social and for the most part players approach it in the way it's intended, I only really saw a couple of what I would consider hardcore tournament army lists over the whole weekend. Again I took Drop Pod Wolves, here's what I had in the list;

 

Wolf Lord, Thunder Hammer/Storm Shield, Saga of the Bear, Wolftail Talisman

 

Rune Priest, Meltabombs

Rune Priest

 

4 Wolf Guard, 4x Combi Meltas

Drop Pod

 

7x Grey Hunters, Meltagun, Drop Pod

7x Grey Hunters, Meltagun, Drop Pod

7x Grey Hunters, Meltagun, Drop Pod

8x Grey Hunters, Meltagun, Drop Pod

10x Grey Hunters, Flamer, Meltagun, Drop Pod

10x Grey Hunters, Flamer, Meltagun, Drop Pod

 

Fairly straight forward, 6 pods with guys in, 1 without. It's quite surprising how much an all Drop Pod lists really throw your opponent off balance.

 

Went with codex powers for the Rune Priests initially then had a go with a couple of the rule book powers once I'd got a better feel for the list, really like how some of the book powers work.

 

As I've said I really enjoyed the weekend over all, I came away with 4 wins and 1 loss and was pip'd by 1 point for best Space Wolf. I managed to come away with 3 of the large ToS certificates as well which is always nice. Got a best army nomination, won Hero of Legend and probably the award I'm most proud of, one of the 6 players to get all 5 best sportsmanship votes. The best sportsmanship (I forget what it's actually called, I'll update later) is really pleasing as of the 4 games I won I can't remember one that went beyond turn 4! Really chuffed.

 

Anyway, I'll leave you with a pic of the mini that got me Hero of Legend, the next post will be all Horus Heresy related along with including details of the massive project I'm just about to undertake.

 

Far too long.....2!

Well it's been far to long since I last posted, to be honest I've not actually been up to much on the hobby side of life, I have continued painting and have pretty much finished up the Mentors commission, I do have a lot of faces to do for the same client though so it's still ongoing for the short term anyway.

 




On the personal side of life, might have mentioned it before but I've gained back the Fire Hawks at the cost of the World Eaters, may well have to re-visit the Horus Heresy at some point, Space Wolves anyone?!, but for now I'm trying to get back in to regular 40k so the Fire Hawks are perfect in order to help me do that, I've actually added a bit more weathering to them as well, similar to what I did to the World Eaters and am currently building and making a very slow start to painting a small allied force of Guard to go along with them.

The Guard force is still very much in it's infancy though, so it's still very far off being even remotely done.




Whilst the Guard army is coming together I'm continuing with other work in the shape of more World Eaters for the new owner and then some Sons of Horus with potientially some Charcaradons after that, so there will be alot of marine goodness coming over the next few months.

As I've previously said I am still champing at the bit to get playing more often though, sadly real life takes alot of precedence over that, something I am working on to try and negate though, not in a bad way, just trying to get my job shifted slightly.

That's it for now, short I know but i just wanted all the folks following to know that the blog isn't dead, well not just yet anyway :D

Far too long

Yep, as the title says it's been far too long since I posted last, to be honest that's probably because I've been far to busy painting stuff, which isn't necessarily a bad thing :D

So, what have I been painting since the last post I hear you say, well with the event of the Dark Angels being released I was asked to do some more terminators for the Mentor Legion army, 16 to be precise, 5  normal Deathwing, 1 command squad, one squad of Deathwing knights and Belial.

 

I've really enjoyed painting these so far, after painting battered stuff for the last few months it's actually quite refreshing to paint something that doesn't need weathing. I've taken some of the more obvious Dark Angel markings off of them, really like how the colours work together, I suppose that's why I was drawn to the army all those years ago.

 

I'm just starting the command squad as I type this blog post, it should be done at some point in the not too distant future, then it's on to Belial. I've also got some DA characters to do once the terminators are finished, I'll make sure I post pics of then when they're done.

For myself I've finished another Contemptor for the World Eaters, unfortunately after a few games with them I've decided they're just not for me so I've managed to work out a deal which will see me getting the Fire Hawks back along with some DA bits :D

I'm actually planning on starting to play alot more 40k now, probably because I'm more settled in work, and am planning on starting to go up to the Spiky Club in Reading alot more often, in all honesty I think marines just work for me better anyway so the Fire Hawks will bring alot of fun my way (hopefully).

With that in mind I'm actually planning my next army which is looking like it'll be pure Ravenwing, has anybody got the new kits yet? awesome, I've played a pure Ravenwing army before and really enjoyed it, it's got to be worth a try in 6th ed. Sorted out an army list so I'll work from there.

Anyway that's far too much rambling, I entered a tournament last week so I'll do a write up of that for the next update.

Until then,

Laters :D