Sir, I believe we're surrounded...

This was a shot from Game 2 - against the "wolves" list.  It was Canis plus 2 wolf lords (on thunder wolves), 3 large units of wolves, and 2 units of thunder wolf cav.  It was nice to be able to drop the thunder wolves (and lords) down with very few hits - something about S10 thunder hammers and/or force weapons :)

Over all for the weekend, I went 4 wins, 0 loses, and 1 tie.  The tie was just barely (skin of my teeth) - it was against the daemon player.  My reserves we're being fickle, his weren't.  Him being eternal warrior (even with Daemonbane) he wasn't failing those tests.  And the two full units of Blood Crusher's didn't help.  :)

Had a blast of time hanging out with some old friends... not "old friends.." (well, some of them are).. but you know what I mean.

I wonder if I can find a gaming store in The Netherlands...

OFCC - Game 5, Clay's Grey Knights

OFCC - Game 4, Dylan's Tau

OFCC - Game 3, Eric's Blood Angels

OFCC - Game 2, Wes' Space Wolves

OFCC - Game 1, Levi's Daemons

Five Dreadknights enter.... One DK leaves.

GKT - Justicar #1

Tournament - Game 3

King of the Hill (building).  Do you see what's in the middle of that building?  In case you can't quite make it out - it's 10 Assault Terminators.  Remember what I said yesterday about 6 Terminators with Pedro... yeah.  It's 10.  Got wiped out to the man (ghost?).

Another fun game with a fun opponent.  I think I might have had a better chance if I had put everything on the board instead of reserving everything - but it's still fun to do.

Tournament - Game 2

Setup for Game 2 - it was a beautifully painted Sons of Orar army.  Led by Pedro and Lysander.  Notes to remember, 6 Assault Terminators with Thunder Hammers and Storm Shield, with Lysander, with Pedro within 12"... will take a Dread Knight apart in one round.

The mission was called "Rocket Man" - also from the Adepticon CD - 5 objectives that starting on turn 2 would rocket into space on a 5+.  If a scoring unit was holding it at the time it rocketed you had the objective and it wouldn't come down again.  If a non-scoring unit was holding it, or no one was holding it, it would rocket up by itself and no one could claim.  If you rolled the 5+ and there were two scoring units contesting, it would explode.  I ended up wiping him off the board - except for one SternGuard and a slightly wounded Pedro Kantor.

Another fun game with another fun opponent.

Tournament - Game 1

This is about turn 2 of game 1.  It was verses a Duke led Dark Eldar "Venom Spam "list.  We were using one of the missions from the Adepticon CD collection where you had 8 tokens that you had to go get and bring back to a depot.  Reserves betrayed me here, I was coming in too piecemeal.  I would have a unit drop in, wipe out one of his units and then his army would turn on that unit and wipe it out.  Lather / Rinse / Repeat.  Fun game vs. a fun opponent.

One more game at 2000 points in today

First up, is a picture of the board at the beginning of my turn 2.

You'll notice not a lot of Dark Eldar actually *on* the board... nor, for that matter, a lot of Grey Knights on the board.  Mordrak had come in the first turn (with his two ghostly bodyguards), and then I delayed everything else that I could on turn two via Psychic Communion (one Dread Knight just wanted to get to the party early).  The Dark Eldar player was playing a Duke Sliscus list - The Duke, 3 units of Trueborn in Venoms, 4 units of Kabalite Warriors in Venoms, 2 units of wyches with a Haemonculus' joining each for the pain token love in Raiders, 2 Ravagers and a Razorwing.  He came in piecemeal via deepstrike thanks to the Duke's special rules, and I was able to pick him apart enough to only loose one unit of knights, 3 others spread from the two remain squads and each dread knight had soem wounds... he was left with a weaponless venom, an immobile ravager pointing the wrong direction, and un-damaged venom - but was able to deny me my primary victory (I had scoring units on both objectives, but he was contesting with the venoms).  I was able to score the secondary (the one other objective) and the tertiary (victory points).

Here's a close-up of Mordrak and the Ghosts.

... and no, Mordrak's not painted - only primed.

The next few weekends are going to be quiet for playing - next week we're going on a little family trip and the weekend after that is Easter.  I don't think I can get out of that with two little girls...  :)

two more games - this time at 1250

Game 1 - My semi-regular beat-down of the grot revolution.  This time with two 10-man grots riding in heavy support battle wagons, two 5-man Nobs in battlewagons, a mek and a warboss.  Here's a picture of Draigo's ghosts walking away from the slaying of the warbosses nob squad, leaving the squad to take care of the mek.  Let's say it went down hill from him from there.  :)

Setup of Game 2.  While I nearly wiped him off the board, the mission was a little weird and I ended up loosing the primary, tied the secondary, and won the tertiary.  The pink arm in the bottom left was my assistant during the game.  :)

On the painting side, I did find the base color for the knights - so I should have some pictures off some progression on the paint here within the next week or so.

Also, I should have a picture of the new army build up this week.

2 games at 1000 pts

First game was against Imperial Guard.  Had a bad deep strike with a unit of Terminators (that's 270 points out of a 1000) that ended up on the ass-end of the board (battle was happening mostly my right side, they were re-directed to the back left corner.  2 Turns of moving and running later, I got one shot off at a Chimera.  Loss for me.

Game two was against some marines.  There was a "clarification error" about the mission (I happened to be playing the guy who wrote the mission), so the unit holding the football, came in from outflank and then went off the board to get the primary objective.  Other than that, it was a slug-fest (no pictures of that one, sorry).

I think I'm done with my 1000 pointers, on to the 1250.. hmmmm, what to add, what to add..

Two days in, three games down...

Here's the end of game from Game 2.  We're playing an escalation league down at the store - starting at 750 points, upping it by 250pts each fortnight.  At 750, I've got two squads of 5 terminators, and Mordrak.  Game 1 was against Dave's grot army (Warboss, Mek with KFF, 2 units of 10 grots, and 2 battlewagons with Killkannon, Deff Rolla, and some other extra grubins).  Annihilation, Spearhead.  It was a fast game.  He earned 0 KP's...  I earned 6.

Game 2 (picture above), was against Eldar.  Yriel, 2 Avenger squads in wave serpents, and 2 Fire Prisms.  Mission was Annihilation, setup was Dawn of War.  He went first and chose to bring everything on the first turn.  I chose to deep strike everything.  So, turn 1 he zoomed on 24" and spread out the tanks.  Turn 1, I deep struck Mordrak.  Turn two he fired with all 4 tanks at Mordrak, putting 1 wound on him - free Ghost Knight for me, and one unit arrived via deep strike.  That free Ghost Knight put me 11.5" away from one of his wave serpents.  MC Thunderhammer knocks the weapons off and stuns the serpent.   Yriel got out of the second 'serpent, tanks shot, a normal terminator died, and Mordrak was wounded again (ya!  another Ghost Knight - and yes, before you ask, I was rolling for those).  Yriel charged Mordrak's squad, killed the two Ghost Knight before Mordrak put at MC Thunderhammer through his poncey pointy-eared skull.  :)  Turn 3, he was able to kill another terminator and on my turn 3 the last squad came in, and destroyed one of the prisms.  One more wound was put on Mordrak in there (don't remember when though - but, no Ghost Knight came out from that one).  One of the units of Avengers ended up dying in there late game.  Game ended after turn 5.  Kill points were 3 to 0, secondary objectives were all me (kill HQ), and Tertiary was also me (VP's).

Game 3 was against Marines.  From memory he had Captain, Librarian, 2x10 Space Marines (las / plas & las / melta), both in drop pods (characters split between the two), and a unit of sniper scouts.  Annihilation, and Pitched Battle (for the record, I only rolled for one of the missions for these games - the first.  My opponent rolled for the other two...).    Game went longer than any of the other games - 7 full turns.  At the end of the game, I had 2 terminators from one squad and 1 from the other squad.  He had a wounded captain, 2 marines, and a drop pod. 

Lessons learned from today's games.  I like Mordrak -he's fun.  I *really* need to remember Grand Strategy.  I could have really used the re-roll "to wound" on all my games...  Onto 1000 points, looks like it's time to add a Dreadknight.

Two more games in with Grey Knights.

Game one was vs. 2000 points Dark Eldar.  Lots... and lots... and lots... of poison weapons.  Reserves weren't my friend this game - I came in too piecemeal and.  Let's just say it was a quick 2000 point game.  :)

Off to lunch, and on to Game two.

1750 vs. Eldar.

I set everything up (all 10 terminators and 3 dreadknights) and proceeded to take him apart.  End of the game, I had a 5 man sitting on one objective, a scoring dreadknight sitting on the second objective, and a single terminator that ran off the third objective when the other terminator still living got shot by the avatar's "meltagun".  For him - he had an avatar with one wound left.  Basically, the army did what it was "supposed" to do.

I supposed one of these days I should get the shoulderpads on these terminators... and maybe get them painted.  :)

A funny thing happened while at the game store...

So, I lost the semi-finals (see previous post).  Ronnie (Chaos) played Zach (Norse - my opponent) and ended up winning the championships.  The two players of the final each won $50 ISC, and we had drawings for two $25 ISC.  I won one of those (keep that in mind) in the drawing.

After lunch I started playing a game of 40k with a new guy and Ronnie came over and wanted to know what I wanted for my Nurgle team.  He said he was going to use his winnings to get GW's one - but it didn't have all of what he wanted in the team, and then he'd have to paint it (and figure out what to use for his Beast of Nurgle).  So, he wanted to buy my team from me.  I told him to make me an offer I couldn't refuse.  He offered the $50 ISC and $30 in cash (since he wouldn't have to pay one of the other guys to paint the team). 

So, that means.  I walked into the game store today with a BB team that I built from my bitz box and about $8 of bitz from an online bitz store.  Played a game of BloodBowl, a game of 40k and walked out with $30 in cash and $75 (well $74.25) worth of GW credit.  Bought a fantasy box as well as some BB figs - so I can recreate the team using different models - for Kubla.

And the 40k game?  20 models vs. an ork horde of... horde.  Here's a pic of him starting his first turn of Dawn of war.  Yes - that's 4 squads of 30 boyz.

The game ended with 4 GK Terminators holding one objective.  3 Orks holding another, and 12 Orks holding a third (with the 4th objective being unclaimed). 

Game 1 and 2 with the grey knights..

Game 1 vs. Dante's Drop army of Doom (Dante, Dread Libby, 4 x5 Honor Guard, Furioso Dread, and 2 Storm Ravens).  If you can't tell from the picture - that was one of my Knights firing a heavy psycannon at the storm raven that was 8 inches away... I rolled box cars for deviation.  12 - 4 = 8 inches of deviation... right back on my head.  That was my rolling for most of the game.  Needing 3's to wound, rolling 2's... lots of 2's...

I was wiped out on Turn 5.  Off to lunch, and on to Game 2 vs. Dark Eldar.

This was part of turn 1 of my game vs. the Dark Eldar.  It was a knock-down, drag-out, fighitng fight.  At the end of the game, I had a wounded knight, 1 terminator from one squad, 4 from another, and my grand master; he had an immobilized Venom, 2 scourges, and a Razorwing Jetfighter...  And it ended in a tie.  His razorwing did a turn 5, on from reserve, turbo-boost move to contest my objective and then shot and killed the knight with the venom.  Rolled to end the game... rolled a 1.

"100% not f***ing around"

 

(One of my friend Jason's favorite quotes)

Two-Thirds built

Two of three Dread Knights.

Two of three units of Grey Knight Terminators.

One of one Grand Master.

Left to build is one unit of GKT, one DK, and one Inquisitor.  Still not sure what I want to use for the Inquisitor...