Rebuild of "Smells LIke Team Spirit"

First up, the new Beast of Nurgle.  I'm using a slightly modified Avatars of War "Herald of Pestilence."  First time I've used something from Avatars of War. Overall, I like the model - it has a serious gap issue (you can see that from the greenstuff), and it fits nicely on one of Impact!'s 30mm bases.

Second is the new Rotters.  Using Crypt Ghouls from the GW Vampire Counts line. 

I'm still waiting for the Pestigors and Chaos Warriors (Nurgle Warriors).

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). 

Semi-Finals...

Well, that didn't go quite to plan. This is the start of the game. It was bloody, it was brutal... And it was loss, 2-1. Good game, but in the end I just couldn't get to where I needed to to do what I needed to.

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...