So, the 22nd is another tournament. This means... 40K IS BACK!That's right, I am trying to get more games of Warhammer on the table then on the web. The tournament is 1500 points, but this is how it works:
We make a 1000pt 'core' lists then 2 500pt reserves lists. We will pick a reserve list depending on who we are playing against. This makes me happy because it messes up some cheese lists. I am going to bring my space wolves instead of my nids this time. I will try to post any BPs till then!
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Scourge of the Waagh!
So a friend and I, played a pick-up game between his Ork horde and my Nids. Now since he is still trying to amass his Waagh! we proxied some of his models with mine. I brought my 1500 killer list, swaping out the Gargoyles and a few Gaunts to bring a Prime with Boneswords. I really need to ask to borrow my opponants lists at the end of these games so I can post what they brought. Ok, so we decided to use a special scenario this time and we randomly rolled the Dark Eldar scenario, Night Raid. We rolled off and Nick (my opponant) got to act as the Dark Eldar player. Deployment was similar to Spearhead with 4 objectives. Three were placed in the center of the quarters that didn't belong to the Dark Eldar player and one in the center of the table. Nick could only deploy Fast Attack and Troops that were in transports. I was able to deploy Troops and Heavy Support. This started a little unbalanced because Nick had half of his army off the table and I had almost all of mine (excluding HQs and deepstrikers). here is our initial set-up.
So I failed to steal the initiative, but that turned out ok for me. all Nick could do was zoom his vehicles up and wait for the next turn. Now the scenario uses nightfighting, but at the end of each player turn, we roll to see if the sun comes up. Well... Nick rolled a six meaning I could shoot at him without issues. My Tervigon poops out about 9 dudes, and my army moves up. Terv casts Catalyst on Genestealer. I manage to immobilize his troop truck (rhino) with my shooty Fex and my uber Gaunts keep the warbuggy from using weapons this next turn. Here is turn one:
Next, Nick gets his Komandos in, a Defdred, a unit of Boys, and his Lootas attatched to Bigmek w/Shokk Attak. His Komandos sneak up on the Genestealers, and the rest come in as close as possible from his edge. he gets his Boys out of his immobilized Truck and backs up his shaken Buggy.
He tried to lob a few rockits into my stuff with little effect, roasted only 1-2 Genestealers due to Catalyst, and thats about all.
Now came one of the most interesting parts.. Komandos assault the Genestealers! I killed all of his Komandos except for Snikrot. After SIX attacks from Snikrot, maybe one Genestealer died. He lost combat and needed double ones to pass the morale check.
!!!!!!!!!!! Snikrot's a gutsy little bugger! So he stayed and it is my turn next.
Well the good news for nick was that my HQs didn't make it in. The bad news was everything else did :P my Doom nearly scattered off the bored but landed right in the middle of his dudes, and my Mawloc REALLY deviated and popped up in the forrest. Well after the Terv pooped out 15 more Termagaunts, moved up, cast Catalyst on a group of Termies, blew up the buggy with the Fex, sucked up 8 Ork souls with the Doom, oh and my Gaunts were out of synapse so they are blindly running at the vehicle. Well finished off Snikrot with the Broodlord, took out the weapon on the second buggy with the awol Gaunts, asualted the Orks and killed 'em all, and this just kept going downhill for Nick.
So now Nick fails to get his Warboss in the fight, but his second Defdred comes in. He attemted to get his Oks away from the Doom, but it didn't work and they are just getting destroyed by his soul sucking ability. One Dred assaulted my Doom and got blown up (doom was at strength 10 by now). He was just short of an assault with his other Defdred and that ended his turn.
So I pooped out more Termigaunts (still no doubles), and my prime comes in with the unit of termigaunts. Mawloc ducks out and more of nicks stuff dies. Wrecked his imobilized vehicle in the assault. the handed it over to nick.
Warboss finally came in and tank shocked my Spore and Doom in the process. Doom got out of the way, but the Spore attempted a death or glory and got squished. After this, the only ineresting thing that happened was i rolled a 1, 2, and 3 for the number of pooped Gaunts... and i didn't have enough to put them all on the table :P
The game overall was ok. Nick started well, but the dice were not on his side. We will have to try again soon but now we also have our other friends in town so i should have more reports up soon! Stay Tuned!
So I failed to steal the initiative, but that turned out ok for me. all Nick could do was zoom his vehicles up and wait for the next turn. Now the scenario uses nightfighting, but at the end of each player turn, we roll to see if the sun comes up. Well... Nick rolled a six meaning I could shoot at him without issues. My Tervigon poops out about 9 dudes, and my army moves up. Terv casts Catalyst on Genestealer. I manage to immobilize his troop truck (rhino) with my shooty Fex and my uber Gaunts keep the warbuggy from using weapons this next turn. Here is turn one:
Next, Nick gets his Komandos in, a Defdred, a unit of Boys, and his Lootas attatched to Bigmek w/Shokk Attak. His Komandos sneak up on the Genestealers, and the rest come in as close as possible from his edge. he gets his Boys out of his immobilized Truck and backs up his shaken Buggy.
He tried to lob a few rockits into my stuff with little effect, roasted only 1-2 Genestealers due to Catalyst, and thats about all.
Now came one of the most interesting parts.. Komandos assault the Genestealers! I killed all of his Komandos except for Snikrot. After SIX attacks from Snikrot, maybe one Genestealer died. He lost combat and needed double ones to pass the morale check.
!!!!!!!!!!! Snikrot's a gutsy little bugger! So he stayed and it is my turn next.
Well the good news for nick was that my HQs didn't make it in. The bad news was everything else did :P my Doom nearly scattered off the bored but landed right in the middle of his dudes, and my Mawloc REALLY deviated and popped up in the forrest. Well after the Terv pooped out 15 more Termagaunts, moved up, cast Catalyst on a group of Termies, blew up the buggy with the Fex, sucked up 8 Ork souls with the Doom, oh and my Gaunts were out of synapse so they are blindly running at the vehicle. Well finished off Snikrot with the Broodlord, took out the weapon on the second buggy with the awol Gaunts, asualted the Orks and killed 'em all, and this just kept going downhill for Nick.
So now Nick fails to get his Warboss in the fight, but his second Defdred comes in. He attemted to get his Oks away from the Doom, but it didn't work and they are just getting destroyed by his soul sucking ability. One Dred assaulted my Doom and got blown up (doom was at strength 10 by now). He was just short of an assault with his other Defdred and that ended his turn.
So I pooped out more Termigaunts (still no doubles), and my prime comes in with the unit of termigaunts. Mawloc ducks out and more of nicks stuff dies. Wrecked his imobilized vehicle in the assault. the handed it over to nick.
Warboss finally came in and tank shocked my Spore and Doom in the process. Doom got out of the way, but the Spore attempted a death or glory and got squished. After this, the only ineresting thing that happened was i rolled a 1, 2, and 3 for the number of pooped Gaunts... and i didn't have enough to put them all on the table :P
The game overall was ok. Nick started well, but the dice were not on his side. We will have to try again soon but now we also have our other friends in town so i should have more reports up soon! Stay Tuned!
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Hive Fleet Scourge Advances
Well Jon and I have finally gotten around to play another game of 40k. Just a few weeks ago, we got into the game Warmachine and have been playing the crap out of it. My wife and I entered into an aggreement that I can't spend any more money on wargaming this year after I got the models for the game. Oh well. Anyways, Jon and I got out a 1500 list and rolled up a Dawn of War, 5x objectives (using models from the other game as markers). Jon won the roll off and placed his Eldrad, 10x Wraithguard (as a troops), and his Storm Guardians all in the central ruin. Eldrad was epically placed at the top of the bulidng.
I placed my troop tervigon behind a tower and the Tyrant on the opposite side of my DZ. My Genestealers outflanked almost to his back line.
Now, I forgot to take pictures till the end, so hang with me. Jon forgot to use Eldrad's redeployment ability so we started his turn as I failed to steal the initiative. He cast his three powers and moved his suff up from the back. His transports came from his left side to meet my Genestealers, his Shining Spears moved up behind the central ruin and his Dark Reapers ran trying to keep up. His Dire Avengers and Fire Dragons got out and shot the crap out of my 15 Genestealers. The Broodlord was once again, notoriously the last man standing with one wound left after a combined effort of several units (2x transports, 2x units). Jon saw this as an ill omen as to what was to come for one of his units.
My first turn started by the Terv pooping out 11 dudes. I moved my Shootyfex up next to my Tyrant on my right flank, my Hormagaunts and Termigaunts up the middle with the Prime attached to the Termigaunt unit. The pooped unit started to move up my left side. My Broodlord got into position to rape his 5 Dragons. My Tyrant and Fex unleashed hell on the Avengers from across the board with their stranglethorn cannons killing all but one and pinning the survivor. The Broodlord assalted, killed two, forced to flee, then over-ran the Dragons.
Jon's 2nd turn, he used one psykic power,then moved his tanks in a position to take vengence on the Broodlord, moved his Spears in view of my 11 gaunt unit, moved the Guardians out of cover, ran his Reapers up the ruin, and just stood there with his pinned Avenger. He then proceded to drop two Eldrich Storm templates on my Hormagaunts, killing a few. he then proceded to almost wipe out my 11 Gaunt unit, leaving 4, and killing the broodlord.
My turn, Terv pooped out 8, and Mawloc came in. Mawloc burst from the ground to devour all 3 Spears. My forces did little more than move up... until I wiped out his Guardians, but sent my Hormagaunt unit to their doom against the Wraithguard, for fearless wounds killed them off.
Jon's 3rd turn he sent my Mawloc to the warp with his wraithcannons, put two wounds on my tyrant, and moved his Avenger to the objective.
My turn, drop pod came in with the Doom inside. Scattered 8 inches :P Pooped out 11 more Gaunts, and moved everything else in for the kill. After this point not much happens except that the Doom manages to kill nearly all Jon's stuff from just being around them (sucks the souls out of them). My prime did some damage, but Jon conceded after I blew up a tank and about decimated his castled forces.
Overall, it was a fun game. I look forward to my other friends getting back into town for school so we can get some more games going. I may not have much of a life this next semester, but I will post any new battle reports! I also want to get the other guys to write up some for the blog as well. Stay tuned!
I placed my troop tervigon behind a tower and the Tyrant on the opposite side of my DZ. My Genestealers outflanked almost to his back line.
Now, I forgot to take pictures till the end, so hang with me. Jon forgot to use Eldrad's redeployment ability so we started his turn as I failed to steal the initiative. He cast his three powers and moved his suff up from the back. His transports came from his left side to meet my Genestealers, his Shining Spears moved up behind the central ruin and his Dark Reapers ran trying to keep up. His Dire Avengers and Fire Dragons got out and shot the crap out of my 15 Genestealers. The Broodlord was once again, notoriously the last man standing with one wound left after a combined effort of several units (2x transports, 2x units). Jon saw this as an ill omen as to what was to come for one of his units.
My first turn started by the Terv pooping out 11 dudes. I moved my Shootyfex up next to my Tyrant on my right flank, my Hormagaunts and Termigaunts up the middle with the Prime attached to the Termigaunt unit. The pooped unit started to move up my left side. My Broodlord got into position to rape his 5 Dragons. My Tyrant and Fex unleashed hell on the Avengers from across the board with their stranglethorn cannons killing all but one and pinning the survivor. The Broodlord assalted, killed two, forced to flee, then over-ran the Dragons.
Jon's 2nd turn, he used one psykic power,then moved his tanks in a position to take vengence on the Broodlord, moved his Spears in view of my 11 gaunt unit, moved the Guardians out of cover, ran his Reapers up the ruin, and just stood there with his pinned Avenger. He then proceded to drop two Eldrich Storm templates on my Hormagaunts, killing a few. he then proceded to almost wipe out my 11 Gaunt unit, leaving 4, and killing the broodlord.
My turn, Terv pooped out 8, and Mawloc came in. Mawloc burst from the ground to devour all 3 Spears. My forces did little more than move up... until I wiped out his Guardians, but sent my Hormagaunt unit to their doom against the Wraithguard, for fearless wounds killed them off.
Jon's 3rd turn he sent my Mawloc to the warp with his wraithcannons, put two wounds on my tyrant, and moved his Avenger to the objective.
My turn, drop pod came in with the Doom inside. Scattered 8 inches :P Pooped out 11 more Gaunts, and moved everything else in for the kill. After this point not much happens except that the Doom manages to kill nearly all Jon's stuff from just being around them (sucks the souls out of them). My prime did some damage, but Jon conceded after I blew up a tank and about decimated his castled forces.
Overall, it was a fun game. I look forward to my other friends getting back into town for school so we can get some more games going. I may not have much of a life this next semester, but I will post any new battle reports! I also want to get the other guys to write up some for the blog as well. Stay tuned!
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