Saturday, April 28, 2012
Android beats the iPhone Experience
I admit it. After much debating and side by side use the Android phones, namely the Nexus SII is more versatile than the iPhone 4S. The only issue is that I can't get 40K books on an Android device...unless I download the Black Library app..... I'll check on that.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
My Tau Project Begins
I found a really cool paint scheme on the internet a while back thanks to a friend. I have a small collection of Tau that I want to build up as a mecha army that is fun to play. Here is the scheme I want to mimic.
The dark gray and orange really pops. I took the initiative and added some sparkly blue to make it feel like energy is emitting from everything on the Tau equipment. I will be cleaning up the lines post airbrushing. I am really happy with the colors.
Please excuse the flash. I was in a hurry and it keeps making the gray look brighter than it is. I am going to be experimenting more with my airbrush to add weathering to my tanks. That's it for now.
The dark gray and orange really pops. I took the initiative and added some sparkly blue to make it feel like energy is emitting from everything on the Tau equipment. I will be cleaning up the lines post airbrushing. I am really happy with the colors.
Please excuse the flash. I was in a hurry and it keeps making the gray look brighter than it is. I am going to be experimenting more with my airbrush to add weathering to my tanks. That's it for now.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Night of Epic Games
A group of my friends got together to play some 40K. Originally we were aiming to start an Armageddon campaign. We didn't have any Ork players so we had Black Templar space marines versus Thousand Sons chaos space marines. My game was Steel Legion Imperial Guard versus Blood Angels. Both games turned out to be nail biters. Despite how fearsome the Thousand Sons anti-infantry shooting is the Black Templar hung in there scoring critical assault victories but in the end the battle favored the Thousand Sons. They had a predator, 5 troops, and a rhino left. That's how crazy it got.
My Steel Legion were built to include Commissar Yarrick with a squad of regular stormtroopers. I had pretty much everything I usually do sans vendettas*. The game started out with me going first. I was facing 3 tanks, 3 land speeders, a stormraven, jump infantry, and devastator squads. Easy right? Nope! I could not roll on the damage chart for my life! I still had a fun game but I was amazed at my quirky dice rolling. I did everything right but that game wasn't meant to be won by me.
I was really worried by turn three when my artillery park was overrun. Well, maybe not overrun but out maneuvered. This would take my hard hitting units out of the game keeping me playing the short game with angry blood angels in my face. Commissar Yarrick died and came back to life throughout the game. He was a funny character. I wouldn't suggest him unless you are playing a themed army. We were playing annihilation and I am sure my opponent won. He played very well. I liked the challenge. I'll post pictures tomorrow.
*-Leaving home without your vendettas is extremely dangerous! It can lead to death, wrecks, and even tabling. I advise always having two vendettas. This way you will always know your secure**.
**-This is meant to be a humorous warning for playing 40K Imperial Guard. So no lawsuits ok.
My Steel Legion were built to include Commissar Yarrick with a squad of regular stormtroopers. I had pretty much everything I usually do sans vendettas*. The game started out with me going first. I was facing 3 tanks, 3 land speeders, a stormraven, jump infantry, and devastator squads. Easy right? Nope! I could not roll on the damage chart for my life! I still had a fun game but I was amazed at my quirky dice rolling. I did everything right but that game wasn't meant to be won by me.
I was really worried by turn three when my artillery park was overrun. Well, maybe not overrun but out maneuvered. This would take my hard hitting units out of the game keeping me playing the short game with angry blood angels in my face. Commissar Yarrick died and came back to life throughout the game. He was a funny character. I wouldn't suggest him unless you are playing a themed army. We were playing annihilation and I am sure my opponent won. He played very well. I liked the challenge. I'll post pictures tomorrow.
*-Leaving home without your vendettas is extremely dangerous! It can lead to death, wrecks, and even tabling. I advise always having two vendettas. This way you will always know your secure**.
**-This is meant to be a humorous warning for playing 40K Imperial Guard. So no lawsuits ok.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
A Gallery of Awesome
I popped in on a friend today and took some pictures of more of his collection. I have pictures of his Mechanicus army, Traitor Guard, Zombie Guard, some Dark Angels, and lastly a very well painted Lord of the Rings base for the woolly mammoth mucky luck thingamabob. Here they are, notice the first ever GW Dreadnought with some slight conversions.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Post Tournament Summary: The Harvest of Heretics
I had a very fun time yesterday at the tournament I played in. I played against two good friends and one guy that always tries to pull shenannagins on me. I brought a very unfriendly list to the tournament because I was trying to snatch first place. Here is the Imperial Guard list I brought.
CCS: 4x plasmaguns, 1x plasma pistol, chimera
2x Veteran squads: 3x plasma guns, heavy bolter HWS, chimera
PCS: 4x grenade launchers, chimera
3x Infantry squads: flamer, heavy bolter HWS, chimera; one squad had a grenade launcher instead of a flamer
2x Vendettas
2x Manticores
squadron of 2 Basilisks
Vehicle count: 14
Scoring units: 6
Game 1: My Arch-Nemesis
This game was a long time coming. The guy I played is always pulling crap during games I have played him in the past. In the past I always felt awkward about calling him out but no more. He brought codex space marines. First off he doesn't have the rest of his devastator squad so he wastes 20 minutes looking for a replacement. This waste of time saved him from being tabled. Bottom line, I seized the initiative and proceeded to advance my CCS to hose his devastator squad on his objective. Any vehicle he had did not make it halfway across the table. They were wrecked, immobilized, or smoking scrap. At the end of the game he had a Predator and rhino that were so damaged they couldn't do anything, five assault marines, and a hurt ego. Disciplined fire objective check! I was impressed that I kept my shooting so disciplined. Usually I screw this up. This victory felt good. Had he not screwed around for so long I would have tabled him no problem. I only lost two chimeras. The squads inside were fine.
IG Rule #1: KEEP YOUR INFANTRY TROOPS IN YOUR CHIMERAS! THEY LIVE LONGER.
Game 2: IG versus the best Chaos Space Marine army I have ever played (this would be my 3rd time against them)
So naturally my opponent has a great list of resilient but small sized units. He builds great lists and his technical game skills are on point every time I play him. This game was spearhead and kill points. He gets to deploy in the nicely spaced out corner of the table and my side has area terrain in 95% of the area I have to deploy in. It was the most awful piece of terrain I have ever seen. By rights there should have been no other terrain on the table as it took up so much space. The terrain lost me the game. I out shot my opponent reaping more victory points, but he snagged 7 kill points to my 4. I almost snagged 4 more kill points but he made some great leadership rolls and I fluffed some rolls that should have been sure things. Like I said before my opponent knows the game so well that he took a bad situation (my massive amount of fire power) and mitigated it with a speedy advance, demon deep strikes, and smart movement into cover. I did wax a Daemon Lord prince thingy in a turn. That was fun. Never leave the barracks without your handy Plasma galore CCS. My opponent won the game, and I was only disappointed by how terrible the terrain was. My opponent's choice of deployment was brilliant. This happens some times. I did however steal the initiative.
IG Rule #2: PLASMAGUNS FOR THE WIN!
Game 3: IG versus Foot Necrons
Goofiest game of the day. My opponent is a good friend of mine. He was hilarious with his brilliant dodging of my fire power. The game was night fighting the entire time. It was brutal. Every turn night fighting was still in effect each of my units on a roll of 6 took d6 strength 8 AP 3 hits. I lost a Manitcore to this. A Vendetta and a few Chimeras took a beating too but survived. I shall reference IG Rule #1. I had some funny ordinance barrages on my opponent. I scattered the full 3d6, but he was on foot so voila. I always hit something. My psyker battle squad shined in this game with weaken resolve. I will be taking them more often. I ran off a huge unit of 20 Necron warriors. Some well placed heavy flamer and flamer action helped me to erase my opponents scarab unit. I HATE SCARABS!!! Nasty buggers. My friend conceded and gave me the game and incidentally 3rd place in the tournament. The guy I lost to in the second game won the tourney.
IG Rule #3: ARTILLERY, ARTILLERY, ARTILLERY!!! and..... ARTILLERY!!!!!!!!!!
All in all a great tournament. I had loads of fun. I finally have the list that I feel comfortable with, and I am playing smarter. It took long enough.
CCS: 4x plasmaguns, 1x plasma pistol, chimera
2x Veteran squads: 3x plasma guns, heavy bolter HWS, chimera
PCS: 4x grenade launchers, chimera
3x Infantry squads: flamer, heavy bolter HWS, chimera; one squad had a grenade launcher instead of a flamer
2x Vendettas
2x Manticores
squadron of 2 Basilisks
Vehicle count: 14
Scoring units: 6
Game 1: My Arch-Nemesis
This game was a long time coming. The guy I played is always pulling crap during games I have played him in the past. In the past I always felt awkward about calling him out but no more. He brought codex space marines. First off he doesn't have the rest of his devastator squad so he wastes 20 minutes looking for a replacement. This waste of time saved him from being tabled. Bottom line, I seized the initiative and proceeded to advance my CCS to hose his devastator squad on his objective. Any vehicle he had did not make it halfway across the table. They were wrecked, immobilized, or smoking scrap. At the end of the game he had a Predator and rhino that were so damaged they couldn't do anything, five assault marines, and a hurt ego. Disciplined fire objective check! I was impressed that I kept my shooting so disciplined. Usually I screw this up. This victory felt good. Had he not screwed around for so long I would have tabled him no problem. I only lost two chimeras. The squads inside were fine.
IG Rule #1: KEEP YOUR INFANTRY TROOPS IN YOUR CHIMERAS! THEY LIVE LONGER.
Game 2: IG versus the best Chaos Space Marine army I have ever played (this would be my 3rd time against them)
So naturally my opponent has a great list of resilient but small sized units. He builds great lists and his technical game skills are on point every time I play him. This game was spearhead and kill points. He gets to deploy in the nicely spaced out corner of the table and my side has area terrain in 95% of the area I have to deploy in. It was the most awful piece of terrain I have ever seen. By rights there should have been no other terrain on the table as it took up so much space. The terrain lost me the game. I out shot my opponent reaping more victory points, but he snagged 7 kill points to my 4. I almost snagged 4 more kill points but he made some great leadership rolls and I fluffed some rolls that should have been sure things. Like I said before my opponent knows the game so well that he took a bad situation (my massive amount of fire power) and mitigated it with a speedy advance, demon deep strikes, and smart movement into cover. I did wax a Daemon Lord prince thingy in a turn. That was fun. Never leave the barracks without your handy Plasma galore CCS. My opponent won the game, and I was only disappointed by how terrible the terrain was. My opponent's choice of deployment was brilliant. This happens some times. I did however steal the initiative.
IG Rule #2: PLASMAGUNS FOR THE WIN!
Game 3: IG versus Foot Necrons
Goofiest game of the day. My opponent is a good friend of mine. He was hilarious with his brilliant dodging of my fire power. The game was night fighting the entire time. It was brutal. Every turn night fighting was still in effect each of my units on a roll of 6 took d6 strength 8 AP 3 hits. I lost a Manitcore to this. A Vendetta and a few Chimeras took a beating too but survived. I shall reference IG Rule #1. I had some funny ordinance barrages on my opponent. I scattered the full 3d6, but he was on foot so voila. I always hit something. My psyker battle squad shined in this game with weaken resolve. I will be taking them more often. I ran off a huge unit of 20 Necron warriors. Some well placed heavy flamer and flamer action helped me to erase my opponents scarab unit. I HATE SCARABS!!! Nasty buggers. My friend conceded and gave me the game and incidentally 3rd place in the tournament. The guy I lost to in the second game won the tourney.
IG Rule #3: ARTILLERY, ARTILLERY, ARTILLERY!!! and..... ARTILLERY!!!!!!!!!!
All in all a great tournament. I had loads of fun. I finally have the list that I feel comfortable with, and I am playing smarter. It took long enough.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
The 91st Steel Legion Takes to the Field
I will be fielding an army that is so close to completion in every which way of painting, conversion, and modelling today in a 40K tournament at the local hobby shop. My list is sick. I have prepped for how to deploy, do target selection, and identify my own vulnerabilities. I am ready. I can only say that I hope to sweep the tournament. I want to have fun doing it, don't get me wrong, but it would be a nice accomplishment for today.
Number one goal- Out shoot Tau. I hate them.
Number two goal- Out fight Grey Knights and Necrons.
Number three goal- Take ibuprofen to game for when my back starts to hurt.
++++Orders++++
+++For the eyes of Colonel Rysm Only+++
+++Location Armageddon space port+++
The 91st Steel Legion Regiment has been ordered to embark for the Bellephron planetary cluster with haste. Traitor and alien battle groups are assembling for an inevitable conflict with the Imperium. Do not show mercy. Purge the alien. Strike down the heretic. For the Emperor of Man!
+++By decree of the Munitorium+++
++++End Transmission++++
Number one goal- Out shoot Tau. I hate them.
Number two goal- Out fight Grey Knights and Necrons.
Number three goal- Take ibuprofen to game for when my back starts to hurt.
++++Orders++++
+++For the eyes of Colonel Rysm Only+++
+++Location Armageddon space port+++
The 91st Steel Legion Regiment has been ordered to embark for the Bellephron planetary cluster with haste. Traitor and alien battle groups are assembling for an inevitable conflict with the Imperium. Do not show mercy. Purge the alien. Strike down the heretic. For the Emperor of Man!
+++By decree of the Munitorium+++
++++End Transmission++++
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