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.

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.

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++++

Flames of War, New Edition News

Flames of War is going to 3rd Edition.  As I have yet to play my 101st Airborne Division army I do not know what this means for me.  Lots of gaming world edition changes of late.  Must be a 2012 thing.  I don't buy into that stuff about 2012 myself.  Odin said it was all hogwash and bilge water at tea today...  Okay, I didn't have tea with Odin.  That would have been cool though, as long as he wasn't there on business.

Infinity Prep Work

I am working on getting my local hobby shop patrons into Infinity the Game.  The models are awesome.  The game rules are fun.  Lastly, the armies are easy to build.  I have my favorite army Ariadna that I am in the process of painting.  I also ordered a Yu Jing starter army to paint up for demo games.  I like all of the armies in Infinity but Ariadna has the coolest units in my opinion.  Here is where I am at with my painting so far.  I need to get a better iPhone so my pictures come in better.  I have a 3GS and I am waiting for the iPhone 5.  That should make things better.  The Droids have great cameras but I do not have a Droid... and won't be getting one either.

This is a few shots of the Ariadna 1st Highlander SAS, Kazak line trooper, Para Commando, and Chasseur.  I will be working on a Kazak Vet, more Kazak line troops, a Zouave Sapper with a heavy machine gun, and the Yu Jing forces next.

Tauros Vehicles

Here is my squadron of Elysian Tauros vehicles.  They are great in battle.  Equip them with extra armor and they are almost unstoppable.  Almost.

Traitor Guard... Not Mine.

No, I do not plan on starting Heretic/Traitor Guard ever.  My friend is working on a Traitor Guard army and it is looking very cool.  Here are some pictures.