Blood Angels 2 – Tyranids 0

After a good 6 months break from playing 40K, I busted out the Tyrainds against Mike’s Blood Angels. We went all in for a 2500pt game. On that scale I used all my Nid’s and had to beef some of them up with extras, including using some of my space hulk genstealers for a extra unit. Talk about a blood bath. Turn 1 I got hammered, with only about half my force on the board, what was there got pretty slammed. I think I killed 2 marines in turn 1 versus about 18 nids. Turn 2 was pretty much the same thing repeated as Mike went first, although I did get my Trygon and Raveners tunnelling in from reserve. Turn 3 saw me turn the tide as the Tervigon spawned more little beasties and my Hive Tyrant decimated the Sanguinary Guard and Commander Dante, with a little help from the Tervigon. My Hive Guard then took out the Baal Predator, but to late to save my Genestealer from a fiery death. Blaar.. Blarr , Blarrr… I get all my troops killed, the Tervigon and the Hive Tyrant..then can’t hold any objectives. Game over end of turn 4.

Some of the stand out things were the Gargoyles finally making it into close combat (first time ever) although I’ve only played them about 4 times, then all dying in close combat. Both Carnifex’s getting toasted and yet again not getting close to any vehicles… one day it may happen….(

Those Blood Angel chicken tanks just keep running away.

I learnt a few things and remembered to write them down as I went, things like dropping the “Regeneration” ability as it’s just to costly and not worth it.

I remembered my camera this time and took some footage which I’ll put together over the next couple of days.

Time Out – Yes there is a real world out there.

Just got back from a few days off down south with family and friends. It was great to take a break from everything and just relax and chill. On the way home we went via a place called Wingspan, they do displays of the endangered New Zeeland Falcon. So I pulled out the camera and blasted off  lots of pictures. Most of which were backgrounds and blurs, as these little falcons fly at an insane rate, but I did manage to get a couple that are half decent. http://www.wingspan.co.nz

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

I’ve started the new year on the way I intend to continue the year….more toys

I’ve added a Imperial Guard Chimera to my horde, Should be a nice model to test out some air brushing camo effects. I can see myself ending up with an Imperial Army with all those tanks and possibilities. After getting a Tamiya Model Magazine and drooling over the effects that they can do. I also started on my first Flames of War tank… that I was given….yes, why resist.

So this years mantra is

“More Toys, more games, more painting and even more fun”

Happy New Year

Happy New Year.

I’ve started the new year on the way I intend to continue the year….more toys

I’ve added a Imperial Guard Chimera to my horde, Should be a nice model to test out some air brushing camo effects. I can see myself ending up with an Imperial Army with all those tanks and possibilities. After getting a Tamiya Model Magazine and drooling over the effects that they can do. I also started on my first Flames of War tank… that I was given….yes, why resist.

So this years mantra is

“More Toys, more games, more painting and even more fun”

Back in the Game

After a long month off actual gaming, I managed to get in 3 games today against Chris and his Circle army, all 35 point caster kill games.  Chris was running a few variations and trying out new casters and proxying a few models in to see how they worked etc. I ran with my slightly changed running bomb list,  Iron Lich Lord Asphyxious Tier 4 list. Since I know it pretty well I thought that would be a good place to start back in.

I proxied in some Bane Thralls (still waiting on them to be shipped..5 weeks after ordering them )
And played my Necrosurgeon for the first time, which I rather like. In all 3 games I managed to spawn more Mecanithralls without problems, so was worth the 2 points.

The list is really working for me now, I just change out the Thralls to match the opponent. Swapping out Bile Thralls / Bane Thralls and Mechanithalls in various combination is working well. My only issue is that both the ranged weapons on the Reaper and Corruptor have been pretty much redundant, but since I’ve been playing mainly Chris and his Circle with all there dam stealth, I could just be that. But planning on changing to a couple of different heavy’s and see what happens.

Back in the Game

After a long month off actual gaming, I managed to get in 3 games today against Chris and his Circle army, all 35 point caster kill games.  Chris was running a few variations and trying out new casters and proxying a few models in to see how they worked etc. I ran with my slightly changed running bomb list,  Iron Lich Lord Asphyxious Tier 4 list. Since I know it pretty well I thought that would be a good place to start back in.

I proxied in some Bane Thralls (still waiting on them to be shipped..5 weeks after ordering them )
And played my Necrosurgeon for the first time, which I rather like. In all 3 games I managed to spawn more Mecanithralls without problems, so was worth the 2 points.

The list is really working for me now, I just change out the Thralls to match the opponent. Swapping out Bile Thralls / Bane Thralls and Mechanithalls in various combination is working well. My only issue is that both the ranged weapons on the Reaper and Corruptor have been pretty much redundant, but since I’ve been playing mainly Chris and his Circle with all there dam stealth, I could just be that. But planning on changing to a couple of different heavy’s and see what happens.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone, hope Santa has been good to you all. I know he’s been pretty good to me. 
The best words I can find to describe it all is a saying a coined a few years back when the cousins were over from Norway,

“Fat, Full and Happy”

I’ve ended up with a few nice new toys, an awesome desk lamp, one with a magnifying glass in the centre, on a really long arm. The sort they use in beauty salons, so I’ve now got some great lighting at my desk now, gonna have to pickup my game … no excuses now.  Add in a few bottles of scotch, a Space Marine Predator tank. And of course thanks to Santa’s excessive amount of overtime and weekend work this month, I got a spanking new Airbrush and compressor. I can feel the terrain mania starting already.

Early Christmas

While doing my usual Christmas email clean up on the last day of work for the year, I came across this little gem, one of the more funny ones I got sent this year.

After a rather rough month at work, I got a rather nice surprise today. My work vehicle got replaced.
After my little miss hap a week back, they decided it was time to trade it in anyway, so I now have a Nissan X-Trail, 2007 model, with 40,000Km on the clock, but in really good condition. Can’t complain about that, so Christmas is already turning out to be a good one.

WIP: Slow Painted Bacon

Managed to get a bit more paint on my War Pig on Sunday. I picked some nice tips from watching  some of the videos from Miniature Mentors. A much slower process than I normally do, but nice for a change of pace and the results are great.

WIP: Christmas Bacon

After a very long 6 day week at work and a 16 hour hell for leather day moving and installing. I did get in an hour or two in painting. I started on my fist Pig, the War Hog that I got off Mark, with his hand sculpted tree base which is superbly done. Looking forward to rolling out the Pigs this Christmas, having only played them once so far, I can foresee lots of smoked bacon coming up over the holidays….. bit it’s gonna be fun.

I’ve decided to go for a much more fleshy colour for the skin rather than the brown leathery hide look of the PP painted version.

I’ve been playing around with layering lots of thin coats of paint, which is working well. It’s just time consuming putting in 4+ coats for shadows on top of 3 or 4 base coats. It’s a good method for the models you want to put the time into, I’ve still got lots of practice and learning on it to do. I think a bit more practice and getting the paint consistence right will speed up my process hugely.

Looking forward to some holidays and lots of painting and gaming.. roll on Christmas

Perdita and the Ortega Gang

After a hell of a week at work I wasn’t up to using the brain and gaming , I managed to find some time to get in some painting and relax a bit. Ended up over at Mark’s and we spent the day painting and talk about crap. I got stuck into the rest of the Ortega gang while Mark worked on his Flames of War stuff he needed to finish for his job. Cranked up some tunes and yakked about all sorts while painting, it was great just to relax and not worry about rules and being competitive. Think we will need to do that a bit more often, or even look at trying out playing one game in the morning, then spending the rest of the day painting and relaxing.

A bit of basing and a couple of touch up I spotted in the photos and the gang should be ready to rock, I quite enjoyed painting sort of cartoonish colours on them, going to do a similar thing with the Neverborn as well.

I stopped at my local “AO” (Alcoholics Only) A.K.A. The Wine Circle shop on the way home and shouted myself a new bottle of Scotch.. it’s ohhhoooo so nice.. , at 57% barrel strength it has a good kick and goes down nice and smooth, safe to say not much painting going on tonight.

Now all I need to do is learn the rules for Malifaux and finish of my Neverborn Crew.

Bad Things Happen

The motto from Malifaux “Bad things Happen” is very accurate description of my day and week thus far. Third party Muppet’s.. I mean contractors……. (insert a large amount of abusive words) Lets just say my day at work today was completely “Malifauxed” . Note the halo of gas in the above pictures, not something that belongs in a server room with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. Not once… but twice they did this.

On the brighter side of life, I now have the Malifaux rules, so off to consult a crystal glass full of scotch and absorb myself into a world were I could legally kill someone…

WIP: Rutger Shaw

Doing way to much work and not enough painting or gaming but you get that in the silly season. I did manage to almost get Rutger finished, just a few touch up's and basing to go. Then onto some more new toys… my Legion Grotesques arrived today 

Malifaux

Got a bit of painting in tonight after a crazy day at work, started on Perdita from my Ortega gang. Thought I’d try something a little different.

Painting Session

Spent a bit of time today finishing of a few models that I had started a while back.

WIP: Miss Pack (Nurse)

I started on my first Malifaux model last night after spending some time priming a whole lot of models, some 30+ for Wahmachine and Malifaux. The Malifaux Rules book has finally shipped so I’ll that in a week, and then have a couple of gangs ready to go for my Christmas holiday, which I cant wait for.

WIP: Death Jack

Tonight I finished off adding all the spikes and final bits on my Deathjack. He’s a little top heavy on one side so Ill need to be a bit  carefully when he takes the battlefield. But the pose came out pretty much how I wanted it. I really glad I took the time to pin everything other than the spike on his hands, as he’s one heavy beast and I already know he’s going be eating table top far more than I’d like. Looking forward to getting some pain on him and running him for the first time on Friday.

Sunday Gaming

Got in three games on Sunday, and ended up wining all three. Although I should have probably lost second one. I ran the first two with my Legion and the last one with my favourite “Cryx Running Bomb’s” list (Tier 4 Asphyxious). I proxied in some Warhammer 40K Tyranids for some Grotesques in the first game, along with Saeryn for something a bit different and went for a Tier 4 list as well. It was lot of fun with mostly flying stuff, has some potential, so a few more games with the list and it will run alot better. I know I messed up with deployment and my placing could have been better, but cant really complain to much since I won.  Chris’s Circle denial list is a real bugger to break, the only reason I won was his assassination run failed thanks to the Nephilim Protector, then my Angelius was just in charge range of his Warlock…game over in other words.                   

This was my Saeryn list I ran.

Saeryn Omen of Everblight
Nephilim Protector
Angelius
Serpah
Harries x2
Blighted Nyss Grotesques
Nyss Sorceress & Hellion
Spell Martyrs

Here’s a couple of snaps from the iphone as I left my camera at home on the day. The Tyranid Gargoyles worked pretty well for proxies, but hoping to get my Grotesques this week in the mail so I can start use them.

 

WIP: Doc Killingsworth

Not much happening other than to much work and study this week, having an exam coming up. Been chipping away at finally putting together my Death Jack on a Dragon Forge base I’ve have waiting for him. Talk about pinning madness, but it will be worth it in the long run. Also started on Doc Killingsworth.

Bad things happen

Yes, my Malifaux models finally arrived, unfortunately the rule book didn’t, but at least I can start to get them together and get ready for when the book arrives. (I found the pdf online, but you can only read so much from a PDF).

The really great surprise was getting an extra model free, I got two start boxes, The Guild – Perdita and The Neverborn – Lilith, when I opened one of the sealed  boxes to my surprise I had a one Nurse from the Resurrectionst as an extra.. oh what a shame . If I end up liking the game and ecide to get more models, I guess I’ll be getting a Resurrectionst crew.

I’ve got most of them together already. The thing that really struck me as I cleaned them up, was how soft the metal composition is, really soft compared to Warmachine/Hordes models. There is some great fine detail on them, but how long they last will come down to how careful I am when in transit.. I guess time will tell.

I’m a little disappointed in the card decks, having got two, and they are identical other than the colour on the backs of the cards, I think they could have at least done some different pictures on the different packs. But not exactly a bank breaker.