Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Goatboy - Tuesday?


It's Tuesday and I am tired. I am changing my schedule a bit - so I will be less tired. Paint time will be the same so life will be nice and toasty. Good times indeed.

Let's start out with my paint list.

Me.
Skulltaker on jugger - Done!
Music Man Jugger - In Pieces
Plastic Dudesmen - Drawn
Logo tweak - Done
Icon Tweak - Done
Ork Art - Drawn
Other art - Drawn

Jens
Raider - need to build and paint
Raider - need to build and paint
This will finish off the job!

Luis P
Mordhiem/Necron/Etc Batch - 11 Guys - Done!
Mordhiem/Etc - Paint up a batch more?

John H
More Space Wolves - Did the test - liked the test will do more!

Ork Flyers - I have one made - depending on how bad I feel after Paintball will determine how much I do this weekend heh.

The Daemon army is almost done. I have one model to do and the two display boards for the team event and my own display board. They will be simple and functional - which I think is important for a traveling 40k warrior. I also need to figure out the foam for the Daemons.

Army list is getting finalized too. I might do one change - but will see if it ends up being worthwile. The other thought would be to drop the Khorne dogs for Seekers as in a lot of ways, on the charge they will do just as well. The issue would be in a paladin fight - the dogs will be more annoying. Argh hard thoughts haha - but all those rending attacks would be pretty awesome.

Depending on how soon the Chaos codex comes out - I might be experimenting with some Thunder Wolf builds to test them out. See if the trick works and other nonsense. I have a crap ton of jump packs so the idea of a "red fleas" army is also interesting too. Still - lots of things to think about.

Will post lists as I write them out for testing. Maybe they will work :).

Models! ArOOO!!







Alright that is it for now -

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Goatboy - Thursday - Oh Yay!


Goatboy is here - doing whatever he does all the time. Write up weird list and get people mad hah. Tonight I hope to get a demon game in to test out my "true" list that I want to play for Adepticon. I just have to do 2 Blood Crushers and it will be done. In fact I am taking this time to get a really nutty Skulltaker done up to make my army stand out. That's my plan anyway.

I got two list - or thoughts with small tweaks.

Here is the Core of the list.


HQ: Skulltaker, Juggernaut
HQ: Herald of Khorne, Juggernaut, Blessing of the Blood God, Fury of Khorne, Unholy might
Elites: Fiends of Slaanesh X 6, Unholy Might
Elites: Fiends of Slaanesh X 6, Unholy Might
Elites: Blood Crushers of Khorne X 5, Musical Instrument, Chaos Icon, Fury of Khorne
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch

From there I either add in two Heralds with Charoits or without and then either Flesh Hounds with the Upgrade or without.

Option 1
HQ: Herald of Tzeentch, Chariot of Tzeentch, Master of Sorcery, Bolt of Tzeentch
HQ: Herald of Tzeentch, Chariot of Tzeentch, Master of Sorcery, Bolt of Tzeentch
FA: Flesh Hounds of Khorne X 10

Option 2
Drop the Musical Instrument on the Crushers then
HQ: Herald of Tzeentch, Master of Sorcery, Bolt of Tzeentch
HQ: Herald of Tzeentch, Master of Sorcery, Bolt of Tzeentch
FA: Flesh Hounds of Khorne X 10, Upgrade guy

I will test them out to see what feels right if I can get in two games. Most likely the initial upgrade one first and then the Charoit one. It really depends on if I want to create Juicy troop targets or just leave them basic to try and make them less "desirable to shoot at".

Creating bad choices is one of the ways to define a good player from an alright player. It also lets better players beat armies that are better on paper. We all know the math and wonder how these "bad" armies beat the so called math god. This is one of the ways - letting opponents make incorrect mistakes on target priority and mission priority.

I still keep thinking of doing a Thunder Wolf Thunder Dome army. It can be a lot of fun and makes for fast games. Here is a thought - basic barebones everywhere else with the punch of Thunder Wolves. One has more wolves and the other is purposefully tricksy.

Trickster!

HQ: Wolf Lord, Thunder Wolf, Powerfist, Storm shield, Fenris Wolves X 2, Saga of the Bear
HQ: Wolf Lord, Thunder Wolf, Frost Blade, Storm shield, Fenris Wolves X 2, Saga of the Warrior Borne
HQ: Canis, Fenris Wolves X 2
HQ: Wolf Priest, Saga of the Hunter
Elites: Wolf Guard X 4, Powerfist X 4, Combi-weapons X 4
Troops: Fenris Wolves X 11
Troops: Grey Hunters X 9, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Drop Pod
Troops: Grey Hunters X 9, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Drop Pod
Troops: Grey Hunters X 9, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Drop Pod
Troops: Grey Hunters X 9, Plasma Gun, Plasma Pistol, Wolf Standard, Drop Pod

1850

This is a tricky list - and can do all sorts of fun stuff with DOW and other options by starting the dogs on the table with the Wolf Priest and then attaching and punching things as needed. The drop pods allow me to recreate the table top as needed and do other options. I think it might have merit. It doesn't have "range" but with Drop Pods it can get to you and blow stuff up as needed. Still it is an odd list.

The other one would utilized a Thunder wolf Cav squad to go about the business.

HQ: Wolf Lord, Thunder Wolf, Powerfist, Storm shield, Wolf Tail Talisman, Fenris Wolves X 2, Saga of the Bear
HQ: Wolf Lord, Thunder Wolf, Frost Blade, Storm shield, Fenris Wolves X 2, Saga of the Warrior Borne
Elites: WG X 10, Combi-Weapons X 10, Powerfist X 4, Drop Pod
Troops: Grey Hunters X 9, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Drop Pod
Troops: Grey Hunters X 9, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Drop Pod
Troops: Grey Hunters X 9, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Drop Pod
Troops: Grey Hunters X 9, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Drop Pod
FA: Thunder Wolf Cav X 3, Storm Shield X 2, Powerfist X 1

Basic and bare bones at 1830. We could put something nutty on the Wolf Lord with Runic Armor but not sure. If you do that you can drop the Saga of the Warrior Borne.

Still - crazy ideas haha.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Goatboy it is Monday!


Woohoo - going to try to update this a bit more as I have to finish up stuff for my Adepticon army as well as some other things. Lots of things in fact hah. As usual I just keep myself busy.

Should have a battle report on BOLS soon - played Darkwynn (Nick) with my Daemons. Lastly till turn 7 lost me the game but it was a lot of fun. My list was not optimized (didn't have the models/paint/etc) but it was still a good exercise in list playing. I think it will do alright as it fits my play style. In your face and angry.

Current - most likely final Daemon list.

HQ: Skulltaker, Juggernaut
HQ: Herald of Khorne, Blessing of the Blood God, Fury of Khorne, Juggernaut
HQ: Herald of Tzeentch, Bolt of Tzeentch, Master of Sorcery
HQ: Herald of Tzeentch, Bolt of Tzeentch, Master of Sorcery
Elites: Blood Crushers X 5, Chaos Icon, Fury of Khorne
Elites: Fiends of Slaanesh X 6, Unholy Might
Elites: Fiends of Slaanesh X 6, Unholy Might
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
FA: Flesh Hounds X 10, Kanark upgrade

Sits aright at 1850 - gives me 14 KP and a lot of dudes on the table top. I am worried about DE - so the bolts will need to get their work done and kill all Venoms asap. If I see Disintegrator's I will also have to kill them too. I need to paint up 20 horrors and 2 Crushers. I am sure Rob is happy I am ordering more minis heh. Will see as I get these things painted up and get more games in.

Paint list

Me.
20 horrors well duh??? - On Sprue
2 Crushers of Khorne - Need to order
2 Display Boards - one is bought the other is not
2 Heralds of Tzeentch - Done Yesterday foo!
Finish base for Dark Eldar flyer - need to glue crap and paint.
Plastic Dudesmen - need to draw!

BOLS
Mantic Corporation guys X 10 - Built & Primed
Contemptor arms from Puppetswar - Got a drill now I can magnetize

John H.
Grey Hunters and other stuff - They are build/some are primed and I need to match a scheme - plan on starting this week

Jens
1 Ravager - Need to Magnetized then paint
2 Raiders - need to build and paint etc

Michael N
Battle Wagon - Done sucka!

Michael S
Paint built flyer - drill holes for other flyer and create bases!

So a busy week most likely. Without the mother-in-law in town I should have the time to get all of this done. Will see what I can do.

I posted an article on BOLS about how Assault doesn't suck. Everytime I read reports I just don't get what game other people are playing. I guess they love the sit and shoot with small MSU armies. That just doesn't make much sense as you only have a turn or so before someone comes knocking on your door and punching your candy out your cheese soaked hands. Blarh nutty stuff indeed.

But still - oh yeah some models. Enjoy!





Monday, March 12, 2012

Goatboy - Monday Late? - tired.


Woohoo - I started up painting a lot of things today. Woohoo! Makes me feel good. Plus I think I finalized my mind on Adepticon for my regular army. Will see if I do well with it. Will post it as I get closer.

Paint list this week.

Me.
10 Horrors of Tzeentch - Built and Primed!
5 Screamers of Tzeentch - Built and Primed! - weird conversion hopefully get them this week.
Plastic Dudesmen - Script in
Art logo stuff - Almost done?
And a new single model conversion - based off random stuff I have or got

Luis P
8 More Mordhiem guys - Primed!
More Mordhiem guys - Who knows how many?

Bols
Mantic Corporation model guys - 10 of them - DONE!
Maybe more?
Maybe the Puppets war contemptor/dread arms!

Jens
Ravager - Done!

There might be other things - but leaving things open. Will see.

I plan on bringing Demons and it depends on what kind of army I feel like. 6 Horrors or 5 with a blob of Nurgle to help sit on my home objective. So will see. I got a crap ton of models from Larry who was cleaning stuff out. So I got more orks hahah. Nutty stuff. Will see if I do anything with them. I also clipped a bunch of sprues this weekend too.

I know not much exciting stuff - but I hope to get a game with Demons this Thursday. That is the hope. So will see. List coming later I swear this week.

Models!






And some art.



More this week. I swear!

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Goatboy - Woohoo


Yup - sorry for the lack of updates. Today will be a slow one - I am mentally recovering from 40k after the Bay Area Open. I had a great time and will do a quick write up on it in a bit - then my paint ideas for the week then some lists. A big one woohoo!

So with that - Let's begin.

Bay Area Open

Pros -
1. Well Run - Reese and crew did a great job. Wish it was easier to see the pairings but I think that means I need glasses.
2. Easy to follow missions - Man that was a dream. I had no questions during the game beyond rules. Super simple
3. Awesome prize support - They gave out a lot of stuff. Those guys rocked!

Cons -
1. The Location - I know it is cheap but beyond the kick stand flushing in the bathrooms it was a bit dumpy.
2. Far away - there wasn't a whole lot of stuff nearby. It was fine for me but if my wife came down she might have been bored.
3. Terrain - there needs to be more LOS blocking terrain. I felt that a lot of the times it was a shooting gallery with very little LOS blocking and very little Area terrain as well. Easy to fix and we know how hard it is to get terrain set up - give an event 2 - 3 years and it will look awesome on the table tops.

So with that I will come back again. The flight was great (ya JetBlue rocks!) and it was a great time. I even got to feel an Earthquake. Woohoo! Knock that shit off my list!

You saw the list from before here it is again.

HQ: Rune Priest, Chooser of the Slain, JaWs, Living Lightning
HQ: Rune Priest, Chooser of the Slain, Meltabombs, Living Lightning, Murderous Hurricane
Elites: WG X 10, Terminator Armor X 2, CML X 2, Combi-Melta X 5, Powerfist X 5, Storm Bolter X 3, Drop Pod
Elites: Lone Wolf, Terminator Armor, Chainfist, Storm Shield
Elites: Lone Wolf, Terminator Armor, Chainfist, Storm Shield
Troops: Grey Hunters X 8, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Rhino, Dozerblade
Troops: Grey Hunters X 8, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Rhino, Dozerblade
Troops: Grey Hunters X 9, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Rhino, Dozerblade
Troops: Grey Hunters X 9, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Rhino, Dozerblade
Troops: Grey Hunters X 9, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Drop Pod

I have what I would change in an upcoming BOLS article. So wait on that woohoo!

So let's get that report started.

RD1 - Versus IG - Tim D - Nice fluffy IG list. Dawn of War - Won 3-0.

Basically I weathered some beatings and got there. He failed I think 4 or 5 Leadership checks in one turn (orders X 2 and two leadership tests after taking wounds). It was just one of those games. Murderous Hurricane on the blob helped me keep it in place. Both Lone Wolves survived the entire game - one with one wound as they rain around the table. They blew up some Vehicles as well. Tim had some Swedish fish that were delicis!

Lone Wolves - 4 - 0

RD 2 - Ryan C - Blood Angels - Mephiston/Sanguinor friends forever! We drew down the line on this one. I won one (Multiple Objectives), He won another (KP) and we drew on Capture and Control (I took his, he got mine heh). This was a rough game. I really wish I had plasma for those squads so I can pepper them down. I can take out one guy but not two running around. Meph only got one wings off though (when I wasn't in range - we both laughed about that). Close game that was a lot of fun. I got lucky with this one for sure.

Lone Wolves - 0 - 2

Rd 3 - Can't remember the guys name - He didn't get a printed list and had it on his phone. Blood Angels - 9 Dreadnoughts, 15 DC, and 5 Regular dudes. Wow this list was a lot of brutality. Lucky it was a pitched battle deployment on this one. I won 2-1 (KP and Sieze Ground) and we drew on Capture and control. I couldn't kill his 5 man squad. I stole the iniative and just started blowing up jerks. I almost had the ultimate Lone Wolf moment but failed one 3+ save. Grr - blowing up two dreads would have been awesome. My army was a bad match up as I just grinded him down. He had 3 troops left to hold his objective, the DC, Immobolized Furioso and a one armed Furioso.

Lone Wolves - 1 - 2

Rd 4 - Demetri - Necrons. He had a crazy death star unit - 3 blobs of Immortals and 6 Heavy Destroyers and another Lord. I won this one 3-0 as I killed everything but the Death Star. It was Obyrn, 2 Time Crypteks, and 5 Lords with Mindshacke, 3 with 2+ (one with an orb) and 2 with 3++ saves. I only killed one guy with 4 JaWs during that game. He would always fail one out of the 3 and then reroll that. The game was a lot of fun and my army is a bad match up as I got there and started grinding down. I broke some units, chased them off the board and left that fat ass unit alone because they made me scared. It did kill two Lone Wolves (One failed mindshackle and couldn't hurt himself (yay 3++). Good game for sure and Demetri is a cool cat.

Lone Wolves - 0 - 2

Rd 5 - TastyTaste - Daemons. I stayed with Tasty over the weekend. I won this game by one on KPs to take it in the end. He even said he was going to start losing on the second day and I was the jerk to start it. Tasty played very well and some clutch rolls by my part helped me out. I did do a crazy amount of wounds to the crusher unit and like a boss Tasty made almost all of them. The army gave me ideas for later ones for Adepticon as this tournament had a crap ton of GK and there are ways to make good armies out of Daemons VS GK, Marines, and IG. So with that in mind I might have my new list heh. Nick rocked and it was a good game as we butted heads in the Bay. Oh like a boss I made Tasty go first. Remember make Daemons go first so you can shoot them in the no no place.

Lone Wolves - 1 - 1

Rd 6 - Brian M - Dark Eldar. This was one of those games where Goatboy is supposed to win. I siezed the Initiative and started blowing up paper airplanes from the beginning. Usually 3 per turn and that was all she wrote. It was just one of those games. One Lone Wolf killed a bunch of things. The other died sad. I got 2 out of the 3 during this game. Very nice guy and friends of the BA player with Sang and Meph.

Lone Wolves - 3 - 1

Rd 7 - Christian and the eventual winner. IG with 6 Hydras, 3 Vendettas, and lots of Vet squads with mostly melta to plasma. This game was brutal. Every shot blew up a vehicle. I was able to keep my Base safe enough. I failed one Dangerous terrain check on the last guy to tie on KP. Lone Wolves failed some saves which sucked and I think they killed one thing. Still a hard as hell game and I am glad I tied it. The terrain didn't have enough LOS to let me sneak up and try to use Reserves. Christian was cool as hell and we were both wearing Pink Kimonos to showcase our awesomeness. His buddy Steve was cool as shit for getting them and I drew on the back of his as well as mine.

Lone Wolves - 1 - 2

So I went 5-0-2 and got 4th in a closely tested race for 2-3. I also got the Best Space Wolves player with my strange Wolf list. Good times indeed. Not to shabby for a Texas boy hitting up the sunny state of California. I had In and Out burger twice (Awesome!) and found one of the coolest stores around at End Games as well as Battle Bunker Games (Holy shit - this store is awesome with the amount of stuff in there - played Battle Tech Pods too!). An awesome trip for sure and gets me motivated for Adepticon as well.

Alright that is out of the way - paint list. It will be small.

Myself
Plastic Dudesmen - Need to finish one panel
JWolf Art - Done - need to color
Get some Daemons - need to get some damnit!
Beaky Con Art - Done!
Ohio Warhammer Art - Need to do this weekend!
Bols Review stuff?

Luis P
10 More Mordhiem - Primed!
10 More Mordhiem - need to build!

Jens
Dark Eldar Ravager - Need to get magnets to finish
Dark Eldar Ravager - Get Magnets at least

Next week is the Start to finish these ork flyers. Its taking too long damnit. Need to go get a drill too.

I just preorder my Ipad. Or as I call it - my book holder. It is my big tech purchase for the year. Woohoo!

And from there - some lists. I got asked about a Thunder Wolf List - this is the idea I had for Adepticon. It is a bit odd - but it is a initial thought.

HQ: Wolf Lord, Thunder Wolf, Saga of the Bear, Storm Shield, Powerfist, Wolf Tail Talisman, Fenris Wolves X 2
HQ: Wolf Lord, Thunder Wolf, Saga of the Wolfkin, Storm Shield, Frost Blade, Fenris Wolves X 2
HQ: Wolf Priest, Saga of the Hunter, Fenris Wolves X 2
Elites: WG X 4, Powerfist X 4, Combi-Melta X 4
Troops: Grey Hunters X 8, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Rhino, Dozerblade
Troops: Grey Hunters X 8, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Rhino, Dozerblade
Troops: Grey Hunters X 8, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Rhino, Dozerblade
Troops: Grey Hunters X 8, Meltagun, Wolf Standard, Rhino, Dozerblade
Troops: Fenris Wolves X 9
Heavy: Long Fangs X 6, ML X 5
Heavy: Long Fangs X 6, ML X 5

1849 on the nose. You can swap the Rhinos for Drop Pods so who knows. But this might be the right bit of punch mixed with hard nosed objective holding. The Saga is set up for Dawn of war. You can start the 9 Dogs with the Wolf Priest on the table - make a line back to your edge and when your Wolf Lord buds come on you join up and create a lovely line of ass kicking. Not sure how well it will work but it looks neat on paper.

Daemons - Might take them - they can screw up GK pretty royally.

HQ: Skulltaker, Juggernaut
HQ: Herald of Khorne, Juggernaut, Blessing of the Blood God, Unholy Might
HQ: Herald of Tzeentch, Bolt of Tzeentch, Master of Sorcery
HQ: Herald of Tzeentch, Bolt of Tzeentch, Master of Sorcery
Elites: Fiends of Slaanesh X 6
Elites: Fiends of Slaanesh X 6
Elites: Bloodcrushers of Khorne X 5, Chaos Icon
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
Troops: Horrors of Tzeentch X 5, Bolt of Tzeentch
FA: Blood Hounds of Khorne X 15

1850 on the nose and feels just - pretty haha. Covering the board in nonsense and bolts. You have 8 Bolts to pop rhinos, a super fat central unit and the cheatiest of cheat with the Fiends. I should be able to pop rhinos and other options as the teeth get close to the unit. The crushers are designed to be a central threat and give some punch when needed.

The lack of DP's are due to the Dark Eldar and getting peppered with poison. Just a bunch of jerks those guys hah.