Yeah - sorry for the lack of updates. I have been out of town at an event plus finishing up the Wargames Raffle army. Fun fun fun. So if you have been reading this - you know I went to the Alamo 40k Gt this past weekend in San Antonio. To cut to the chase - I got 2nd Overall and went 4-1 and had a could ass kicking by Tau in Game 4. Fun times!
Here is the list I brought - I would do some changes if I played it again - they will be at the end. I don't know what to do Versus Tau but going Big will hopefully get you there. Will see if Eldar are going to be a kick to the teeth with my flavor of Slaanesh pain.
HQ: Keeper of Secrets, Greater Gifts X 2, Lvl 3 Psyker
HQ: Herald of Tzeentch, Exalted Gift, Lvl 3 Caster, Locus of Conjuration
HQ: Herald of Tzeentch, Exalted Gift, Lvl 3 Caster
Troops: Plague Bearers X 10
Troops: Plague Bearers X 10
Troops: Pink Horrors X 20, Iridescent Horror
Heavy: Daemon Prince, MoS, Armor, Wings, Greater Gift X 2, Lvl 3 Psyker
Heavy: Daemon Prince, MoS, Armor, Wings, Greater Gift X 2, Lvl 3 Psyker
Heavy: Daemon Prince, MoS, Armor, Greater Gift X 2, Lvl 3 Psyker
RD 1 - Versus - Darryl with Drop Pod Space Wolves
His list - 3 Rune Priests, 3 sets of 4 ML + 1 Plasma Cannon Long Fangs, 4 Grey Hunter Packs with Pods - Double Melta X 2, Melta X 1, Flamer X 1
Mission
Primary - 5 Objectives - Win = 14pts Tie = 7 Loss = 4
Secondary - Control more Table Quarters - Win = 4pts Loss = 0
Tertiary Objectives - First Blood, Line Breaker, Slay the Warlord
Set up - Modified Hammer and Anvil (slightly smaller thing)
I went first, flew forward to do some damage and rolled a 3 on the Warp Storm table. My super awesome Flying DP with Iron Arm, Warp Speed, and Endurance exploded when he roll like a 14 on the Instability test. I think I failed Endurance too so yeah - boom there goes first Blood haha. I still just took it with a grin (it is how you play Daemons) and move on. Darryl dropped aggressively and he stopped like 10 out of 12 spells when I tried to cast. Lucky for me one was a Hallucination and I was able to roll a 3 on one Rune Priest unit. That let my Keeper get in, get to killing and just allow me to grind him down. I ended up having 3 Objectives to 1 and had 2 table quarters to his 1. I left his Warlord and Grey Hunters group alive in the end.
Warp Storm highlights/lowlights - Rolled 3 two times in a row - one lost me First Blood the other I rolled low. Yay!
Win for me - 18-5
RD 2 - Versus - Brian with Daemons as well
His list - Herald of Nurgle w/Locus of the Funk X 2, Herald of Tzeentch w/Locus of Conjuration, Bloodthirster with 2 Greater Reward, 20 Plague Bearers, 13 Plague Bearers, 20 Pink Horrors, 7 Beasts of Nurgle, 6 Screamers of Tzeentch, 2 Nurgle Grinders with Phlem
Mission
Primary - 3 Objectives - Win = 13 Tie = 7 Loss = 4
Secondary - Most units in no mans land in the middle
Tertiary - First Blood, Slay the Warlord
Set Up - Vanguard Strike - Middle is No Mans Land
I let Brian go first, I got some good spells and just came forward and slowly picked him apart. It was a bit of a rough game as it seemed to just south for him. I was able to move up with Daemon Princes, pick apart the Soul Grinders and I think the Warp Storm did more damage to me. The Warp Storm was not nice to me this weekend haha. I ended up killing all his models in the end.
Warp Storm highlights/lowlights - I killed a few of my guys with random rolls as usual. I think I got one Screamer so it was a wash for me.
Win for me - 19-4
RD 3 - Versus - Mike with Space Marines
His list - Captain on a bike with Toys, Bike Squad with Plasma Guns X 2 and Fist Sarge, 10 Man Tactical Squad with Plasma Gun/Lascannon, 3 Man MM attack bike squad, Storm Talon, Thunderfire Cannon, Devs with Missile Launchers, Rune Priest, and 10 Grey Hunters with 2 Flamers and a Rhino.
Mission
Primary - Purge the Alien - Win = 18 Tie = 9 Loss = 4
Secondary Objectives - First Blood, Slay the Warlord
Set Up - Dawn of War
Mike is a "local" from Killeen. Nice fluffy list and a good player all around. This was not a good match up as it is hard to get KP from me and I can easily get them from him. The Highlight of this was stealing his Thunderfire cannon 3 times with Puppet Master. That thing did a lot of damage for me and I wish I could have one too haha. Still a good player and he did well for the event.
Win for me - 20-5
Warp Storm highlights/lowlights - Nothing to note - it was a pretty lame one. Grim Book did good for me this game as well as Warp Fire
RD 4 - Versus - Brandon with Tau
His list - Broadsides X 3, 2 Hammerheads, Etheral, Devil Fish X 3 with Fire Warriors with Pulse Carbines and EMP Grenades, 3 12 Man Tau Fire Warrior Squads, Cadre Guy, Aegis Line with Quad Gun, and 3 sets of 4 man Pathfinder units.
Mission
Primary - Big Guns Never Tire - You need to get scoring units in your opponents Deployment Zone - that was the objective. Win = 16 Tie = 8 Loss = 4
Secondary Objectives - Destroy the most Heavy Support Units - 4 pts for the Win
Set up - Modified Hammer and Anvil like above
Brandon is my coworker and buddy. I talked about this game a bit but I lost two DP's turn one. The Grim Book did not work for me and there was no point in finishing it. Brandon ate me a bit and gave me some ideas to try out to work versus Tau. I don't think it is unbeatable but it is very hard hah.
Loss for me - 20-4
Warp Storm Highlights/lowlights - nothing as I just played one round. I ate brunch with Brandon and my wife and had a nice time - so that's a win.
RD 5 - Versus - Chris with Daemons
His list - My Bloodthirster with 2 Greater Gifts, Keeper of Secrets with Exalted Gift, Lvl 2 Caster, and a Greater Gift, 2 DP's of Slaanesh with Wings and Gifts etc with Lvl 3 Casting, 2 sets of 16 Bloodletters, and 2 sets of Daemonettes as well.
Mission
Primary - Purge the Alien - Win = 14 Tie = 7 Loss = 4
Secondary - Pick 4 total Elite, Heavy, and FA - Kill them get 4 Points max
Tertiary - Slay the Warlord and Line Breaker
Set up - Dawn of War
This was the game where I just had better Psychic powers. I did do something dumb and give his Thirster a 3+ FNP (he had a 4+ and I tried to Warp Flame him out). I played defensive, he came in to punch me, I knocked guys down and was able to control the game from there. The one walking Iron Armed jerk punched his Thirster and I ended up winning in the end.
Win for me - 20-7
Warp Storm Highlights/Lowlights - Rolling a 4 during your turn versus Daemons is pretty boss. That whip becomes nasty hehe. I really wanted a Lord of Change and the 3rd flying DP.
So yeah in the end I got 2nd Overall a new Dreadknight kit that I plan on Daemoning up and I ended up grabbing the Tau the winner got because he was not happy with his games of kicking butt and not enjoying it. I plan on making Angry Tau for the heck of it with a Farsight bomb nonsense idea. I don't want to buy too much just looking at trying it out to see if I can get some finger flipping Tau Jerks. I will talk about it later on.
Here is the new list I would play if I had to redo it all.
HQ: Keeper of Secrets, Greater Gift X 2, Lvl 3 Caster
HQ: Lord of Change, Greater Gift X 2, Lesser Gift, Lvl 3 Caster
Troops: Pink Horrors X 10, Iridescent Horror
Troops: Pink Horrors X 10, Iridescent Horror
Troops: Pink Horrors X 10, Iridescent Horror
Heavy: Daemon Prince, MoS, Greater Gift X 2, Wings, Armor, Lvl 3 Caster
Heavy: Daemon Prince, MoS, Greater Gift X 2, Wings, Armor, Lvl 3 Caster
Heavy: Daemon Prince, MoS, Greater Gift X 2, Wings, Armor, Lvl 3 Caster
This is what I plan on making and tweaking the Daemon Princes I have etc. For those that have seen my cards - shoot me an email if you want them. I plan on making Nid ones as well in the next few days for those that wanted them.
Woohoo - with that done - the Paint list - some models and well - yeah!
Paint List
Me
7 Plague Marines for Wargames Con Army - Done!
5 Havocs with Autocannons - Just built tonight - paint maybe tomorrow?
1 Lord of Change Test Design - Dreadknight is gonna get crazy!
1 Test Angry Tau - This will be fun
Plastic Dudesmen - Script done, Drawing Done - Need to color
Logo for Frontline Gaming thing - Drawn - need to tweak to figure out
Luis
2 Terminators - Primed
Some number of Vets
Drop Pod - Yup!
Jens
Build the Hammerhead/Skyray etc - it is sitting there looking at me
I think I need to email some people who were talking about commissions. Will see if it gets filled up this month. It has been a bit rough/slow etc so hopefully it will pick up a bit. Wargames Con will see me try to sell off my Grey Knights - when I get a chance to count it all out will see if someone wants it. It is a ton of Purifiers, Strikes, Dreads, and Rhinos etc. Fun times indeed - and as usual I will be drawing etc there.
Models to check out as well.
My Slaanesh Herald - Combi Dark Eldar plus Slaanesh bits.
Converted Heldrake - much easier to fly with
Plague Marines - they got infected by some kind of parasite growth.
