I survived Wargames Con

That's what kept me from posting an update this past weekend. So today I try to remedy that haha.  I got my ATC list - but no chatter yet on it cuz it has to be a secret or Nick gets mad at me haha.

Wargames Con - went 3-1-1 and lost to Crons pretty bad.  It made up for the beating I put on a Crons player round 3 - sorry Aaron that my army just went off like a jerk.

Army I played

DA/SW/Knights

2 Big Gun Knights with Rockets

Chaplain, Bike
Ravenwing Command, Apoc, Grenade, Banner
Scouts

WGBL with all the toys
Iron Priest, Thunder, Cyber X 4
Iron Priest, Thunder, Cyber X 4

Basic memory of games

Rd 1 - Some objectives all over the place - Played Vince who is friend with some El Paso peoples I like.  He was the guy who got Top 8 at LVO with the Brass Scorpion.  Rough as hell list.  I ended up just having 2 Knights left.  Basically a strong Summon center using Grim Scorpion.  I won this one due to the dice just wanting me to win.  I knocked off 2 Hull Points of the Scorpion through a 2+ inv save in one turn.  Yeah Math!  Awesome game and a good start to the weekend.

Rd 2 - Aaron with Null Deploy style Crons - Wraithstar, some stuff, Destroyer Cult.  Aaron put just the star and some Warriors hiding.  He busted his solar staff one turn and the next I was able to kill off the Entire Wraith Star thru grenade, guns, and a massive assault.  It was kind of nutty how much damage I put out.  Learned the the Wraiths only get to reroll save if they have RP up.  Woot big win for me here.  There were no metallic dead left.

Rd 3 - Carter - knows a lot of the Mississippi guys.  Playing Dark Eldar with Eldar. Venom spam.  It was the Relic so he had to come up and I just started opening up Venoms.  Things I learned at this one - Fire Dragons will kill a knight with one round of shooting.  Let alone if I even charge them.  Good sport and good game.  I ended up drawing on his Table War case as it had the flat side.

Off to a 3-0 record with an army I just threw together.  The dream ran off the rails the next 2 rounds though.

Rd 4 - Local Matt - CC Nids.  With my knights being objective secured this game was not going to be a cake walk.  We've run through the scenarios if I run Obj Sec knights and I just end up winning.  Swarm, 2 Malanthropes, Tervigon, Endless Swarm guys, Trygon, and that FW super Big Assault guy.  He generates 2 table edges so it can be a pain for an army without massed Obj secured guys that are hard to kill.  I ended up winning Primary he got Secondary and we both got the same Tertiary.  True draw.  Wasn't very fun for him - which I understand as he couldn't kill my knights. I killed his one chance with the FW assault guy through not a ton of firepower and 3+ cover save. Mo Dakka!

Rd 5 - John from El Paso with his Crons.  I had some hot rolls and this was the end of that as John killed Knights through massed 6 Gauss and positioning.  He couldn't remove the Death Star but man those knights went down so fast without doing much of anything.  I took off some Hull Points and killed some guys.  Rough as hell and a good butt whippin I deserved.

I went 3-1-1 and got 2nd best appearance!  Frigging cool I got that and didn't expect it at all.  Reese and them show that they just know how to run events smoothly and professionally.  I really appreciate the chance to get to play and have a good weekend for Father's day.

Enough of that - let's look at my paint list and then some models.

Me.
Paint this cool as hell Thunder Wolf Werewolf thingie built by my buddy Delgado.  I get to see him at ATC woot!
BoLS quick DA review
BoLS random review on something neat.
Work on parts of the ATC army as I will borrow some things
Art for The Long War
Art for another commission -
Probably more art.

Bryce
Build and Paint the Spartan Assault Tank - finishes the commission

Lance
Chaos Space Marine order

Luis
Lemartes
Drop Pods - need to build 2 more
Command Squad on Bikes for regular Marines - need to build some more

Don
More Cryx cuz he hates me

Gavin
Space Hulk woot!

I am sure some other stuff I am forgetting.  I always get sleepy after vomiting out a ton of random 40k nonsense.

I have some other stuff that will be set up too.  Looks like a ton of bikers.

Models and arts

Termies done!

METAL!!!

Fixed it had to do some crazy missile stuff.

You like some Plasma with your soup?

So Old!!

Nick used these as Ironclad Dreadnoughts

Dragonball Reese vs DragonBallz Frankie!

Goatboy's Thursday Posts?

Woohoo - another week and a half and a ton more stuff done.  I just keep chunking things out as usual.  I just keep busy.  Lately my output is hamper a bit by my lovely child - so I am just making sure I get quality time.  Paint at first then building at times as my brain starts to shut down.  It is probably the reason for random updates too.  My fault haha.  But oh well.   Lets start with my paint list.

Paint List
Me
BoLS article - might be titled I don't want no Apocalpyse in my 40k!
Destroyer Cult for 500 pt event - Lord, 2 sets of Destroyers are done - one more to do tonight
No idea what else... I think I might be the Necron lord clam shell to do for new army

Chris C
Talos #3 - Primed
Talos #4 - Getting built
Talos #5 - Waiting to come in
Cronos #1 - Primed
Wracks X 10 - Built

Christian
Plague Drones X 6 - should be in soon.  It got shipped earlier this week.

Alan/Will
Soaking the LR Spartan thinge - will hopefully build it late Sunday night after event

Luis
Drop Pod - Built and Primed
Storm Raven - Need to fix
5 Man Command squad for Marines - Grav etc using some FW bikes
I think something else have to look haha - more pods too.

Don S
Cryx cuz he hates me!

I have some other stuff coming in - a clean up/paint up of some Nids - doing a test first to make sure. There is also looking at a FW order thing with Zhufor. It is in the talk phases so will see.  Beyond that there is always stuff for myself I want to get done.  I found my Necron Scheme and I want to continue on with it.  It isn't dirty or broken looking so yay something different.

Got a 500 pt event this weekend.  I am taking a newly painted Destroyer Cult.  The Lord has a Warscythe but that is it.  It should be fun and I like how they are painted haha.  The rules are no characters over 150 pts and limits on 2+ saves so it should be alright.  Plus it got me to get started on my Necron army.  I think I am going to get some tubs to set up army builds - that way I can put stuff in and pull it out when I want to start working on it.  I have this Ork army with a Stompa I want to do real bad.

Necron initial build Idea

Necron CAD
Orikan the Diviner
Cryptek, Solar Staff
Lychguard X 9, Night Scythe
Immortals X 5
Immortals X 5
Tomb Blades X 10, Nebuloscope X 10

Destroyer Cult Formation
Destroyer Lord, Warscythe, Nightmare Shroud, Phase Shifter
Destroyers X 3
Destroyers X 3
Destroyers X 3

Canoptek Harvest Formation
Spyder
Wraiths X 6, Whip Coils X 6
Scarabs X 3

I have most of this - probably juts need one box of Lychguard and then a Tomb Spyder.  I should have enough random Scarabs laying around or can ask a buddy for some.  It just seems fun and simple and feels random enough to let me out play my opponent instead of out mathing my opponent.

After painting the Destroyer Cult I am going to do the Canoptek Harvest.  That way I can work on units/parts/etc. at a time and still keep up with commissions.

Orks will be coming as I want to get a Stompa working at some point.  Pajama Pants showed it can be done and once we see how the Eldar pan out with events - it might be worth it to invest and look at.  But man those Dscythes will suck butt.  Just need to build my crazy Ork Bike death squad damnit.

Models to look at

Woot - bloody and evil.  Like the technical paint - gonna try that mars red stuff soonish.  Need to buy it too hah.

This guy is pretending to be an airplane!!! ARROOOOO!!!!

This guy is out to get some butter and chocolate to make you a cake.  A death CAKE!!!!

BLUE - not dirty or rusty!  Lava bases cuz well - a display board I have will be lava so might as well match them all to it.

He tells you what to do! King Hater!

More guys - squad # 2 woot!

Speeder storm - gonna fun a Heavy flamer to replace the bolter - All the guys in the back are magnetized to come out.

The guy in the back is checking out the front guys bald spot.

Scouts?

Scouts?

Goatboy's Things and Such

Played at Railhead Rumble last weekend - if you read up on it I won Best Overall.  Pretty stoked about it as it means my paint, sports, and battle points were the best.  Some people think that is the only way to measure the game is getting Best General - while fine in its own right - just feels like it is too much pressure to be a jerk sometimes with your army list.

HQ: Chapter Master, Bike, Art Armor, Pfist, Auspex, Shield Eternal

HQ: Chaplain, Bike, Meltabombs

HQ: Command Squad, Bikes, Meltabombs X 4, Grav Guns X 4, Apoc

Troops: Scouts X 10, Combi-Grav, Meltabomb

Troops: Scouts X 10, Combi-Melta, Meltabomb

Heavy: Centurion Devastators X 3, Grav Cannon/Amp X 3, Omni Scope

HQ: Wolf Guard Battle Leader, Runic Armor, PF, Storm Shield, Thunder Wolf

HQ: Rune Priest, Lvl 2, Meltabomb, Runic Armor

Elite: Iron Priest, Thunder Wolf, Cyber Wolves X 4

Elite: Iron Priest, Thunder Wolf, Cyber Wolves X 4

FA: Drop Pod

FA: Drop Pod

So meh!

Quick rundown of games. Railhead had a betting system to decide your games.  You had 2 points and it went something like this.

Deployment
0 - Recon (special one that was a pain - just go to their site to see it)
1 - Dawn of War
2 - Hammer and Anvil
3 - Vanguard

Mission
0 - Relic
1 - Kill Points
2 - Crusade
3 - Emperor's Will

My army just had the single unit that would deploy so I really didn't care about much.  I had a decent amount of Kill Points - but they were wrapped up in a super unit so it was hard to pull that much from me.  All but one game was Kill Points and I played Dawn of War 3 times, Hammer and Anvil once and finally Recon.

Quick rundown of games.

Rd1 - Ben Mohile (Crap and I stayed with him too haha) with Necrons. Decurion detachment, plus Destroyer thing with a fat unit of Lychguard.
Dawn of War and Kill Points
Rolled Perfect Timing (Cast it once) Prescience and Misfortune
Well this is a great pull for round 1 right.  One of the other members from Team Texas and a damned awesome player too.  He got me bad the first time we played at the Boyz and I wanted revenge.  This game was all about my Apocathery from the command squad.  I failed a lot of armor saves but I was so hot on my FNP rolls that it didn't matter.  This game it came down to a bad mishap on his Deathmarks (they died) and it left me usually 2 ahead on Kill Points throughout the game.  He couldn't throw his Lych guard into my rock and I got lucky knocking down a Night Scythe with my Centurion Devs.
I ended up winning this one so yay go me.  I wanted to go 3-2 this event and I got my revenge against Ben.  Wife was like - is he gonna make you sleep on the streets hahah.

Rd2 - Another Ben with White Scars.  Khan, Command squad, Thunderfire, Hunter, and lots of bikes.
Dawn of War and Kill Points
Perfect Timing, Prescience, Forewarning
Another Kill Point game and it came down to me gutting his Command Squad and slowing taking out bits and pieces from his army.  I got ahead on Kill Points and he would have to get to close to allow me to assault with my super unit.  His Warlord was driving around and causing issues as he broke away and didn't let me go after him.  Good game and a lot of fun - I think the initials drop from the centurions was a bit too much when I took out a good section of his Command squad and then my super unit got into Khan and friends to remove them.

Rd3 - Brad playing Eldar.  He posts on DakkaDakka with his blue Eldar army. 6 Serpents, 4 Dire Avengers, 2 Fire Dragons, Auratach on foot, 2 Swooping Hawks units and 2 Wraithknights.
Dawn of War and Kill Points again
Perfect Timing (Way too good in this game), Precog and Prescience
This one was all about the Centurion Devs doing work.  They came down - killed one Wraithknight and then ended up killing the second one later.   They Removed one Wave Serpent, killed the unit out of it and then immobilized the other.  I was able to get rid of all the Fire Dragons and the 2 Swooping Hawks as Brad tried to keep me from getting into his lines by blocking me off.  I got most of my characters down to one wound each and they ran off and hide while I was up on KPs.  It was a rough go for him from the beginning but Brad toughed it out.  Good player and a fun game.

Woot - 3-0 day 1 is pretty good.  I already did what I wanted to do without a Chaos Daemons army.

Rd 4 - John with White Scars plus a Knight - Khan, Command, 3 Biker Units, Thunder Fire, 2 Storm Talons
Hammer and Anvil plus Kill Points
Prescience, Forewarning, Foreboding
John scouted up and tried to seize.  That's when my army pounced - killed 2 bike units and the centurion Devs killed a Thunderfire and put a hull point with their brown noise on the Knight. After that the Knight kind of derped around as it tried to get into them and still shoot my stuff.  He failed 3 charges and ended up getting Graved out.  I assaulted Khan and another bike squad round 2 and it just left his two Storm Talons left.  It was a rough game and John took it like a champ.  I had this huge template that had a scratch on it for a Knight explosion.  I gave it to John and he used it to kill Nick's Warlord in his round 5 with an explosion.  I call that a win.

Rd 5 - Matt from Austin who won Best General with Dark Eldar with Eldar.  Auratach on a bike, 1 Bike squad, 1 Reaver Squad - lots of Venoms, 3 Ravagers with Disintegrators, 1 Wraith Knight, Raider with Lama thingies and 3 units of the shadow daemon dark elder things - Mandrakes I think.
Recon and Emperor's Will
Prescience, Perfect Timing, Misfortune
This is where my luck when out the window.  I haven't played Matt yet locally and that is more due to the baby coming and me not always having enough time to throw down on Thursday nights.  I had a good game even though I lost and had fun playing Matt.  He kicked my butt and at least let me kill some things to feel good about myself.  I ended up losing but knew my other scores kept me pretty high in the rankings and I should be ok with Best Overall which I ended up winning.  So yay! I failed like 9 2+ saves to venoms and failed all the FNP.  I blame Ben's game for taking all those damned saves from me.  BAD TOUCH GETS HIS REVENGE!!!

Good event and a lot of fun - so thanks to Will and crew for putting it on.

Paint list
Me
Command Squad Idea # 1 - need to build
Command Squad Idea # 2 - need to build
Libbie on Bike 1 - need to build
Libbie on Bike 2 - need to build
Iron Priest #3 - need to build
Iron Priest #4 - need to build
WGBL #2 - need to build
Evil Scouts #1 - need to build
Evil Scouts #2 - need to build
Art for the Long War - Character stuff

Nick Rose
Speed Adepticon fix
Libbie
Dreadnought
Fix bases
Finish partly painted Centurions

James L
Riptide #2 - Primed and set up to get done
Drones for it - Primed and set up to get done
Riptide #3 - need to build
Big gun ship thingie - can't remember name need to build

Christian
1 unit of custom built nurgling - Built and Primed
1 unit of normal Nurglings - need to build

Luis
5 Scouts - primed

Will
6 Chaos Spawn
1 FW LR thingie with lascannons

Brandon V
Wedding gift thingie - Eldar woohoo!  Finished all them damned LOTD

I am sure I am forgetting other things - will see.

Rush job to get done before Adepticon - I got one more to do too - for someone else.

This started out as a Groot from Disney Infinity - now it is a C'Tan woohoo!

Iron Priest 1

Iron Priest 2

Art

Goatboy's Monday Shenanigans

Woot - Monday before the LVO.  I got in a 1500 tournament this weekend and tested out some parts of the LVO build.  Here is the basic breakdown of the games.

List
LOC, Greater Gifts X 2, Lesser Gift, Lvl 3
LOC, Greater Gifts X 2, Lesser Gift, Lvl 3
Daemonettes X 20
Daemonettes X 20
Daemonettes X 20
Soul Grinder, MoS, Baleful Torrent
Soul Grinder, MoS, Baleful Torrent

Game 1 - Joe G - CSM - Tzeentch - Ahriman, Sorc in Terminator Armor, 5 Termies with Combi Weapons/Reaper, 15 Cultists w/Tzeetch X 2, 10 CSM Tzeentch, 8 or so Thousand Sons, Helbrute w/MM, Forge Fiend with Hades and Plasma Mouth

Mission - Big Guns Never Tire & Emperors Will

Score - 17 - 3 - Me

My army out classed Joe's and he knew it.  I moved up, got engaged and just grinded down his army. I took his objective and couldn't get mine.  I got first blood, line breaker, and warlord.  He did kill a LOC with Cultists when I got shot down, failed a bunch of saves.  They get extra rations.

Game 2 - Brandon G - Farseer X 2, 2 10 Man Guardians with Brightlance and Wave Serpents, Wraithknight, 8 Man Warp Spyders, Fire Prism, Night Spinner, 5 Rangers

Mission - Big Guns Never Tire, 3 Objectives worth 3 each additional

I frustrated Brandon a bit due to the Warp Storm earning me First blood.  Brandon got aggressive and that gave me his Warp Spyders and 2 Guardian squads when I deep strikes Grinders and blue their torrent of fire all over them.  We killed each other pretty hard and I didn't have a ton of troops.  Daemonettes took out that lovely Wraith Knight and the Warp Storm did well for me.  I did mutate some Rangers after warp firing them and then they failed their 2+ gone to ground save.  I didn't have enough troops to get more points.

Score - 13 - 7 - Me

Game 3 - Shawn - Eldar - 5 Wave Serpants, 2 Wraith Guards, 3 10 Man Guardians, 1 Spirit Seer

Mission - Kill Points & Modified Relic (+1 pt ever turn you hold it)

Score 21 - 5 - Me

Shawn shot me a lot, I got there and punched all his tanks.  After I got a few down it was just a grind for me too.  I had to show him that if you stun a vehicle, then blow it up the guys inside are stunned too and can't shoot.  Remember that when you don't destroy it on the first punch.  I left Shawn with a Spirit Seer I couldn't kill cuz he was invisible and made some 4+ saves from my other Lord of Change.

I got 2nd overall so not to bad.

Things I liked.

Deepstriking Grinders are good and fleet on them helps.
Daemonette blobs are good - will paint another 20 maybe for Adepticon.
LoC's really only get powers that are ok for them and I really missed Telepathy or Biomancy.
Wave Serpents shoot too much.

Paint List - Modified due to the LVO taking out a chunk of my time - will just post stuff I plan on doing in the next few weeks.  LVO report will be coming after I get back.

Me.
Daemonettes X 14 - I have another 6 painted somewhere so I will just do the 14.
Plastic Dudesmen - Done and it is a decent one.
Article before I leave - no idea yet.
Maybe one more Gun Daemon Prince so I can have 3 Dildo princes - not built

Don
Revenant Titan - need to build

Jens
12 Objective Marker thingies - just got them cleaned
20 Pink horrors - 10 built
Fire Raptor - Built - need to get the base right and how it sits on it.
More stuff in a box.

Luis
20 Ultramarines - need to get shoulder pads - might just do them without the one.
More Flesh Tearers - got Storm Ravens, Drop Pods, etc

Will
Bunch of CSM stuff to do - LR and other things

Plus some others might be coming in - new biker army for Marines to do and maybe some  Fantasy stuff.  I never stop eh?

What I am thinking of bringing to the LVO.

Keeper of Secrets, Greater Gifts X 2, Lvl 3
LoC, Greater Gift, Exalted Gift, Lvl 3
Daemonettes X 19
Daemonettes X 19
Daemonettes X 19
Soul Grinder, MoS, Baleful Torrent
Soul Grinder, MoS, Baleful Torrent
DP, Wings, Armor, MoS, Lvl 3, Greater Gift X 2

1748

It is simple, clean and shows all my nice newly painted models.  Good times eh?

Models - I have some more with Cryx - but I need to seal them and the weather is meh.  Jerks!

The last of the 60.

Come at me Bro!!!

First one done

Second one done... I am a machine!

Update shemupdate - Woohoo! Tournament Report!

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.

Goatboy - Tuesday Late - Tourney Report, Lists, Paint stuff, etc

This week I took a bit of a break as I plan on starting up heavy again this weekend.  40+ bases will do that to you and make you just want to breath a bit.  This week will see me send out stuff, get other things done, and wait on some new pieces to come in.  Fun times indeed.

I played a tournament this past weekend and ended up taking it in the end.  I won all 3 games and had a nice high paint score to push me ahead of some of the scoring issues from the first round.  Too many points to get and it does leave you with too much of hole to dig out of and get towards the top even though you win.  Of course this is the argument for w/l/d but when you only have a 3 round event with 20 people you can't do it that way.  It is the constant battle between the events and personally I like a well designed Tournament utilizing limiting factors on the battle point front.  It is just me.  We are working on it and will get it right for the next wargames con.

So with that - let's go over my games.  The event was 1850 and the missions were combos of the book missions.  Here is the list I brought - it is not a nice list and next event it will be toned down.  You will see in my reports etc.

HQ: Daemon Prince, MoN, Wings, Armor, Burning Brand
HQ: Daemon Prince, MoN, Wings, Armor, The Black Mace
HQ: Big Mek, KFF
Elites: Lootas X 10
Troops: Cultists X 10
Troops: Cultists X 10
Troops: Shoota Boyz X 30, Rokkits X 3
Troops: Shoota Boyz X 30, Rokkits X 3
FA: Heldrake
FA: Heldrake, Bale Flamer
FA: Heldrake, Bale Flamer
Heavy: Big Guns X 3, Runtherd

Rd 1 - Joe from Killeen with a Marine Biker army.  2 Blobs of biker marines as troops, Librarian on a bike, Razorback with combat squad tactical squad, 2 3 man groups of Attack bikes, the Captain had a Relic blade with storm shield, and a Storm Talon.

Mission - Emperor's Will (2 objectives), Big Guns never Tire - 6 Objectives - Set up was the Triangle one

Joe is from Killeen which is not too far from Texas.  Nice guy with a really nicely painted Dark Angels style marine army.  He didn't want to play DA yet as he doesn't have all the models painted.  He took the first turn and shot up some orks.  I tried to get a DP into his Librarian bike unit, he failed his charge and was sitting on 3 wounds.  Shooting didn't kill him but the assault took off his last wound.  I killed 5 Bikers before hand but I took the last krak grenade in the gonads.  I killed the rest of his army with 3 dragons and the other DP went ahead and started chewing through his bike squads.  The fat end of my army is hard to get rid of especially when you take a few turns to remove dragons and Demon Princes.  I lost a Demon Prince (Black Mace), some orks, and a squad of Cultists who got flamed by the avenger and ran off the table.

Points to me - 15 - Line Breaker, Kill the Warlord, Emperors Will, 3 Objectives - Set up was Dawn of War

Rd 2 - Kevin - local guy who has a cool dragon conversion as well. He was playing Chaos with 2 Chaos lords - one MoN with Lit Claw and Powerfist and the other MoK on a Juggernaut with bits.  He had two biker squads with them, 2 Maulerfiends, 2 10 Man Cultists, Plague Marines with a rhino and 2 regular Marine squads with rhinos.  And a dragon as well. 

Mission - FA scoring one and Kill points

I won this one by a lot and it all came down to Kevin's inability to kill a Demon prince camping on one of his 3 point objectives.  I had the 4 point one on my side and the fat butted orks to hold it.  I stuffed his bikers a bit and just kept him from getting into my squishy orks.  His dragon took awhile to down but mine all lived and flew around the table causing problems.  One DP ate it to his juggernaut lord who then died to Shootas.  His other lord didn't survive the constant shooting as he tried to engage. A Maulerfiend survived a squad of Lootas shooting at him, more missiles and a failed assault to get in and start chewing up orks.  It is one of the better things that ork do with holding on and keep fearless.  Unless the enemy has a massive amount of attacks you will be there awhile.  I left Kevin with the Mauler fiend, 1 Plague marine, and 10 Chaos Marines.  I lost some orks, Lootas (failed bait), and a Demon Prince (Brand one).

Points to me - 25 - I got a lot as I  got 3 objectives and a crap ton of Kill points plus all those VP from killing his 3 FA.

Rd 3 - Tim - Killeen guy with Necron Flying circus.  5 Scythes w/ Gauss Immortals(?), 2 Doom Scythes, Destroyer Lord, Immotek, Chrono Crpytek, and 4 Wraiths (maybe 5).  This was a mean list and the joke was I should play him with my flyers. 

Mission - Relic and Emperor's will - Set up was the Football field one.

Tim had a nicely painted Necron army and it was a brutal list.  I set up in a building with Lootas and cannons and just had to wait for him to come through.  I went first which hurt as it mean his flyers were going to respond to me.  He killed all my dragons and one DP (Brand) but I was able to slowly whittle him down and use my Black Mace DP (shrouding is hot in fortified terrain) to eat his units near his Emperor's will token.  I got lucky getting wounds through his Destroyer Lord and taking him out when he got into the ork blob holding the Relic.  I took it back after killing his guys and held on to it in the end.  I think I only killed a few Scythes but got rid of all but one Cryptek as his troops and killed both Warlords.

Points - 15 for me. woohoo.

I ended up winning the event by having a fully painted army.  The top table did not have fully painted options (one guy is in law school so no time and the other is a Golden Demon quality painter - so not enough time to finish all of it) so I was able to get ahead to win in the end.  I was like 5 to 6 points ahead of them with my paint score.  I got a new Chaos Lord model from WoC (painted down below too).

My thoughts on the army?  It was not a "fun" army to play against and not too exciting to play.  I didn't have to think a lot most of the time and even though I made mistakes with my DP's I still was able to pull out ahead with my dragon domination and my ability to not be shaken off my base.  There is some good out of this list but I don't think I will throw down with it again.  It met too many bad criteria for a good fun list to be worth wile.  So back to the idea side to think what might be interesting.  I still want to play with Typhus so will see.

New listish idea - Want to utilize some of the thoughts into creating something a bit more - interesting Ork list I want to play with.  Who knows but it should give problems to Cron Air.  Dragon spam might be bad - but really it takes while to remove all those guys.  The change to Warpheads allow me to teleport sometimes which is good to get Line Breaker as my end will be very hard to remove.

HQ: Old Zogwort
HQ: Weird Boy, Warphead
Elites: Lootas X 10
Troops: Shoota Boyz X 30, Rokkits X 3
Troops: Shoota Boyz X 30, Rokkits X 3
Troops: Shoota Boyz X 30, Big Shoota X 3, Nob, PK, Eavy Armor
Troops: Shoota Boyz X 30, Big Shoota X 3, Nob, Big Choppa, Eavy Armor
FA: Dakkajet, Supa Shoota X 3, Fighta Ace
FA: Dakkajet, Supa Shoota X 3, Fighta Ace
FA: Dakkajet, Supa Shoota X 3, Fighta Ace
Heavy: Big Guns X 3, Runtherd
Heavy: Big Guns X 3, Runtherd
Heavy: Big Guns X 3, Runtherd 

Sits at 1850 and it should give a lot of these armies some issues. Dragons will have a hard time to get close to kill the Lootas - and I will make sure to spread out.  I have enough firepower to hopefully hit a few times - plus the Dakkajets can remove them from the air with a few calls of the Waagh.  The Warpheads can shoot across the table top too.

Now of course my DP army will hurt it as a Black Mace DP - who gets involved with my army - will kill it.  I have a nutty Chaos Spawn army that would love to play this as it isn't too hard to get those things mixed in with orks and just causing a crap ton of death.  That is probably the army I like to play with the most as it has a lot of goofy interactions with different lists.  Plus it is fast.  Hell here it is as I like to play it.

HQ: Chaos Lord, MoK, Juggernaut, Sigil, Blinding Axe, Veteran
HQ: Chaos Lord, MoN, Bike Sigil, Black Mace, Veteran
HQ: Weirdboy, Warphead
Elites: Lootas X 10
Troops: Cultists X 10
Troops: Cultists X 10
Troops: Plague Marines X 10, Plasma Gun X 2
Troops: Shoota Boyz X 30, Big Shoota X 3
Troops: Shoota Boyz X 30, Big Shoota X 3
FA: Chaos Spawn X 5
FA: Chaos Spawn X 5, MoN
FA: Heldrake, Bale Flamer

I have some Anti Flyer nonsense - a Dragon, and two hard rocks coming at you to get into your business and cause problems.  They should hit by Turn 2 and most opponents won't be too happy.  I might drop the Plague marines for some other bits to shore up some stuff - but this might be ok?

I keep wanting to use Bikes but can't find a way to fit them.  I could drop the MoN Spawn (they look cool) and get some bikers in there.  It might not be terrible as they are pretty annoying with a better armor save but the 3 wound Spawn are just a pain in the ass to deal with. The only thing I might try to find room for is a Powerfist on the MoN chaos lord as it will give me an out versus Destroyer Lords etc.

I could take the list above and add in Crons instead of orks as well.  It would be pretty mean but I worry about dropping out due to Drop pods and other nonsense.  Still it isn't a terrible thought.  Horde seems to be a good key to ruining some of these power builds - so make sure you prepare.  It might take me 30 minutes to set up but I will finish my turns so fast it will hurt your brain hehe.  And when I roll 18 dice per jet you will be like - How many shots do they get? 

Enough of that crap - lets look at my paint list

Me
Chaos lord dude - Done!
Plastic Dudesmen - Drawn - even have 2 drawn - second one I think is pretty funny - first is another intro strip.
Draw some Punk rock chick stuff - Need to get my ass working on it
Plus I need to ship stuff too.

Luis
More DA stuff - more is coming in so will see if they come in time this week to get started.  I did Ezekial below and I will have some stragglers to add to a shipment to Chile.

That is it for now - waiting on a Paypal payment to go through and then I can order a Dakkajet to do asap.  I like painting them so it will be fun.  It doesn't look like a big week but I am sure that will change as I paint stuff.  I need to study up some stuff for a job interview so that will take some of my time.  A lot of it most likely.  Woohoo! 

And now a small batch of models.

Luis's DA who are in a grimy Lava World.  I finally found this model after looking for it in the minis he has sent me. 

The Hunter for my Campaign we are locally playing.  I will end up using him as another Terminator MoN sorcerer for an Army I want to start playing.  Straight CSM.

Woot - first of a new set of havocs.  FW bits and DV.  

Matthew's DA Belial.  Woot.  High end paint.