Goatboy's 40k Thoughts: Iron Halo GT Rundown

Woot - played in an event this past weekend in Bartlesville, OK.  I had a blast, won 5 games out of 6 and ended up getting 1st Overall.  Not to bad eh?  Matt Root had more points but was Best General with the highest Battle points and going 6-0.  But still - it kicked butt to "win" an event with paint/score/sports/etc.

Army I took - Flying Circus 2.0
Tetrad
DP, MoK, Wings, Flyer Ace, Greater X 2, Lesser X 1, Armor of Scorn
DP, MoN, Wings, Greater Gift, Exalted Gift, Lvl 3
DP, MoS, Wings, Greater Gift X 2, Lesser Gift, Lvl 3
DP, MoT, Wings, Greater Gift X 2, Lesser Gift, Lvl 3, Impossible Robe - Warlord

Fate
The Masque
Nurglings X 3 - 3 Units

Game 1 VS  Tyler and his Blood Angels force
Mission - Emperor's Will, Dawn of War, ITC Maelstrom (Hold 1, Hold 2, Scoring in Enemy, Destroy, Destroy, 3 and no enemy in deployment), Big Game Hunter, Linebreaker, Slay the Warlord
Tyler's army was a bunch of Blood Angels, Land Raider, Knight, Sang Priest, some tactical, Terminators, Storm Raven, and a terminator captain.  Overall my army was a bit much and I quickly overwhelmed him with psychics and big monsters getting close.  The MoK DP took out the Knight and that ended a lot of the threat.  I won this one 11-0.
MC Deaths - None!

Game 2 VS Chase with KDK/Cabal/Cypher combo
Mission - The Relic, Hammer and Anvil, ITC Maelstrom (Hold 1, Hold 2, Scoring in Enemy, Destroy, Destroy, 3 and no enemy in deployment), First Strike, Table Quarters, Slay the Warlord
Chase's army was a bit unconventional KDK dog star as it ran Sorcerers with Jump Packs.  He had a Lvl 4 caster with the one Black Legion Relic.  He almost got my Warlord when he scouted and pushed up and throw out a Pyromancy Nova.  I took a wound and the Warlord rolled a 10 on Leadership.  I called the power of Fateweaver and saved his butt.  From there Chase lost that important spell caster due to taking a Perils from the Nova and then dying to a dangerous terrain check.  The luck went south again for Chase when my Masque lived through 10 str 6+ shots to slow down his star for 3 turns.  I won this one 7-2.
MC Deaths - None!

Game 3 VS David with his Tau
Mission - Purge the Alien, Vanguard Strike, ITC Maelstrom (Hold 1, Hold 2, Hold 3, Scoring farther then 12", Have scoring within 12" of enemy deployment edge, 3 Scoring in your zone none in enemy), Slay the Warlord, King of the Hill, First Strike
David is a buddy and he stole the initiative on me.  He had a ton of Pathfinders, a Riptide, and a Ghostkeel formation.  Plus he had some other missiles coming at me.  Lucky for me - I rolled the shit roll on my DP's - every one had 4+ FNP and I got the +1 to my Inv save Warlord trait.  This mean my Khorne DP took half the armies shooting and only took a 1 and my Slaanesh one took 2 wounds.  From there I flew away from the Ghost Keels - took out some Pathfinders with lucky Shrieks and won the game - barely.  David ended up beating me by 1 point in the ITC rankings but I got more ITC points as I won more games initially.  I won 6-5 (Primary, Slay the Warlord, and Line breaker).
MC Deaths - Riptide for him - all my jerks were still alive.

Game 4 VS Lee and his Flying Tyrannies
Mission - The Scouring, Hammer and Anvil, ITC Maelstrom (Hold 1, Hold 2, Hold 3, Destroy, Destroy, Destroy), Big Game Hunter, Linebreaker, Slay the Warlord
Lee had a great 5 Tyrant army.  We set up to dance and I got lucky surviving some Shrieks from him and then taking out some Tyrants with Enfeeble and the Dildo prince.  I took out a few with some rough vector strikes as well.  I ended up killing all but some spore minds and a Mawloc on the other side.  He killed the Nurgle Prince in the end to take Big Game hunter as all my monsters are expensive jerks.  I won 10-2.
MC Deaths - Fateweaver - Turn 2! and Nurgle DP.  5 Tyrants, the other flyer thing from Nids, and a Mawloc

Game 5 VS Cody and his Daemonic Incursion based Tzeentch
Mission - Big Guns Never Tire, Vanguard Strike, ITC Maelstrom (Hold 1 in Enemy, Hold 2 in Enemy, Hold 1 in your zone, Hold 2 in your zone, Destroy, Destroy), Ground Control, Linebreaker, Slay the Warlord
Cody had a ton of daemons, Fate, DP, and Belakor.  He took the Tzeentch core, some furies and then all the big stuff.  He had more psychic dice, better ground control and I was not very lucky with my own Maelstrom rolls.  This meant I was down by turn 2 even though I had killed the DP and Belakor by then.  I ended up killing Fateweaver too but he had 2 objectives on lock down and I was stuck trying to catch up.  Awesome game - great guy, and it was nice playing 2 really well done armies versus each other.  I lost 5-8.
MC Deaths - His Fate, DP of Tzeentch with Robe (griming your enemy is great), Bel'akor

Game 6 VS Andrew and his GK with IG formation
Mission - Crusade, Dawn of War, ITC Maelstrom (Hold 1, Hold 2, Destroy, Destroy, Scoring in enemy zone, 3 in your own zone)
Andrew had 3 DK, some artillery and a Void Shield.  I won the roll to go first, he didn't seize and I got in the air.  By that time he couldn't do much to me and I flew around and blew things up when I got within the Void Shield bubble.  I had more psychic dice and Andrew just had crap luck.  He threw 7 dice for Cleansing flame - didn't pass it at all.  He tried it a few more times and I stopped it then - but never threw a perils from it.  I just flew around and ground him out.  The 3 DK were still alive at the end of the game versus rough MC's that would punt them as soon as they landed.  I ended up winning this game and finished the event 5-1.  I won 8-3.

There was a bit of a mix up in the points at the end and I was told after the event I was actually 2nd overall in scores and thus First Overall as Matt Root took home Best General.  Something like that - either way I was on the podium and I did well for once in an event.  I had a great time - played rad people and will plan on coming back again.  Jason threw a great event and I am very happy to have gotten a chance to play in it.

If I had to change anything in my list - I would have dropped some Nurglings for some Pink Horrors. One squad would have given me a summoning group an I could have just thrown dice to maybe make a Blood Thirster or two.

Paint List
Lots of Marines... good guys and bad guys.  Plus a BOLS article.  Hopefully more after this weekend with pics and stuff.

Some models and other stuff.

An update before Iron Halo

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I got a few lists for the upcoming Iron Halo GT.  Its up in Oklahoma and will be a good 8 hr drive.  Going up with my buddy Brandon and meeting another buddy from Houston up there.  Should be fun - full ITC and lots of other Austin buds are there too.  Will see how well I do.

Currently throwing around 3 lists - first two are painted - just tweaking bases etc if I want to fit on my display board.

List #1 - Flying Circus 2.0

Daemon CAD
Fateweaver
The Masque
Nurglings X 3
Nurglings X 3
Nurglings X 3

Infernal Tetrad
DP, MoK, Wings, Flyer Ace, Armor of Scorn, Greater Gift X 2, Lesser Gift
DP, MoN, Wings, Greater Gift, Exalted Gift, Lvl 3
DP, MoS, Wings, Armor, Greater Gift X 2, Lvl 3
DP, MoT, Wings, Impossible Robe, Greater Good X 2, Lesser Gift - Warlord

This is the tried and true Flying circus I have always liked to play.  I got the Masque to mess with Deathstars, Fateweaver to get me a reroll/Lvl 4 caster, and every DP is set up to kick butt.  Still it is small, you can't make mistakes, and the game starts to get hard as soon as you roll your warlord trait. This is the list I am leaning towards as I can make a cool mini display board and as the army is small enough I can use it for around the country.  Don't think it is a big time winner list - but it should do well with paint scores and I am a nice dude.

List # 2 - KDK Star

Cyclopia Cabal
Sorcerer, Lvl 3, Bike, Spell Familiar, Force Staff
Sorcerer, Lvl 3, Bike, Spell Familiar, Force Staff
Sorcerer, Lvl 3, Bike, Spell Familiar, Force Axe
Sorcerer, Lvl 3, Bike, Spell Familiar, Force Axe

KDK Ally
Chaos Lord, Juggernaut, Powerfist, Lightning Claw, Sigil
Cultists X 8
Flesh Hounds X 10

Daemon CAD
Fateweaver - Warlord
Herald of Tzeentch, Paradox, Lesser Gift, Lvl 3, Disc
Herald of Tzeentch, Exalted Gift (Grim, Lvl 3, Disc
Nurglings X 3
Nurglings X 3
Screamers X 6

This is the basic KDK star you will start to see around.  I have 2 Stars with the screamer - but that one is more of an objective grabber/Warp Spider Slasher.  The Chaos Lord is in there as he can get a 3+ with the Sigil and can randomly take challenges for me.  I get an Endurance on him and 4 wounds is hard to get through.  Once the new CSM powers are live this list is going to be rough for a lot of other Stars.  This list is not as hard to play as the Circus and has some redundancy built in.  It is on my list of things to play and again - I just need to tweak some bases to get it ready.

List #3 - Gorepack/Cabal/Kharn

CSM Cad
Kharn
Chaos Lord, MoK, Juggernaut, Sigil, Axe of Blind Fury, Gift of Mutation
Cultists X 10
Cultists X 10

Cabal
Sorcerer, Lvl 3, Bike, Spell Familiar, Force Staff, Sigil
Sorcerer, Lvl 3, Bike, Spell Familiar, Force Staff, Sigil
Sorcerer, Lvl 3, Bike, Spell Familiar, Force Axe
Sorcerer, Lvl 3, Bike, Spell Familiar, Force Axe
Sorcerer, Lvl 3, Bike, Spell Familiar, Force Axe

Gorepack
Bikers X 3
Bikers X 3
Flesh Hounds X 10
Flesh Hounds X 10
Flesh Hounds X 10

This army can create a few little murder stars, has Kharn in it, and even a Juggernaut lord.  An Axe of Blind Fury with Hammer Hand is pretty dang fun as he gets involved cutting jerks heads off.  I see this list rolling 2 on Biomancy, then Sanctic and finally some Telepathy if they can get some shrouding etc.

I still love the idea of this list - but there is no way I can win 6 games with it - let alone 3.  Still it would be fun to go stomping around with it.

Infernal Tetrad
DP, MoK, Wings, Armor of Scorn, Greater Gift X 2
DP, MoN, Wings, Greater Gift X 2, Lvl 2
DP, MoS, Wings, Greater Gift X 2, Lvl 3
DP, MoT, Wings, Greater Gift X 2, Lvl 2, Warlord

Renegade Knight
Renegade Knight

This list is just basic - go at them and punch as much as you can.  Sure it could work some times - but most of the time I am going to lose.  Still it would look cool as heck.

Alright paint list

Me
Kharn - Maybe?
Review Fig - at some point
Frontline Art - Last piece - gene stealer cult - already partway drawn so ya!
BOLS shirt # 2 - need to tweak
BOLS shirt # 3 - Got an idea
BOLS shirt # 4 - sorta an idea
BOLS article - got an idea - most likely about Genestealer cult

Brandon
3 More Rhinos primed - then maybe a drop pod

James
Chaos Space Marine stuff - finish a few things going to knock out some Chosen

Nick
Marine stuff when he figures out more of his list

Luis
Some Infinity figures

Ben
Maybe some Chaos stuff - most likely the conversion stuff

Minis and some arts

Legion of the Damned Vehicles

This was for me - needed a cool herald of Khorne for War-games Con

Figure from Prodoss - gross looking Nurgle Daemon.  I added the Wings and found a big base.

My new Cabal.

Ben Mohile beat me up with a Nurgle Chaos Lord in a Chaos Warband - so I decide to make one out of bits I had.

Wah?  Some Deathwatch?  Army will come - just too focused on the bad guys.

New Chaos commission - woot.

Some fodder for the Chaos Gods.

Typhus in da house!

XXXOOOXXX

Late Post - Long weeks of Work, Life and Frustrations

Work has been a bit rough lately.  Some big changes coming leaves me working a lot.  It is ok - I am just always busy so I don't have nearly the amount of time to throw down some nonsense thoughts on a blog.  But still - I plan on updating more.  I am still painting, drawing, and playing 40k when I can.  So woot on that.  Let's get a paint list together - then some army thoughts and then a ton of new minis and arts.

I had a rough few weeks on art where nothing working for awhile.  Lucky for my own sanity painting was alright but art was just sucking.  I filled a notepad full of random doodles trying to get through the rut.  There are times I wish I was doing art full time and then you go through this dry spell and you are thankful you have a decent job, good wife, and a family to come home too and not just get more down.  It is the burden from creatives where you feel like you are missing something when you are not creating.  Like you are just rotting a bit inside.  But I got through that crap and now onto some stuff I plan on doing.

Paint List
Me
Tweak BOLS article
Frontline Art - 3 or so more pieces
Art for another client
Friends logo art
Probably some more art

Lance
Chaos Space Marines finally!  The box is staring at me and I finished a ton of stuff the last week.  woot

Nick R
A marine commission and Tau commission - depending on what he feels like.  It never ends

Luis
More Iron hands as usual

And of course other stuff is going to come in - people just figuring out armies and other things.  I am sure I will get another Knight or two as usual.  It seems short but there are a lot of things floating in the wind.  A Tetrad commission is coming too.  You know how I love to paint daemons.

Alright - War Games Con is this weekend and I am playing my new Tetrad you will see down below. I blame a client having me do 2 Daemon Princes for making me paint another.  I will update the for sale page after this weekend as I have a few Daemon Princes laying around.

List I am taking

Daemonic Incursion
Murder Horde
Herald
Flesh Hounds X 5 - 8 Units

Infernal Tetrad
DP, MoK, Wings, Greater Gift X 2, Lesser Gift, Armour of Scorn
DP, MoN, Wings, Greater Gift X 2, Lvl 3
DP, MoS, Wings, Greater Gift X 2, Lvl 3
DP, MoT, Wings, Greater Gift X 2, Lesser Gift, Lvl 3, Impossible Robe

Furies X 5, MoT

Basically I threw out the knights for the Tetrad.  There is an idea that if the FAQ sticks and you only see one Meltabomb per unit - the Knights might come back.  Still it should be fun - I played it once and had a good time.  I got my spell sheet made up and a ton of these effect markers using old bases.  This way all my princes will have their powers floating by them for my opponent as well as myself to remember and know.

After this I plan on getting some Death Watch done and work on some really terrible armies.  I got an event in Oklahoma coming up called the Iron halo GT - and if I can get some Death Watch armies working I could have a good time.  My initial one is based on some models I had to get done to get them out of my head - robot Assassins.

Assassinorium Execution Force

Assassinorium Execution Force

Death Watch CAD
Librarian, Lvl 2, Force Axe, Auspex
Deathwatch Veterans X 5, Frag Cannon X 3, Drop Pod
Deathwatch Veterans X 5, Frag Cannon X 2, Drop Pod
Deathwatch Veterans X 5, Frag Cannon X 2, Drop Pod

Basically I want to win best Assassins in ITC with this terrible nonsense.  Plus the ability to have to Vindicares killing guys sound awesome.  I also have this thing someone asked me to write up - it sounds fun as shit too.

Baronial Court
Gallant, Helm of the Nameless Warrior
Gallant
Gallant

Death Watch CAD
Librarian, Lvl 2, Force Axe, Auspex
Deathwatch Veterans X 5, Frag Cannon X 2, Storm Shield X 2, Drop Pod
Deathwatch Veterans X 5, Frag Cannon X 2, Drop Pod
Deathwatch Veterans X 5, Frag Cannon X 2, Drop Pod

Culexus Assassin

You are just going full speed ahead and I the Gallant Lance might be better.  And still it just sounds rad to run around with full CCW Knights, a bunch of Deathwatch coming down and some severe beatings coming.

So look for some Death Watch coming soon from me.  Will do the normal metal arm and then Red one arm to let me match up some of these Pods I have laying around.  Fun times indeed.

Ok some models and some art to get this done.

Assassins - Culexus, Callidus, Vindicare, and Eversor

This was the picture that I basically redrew and redrew - this finally came out and I was happy with it - the background etc.

Nature hurts!?!?!

Yeah a marine again!