My month so far

Well here is the run down of what i have been up to so far this month. Firstly, the mess that is my Paint station! That is a second Tactical squad and a Thunderfire cannon half painted. (The nearly finished warbiker boss kept getting in the way!)



I started by Painting this chap (Gary) a)because he looks nice and b) because Having Bob in smaller games eats up too many points that can't be spent on lots of shooty goodness.


Next up i finished the other Half of my Devastator squad usint the spare weapons and a combat squad (top tip boys and girls) which more than anything just gives me options and spares for Tactical squads.



Here we have the half finished HQ building which i think is coming along nicley for a first scratch building attempt. I still need to fill in any gaps with polyfilla (cheaper and easier to file, another top tip!I am good to you!) Then actually paint the damn thing. I am aiming to use some polyfilla around the base of it to make it look like it has been slammed into the ground(also covers up gaps)



And lastly, a random thing i made to replace whole Tactical squads when they get blown to little chunks by Imperial Guard Basalisks (By my usual opponents and sometimes friends Mark and Rich)



Anyway thats my random rant/imformative lecture over till the deadline. So i better finish of painting eh?

place holder for Vic

Month 2 results

Vic
Draw against Gareth - 3pts
Win against Foxy - 5pts
Models painted on time - 5pts
Month 1 total = 13pts

Gareth
Draw against Vic - 3pt
Draw against Foxy - 3 pts
Models painted on time - 5pts
Month 1 total = 11pts

Foxy
Loss against Vic - 1pts
Draw against Gareth - 3pts
Models painted on time - 0pts
Month 1 total = 4pts

Overall standings
1st = Vic - 13pts -> 26pts
2nd = Gareth - 9pts -> 20pts
3rd = Foxy - 6pts -> 10pts

Space marine voice acting????

The voice acting on Dawn of War games is rather bad so this clever dude (battosai810) has put together a flash movie with the original audio. Also quite appropriate seeing as Gareth is building a Blood Ravens army. clicky here!

Vic

Vic's Big Mek HQ building

This is the Mek building that I have been working on for this months objective.

The general shape was from studying the Mek workshop in the Dawn of war game, I then added a kustom look out tower onto it. As you can see sprue makes for a brilliant frame building material.

Now the building has been skinned so to speak. Various thicknesses of plasticard were used as well as wooden stirrers. Looks quite Orky me finks. When it's all painted there will be a few surprises to make it a bit special so keep posted.

Vic

Month 2 battle (800pts): Foxy vs Vic

With time running short as Warhammer world were due to close we agreed to play four turns only. The dice gods ruled again that we should fight a kill points game.

With the two sides deployed Locknut ordered his lootas to fire on the fireprism. Within moments of coming into view the graceful hovercraft was turned into a flaming wreck! Killas kanz opened fire on the guardian jetbikes and destroyed one. This round of fortunate Ork shooting was shortlived as the lootas and kans fired ineffectively as both Avatar and Wraithlords fired marched upon them.

In the centre of the battlefield the Guardians and Striking scorpians stealthed forward making excellent use of cover and the farseers protection from shooting. Seeing the wreck of a falcon initially sent in to scout the area, the Avatar roared in anger before thowing his shining spear at the shoota boyz unit impailing one in the chest.

At the height of turn three battle was engaged as the orks called a waaaaghh to smash into the eldar vanguard. The Farseer, weakened to one wound by rokkit fire was dispatched along with the striking scorpians. Oddly it was the guardians who managed to flee, but they were shot down by the persuing shoota boyz in the next turn.

Elsewear Elegant wraithbone and adhoc machine clashed as the Wraithlords and killakanz clashed. The battle was one sided as crude robot suits were cleaved in two. The Avatar and Big Mek did the ol' HQ show down with the Avatar finally cleaving the ugly green Ork in two.

Turn four ended and the Orks were the winners by 3 (Farseer, Striking scorpians, Guardians) kill points to 2 (Big Mek, Killa kanz squad).

Foxy post game comments:
What else can i say other than, he got lucky? Like he said, he took out the single biggest threat in the first turn. What could i do? Revert to plan b? What bloody plan b? At least i learnt something in defeat (more than can be said for Gareth and his big red pansies)i learnt that Wraithlords kick ass! oh and Guardians don't do well in close combat with big mobs of orks, really, they don't!

Vic post game comments:
All I can say is thank goodness the Lootas destroyed the fireprism in turn one! The blast templates could seriously have affected the way the battle in the middle of the board had gone by thining down the green tide.

The Wraithlord were scary and I could see what Foxy was trying to do by completing a pincer movement with the Avatar on one prong and Wraithlords on the other. Somehow I managed to come out on top but only just.

Month 2 battle (800pts): Gareth vs Foxy

This is the placeholder for Gareth Foxy battle

Month 2 battle (800pts): Vic vs Gareth

This is the battle report for month 2 Vic vs Gareth at 800pts

The general deployment of the battlefield looked like this. The mission was capture the enemy objective which made use of the markers that we had modelled up this month.

This was the state of play at turns 3-4 The terminators shrugged off round after round of fire from anything that could reach from the Orks. While they unrelentingly marched forward with covering by the Sternguard long range Kraken bolts. The Shoota boyz were wittled down and eventually broke, fleeing past the Lootas and much to Vic's relief stopped one inch from the board edge. However the fight was knocked out of the lootas a turn later who promptly fled the battlefield.

Turns 5-6 saw a continued stalemate firefight on the Western side, whilst the Blood raven tactical squad sneaked closer to the Ork objective. The Nob in charge of the Ork Boyz issued a Waaaaghhh and ordered his boyz to intercept them.

The battle was bloody to say the least! After cutting down seven marines with only two casualties the Orks finished off the remaining sergeant and co as they charged back into the fray.

However the battle was a draw as neither side were able to capture the enemy objective.

Vic post game reflections:
I was reasonably happy with how the battle went, Kantor and his buddy sternguard sat guarding their objective which would have taken the whole concentration of my army to capture. In the end they stayed out of harms way... relatively while I the Terminators took as much lead as the Orks could through at them. The old adage of getting marines to take as many armour saves as possible did not work!

I must try not to leave my lootas so close to the board edge in future and keep them over 12 inches in. They are my trump card when dealing with armour and loosing them was a worry.

And lastly for this battle, keep your Nobz in the front of the unit. It should go without saying buy on the turn that they charged the tactical marines the Nob was left out of two inches from a model in hand to hand. I don't know what happened, probably having to move twenty boyz at a time made me forget him.

Gareth post game reflections:
What can i say? Either i am a very very bad commander or marines do not suit small games! It costs over 400 points for 1 hq and 2 troops! That being said, it could of been different. Looking back on it i would of been better sending in the Terminators with the tactical squad to beef up the owd combat but hindsite is a wonderfull thing and i never learn from it anyway! All in i was beaten by the best man (or big green smelly ork) All i can say is, when the stakes get higher, the orks will have a fight on their hands with Bob the Company Master and his mates!

My objective Marker, Brother Corvius has fallen!

Here is my objective marker. Brother Marine Corvius has fallen as his Tactical Squad was overrun by Orks in the town of Kervus Prime. The Blood Ravens will leave no one behind to the savage greenskins to toy with, let alone the Eldar to torment and interogate. They also need to recover the precious Geneseed from his squad.

I have modelled him sitting slumped and half dead up against the ruins of a building. Loosing off the last of his bolt shells and activating his Chainsword ready to take as many of the Vile Xenos scum with him!

I made it using a standard Tactical Marine with repositioned legs to make him sit. I then used a piece of cities of death wall for the background and a sheet of tectured plastic for the cobblestones which you will find in most good Model shops and soon on the exelent modelfu.com

I was going to add lots of dead Orks around him as Vic had the Audacity to add Dead Marines to his! How very dare he! However, after lots of uming and ahhing i realised that i made the base too small!

My Webway gate wip

Here is the latest picture of my Webway gate. It has been made using 2 sides of Plasticard on a Polystyrene base and has been filled in with polyfiller. I still have to smooth out and fill out the rounded edges but its well on its way. Its also very big! More than big enough for pretty much anything in an eldar army to come though. I have used Daemonscape rubble and Gale force Nine on the base along with Games Workshop water effects for the stream of blood. I am sure plenty of Orks and Marines will find theirselves dead at its base.