tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56348181985636963892024-03-13T03:38:30.392-05:00Team Snake EyesThis resource, by average gamers for average gamers, will highlight the Warhammer 40k hobby (& possibly others) in the Southeastern Missouri & Southern Illinois Area.chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-24012838256049179432014-05-27T21:46:00.000-05:002014-05-27T21:46:09.089-05:00Who won my first 7th ed. game?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Actually, I played a brand new player. And we ignored most of the rules minutia and just focused on the core mechanics of the game, how it flowed and when to do what. And it was a draw. And it was a blast. Literally, the kid's words after finishing the game were "Oh yeah, it was worth the money." And that my friends is why I don't care about 4 billion psychic dice summoning invisible death stars. If that stuff is fun for you, then by all means, seek it out. You won't find me there. So I have no idea how different this edition is from its predecessor, but I'll post up a blog as soon as I get a decent battle report. Our friendly league nights start at very low points and slowly work themselves up, escalation style (the reasonable escalation - not the Lord of War stuff) so those would be worth much anyway.<br />
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In other news, I won a recent "friendly" league we held at the local shop and the prize was the new 7th edition rulebook. That was fortuitous, as I likely would have waited a long time to pick it up, or asked for it as a gift or some other way to reduce the sting of purchasing a new rulebook so soon after 6th was released. Yea me.chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-82693888125949600492014-05-20T20:10:00.000-05:002014-05-20T20:12:03.925-05:00<div class="Publishwithline">
Hades Drake the New Terror of the Skies?<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div>
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For the last year I have been playing Chaos w/ daemon
allies, running a heavy if not dominate Slaanesh list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To that end I have been running a single
bale-drake, and yes everything that they say about the point and click drake is
true, Helldrake does what Helldrake wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My typical list has been built
around the core of three squads of noise marries (2@6 and 1@12 strong)
supported by a terminator squad w/a Brand Lord and oblits as points allow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add in a Bale-Drake and my opponents don’t
see many cover saves throughout the course of a game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not insignificantly, the bale drake more than
anything else in my list seems to be just a step too far for many of the
players across the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately I
do feel that this game is a social contract between two players, yet having
said this I spent a lot of time modeling and painting my drake and I am loth to
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In my current list over half my army’s fire power is ant-troop,
and rendered all but useless with out when the chocolaty goodies stay inside
their hard candy shells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My list also
struggles with fliers, with the bale drake I have two options, a quad cannon
attached to a bastion and vector striking with the bale drake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When more than one aircraft / FMC are on the
table at one this leads to sub-optimal placement of the drake and struggling to
keep up with the forces in the sky.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So currently I have two glaring weakness with my list,
namely transports and fliers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would
shifting from the bale flamer to the hades autocannon help shore up this
deficiencies?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The internet says no, in
fact common wisdom is that I only even consider a autocannon on the third drake
but not before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess that it is a
good thing that I am not too concerned with wining. After all I am playing for the wrong
team if I was concerned about W/L ratios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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First a couple ground rules that I set up before embarking
on this odyssey, stolen gleefully from Ron: <a href="http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-make-changes-to-your-army-list.html" title="From the Warp">How to Change Your Army List</a></div>
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the drake, everything else stays the same.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">
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<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> I would play out a series of games (at least 5)
to see how the army played out.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Only
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<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> Relax and have fun, after all we are gown adults
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I was preparing for Adepticon’s friendly tournament so my
list was set at 1500 points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before the
friendly got in 6 games with the hades’ drake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While no longer the MVP of my list in any game its performance was solid
enough that I did not change it out from my list before taking it to
Chicago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the three games that I
played in Adepticon the hades drake was never an all-star but every opponent
was surprised and glad to hear that it had the autocannon as opposed to the
bale flamer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this respect it did
exactly what I wanted it to do, I was able to bring my toy and my opponents
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carry a bad game to victory, but it has proven to round out the list in a
majority of the games.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">While the strength 8 sky fire cannon is great
the drake’s average ballistic skill is a significant hindrance to its new role.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">This is somewhat offset by the Daemon forge
ability, but only once a game.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">The ability to take on two separate targets is
actually better with this load out, which should not be a surprise but bears mentioning.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">The increased range of the autocannon means
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To sum up my experience; the Hell Drake is no longer clutch,
but still can do work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Hades Drake is really a mixed bag and not
the clear auto take that the Hades Drake is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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What’s the next step forward, besides 7<sup>th</sup>
edition, Codex: Word Bearers – the access to Divination could help smooth out
some of the lack of reliability that I am experiencing now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Divination would also bring up my large squad
of noise marines lethality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides I
have a Sorcerer model that I have been want to use again for a while.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chambershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18075294689773116021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-71478024415977966722014-05-18T08:52:00.000-05:002014-05-18T09:09:12.752-05:00Vulkan Sighted at Forge World's Heresy Weekender<a href="http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?45029-Horus-Heresy-Weekender">Vulkan!</a> BoLS Lounge member DrLove42 posted up some photos of this weekend's Heresy event across the pond. Lots of juicy Salamander Legion stuff I can't afford such as sweet new terminators, upgrade kits, a Salamander Contemptor Dreadnought, & of course Vulkan himself. Additionally, there was quite a bit of stuff about the Mechanicum (a Dark Mechanicum list is in the works Chambers!), Knights, and some of the other lesser legions. Head over to the thread and check it out.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">EDIT: <a href="http://recalcitrantdaze.blogspot.com/2014/05/heresy-weekender-part-2.html">Recalcitrant Daze has some sweet pics of Salamandary goodness over on their site:</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...such as this beauty right here. Aerion, the forge is calling.</td></tr>
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chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-31873636086881848442014-05-05T23:34:00.001-05:002014-05-05T23:34:41.721-05:00My C'tan has transcended, what's your excuse?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I am slowly plugging away at this whole "Necron Thing" that I've gotten myself into. I wish all of the models were as easy as this guy was to paint. (1) Prime with GW white spray; (2) Heavy wash with Thrakka Green; (3) Drybrush with Astronomicon Grey; (4) Drybrush with whatever the hell that new GW white drybrush paint is called. The base, as with all of the bases in the army, is the Armageddon Dust texture paint with a drybrush of Ushabti Bone over the top. The bases are simple at the moment, so they can be upgraded if I get the inspiration and/or energy & time to take them further.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No clever name for Lordy McLorderson as of yet.</td></tr>
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I believe I regret posting a close up pic. This guy definitely looks better at a distance...with better light...and a better camera...and a completely different model painted by someone better than me. :)<br />
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We are making progress on our Tuesday night "Friendly" league. We will model our elite choice tomorrow evening. Since I'm already finished with that, I'll be working on the albatross that is my necron warriors. There's always more of them to paint. Additionally, I'd like to show up to our competitive league night on Thursday if only to take pictures. It seems that all I'm reading about on the internet is how GW is failing (they are), and how the game is dying (it might be), and how everyone is abandoning the 40k ship (they might be, but not around here, that's for damn sure).<br />
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In any event, here's the official Team Snake Eyes stance on the current state of Warhammer 40k: We don't give a crap. We've spent too damn much money and time on our models that GW could decree that all hands must play the game in latin and that d100 dice will be used for every purpose and that any model from any book can be grammar school chums and benefit from each other's wargear and rules and we will straight up ignore that trash. We'll play the version of the game we enjoy, with the models we've painstakingly collected over the years and poured our blood, sweat, tears, & wife-points (married chaps know where I'm coming from here) into modeling/converting and painting them. Soldier on you ninny's. Don't let the bad men tell you how to play with your dolls.chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-87027576656466412622014-04-28T20:44:00.001-05:002014-04-28T20:44:38.429-05:00Adepticon 2014: Eye Candy (Pic Heavy)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sweet converted helo valkryie.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Probably go good with "Codex: Stormtrooper".</td></tr>
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And here's some Crystal Brush badassery. Not sure if they placed, but they caught my eye, and that's got to be worth $10,000 right?</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The one advantage that I had this round was my bastion, he could not crack the AV14, and for the first two rounds it looked like I was going to be able to grind out a draw against him. Anything of mine that stood out in the open was obliterated by Tau fire but on the plus side I was removing at least one scoring unit a turn. Then by round three my opponent lobbied for vortex missiles which then scattered about my half of the table removing everything on my side of the board. Not much left for me to do but to grin and embrace the wanton destruction of three str “D” pie plates roaming about my side. After my bastion and the ruins my remaining scoring unit was hiding behind were removed due to votexiness (it’s a real word I swear) we stopped keeping track of turns and just played to see if I could get to his HQ before I was tabled, short answer was no but I got real close. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">My overall Impression is that the lists actually seemed less hard and more friendly than last year, even with the couple of outliers. I had a blast and I will be eagerly anticipating what new and wacky missions that they come up with next year. On the plus side while I went a respectable 2-1 my team won best overall team netting me my very own dirty dozen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the breath of the tournament the MVP of my army had to be the large noise marine squad. They did work all day removing scoring units and hold fast to objectives. The Goat would fall to the terminators but only because they were the least of the good. Even when they failed to kill a minimum squad of assault marines they did amuse me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Edit: 150th Post!</span>Chambershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18075294689773116021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-64156705709632942852014-04-07T13:06:00.000-05:002014-04-07T13:06:25.187-05:00Adepticon 2014: Friendly Tournament Re-Cap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So this year's theme for the Friendly Tournament was "The Dirty Dozen". There were three rounds, roughly equating to the major plot points of the film. Round 1 your lads didn't quite get along, Round 2 they were participating in the war game, and Round 3 was the final suicide mission.<br />
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I brought, what I thought was, a fairly "friendly" list. I was a little hesitant to bring my three Centurion Devastators with Grav Cannons, they performed very well for me, but I don't think they ended up being over the top. My list can be seen <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2014/04/adepticon-2014-there-and-back-again.html">here</a>.<br />
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In the first round, I played a list that seemed eerily appropriate. Rathnor's IG list with Space Wolf allies was my first opponent. He brought a Creed, Kell, a command squad in a Chimera; a big blob of a platoon with a handful of dismounted regular squads, heavy weapons with lascannons, and 50 conscripts; a squad of vets in a chimera with melta guns and demo charge; Logan Grimnar, and three wolf guard in power armor. It was an unusual list (for me with my limited exposure to games outside my own shop) with a lot of optimized quirks (Logan's abilities adding to the conscripts, Creed's boatload of orders, etc.) but it was well played and likely not overly optimized (more on that later).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was "the end". He had marched across the board, shooting up everything in sight. The next round would<br />see a charge that left me with a combat squad and an immobilized Razorback. The Gods would take pity on me<br />and end the game (and my misery) shortly after that. </td></tr>
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For this mission, players had to split their army in half, with each half counting as desperate allies. This did almost nothing to my opponent, but was disastrous to me, as my play style involves castling up my entire army to support one another with short range firepower. That, plus dice rolls so bad that Rathnor offered up his own dice for me to use in an effort to stop the painful torturing of probability that was my dice for that round. In the end, I was trounced. I "earned" a crushing defeat and garnered no points for my team. Rathnor did have an entire 50 man squad of Rogue Trader era human bombs. Some with the neck collar, and the rest with the backpack bombs. Nifty stuff if you're into that sort of thing. He says it only took him two years to get them all...<br />
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For my second round, I played The Bloody Chaos, who happened to be Chambers' opponent from round 1. He normally plays chaos, but decided to do something different for Adepticon. He brought a Carcharodons (space sharks) army that was awesome. As none of you know, I harbor a secret desire to own a Carcharodon army, so this was a special treat for me where I got to live vicariously through TBC's army.<br />
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TBC's list was as follows: Tyberos the Red Wake; a squad of assault terminators as elites, and another as troops; a scout squad in a Land Speeder Storm; 2 Tactical Squads; a Storm Talon; an assault squad; and finally, a devastator squad. This round's special rule was that ambulances were placed on random tables and they scattered 4d6" every turn with the possibility of moving onto neighboring tables if they had the movement for it. Any unit hit was either tank shocked or rammed. We had an ambulance show up at our table during the game, but it promptly drove off with no effect.<br />
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TBC was easily my most fun opponent on the day. Beer was exchanged & fun was had. This was the epitome of what the "friendly" tournament should be. TBC's army is obviously an assault army with some long gun & air support. That's probably the type of opponent my list is best against. He faced an uphill battle all game, but this...<br />
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...is where his fate was sealed. He was only able to get one of his terminator squads in from reserve on round 2. That meant my entire army, but mainly my Centurions, could focus on that close threat. And believe me, getting a squad of Carcharodons in close combat was not a goal of mine. He lost one to quad gun fire on the way in, and the rest were taken care of after that. The next round Tyberos and his squad showed up, but again, I had no other obvious targets. Even after all that fire, I still needed to assault him with my own terminators and Vulkan to keep the upper hand. Some poor rolls in TBC's part sealed the deal. After that combat, I ran my lads towards the relic and table quarters for the crushing victory.<br />
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Round three is where I lost all credibility as a blogger since I didn't take any pictures of my game with Cee Kay and his Tau-Dar list. I'm not going to lie, this was the weirdest list I've ever played against. At first glance it seems too optimized for the friendly, but when you look close, he made conscious decisions to weaken his list.<br />
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He brought Farsight with 4 crisis bodyguards with flamers, stim injectors, & vectored thrusters; a crisis suit commander with every piece of wargear available to him (354 points!), a 6 man stealth team; a single crisis suit with flamer; a three man crisis suit with bonding knife (no weapons?), Karandras the Shadow Hunter; & 6 guardian jetbikes.<br />
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His plan was to camp weaponless crisis suits & jetbikes on objectives, infiltrate Karandras with the stealth team, and deepstrike everyone else with Farsight et al. I'll admit, I was pretty nervous. I shot up the crisis suits as much as I could, but with nightfight, those guys are tough to shift. He deepstruck right next to my castle (which I deployed with no room for deepstrikers behind my aegis) and proceeded to use flamers against me. He was unaware of the Salamander's chapter tactic known as "lol flamers" and was disappointed to cause no wounds. Everything in my army, minus the 145 point Storm Talon, then shot at that squad. At the end of my shooting phase, he had one Stealth Suit left on that corner of the board. I spent the remaining rounds getting line breaker, grabbing objectives, and killing his bikes and backfield crisis suits. I have no doubts that had Karandras and/or Farsight got into assault that it would have been a different game. This round's special rule was to have vortex missiles moving about just like the ambulances previously. A vortex missile made it to our table about 5 minutes after the game was over, having no impact on our game.<br />
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All in all, I think this year's friendly was an improvement over last years. Yes, I went 2-1 this year, while going a disastrous 0-3 (finishing dead-ass-last overall), but the lists I saw were more friendly. My worry was that this was going to become just another 1500 point tournament, but it didn't happen. That's not to say that it's out of the woods. Many of the guys who showed up with quirky or overly friendly lists were saying that they wouldn't make that mistake next year. The friendly walks a fine line, and I think they need to review lists as advertised. Early list submissions would go a long way towards maintaining the trust of the community that rock hard lists won't be seen at this tournament next year.chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-71962127339700808362014-04-03T19:48:00.000-05:002014-04-03T19:48:10.034-05:00Adepticon 2014 - There and Back Again, a Burnout's Tale<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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As some of you might be aware, a handful of members have had associations of some sort or another with Adepticon since about 2006. It started with the Team Tournament, sprinkled in a few rounds of Combat Patrol, and the last two years have been dedicated to the 40k Friendly Tournament. <br />
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Discussions about the Team Tournament could take several blog posts to cover. I'll spare you that, or you could just look back through the archives. Suffice it to say that it takes luck to even get in to this very popular event, and a great deal of money and time to not embarrass yourself when you see the titans of industry who will inevitably win. These are the teams who have spent thousands of dollars and man hours to put together truly masterful works of art. Average participants? Don't hold your breath. This event truly rewards those who go above and beyond. It's actually worth coming to the event, just to see the display bases the teams put together.<br />
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Combat patrol has never really been my thing, but others have enjoyed it. I have trouble making a 1000 point 40k army, so 400 points really is an exercise in futility for me. To each his own, I'm glad some of the other members have had fun with it.<br />
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This will be the third year for the 40k Friendly Tournament. I had some friends participate in '12, and they gushed about how awesome it was. Laid back, thematic lists, a complete lack of douchebaggery, it received rave reviews. I did not bring Team Snake Eyes to the Team Tournament in '13 because I was a little burned out from that hectic experience and wanted something a little more relaxed. The Friendly was my choice. Three of us came up last year (myself, Chambers, & Grenn Dal) and although I came in dead-ass-last place (it's a real thing, look it up) it was a good time. After hearing the staff repeatedly say they would disallow hard lists, I was a little shocked at some of the things we saw last year "What do you mean my drop Wolves list with four Rune Priests with Jaws isn't friendly?" Chambers and I are a little worried about what we'll see this year.<br />
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Sorry for the poor quality of the pics, but I've been having technical issues. My list, which I feel is true to the "friendly" theme is as follows: Vulkan, (5) TH/SS Assault Terminators, (2) Tactical Squads with flamers, multi-meltas, combi-flamers, & TLLC Razorbacks, a Storm Talon w/typhoon ML, (3) Centurion Devastators w/Grav Cannons & Hurricane Bolters, a Thunderfire Cannon, and finally an Aegis Defense Line w/Quad Gun. It's got a moderate amount of shooting with a counter assault/harassing unit in the terminators.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chambers assured me his army was ready to go...</td></tr>
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Chambers army looks pretty cool too. He's got a Dark Mechanicus army that has ties to Nurgle and Slaanesh using the Chaos Marine Codex: A Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor, (5) Chaos Terminators with combi-meltas, a squad of 12 Noise Marines with Icon of Excess, 7 sonic blasters and 2 blast masters, (2) squads of 6 Noise Marines with 2 sonic blasters and 1 blast master each, a Helldrake with Hades Autocannon (yes kids, Chambers can beat you without the bale flamer), 2 awesomely converted Obliterators, and finally a Bastion that has the Imperial iconography defaced and replaced with sacrifices and icons of the dark powers. We'll add an army pic when he's ready for me to take it. :)<br />
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Random Pics from the game room on Thursday:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This thing is about 5' high and is likely someone's display board. These people do not mess around...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iron Hands charity raffle army, there are better pics out there on the internet, and they are worth seeing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This close-up of the floor detail proves once and for all that<br />you can never have too much awesome in your life.</td></tr>
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Stay tuned, more tomorrow!chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-25176421872999161182014-02-24T19:52:00.001-06:002014-02-25T15:07:37.847-06:00Battle Report: 1500pts. Chaos vs Inbred Dogs <br />
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Hello my name is Chambers, long time reader first time
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Chosen1 (not chaos) decided that his blog,
other than being horfically slow to update, needed to be a little bit
classier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yea about that, not sure why
he let me in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe his plan is to make
every else look better by comparison.</div>
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The <a href="http://fantasybooksinc.com/">local league</a> is currently running at 1500 points, which works out
great for me as it gives me a chance to play and get used to my Adepticon
Friendly list, now if work would just cooperate as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After missing the first two weeks of the League
I was finally able to get my toy men on the table top last Thursday night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My opponent was SeeJay87 from <a href="http://thelonelyhavocs.blogspot.com/">The Lonely Havocs</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A great guy despite his unnatural obsession
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<u>I took CSM with no allies</u><o:p></o:p></div>
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Terminator Lord with Mark of Slaanesh, Burning Brand, Power
axe, Melta bombs and a signal of corruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (War Lord)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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5 CSM terminators with MoS, Icon of Excess, 4 melta guns and
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2 – 6 man noise marine squads with 1 blastmaster and 2 sonic
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1 – 12 man noise marine squad with 2 blastmasters, 7 sonic
blasters and an Icon of Excess on the champ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 – hell drake with the hades autocannon <o:p></o:p></div>
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2 – Single obliterators without upgrades<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 – “imperial” bastion complete with quad-gun <o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>His List (from Memory) was also straight codex, Space Wolves to be exact</u><o:p></o:p></div>
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Rune Priest with runic armor and a chooser of the slain (War Lord)<o:p></o:p></div>
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4– 10 man grey hunter squads in drop pods with a single
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1 – Max long fang unit all with missile launchers and a
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My warlord trait was Black Crusader, which would be pretty
clutch this game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While SeeJay87 rolled
something that never came into play so we will just pretend that it never
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I won the roll for placement and promptly took the side that
would not have me rubbing asses with the next table, luckily for me the terrain
was pretty even, not that it would have mattered if it had not been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SeeJay87 won the roll for first turn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no night fighting on the first turn.
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SeeJay87 deployed along his deployment edge as far forward
as he could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The razorback tucked away
on the other side of the chapel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I responded
by counter deploying in north west corner of my zone so that when his grey hunters
fell out of the skyin their stolen technology my units would be able to support
one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a
note the two models laying down represent which units are in which
buildings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this time the large squad
has pretty good line of sight to the Long fangs which is not clear from the
pictures so I attempt to seize hopefully knocking the missile launchers out for
a turn. I failed to seize and SeeJay87 proceeds to his first turn.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two of his grey hunters squads come down on target and his
sky claws move forward to secure a second turn counter to my response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While he pours most of his firepower into my
front noise marine squad I make a ridiculous amount of saves and loose only
four marines to the combined weight of fire from his army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one shot that wasn’t put into the front
noise marines came from the lascanon razorback, which he then manages to one
shot my obliterator on the top of my bastion, Lady Luck is a fickle lover
indeed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My first turn is also pretty quick my only movement is to
bring the final two noise marines from the first squad into coherency. I decided to leave my terminators in the
building for now, I wanted to wait until SeeJay87 was fully committed with his
podding troops or at least until he was closer.
In the shooting phase my large squad did what it does best, deleting a
unit of troops from the board. The rest
of my shooting knocked out a couple of long fangs but that was about it. At 1500 points I feel that I am overspending
on my terminators and on the large squad to the detriment of the rest of my
army. I should slim them down and drop
some of the extras, but I probably won’t, I like sacred numbers and besides the
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All of SeeJay87’s reserves come in and his pods scatter into
better position than positioned and his flying gunboat screams up the side in
order to lay waste to my large noise marine squad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His sky claws move in and his remaining grey
hunter squad from the first turn shuffles around in order to do some cleanup
work on the 2man noise marine squad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember
what I said about Lady Luck? This was my roll to glance/ pen after SeeJay87 elected
not to jinx.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knocked out his turret
heavy bolter closest to me, locked its velocity and shake it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the rest of his shooting is only average
at best, manages to clean out the 2 man squad and half of the 12 man squad, the
razorback again manages to one shot the remaining obliterator even after he
went to ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luck be a lady tonight!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Raptor is not dead yet, just with all the traffic coupled with <br />
an unstable table it seemed prudent not to tempt fate.</td></tr>
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At the bottom of two my drake decides to stay off the board
so I disembark the terminators from the building that they were bravely
holding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use the burning brand coupled
with black crusader to good effect and drop the grey hunter squad behind the
short wall down to a single model.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
large squad manages to reduce and pin the other fresh hunter squad that had
been targeting them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the squad
inside the bastion decides they would rather debase themselves than contribute
to the fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bravely bold Sir Robin<br />
rode forth from Camelot.</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TURN THREE:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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On SeeJay87’s turn he shifts his gunboat and homes in on the
terminators killing two while the remaining heavy bolter knocks out another noise
marine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bolter fire accounts for a third
terminator but in another stellar display of rolling SeeJay87 comes up short on
his charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile the large noise
marine squad, or what is left of it, does their best impression of a John Woo film
dodging almost every missile, mind-bullet, and wrench throw at them, two drop
to SeeJays87’s firepower but both heavy guns are still up and active as is the
Icon of Bad Touch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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At the bottom of three the drake phones in to let us know
that he is still running a bit late and won’t show up this round either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other than that, the dice rolls went my way
more than not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The large squad of noise
marines shuffle to get out of sight from the remaining long fangs while still
gunning down several of the remaining grey hunters surrounding them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The terminators manage to multi-charge the
sky claws and a pack of grey hunters killing all but one sky claw who then decides
to stick around despite needing snake eyes on his leadership test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To top it all off the quad gun fires on the
Fire Raptor on automated fire and still manages to remove the last hull point
sending it crashing down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact the
only thing that I can’t seem to hurt is the razorback, all my shots directed at
it wildly miss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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TURN FOUR & END GAME:<o:p></o:p></div>
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At this point is just clean up, while SeeJay87 has more
victory points than me at this point he doesn’t have much left on the
board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I start the process of by killing
off a lone marine and dropping a pod with melta from the remaining
terminators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brave Sir Robin my lord decides
that bunker in the back without windows/ fire ports needs to be defended in
case of a sneak attack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The remaining
two terminators shrug off missile fire and mind bullets to wreck the drop pods
scattered about my deployment zone thus insuring that I will have more victory
points at the end of the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The drake
finally decides to show up and only accomplishes a couple of hull points
against the drop pods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again he
fails to show up until the fourth turn and when he does fire off his gun he
only hits with one shot of the four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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On the northern hill there is a slap fight between three
grey hunters and six noise marines that will go on for the rest of the game
with not a single model dying in the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe I should spend the points to upgrade the Aspiring Champion with a
power weapon of some kind, but I already feel like the unit is bloated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes two additional turns of combined
fire from the unit in the bastion and the helldrake but I am finally able to
strip off the last hull point from the razorback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this point SeeJay87 who has been keeping
track of victory points declares that he can no longer win and calls the
game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brave Sir Robin ran away. Bravely ran away away.<br />
When danger reared it's ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.</td></tr>
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POST GAME THOUGHTS:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>MVP</u> – the MVP for my side has to go to the terminators with
the lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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While they hid for the first
part of the game they ended up accounting for two squads of hunters, the sky
claws and a couple of drop pods thus securing the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recently I have stopped treated this unit as
a shock unit and more like a group of school yard bullies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I was always happy with their performance
before, they are now starting to win me games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>More and more I am becoming convinced that their roll is not to take on
the enemy death star units hoping to buy a turn or two, but rather to go after
the soft targets that can score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Goat</u> – without a doubt the goat for this matchup has to be
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By the time he decided to show up the game was all but over and
even then he failed to do more than strip a couple of hull points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have also continued with my streak of only
hitting once with the hades autocannon every time I fire it, I have decided that
all this means is that when I do get to Adepticon the Puff here will hit 3 or 4
times every round, maybe even five.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is how maths
works, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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On the whole no new revelations with my army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a very static shooting army that is
surprisingly resilient and wins in the long game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that I can no longer take an escape hatch
for my building I am at a loss for how to add mobility to this list at this
point level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly unless I come up
with something in fairly short order it will be too late as I am a very slow modeler
and even slower to paint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Chambershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18075294689773116021noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-79152711447701589102014-02-17T21:36:00.000-06:002014-02-17T22:01:20.644-06:00Among other Things<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, those unfortunates who read my last post may remember that I signed off by stating that I had caught everyone up on all of my hobby related goings on. That wasn't entirely true. As of next month, I'll be restarting my Pathfinder game that had to be put on hold due to the birth of my son. Hopefully we can finish this adventure path up in good time. I'm eager to run the lads through the current AP, Wrath of the Righteous.</div>
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It came with Belial, a Terminator Librarian, a command squad (with a spare Apothecary), a squad of 8 DW Knights, and 2 squads of DW with Assault Cannons. That comes to 1500 points. I added two more squads of DW with Cyclone Missile Launchers to round it up to 1850-2000 points. I've always liked the idea of a DW army. Its small, only 36 models, even without considering vehicles. I don't actually plan on considering vehicles as that defeats the purpose of a small, compact, elite force. When you have north of 12k of Salamanders, moving that herd is draining. This force will fit into two 2" Battlefoam trays with room left over. It's nowhere near competitive, but again, that's not why I got it. I suppose you could say I have "Large Army Fatigue". I'm sure it's a real thing, just look it up. I plan to have the armor air brushed, and then I'll sort out the details later on. I'll post updates as I get them, but I'm wondering when I'll have time for the Necrons let alone these lads...chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-48749378341130968602014-02-13T21:12:00.000-06:002014-02-13T22:51:02.193-06:00Come the Apocalypse...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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That's apparently what it'll take for me to update this thing. In any event, I'm not dead; I've just had a great deal going on. New job location, new house, new son, new codex(!), etc. Life is busy, but that's why they call it life I suppose. In any event, here's some pictures of what I've been up to. I may not be blogging, but life couldn't keep me away from the game!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here they are with a bit of paint. Prime black, base with Knarlock Green, go over with Snot Green. No idea<br />
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lava bases don't have an equivalent. So, a bit of cork and some assistance from my lovely daughter and I had it<br />
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They've become my favorite bases in the whole army. Parents will understand what happened here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drop pod fins for wings, removed the lower rear stabilizer, magnetized the weapons on the outside of the engines,<br />
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There's probably a bit of highlighting yet to do on this guy, but frankly I got tired of painting Snot Green at this point. If the Easter Eggs in some of the above pictures haven't been clue enough, I sold off my Tzeentch Daemons after their new codex dropped (and I absolutely did not like the way that new book played) and replaced with them with something else sinister:</div>
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So now we're all caught up. I can't say I'll be regular, but I can say you'll see more of my Necron project log. I'll likely have a few posts on the new paints and new techniques I'm trying out (tried a bit of sponging on the ceramic as you can see). I won't win any painting contests with this army, but I'm having fun again and I'm testing my hobby skills. And for me, that's what it's all about.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture shamelessly taken from <a href="http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2013/03/40k-review-chaos-daemons.html">this</a> BoLS post dated 3/3/13.</td></tr>
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I suppose I could say "Yes" to to above question. But the reasons for that might not be what you think. As any cursory inspection of the blog will reveal, I am primarily a Salamanders Space Marines player. I probably have somewhere in the neighborhood of 12k points of the flame loving crusaders, and I'm fine with that, or more accurately, my wife is okay with that. On the other hand, even with that sort of diversity available within that codex, I was tired of playing power armored super-humans, and more importantly, I was tired of painting snot green (or whatever the hell the new color is called...I'm still using up my supplies of the "old" snot green). I needed a new army that would maintain my interest in the hobby by selecting one that had: a different play style, a different "look", was something that wasn't too popular in my shop, and was something that I could get excited about.<br />
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Rather than go into excruciating detail about the specifics, I ended up choosing Tzeentch Daemons. It is my preference to only play mono-god lists due to the influence of the past background material. Perhaps in Apoc could I envision the Gods working together to accomplish a task, but never for something as trivial as a 1500-2000 point game sized force. Yes, this was <i>post</i> White Dwarf update. No, that was not why I selected them. I had originally settled on Nurgle Daemons, but there were about a half dozen of the lads at the shop who played them. A handful had Khorne and Slaanesh, and exactly zero people played Tzeentch. Still, I think it's worth noting that as powerful as the Screamers and Flamers were in the previous update, I never took more than 9 of each in my three 1500 point games.<br />
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So, where did that leave me? I made plans to attend Adepticon again after getting burned out on the Team Tournament. I was to participate in the 40k Friendly event and the Combat Patrol. I would bring my new Daemons, I wouldn't worry about award-quality paint jobs/conversions, and I would focus on fun. I carefully selected my list, acquired the models, and got to work.<br />
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Here is the list I planned on taking:<br />
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Herald of Tzeentch w/Bolt, Disc, We Are Legion, & Master of Sorcery<br />
Herald of Tzeentch w/Bolt, Disc, We Are Legion, & Master of Sorcery<br />
(18) Horrors of Tzeentch w/Changeling<br />
(8) Horrors of Tzeentch w/Bolt (Herald would accompany)<br />
(8) Horros of Tzeentch w/Bolt (Herald would accompany)<br />
(4) Screamers of Tzeentch<br />
(5) Screamers of Tzeentch<br />
(3) Flamers of Tzeentch w/Pyrocaster<br />
(3) Flamers of Tzeentch<br />
(3) Flamers of Tzeentch<br />
Daemon Prince w/Flight, Might, Gaze, Bolt, & Mark of Tzeentch<br />
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That list was silly with sacred numbers. I had 9 screamers, 9 flamers, Horror squads in sacred number denominations once the heralds were attached, and 9 total units altogether. It was glorious. I had anti-horde, anti-vehicle, anti-elite unit, anti-flier, a unique deployment system, gorgeous models and a solid ruleset that I was beginning to fall in love with. Short story long? I enjoyed the hell out of them. I was excited about my hobby again.<br />
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Enter the new codex. Can I be nit-picky for a bit? I hate hardcover codexes. HATE them. They should be softcover the way God intended. There, I'm done with that for now. There's plenty of press out there discussing the pros and cons of this new codex. Those folks are likely much more qualified that I am to discuss this book in an objective manner. That's not what this post is about. This post is how the army that I carefully selected and built for a specific purpose is no longer playable in the manner it was when I selected it.<br />
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Here is my new list that I'll be taking up to the 40k Friendly event. I haven't come up with my combat patrol list. I just don't have the heart for it at the moment:<br />
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Lord of Change (Lvl 2 -Divination & Change) w/(2) Greater & (1) Lesser Rewards<br />
Herald of Tzeentch (Lvl 2 - Divination & Change) w/Exalted Locus of Conjuration<br />
Herald of Tzeentch (Lvl 2 - Divination & Change) w/Exalted Locus of Conjuration<br />
(20) Pink Horrors of Tzeentch<br />
(20) Pink Horrors of Tzeentch<br />
(9) Screamers of Tzeentch<br />
Burning Chariot of Tzeentch<br />
Burning Chariot of Tzeentch<br />
Daemon Prince (Lvl 1 - Biomancy) w/Mark of Tzeentch, Flight, & (1) Lesser Gift<br />
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There are some things that I find intriguing with the new book. The Greater Daemons and Daemon Princes seem like they <i>might</i> be worth taking, but that's about it for me. I hate that my horrors are so cheap, because now they're shit. Yes, I can get twin linked S6 shooting from them now, but I lost a whole lot of total shots, any opportunity to overwatch (which has saved them from assault in the past), and a point of invulnerable save (even though I do now get to re-roll 1's). Additionally, the move away from innate abilities towards psychic powers was a poor one in my opinion. Now any army with any sort of Psychic defense (Grey Knights, Space Marines, Tyranids, Eldar, etc.), not to mention failing my Perils test or my opponents lucky Deny the Witch rolls, could conceivably shut down my entire army. Talk about building a narrative. I think the reason I'm so disappointed with this new codex is the changes to my Pink Horrors. They were the backbone of my army, and they've changed so dramatically. I can't even take squads of 9 anymore. It seems like sacred numbers were an afterthought to the design of this book.<br />
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So, in closing, the book wasn't what I wanted it to be. Not even close, actually, I consider it to be a great disappointment. But, I had a very narrow definition of what I wanted, and I'm naturally a very unlucky person, so I'm not surprised that the list that I became attached to no longer plays the way I wanted it to. All that said, I will play the lists at Adepticon since I had to register the army I was playing in the 40k Friendly, so I'm stuck with it. I may even play a few games with them at the shop, but I doubt it. I wouldn't play Apoc with this codex unless I absolutely had to. Turns out the way to refresh my desire for my Salamanders was to sprinkle my Daemons with the salty tears of despair. :)<br />
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My overall rating? Inconclusive. I had no desire to play anything but a limited mono-Tzeentch build so I can't speak to it's overall quality. It does, however, lose points for being unnecessarily a hardcover book.<br />
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My specific rating? 1.5 stars out of 5. This may go up or down as time goes on and I see what I can do with it, but my initial opinion of the units is poor, and my opinion of random charts for gifts and "warp storms" is very low.chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-44558996590819956702013-01-01T16:47:00.002-06:002013-01-01T16:49:16.459-06:00New Year? New Resolution: Blood For the Blood God!!!While I haven't shifted the focus of my latest army from Tzeentch Daemons to that of Khorne, I did spend a bit of time celebrating the New Year's holiday with my gaming buddies listening to some artists straight from the dawn of metal. I know very little of their history, but I did rock out to their tunes. Enjoy!<br />
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Lyrics for this madness can be found <a href="http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/sabbatuk/bloodforthebloodgod.html">here</a>.<br />
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And Bolt Thrower can be deciphered <a href="http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/boltthrower/realmofchaos.html#8">here</a>.<br />
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P.S. I am 99% done painting my 40 Pink Horrors of Tzeentch (only eyes, bases, & touch ups remain). I am about 20% done with my Daemon Prince, Flamers, & Screamers. They are primed, based, and washed. The next steps will include the highlighting and detailing, but I don't expect that to take too much time...chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-73793286831073720092012-12-07T10:29:00.001-06:002012-12-07T10:45:17.631-06:00Tzeentch Daemons Road Test<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last night Grenn Dal, from <a href="http://xenoftw.blogspot.com/2012/12/post-game-thoughts.html">Xeno For The Win</a>, and I played a game to test out our respective 1500 point 40k Friendly lists for Adepticon 2013. He had a Tyranid list, the specifics I can't remember although it wasn't a dead-hard list due to the nature of the event we are preparing for. My list was something like:<br />
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Tzeentch Herald<br />
Tzeentch Herald<br />
18 Horrors w/Changeling<br />
8 Horrors (joined by Herald)<br />
8 Horrors (joined by Herald)<br />
3 Flamers w/Pyrocaster<br />
3 Flamers <br />
3 Flamers<br />
4 Screamers<br />
5 Screamers<br />
Daemon Prince<br />
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The sacred number of 9 is used where possible here. 9 total units, Horror units in multiples of 9 (when joined by Heralds), 9 Flamers, & 9 Screamers. The Daemon Prince is obviously the odd man out there, but I have yet to find an opponent that will let me field them in units of 9.<br />
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While I did not win the roll for my preferred wave (seriously?), since this was my first ever game with Daemons, and a play-test to see how the army performs under the most common circumstances, Grenn Dal graciously allowed me to drop my preferred wave first. Karma, being the bitch that it is, I mishapped twice on turn 1. Oh well, the Dark Gods are fickle indeed.<br />
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We focused on the game too much for a decent battle report, but here are my thoughts:<br />
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<li>Deepstriking is key. If I don't master this, my enjoyment will be limited with this army. I was too agressive at times as well as too conservative in others. Need to find a balance.</li>
<li>Pink Horrors are miserable in assault (no shock there), but surprisingly decent at shooting, especially the larger squads where I could use volume to counter my lack of quality shooting.</li>
<li>Camping Heralds inside Horror squads gave me a great deal of flexibilty with their "We Are Legion" boon. Need to remember to declare all shooting, regardless of target, prior to rolling dice.</li>
<li>Minimum squads of flamers don't hit very hard and are not at all resiliant to mass shooting or assault.</li>
<li>Screamer HAVE to get the charge off against dedicated assault units.</li>
<li>Vector striking is awful nice, but with the 90 degree turn restriction, Flying Monstrous Creatures in Swoop mode are a tricky ballet.</li>
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I like the list, and will be trying it out against a variety of opponents in the coming months as I work to improve my use of the army. I may consider going with 3 units of 3 screamers and 2 units of 4 & 5 flamers going forward, but that remains to be seen. In any event, the game vs. Nids was fun, the forces of change came away victorious in their first outing, and I'm looking forward to getting in my practice with them.<br />
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<em><span style="color: red;">EDIT:</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: red;">(Grenn Dal's list)</span></em><br />
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<u><em><span style="color: red;">HQ</span></em></u></div>
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<em><span style="color: red;">Tyranid Prime –lashwhip /bone sword regen</span></em></div>
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<u><em><span style="color: red;">Troop</span></em></u></div>
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<em><span style="color: red;">10 Genestealer – broodlord toxin sacs</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: red;">10 Genestealer – broodlord toxin sacs</span></em></div>
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<u><em><span style="color: red;">Fast</span></em></u></div>
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<em><span style="color: red;">5 Ravener - rending claws, Devourer</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: red;">5 Ravener - rending claws, Devourer</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: red;">3 Shrike – lash whip/ bonesword toxin sac</span></em></div>
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<u><em><span style="color: red;">Heavy</span></em></u></div>
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<em><span style="color: red;">Trygon Prime – bio pulse, regen</span></em></div>
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<u><em><span style="color: red;">Elite</span></em></u></div>
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<em><span style="color: red;">Zonathrope</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: red;">Zonathrope</span></em></div>
chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-36613713352598273252012-11-20T19:26:00.000-06:002012-11-20T19:30:11.494-06:00And now for something completely different...Not really, but it's been so long since I posted anything up here I was straining to think of something suitably clever. I believe I failed. In any event, I was previously doing yeoman's work on painting up my birthday gift that the lads got together for me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's coming along, but I needed a break</td></tr>
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Painting it, however, was a bit of a challenge. I don't want to screw it up and the fact that I've been doing nothing but Salamanders for the past few years was wearing me down. That AND learning a new edition of the rules sort of burned me out. Not that I hadn't done well enough with it, as I had won both a local Rogue Trader (solely on the basis of soft scores...I went 1 - 2 on the day) and a five week league held at the shop. I just needed something...different.<br />
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I had long held an admiration for all things Nurgle, and set about creating plans and shopping list for a Chaos Daemons list with Chaos Space Marine allies. I planned on using the Daemons both for 40K and for a Warhammer Fantasy skirmish game that we were planning for the shop. The marines were to be pre-heresy Forgeworld models, and all was to be awesome. Then I went to one of our Apocalypse games and almost all of my opponents had Nurgle armies. The last thing I wanted to do was join that infectious crowd. What was I to do?<br />
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It turns out that I was destined to head into the shifty embrace of the Dark Gods but we had guys who played all of the flavors except Tzeentch. Challenge Accepted! My fledgling Tzeentch Daemon army was born.<br />
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On top of that, I managed to snag one of the coveted slots in this year's 40K Friendly event at Adepticon. Now I was burned out on the Team Tournament, but I wanted to head back to Chicago and try something different. So Friendly tournament on Friday and Combat Patrol on Saturday is where I'll be found in 2013.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dark Gods have blessed my efforts with a Daemonic Familiar.<br />
She INSISTS on helping me out every time I paint.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Obviously, I'm still shopping for suitable Battlefoam trays. Suggestions are welcome.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lads are still in progress, but I'm optimistic. No competition quality here,<br />
I'm just going for a fun, table-top ready quality.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damn finecast. My Changeling's staff broke like it was it's job. <br />
I hacked off it's arm and put a Horror arm on it.<br />
My conversion skillz are sick.</td></tr>
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I'm done rambling folks. Updates to follow, I promise.chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-15607864838319981512012-11-04T18:17:00.002-06:002012-11-04T18:18:41.300-06:00The Indy Open 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Interested? You should be. Go <a href="http://theindyopen.com/">here</a> and redeem my faith in humanity. <br />
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P.S. I'm not dead or out of the hobby, just been in a serious funk lately.chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-20296279098604653342012-07-17T09:23:00.001-05:002012-07-17T09:23:32.550-05:00What's New Today?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Apparently we are. Or, more specifically, <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=3100080-gws&amp;_requestid=628651">Aerion & CVinton</a> are. This gorgeous tank that was converted by CVinton and painted by Aerion has a brief mention on Games Workshop's Blog. While they may not be shameless self promoters, I am certainly the proud owner of their excellent collaboration. Good show lads. Good show.chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-12342321532877490742012-06-11T15:30:00.000-05:002012-06-12T12:57:59.063-05:00A Midsummer's Apocalypse Dream<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This past Sunday the lads got together at our store, Fantasy Books & Games in Fairview Heights, IL, and held one of our semi-annual Apocalypse games. Organized by Brandon, the store manager, we have every resource at the store's disposal available to use. Previous games have seen every flavor of formation, wonky deathstar units, super heavy vehicles, and gargantuan monstrous creatures. We enjoy our frequent leagues and open play weeks, but these Apoc games, and the craziness that they inspire, are a real treat for us.<br />
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The occasion for this battle was for the recreation of the Battle for Helsreach Hive during the third battle of Armageddon. There were three tables. The largest, which was three tables put together that represented the outskirts of the hive. A wooded table (Ork Deployment area), a "no man's land" of trenchworks, and a city board. The trench board and city board were the Space Marine deployment areas. Additionally, there was a board representing a space hulk and another board that was a defense laser. Loyalists controlled the laser, which was able to fire on either the Hulk, or the main board. Orks controlled the Hulk, which was able to fire upon the defense laser board or the main board.<br />
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Like every one of our games, we had plenty of shenanigans on the tabletop. We had three stompas, one skullhamma tank, 11 Ork planes, 2 mega dreads, and plenty of boys, trukks, wagons, etc. The space marine players mainly brought regular units, but they brought a lot of them. Seriously, a lot. This was a "bring everything you own" type of game, and we were quite surprised to realize that the marine players had just over twice as many points on the main board as the Ork players did. I don't consider the game a "win" for the marine players, even though they had control of more objectives. Rather, I give the game to the Orks, who accomplished so much with half as many points of models. It was truly an awe inspiring performance.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Want to learn the rules for the new Ork Planes? Play with a dozen of them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bray'arth fell to this Mega-Dread, but he took out a Super Heavy Rocket Launcher<br />
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It was a great time with many memorable moments that were discussed over beers afterwards. And that, my friends, is why you play the game.<br />
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Which takes me to the after game party. The group of guys that I play with try to celebrate each other's birthdays when we can. We try to pool together and buy the guy something that he may not have bought on his own, typically something from forgeworld. This time around, it was my birthday that was celebrated. And I am truly humbled and blessed to report that this was the gift I was given:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As if that's not more than enough, they got me Salamander chapter doors as well</td></tr>
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I don't have the means to express my thanks. I play with a fantastic group of guys, and I hope I can show them the gratitude that they deserve. So to Brandon, and the rest of you, thank you so much.chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-74790377293317370842012-06-08T22:53:00.000-05:002012-06-09T08:36:21.205-05:00BANG!!!! Bang? Yes, BANG!!!!!!Okay, I was prepping an old Vindicare assassin for this weekend's Apoc
game. There was an unusually excessive amount of flash on this model,
and while clipping it I noticed that one of the GW sculptors or casters
had immortalized an inspired moment:<br />
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Part of me REALLY wants to paint it up like that. Anyone else ever notice this?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Edit: fixed picture</span>chaplainaerionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00204823268026732867noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-54423603062919449622012-06-08T12:43:00.000-05:002012-06-08T12:43:14.639-05:00Tactically Hybridized: Local League game 5 of 5<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Well, last night was it. The final game of the local league where I was featuring unique (to me) lists for each game. Try something different, test some new (to me) theories, etc. All in all, it was exactly what I needed. I had awesome opponents the whole time, and I played a pretty diverse set of opponents: Necrons (win), Eldar (draw), Space Marines (win), Tau (win), & Dark Eldar (win).<br />
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Go <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/no-chapter-for-old-men-local-league.html">here</a> for week 1s results (No Chapter for Old Men)<br />
Go <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/tactically-maximised-local-league-game.html">here</a> for week 2s results (Tactically Maximized)<br />
Go <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/two-headed-monster-local-league-game-3.html">here</a> for week 3s results (Two Headed Monster)<br />
Go <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/06/netlist-extreme-local-league-game-4-of.html">here</a> for week 4s results (Netlist Extreme)<br />
All lists can be found <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-ride.html">here</a><br />
A better battle report than this one will be can be found <a href="http://xenoftw.blogspot.com/2012/06/do-elves-burn.html">here</a>.<br />
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We had Capture & Control with Pitched Battle deployment. He won the roll to go first, and I failed to seize the initiative. Everything was laid out on the table, with no reserves. It was going to be a game to see who could outshoot/outlast the other guy. These games with only two total objectives are real easy to earn a draw on, so aggressive play was required.<br />
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He had two of the Dark Eldar flier things. I recommend that you go the Grendal's blog <a href="http://xenoftw.blogspot.com/">Xenos for the Win</a> to see what they actually were. All that I know is that they had some dark lance weapons and a bunch of missiles. He also had some of their blasphemous transports. One held some angry assault ladies, while the other two held warrior squads in them. Finally, he had a miniature transport thing with some close combat guys in it. It had a poison weapon on it, and they had power swords.<br />
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He deployed at the 12" line and then rushed everything forward. That memo on aggression? I appeared that he received it.<br />
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My list was adapted from something that Chambers asked me to try out. It had five tactical squads with a variety of heavy weapons and razorback transports. This was supported with two Autocannon/Heavy Bolter Predator tanks, two Twin Linked Autocannon Dreadnoughts, and a Multi-melta/Heavy Flamer Speeder.<br />
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I tried to deploy in combat squads in cover, but didn't want to crowd that clump of trees since I new he had a bunch of large blast templates. I would try to push forward as much as possible, but his shooting early on had something to add to that plan.<br />
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At the end of his first turn, I had a "what just happened to me" look on my face. He shot me with a lot of stuff. Some of it was lance weaponry, some of it was poison, some of it were one shot missiles, he did a lot of moving about prior to that. I'll readily admit that I was a bit confused by his tricksy xenos ways. There's a reason the Emperor has no truck with these types. It does us good to remember that. Anyway, he beat up a few combat squads, and one even fled off the table. The Heavy Bolter was blown off Vulkan's razorback. I did a few things to him, but not much.<br />
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At the end of the second turn, he had busted up three of my five Razorbacks, the Land Speeder, and was about to lay into a few more of my combat squads with his scourges and warriors. I had removed his two close combat units, basically solidifying my left flank allowing me to roll towards the right. My Predators and Dreadnoughts would spend the remainder of the game shooting at a 10 man warrior squad that was on his objective. He went to ground for the next three turns, and it took me every bit of three turns to kill that squad. Yes, (4) Twin Linked Autocannons, (2) Autocannons, and (4) Heavy Bolters took three turns to kill 10 guys with a 3+ cover save (they went to ground). A razorback from my left would add its fire as well for the last two turns. My combat squads visible in the picture above would win an assault with his scourges (only because his "sergeant" missed all of his attacks with his power weapon over several turns) and move up to take out the other raider and warrior squad.<br />
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At the end of turn 5, I had tabled him. At turn three, I was asking myself "Why is he dying? I thought that was my job." He had a scary amount of firepower on turn one and two, but after that...not so much. His squads were decent in close combat, but when fighting power armored marines, he relied on his squad leaders and their power weapons. I'll admit he had terrible rolling when it came to those guys, and it made a difference. I also credit the large volume of fire that came out of my Dakka Preds and Riflemen Dreadnoughts. He tried to shoot them up early in the game, but to no effect. Those four units shot down all of his large threats relatively early in the game which allowed me greater access to control his objective by the end of turn 5.<br />
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Grendal is a great guy. He may not remember, but he was one of the first people I played when I got to this store. It was a 500 point game, that I spent a majority of running away from his Orks. You may not realize this, but you can buy a crap ton of Orks for 500 points. In any event, I'm glad he was my last opponent of the league. I had fun with my list tryouts, and I somehow managed to go 4-0-1 on the league. We don't know final results yet, but I may actually have won this thing! Which is to say, I get pseudo bragging rights for about three weeks until the next league starts up. <br />
<br />chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-57062436301136189192012-06-01T08:17:00.001-05:002012-06-12T12:58:20.826-05:00Netlist Extreme: Local League game 4 of 5<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Last night we played out the 4th game of our 5 week league. As you know by now, I vowed to play a different list each week (within the same codex was our only limitation) that departed fairly significantly from my normal play style. My goals were to mix it up a bit, have a lot of fun, and practice using my tactical squads in a way that doesn't suck.<br />
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Breakdown of all lists can be found <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-ride.html">here</a>.<br />
Week 1 results: "No Chapter For Old Men" found <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/no-chapter-for-old-men-local-league.html">here</a>.<br />
Week 2 results: "Tactically Maximized" found <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/tactically-maximised-local-league-game.html">here</a>.<br />
Week 3 results: "2-Headed Monster" found <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/two-headed-monster-local-league-game-3.html">here</a>.<br />
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This week we had Spearhead deployment with Seize Ground (5 objectives). I won the roll to place the first objective and kept up a trend of keeping all the objectives fairly close to one another. I also won the roll to go first, but I deferred, allowing my opponent to chose his deployment zone and go first.<br />
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My "netlist" was unabashedly stolen from Danny Internets and his blog Bald and Screaming a long time ago when I first started playing Space Marines. I knew I would be playing Salamanders, and it was a Vulkan list, so I thought I would copy it into my spreadsheet of lists I like and I'd eventually get around to building it. It required 5 Land Speeders, 2 Vindicators, and 3 Drop Pods. At the time I swiped the list, I only had 1 vindicator. It would take me years to get the remaining models before I could play the list. In fact, my last two drop pods were given over to me last night after being mostly assembled. Since they were "in the shop" I was using some loaner drop pods from the Crimson Fist dealership on the corner. If anyone knows or ever sees Danny thank him for posting the list, and apologize for me that I can't link back to the original source (if you can't find a list on the net anymore...is it still a netlist?) Essentially I had:<br />
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6 TH/SS Terminators<br />
2 MM/HF Land Speeders<br />
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1 MM/HF Land Speeder<br />
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3 x Tactical Squads w/meltaguns, multi-meltas, combi-meltas, etc. in Drop Pods<br />
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3 x 10 Fire Warriors<br />
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With Spearhead deployment, the Tau player was pretty bunched up. He made some push towards my board edge (empty devilfish, fire warrior squad, & Farsight with crew) as well as pushing a squad of fire warriors and the railhead to his left to capture the farthest objective. The rest of his lads were right there for me to drop on. I dropped Vulkan with a squad as well as my librarian with a squad. Each tactical squad broke up into combat squads upon arrival. My hope was to give the Tau a lot of different targets to shoot and hope he didn't focus fire. My librarian failed his test, and avenger didn't go off. I didn't even get mad this time. That's how common this had become. One combat squad targeted the fire warriors on the objective in the trees. The other targeted the suits closest to the blue pod. Both of the squads out of the green pod targeted the broadsides. Blue pod inflicted light casualties, but enough for leadership tests, which were all passed. I did enough wounds on the broadsides to force a test there as well, and they failed! So I had that going for me moving forward.<br />
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His turn 2 gave him the opportunity to take revenge on my Salamanders for their rude arrival. He contintued moving towards my board edge with a few of his units, but otherwise stayed put. His shooting killed all but the Sgt. in one combat squad and all but the meltagunner in the other. He also put a wound on my librarian. He didn't shoot at either of the green pod combat squads, instead opting to target their drop pod. My reserves were very kind to me this turn with a vindicator, squadron of speeders, and the terminators coming in. Terminators used the blue pod's teleport homer and ran towards a group of suits. Vindicator and speeders drove on right next to the fire warriors and suits that were creeping up on my edge. Between shooting and assaults, I cleared the Tau from the objectives they were near (except the one outside the frame to the right, they would own that all game), and eliminated a set of suits with the vindicator. This turn was devastating for the Tau. His game plan was disrupted by my arrival within his lines, and a got very lucky with my reserves. He lost a lot of his capability, while I lost the majority of two combat squads.<br />
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At this point, he has his HQ & retinue with another set of suits on that side of the table. On the other, he has a fire warrior squad on an objective with a railhead & squad of suits in support. He runs his suits away from my terminators (who would fight nothing all game, a first for me) and shoots my speeders out of the sky in retaliation from using their heavy flamers on the squad of fire warriors previously occupying those trees. He kills the sole surviving member of a combat squad by the blue pod and kills both my librarian and meltagunner with shooting as well.<br />
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Turn 3 saw all but a single speeder come in from reserve. The vindicators each killed a squad of suits (one with Farsight in it). The remaining tactical squad dropped on an objective and split into combat squads. One held the objective they landed on while the other made its way to the objective on the hill. At this point he had enough firepower to deny me the objective by the blue pod but he couldn't ever take any more than the one his only scoring unit was currently holding. To prevent him from shooting at my combat squads, however, I threw a bunch of delicious looking units at him so he would shoot at them instead of my scoring units. Vulkan met his fate to a missile in this manner. At the end of turn 5, we rolled for a 6th turn and got it. We decided to call it there, however, since the game was clearly in hand at this point.<br />
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This list was quirky, and certainly something I've never played around with. I'm very timid with my tactical squads, especially when they're in combat squads. When given a choice (and a transport) I often baby them. Dropping them down in drop pods, however, forces the issue. I was impressed with their performance even though they died in droves. Chambers is always singing the praises of them, but he always rolls well, so I hadn't seen their use until last night. My vindicators also cleaned house by clearing out 3 squads of suits and Farsight. I readily admit that I was lucky with my reserves, and I had already removed the broadsides by the time they showed up. Although 240 points of terminators never saw the angry side of assault, it was clear that they made him nervous (as they should have). I think they did a fine job of contributing to the chaos that this list brought to my opponent's game plan.<br />
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It was a fun game, my opponent was fantastic. He's a new player trying to learn as much as he can about the game and his army, during a time of known transition for us. I wish I had a fraction of the good grace and demeanor that he showed during what was a pretty solid beat down for him. I learned a little about my new list, but I was truly humbled by his classiness. It would be an honor to play him again.chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-2148226959109241692012-05-28T10:26:00.000-05:002012-05-28T10:30:35.098-05:00Iron Hands Venerable Dread & List AdviceBannus has returned with some new conversion/paint work on a Venerable Dread for his Iron Hands. I'm quite impressed actually. Bannus has moved from my part of the world up to the Windy City. We miss seeing him at the store, but we're awfully glad he's staying in touch by showing us his work. Enjoy!<br />
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Pretty cool no? I like that we've got a couple of TSE members churning out sweet Iron Hands conversions. Ol' Seth and Bannus need to hook up and make a monstrous Iron Hands force.<br />
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Additionally, Bannus offered up some list advice to break me out of my gaming rut recently. He suggested that I make "elementally" themed lists and offered up a Water List as a suggestion. I've copied both the list and a description in his words below:<br />
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HQ<br />
Varro Tigurius <br />
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Troops<br />
10 scouts w/ Bolters, Heavy bolter, Powerfist, combi-melta, Melta-Bombs<br />
10 scouts w/ Bolters, Heavy bolter, Powerfist, combi-melta, Melta-Bombs<br />
10 Scouts w/Sniper Rifles, Missile Launcher, Sergeant Telion<br />
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Elites<br />
Ironclad Dreadnought w/Heavy Flamer, DCCW, Ironclad Assault Launchers, Drop Pod & Locator Beacon<br />
Ironclad Dreadnought w/Heavy Flamer, DCCW, Ironclad Assault Launchers, Drop Pod & Locator Beacon<br />
5 terminators w/Assault Cannon, 2 Chainfists<br />
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Fast Attack<br />
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Space Marine Bikes w/Additional biker, Melta Gun, Melta Bombs, Multi Melta Attack Bike<br />
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Heavy Support<br />
Vindicator w/Dozer Blade<br />
Vindicator w/Dozer Blade<br />
Vindicator w/Dozer Blade <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I created this list as a "water" list. And the idea is, much like how water changes shape to fit whatever container it is in, this list will adapt to whatever enemy you might face. It has one other strength, nobody will see it coming.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Tigurius is the key to the whole list, with his ability you can re-roll any reserve roll, so you will have an easier time controlling when your units enter the game. This fits in perfectly with the scouts, drop pods, and terminators. He also can use three psychic powers a turn, and may choose from all psychic powers, which adds versatility to any unit he is attached to. He is vulnerable though, so keep him safe.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The scouts themselves are outfitted with anti-tank, anti-infantry, and a close combat weapon, and should be able to take on most enemies. And they have many special rules that allow you to adapt to the situation, both while deploying and after. Just avoid heavy flamers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Ther Ironclads in drop pods can be deployed when and where you need them, and if you plan it right, the terminators can use the locator beacons to deepstrike with precision. The Ironclads themselves have a meltagun and seismic hammer for vehicles, and a heavy flamer for infantry, so again, very versatile.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The attack bikes look anti-vehicle at first, but dont forget they have twin-linked bolters also. Combined with relentless they can rapid-fire before charging to take on infantry units, have 5 wounds at T5, and can always choose to fail morale if they cet in an assault they didn't want to.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The terminators with chainfists, storm bolters, and assault cannon can take on almost anything. And you should be able to drop them wherever they are needed, if your enemy decides to destroy your pods to stop this, then who cares? He didnt shoot your other units, and all of them are dangerous.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">And finally, the vindicators, though they are the most out of place, S10, AP2 large blasts are useful for anything. And they are also useful mobile cover for other units because they can move while firing to full effect, so if you choose to deploy your scouts at your board edge, they will always have cover behind the vindicators. They also leave your opponent no room to run if you deepstrike/outflank the rest of your army. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">This army's main weakness is against speed, once they are deployed they are slow, but speed isn't as necessary when every unit is equipped to handle every task. Against a fast opponent I think you will be fine if you keep the units close enough together that they can support each other.</span><br />
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Let us know what you think!</div>chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-23475544762128381502012-05-25T11:06:00.001-05:002012-05-25T11:06:37.249-05:00Two-Headed Monster: Local League game 3 of 5<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The third week of five is now in the bag for our 1850 40k league at my FLGS. A brief recap: Make five separate lists to use that are all departures from what I normally play. This was to break me out of my post Adepticon funk, give my opponents something other than what they've seen before, and to bring fun back into focus for me as a gamer.<br />
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Breakdown of all lists can be found <a href="http://www.teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-ride.html">here</a>. Week 1's "No Chapter for Old Men" results can be found <a href="http://www.teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/no-chapter-for-old-men-local-league.html">here</a>. Week 2's "Tactically Maximised" results can be found <a href="http://www.teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/tactically-maximised-local-league-game.html">here</a>.<br />
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As with all weeks, excepting the very last of course, the lists were chosen randomly by a third party prior to me learning who my opponent will be or what mission we will be given. This week, we were assigned Dawn of War deployment with Annihilation as our mission. My good man Stuey finally showed back up at the game store with his White Scars after he finished his semester at school and we were paired up on a table with a moderate amount of low terrain (desert village table).<br />
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My list:<br />
Vulkan<br />
Terminator Librarian w/null zone & avenger<br />
2 X (5) TH/SS Terminators w/Land Raider Crusader & Multi-meltas<br />
3 X (5) Tactical Marines w/combi-melta & TLHB Razorbacks w/HK missiles<br />
2 X Land Speeders w/Heavy Flamer & Multimeltas<br />
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The purpose of this list is simple. Smash face.<br />
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Stuey normally plays bikes, but he too mixed it up for the evening by bringing a Pedro build. He brought:<br />
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Pedro<br />
(10) Sternguard with a variety of stuff (combi-meltas & a Heavy Flamer I think)<br />
(10) Tactical Marines with meltagun, lascannon, power fist & Rhino<br />
(10) Tactical Marines with flamer, lascannon, power weapon, & Rhino<br />
(10) Tactical Marines with meltagun, lascannon, power fist, & Drop Pod<br />
2 X Vindicators<br />
Predator w/ Autocannon & (2) Lascannons<br />
(2) Land Speeders w/ (2) Heavy Bolters each<br />
(2) Land Speeders w/Heavy Bolters and Missile Launchers<br />
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I had 14 kill points to his 16.<br />
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He won the roll to go first, and accepted it. I did not attempt to steal the initiative. Not only would I have failed, naturally, but I actually wanted to go second so that I could position myself better based upon his position after he drove all his guys on turn one. Neither one of us deployed anything, so he moved all his stuff on 12". He put his Drop Pod in the approximate center of the board and combat squaded the guys inside. That was good for me since there were really only two place to effectively drive my Land Raiders on, and they were both within striking distance. My turn 1 actually saw me able to push forward with my LRC that had Vulkan in it and assault his combat squad nearest to me. The power of the machine spirit in the LRC blew up the Drop Pod.<br />
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That looks kind of scary. It certainly wasn't pleasant. The squad on the left is the sternguad and Pedro who rushed up to shoot Vulkan's squad. The other five guys are the remaining combat squad from the Drop Pod. There is one Speeder in frame, two more just outside to the right, 2 Vindicators, and a lascannon from a tactical squad in a Rhino half in the frame at the top right. All of that shooting, and three terminators would die, leaving Vulkan and just a single terminator. All three of the dead terminators would fall to a single land speeder and its 6 heavy bolter shots. Yeah, mathhammer is for the weak. All in all, the remainder of the game would take place within spitting distance of that fancy yurt-like structure. He would throw units at my terminators until they died. They he would throw units at my LRCs until they died. It was quite a bloody affair.<br />
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Vulkan's squad was dead at this point, the Librarian was going to break off from his squad to use avenger on the Sterguard who were bunched up in teardrop formation, and the terminators were going to push through the tactical marines towards the tanks. That was the plan. What actually happened? The Librarian broke off from his protective squad, rolled two sixes for his perils of the warp test (I've tried using librarian power 4 times...I have failed twice), assaulted the sternguard, failed to wound a single one, and died to Pedro's power fist. I love the model. I love the words in the codex about what they are supposed to be able to do. I have had only a single game where I have been able to see any performance whatsoever out of that unit. The terminators assaulted the Tactical marines, drove off the survivors (but not far enough that a surviving meltagunner wouldn't be able to kill a LRC at the end of the game.<br />
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Final tally? I had killed 10 KP of Pedro's Scars, and he had killed 9 KP of Salamanders. It was a stressful game with a fantastic opponent. I had opportunities to handily wrap this game up from turn one on. I failed again and again to capitalize on the opportunities that presented themselves. While the game was a victory for me in the end, my dice rolls were so bad that bystanders and neighboring tables were making fun of me. I would miss with twin linked weapons, fail to penetrate armor with melta weaponry, only manage shaken or stunned results on vehicles. It was pathetic. Stuey was a class act, and made fun of me an appropriate amount without going too far. But I am getting a bit sick of it. How can I analyze me list performance when I can't even depend upon average dice results? I'll stop complaining now. It was a win, I should be happy right?<br />
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I picked up a rush commission last night and, while prepping the models I had a flash of inspired genius. I was thinking of how I might prime and paint the meltaguns separately so I could more easily paint the chests of the marines. I looked to my right at my trash can (hey, divine inspiration shouldn't be questioned, so don't judge me for randomly checking my trashcan for ideas). There atop the empty food containers and other various basement-centric detritus, was a recently discarded sprue frame. The squared shapes and occasional cylinders of spare plastic merged with some paper clips in my brain and, like John Belushi standing in a Chicagoland church, I saw the light!<br />
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Some quick snips with the clippers gave me a small workable bit of frame that would sit flat on a surface and resist being scooted by spraying paint. Some easy work with my pin vice and super glue and the Gun Rack was ready for service.<br />
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I placed a tiny drop of glue on the end of each peg so the guns wouldn't fall off. Then I cut a bit of cardboard, secured some tape to hold the backpacks and the gun rack, loaded the whole squad out to the garage and gave it a blast of primer.<br />
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The whole operation took less than 30 minutes and it can (and will) be reused again and again. This frame is rigged with 5 pegs so it will hold a whole combat squad compliment of weapons. I imagine it will also work well for heads or any other small bits that might need personal attention.<br />
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Let me know if you like this idea, or if you have a better system feel free to share. We're all in this together, right?chaplainaerionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00204823268026732867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634818198563696389.post-66194601961573859232012-05-18T08:26:00.001-05:002012-06-12T12:58:46.781-05:00Tactically Maximised: Local League game 2 of 5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the second week of our five week league at my FLGS. My mission, after returning home from Adepticon in a bit of a funk, was to craft 5 separate lists, one for each week, that served as a departure from my normal play style, included elements that I have always wanted to try out, or that just seemed like damn good fun.<br />
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Breakdown of all lists can be found <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-ride.html">here</a>.<br />
Last weeks "No Chapter For Old Men" list results can be found <a href="http://teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2012/05/no-chapter-for-old-men-local-league.html">here</a>.<br />
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This week's list theme was simple. It's almost like going to AA meetings: "Hello, my name is Chosen1. I am a Space Marine player, and I don't know how to use my Tactical Squads." Seriously, its an embarrassment. It's like Ricky Bobby's hands during that first TV interview, I just don't know what to do with them.<br />
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What's one way to figure these things out quick, fast, and in a hurry? Play with as many Tactical Marines as I can in an 1850 game. I selected 6 Tactical Squads, gave them Vulkan, a Librarian, and then a bunch of razorbacks and heavy weapons. Here's the list:<br />
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Vulkan<br />
Epistolary Librarian w/Null Zone & Avenger<br />
2 X Tactical Squad w/flamer, combi-melta, plasma cannon, power weapon & TLHB Razorback<br />
2 X Tactical Squad w/flamer, combi-melta, missile launcher, powerfist, & LTHB Razorback<br />
2 X Tactical Squad w/flamer, combi-melta, lascannon, & TLLC Razorback<br />
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Our mission was seize ground with spearhead deployment. My opponent was a Tricksy Eldar player that I've played once before. He's an outstanding guy, and I had a great time playing him, but we fought to a draw. I told myself that win or lose, I would not get another draw...yeeeah, about those TPS reports... <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Deployment: All combat squads</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His Deployment: a bunch of Xenos trickery</td></tr>
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I would love to tell you what was in his army. In fact, my friends are telling me all the time "Chosen1, you should really learn these other codexes so you know how to play against them." Honestly? That sounds like a lot of work. It also opens me up to heretical thoughts, and the light of the Emperor's cleansing flames as I burn them down are all I need to understand about Xenos. Here's what I can remember: Avatar, Eldrad + Dire Avengers in one of those melta-ignoring transports, 3 War Walkers with scatter lasers, (7) Jet Bikers with warlock, (7-ish) Fire Hawks in melta-ignoring transport, (5) Rangers in the "venerable" transports that make me roll twice to kill them, and (5) Dire Avengers in the "venerable" transport. I normally fear the Avatar like no other since I load up on flamers and meltas. Don't judge me, I roll like ass. I dont' NEED those re-rolls, I can quit anytime...really. This time, however, I had plenty of other guns for him. I was also glad I had a librarian.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I know I suck at battle reports, but honestly the game looked like this for most of the night.</td></tr>
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We get five objectives, plus two more "story objectives" for the league's storyline that have no bearing on the game play. I lost the roll to go first, failed to steal the initiative, and weathered the first turn fairly well. I could tell he was intimidated by all of those transports and Tactical Marines. I'm no seer, he actually said "I'm kind of intimidated by all that". I tried not to strut around like a peacock. I failed. He maneuvered to get shots on Vulkan and the Librarian's transports, but didn't take either out. I moved up across all fronts trying to engage him with my combat squads and shoot what I could. The Avatar took out two combat squads before he was brought down by Vulkan.<br />
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Those two transports (green/white & purple) at the bottom of the frame stayed there the whole game taking pot shots at me. Their occupants would ultimately claim the objectives near each. The tricksy bikers did their move-shoot-move dance. I eventually flanked around the right side of the treacherous Xenos scum and shot them down. It was glorious.<br />
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I didn't realize I wasn't "doing it right" until the end. Now you've all heard me complain about my horrible rolling. My opponent was doing poorly this game as well. In fact, I think we sort of averaged each other out. I had some good turns, he had some good turns. My librarian shut down about half of Eldrad's powers, which is a big deal to me, because that cat can use a lot of them. I would almost bet that if Eldrad had been allowed to do his thing the final outcome would have been significantly different. I'm not sure if I'm a fan of the "you must take a librarian to have a chance against the tricksy eldar" meme, especially since I took him randomly this week, but it is what it is.<br />
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This is essentially the end game. I held the top/bottom left objectives. He held the top/bottom right objectives. Eldrad and a Dire Avenger exarch move onto the center red objective. I shot the snot out of them and fail to move my guys close enough before the end of turn five. Game ends in a draw. Don't get me wrong I enjoy winning. On the other hand I know when I don't "deserve" it. I played sloppy. Not just moving into position, but I made mistakes on some rules (they were corrected), but I am always nervous that folks will take my mistakes as cheating. That's absolutely not who I am. Both of us were glad this game ended in a draw because neither one of us performed any better than the other. Back to those TPS reports I suppose.<br />
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What did I learn? I (still) need to be more aggressive with my tactical squads. I think that not only would I have forced him further out of his comfort zone, but that I would have been in a better position to contest or capture objectives during the late game. Combat squads are fragile. If someone starts spouting off about a statline in the 4's backed up by 3+ saves punch them in the face. Marines are nothing special. That deserves repeating, Marines are nothing special folks, they perform similar tasks as their Black Templar, Space Wolf, and Blood Angel brethren, but they're inferior in almost every way. This doesn't mean they can't win, just that they need (insert something sage and wondrous) to do so.<br />
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All in all, a great game with a great guy. I look forward to next week's match!chosen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/12673690662576005920noreply@blogger.com3