war gathers in the east (pt6)

so its not quite finished but this is my culexus assassin stood atop a chaos possessed and ready to blow his brains out (the gun I haven't got yet but will soon)




this is the first time I have tried a diorama style base and wouldn't try it with any other model really except this one bcoz its getting hit on 6s for everything lol makes a big difference!!




im really pleased with the posing and how its turned out the assassin is dark elder bits mashed together n the chaos marine is varied pieces of the same   the main problem I see is transporting the model



so this will round off my 2k pt list and at some point I will be trying to fit it into a 1850 list for my anti pysker as currently I have no defence for this 


ill be having a few test games with it at 2k  to see what its like, it will get better once iv had a few more games.


for those of u who haven't read the officio assassinorum dataslate the culexus is the most favourite of all 4 as it has a 12" bubble in which all psychic powers get turned off in a nutshell which is great for killin invisible units lol not only that those that are within the bubble  cant generate warp charge points and cast powers on a 6+ instead of a 4+ which really does shut down psyker heavy armies.


as iv mentioned its 6s to hit a culexus so they are safe pretty much anywhere but T4 means they can b insta gibbed if they are lucky

finally it has a str5 ap2 shot that is equal to the amount of mastery levels in the bubble plus u can add an extra 3 from ur own pool as this is resolved in the psychic phase with infiltrate as well u have a gd chance of taking out something


this will combo nicely with the lumigen from the dune crawler 2 try  get a -1 cover  im also really excited for when I can fire a stupid amount of shots n wipe out fate weaver lol

war gathers in the east (pt5)

so the skitarii are pretty much built and in need of arms n things but this may happen when  they are based I haven't decided how difficult it will be to paint them up with arms attached or whether to leave them off n do them separately


here are the rust stalkers



the infiltrators



the ballistiri



dune crawler

vanguard

rangers



its taken a while!!  but here is the battle maniple in all its armless glory!! 

something different

so i'm having a change of pace from the usual articles to discuss something slightly different







so iv done lots of articles (300+)  and talked about painting  gaming list building tactics  but this is something I do n read as an actual strategy



psychological warfare in the form of killing a favourite unit to put ur opponent off his game  now in a game of toy soldiers how do you pull off such a feat and would it work ??


well BOLS  is trying to find out some armchair general is writing up articles based purely on this from finding out and killing favourite models and telling them "fake" favourites of ur own to trying to make them do something with mis information


WAT A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!




any moron who has no idea wat a unit can do will just ask and if u break down and cry when ur fave models dies you need to start re-evaluating ur outlook on life!!


ill be following these with some mock interest to see how he spans it out lol

game 2 with war concotion!!

so I was much more prepared this game id got a crib sheet for core special rules that I cant remember lol the rest was pretty much goin thru the masses of codex's need to run this mighty beast


(insert quirky meme here)  as I cant find anything funny relating to getting seized on as that happened again!


and turn 1 I lost the dune crawler, ballistiri and 3 out of 5 infiltrators


id pretty much used the same list as last game against a foot eldar list


the main problem was in a modified ICT style game I struggled to wrack up points fast although it did end up with him being tabled on turn 4 making it 18-5 I think.


I did get to try out more units/combos this game though which is a BONUS!!!


first thing is infiltrators the 5 shot pistols are super gd  at str2  u need 5's to wound even puny eldar but with shred its awesome mixed with high BS its great if u can take advantage !!


the main problem so far is balancing both  canticles/doctrines so that they tally up with what I wana do turn 1 the only thing iv fully decided on is +1 bs doctrines and re-rolls on canticles for the first turn alpha strike


after this I need to play much more to decide which way to go 


other combos  the phosphopheonix  is lumigen so -1  and omnispex is -1 so as long as the pistol wounds its -2 cover for the plasma culverins which makes a huge difference even a -1 means most players wont really go 2 ground as it usually not worth it


I cud have played more aggressive with the knight titan as he was hiding from a wraith knight and fire dragons


another thing that I like is the str4 hits at i10  they make the destroyers far better as I was doing 8 auto hits on each unit in combat with my destroyers with my warlord this also happens in my assault phase and his !!!  so 16 str4 hits on T3 butchered his units but with cognis flamers they and grav they are scarey to charge as again  re-rolls to shooting attacks means I can do this in overwatch (its something I need to check)


so  1-1  so far for the might of the mechanicum!!!

war gathers in the east (pt 2.5)

well iv got no orks bitz  so iv decided on a demonworld base instead so iv done lots of research ish lol and decided on something like this

this is the hell scene from Constantine and from the picture everything looks drab n dreary which I can do with dry brushing my bone colours  probably wont go as high as ubshanti though.


base will be steal legion drab
with a dry brush of karak stone


then maybe wash it with agrax to deepen it also thinkin of using the mars earth to create a barren waste style feel.


that will also need painting so that it blends in with my base


iv also got nurglings so I can put them on the larger bases mainly for a lil humour


the fluff doesn't say what type of demons are on this world so I can mix n match them as a like as well as chaos marines 2 boost up the variety


the bases will be on show when I post up my next post showing off the skitarii

testing the war concotion

well





and that pretty much sums up the first run with the war concoction!!!


so wat was I up against


it was a pretty basic  marine list with raptors chapter tactics  they get a redeploy n scout n stealth n rending bolt guns no lias issodon tho!


it was crammed full of 5 man units and transports such as drop pods and rhino/razorbacks  and they went first!!


and it was an amazing first turn  my knight titan died lol  and I lost both the infiltrators/rust stalkers lol great start lol


this was gd tho as I got to see how the list would work when its not at optimum levels


my vanguard n destroyers came in and then went to work on his units the canticles and blessings workin really well to keep me in the game at each turn


the destroyers survived at lot longer with FNP and T5   the  massed cover reduction also helped to make it easier to remove models as well I can see ths being really gd against armies that can spam lots of cover


I did forget some rules like rangers -1 to WS and things like that but more games n ill get better the next tournament I go 2 ill do a crib sheet n take them!!  jus need 2 practice with the timings


and I need 2 remember that even with all the special rules n things they are still a fragile army overall n ill not b able to stand n jus repeatedly shoot things

results

so overall the day went really well  playing  ITC modified missions were really fun and mean choices were made on a turn by turn basis rather than going a few in front.




the armies that were around were quite varied  nids deamonkin necrons tau lots of elder n even harlequins.




quite a few titans were knocking around including a bio titan lol




another note on ITC style missions meant that even if u cant really take on the army u can still wrack up some points which is awesome




another bonus was that a tabling only gave u 5+ points so it stops ppl from playin uber aggressive and forces you to focus on grabbing objectives instead


and onto the main and important stuff the armies!!




game 1
 




so it was marines and thankfully not that stupid gladius strike force!!  woooo!!  he took a dreadnought wolfstar termies razorback rhino and grey hunters/blood claws as troops


best bit of this game was termies took 5 turns to do nothing!!  that's right they did pretty much naff all 


I did end up losing my wraithknight turn 2 in combat to the wolfstar :( sad times


the absurd shooting/movment caused my opponent no end of problems I pretty much mowed him down


win 2 eldar !!!




game 2



was pretty much wat happens  also the army was amazingly painted and slightly freaky as it was the same style of blue as mine even down to his wraithblades ( I kno lol)  being the same style of purple n blue lol

I have a slightly new found appreciation for wraithblades that are fortuned they were really hard 2 kill ended up with 3 left in the unit at the end of the game!!


lost the wraithknight early again in combat

he had an aspect host with fire dragons/reapers/ scorpions but went +1 bs

avatar  falcon and 1 serpent with lances


scatter bikes with only 1 scatter laser


farseer on foot and bike n that's it


he stole the initiative and wasn't expecting it so he pretty much jus ran everything forward playing aggressive I spent pretty much 2 turns trying 2 repel a buffed up wraithblade unit but they eventually got into me n charged n killed my warlord and wraithguard


I got first blood with my wraithknight killing his wraithlord with a roll of 6 lol


it was 1 objective each and made the mistake of not taking out the reapers quicker that let him grab points quicker as I was rolling terribly so he managed to get a few points a lot quicker than me




a big mistake was turn 3 ish he needed 2 get 2 my objective 2 get 2 points  but shot with his bike unit that gave me more time to whittle down his units and then when they did turbo in I was n luck n rolled well for kill a unit n get 3 units in my deployment zone and no enemy so I clawed some back


the big turn for me was taking out the reapers and getting a serpent into his deployment and on the objective getting me 4 points for the end of the game and as it ended with me on turn 5 I cud re take my objective with a scoring unit from his avatar 


WIN FOR MY ELDAR




game 3



so this normally doesn't happen but here I am table 1 against tau and the ghost cadre formation is just 1 reason y I dropped tau  

ghost keel  and 2 units of stealth teams   they auto hit rear armour crap!!!! lol 
next thing was a huge unit of crisis suits with buffmander and every and any gun u can think of and 5 drones shield/gun


2 units of normal guys
2 ramoras
2 tetras
riptide n this flyer thing


I went first n went 2 town on him lol  he only had the stealth suits riptide and ghostkeel + fire warriors on the board


I used my serpent shields 2 kill off the tetras and the spiders 2 pepper his stealth suits. he didn't do much but made mistakes of constantly trying 2 shoot my spiders so they kept flicker jumping out of the way of his units making his shooting far less effective than it should have been lol


this kinda happened until my turn 3 where his big unit of suits n things had killed a fire prism lol that was it dunno how many points it was but it was huge lol  and he managed 2 kill a 135pt tank lol


so after I crapped my self I turned the remaining fire prism 2 warp spiders 2 serpents and a unit of dire avengers at him and with some shenanigans I got rid of the drones n things first n then jus whittled down till only the commander and a suit remain!  I breathed a huge sigh of relief and after that controlled the board and game.


win for eldar!!!




so I won all 3 games and came in 2nd as scoring was done on pts n sum1 got 30points n leapt over me lol


overall most valuable unit was warp spiders the  huge movement plus awesome shooting meant they cud do most jobs I needed and when shot at were out of harms way or moved closer to contest objectives


will not leave home without them!!!