working at the rumour mill

ok its bin about  2months their  abouts  since i posted  about the chaos codex and the new rumours flooding  throughthe codex  will be out  around august  time.

we also know

1 chaos and  dark  angels  will now  be  in the starter box
2 deamons are getti  lots of updates to their models
3 their is a new  rumour of a master class for painting  chaos termies


its a slightly  shorter article than normal but  theirs not much happening  at the moment

deploying the troops in 6th ed

ok guys i played  my first  game of  6th ed  and  it feels like  not much has changed and the cahnges i  do like  over  watch and  unit  deployment and positioning are  massively important

heres  how  i broke  6th  ed 

when you  roll to wound you create  a "wound  pool" now  lets  say for  example(as this  juss happened)  vect is the  closest  model  to the firing  unit  and the  wound pool  is 6 dice.  the rulebook states

 if after the save is taken it reduces  the  wounds of the model  to zero  u move to the next model

(heres where it breaks)  a unit of  wyches are  in range  to be  shot up  and  the firing unitg ets 5 wounds for the wound pool

the closest  model to this unit is vect  so poor  vect  has3 wounds which means before  the wounds will pass to the next model behind  him he has to fail his 2+ inv save :(

now  grey knights  can do  this even  better!!  have a  paladin  at the front with awarding stave and  an apothecary he then  has to fail his 2+/2++  and FNP  before  any wounds will go to the next model

if you  can have  battle brothers with  your allies this can get really crazy!!!

combat  isnt as bad as i first thought its really quick to move 3" so its ok

deplyoment was the  1 where   u deploy on the back of the short table edge n this is amazing for  every shooting army  sit half way  back so when they  get  2 the midway point u can start shooting and still be well out of harms way 

warlord  traits  are  fun but i didnt bother using my  outflank skill

peopleusing venomsdont worry !!  their still just as resilient  with flicker fields  :D
 

clawfeind!!! go

my list is now fully  done all painted and ready to go.  the  next important  thing is to  do some fixins n mend some damaged models ravagers are quite bashed.  but on 2 the  gd stuff 

     
so  clawfiend you can only  have  1 per  handler and their 40pts each   which means a unit of these badboys is 260 points lol

so what do you get for  40pts 

ws4 s5 t5 w4 i5 a4

the main thing is  the  T5  when  the unit of beasts is shot at  normally u have 2  choices kill a bird  kill a handler  or take a 4+inv save on the khymera.  what  the  clawfiend allows you  to do is  take the first  str7+ wound  on him he wont die hell jus lose a wound   this  has 2 benefits:

1 the unit doesnt lose any casualties
2 the khymera survive longer


if ur incover even better.  now if  after  reading this your allready trying to squeeze  one  into ur list  dont be scaredof him  dying  that his job 

but if he does survive to get into combat   hes str5 and has  an extra attak per wound missing so thats  a max of 8 attacks on the charge  so hopefully  ull get a couple of glances maybe even a pen :D

fires in the sky

this is another blurb  on 6th ed  and  how  skyfire and flyers will work  most  weapons with skyfire  are  str7  and most flyers  are either  av11 or 12

so  space wolves  missile  spam  may still be on top

5 puppies fire flakk  with  sky fire at  an av12 flyer  will get  u  2  glances on average  thats  a total of 6 across 3 units  and  2 dead flyers a turn so spacewolves dont need to wet them selves jus yet

for av11 its even easier jus the  2 glances  become pens and  u get 1 extra glance so necrons may be worried  same with dark eldar

now the next big bad boys are  hydra flakk batteries  the most annoying  HS unit in 40k  after rolling some dice  a unit of  3  hydras have 12 shots  the average  is around  3-4 glances so str8 away and 1 in 3 units wil get a pen

so whose  gunna ally with  guard :P   

target pratice !!

ok  i should haveset out targets for this month  at the end of last month  so heres wat im gunna do

finish painting my claw  fiend for  TS

after  toy soldier ill acquire more  fantasy stuff and a wet pallette then:

ill paint the allready started  hexwraiths
build and paint the next set of hexwraiths
then start the  mighty bus of death lol

so a busy month  and as  usual  pics  and something interesting 2 read will follow

breaking 6th ed -whos on top

necrons  no other  way or easy to say  but  theyll be back in a bigway y  gauss weapons  thats  gunna be the  game breaker 

a unit of  10 warriors  rapid firing on average  will roll 3 6's  most  vehicles have 3 hull points  thats  3 vehicles dead a turn!!!!

then  throw  in scarabs in its whole lot of nasty!!

nids  i think  with  monsterous flying rules  the once  useless harpies  and flyrants will  be back  out 2 play

footdar  have done well bak end of  5th  but with the new  vehicle pen rules  theyll  be boosted even further  the seer council is still on top  :)

gk wont  change  much  they  may switch out  razorbacks for  chimearas and  get more  cheap troops  to fit  in the  elite  dreads

BA and all the other armies spamming FNP have taken a hit with it being  5+  it may still be around  but it might dissapear 

predictions   necrons  top xeno army
predictions  gk still top  marine army

6th ed + de

iv read the rulebook and  i need  2 play  a few games 2 see what its like  foot armies may become very powerfull but we need 2 see.

vehicles are more fragile from the outlook only playtesting will determine how badly

i tried my DE list for  toy soldier  and it works well  the  clawfiend is great  although 4 birdies is a bit crap 6 wud be better but i havent got the points for it


still need 2 actually  play 6th ed tho after i sort out my fantasy stuff lol  i plan  on starting  6th ed after  toy soldier  or at least have a few practice games this is a little short n sweet ill hopefuly be picking up my wet pallete 2moz n ill be painting the claw fiend