tournament

a localish place is running a small 20 man event  1850 1 LOW and apart from that their are no other restrictions lol





so I need to decide on a list that A  will get me past that annoying  first game loss and B  take me onwards to glory




the first and most obvious choice is eldar


HQ
spirit seer

Elites
wraithguard
serpent
scatter laser
shuriken canon
ghost walk matrix

troops
avengers x5
exarch
serpent
scatter lasers
canon
ghost walk matrix
x3 units


as a dire avenger shrine


fa
warp spiders x5
exarch
x 3 units


aspect host


HS
war walkers x3
scatter lasers


wraith knight





loads of decent shooting  bs5 or twin linked  ghost walk has helped me loads of times 2 take objectives n keep my vehicles safe





down sides is no skyfire which means taking out flyers of either kind will be a pain


the next list chaos demons





HQ
lord of change
lv3
exalted gift


belakor


troops
horrors x12
horrors x12


FA
screamers x9


HS
DP
wings
armour
lv3
tzeentch
x3






upside  its a fast hard hitting list with plenty of durability and those all important re-rolls for cover  screamers shield the MC's and belakor cast's shrouded and LOC makes him invisible  hes also a really gd detterent for wraithknights and knights with armourbane/fleshbane

lots of psychic dice can bring on more troops and units if needed





down side is that  lots of weight of fire will bring them down eventually and a bad turn means it will be hard 2 recover 






dark eldar

hq
lhamean
venom
canon


troops
warriors
sybarite
venom
canon

warriors
venom
canon

FA
scourges x5
haywire
x3 units


HS
void raven
missiles
x2 units


corpsethief claw
ichor injectors
haywire
x5

hq
autarch
bikes

windriders x3
scatter lasers





plus side lots of haywire can take down vehicles quickly and the corpsetheif is my answer to any death star that gets thrown at me with ID I can stop wraithknights and other stuff





downsides no psychic def  + lots of eldar/tau and the list crumbles really fast so not my best choice






finally war convocation
 tech priest
scryer skull
stasis field
infoslave skull


destroyers x3
grav/flame
x2 units


vanguard x10
plasma x3
omnispex
data tether


alpha
conversion field
arc maul


rangers x5
plasma
omnispex
data tether


alpha
arc maul
conversion field


ruststalkers
princeps mask digi weapons conversion field


infiltrators
princeps radium digi weapons conversion field


ballistiri
las canon


dune crawler
heavy phosphor
mind scanner


knight crusader
storm spear


BA
priest
auspex


marines x5


drop pods x5


plus sides  loads of free stuff!! lots of kool rules  and combos


down side lots of rules!  with 4 codex's to read thru it realy is a mammoth task remembering wat everything does  and their is also a distinct lack of experience with the army as well


so  think the first choice is eldar followed by demons folled by ad mech with dark eldar in the rear lol

war gathers in the east (pt4)

the next part of the army is a flesh tearer strike force made up of a sanguinary priest and 5 marines with bolt guns and 5 drop pods(which I haven't built yet)  

this is a better shot of the sanguinary priest 

im breaking this up into parts each part will be for each part of the formation plus fluff so roughly 5 parts and here are the drop pods some are sprayed as ive had a decent run of weather so taking advantage!!

so this is the 3rd piece of the war convocation puzzle  finished and subsequently the last of the models that I bought finished

ill be picking up the skitarii at somepoint today and they'll be done by later on this eve hopefully 

new tau stuff

well well well





no that isn't something u can do but  wat you can do is lay down a whole world of hurt with the new tau hunter cadre


the tau have been given super juice in the form of a new campaign book with lots of shiny shiny new things for tau players to use.


the main alteration to the codex is that its softback rather than hardback so should be cheaper lol units and rules haven't changed at all they have jus tacked on other stuff in different books.


+1 BS for the hunter cadre in a firewall is wat I think well see then either a unit of storm surges or the superemecy armour sounds like an amazing combo


im still not worried that my all drop pod list will get killed turn 1 from interceptor


the tau Decurion has no real "tax units"  its all standard units that most tau lists would take.  I have the answer tho!  ill be adding an auspex in to my list for -1 cover so I can wipe out those pesky fish heads faster!!


so ill kno more when I get my hands on a campaign book n give it a read

war gathers in the east (pt3)

so the 2nd section of the army is completed and its actually the primary bit for the force


adeptus mechanicus





its only a small portion pts wise but offers lots of fire power and other technical gubbins!!  which ill talk about in more detail once the army has all come 2gether!!  so without further a do here they are starting with my warlord





and my destroyers!!





n that's it!!  im slowly but surely getting thru all the stuff I bought

war gathers in the east (pt2)

so this post will or should explain the title





cant beat xibit memes lol


I was looking for a meme on forging a narrative but couldn't find one which is annoying.  so the knight titan isn glued down and for good reason I haven't decided wat the theme will be.  to help me decide iv looked into some background type stuff


the skittarri of metallica (should be 1 l but I can use this 2 add some funny things like song lyrics) are from ultima segmentum in the eastern quadrant near the ultrasmurfs and Armageddon!!


so that explains the title lol


and also leads nicely into my first musing and ideas for bases


the 3rd war for Armageddon as they are in the east they would have helped (or I can jus say they did lol)  also the blood angels were part of that battle n that explains my allies choice.  bases will be mainy rubble n dead orks and imperial stuff.


for comedy value I an hide gretchin behind my vehicles


the second is demons teeth the mechanicum as a whole are trying to invade a world where an original STC is held that is immensely powerful. so I have no idea wat a demon world would look like but I do know I can swop the gretchin for nurglings lol


so these are my 2 ideas and wil make up another part of the base once iv got an idea

war gathers in the east! (pt1)

so I did this lol and completely ignored my own "wont buy anything until my necrons are painted" which didn't really work lol  that's mainly becoz the night is dark and full of terrors lol.

so in the 4 bags is the start of my mechanicum force! and I went straight for the big guy as my first piece I cudnt wait nor resist this kit as I really like the kit. so here is a picture heavy near enough step by step account lo

 

first up a lil look at the shiny shiny goodness

here is the kit stripped so we can see the lovely insides (mainly for those that haven't made a knight)



the legs n feet went to gether realy well the instructions are probably the best GW have ever made lots of detail shots and colour really easy 2 follow and use 

again the waist came together really quickly all goin pretty well so far 

and in true GW fashion it all goes wrong  piece 105/106 are the sides of the body  and they are labelled the wrong way round in this kit but once uv looked at the picture and figured out that its not right its easy 2 correct.

after that mix up I was back on form n it all went really well 

so the tilting plate(sheild thing) and melta gun and head are all not glued for ease of painting (incase for some reason ur reading this as a building guide lol)



the top plate is glued so is the rocket pod the body isn't glued to the legs and neither is the feet to the base



arms aren't glued as the lock in its very kool n clever!!  

so that's it spent a good few hours building the beast  next instalment will be wat ever else I build lol and somewhere a rock narrative that will leave u un able 2 walk for a week!!

40k winners/losers

well  im officially jumping ship  and getting rid of the tau  the main reason is I have



the top the best the most awesome D filled codex in 40k  and everyone hates eldar lol



I was looking for a decent demons pic and found this suitably freaky pic! demons yea another army that people hate lots of psykers and punchability fast mobile and annoying with either belakor or a screamer star



lastly necrons  they are super slow and unkillable  5+  inv VS shooting  4++ re-rolling 1's reanimation and can reach out and touch any unit and wound/glance it on 6's

these are top codex's don't need allies 2 make u cry or bring the PAIN

on the flip side



rubbish saves cardboard vehicles  but all the poison and haywire u can shake a stick at and the corpse thief keeps me in the game or wins the game for me so much lol

so on balance I have 3 top codex's compared 2 1 low tier codex and i'd like to change that !!

so skittarrii and ad mech are generally quite weak low saves/toughness  mixed with decent saves toughness and lost of sweet combos makes this army like dark eldar a lovely swiss army nice that will still leave a hole in a top codex that isn't ready for the pain and winning with a codex that sucks is awesome lol

so tau are out  and im back on the imperium train lol