warmahordes update

now over the past few months I have been playing warmahordes again along side 40k and have been saying for a long time ill repaint them  and with  blight blades being a dual kit and PLASTIC!!  means that my list is going more and more the way I want it to

iv also had to put up with using a semi painted list for a log time now and with last years vow to fully paint armies before I use them and getting a new air brush i'm more determined to get them finished to a nice standard hopefully

so  I went from  white  base coat partly painted

to this

all black that's right the colour I probably should have started with!!

I will still follow the same theme purple skin and black scales and try and make them darker as they go up in size if I can but well see

another overhaul for DE

I was going to type I cant remember how I got this idea but I do!





i was watching a battle report on frontline and  both armies had void shield generators  and then i read an article where void shield generators where an annoyance  and finally i read a some1 saying that as a dark eldar player they hated  everything




so  i put all these together  and


 


why not put a generator  in my DE list  its pretty cramped at the moment so something has to give so iv come up with a few variant lists that all incorporate the generator




so first list


Hq
Lhamean
venom
canon


archon
webway


troops
warriors x5
venom
canon
x3


FA
scourges x5
haywire blasters x4
x3 units


fortification
void shield generator
+2 shields


HQ
autarch
bike


elites
firedragons x10


troops
bikes
scatter lasers
x2


LOW
wraithknight


culexus assassin




so  i love the look of this list already lots of combos and covers most bases  except flyers


2nd list


Hq
Lhamean
venom
canon


troops
warriors x5
venom
canon
x3


FA
scourges x5
haywire blasters x4
x3 units


fortification
void shield generator
+2 shields


HQ
autarch
bike


troops
windrunners
scatter lasers


formation corpsethief claw
haywire blasters
ichor injector


this list lacks any psychic defense as well as no anti flyer


my ap2  comes from the corpse theif who will mangle thru the gargants with fleshane and ID on 6's so not worried


the bonus is that the corpse theif if on a roll will bag me extra points


ill try this at the first tournament of the year n see how it does!!

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