Showcase: Tempestus Scion Squad.

Last night I finished up painting the Scions I just built.  It is weird that I had not finished the others before taking on these guys but they were sitting there on my station all primed and ready to go so, I finished them.

WIP More Astra Militarum Scion

Now that I had my test model finished I decided to do the old assembly line method for the rest of the gang.

Are Guard Getting an Update

There has been leaks of the new White Dwarf Weekly showing off the new MILITARUM TEMPESTUS Scions and their transport.  Rumor are that these are the new IG storm trooper. I have found some images on the BOLS forum who found them on other sites.  I have cropped them to make it easier to look at.   I am not really interested in the text right now since it is propaganda.

WIP: Harpy /Crone and Heavy Weapons Team.

So I had a little time to craft over the weekend.  I assembled the harpy / crone model up to the point where I need magnets.  Then I painted up one of my 4 heavy weapon teams. First some pics.

Battle Report: IG vs Salamanders

As I said in my last post I got a game in with a good friend, Chosen1 from Team Snake Eyes.  Before the game we got our armies out and had or usual smack talk.  I said how much I would be dying and he said how much I was going to stomp his face. We both have huge egos and are always full of confidence.

Pregame: Imperial Guard Vs Salamanders

I get to play a good Friend, Chosen1 from Team Snake Eyes Blog, before heading back home. He wanted to try out his friendly list for Adepticon. Since I dubbed this month IG month I quickly slapped together an army. Let's look at My list:

8 Player Escalation Game

This weekend I came back to play in an 8 player Escalation. The theme was imperial vs chaos.I brought 3k of Imperial Guard(IG) which included a Shadowsword as a Lord of War. I asked my teammates if I should use the D strength weapon or should I use the Stormsword with the S10 big blast and They said to use the D.  We thought everyone was going to bring a D weapon. Turns out I was the only one.  Sorry guys. At least it wasn't a titan with 4 shots.

WIP Monday: Imperial Guard: Bane Wolf, Veterans, and Commissar oh my!

I have been gearing up for my 3000 point game this Sat. The group I play with likes playing painted armies so the special rule is every painted unit gets one re-roll per game. My Imperial Guard (IG) army is mostly done but there still quite a few models to paint.

A new Year a new Direction

Happy New Year!

40k Fun this weekend!

This weekend was a 40K extravaganza.  I had a Rogue Trader Tournament on Sat which I went 1-2 due to a guy claiming not to have read the FAQ and me leaving that FAQ in my car T.T and Sunday was the 15K Apocolypse game where I got to use my Stormsword.

This is going to be a big 40K weekend.

So this weekend I have the Rogue Trader tournament and then the Apoc game on Sunday so this means a ton of dice rolling.  I was going to bring my nids for the tourney but they are no where near to being fully painted so I will bring my guard.  After checking what I have finished I have 12 infantry models to paint to have a fully painted army.  To bad my vendetta is not finished :(

here is the list for Sat.
HQ
Company command - 4 plasma guns plasma pistol,1 bodyguard, master of ordnance, chimera

Troop
Veterans - 3 Grenade launchers, power weapon, Grenadiers, Chimera
Veterans - 3 Melta guns, plasma pistol, Grenadiers, Chimera
Veterans - 3 Melta guns, plasma pistol, Grenadiers, Chimera

Fast
Hellhound Squadron - Bane wolf Pattern

 Elite
Storm Trooper - 2 melta guns, 1 plasma pistol
Storm Trooper - 2 melta guns, 1 plasma pistol

Heavy
Executioner Leman Russ - lascannon, camo netting, heavy bolter sponsons 
Executioner Leman Russ - lascannon, camo netting, heavy bolter sponsons 
Leman Russ battle tank - camo netting, heavy bolter

Fortications
Aegis Defense line

the plan is for the big tanks stay with the defense line getting a 3+ cover save while the troops move out and grab objectives and kill stuff.  With 14 kill points and the age of weak tanks I think I will die but it will be glorious.  With 8 tanks in my deployment zone I think i might be a little crowded but we shall see.

I have not gottne my delivery from GW yet :( so it looks like my stormlord will not have it's main gun  which makes me sad.  oh well something to look forward too for next apoc game.

on the list to paint is

2 sargents
1 commander
3 melta gun vets
4 vets
1 master of ordnance

Tonight is a painting party at my friends house.  hopefully I can make some headway into my list.

Happy humpday all!

WIP update!

So this weekend I continued my work on the Mycetic spores for my tyranids.  Here is a couple of new shots

Up next, Orks!!

The last few weeks I have been playing my IG army.  The Vendetta is a good distraction and can do some damage. The one thing I have trouble with is landraiders.  (then again who doesn't) I still get the crappy rolls when I try to gun it down with my meltavets.  (Sigh me and the damage chart don't agree) Last night I made the same mistake I always do... move to far forward.  I need to hang back some more and fire more long range shots.

Which brings me to my next opinion.  The executioner Tank will have to be put away/converted into another tank.   I do more harm to myself than I do to others.  the last 3 games I have got hot shooting the main weapon.  I think I will drop the Ex and a Chimera and pick up another hell hound and another Vendetta.  this way I can have 2 guys flying around shooting blasting stuff while I have 2 burn-inators  running around causing havoc...

I will also drop the demo vets for grenade vets to get my 4+ back.  My last few games showed me how much that +1 save matters.  stupid AP5 bolters :)

Enough rambling about IG, like the title says, Orks are next!!  My new plan is to get a good solid 2 months with the boys.  I Now have a second plane and I think I want to change up the other one.  This will give me 2 Dakka Jets zooming around the board.  I also want to try out some Nob Bikers.  They are all the rage (>_< if you belive the interwebs) Last but not least, I want to try a weird boy.  Come on extra Waaagggghhhh.   It is funny that before 6th you saved your Waaaagh for that crucial charge, but now you use it for the extra Dakka!

I know I will not be bringing 30 boys any more. A mob that size is just to unwieldy. I think 20 boys will be good. I have to also weigh the pros an cons of bunching up.  If I bunch up then blast will love me but if I go for max spread and get charged I have a good chance of being out of the fight making me that much more vulnerable.  All things to try to figure out over the next few months.  Next week I will have my first list and maybe a summary of a game played with that list.

Either way it should be fun.   Orks always are.... unless you play against a certain ork player... no names but some of you know who I am talking about!

questions? comments? nom nom noms? 

Victory for the Nids!!!

Last night I played a game where the Tyranids won.  Unfortunately I was playing IG.  It was a good game we played Purge the alien with the hammer and anvil deployment.  I made a few mistakes that left me open for retaliation. Here are a few mistakes I made.

First attept to use IG blob

So a couple of days ago I put up a list for my 1500pt army with 3 vet sqauds and 2 Leman Russ tanks.  you can find it here: 1500 IG take 1

first draft of IG list for tourney

Coming up soon is sixth edition and my local game shop is running a 1500pt tourney with the prize being more entries in raffle for a 2000pt army.  This would be a great way for me to get one of the armies I don't have. That is a post for another day.  Today I want to go over what I have planned for the event and to get some opinions what I could change.

IG VS ORKS 1850

Last night was the first night of league play at my FLGS.  I am playing Orks for this league and I was prepared to play the list I had created which you can find here.  The big problem is I forgot my container that held my Bikes.  So with some quick thinking I subistuted a regular warboss and a group of nobs for the warboss and nobs on bikes and gave them a battlewagon.   My matchup for the evening was a mech IG.  He had: