Kill team update 1 week left.

Hello readers, today's post is all about Kill team.

First I will start with my Kill teams theme tune...

Now I played 3 games against Neil's 24 orks. I lost 2 won 1 all were very close games and again my luck was awful, yes I am blaming the dice rolls again, 3 games I never won the roll to go first, Neil was king enough to let me go first at the last game.
Heavy bolter vs ork 2 hits , 1,1 to wound.  Then the same ork walks up takes to shots and kills the heavy bolter.
My champion Talos with 3 novels and half a dozen short stories died to snapfire while charging a ork.
how many orks did i kill with snap fire in 3 games? none.
3 attacks ap2 going first vs 2 ork attacks (5s to wound) = 1 dead nightlord.

Even Neil felt bad and tried to apologize.
Still fun games.

Already I learnt a couple of things, you smart people would have figured out faster.

• Guys without combat weapons go in the front, when attacking with Xarl (smash) its probably better 1 or 2 attacks at str8 than 2 or 3 at str 4.

• Unlike fantasy psykers choose their spells lores at the beginning of the game, which makes my psycker extra flexible, Neil had 3 bikes one had shroud one had stealth so a +2 and +3 cover save. My plan with the psyker was always to get smite, but since I can select between biomancy, pyromancy and telepathy I took Psychic shriek, which I think is smart 3d6 ld test on ld 7 orks. But with my luck I failed it twice, killed an ork and 1 roll he rolled 7 in 3 dice, and then for his shooting from his bikes with rerolls rolls nothing but 5,6. 

GW warhammer world asked yesterday what people are talking to the event, seems alot of people are talking optimised lists. I don't know how good are the following lists declared:

8 flammers
 4 Thunderwolfs
wraiths with coils and deathmarks
3 terminators and 15 cultists
a couple of knight armies
 chaos dread with 3 bikes.

Seems Talos and his warband will have quite a struggle. 
Like how can I win 8 flamers with 10 chaos marines they move 12" and shoot a flammer template with a simple 50% to kill me. If I charge them I will probably loose 1 marine to overwatch. I will just try to kill them with long shots and the heavy bolter, but they are also 2 wounds. 

Back to the hobby,
Here is a wip of my psycker and Talos. I am hopping to have them ready to paint by Monday.
I would also like to have the psycker, 10 bases and the 4 nightlord marines all painted until monday, that will give me 5 days for the 4 nightlords. 5 days that include a kill team mini tournament, watching the Hobbit  and painting some house walls, oh I am such a martyr!

 Last
I have avoided kickstarters, scifi bloodbowl, other game systems. So this is what I plan to buy from forgeworld.

Kill team with nightlords

I will come back to blog wars 4 but for my forth and last post today, I will talk about my next event in less than 2 weeks, its a kill team event in gw.

My target for this is win 4 out of 6 games and get nominated for a painting prize.
I updated my counter on the right to the event.
I am going solo to this event, but the guys at the club have shown intrest to play test with me the two coming wednesdays.

I will be taking ten chaos space marine Nightlords, based on Aaron Dembski-Bowden Nightlord novels. These books are a my favorite BL novels massive fan.

My previous calculation were wrong I can't afford mark of nurgle for 10 of them (30p)

Here is my list
+++ No Name (200pts) +++
+++ 0pt Chaos space marines 6th ed Roster (Standard)) +++

Selections:

Chaos space marines 6th ed (Standard) Selections:



    * Chaos Space Marines (200pts)
        5x Additional Chaos Marines (65pts), Autocannon (10pts), Bolt Pistol, 6x Close Combat Weapon (12pts), Meltagun (10pts), None, Veterans of the Long War (10pts)
        * Aspiring Champion (18pts)
            Combi-bolter (3pts), Power Weapon (15pts)

Special abilities, I have been thinking about the powers, my first thought is smash to Xarl


Rage to Uzas
 

And master crafted to Talos blood angel powersword.

But I have reconsidered since Friday.
Adding a psycker would give me access to biomancy and smite a useful tool against ap2 armour and a nice chance to make a psycker.

Also instead of making the blade master crafted I could give Talos Shrouded (a +2 to his cover saves)

The only question is once again do I have time to make an additional sorcerer.

Here is my force so far:

I have had discusstions about the best 200p force and there were alot of choices:
5 Sanginary guard
9 grey knight stike squad with psybolts.
sternguard
3  chaos terminators and cultists
1 chaos dread and 3 spawns.

Blog wars 4 analysis: Steve's Demons.

I will analyze a couple of army lists I saw the past weekend, one at a time.

I played last week a game with Steve's demons and won, maybe cause his force came in the wrong order.
We played again at blog wars and I got tabled.His demons showed up this time in right order and my epidemius came in turn 4.
Even after our first game I was still pretty amazed how strong his list was, it does not win any originality award and utilizes on the best units with multiples of them. But it is a very strong list.



Steves demons were something like this:

    * Bloodthirster
    * Fateweaver, Oracle of Tzeentch Elites

  
        4x Flamer of Tzeentch
        4x Flamer of Tzeentch
        4x Flamer of Tzeentch  

       5x Pink Horror
        5x Pink Horror

   5x Plaguebearers of Nurgle
 5x Plaguebearers of Nurgle
 3x Screamer of Tzeentch

     Daemon Prince of Chaos wings breath
     Daemon Prince of Chaos wings breath
     Daemon Prince of Chaos wings breath

       I realy like the list, yes it repetitive but still bloody cool and strong. The list has 16 no cover , no armour on a 4 you die flammer templates, they can kill terminators, scores of orks or land raiders with the same ease, it can be unstable if you mishap or get the wrong force in.
The best part for the demon princes is that they can deep strike into flying mode, so you can not assault them or shoot them down easily, this has put me in thought about my own list.
The majority of models have a 5+ inv which is rerollable if close to fateweaver,
So the army deals loads of pain during the shooting phase but what about combat, the 4d3 wound on +4 no armour save makes you rethink charging the flammers, my best result was charging them with the leftover 2 marines from a unit and then charge with a whole other unit, in combat they are no monters but with 2 wounds and a inv save they will hold you up. The screamers have 3 attacks ap3.

I was really thinking of making this list after my first game with Steve,
but maybe lose the screamers and plaguebearers for a mono god list which might not be as good.
I decided though that having 4 armies on queue was bad enough.

But if I did do an army like this I would  use very little from the demon range.
It would be a ghost thousand son army.

the flamers would be thousand sons with heavy flamer, a bit like legion of the damned

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The demon princes would be wingless ogre size Sorcerers on disks holding  flaming staffs (turquoise.flames)

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I suppose I would use horrors as horrors and screamers as screamers. Hopefully that would not confuse my opponents. Any thoughts about the list?

Close ups from the bikes

Goodmorning, I did not get any painting time yesterday, but here are some close ups from the bikes.

Chaos Faq is up!

Chaos faq is up!!!!!

its just a page  but:

Page 61 – Typhus, Plague Zombies
Change to ‘Plague Zombies are Chaos Cultists that have the
Fearless, Feel No Pain and Slow and Purposeful special rules
and cannot purchase options other than to add additional
models to the unit.’ WIN!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

Epidemius and Jet Bike Update 1

Good morning readers,
last night and this morning I got to do a bit of sculpting,  just wanted you to  see some quick pis.
Epidemius still need loads of more work but I do like how it is materialising from my idea.
I am hoping of adding another 1-2 hours on him today.

And here you can see the bottom of the bike, probably no one will see it once the bike is place in its base.

Don't you just love Fridays?

Nurgle: Out with the old and in with the new.

Good morning readers,

I handed in my entry for the armies on parade at my local GW store.

Missing from the photos are the norks, epidemius and a couple of demons. I will hand those over on Friday, they still need a bit of painting.

After golden deamon I will be selling it on ebay with starting price 550£ (the models cost 364£) board included, greater deamon of nurgle not included (it can be for an extra 130£).
The list contains at 1500.

Demon prince wings mark of nurgle
10 plague marines champion with fist 2 plasma guns rhino
5 plague marines 2 plasma guns
5 terminators mark on nurgle,
1 plague drone
2 obliterators
1 defiler

epidemious
7 plaguemarines

At 1750 I add 2 more blight drones.
 More pictures of the board and individual miniatures after Monday.

And as that army is near completion I am about to start my hipster nurgle army.

1500p
2 dp nurgle wings

7 plague marines champion fist 2melta guns rhino
7 plague marines  2melta guns
7 plague marines  2plasma guns
7 plague marines  2plasma guns  Banner.

1 blight drone

Epidemius
7plagueberers

I must admit my chaos demon prince's have had very little love. I am waiting for the new codex do decide my HQ, for now they will be painted with a shade of green and maybe I will go back to them.

I will tell you who does a nice DP. the chap form the 14th legion blog, check him out http://xivlegion.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/nurgle-rise-prince-of-pestilence-wip.html



I will also be working on my greek contemptor dreadnaught, photos soon.

Nurgle armies on parade Progress 4. Flyers

Good morning everyone,
It was realy hard getting out of bed today. I did manage to squezze some more hobby time this weekend,

So during the week I painted 3 blight drones and on Saturday I had some fun with the glue gun. I will try and cover the glue-slime with a mix of gloss varinsh and green hoping to perserve some transparency.






Today I will be painting the greater Deamon,

When Chaos arrives where will you be?

So rumors want Chaos Space Marines to be coming in September. I want to set some questions and would like some answers, please take 2 minutes to reply.

What was wrong with the current codex? Do we want a new book just because its old?

• I think the fact that you could mix gods in the list was a bit extreme. 
• Also some things seemed so good they made everything else redundant. For example demon prince with lash, I played them and loved them in my slannesh warband. Another example are obliterators the Swiss knife shooter makes havoks look bad. And they just got better with their terminator armour.
• Demons were pretty useless in the codex other for some fluff lists but now you can ally with Demons. 
• Most of the characters are lacking cool factor, but I think this is been amended in the new edition.
• Also I want to make a nightlord Warband based on the nightlord series for a while now, but up until now I could not, or atleast not a competitive one.

1) What do you think? What was bad with the old book?


2)What are you looking forward too with the new release (based on the rumors)?

• I would like to get 2 boxes of the possest raptors to create the bleadding eyes( nightlord demonic raptors)
• See if the new book can make a good nightlord list.
• See how it will affect my nurgle army and my slannesh army.
• Cultists
• See this new flying mashine. Can I finaly but a chaos lord on a mechanical dragon?
• New plastic kits.
• I would also like to see a nightlord special character. 

3) What would you wish for?

4)What will you be building when chaos hits your store?

• Will you be using them for basing for your ultramarines?
• Will you start a new army, with an allience?
• Will you continue an army and add stuff?
• Just ignore it? 

I am probably going to continue my nightlords 

Why I have not yet airbrushed this yet is beyond me.

I am also thinking of a wordberers demon allience and an IG(or cultist)-demon alliance with some fortification

Nurgle armies on parade Progress 3. Display board with models on it!

Still need to do some painting, there are 2 more blight drones missing I will paint those with the greater deamon, but before that orks are going to be painted. I am finishing green stuff-ing them today.

Hope you like it.

As for the board If you look at older posts you can see various stages, I used a glue gun to do some streams of  the green fluid, then airbrushed the board and finaly poored some green looking resin.

Nurgle armies on parade Progress 2.

Little progress on the board this weekend, I was away on Saturday and on Sunday I got busy creating slab stones for my garden.

The board will display 1750points + a greater deamon of nurgle forgeworld which I think is 777 points.

So once dry I will spray paint then add some goo and green resin. I also need to drill and pin each model, good all dremel will do all the hard work. Also I am buying a new glue gun today.

 Non Wargamming topic.

The majority of Sunday was spent working on another project that pleases the fiancee, stepping stones for the front garden! The are two path ways  to Helen shed/office one from the garage and one from the house.
So I thought to design the two tiles as two pieces of a pizzle that join at the end a bit like Helen and me that are paths are seperate and then join and become one.

Designing the 2 tiles.

Building the tile.

Ready to pour the silicone.

Demolded this morning. My biggest mold yet.

 Next step will be to oil it and add the cement. Hope it all goes well.

Nurgle armies on parade Progress 1.

I began past weekend to build my armies on parade board, little progress so far,

Lords of Decay Photo update!

A photo update of my nurgle demon army,  Demon Prince mark of nurgle and jump pack. Done but I just  noticed some details need doing.

Rhino, it needs abit more work.

15 plague marines and 2 obliterators

And you can see the plague berers in the previous post.

Today I am hoping to finish the defiler

And tomorrow I start the plague drones. Also my board is under way, need to add some plaster, some basing and then it will be ready to paint. Hope you like it.