Flyers in 6th edition.

Today I am going to talk about the biggest add on in 6th edition, flyers.

I have played about 10 games of 6th edition, luckily only a few included flyers. I have not yet been punished for my lack of anti air. Below are some basic guide lines about flyers. Maybe in some games you can ignore them, but what happens if you face 3 stormravens (and is that a viable list?)?

• If you can't beet them join them- most simple way is to add your own flyers and have some aerial dog fights with your opponent.
• Ally with someone that can.
• Aegis defence line with AA

• Imperial Armour Aeronautica  

 Space marine choices
I had a quick browse at Imperial aeronautica,
for space marines It seems there AA options are stormeagle, Storm Talon, Mortis contemtor and Caestus assault ram, tempest land speeder and finaly their Space marine air defence line missle launcher.

I think this is the one I liked the most. It costs 35p and comes in a unit size 1-3. it has 2 wounds and T6.  Which means it can die by multiple bolter shots but it will not by a single close melta shot. I am comparing it to the contemptor in my mind, the contemptor can cost 155-210p and can die by a close up melta or a lance,with the same points you get alot of missle launchers. Also these machines have interceptor meaning that before they get a chance to take you done you do, (you get to make a shot if they enter your range but you can't shoot. If memory serves me correctly it also is twin linked. There dissatvantage is that you cant move them around. There is only one real problem... I went to check the forgeworld web site, the price for ONE of these models is 21 pounds. Aouchhhhh. I will try to make one from rhino parts and the drop pod missile launchers, I might even blog a how to.

Chaos space marine choices
Also on the book Chaos have 4 flyers, the pod, the blight drones, the talos and the hell blade are now all legal for 40k + what ever they get in the new book, rumour has it  that chaos is getting a mechanical dragon that can assault flyers and get to reroll when shooting flyers.

IG
Valkeries tons of variant flyers and some AA tanks.

Nids
They can not ally and they only have 1 flyer which i don't know if its even 40k legal

Orks
Orks are a bit different, I think tank busters are quite good, normally hitting on 5s so snap fire does little difference. but thats just an untested theory, aegis defence might be a solutution I will be trying not sure what bs you should use the orks? or the grots?

Orks also hahe some relately cheap flyers to tackle other flyers.

Eldar , Dark Eldar, Necrons
They seem to have some nice hi tech aircrafts dont think the are missing anything.

Demon prince jump pack done.

Hello just a quick update I finished the jump pack, I was about to spray him but then I though: " I should get some pictures while you can see the details" Thats why its half sprayed black.

Plasticard and green stuff was used,  the fans are from a nice company called Zinge Industries have a look.
(the parts I received were excellent and  had zero air bubbles) https://www.facebook.com/Zinge.co.uk

He is already airbrushed this morning.

Looking for this miniature... \ epidimius

Hello all,
I have alot of nurgle love these 2 last months.
I would like to buy of you any plastic nurgle marines you have from 1st edition chaos.

 If you have any of these I will trade/ buy them off you, I dont care if they are painted of glued or still on sprue.


On other notes the comissioned space wolfs are done and sent off, my last commision a 2000p ghoul vampire count army is going well too, yesterday I glued the 2 terrorgeist. Once I paint them then I have only a necro and a ghoul to paint.

For the nurle army I am currently working on, the rhino is done . Apologie no pictures, so to recap
 10 death guard done
5 death guard done
rhino done
2 oblit done
defiler 50% painted
blight drone unasembled
demon prince green stuff stage
5 terminators /nurgle orks 3 built 2 need green stuff

Demons
Epidemius done
10 plaguebearers receiving them on Friday hopefully.


2 years ago on summer holidays in Greece, during siesta time I had a go at large scale sculpting

 I think he will now make a good epidemius model. Just need to put him on a round base.


Thanks for reading, dont forget if you have any of that nurgle model let me know.

Speed painting week.

Thanks to the nice sunny week I have been super busy painting. This week I have done

15 plague marines (no pictures yet)
2 obliterators
50% of my Chaos rhino
50% of the nurgle defiler
12 ogre size ghouls

2 Space wolf rhinos
1 space wolf drom pod

Heading home to do a bit more painting...

Worst intro ever! / Having fun with friends.

Yesterday me and Allen decided to show our ladies how to play 40k. So did we pick out 2 vanilla squads to demonstrate or maybe the starter set?


NO WE PLAYED 3000P PER SIDE WITH 4 DIFFERENT RACES, PSYCKERS, FLYER'S, DEEP STRIKE, TANKS, BIKES, WALKERS, EVERYTHING IN!

THAT WILL EASILY INTRODUCE THEM TO THE GAME!

Best intro Evarrrrr!

Also their washing mashine flooded the kitchen and needed fixing

The dog kept getting under our feet
 and the imperial guard belong to Allen's 8 year old son.

 Still it was great fun rolling some dice with some friends and some good laughs.

I think our flaw was somehow combining in our minds; a friendly mega battle with people that now the stats lines by heart and introducing the game to two ladies.

Game wise  my assault squad and sternguard took out 3 units, (wraith lord, scorpions and some other eldar unit) and also took 2 turns of shooting from more than half the enemy battle force, the assault squad and my captain died but still the sternguard were still on the table.

5 terminators rapped 10 berserkers in one turn. The game stopped with the terminators next to a unit of eldar dragons and a special charachter, so we rolled to see what whould happen,
I lose a stormshield in the shooting phase, lose none in combat.
claws kills 2, the 6 hammer attacks hit 3 then I roll 1,1,1 to wound.

I do not want that to happen again to me, so by paying 10p extra I can replace my termie captain for Vulkan
and change the lasscannon in the tactical for a melta.

6th edition and Firehawks.

I played another 2 games last night of 40k with my fire hawks, both opponents concided by turn 4.
My opponents were trying out lists and are not the best players either, even though i am 5-0 I have yet to play a good player. A bit like Rocky 3 with his fixed games.

I can realy feen the effect of the force weapons against my terminators, I was thinking of using spears in a grey knigt army but not anymore (or atleast not against terminators), there are not enough attacks to take away a big chuck of my terminators before they hammer them to the ground.

My list has no answer against flyers, luckly only one player had a flyer, a storm raven which I ignored, it imobilized my LR turn 2 and then turn 3 it got destroyed by a dreadnought in cc. Then again if I have to face 2 stromravens thats about 1/3 of his army in 1500p. Dont now about other armies, I would like to add a mortis contemptor but what do I take out?

Here is my list.



hq
Captain
Terminator armor
Hammer
Shield
 Digital Weapons

Troops
10 tactical marines
Lascannon
Meltagun
Rhino



10 tactical marines
combi melta fist
multimelta
Meltagun
Pod


elite
8 sternguard
pod

5 terminators
LR Redeemer
melta


Heavy

Fast 2 attack bikes melta



Also for 10 points extra I could give my army Hestan instead of my captain.




Last night I played against grey knights and Ig tank list.

In game one the sternguard came down and killed 8 interceptors
second game they blew up a tank and took the entire shooting phase of the ig turn 2. still one of them survived.
I cant complain for any of my elite and fast choises. They all did very good.

Favorite Cinematic scene 1#: drop pod land's, tactical come out and lascannon snapshots a interceptor.
Favorite Cinematic scene 2#: Bikes make a melta shot at grey knight dread, it explodes and kills 2 grey knight terminators.
Worst shooter in my army: Marine on LR holding the multimelta, I think he failed every shot he made Maybe thats his way of saying: "I have stayed in the  basecoat stage for 10 months". I hear you little man...

Sternguard about to feel the wrath of a demolisher.

1000+1 projects Wolf Shaman

This is a Fantasy shaman I painted. Its more of a display piece, with no real purpose, I will add one day the 4 forgeworld skin wolfs I have to him.






The helmet is actualy a spase wolf thunder hammer cut up and emptied (and some greens stuff added),
the head is also from a space wolf, normaly a space wolf head on a empire model looks rediculus but this amber wizard is quite big. the wip is just green stuff.
On the cape I tried doing some tribal and also added a space wolf transfer.
Most of the model is using muted colours greys and browns going on to bleach bone and then i added my favorite colours blue and turquaz on the helmet. Helps you focus on the face too. Hope you like it.