Kill team battle Report April Part 1

Good morning readers prepare for a massive post

Yesterday myself and my brother and my frend Harry went to the second kill team gw event,

 It was another great event dispite the hicup of riptides.

You see a riptide,i think is  the only monsterous creature allowed  in kill team cause of the new tau codex, I have not read its full entry, but I know it has 5 wound toughness 6 with it will not die, armor +2 and some sort of inv, can do 4 shots with no need of light of sight, and 3 ap2 str 8 shots. then move 12".

there were 11 of them in 66 players,  at the last rounds there were players asking to switch cause they already played the previous game a riptide.

Anyway lets skip the bitching, onto the games,

Game 1 was against a ravenwing list, by Matt Balding

4 bikes 4 plasma guns stealth and shrouded 2 of his specialist abilities

I did not play this game well at all, 1) I knew my leader was out of range but for some reason had him visible in a building. 2) focused to much on his leader with a +2 save when other models had a +3 save, with the same fire power plasma.  I also did a bad assault against them, that with bad dice luck failing many gone to ground in cover saves. Still good game he deserved the win. I got 3 points and +1 initiative for my leader.


Game 2 Was against some IG by James Halstead.

This young chap was a bit unexperienced leaving his ig in the open, I killed 1st turn about 6 models.
I scored 13 points. Atromos gained +1 str in his storm bolter.


Game 3 Jag Taylor with his Tau force.

I picked my fights correctly so he broke with 1-2 models on the board.
I scored 15 points and got one extra wound on Atromos.

Game 4 was agianst Mel.

She had 3 GK terminators, I ran backwards and shoot like a bunch of little girls all game, I had to apologice for my lame playstyle. What is scarier than a grey knight? A grey knight with terminator we both agreed, very suprised  Mel did not have FNP as a special rule.

What followed was a long lunch break.
I was also asked to bring my force to the front to display for best kill team nomination. I took my brother to see the gw Gallery.

Part 2 will be up tonight.

The chosen nine of Pythia part 4.

Good news everybody,

It looks I will make it without sacrificing sleeep.
Speed display board made and almost finished.

Here you can see it just before, undercoating.
A piece of blue styrofoam cut to resemble a cliff. Then I added some milliput (3/4 of a £3 pack ) to resemble the sharp edges of  were the waves smash against.
The top part is two layers of cork with the apropriate holes cut out.

I then added the plaster tiles with pva glue, next I applied pva on the remaining surfaces of the cork and scattered sand.  Finally I glued in some columns and a small jug.

I undercoated and sprayed last night. then airbrushed Vallejo air hemp, I then made a oil wash with urbent sienna and applied it to the "soil".  This morning some quick dry brushing with Vallejo Iranian sand, and white.

When I get back home I will paint the cliff rocks and paint some details and add some vegetation.

Now for the sea I painted shades of blue, I decided to paint the sea under the cliff the darkest tone of blue, the other areas became brighter with some patches to break the monotony.

I then applied vallego transparent water to create a wave effect, This morning I was very happy with it, I added another layer of still water effect on top of the existing waves but this time I added some white paint to it.

Hopefuly by tonight it will be mostly dry, so I can apply one last layer of gloss varinsh.

As I mentioned the cliff is yet to be painted, the styrofoam is not yet glued to the board to make that easier.

And finaly power swords need some masking tape and a bit more airbrushing.

I think my next post will be on Sunday monday with tournament photos too.
Thanks for reading.

The chosen nine of Pythia part 3.

With less than a week until this fun event, here is my up to date photo taken this morning:

my nine astartes kill team

The two on the right still need painting and on some I would liek to add some details,
Today I would like to get the paises painted and the models glued on to them.
Tomorrow I will work on their power swords.

Will I have time to knock up a small display board?

Odysseas from Iron snakes of Ithaka and above him Atromos from the Heraclean Chapter

He leads this group and feels no pain ^^ / I am realy happy with the lion head and  cloak.

The cloak was done using three oil paints. Very painless method.

Spartan- enough said.

Polithamas- from the Thessaly myrmidons. Bad photo sorry. I added some freehand to make him interesting,

Ypermaxos- The Athenian Champion.

Triton from the tides of Corinthia and Demetrious from the Makedonian Guard. Both still WIP

Anileis the merciles from the Minotaurs

Aristomaxos from the Achaian League

Expect a new post withing this week.

Typhous Host- the boss and his minions go to a photoshot.

Good Day readers,

I finished last week my 4x4 gaming board and typhous here are pictures:

I will be working on my Helldrake next week after I get back from kill team.