Oh hi there.. I remember you.

  Wow it's been a while since I've really posted much here.  Mostly because I've not really had much that I was like "ERMAGURDDD!!!! I MUST SHOW THE WORLD DIS THING!" but given that I've had people asking why I haven't posted, I figured I better get something up or else I'll lose the few of you who actually read this.

  I said I was going to get picture of my last minute painting efforts up(even though they are substandard even by own substandards)  so lets knock that out of the park real quick.

 My comet spell marker

Steam tank/ironblaster

  This ends the photo portion of this post, the rest is more about things I'm want to work on in the coming future. 

1.  Given that allies are the legal in the current edition of 40k, I am thinking of mixing in some guardsmen with my space marines.  They'll help me make up for some of the short-comings of running an all bike army.  Also, it'll give me an excuse to pick up some miniatures from Conquest Miniatures.  I am thinking that I can use the Woodland Indian War Party boxes as my guardsmen squads. (You didn't expect me to buy off the shelf guardsmen did ya) 20 guys for 44.00 is not a bad deal at all (36.00 if TheWarStore gets them back in stock.)   I'll just need to convert up some special and heavy weapons for them but I think that would be too difficult.  If you poke around the Conquest website you'll find they have enough various models to do all a really awesome Command squad and other things... (Comanche Rough Riders Squad anyone?!?!?!)

2.  I am currently reading the rulebook to Dystopian wars.  Locally there seems to be a pretty good core of players, the models look freaking awesome, oh and it's cheap. You can pick up any of the starter boxes for about 40.00 on amazon.   Any game that can have tanks, giant robots, naval battles and giant airships can't be bad right?   I've not finished my first pass of the rulebook so I don't want to pass judgement on it as a game just yet, but the backstory and models are great.  

3.  Flames of war is still on the agenda of things to build/play.  It's literally on my Amazon Christmas list.  I've not bought anything for myself because I've been spending all my wargaming funds on 40k right now.  I'm determined to get myself to the point that I feel like I am tournament ready before I start expanding out too far.   

I was also asked what I thought about the new Hobbit stuff GW is coming out with.  Well to be honest, I don't care for it.  I've had friends who really liked the LotR game when it came out, but i currently couldn't tell you anyone that actively plays it.  If some other miniature company were doing it, I might give it a shot, but this is GW and GW pricing.  I am not going to pay 85 dollars for 3 troll models and a little fireplace for a game that will be all but an afterthought soon.  I'll admit that since there are 3 movies coming out it will keep interest in the game for a while.. and GW will continue to shit out sculpts of every minor character and costume change in those movies, but they're limited by the source material.  WFB and 40k are their products and they can just make new things up. With a licensed product like the Hobbit I don't think they'd be allowed to invent Bilbo's Half brother, Scarface Baggins... covered in spikes and skulls like every thing else GW likes to invent.   I can see the fallout of that now actually... Matt Ward invents an army of Superhuman genetically enhanced hobbits that makes Sauron look like Nanny from the Muppet Babies. (yeah that's right.. Muppets Babies reference) 

Hopefully my next update will be in a timely manor, but anyone who's read this for any amount of time knows, I'll post daily for a month and then go dead for a while.

Tournament fail

Sunday's tournament didn't quiet go as planned.  I managed to stay up and get everything painted(admittedly my ironblaster tank is a bit substandard... even by my own standards.)

So I started the day with a flat tire.  Not a "I need a little air" flat, but a "it's come off the rim" flat tire.  After dealing with that, I made it on time.  I got all must stuff unpacked, talked with my partner really quick, and then I found out 3 fantasy players showed up.  So sadly they decided to turn the team tournament into a single person 40k tournament and just give us 3 fantasy players our money back.  Everyone was very appologetic about the turnout, but I don't blame them. 

One of the other fantasy guys and I did play out our first round game.  It was blood or glory.(the aweful standards based scenario from the rule book)

I think this was the first run in I've had with the tomb kings, at least in a tournament environment.  I have a blurry picture of the start of the game to post later. 

The game was pretty one sided.  I lost the 2 gnoblar units and 1 ironblaster. He however lost everything but 1/2 of a unit of tombguard, who were going to start crumbling at the loss of their general when he finally gave up the match. 

Great player.  I feel like I say that more and more, but the guys who play fantasy here are all really fun to play against.  Competitive but not assholish.  I only hope they're thinking the same of me.

So I have two lessons learned from this.

1.  I really like my current ogre list.  Maybe even moreso than my deathfist list.  I am able to quickly have 2 hard hitting units(scout eaters and mournfang) in their deployment zone wrecking up my opponents plans and causing him to react to me, while the rest of my artillary battery weakens and destroys everything else.  Also, I love lore of heavens.  Dropping comets is still as fun as it was in 6th edition.

2.  If I want to get my competitive wargaming fix, I'm going to have to up my dedication to 40k.  Fantasy is and always will be my baby, but 40k is what people play. 

Now this is how you do tournament prep... Sigmar style

10:30pm night before a tournament and what am I doing.. still painting.  Well technically I'm not even painting as I am typing here on this, but I'm waiting for the paint to dry before continuing.

Team tournament tomorrow so I'll have someone else to pull me out of mediocrity... and maybe someone blame when it all falls apart.  Just kidding.

One 40k player matched with a Fantasy player.  Take a guess at which one I am.  I wouldn't subject anyone to being partnered with me during my first dive into competitive 40k so I'll be fielding the Ogres of course.  Since the latest rules update to the Ogre Army book ruined the Deathfist combo, I've had to rebuild my standard (and very successful) tournament list.  I'm giving the stand back and shoot the fuck out of you approach.


1 Lord: 323 Pts.   12.9%
2 Heroes: 277 Pts.   11.0%
4 Core Units: 705 Pts.   28.1%
6 Elite Units: 850 Pts.   34.0%
2 Rare Units: 340 Pts.   13.6%


Slaughtermaster, General, Ironfist, lvl4, Warrior Bane, Talisman of Endurance, Lore of Heaven - 323 Pts.

Butcher, Ironfist, lvl2, Lore of The Great Maw - 138 Pts.
Bruiser, HA, Tormentor Sword, BSB - 139 Pts.

10 Gnoblars, Gnoblar Trappers - 50 Pts.
10 Gnoblars, Gnoblar Trappers - 50 Pts.
7 Ironguts, M, S, C, Standard of Discipline - 346 Pts.
7 Ogres, Handweapon & Ironfist, Lookout Gnoblar, M, S, C - 259 Pts.

4 Leadbelchers, M - 182 Pts.
4 Leadbelchers, M - 182 Pts.
4 Maneaters, HA, 4 x Brace of Ogre Pistols, Scouts, Sniper, M, S, C, Std. of Eternal Flame - 304 Pts.
1 Sabretusks - 21 Pts.
1 Sabretusks - 21 Pts.
2 Mournfang Cavalry, HA, Ironfist - 140 Pts.

Ironblaster - 170 Pts.
Ironblaster - 170 Pts.

Total: 2495

I'll probably throw a lookout gnoblar into the ogre unit to make up the 5 last points.

I'll be fielding the steamtank/ironblaster I'm still finishing painting for the first time.  In my limited testing 2 ironblasters is nuts.

I'll get photos of the finished models when I'm done (probably tomorrow through)  but the latest additions/what I'm working on is:

2 Mournfang (just need to base and do some touch ups)

The Blastertank(90% done... just have to ink it some places)

Comet spell marker (I am going lore of heaven after all)

Time to grab another Yuengling and get back to work.  As always, I'll try to get some photos of the ingame action, but I can pretty much promise I'll do my standard 1 blurry photo and thats about it.