Army Lists at Lunch - Episode III

  There is a tournament coming up this weekend... a tournament with a twist. This is an escalation tournament series. Basically we're going to be playing 500 point armies this time. Next month, we're going to bump the army up to 1000 points. Then another 500 points etc till finally we're playing big 3k point armies.

  Once something has been in your army, you're not allowed to take it out. So if I put 2 units of gnoblars in my 500 point army, I am going to have to field those units till the end. We're allowed to change magic items and add to units but other than that we're stuck with it once it's been played. For the 500 point game, we are allowed to use a unit champion as our general.

  So here are some options for 500 points.

  Option 1 - They've mentioned that we're going to have at least 1 scenario involving objectives and this list is perfect for that. The last tournament I played in with objectives, I found that sabretusks are AMAZING. They can hide near an objective and then on turn 6 run and stand next to the objective to contest it. Also I get the feeling someone is going to be bringing warmachines. My biggest fear is that my general is the champion of the Ogre unit. You can count on me failing every Ld test I have to take.

6 Ogres, Handweapon & Ironfist, M, S, C - 222 Pts.
10 Gnoblars, Gnoblar Trappers - 50 Pts.

1 Sabretusks - 21 Pts.
1 Sabretusks - 21 Pts.
3 Maneaters, 3 x Brace of Ogre Pistols, Scouts, Sniper - 186 Pts.

Total: 500

  Option 2

  Same list only instead of 3x Maneater sniper scouts... it's 4 leadbelchers w a musician.

  Option 3

  I think this is my personal front runner. It stinks only running a level 1 wizard, but at 500 points you can't get a level 2. I know there are going to be 3 VC armies and I get the feeling someone is going to bring ethereal units. This is my only list that has anything that can deal with those other than trying to out combat resolution them. The ironfist is there to give the butcher the some kind of save.

0 Lord
1 Hero: 108 Pts. 21.6%
2 Core Units: 240 Pts. 48.0%
2 Elite Units: 150 Pts. 30.0%
0 Rare Unit

Butcher, Ironfist, Warrior Bane, Lore of The Great Maw - 108 Pts.

5 Ogres, Handweapon & Ironfist, M, S, C - 190 Pts.
10 Gnoblars, Gnoblar Trappers - 50 Pts.

3 Leadbelchers - 129 Pts.
1 Sabretusks - 21 Pts.

Total: 498

Khhaaaannnnn!!!!

So I got a package from good ole Gee-Dubs today.  It was the pieces that I ordered for my "Kor'Sarro Khan on Moondraken"

Let me start with saying, I'm a little upset that the riders legs are apart of the steed and not seperate.  I still think I can make it work though... or I'll be filing down those legs.

I cleaned up the sharp edges and whatnot of the Mechanical Steed and Green Stuffed the cracks.

Then taking some of the pieces from the Space Wolves command spure and one of my native heads... 

I kind of like the turned to the side look... A.  It helps keep the wolf pelt to the side and B.  It sort of reminds me of that famous picture of Napoleon on horseback.

I get the feeling this is Photoshopped... Napoleon is WAY to tall.  

I still need to sort out what to do for a second arm and get a proper 40k bike base for it.. but I'm really excited to get this much done.  

So now if we do a grand total of how big my 40k army is.... drumroll please.....

370 points 

1 HQ

1 Elite 

1 Fast Attack

Guess its about time to start ordering those Ravenwing battalion boxes to make troop choices.  

Can you buy stock in White Paint?

You don't realize how much paint you use on a single model, till you paint something a primarily a single color.  I've "finished" my Land Speeder Storm and have about 75% of my Dreadnought completed.  I say "finished" on the Land Speeder Storm because I'm still trying to figure out what symbols/details I'm going to paint on the hull of it, but the primary painting is done.

I still need to chop the stick down on the flying base so that it's just barely hovering above the ground (yeah I know that's cheesy but with true line of sight I'm hiding my Land Speeder.)

Now some pictures of the Dreadnought stuff as it is right now... still got a ways to go.

I still need to make the head of the guy in the dreadnought a little more "mostly dead."  I'm going to attempt to scar up his face really well and change his skin tone some more.  

A little less rough around the edges?!?

Still working on the Landspeeder Storm, but its a little less rough.

Sorry for the rough image quality.  It's probably for the best that everything is washed out.  Hopefully I can finish this up tomorrow and start working on the dreadnought.

Put in an order today for my Empire Engineer with Mechanical Steed that will be the basis for my Chapter Master.  Also stumbled upon this...

Space Wolves Command Sprue

First off, I REALLLY like the wolf pelt backpack and that "Frost Axe" with a little feathers here and some work there.. will make for a sweet "tomahawk" kind of Power Weapon.  (Or Moonfang when he's being Kor'sarro)  and who can say no to having an addition Powerfist.  The rest is just gravy... and I love me some gravy.

Little painting done.. not alot.

No big updates today folks.  I think I have the design down for the "basic marine"

Progress is also being made on the Landspeeder Storm.  

This is VERY rough.  Basically its primed and inked and I just started applying colors.

The dreadnought is assembled and primed.  The plan is to go "Rifleman" with him(2 pair of twinlinked autocannons), but since the arms are interchangeable I'm going to paint all the arms and weapons that came with him.  

I assembled him with his head showing instead of using any of the helmeted heads or just covering up that spot.  I think I'll just make him paler and more half dead looking than everyone else. 

I think next order I have to make to Puppetswar I'm going to get a pair of their Twin-Linked Autocannons.  It'll be easier than me trying to convert something plus I like these "shoulder pads" better

I'm like a walking commercial for these guys.  Love everything they produce.  In fact they were showing off some upcoming bikes they are doing yesterday.  

I'd love to get 5 of these for my command squad on bike, but I assume it'll probably be a bit to steep in price for my blood.  I'll wait and see once they're released, but I'm not holding my breath.

   

Tournament Results for 2/11/12

Prepare to have your mind blown in 5...4...3...2...1...

BEST GENERAL!  YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Also, I ended up in 2nd place for the Overall, but more importantly.. I WON BEST GENERAL.

Free Dreadnaught!

Great tournament all around.  All the guys there are really cool... No "neckbeards."  Was REALLLY surprised that there were no Vampire Counts armies... feel kinda stupid having brought those magic items on my Bruiser and BSB.

In fact the most common used army was Ogres (3 of us.)  

Round 1- 

Dwarf stationary lots o shooting army-  Scenario was pitched battle with bonus points for kill casters. So no bonus points for me... freaking dwarfs not having any freakin magic....

2 cannons, 2 stone throwers, the anvil of doom, a huge unit of dwarf handgunners, and a huge unit of hammerers.

Knew it wasn't going to be easy for me to win this one because I rolled for my spells and didn't get Purple Sun.  So basically after that my flying carpet SM was useless.  No wizards to snipe with him and no huge purple sun to drop on his troops.  

I was shot all to hell, losing my ironblaster before I ever got to do anything with it.  Once I finally managed to make it his side of the board I started to win back points, taking out a hugh unit of dwarf handgunners, then overrunning into a warmachine. Did manage to kill a couple characters and some warmachiens but when all things were said and done, I came out with a loss... Had there been 7 turns instead of just 6, I think I would have tipped it to a Victory.  Still did massive amounts of damage, racking up about 1400 VPs.

Round 2 - 

Ogre Deathstar list-  30 man Ogre bull unit w/ all his characters in it, and 2 ironblasters.  A Purple Sun casters dream... and sure enough I get the Purple Sun this time.  

Scenario was Dawn Attack.  Turn 1, I fly my Slaughtermaster 1 inch from the flank of the Ogre Deathstar and unload the Large Template version of Purple Sun and cast it with Irresistable Force.  I insta-kill 21 guys, the BSB, Slaughtermaster, and 1 of his 2 ironblaster.  I would have felt bad for him, but as a fellow Ogre player, we all know what it's like to get half your army PS'd into oblivion.  I eventually tabled him, only losing the 2 units of gnoblar trappers (they're supposed to die horribly)

Ended up with over 2200+ VP in that game and only lost 100vp (2x 50 point gnoblar trapper units)

Round 3 - 

High Elf army with no shooting - When I realised I was playing on table 2, I knew that I needed to win big and I would be in the running for a prize of some kind.  I figured that the winner of game on table 1 would take home the overall.  Purple Sun is a bit of a waste on Elves with their Initiative value of 5, but I knew he was really relying heavily on his magic and that's what the Greedyfist/Lore of Death combo is best at.  Turn 1, I make his level 4 wizard lose 7 magic levels and forget all his spells.  Turn 2 I wipe the brain of his 2nd caster.  Eventually even used popped his BSB using Lore of Death magic.  

The scenario was to capture the most out of 5 objectives.  Basically I held back as much as I could after having taken out all his characters and waited till last second to pounce on the objectives he held to try and contest them.  In the end, I held 2 objectives, he had 1, 2 were contested.  OGRE WIN!

So clearly the MVP for me this game was Slaughtermaster.  He basically won me 2 games.  He is going to be seeing the field carrying this setup in most of my tournament armies.  

LVP would have to go to the Ironblaster.  That doesn't mean that I still ain't going to field every game I play, he was just really unluck today.  He misfired a few times, manage to roll his a HE with a cannon ball and not wound them.  

Looks like I'm going to have to make another order to Puppetswar.eu for some arms to make a Rifleman Dreadnought.  They have some really cool twin-linked autocannon arms, and I think I'm better of buying from them  (I'd link a picture of them but right now the puppetswar site is not working)

Ok, I been doing all sort of math and planning and nerdery plus I got up at 7am.... I'm going to hit the hay.

12:34am We are prepared for war(hammer)

Army... Check
Dice and Templates... Check
Movement Trays... Check
Army book and Kindle... Check
Spell Markers... Check
Superglue... Check
Display Board... Check

Predictions for tommorow:  

1.  Not going to repeat the Best Army award... that was clearly lightning in a bottle.

2.  Going to at least win 2 games. I got a feeling this list is better suited for the meta-game that the local tournament players use.  

3.  That I'll have to play another freaking Orc and Goblins army.... it's all I ever get to play.

4.  At least 20% of the armies there are Vampire Counts.  

Time to go to sleep, hopefully tomorrow's post will be about how I tabled my opponents 3 times in a row, won the whole tournament, and how they carried me out their shoulders chanting my name. (I'd like to see them try doing that 3rd one actually)