Well, I finally picked up my modelling tools again after a long break in which I was away on holiday. Apologies for not posting, but, let's be perfectly honest, I didn't get to do any G/P/M, I actually just hung around on Dakka. That's all the Warhammer-related stuff I could claim to do...
Today, I decided (seeing as I couldn't buy new stuff due to the black hole of money) to make some terrain, considering that I am severely lacking in that department at present. So, remembering this tutorial that I had seen on Dakka, I got to work cutting up all my old sprues into exact-length pieces.
I didn't get very far due to fencing and orchestra, but I have managed to get the hang of it. Sprues are harder to cut because of their thickness, but somehow I'm managing it, at least my stanley knife and file are solid enough to handle it. So, I don't actually have anything picture-worthy at the moment, but I will soon be finished and then beautiful pictures will be up.
I've also been thinking about what to get next. I've ordered a White Scars Commander to play as either Kor'sarro Khan or a Captain w/ Relic Blade (on bike, obviously), and I should get that soon, as soon as I have time to go to the Battle Bunker. Other than that, I guess I'll just have to wait to earn enough money and get myself a Ravenwing Battleforce. Not only will it boost my bike numbers, but I'll also have a speeder and another Attack Bike, which i could then outfit w/ a Heavy Bolter. That's a pretty complete 1 000 points, I rate. Obviously coupled with one or two of my Tac squads...
It all depends, once again, on money. :( Bleak!
Saturday, 23 July 2011
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Bikers rule!
Really... I played a game against my brother this morning, a 500 point carnage, and my little bike conglomerate absolutely destroyed him!
I promised pics of the new bikers, here they are:
Sorry about the lateness, I have been really busy. Yes, that is a power fist on the Sarge, taken from the Wolf Guard Terminators sprue. I love the sheer weight of spare parts you get with that set, it's actually ridiculous to think you're paying the same amount for a pack of standard Marine Terminators.
My bikers proved very resilient in the game, and they managed to take out two mobs of boyz (20 models), as well as a few Deffkoptas. I also had a Tactical Squad and Dread with me, and they provided the supporting firepower and a suitable distraction for my opponent.
I am hoping to start painting soon, I have been reading up on how to paint white miniatures, and apparently it's a fat mission. Nevertheless, I shall persevere, I just need money for paints and brushes!
I promised pics of the new bikers, here they are:
Sorry about the lateness, I have been really busy. Yes, that is a power fist on the Sarge, taken from the Wolf Guard Terminators sprue. I love the sheer weight of spare parts you get with that set, it's actually ridiculous to think you're paying the same amount for a pack of standard Marine Terminators.
My bikers proved very resilient in the game, and they managed to take out two mobs of boyz (20 models), as well as a few Deffkoptas. I also had a Tactical Squad and Dread with me, and they provided the supporting firepower and a suitable distraction for my opponent.
I am hoping to start painting soon, I have been reading up on how to paint white miniatures, and apparently it's a fat mission. Nevertheless, I shall persevere, I just need money for paints and brushes!
Monday, 6 June 2011
A game! At last!
So, yesterday was cool because I finally got to play a decent game at the Battle Bunker for once. Against Caspar and his custom chapter of conglomerates. I won the 750 carnage, and he narrowly defeated me in the subsequent Kill-Team.
I loved the look on his face when my terminator squads (one after the other) just walked through the two squads and chapter master he planted in the centre... My bikes also proved their worth, as they managed to take down his Venerable dreadnought after a long battle of attrition. All I'm saying, flanking the bikes on one side and the rest of the army on the other is a good idea, but only because his orbital bombardment scattered. Besides, I think a chapter master is too expensive relative to his benefits for a carnage game, but he did manage to effectively squash my standard Terminators before they took over the centre.
Anyways, afterwards we set up the terrain really city-like and extremely dense. Caspar whipped out his Kill-team and I set about defending a stolen Rhino (which had magically gone up to AV14 and he now had to meltabomb it for some strange reason). Very close, the building-mounted lascannon was pumping at ruins and trying to squash the KT but they managed to get their last two men around and destroy the objective with a healthy bomb placement.
In addition to this, I bought a bike squad and set about building them as soon as I got back home. I'm still sorting out the problems with the bikes overbalancing, I really don't want to base them. Sorry I didn't get any pictures, I will try today.
I loved the look on his face when my terminator squads (one after the other) just walked through the two squads and chapter master he planted in the centre... My bikes also proved their worth, as they managed to take down his Venerable dreadnought after a long battle of attrition. All I'm saying, flanking the bikes on one side and the rest of the army on the other is a good idea, but only because his orbital bombardment scattered. Besides, I think a chapter master is too expensive relative to his benefits for a carnage game, but he did manage to effectively squash my standard Terminators before they took over the centre.
Anyways, afterwards we set up the terrain really city-like and extremely dense. Caspar whipped out his Kill-team and I set about defending a stolen Rhino (which had magically gone up to AV14 and he now had to meltabomb it for some strange reason). Very close, the building-mounted lascannon was pumping at ruins and trying to squash the KT but they managed to get their last two men around and destroy the objective with a healthy bomb placement.
In addition to this, I bought a bike squad and set about building them as soon as I got back home. I'm still sorting out the problems with the bikes overbalancing, I really don't want to base them. Sorry I didn't get any pictures, I will try today.
Monday, 30 May 2011
Minimum Squad Size
Talk about needing more than two bikes per squad...
Anyways, here is a loose battle report of how my chilled game against my brother went last night, as best as I can remember.
White Scars 5th Company
Captain w/power sword
Tactical Squad w/flamer
Bike & Attack Bike w/multi-melta (75pts)
Terminator Assault Squad
vs
Waaagh! Paskal
Warboss w/shoota and power klaw
Boyz mob w/big shoota
Boyz mob w/big shoota
Nobz mob
Deffkopta Squad
500pt Carnage
Turn 1
I moved my army forward behind the sparse terrain, keeping the Terminators in reserve. Unfortunately none of my army fired. Paskal then moved his entire horde forward and managed to take a wound off my Attack Bike and killed my 'nilla biker with missiles from a Kopta.
Turn 2
Terminators failed their reserve roll. I realized my bike wasn't going to do much, so I moved it out to fire at the koptas. My marines stayed where they were, safe behind cover. My bike shooting, unfortunately, didn't do much, and the Attack Bike was destroyed at the start of the next turn. Paskal planted the Warboss in the center of the table with his hordes surrounding it, waiting for me to attack.
Turns 3 and 4
I moved my Marines to assault the Koptas after a hail of fire from their bolt pistols. They managed to cause only 1 wound due to poor hitting, but at least they weren't killed by the counter-attack. Then, Paskal moved one boyz mob and his Nobz to engage in the assault, and a brutal battle ensued, with two or three casualties on each side. My marines thankfully passed their morale check. The Terminators still failed to arrive, and the massive melee ground to another halt as at the end of turn 4, only the Koptas had been ousted.
Turn 5
Finally, my Terminators deep-struck by teleport on the other side of the table, and sort of camped as they couldn't assault, and took a casualty from boy shooting (!). The massive melee was thinning out but still refused to be resolved, and Paskal was disappointed that his boyz were failing to overwhelm the enemy (I recall at this point there was still the Captain and 2 Marines standing). The Warboss charged into my Terminators as the boyz were out of range, and he promptly took out a Terminator, leaving 2 dead.
Turn 6
In the swirling melee off-center, only the Captain was left, but he was slaying orks by the truckload, yet this time his last wound popped off. The Warboss was finally slain after taking out yet another two Terminators, leaving only the sergeant. He promptly moved towards the table center, and the boyz mob retaliated with an assault. Then, something incredible happened: eight wounds on a 2+ armour save... In all probability, I was dead. But no! Terminator armour prevailed and all were saved. The counter-attack only felled one boy, but it was enough to keep me in the center. The game-end roll came up 1, so I won the day with 1 model left on the table.
I hope I'll be able to buy another bike today!
Anyways, here is a loose battle report of how my chilled game against my brother went last night, as best as I can remember.
White Scars 5th Company
Captain w/power sword
Tactical Squad w/flamer
Bike & Attack Bike w/multi-melta (75pts)
Terminator Assault Squad
vs
Waaagh! Paskal
Warboss w/shoota and power klaw
Boyz mob w/big shoota
Boyz mob w/big shoota
Nobz mob
Deffkopta Squad
500pt Carnage
Turn 1
I moved my army forward behind the sparse terrain, keeping the Terminators in reserve. Unfortunately none of my army fired. Paskal then moved his entire horde forward and managed to take a wound off my Attack Bike and killed my 'nilla biker with missiles from a Kopta.
Turn 2
Terminators failed their reserve roll. I realized my bike wasn't going to do much, so I moved it out to fire at the koptas. My marines stayed where they were, safe behind cover. My bike shooting, unfortunately, didn't do much, and the Attack Bike was destroyed at the start of the next turn. Paskal planted the Warboss in the center of the table with his hordes surrounding it, waiting for me to attack.
Turns 3 and 4
I moved my Marines to assault the Koptas after a hail of fire from their bolt pistols. They managed to cause only 1 wound due to poor hitting, but at least they weren't killed by the counter-attack. Then, Paskal moved one boyz mob and his Nobz to engage in the assault, and a brutal battle ensued, with two or three casualties on each side. My marines thankfully passed their morale check. The Terminators still failed to arrive, and the massive melee ground to another halt as at the end of turn 4, only the Koptas had been ousted.
Turn 5
Finally, my Terminators deep-struck by teleport on the other side of the table, and sort of camped as they couldn't assault, and took a casualty from boy shooting (!). The massive melee was thinning out but still refused to be resolved, and Paskal was disappointed that his boyz were failing to overwhelm the enemy (I recall at this point there was still the Captain and 2 Marines standing). The Warboss charged into my Terminators as the boyz were out of range, and he promptly took out a Terminator, leaving 2 dead.
Turn 6
In the swirling melee off-center, only the Captain was left, but he was slaying orks by the truckload, yet this time his last wound popped off. The Warboss was finally slain after taking out yet another two Terminators, leaving only the sergeant. He promptly moved towards the table center, and the boyz mob retaliated with an assault. Then, something incredible happened: eight wounds on a 2+ armour save... In all probability, I was dead. But no! Terminator armour prevailed and all were saved. The counter-attack only felled one boy, but it was enough to keep me in the center. The game-end roll came up 1, so I won the day with 1 model left on the table.
I hope I'll be able to buy another bike today!
Friday, 27 May 2011
I actually have bikes now!
Yesterday, scared that our local Battle Bunker was going to have its prices increased tomorrow, I grabbed all my money and headed off. Turns out it wasn't, because it had just received a giant order in excess of two thousand pounds from GW via Gibraltar (don't ask! I don't understand it either...) and so prices will stay pretty much the same for a while. A potential issue is the fact that I want to request a White Scars Bike Commander, and so GW will probably laugh in our faces because they haven't got around to making a finecast of it yet, but we have to wait and see.
Anyways, I bought a single bike set and an attack bike, and put them together last night. These are them:
(sorry these pictures aren't that great, I'll take better ones when I get back home later)
So these are actually the first two bikes I have in my White Scars army proper... That's good, I guess. Hopefully more will come along soon!
Anyways, I bought a single bike set and an attack bike, and put them together last night. These are them:
So these are actually the first two bikes I have in my White Scars army proper... That's good, I guess. Hopefully more will come along soon!
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Yeah, welcome to the new blog!
This is it. After last night's epiphany (read below), I have decided to a) call my blog something decent, and b) manage it from the same profile as my "life and times" one. So, last night's epiphany:
Yesterday i was sitting doing nothing, and I decided to make a swift strikeforce of around 1500 points based around Tigurius. Oh yeah, and lots of bikes. Eventually, I realized that heavy guns were not my calling! I was meant for greater things! Screw the Ninth Chapter, although they were pretty cool at first. After thinking about army lists I realized that my proposed Carnage list was crap, and so I decided to once and for all switch to bikes, and lots of them. White Scars it is, and I am now officially a White Scars player. I'm keeping the bad-ass Terminator Assault squad though, and incorporating it into my lists, because I just love Terminators.
So, good thing I didn't get around to painting my army. I don't think the cyan scheme will ever get around, but I'm happy with white and red. Or maybe even make them white and black in the recesses, like Imperial Stormtroopers (the Star Wars ones, that is). I'll jepp the history of the Ninth Chapter online, maybe even finish someday. Just in case people aren't catching up with the news, I'll keep the old blog online for a bit as well, but this one is definitely here to stay.
White Scars Forever!!!
Yesterday i was sitting doing nothing, and I decided to make a swift strikeforce of around 1500 points based around Tigurius. Oh yeah, and lots of bikes. Eventually, I realized that heavy guns were not my calling! I was meant for greater things! Screw the Ninth Chapter, although they were pretty cool at first. After thinking about army lists I realized that my proposed Carnage list was crap, and so I decided to once and for all switch to bikes, and lots of them. White Scars it is, and I am now officially a White Scars player. I'm keeping the bad-ass Terminator Assault squad though, and incorporating it into my lists, because I just love Terminators.
So, good thing I didn't get around to painting my army. I don't think the cyan scheme will ever get around, but I'm happy with white and red. Or maybe even make them white and black in the recesses, like Imperial Stormtroopers (the Star Wars ones, that is). I'll jepp the history of the Ninth Chapter online, maybe even finish someday. Just in case people aren't catching up with the news, I'll keep the old blog online for a bit as well, but this one is definitely here to stay.
White Scars Forever!!!
Sunday, 22 May 2011
The Ninth Chapter
Its history is now beginning to take shape! Check it out by clicking on the above tab. Other than that, I have some photos from last week's battles...
Hopefully I'll get them painted soon! And/or buy more units!
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| lightning claws vs power fists.. hmm |
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| a healthy dose of revenge (and the bad-ass pose only helps!!) |
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| it's a BRAAAAWL!!! just the Sergeant left against a tide of greenskins. well, greyskins. they're still very numerous! |
Hopefully I'll get them painted soon! And/or buy more units!
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