UK 40k GT Heat 2 - Report: Game 4

So I come into day 2 only needing to win a game. The first game of the day being Emperor's Will with Vanguard Strike, and I was playing against a Necron player with Tau allies, who had won a 2 day event a couple of weeks back. He was running 3 Annihilation Barges, 2 Night Scythes with minimal Warriors and Crypteks with Haywire Staffs in. He had a Riptide, a Skyray, a tooled up Overlord and a load of Kroot with Snipers.

This isn't a bad match up for me at all. But despite this, I would have been happy with a draw, as it left me with only needing to avoid losing both of my remaining games to qualify. He picked the deployment zone behind an enormous hill, and he made me go first, Night Fighting was in effect.

Invasion II Game 2 - Tournament Report

In the last post I may have alluded to our list's inability to deal with vehicles, well, when you have 3 AV13 vehicles facing you across the battlefield, you definitely can't deal with vehicles. We were playing against a Chaos Marine and Necron List, comprising of a Black Mace Lord, a 5 man Nurgle squad, a 10 man standard squad, a Vindicator, 10 Immortals with Tesla, 10 Warriors, a Lord and 2 Annihilation Barges. The mission was Crusade with Dawn of War.

Cry of the Wind Tournament Report - Game 3

As a one day tournament, we were into the last game, and there were 4 players left that could still win it. A Chaos Marine Nurgle player, with some Heldrakes. A Tau player with some Space Marine Allies, a Wraithwing player, slash, AV13 wall. And me. To be honest none of those match ups sounded terrible to me. The Heldrake player didn't have 3 of them so I was confident that I could deal with them (watch the YouTube battle reports a few posts back). I've been practicing against a lot of Tau, so I wasn't too afraid of them, and then the Wraithwing isn't a terrible match up for my army, although the AV13 may cause me a problem.

We were still playing Swiss system, so with me currently sat in second place it meant that I was playing the Wraithwing. The mission was Kill Points with Dawn of War Deployment (I would have preferred to have a Hammer and Anvil mission but it's fine).

Orkrons Development

“We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the Iron Fist of the Orc”

Saruman

In a few weeks time I will be attending another tournament, and yet this time I am hit with a slightly different dilemma. What to take? I could take my Space Wolves, but they've moved up to occupy the 1,750pts+ spot (this event is 1,650). I could take my Chaos Marines, but they suffer from a similar problem, and I'll have to scavenge a load of models plus I've not actually used the list before, could be a laugh though. Instead I've decided that I'm probably going to go old school with what I take.

Blue Necrons and Pod Rage

I've gone off on a bit of a tactical tangent over the last week or so, so now I'm going to go for a little bit of diversity with some hobby updates.

Firstly, don't drop your largest case on your models, just don't do it, it's a bad plan. I did it, it didn't end well. Luckily though, I only dropped it on one model. Unluckily, this was the most frustrating kit that I have ever assembled. You might remember a while ago I posted raging about how frustrating it was to assemble a drop pod, well now I was lucky enough to be able to assemble it all over again. In truth though it wasn't too bad, the annoying part was still together enough to make the job easier, the parts of the drop pod can be seen below. I've got it fixed now though so it's all good.

Additionally, I made sure to order 2 Rune Priests just before the price increases on Sunday night, but due to all of the bank holidays that are going on in the UK at the minute due to the jubilee they haven't arrived yet, although they should do so tomorrow. In other Space Wolf related news, I've pretty much got my entire army assembled, I've made a Chooser of the Slain marker out of a base and servo-skulls, and all of my Long Fangs are assembled bar 2 missile launcher Long Fangs, still need to get hold of the bits for those.

Anyway, I've also managed to get a little bit more progress done on my Necron army. The reason that it's been a while for this is because it's a pretty large model and I've been distracted by getting an army together for Throne of Skulls coming up. So anyway, to finish this post off, here it is.

Update - On Blue Necrons

Sorry once again to be late, the reason for this being two-fold. The first is that I have once again been travelling, and the second being that I did not actually get anything done in the last week. However, I have managed to finish 1 thing and get a little further with another in the last day or so.

I have managed to spray and basecoat my Monolith, and now I am running perilously low on Regal blue. However, I have finished painting my Catacomb Command Barge. I decided not to base the Overlord and merely paint his base the colour of the barge to make him fit in with it more and is warscythe includes a lot of red to allow it to contrast with the blue of the vehicle. But anyway, here is a picture of it below.

Hopefully in the next couple of days I will get back to more useful / interesting (hopefully) posts, but that's all for today, thanks for reading.