Sunday, February 24, 2008

DL Tournament 2/23



So I got out to a 2000 point tournament at DL today and had a nice time. I decided to tone down my usual tournament Eldar list for this one, so switched out the Harlequins to the old Banshees and switched out the second bike Farseer for a laser lance Autarch, which I hadn't used before. Lets run it down.

Round 1 v. Sam's Chaos



Round one was against Sam, I had seen and talked to him a few times but we had not actually played before. His army is really cool as he has recasted every piece in bronze (his Land Raider is like eight pounds). I fortunately got a board with a whole lot of terrain on it and limited his shots a whole lot (he certainly had alot of firepower). The mission was recon, which gave me a real advantage. I flanked around the large piece of central terrain and slammed into his forces. The Fire Dragon/ Lancetarch combo saw off his Land Raider with Terminator squad, and bladestorm/doom did most of the rest. He did manage to destroy or immobilze four of my five skimmers, but I had too many scoring units in his zone for it to make a difference.

Result: Crushing Victory for me (17)

Round 2 v. Mike's Dark Angels



This was a great game, I definately don't get to play against Mike enough, and its a shame for him it happened to be against this army. The mission was Seek and Destroy. I came into the game a bit worried because he had quite a few shots and there was very little area terrain on the board. I was able to get the most out of what was there. Mike did the smart thing and refused flanked me, but I was able to find a chink and just dove right in. Mike got unk=lucky with his psychic hood and my Farseer was throwing his powers around with impunity. A doom/ bladestorm combo finished off his Deathwing assault before it could do anything and my Fire Dragons claimed their second Land Raider of the day.

Result: Victorious Slaughter (20+17)

Round 3 v. Nick's Eldar

Round three was Take and Hold. I missed a pic. Nick was rocking a classic Ulthwe force with Eldrad, the Avatar, a solid core of Guardians, some Wraithguard, Avengers, Dragons, Reapers, and a pair of Falcons. He rolled good against my holo-fields, I rolled bad against his. Nuf' said. The highlight of the game was doing three wounds to the Avatar with Mind War.

Result: Solid Loss (20+17+7)
27/30 Painting
30/30 Sportsmanship

All in all good for second place. I picked up a few things for my Penal Legion and some Warp Spiders to spice up my Eldar.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

The Methalor Penal Auxillia

Convict Colonel Cash
Charges: Murdered his family at the age of eight. Multiple homicides upon Methalor.

So much to my own shagrin I have decided to work on two armies at the same time. The Tyranids are numerous and the colour-scheme takes its toll, so I decided to slowly work on these guys aswell. The list I made looks like a lot of fun I think.

Doctrines
Hardened Fighters
Veterans
Independent Commisars
Priests
Ratlings

HQ
Heroic Senior Officer w/ Power Fist
Command Squad w/ Meltagun, Medic, Standard Bearer (Hardened Fighters) 137

Fire Support Squad w/ Autocannons 95

Priest w/ Eviscerator, Honorifica, Carapace 100
Schaeffer & Kage & Chancers 470

Elites
10*Veterans w/ shotguns, missle launcher, 2*grenade launchers, plasmagun (Hardened Fighters) 141
10*Veterans w/ shotguns, heavy bolter, 3*grenade launchers (Hardened Fighters) 134
3* Independent Commisars w/ 2*Power weapon, 1*Power Fist 180

Troops
Chancers sub units:
5*Last Chancers w/ Missle Launcher , Plasmagun
5*Last Chancers w/ Lascannon, Plasmagun
Last Chancer w/ Demo Charge
5*Chancers w/ 3*Flamers, Demo Charge
Last Chancer w/ Meltagun, Refractor Field

Infantry Platoon
Command Section w/ 2 Flamers (Hardened Fighters) 67
Infantry Squad w/ Frag Grenades, Heavy Bolter, Flamer (Hardened Fighters) 101
Infantry Squad w/ Frag Grenades, Heavy Bolter, Flamer (Hardened Fighters) 101


Fast Attack
Sentinels w/ Lascannon 55
Sentinels w/ Lascannon 55

Heavy Support
Leman Russ Demolisher w/ 3*Heavy Bolters, Extra Armour, Improved Comms 190
Leman Russ Demolisher w/ 3*Heavy Bolters, Extra Armour 170

=2000

Troopers Caldwell, Bowie, Hays, Travis, and Boone
Charges: Gave up their garrison when faced with overwhelming force.

Troopers Hendrie, Snyder, Perry, and Bennet
Charges: Rogue Traders charged with trading with unsanctioned Xenos.

Trooper Manson
Charges: Battery and assault

Friday, February 15, 2008

Penal Legion




So this is a test model I made for Imperial Guard Penal Legion. I like how it turned out, the pic is alot more red than in real life, but he looks pretty grizzled.