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Thursday, 11 February 2010
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Battle Report - Eldar vs Tyranids
I decided to challenge Dan to a game tonight to get in some practice with my Eldar against the new Tyranids which I know will be out in force for the upcoming Quartermaster tournament. We rolled up a Capture and Control, Dawn of War with Dan winning the choice of sides.
The picture below shows mine and his deployments and his first turn of movement. My objective is in the open below and to the left of the crater, Dan's objective is located in the trees directly above the ruins as shown in the picture.
His shooting was mostly ineffective, killing two of the Rangers hiding in the woods.
I then proceeded to move most of my force on, leaving my two units of guardians and the guardian jetbikes in reserve. The dire Avengers spread out to minimize the amount of hits from Dan's three biovores, lobbing spores from the rear.
My turn one's shooting saw the majority of the termagaunts hiding in the ruins eliminated as my Dire Avengers opened up on them.
Dan's force moved forward across all front except for the Warriors hiding in the other ruins who positioned themselves better for shooting. The termagaunt and the (proxy) Alpha Warrior ran out of the ruins and into the crater hoping to get to grips with the Eldar next turn. Dan's Dethleeper showed up and he placed him near my rangers. I lost a few Dire Avengers to the Biovores and took a wound on my Farseer.
In my turn two, my wave serpent carrying the banshees moved around to flank the oncoming wave of bodies, hoping to force him to fight on two fronts. I tried to guide my war Walkers but failed due to my lowered leadership courtesy of the Deathleeper. I did however doom the gaunts in the crater and the combined shooting of my infantry killed all of them and reduce the (proxy) Alpha Warrior to his last wound. The War Walkers also nailed a Ravenor with their krak missiles. The Wraithguard got out of the transport and fired at the Deathleeper. Hitting four times with my waraithguns and rolling three sixes causing instant death but Dan passed all of his saves taking only a single wound from the Spiritseer's destructor. They finished him off in combat though.
In Dan's third turn, the Ymgarl Stealers pooped out of the crater and proceeded to charge my guardians and avengers. Six wounds later, he'd broken and caught both of my squads along with my Farseer before consolidating back into the crater.
My Jetbikes and other squad of guardians then arrived, hoping to contain the new threat. Their shooting killed half of the stealers before they charged in, killing the remainder in combat. shooting from Wraithlord and Wave Serpent finally took down the Alpha Warrior whilst the other Wave Serpent nailed a Zoanthrope.
The following turn, Dan's remaining Zoanthrope penetrated my Wave Serpent carrying the Wraithguard. The Hormogaunts then charged out from the line, and killed the Spiritseer and two of the Wraithguard with their poisoned attacks.
The following turn, my Wraithlord failed his wraithsight test and I decided to concede the game as it was getting late. Without the Wraithlord to charge and hold up the termagaunts, I could only really hope for a draw and that was if I was lucky.
Congrats to Dan on his win. We both made a few mistakes during the game.
Dan's mistakes:
He should have kept popping the Deathleeper back into reserve so that is could come out on turn five right next to the objective,or turn four ready to charge in if I had it well secured.
Tom's mistakes:
Maybe I should have placed the objective elsewhere hoping to split Dan's line more, creating more gaps to slip through.
I shouldn't have spread the Dire avengers out so much when I brought them on, it meant that Dan's stealers could charge both units easily instead of just one.
The picture below shows mine and his deployments and his first turn of movement. My objective is in the open below and to the left of the crater, Dan's objective is located in the trees directly above the ruins as shown in the picture.
His shooting was mostly ineffective, killing two of the Rangers hiding in the woods.I then proceeded to move most of my force on, leaving my two units of guardians and the guardian jetbikes in reserve. The dire Avengers spread out to minimize the amount of hits from Dan's three biovores, lobbing spores from the rear.
My turn one's shooting saw the majority of the termagaunts hiding in the ruins eliminated as my Dire Avengers opened up on them.
Dan's force moved forward across all front except for the Warriors hiding in the other ruins who positioned themselves better for shooting. The termagaunt and the (proxy) Alpha Warrior ran out of the ruins and into the crater hoping to get to grips with the Eldar next turn. Dan's Dethleeper showed up and he placed him near my rangers. I lost a few Dire Avengers to the Biovores and took a wound on my Farseer.In my turn two, my wave serpent carrying the banshees moved around to flank the oncoming wave of bodies, hoping to force him to fight on two fronts. I tried to guide my war Walkers but failed due to my lowered leadership courtesy of the Deathleeper. I did however doom the gaunts in the crater and the combined shooting of my infantry killed all of them and reduce the (proxy) Alpha Warrior to his last wound. The War Walkers also nailed a Ravenor with their krak missiles. The Wraithguard got out of the transport and fired at the Deathleeper. Hitting four times with my waraithguns and rolling three sixes causing instant death but Dan passed all of his saves taking only a single wound from the Spiritseer's destructor. They finished him off in combat though.
In Dan's third turn, the Ymgarl Stealers pooped out of the crater and proceeded to charge my guardians and avengers. Six wounds later, he'd broken and caught both of my squads along with my Farseer before consolidating back into the crater.
My Jetbikes and other squad of guardians then arrived, hoping to contain the new threat. Their shooting killed half of the stealers before they charged in, killing the remainder in combat. shooting from Wraithlord and Wave Serpent finally took down the Alpha Warrior whilst the other Wave Serpent nailed a Zoanthrope.
The following turn, Dan's remaining Zoanthrope penetrated my Wave Serpent carrying the Wraithguard. The Hormogaunts then charged out from the line, and killed the Spiritseer and two of the Wraithguard with their poisoned attacks.
The following turn, my Wraithlord failed his wraithsight test and I decided to concede the game as it was getting late. Without the Wraithlord to charge and hold up the termagaunts, I could only really hope for a draw and that was if I was lucky.
Congrats to Dan on his win. We both made a few mistakes during the game.
Dan's mistakes:
He should have kept popping the Deathleeper back into reserve so that is could come out on turn five right next to the objective,or turn four ready to charge in if I had it well secured.
Tom's mistakes:
Maybe I should have placed the objective elsewhere hoping to split Dan's line more, creating more gaps to slip through.
I shouldn't have spread the Dire avengers out so much when I brought them on, it meant that Dan's stealers could charge both units easily instead of just one.
Eltnot
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Gepanzerte Panzergrenadierkompanie WiP
Just a quick update on the modelling front.
I've been busy trying to get my Germans together. So far I've assembled all of the vehicles out of my current collection of models. They still need their machine gunners which will be added after painting. I've magnetised the guns on my Panzer III's so that I can use them as either L or N variants. Unfortunately I somehow got the polarity wrong on the turret off my command tank so I need to fix that.
I also got to play my first games of Flames today. Wonna and I basically sat down and threw our armies at each other, mainly in an attempt to try things out and learn the rules. Once I get some better scenery and paint my models I'll start doing some AAR's for them.
Whilst I try to find the time to make some decent terrain for our games, I've decided to throw together some paper buildings. Unfortunately I can't find any for 15mm, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to know.
I've been busy trying to get my Germans together. So far I've assembled all of the vehicles out of my current collection of models. They still need their machine gunners which will be added after painting. I've magnetised the guns on my Panzer III's so that I can use them as either L or N variants. Unfortunately I somehow got the polarity wrong on the turret off my command tank so I need to fix that.
I also got to play my first games of Flames today. Wonna and I basically sat down and threw our armies at each other, mainly in an attempt to try things out and learn the rules. Once I get some better scenery and paint my models I'll start doing some AAR's for them.
Whilst I try to find the time to make some decent terrain for our games, I've decided to throw together some paper buildings. Unfortunately I can't find any for 15mm, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to know.
Eltnot.
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Gepanzerte Panzergrenadierkompanie
My first two lots of Flames of War models have arrived now so it's assembling time, although I'm still waiting on my copy of Eastern Front.
So far I have:
1x Armoured Panzergrenadier Platoon*
1x Armoured Panzergrenadier HQ*
3x Panzer III N (or L)
2x Sd Kfz 231 (8-rads)
* These are actually late war units even though I'm planning to play mid war. they were cheaper to buy and the only real difference is they're 251/1d's instead of 251/1c's.
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Hobby Resolution
Inspired by Col.Gravis' New Years Resolution, I decided I'd try to do one myself.
The idea being to pick out a couple of things to improve upon over the course of the year.
1. Update the Blog
I'd like to get back into the habit of updating this regularly. I'd had good intentions late last year but kept putting it off with the result being a large amount of small posts towards the end of the year. My goal is to make at least two posts per month.
2. Finish my Sisters of Battle
This is the army I keep on saying I will get finished but never do. My current goal is to have 1500 points painted in time for the Gladstone Tournament in May. The army is currently basecoated with three colours but I want them finished!
3. Paint my Blood Bowl Team
This is a smaller short term goal that I can see quite easily slipping by. I had planned to have them done by now but I haven't, so on the list they go.
4. Paint my Flames of War army
This is a new thing. Over the past few months, I've decided to start playing Flames of War, and excellent 15mm WWII game. I currently have a Panzer Grenadier Platoon and Command HQ. On the way are some Panzerknackers, a pair of Sd Kfz 231 8-rads and three Panzer III N's along with a copy of the new Eastern Front book that is released in a few days. I'd like to try to stay mostly on top of this army and paint it as it comes in.
5. Try new painting techniques and paints
I'd like to increase my exposure to other things. High on that list is trying out some of the Acrylicos Vallejo range of paints. I'd also like to learn new techniques and styles in preperation for painting my rogue trader army that is still in the collecting phase but soon to be ready for assmbling and painting.
We'll see how I go at the end of the year.
The idea being to pick out a couple of things to improve upon over the course of the year.
1. Update the Blog
I'd like to get back into the habit of updating this regularly. I'd had good intentions late last year but kept putting it off with the result being a large amount of small posts towards the end of the year. My goal is to make at least two posts per month.
2. Finish my Sisters of Battle
This is the army I keep on saying I will get finished but never do. My current goal is to have 1500 points painted in time for the Gladstone Tournament in May. The army is currently basecoated with three colours but I want them finished!
3. Paint my Blood Bowl Team
This is a smaller short term goal that I can see quite easily slipping by. I had planned to have them done by now but I haven't, so on the list they go.
4. Paint my Flames of War army
This is a new thing. Over the past few months, I've decided to start playing Flames of War, and excellent 15mm WWII game. I currently have a Panzer Grenadier Platoon and Command HQ. On the way are some Panzerknackers, a pair of Sd Kfz 231 8-rads and three Panzer III N's along with a copy of the new Eastern Front book that is released in a few days. I'd like to try to stay mostly on top of this army and paint it as it comes in.
5. Try new painting techniques and paints
I'd like to increase my exposure to other things. High on that list is trying out some of the Acrylicos Vallejo range of paints. I'd also like to learn new techniques and styles in preperation for painting my rogue trader army that is still in the collecting phase but soon to be ready for assmbling and painting.
We'll see how I go at the end of the year.
Eltnot.
Sunday, 20 December 2009
RSGA Apocalypse Game
Over the last few months I have been organising an Apocalypse game for the club. Here's a couple of photos that I took of the event. The forces were roughly divided into the forces of Goodish and the forces of Evilish.
The table before the forces arrived.
Forces of Goodish deployment (Including a scratch built Manta!).
Wonna's Imperial Guard deployed in force (How many lascannons?).
The forces of Evilish's weapon of mass destruction (Warlord Titan goodness).
The armies line up against each other.
The best use of "A word in your Ear" that I have ever seen (Apparently James looked threatening).
End of turn 1.
James finds a new friend.
Carnage is wrought in amongst the ruins.
An overall view of the battlefield.
It looked amusing to me at the time.
The Warlord's view of the fighting in front of it.
The Warlord from a Chaos Marine's viewpoint.
Rob removing his Manta after the Warlord decides that it didn't like it.
The table before the forces arrived.
Forces of Goodish deployment (Including a scratch built Manta!).
Wonna's Imperial Guard deployed in force (How many lascannons?).
The forces of Evilish's weapon of mass destruction (Warlord Titan goodness).
The armies line up against each other.
The best use of "A word in your Ear" that I have ever seen (Apparently James looked threatening).
End of turn 1.
James finds a new friend.
Carnage is wrought in amongst the ruins.
An overall view of the battlefield.
It looked amusing to me at the time.
The Warlord's view of the fighting in front of it.
The Warlord from a Chaos Marine's viewpoint.
Rob removing his Manta after the Warlord decides that it didn't like it.Following this event, the game went downhill for the forces of Goodish ending in a solid victory for the forces of Evilish.
Eltnot.
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
In the works
Now that things have quietened down a little, I've started sorting out things to do to finish off existing projects and letting myself enjoy a few small projects also. On my plate at the moment, I have a unit of Chaos Warriors to put together and paint for my fantasy army. I've also started on a bloodbowl team.
This is also the first time ever that I've tried using a white undercoat. I'll have to use washes a fair bit which is also something fairly new to recreate the blacklining effects that I've started to use when painting models from a black undercoat. It's certainly proving to be a good learning experience and if it takes me longer, it doesn't matter so much with only 16 figures in total to paint.
This is also the first time ever that I've tried using a white undercoat. I'll have to use washes a fair bit which is also something fairly new to recreate the blacklining effects that I've started to use when painting models from a black undercoat. It's certainly proving to be a good learning experience and if it takes me longer, it doesn't matter so much with only 16 figures in total to paint.
Eltnot.
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