Blud Boyz?

So...as some of you may have seen I've created a red Ork boy in a jump pack.  I had some bitz and when I saw the jump pack I just had to paint the Ork red because my first army was Blood Angels and so if I was going to build an Ork in armor with a jet pack he just had to be red.

Now because of of new 6th edition I can play the Blud Boyz with the Wulf Boyz.  But now that I've built a test squad here I really want to make a 1750 point Blud Boyz army now.

So here is the squad...

Red ones go faster?

So, You'd think I'd learn right?

Not so much. So the Wulf Boyz are built up to a playable 1750 point list and works at 1500 points as well which are currently the only two points I really need to play at for up coming events. I never did plan to build it to big. I had looked around at all the parts I had laying around and started a new project. Proving as I said I just will never learn.

1500pts Pic Batrep Dark Eldar vs Blood Angels

Introduction: I strolled into the Gaming store this past saturday, once again. This time I had a scheduled game all lined up. If you know my story I have just recently moved into the area so I am fairly new to the community. This means that I have been trying to find my niche spot within the gaming tiers of the area. Last time I was at the store one of the -twins- called me out for a game, he said he had heard I was a -decent- player and therefore wanted to have a game. I was flattered (of course) that my reputation had preceeded me :D. I had heard of the -twins- over the last month or so from various members of the gaming community and they are held in high regard when it comes to list buinding (using powerfull lists) and their generalship skills. And so, with this I set out my army and we rolled for the mission straight out of the book. Mission? 4 Objectives Deployment? Pitched Location? Sir Games Alot in Barrie Ontario The Table: We made sure that there was enough terrain on the table this time, 25% and good LOS blockers. Then tried to mirror it as much as possible in an adepticon format. The green markers are the primary objectives. The armies: I was using the same tournament list that I have been using since I got here and had to drop to 1500pts. It is a strong DE list that has a lot of synergy and can catch people off guard if they are not careful. At a glance the list only has 2 venoms... but at close range (12inches) the army shells out almost 80 AI shots. Hence not needing to rely on the venoms, and boosting 15 AT weapons for decent tank busting capabilities. (with 18 grenades if the wyches get stuck in). His list was a variation of Blood Angel razorback spam. Cheap squads, cheap HQ and then as many pts in firepower as possible. Of course this variation has adapted to the local meta and he has been using vindies rather than predators because of the prevailence of FNP and other foot troop armies in the area. The use of HK missiles was clearly because of certain DE players that love their night shields. At a distance he could target 6 different things a turn and then even more as soon as the fast vindicators got within range. So I was in for a fight! Dark Eldar Kabal 1500pts HQ- Archon, Agonizer, Phantasm Grenade Launcher, Shadow Field, Combat Drugs Elites- 4 Incubi Venom, Dual Cannons, Grisly Trophies Troops- 9 Wyches, Hekatrix with agonizer, haywire grenades Raider, Flicker Field, Grisly Trophies 9 Wyches, Hekatrix with agonizer, haywire grenades Raider, Flicker Field, Grisly Trophies 5 Kabalite Warriors, Blaster Venom Dual Cannons 5 Kabalite Warriors, Blaster Raider, Flicker Field Fast Attack- 3 Reaver Jetbikes, Heatlance 3 Reaver Jetbikes, Heatlance 5 Scourge, 2 haywire blasters Heavy Support- Ravager, Flicker Field Ravager, Flicker Field Blood Angels 1500pts A closeup of one of some of his painted figures. They will be looking good when he is done! HQ- Librarian- Stock- Powers Shield and Fear. Troops- 5 Assault Marines Razorback with Las-TLplas-HK missile, dozer 5 Assault Marines Razorback with Las-TLplas-HK missile, dozer 5 Assault Marines Razorback with Las-TLplas-HK missile, dozer 5 Assault Marines Razorback with assault cannon, dozer Fast Attack- Land Speeder Typhoon Land Speeder Squadron - 2 Typhoons Baal Predator, HB sponsons, dozer, HK missile Heavy Support- Vindicator, dozer Vindicator, dozer Deployment: After rolling again because we drew the first roll the Blood Angels took first turn and chose to deploy everything with the Baal in outflanking reserve. Read More...

Da Wulf Boyz, Display Board

Well I have been a bit burnt out on painting boyz so I thought since I need to keep pressing to get the army done, each day I need to get something done.

So today I did a bunch of work on the display board. I built this one out of the same foam as my other one for my Blood Angels. Which means that it can fit in my modular board in place of hte Blood Angels if I want.

So I painted this one first in black, then it has a dusting of two different greys on it.

Then I added the snow. In the picture I have just added it, and I'll have to wait a few more hours will I can knock off the excess snow. Also in the picture you can see the Ork Mek hut I am building for the board. It'll be painted up like a nice ork building when I am done with it. So here are some shots of it in the modular display board and then some WIP pictures.

Here is a picture of the Blood Angel board in the display board.



Next is a picture of the Blood Angel board out of the display board and the Ork Board in.



So here are some WIP shots of the Ork board.

Display Board

Hey guys me again. Sadly this isn't a Wulf Boyz post but rather something I have wanted to show off for a while. While looking around the net and listening to some pod casts a while back the Battlefoam x-board got announced, a nice portable display board that you can build different ways and paint up any way you wish. Now I sort of liked the idea but this brought on an idea in my head. Since I have several different armies I take to tournaments and they are all based different I wanted a way that would let me not have to build 3 or 4 different display boards and then find a home for them in my house.

So first I made a foam display board out of 1" foam. The first one I made was for my Blood Angels. So it came out like this (though it is still work in progress).



Next I took and extra piece of plywood I had laying around. When I had an 8'x4' sheet of plywood that was cut down to 6'x4' to use for my gaming table. This left a 2'x4' piece that I could cut down to a size a little bigger then the size of the foam. From there I picked up what is essentially door frame trim wood. I picked up trim that was 1" tall which made it the same height of the foam display board. I used wood glue and screws to screw the trim around the edge of the plywood. I then drilled out two 3" holes in the plywood, these are there actually to help with pushing the foam display boards out of the main display board piece. After all that I painted it with a gloss black paint and then used a gloss varnish on it to make it look really nice. It ended up looking like this.



After that I found that it was pretty heavy and sat flat on the table so it was hard to pick up. It looked like this.



So I went out to pick up something to make it easier to pick up the display board. I actually ended up with chair legs. So I mounted them to the bottom of it. So I then wrapped the edge of the foam display board with black duct tape and wrapped this along the side around to the bottom. This helps the foam slip into the wood section easier. With the legs and foam in it looks like this.





Now that is what it looks like so far. I like it the way it is at the moment. However now looking at it, I think I plan to add a shelf under it to hold things like dice, templates, books and the like. Till then, here it is.

Project Blood Angels

So it has been a while since I have updated the Blood Angels. I do have another tournament this weekend and I am trying to get a new list done for that, we'll see how that goes, I am rushing through a Dev squad with Missile launchers and trying to get a Auto Cannon/Las pred done as well. However with none of that done yet and thus the army list not ready for photos I thought I would turn to some other items I have painted up for the army that won't be in this list but which I intend to use from time to time. So this week we'll look at all the diffrent Dreadnoughts the Blood Angels can use. First we have the Death Company Dread. This is the first one I have painted, I have another on the go. Both are made from the old Furioso metal kit.



Secondly we have my Librarian Dreadnought. This is made from a Forgeworld Dreadnought as well for the Force Weapon I used the Forgeworld Nemisis Dreadnought weapon. I only have one of these so far but I plan to pick two more up soon.



Next we have the traditional Furioso, again made from the old metal kit. I have two of these as well, this one is done, the other is about 95% done.



Lastly we have the Heavy Support Dreadnought. This one is made from the Venerable kit, because much like the Marines in my army that I have made sure are full of bling due to the fluff that Blood Angels take pride in the look of their armor I thought that Techmarines would take equal pride in the look of the dreads they take care of. I only have one of this kit so far, I have two old dreads that are years old and look terrible, they are fine to test lists with but will eventually be replaced with more venerables. Also in the mail right now are my Twin Linked Auto cannon arms from forge world for this guy. I plan to have 3 Rifleman dreads when it is all said and done. This guy can change both his arms out for various other types of guns.



For those keeping track I currently have 8 Dreads for my Blood Angles. I love these guys.

Project Blood Angels

Ok so the army I will be taking to the Tournament even this weekend is pictured below. Now before you look at it, this is an experiment in the extreme. The last tournament I was 2 by two points and I took 10 Assault terminators, Mephiston and Sanguinor. This time I am taking this idea even further to the absurd.

So this list is 1850 and here it is on the display board.



This army includes Mephiston.



10 Assault Terminators.



10 Assault Terminators.



8 Man Assault Squad with Rhino.



8 Man Assault Squad, with Rhino.



9 Man Assault Squad, with Rhino.



Two Sanguinary Priests. So we'll see how this works. Last touranment the only long range killing power I had was only two assault cannons on razorbacks and I did just fine, so I took this idea a bit to the extreme. I am sure this idea probably will fail as I have pushed this idea a bit far but it'll be fun to try. I have another tournament next weekend as well, so I have a totally new idea for that event that I'll show it next week.

Project Blood Angels

It has been a while since I have updated this but I have been super busy I have 2 Tournaments in 2 weeks and one of them my gaming group is running so I have had added work for that. So I have just been so busy with everything.



So here is a bit of update with a little of everything added in.



First I have posted the pics of 3 of my objective markers. I finally finished the other two, the first is the valiant last stand of a Blood Angel vs a Deff Dread.







Second is the Banner Barer attempting to keep the Banner held high, even though he is heavily wounded.











Lastly, this will be an update on the display board I was working on. Here are some shots of the large steps I was working on for the end of the road.


























And here lastly are some shots of my hand made Sangunius Statue that will be on a pedestal that I am making that'll look like it is made of some marble like stone material.











There will be more updates coming. You can see why the updates have been few and far between I have been working hard on getting this stuff done.

Project Blood Angels

Well guys, Ridvan and I went to the Warmasters Doubles Tournament. There were 54 teams, so 108 players. This is the biggest event I have ever been to. This was such a blast, so many players, so many armies. The skill of the people was just so good and the painting and modeling on some of those armies was amazing. Ridvan and I only really had 2 weeks to plan for this event which isn't a lot of time given that some plan a few months ahead. I was going because this would be my first time and I just wanted to play in a huge event. Ridvan brought his Dark Eldar and was the only Dark Eldar player out of 108 which was funny in itself. I took my Blood Angels.

Game 1 VS. Imperial Guard and Blood Angels



This game was a learning curve for Ridvan and I as we hadn't tested our armies at all. This added with some pretty below average rolls with things, like my Pred not being able to hit or kill anything. As well as the first game going a bit slow stopped us from being able to pull out anything other then an almost draw. The the funniest moment was Dark Eldar warriors charging and holding up the 'flag holder' squad which was the primary objective.



We came in at 19 points for the game, they came in at 22 so it was very close and very fun.

Game 2 VS Tau and Space Wolves

They were running with two Rune Priests both with living lightning and 4 Broadsides with Railguns so we were pretty sure the Raiders and Ravagers would die fast. However we decided that I was just going to totally rush the Tau, and force the Space Wolf player to defend the Tau player. This did work for a while and left the Dark Eldar to hold the objectives. On top of it all this mission had objectives that you placed then they scattered. We got really lucky as 2 of the objectives scattered towards our side of the table (we were playing table quarters) and on the last turn the 5th objective actually scattered onto the one Dark Eldar troop squad. We tied the secondary on this though. So we won the primary, tied the secondary and won the tertiary. This put us in really good position going into lunch break.







The first two pictures show how aggressive I was in moving my forces right into the Tau lap. The last you can see just how close the two objectives landed together and if you look hard you can see they are about an inch from the side of the board.

Game 3 VS Orks and Orks

This game was so fun. This was again hoard Orks lead by Ghazzy. This was the one army we thought we would have the most trouble with. However with Dark Eldar and Blood Angels we were able to out speed the orks who were almost all on foot. We took the game in the last turn. In fact we got the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary all in the 5th turn. Primary was kill points, we got two kill points in the last turn as the Dark Eldar were able to hit the Gretchen Mob and Gretchen Cannon Crew in one assault and end its assault on the Ork objective and in terrain which is important. This, added with fast Rhinos, and Fast skimmers let us get two more troop squads into terrain. Then our other fast vehicles were able to contest terrain which is important. So the Primary was kill points, which we were tied until turn five, the secondary was to control terrain with troop, last turn we grabbed three pieces of terrain, the orks held two which we contested. And Tertiary was hold an objective in a deployment zone, we left ours alone and the one Warrior squad was able to kill the Gretchen holding the Ork one and finish the game holding it. In one turn we went from losing the game to a total victory, we were one point from a perfect game.

Here are some pictures of the Ork Hoard.





Game 4 VS Orks and Tyranids

So we sit across the table from the Ork and Nid player and expect another hoard. Then I watch as the Nid player deploys 6 models. The Ork player deploys 40. The nid player was playing 2 Trygon Primes, a Tirvigon, a Guard unit and a bunch of Genestealers. The Ork player had 20 Shoota boyz, 10 Lootas and 750 points worth of Nob Bikers. In this one the Primary was to lose the least kill points but one of the team members had to pick that. So I took that, the Secondary was to have a unit hold a flag and tertiary was to get units into your opponents deployment zone and the Flag unit would be worth 3 points for this. This was another game that we won in the last turn. We tossed a LOT of things into the Nob Bikers and for 4 turns kept trying to use Horrorfexes and Fear the Darkness on them and Finally we were able to pin them on turn 4 and make them run on turn 5. In the last turn the Archon was able to claim the last kill point we needed to get us the win here, as well as the Bikers contested the opponents flag unit and of course turbo boosted the Warrior squads Raider with the flag into the Opponents Deployment zone to get the tertiary. So in the last turn again we pulled it off an got near perfect points for our last game. Since I was the one trying to save kill points this made for a funny point in the game where a squad of Dark Eldar Warriors stood off in front of the Nob Bikers to make sure I couldn't get charged.

So the first picture is of the army we faced.



The huge Nob Biker host.



One of the funniest moments, Dark Eldar Warriors ready to die for my Blood Angels lol.



And lastly the best thing you could ever see on the table, the HUGE nob Biker mob running in fear!



So with those games under our belts I felt we did pretty good but with 54 teams who knows where we stood. However when the smoke cleared we won best General. We were second place over all and we had the most battle points we were just behind on some of the soft scores. In fact we were only 2 points out of first place. So for our first time at the Warmaster doubles I am very proud of our team.