Some of the guys at the club were playing a big game of War of the Ring today.

The past few weeks a bunch of us have been showing an interest, so there’s a few new armies on the go. I’ve got plans to start a Galadhrim Elf army after Christmas.

Game system: WH40k
Scenario: The Relic / Hammer and Anvil
Points: 2500 each
Forces: Necrons vs Tau
Result: Necrons win, 5vp-1vp

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, most of my photos have just been going straight to Twitter (@RedAkhrin) without any edits.

I played Storm of Magic tonight, 2400 points (plus 600 of pacts and items) each. My Dark Elves took on High Elves who had brought Vampire Counts allies. Deployment saw me boxing up on my right flank where I had both of my Arcane Fulcrums. My opponent had his Fulcrums in opposite corners, so his deployment stretched in a line between them.

Since I’d kept my forces grouped up I was able to focus on parts of the enemy army as they got close, meaning I made short work of his left flank and was in a good position as the rest neared me. All of my success in clearing hostile Fulcrums came from shooting. My Boltthrower utterly flopped, failing to do anything all game, but the Dark Riders made up for it doing the majority of wounds against Fulcrums while my Shades and Crossbowmen helped finish them off.

Teclis was, as always, a major pain in the ass firing down countless fireballs onto my units and even obliterating one of my Sorceresses on a Fulcrum in turn one! However a solid volley of crossbow fire around turn 3 did the trick against him, the master of magic being torn apart by mundane crossbow bolts.

In the end I held 2 Arcane Fulcrums to my opponent’s 0, as well as having solid control of the battlefield resulting in a clean victory for the Druchii over the crown-stealing High Elves.

This week’s game was a bit of an epic. Eldar vs Space Marines, with 10,000 points a side on a 6ft x 8ft table. Sadly because of time constraints we had to end after 3 turns, but it was certainly destructive enough in that time.

Rather than use any of the standard missions we decided to make each table quarter an objective. Whichever team managed the most scoring or denial units in each quarter got 3vp for holding the table quarter. We also included secondary objectives of Slay the Warlord, Linebreaker and First Blood.

Victory went to the Eldar in the end, with all 3 secondary objectives and 3 quarters against the Space Marines’ one quarter and Linebreaker for a score of 12vp-4vp.

Another club night, another campaign game. And it turns out I’m still rubbish at 6th Edition!

Truth be told, this list was a lot more successful than anything I tried so far. A lot of the game came down to bad luck. The real trick now is getting enough of a grip on 6th to handle the bad luck and still win!

It was a Crusade game against Dark Eldar, and the final score was 7vp-4vp when my Deathmarks were killed contesting an objective and my Doom Scythe couldn’t finish off the Dark Eldar on an objective. My cluster of objectives was still well held, but with only one squad of Warriors left I could only claim one

Biggest problem I faced was when 3 flyers showed up in one turn, tearing apart my main squad of Warriors and Overlord as well as a squad of Immortals.

Last night I got my first game of our 40k campaign, a 2000 point game of Big Guns Never Tire where my Necrons took on an Eldar alliance. 

I won’t go into any detail, I’ll just let the fact I lost 18vp to 1vp speak for itself >_>

Regardless, enjoy the photos folks, hopefully I’ll be back with better news after next week. 

Here’s some shots from a Dark Elf vs High Elf mega-battle we fought at the club last night. Each side had 6000 points, that’s an intense 12,000 points of elves on the battlefield!

After a few turns of manoeuvring - about standard for any game of Fantasy - the two armies started to reach combat. The 90-spearman block of Dark Elves in the centre held, while the Witch Elves and Cold One Knights broke through one flank, despite heavy losses on the Wyches. When the dust settled the High Elf flank had collapsed and the Dark Elves were pushing deeply through their lines, a victory for Nagarythe!