Thursday 23 May 2013

Tuesday 21 May 2013








































Played Fantasy tonight down at Games Workshop, first game I’ve had of it in months! My Dark Elves allied with Tomb Kings against Chaos Warriors and Daemons with 3000pts per side. 


Ran out of time after 3 turns (all of us either hadn’t played in a while or were new to Fantasy, so wasn’t the quickest of games), at which stage we were ahead something like 750vp-550vp. Not sure when I’ll be playing Fantasy again as I’ll be distracted for a while with new Eldar, but definitely good to get my dudesmen dusted off and back on the table!








































As promised, here’s the in-game photos from Eternal Warrior. Write-up is based on memory, so may be a bit off in places.


Game 1 was Purge the Alien against Tzeentch Daemons. The amount of shooting psychic attacks was a worry, but I was able to stick with my plan, going to ground behind the defence line any time my main block of Warriors came under fire. I got a solid start when I took out 2 small units of Screamers in turn one which also got me First Blood, then was able to focus fire a unit at a time while protecting my smaller vulnerable units inside Ghost Arks. Kairos was a pain to try and deal with, so I mostly ignored him, and he eventually did more damage to himself (through miscasts, if I recall) than I did to him. 


Game 2 was Crusade (3 objectives) against Iron Warriors. Some great luck on turn one let me shoot down his Daemon Prince for First Blood and Slay the Warlord both at once. His forward Marine squad fell to mass firepower, and the one back on his objective was later hit by my Deathmarks and Despairtek popping out of the Night Scythe. If I remember it was a lucky penetrating hit from either my Annihilation Barge or Quad Gun that took out his Forgefiend, and after his Helldrake spent two turns burning down my units I managed to track him down in range of rapid-fire Gauss, Voltaic staffs and a lot of Tesla from my Barge and Night Scythe. That was when his Obliterators turned up to attack my main Warrior squad on my objective, and after a couple of rounds of combat an awful Morale Check had my squad, including my Overlord, run off the board. Fortunately I’d cleared his squad off his objective and had a small squad of Warriors parked on the central objective, and they managed to hold there and ensure I won that game.


Game 3 (no pictures of that one, I’m afraid) was Relic against a Necron air force list. I got very lucky when his Wraiths and Destroyer Lord failed the charge against my Scarabs by only 1”, and that let me catch them in the open claiming First Blood and Slay the Warlord. More lucky rolls over the course of the game meant his flyers turned up only one or two at a time, and some good shooting by my forces meant that even if they survived shots from my Quad Gun on intercept they’d be taken out in my turn by the Annihilation Barge or lucky Voltaic Staff shots. That ended in another wipe-out when I caught his last squad of Necron Warriors hiding in a building on his table edge.


Game 4 was Emperor’s Will against a Tau list with 2 Riptides and a bunch of missile Broadsides. This got messy, as his Pathfinders were able to markerlight my Warriors behind the Defence Line denying them the 2+ “Go to Ground” cover save most turns. I thought I’d run into a bit of bad luck in turn 1 when I failed to get First Blood leaving a single Pathfinder from a 5-man squad, but lucked out when he failed Morale and ran off the board. That proved to be decisive, as the brutal game ended at a victory point score of 2-1, where I had First Blood and Slay the Warlord to his Linebreaker. I’d killed off all his Troops, denying him the ability to score on his objective, but he managed to finally finish off the squad of Deathmarks that had tied up a Riptide in combat and used it to contest my objective and get Linebreaker.


So, 4 games down I’d somehow managed to go undefeated and took 1st place (out of 16 players). Now I need to decide whether I take this list down to Conflict in July, or use the new Eldar codex.

Monday 20 May 2013




































Here’s the armies that were on show for the painting competition at Eternal Warrior over the weekend. Some great-looking models there, the painting prize went to the Tzeentch Daemons army.


My ‘Crons are the third photo down (silver on the white bases). I got a chance to play against the Daemons (7th photo), Iron Warriors (9th photo), Necrons (2nd photo) as well as a Tau army not pictured here.


I’ve got another set of photos to post from my games (though unfortunately I never got any of game 3 against the Necrons).

Saturday 18 May 2013








































Got a chance to check out Common Ground Games today, a gaming store that’s opened in Stirling recently. Really nice place, with tons of space to play games.


Got in a couple of practice games against one of the other guys going to Eternal Warrior tomorrow, played against his Dark Eldar. Looks like the new list works pretty well, as I managed to table him in both games! If I can manage anything like that in tomorrow’s tournament things are looking good. Though worried about Helldrakes as I’ve heard at least two Chaos Marine armies will be there. Oh well, the current list seems decent enough, lets hope it can handle what people bring.

Wednesday 15 May 2013




































So got a practice game in with my latest tournament list last night! Didn’t go very well though. Played the scouring, and for whatever reason decided throwing my three fast attack choices straight at a Khorne Space Marine army would be clever. Turns out it wasn’t. Wraiths and Destroyer Lord died in one turn, first Scarab squad the next turn, second Scarab squad the turn after.


After that I was stuck hiding behind my defence line the rest of the game. I held out pretty well all things considered, but he was just hitting way too hard and my dice rolls fell apart. So that list is off on the scrap heap and I’m back to the drawing board.


Tournament in 3 days? I ain’t even mad >_>


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