Friday 25 January 2013

well, it was an extremely close game vs blob guard. i made a huge mistake by not realising that you can disembark from scythes at over 6". However, the super robots stil pulled out a sneaky win.

I love the use of Obyron and 2 more veilteks; it just gives so much more flexibility and i like the jumpy jumpy concept and I think this will gorm the base of my list.

I also need to kill damn aegis lines first. Overall though I am happy with the basics.
Will post an updated list when i have worked something out

Thursday 24 January 2013

Tried the list noted below yesterday for my first game ever with or against the new 'crons against my friend's Nid army.

Turn one and two went extremely well but everything started to fail a little and had a horrific turn 3.

Won quite convincingly overall though... I LOVE jumpy shenanigans and the particle tomb blades- awesomesauce, particularly when twin-linked!

I struggle with killing 2+ armour though so I am going to change stuff about a little.

I have a 1750 game against a good friend at our new FLGS in Bristol (the awesome Vanguard Wargaming) tonight either against guard or Dark Eldar.

We are playing using the comp rules from Bristol Vanguard's Vanquish tournament. I am taking:

Obyron/Zandrekh
Court with resorb lord and veiltek

Stalker (maybe 2)

10 Tesla immortals (night scythe)
10 Guass Immortals (night Scythe)
20 Warriors

5 Particle blades

2 Annihilation barges

Will update

Wednesday 23 January 2013

Quick update post-exams.

With 5 nearly fully painted armies available for the Storm of Iron tounament in less than a month, I have decided to ignore those and paint a completely new army. 

This image has sparked an idea for me; I am going to paint a 3000 point necron army a stage at a time, using primarily weathering and an airbrush

Some good points, some bad but I think I can get the technique working after my clover lid tester^.

Anyway, off for a game now. Trying out a funky jumpy 2k list.

Zandrekh
Obyron
Veiltek
Resorb Lord

triach stalker
Triarch Stalker

10 Tesla immortals, Scythe
10 Guass Immortals, Scythe
20 Warriors
10 Warriors

5 Tomb Blades, mini-missiles

Annihilation Barge
Annihilation Barge
Annihilation Barge

Against my friend's Nids. Will update how it goes

Tuesday 15 January 2013

It's official! Examinations are horrific!

I have one more on Thursday then I am away for the weekend.

After that I am tempted to see if I can get a full 3k army painted in a 2 week period alongside full-time study.

If I go for it, it will be necrons. I am thinking of painting with 80% airbrush/weathering with hairspray and see how it goes.

Will post more if and when I officially decide. Watch this space

Tuesday 8 January 2013

I am not ignoring this new blog; I have exams this week and next week and my life has been consumed! Will update when I can. I am having 1 week of solid hobby (and the occasional lecture) after exams.

Friday 4 January 2013

To do list of everything! 

Numbers next to the models mark priority. 1= high, 5 = low. This is based on what I need for tournaments/games etc

Chaos Marines: 

Characters:
Horus 4
Dark Apostle 4
FW sorceror 2
Dark Ven Sorceror 2
Jugger Lord 3
Slaanesh mounted lord 4
Nurgle Lord on bike 2
Chaos Lord in power Armour 4
Nurgle Deamon Prince 4
Converted flying Lord 4

Elites:
15 Rogue trader/2nd Edition Plague marines 4
10 RT/2nd Ed Noise Marines 4
9 Thousand Sons (alt company) 4
Word Bearer Terminators 5

Troops:
90! Plague Zombies 1
40 Cultists 4

Fast attack:
20 Bikes (i'll get a pic up of these at some stage) 2
2 Helldrakes 1

Heavy Support
2x 5 havoks with autocannons 2
3 obliterators 2

Eldar:

Characters:
Fuegan 1

Elites:
20 Harlequins 1

Troops
12 jetbikes (will be using DE jetbikes for this)
10 more guardians

Fast:
-

Heavy:
3 More War Walkers


Grey Knights

HQ:
Draigo counts- as (emp of Man!) 4
Coteaz Counts- as 4
 3 more inquisitors 4
Terminator Inquisitor 4
Crowe 4

Elite:
30 Purifiers/Strikes 5

Troops:
Henchman squad 1 - ranged 4
Henchman squad 2 - ranged 4
Henchmen squad 3 - CC 4
10 Scibor Custodes Paladins 3

Heavy: 
Counts-as Dreadknight 4

 Deamon allies

Ultraforge bloodthirster
Lord of Change
The Masque 1
The Blue Scribes
9 Flamers 1
20 Pink Horrors 3
10 Plaguebearers 2
8 Screamers1


 So, my current priority list is as follows:
 90! Plague Zombies
2 Helldrakes
Fuegan
20 Harlequins
The Masque
9 Flamers
8 Screamers


 If I paint the above, I have working, relatively competitive armies for Eldar and CSM. I'll update with progress. Now, sadly, back to revision!
 

The great power of to-do lists AKA Me trying to actually finish stuff!

I have collected models for this ridiculous hobby for 23 years and have accumulated an absolute tonne of stuff despite regular Ebay purges. I have accepted that I switch from project to project frequently and will, if I continue like I am at present, probably never have a fully painted army I am happy with. I like to have everything, for every list, in high numbers just in case I need them for a fully painted, 10k-a-side, Apocalypse game in front of cheering super-models (none of these elements will, sadly, come to frution!). I remember an article in Jervis' ramblings a year or so in White Dwarf about the 'Collecting' side of the hobby and this is certainly one of my 'pulls' with wargaming. I guess my parents starved me of toys when I was younger...

I also enjoy switching lists about and, particularly with the invention of allies, end up painting things from a variety of different armies at different times. The result of this is I always feel a little sadfaced about my hobby when I look at my bits and pieces; nothing is finished and it feels like nothing is going to be finished!

On top of this, I seem to 'waste' an awful lot of time thinking  about doing hobby stuff rather than actually doing it. I can happily spend hours devising weird and whacky conversions and picturing the precise paint scheme my next unit will be splattered with. However, despite having a LOT of ideas, very little gets done.

Before I begin to explain my attempt to combat the above issues, I also feel that being realistic is also important. Retraining as a lawyer does not allow much spare time for geeking around so I am looking at a few hours per week on average. Also, I am not expecting to finish everything by next week; this is planned to be a long task that achieves my goal: to have some finished stuff.

THE PLAN

My plan is to organise and best-exploit my hobbytime with the use of prioritised to-do lists. I am not a particularly organised person and actually using these in real-life situations has allowed me to get more organised and, to a limited extend at least, sort myself out. The same must happen with my hobby if I use the same idea.... Right?

To-do lists seem such a simple idea but if you're like me and typically write nothing down, they can be really useful.

I am going to ignore my Fantasy armies for now as I have yet to play a game of 8th Edition so it would be a waste of time.

In terms of 40k armies, I have:

Chaos Marines: Tonnes of the stuff. I have about 4k painted and another 5k or so unpainted.

Eldar: Quite a bit, mostly painted to an acceptable standard. Not quite finished

Grey Knights: Unpainted except one henchman squad

Space Marines/Dark Angels: about half painted by the friend I traded them from.

Necrons: Still boxed

Deamons: Allies - all unpainted

Dark Eldar: Allies - all unpainted

The list

On the Overlord's Facebook group (awesome podcast), members have monthly hobby goals to adhere to. This is really what got me thinking about how to best reoganise my hobby time and it's the basis for this idea...

Whilst I am going to structure my to-do-list by priority rather than time, it still follows essentially the same idea.

My first priority/cut-off date is a tournament I am attending on 20th February. I am stil unsure what I want to take and could get various armies ready for this.
Yesterday, I was casually revising incorporation of terms into an employment contract for my exam next week, when a good friend asked if I 'needed' a SM/DA army.

Now, with 5 armies to paint at the moment, the thing I needed least in the world was another army.

However, these just appeared. No idea how they got there. Apologies for the burry 2nd pic - camera died but you get the idea!)



After nearly 2 years of being in a box, I finally managed to get my Scibor Custodes Paladins with the Big Man assembled.

Love the models even if they are a tad static.





Wednesday 2 January 2013

Can this possibly work?

I can do it if I get the harlequins painted. Rest are already done...

Eldrad (fortune both harlequin units)
Fuegan (with rangers on bastion top w/ quad gun (2+ cover)

Farseer: Jetbike, Runes of witnessing, Fortune
5 man jetlock council, embolden, enhance, 3 x destructor

8 harlequins
Deathjester (I love the model)
Shadowseer
All kisses

8 Harlequins
Shadowseer
All kisses

3 jetbikes
3 jetbikes
3 jetbikes
5 rangers

Bastion with quad gun

 Dark Eldar Allies:

Vect
10 Warriors w/ cannon

Low on troops but potentially hideous. 4+ sieze, horrible dual fortuned harquins, 1 unit with preferred enemy. Everything else either 2+ or 3/4+ rerollable saves. Awesome fuegan with 2+ cover (does stealth get passed on? Will have to check) shooting gun with ignore cover + tank hunters.


I will also be using Twitter (once I work out how it works) @nerdophobe . Please follow if you use such online modern gizmos.
In the interests of not shunning the imperium, here is my painted Henchmen unit. I love weird and whacky models.



This is what I have to look forward to painting next. I am considering giving the technique here a try:

Zombie Painting Link on youtube

The results look pretty good and it's quick.

Otherwise this lot may take a while! 80 zombies using Mantic zombies + corporation marines


I will try to get a selection of pictures up over the next few weeks and keep updating them as I can.

I have examinations coming up soon so most of my time will be spend revising until the end of January. After that, I have a massive modelling to-do list.

First up, some of my Word Bearers




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I have a tournament in February and I am currently thinking about potential lists to bring.

I want something slightly unusual that can handle most of the current meta if used correctly. This is, however, the first tournament I have attended for about 5 years so I will probably get smashed anyways!

1 possible combo is CSM/Deamons:

Kharn

8 berserkers, banner, fist
8 berserkers, banner, fist
9 CSM, MoK, Banner, Fist

Landraider - Dirge caster, Dozer
Landraider - Dirge caster, Dozer
Landraider - Dirge caster, Dozer

The Masque
9 Flamers
5 Plaguebearers
8 Screamers

I also have all the CSM stuff in the above list painted which is a massive bonus. No idea how it will work though. Balance seems to be the new black in 6th edition but 3 Landraiders is still 3 landraiders and it will definitely cause some people headaches
In the interests of completeness, my current armies are as follows:

40k:

HUGE Csm army
Large eldar army
Small deamon army (primarily allies)
Large Grey Knights army
Still boxed Necron army

Fantasy:
Vampires army
Still boxed Avatars of War Chaos Army

However, one of my favourite past-times is scouring forums for trades so the above lists are liable to change at any moment!
I have recently started following some random 40k-related blogs... Despite never having an interest in this new-fangled blogging game before, I have decided to take the proverbial plunge and see where it takes me.

I have played 40k and, to a limited extend, Fantasy since 1990 on and off. I consider myself somewhat unusual in that I enjoy all aspects of the hobby in equal measure from kit-bashing and painting to list-building and gaming with a smattering of fluff-bunny exploits thrown in the pot.

I do not consider myself a great modeller, painter or gamer but do consider myself about average in all three of these areas.

My biggest problem, and one I hope blogging my help fix, I keeping focused on a probject and avoiding getting "Squirilled" (Up^) by the newest shinies to come about.