Sunday, June 25, 2006

3rd game...if I could call it a game.

I felt bad about this game.
Vs: Don't know his name.
Army: Space Marines.
Mission: Seek and Destroy. KILL, KILL, KILL.

Was his first game vs necrons...well, 3rd game EVER. He conceeded beginning of turn 3. He only obtained 150 points for killing one destroyer squad. I amassed about...3182 points. My list and his - 150 for the destroyers.

Well, I'm not sure about overall ending. But I only had one model not painted. :*(
Shawn won Painting, hands down. His painting skills are amazing.
He did lose his 3rd game vs. Khorne army. His dice rolling caugth up with him.

Crons VS Nids. Undead VS Xenos

Well, I just blew out a candle and the wax flew back onto my face. Thank God it didn't burn me.
Anywho

2nd Game
VS: Shawn
Army: Tyranids
Mission: Take and Hold. Must have more scoring units 12" from the center of the table. All of our units, besides our leaders, would count as scoring units.

Shawn won turn roll. I was in a good and bad position. Good news: I'll get WBB rolls almost instantly. Bad news: I would also be in assault on turn 1 if he was lucky. He was lucky.

Turn 1
The infiltrating Broodlord and his 10 genestealer retinue ran through the ruins towards my 10 squad of warriors. His gaunts ran towards my other squad of 10. Carnifex shot at my destroyers. Missed. Yay!...his broodlord and stealers assaulted my squad. Massacre from power weapon hits and rending. :*( They retreated in cover for saves. Gaunts were just 1/2 an inch away from my squad. Literally, 1/2 of an inch.

My only squad of warriors left shot the hell out of the damned dogs. [The missing 2 squads were with my deepstriking monolith. Will post an afterthought about this game at the bottom.] The destroyers killed 1/2 of a spinefist gaunt squad. Heavy destroyer actually did something by causing a wound on the fex. My wraiths and wraithlord were going to be able to assault the Zoe next turn and maybe kill synapse for him. : D


Turn 2
His shooting was pityful again. The fex did NOTHING. But nids usually has no shooting. Assault within 30 seconds. The gaunts began to tear thru my 2nd squad of warriors. My lord was not attached to the squad...[afterthought]. Many saves, only one failed. For those that don't know about gaunts, they get about 40 attacks on the charge. Which they did. But only 5 wounds. And only 1 failed armour save. : D

My WBB roll failed??? yeah, one warrior died. But my deepstriking monolith didn't arrive as well?????? DAMNIT! My Heavy destroyer caused another wound on the fex, as one of my 2 destroyer squads finished it off. The other squad began to shoot at the broodlord and his retinue. Killed about 2 stealers. His rolls sucked this time. Good for me. Assault. My wraiths and lord did one wound on the zoe. Yes, a whole wound. With 16 attacks, one wound. My lord and tomb spyder (who had pooped 2 scarabs but had diarrhea and took one wound in the process) assisted the doomed warriors. Lord and spyder killed a few things, but he got the spyder. Warriors were alive though. Yay. Stealers would be assaulting next turn.


Turn 3
He had no shooting. Assault. Stealers ran in, and by stealers, i mean his two other squads. What's that? 50 attacks with rending???...I have a rez. orb. I NEEDED THAT REZ ORB. My warriors died. Completely. So no WBB, even with that rez orb. :*( They all proceeded to gang up on my lord. Who killed 2. But no more attacks on him. The Destroyers behind him were being eyed thou...

Monolith still hasn't shown up, rolled ANOTHER one for the deep strike. 20 warriors are waiting for it. Shooting. Destroyers began to back up the assaulted lord, killing 4 more stealers. But there was no retreat for them. My wraiths killed the Zoe and assaulted the spine fists. Which they mauled and charged into the next zoe, wounded already from the Heavy Destroyer. My troop lord took a wound from a stealer squad. The other stealer squad killed the destroyer squad and smashed into the next one.


Turn 4
The Assault phase was the only phase. My wraiths cut down the remaining zoe and charged the approaching Hive Tyrant and his hive guard. The stealers cut down the remaining destroyer squad. My lord took one more wound, killed some stealers, then died from a gaunt. My wraith lord died from the Tyrant.

My Turn. MONOLITH ARRIVES! Dumps a squad of warrior which rapid fire a squad of 5 tyranid warriors to just one left. The 'lith finished up the broodlord's retinue. Assault. Phylactery = WBB roll 4. Lord stands up with one wound. 5 = 2 wounds, 6 = 3 wounds. Upon which i rolled a 6! *The organizer was watching the battle at this point, and began to sing "I get knocked down, but i get up again..."* My wraiths began to kill tyrant guards. And my lord died without inflicting one wound. Stealers began to stomp upon the robotic corpse.


Turn 5
Phase out limit = 13. I have 18 models left. He charges his remaining warrior and the free gaunt squad (who were gangbanging my troop lord) into my warrior squad that just arrived from the lith. The stealers kept on the mosh pit.

Lord goes for WBB. The mosh pit prevented it, with a roll of 3. My other squad of 10 warriors arrive and do 2 wounds to the broodlord. Two warriors go down from the warrior and gaunts.The wraiths kill another hive guard and reduce his squad to a non-scoring unit. The heavy destroyer is also dead, thx to assaulted stealers from his turn [forgot to mention...:*(].


Turn 6
Broodlord assaults my warrior squad. 4 power weapon hits. No wbb rolls, plus my heavy died and lord. PHASE OUT.


Summary: Was amazing game. had a blast and lost. : D

After thought: Pictures will be posted later.
Monolith. Troop Lord. Both could have been used in a better niche.
Monolith - deepstriking it and 20 warriors. Was either a game winner or loser. If it had arrived on turn 2, Shawn would have had NO chance of victory. But not the case.
Troop Lord - forgot to attach to squad and deny the gaunts the +1 attack bonus. :*(

Necrontyr keep the swarming greenskins at bay.



1st game at the Tournament yesterday.
Vs: Sherman. Yes, his name was Sherman. Was an EXTREMELY fun game to play.
Army: Vanilla Orks
Objective: Cleanse. Capturing a table quarter besides your own = 500 points. Capturing your opponent's = 1000 points. Only way to win.

First off, I'll clarify that to capture/control a table quarter the player must have one model in there with NO enemy models anywhere in the quarter.

Turn 1
I won turn roll. The greenskins began to drop like...orks. My gauss weaponry shook his looted tank, thusly having it to not shoot next turn. My destroyers just annihilated two squads. : D
However, my wraiths and Necron lord charged the orks, and completely killed a squad, thusly charging into the squad behind it.

On his turn, he charged just about every avalible squad into my wraiths. They died. No WBB, including lord. His trukks with Red Paint Job got an extra inch movement and zoomed towards my other lord and 2 squads of warriors. That was about it for that turn.


Turn 2
Slightly demoralized that my awesome "wraith"lord died, I just continued to mow down orks. And, to my delight, found that even his stikkbomb couldn't glance my Monolith. My destroyers hopped ontop of the center building and continued to mow down boyz.

With his War Boss and a 17 greenskin mob, he ran towards my destroyers, moving 4" up the difficult terrain. I began to worry, but laughted when his assault roll was a 2. An inch away from my squad.
His bikes drove towards my destroyers, but were also out of assault range!
: D
He did however, deposite his boyz from the trukks. Who proceeded to charge BOTH my squads. My nearby tomb spyder got scared and pooped out a squad of scarabs to help it next turn.

Turn 3
My Destroyers continued to gun down the boyz who were encrouching upon them. As my monolith continued advancing. My Heavy Destroyer missed his looted leman this time. Well, his ork armour saved his arse. My tomb spyder went to help the 2 squads entangled in combat. Well, one squad just kept saving or getting its' WBB rolls. The other was completely gone. My lord was on his own, but a warscythe, Gaze of Flame, and Phase Shifter really helped. Tomb Spyder pooped another scarab swarm and charged.

He was really dwindled in size now, around 70 orks out of his original 140 (which was more than the tyranid player, Shawn. More on him later). But he kept up his assaults. One squad of destroyers was tag-teamed by the 17 ork mob and war boss plus the remaining bikes. One destroyer survived. (Hello wbb) His other assaults went not so good. My tomb spyder bit it :*(, but lord kept killing everything in B2B with him. The remaining squad (now 13 strong thanks to lucky WBB rolls) didn't die [well, maybe one or two who would make their WBB] and kept killing the assaulting orks.

Summary: We ran out of time. Mostly due to his massive amount of movement/shooting/assaults. And it ended up as a tie. So no victory points for either of us...but a generalship score of 13 both ways! : D

On a side note: My army seems to do well in WBB rolls, the two lords excel in supporting fire power or assaults, and they do well in assaults.

PAINting...

So after about a week of finishing up my army for the tourny I attended yesterday (which I'm going to post 3 battle reports of the three games in seperate entries when i finish this one) and my family and I have to go to our lake house and, surprise!, PAINt it all day to get ready to sell...yes, pun intended.

Not fun.

Onto battle reports!

Friday, June 23, 2006

Phase Out!

So i haven't posted in some time. But have news...lots of it.
First off, had a game last night. Vs. Salamanders (The green Space Marines. : D)
Was brutal for the 5 turns we played. He killed many warriors and my destroyers. I killled tanks and immobilized his vindicator (the thing with the hull mounted demolisher cannon). My wraiths were definetly my best unit, followed by my necron lord. Wraiths killed 2 full squads, one after another and shrugged off ALL wounds with their invurnable 3+ save. Lord went and killed his FC with 2 wounds using a warscythe. He said "ok, 4+ invurnable save." I love the look when I tell my opponents it ignores ALL KINDS of saves!
However, that hull mounted demo. cannon killed the two warriors needed to get me to phase out. So I lost, but the marines will feel their loss in the morning.


Next. Tournament tomorrow. WILL post...you can hold me on that. Still need to go buy destroyer lord for my conversion and get 2000 points.

Btw, in case you've not realized...orange = necron news, red = eldar news, and grey = news.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Necrontyr and CoD

Not posted in a while. But lots of news.
First off. Last thursday, I played a game with my eldar (1500 pts.) using the new Cities of Death rules. Was an amazing game. Only a few shots were fired the first 3 turns. Many assaults and cursings of my falcon who doesn't hit anything...while his lemans kill 2 squads a turn for 2 turns...
Ended in a tie, with my fire prism and his squad of stormtroopers holding the same objective. He had to make a leadership test and got an 8...sooo close.

Next. Got lots more crons. and pictures!
Pics not of best quality, but they do. : D

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5093/anglerlord6pn.jpg
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/83/warriorsandscarabs7gg.jpg

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Lower hobby costs.

Interesting conversation today...
Cam'ron says:

argh
Cam'ron says:
40k is sooo expensive
Cam'ron says:
:*(
Wraithbored says:
what is it?
Wraithbored says:
YES
Cam'ron says:
: D
Cam'ron says:
i'm just thinking
Cam'ron says:
I have $200

Cam'ron says:
and i'm gunna spend about $120
Wraithbored says:
I was considering switching to hookers and heroin to lessen hobbie costs.





Sad...but true. On the subject of battle reports: I'm NOT gunna write one about my game vs. Tib, HOWEVER I will write one tomorrow upon what will happen tonight.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Wraith Lord

So I gots another wraith for my necron army. Which includes 3....but I've got but one model. Solution: Buy more!
Problem: Need 2 more for what i'm planning....

You see, in the Medusa V campaign (visit us.games-workshop.com for info) there is the possibility to upgrade a Necron Lord to have a wraith body. Thusly...$30 for 2 wraiths I've been proxying...and $20 for a Destroyer Lord to convert....will be freaking amazing when i'm done wit it thou.

Pictures when I get my camera fixed....It fell in the mud. While on vacation.
:*(

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

2000 and 1850. Win/Lose

2000 points. Using list seen below. : D
Vs: Arrogant 14 year old
Army: Space Marine Drop Force

Eh. I hate this person. He's annoying and constantly talking. :*(
Playing Rules of Engagement. Ended with me having 3 objectives, he only 1. I win!

Don't feel like posting battle. Was just boring.

1850 Points. List seen below.
Vs: Tib. Good friend of mine.
Army: Tyranids.

This was a VERY fun battle. It was a constant blood-bath on both sides. His biovores actually DID something...by killing my 3 Reapers on turn 2. My Exarch was then shot at by the many many devorers. 8 wounds. All deflected off his amazing 3+ Save. He then proceeded to run away.
My Wraithlord did kill 5 warriors. And my Spiders completely decimated his gaunt broods. My banshees died to his genestealers. Scorpions killed some...but got power weapon'd to death.
Will post full report tomorrow. Dinner time.

: D

To Be amazed...

A friend recently sent me these pictures of armies.

Army Lists

Now, why is it that the heart of WH 40k is the construction of the army list? Is it possibly because an army shapes there and can almost predetermine the results?

Yes.
No.

The thing I love about Eldar is the diversity of their troops. Each fills a certain niche, but combined can make a totally different style of play.

Craftworld:
Mor-Sa-Kati
The Warrior teacher
2000 Points.

HQ
Farseer- cc weapons and mind war and ghost helm: 62

Troops:
9 Scorps w/x (biting blade, crushing blow[+1 to S], w.serpent with tl* scatter laser and shuriken cannon) 311
4 Reapers w/x (fast shot and missle launcher) 196
9 Spiders w/x (hit & run, power blades, 2 spinners) 250
5 Dragons w/x (tank hunter, fire pike, meltabombs) 124

tot: 1192

Fast Attack
9 Swooping Hawks w/x (web, plasma nades, nade pack and sustain) 241

Elites
Vyper (spirit stone; shuriken cannon/scatter laser) 85
Vyper (spirit stone; shuriken cannon/scatter laser) 85
5/1 Wraithguard w/warlock (w.serpent with tl shuriken cannon and shuriken cannon) 316

tot: 486

Heavy
Fire Prism - Holo-field 140
Falcon (star cannon, spirit stones, and holo-field) 190

tot: 310





Mor-Sa-Kati
1500 Points

Hq
Farseer - cc weapon and mind war 56

Troops:
5 Scorpions w/x (biting blade, crushing blow, w.serpent with tl Scatts and shuri cann) 247
4 Reapers w/x (fast shot and ML) 196
5 Spiders w/x (hit & run, power blades, 1 spinner) 152
6 Banshees w/x (acrobatic, executioner, w.serpent with tl shuri and shuri cann) 255
5 Dragons w/x (tank hunter, fire pike, meltabombs) 124

Elites
Vyper - Shuriken cannon/Shuriken Cannon 70
Vyper - Shuriken cannon/Shuriken Cannon 70

Heavy
Fire Prism - Holo-Field 140
Falcon - Spirt/Star Cannon/Holo-Field 190

Bored...

Yeah, I'm bored. : D

Tuesday Night: 6:30-11:30ish pm. Game Night
Thursday Night: 6:30-11:30ish pm. Game Night

Mega Battle #1 (cont.'d)

Sleep over. Blog now.
Full Story...as much as I can recollect... : D

The forces of the imperium of man slowly rolled upon the dark forest. The black templars and the secondary chapter were looked upon in awe by the imperial guardsmen. Awe that their power armor was not as good compared to their multitude of chimeras and leman russ'. They were all unaware of being watched. Through their stealth suits, the Tau had been a reconaissance for the Chaos World Eaters stationed behind them. With a slight popping noise and a cackle of energy, Necron warriors emerge from nearly thin air. With a mighty roar, the chaos open fired upon the imperials. The Tau could be heard from their guns and steady communication. The deathly silent necrons slowly advanced and began to de-atomize the Marines.

Dust settled, but only for a moment. Shells from lemans, heavy bolters and lascannons crippled the alien onslaught. The ancient Phalanx tactic was good in theory, yet warriors were dropping, even the mighty Necron Lord couldn't revive them. The imperium pushed further and further, aiming at the lowly fire warriors, unable to see the stealth suits. The world bearers merely shouted louder, being open targets for the Marines.

Summery: Not much. We lost...time restraints as I stated before. Lost about 700 points out of 1000. My team mates lost around the same. The Imperium of Man lost about 700 points from their total of 3000. We had about 1000 left, in total.

Monday, June 12, 2006

No A/C ... not a fun night.

So the past week and a half, I've been in Orlando. Doing stuff. Such as Universal Studios and Disneyworld...(not my idea...). Rollercoasters were good. Along with Cirque Du Soleil. : D

Sadly, not much time for my armies though. :*(

I arrived to my house last night, looking forward to my computer, room, army, etc. Only to find out our A/C broke over our vacation. Even now, it's still pretty warm here. But it was fixed. All I wanted to do was lie down and paint, etc. Sadly, nothing....damned A/C vents.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Mega Battle #1

First 3 v 3 tonight. "Imperium of Man" vs. "Evil/Aliens." 1000 points per player. It was good, though took 2 hours to get to turn 3. IG, Black Templars, and another Space Marine Legion against Tau, Chaos, and my Necrons. First game i've used them in. : D

Relatively pleased with my performance...except I didn't deploy to the best advantages and only had one squad of Destroyers...aka....no WBB....:*(

We ended up losing due to time, but was still an amazing game. I had 15 models left. They needed to get me to 14 to phase out. : D Lucky me!

More to come....damned sleep....