Another strange list..

So tomorrow is another league night. I will most likely be playing mechdar or deathwing. Either one does not sound like fun, so I might run something completely unorthodox and be an easy win for someone!

HQ: Warboss; Bike, pk, squig, cybork, bosspole
HQ: Wazdakka

Troop: 8 Bikers, nob w/PK&BP
Troop: 30 shootas, 3x rokkit, nob w/PK&BP
Troop: same 7 nob bikers

Elite: 11 lootas
Elite: 11 lootas

Heavy: 3 lobbas, 3x ammo runt

Lots of speed, lots of shooting @18". The idea with this is control. Control range, control areas of the board, control assaults. Use my speed and firepower to keep the game going as I want. No idea if any of it will work, but I'll be running all over the place trying! Either that, or I'll run the same list I did last week.

Also finished my grots. I now hae 33 grots, 4 ammo runs, 1 grot oiler and one grot orderly plus 2 runtherds. I should have enough to run a unit plus a couple units of big guns.

More Nob Bikers..

Finished my 8th Nob Biker tonight, the one with just a big choppa. So I thought I'd get them all out, hit them with some dul-coat and take some pics. What can I say, I'm really liking Nob Bikers.




Also a couple pics of my last two, the kombi-skorchas..one with PK one with BC.





Also did 5 of my 10 grots for the April Freebootaz challenge. Just need flock. Using the wash technique they go so fast!

A bit of fun for the night..

Last night I was painting and my daughter asked if she could paint. It was too late, but tonight I got out some guardsmen that was in my Tau army when I bought it. I tried to help them out a bit but basically just let them go and have fun. Recorded some of it on video too. was a fun and relaxing evening.

Rock, papper, scissors..

Sometimes 40k can come down to matchups. Some armies play well or have weaknesses against certain builds.

Last night I got to come up against what I would call the "nightmare" build vs my army: Grey Knights with all Purifiers. Purifiers, if you don't know, have a power "cleansing flame" that every model in the combat with them takes a wound on 4+ before combat begins. Not models in base contact, but all models...and the wounds count toward combat res!

I can't think of anything worse for Ork Boys. Even though I played a smart as I could, I still could not avoid getting boys stuck in. It basically only happened once but that was still enough to kill 11 out of 18 boys in the combat. I knew I had whittled down the unit enough to wipe them out, which I did, but it was at a heavy price. Purifiers are guys that MUST be shot not assaulted!

Combined with massive psycannon shooting really took a toll on the boys. Against the poison-heavy Dark Eldar at least I can still get in assault with whatever boys remain and have a darn good chance of winning..not so much against Purifiers.

I think I actually got distracted by spending too much time worrying about controlling assaults. The psybolt-ammo rifleman was a big problem against the nob bikers with those S8 shots..I should have shot that first, before the rhinos, because it did a good deal of damage. I only blew it up after Nobs were already in assault.

Paladins also present a problem. The thing is though, Orks is pretty much the only army that will have a problem with them. Anyone able to pack melta or lascannon fire won't be worried about them at all, so hopefully we won't be seeing them all that often.

What's better then Nob Bikers?

More nob bikers!

I'm taking the 1500pt list I played in the tournament and adding 2 more nob bikers and more lootas. I had a few points left over, so I added a runtherd to the lobbas. 1750pts, 8 killpoints. Love it.

So I'll see how things goes. Here is the 1750 list:

HQ: Warboss, pk, squig, cybork, bike
HQ: Mek, KFF, burna, cybork

Troop: 7 nob bikers, all with stikkbombz and cyborks
1: Pk
2: Pk, bosspole
3: Pk, kombi-skorcha,
4: painboy, Orderly
5: wagh! banner, big choppa
6: big choppa, kombi-skorcha
7: Slugga/choppa
Troop: 30 Shootas, 3x rokkit, nob w/PK&BP
Troop: 30 Shootas, 3x rokkit, nob w/PK&BP

Elite: 12 lootas
Elite: 13 lootas

Heavy: 3x Lobba, 3x ammo runts, 1x extra crew, runtherd

Yay I got in a game of Fantasy!

Went over to Western Oregon Wargamers Sunday for Ordo's fantasy game night. I have not been there in a while, but I felt like dusting off the Vampire Counts.

Only played 1250, which is a strange point level for WFB but it was still a lot of fun.

I got to watch a couple games going on before I played.

My list was:

Lord: Vampire Lord; Lord of the dead; Flayed Hauberk, tomb blade, helm of commandment

Hero: Necromancer, +1 spell, nightmare shroud, dispel scroll (Nehek, vanhel's)

Core: 15 Crypt Ghouls; crypt ghast
Core: 15 Crypt Ghouls; crypt ghast
Core: 19 Skeleton warriors, full command, banner of hellfire
Core: 3xBat swarm bases

Special: 18 grave guard, full command, banner of barrows

I played vs a goblin list with 2 big blocks of goblins, a combat lord, a shaman, and a hero BSB, and one of the new spiders.

I continue to forget about my banner of barrows. For like 3 or 4 combat rounds I forgot not only to use it (I would have been hitting on 2's with re-rolls) but also forgot about the re-rolls from vanhels! lol. By then it was too late as 1 unit of ghouls and my grave guard had been ground down by the spider.

One epic fail was near the end. I had just the ghast left against the spider and one unit of goblins. I got off 3 neheks and rolled a 1 for all 3! sigh.

In the end I was able to charge and wipe out the unit of goblins with the lord and bsb, giving me a narrow 800-675pt win.

It was a great game. I really, really like the VC magic phase able to cast over and over again. Having the 2nd caster was a huge benefit.

SMA Contest is going on again!

Last year I entered a Vendetta in a contest at Scale model addict. Didn't win, but I get a random prize of some nice airbrush paints for military models.

Well It's starting again, today in fact, and ends in 2 months. I'm thinking about looking a tank kit I have into a wartraxx.

We'll see.