Death From Above

zondag 8 juli 2012

Belgian Grand Open

Belgian Grand Open! A two day tournament in Wieze and the last 5th edition tournament! So how did it go? A bit meeeh! First day I lost all 3 battles. But the most fun we had was on the way to the place itself! I took my jink save with my car! Dodged a few pillars in the middle of the route. They were working on the exit of the motorway, one of my friends yelled "It's to the right!" So I looked for an entrance and hop I drove in, but there a few pillars in the middle of the route a few meters further. So yeah jink save on a 5+! Pass and then the right entrance in! Hooray for the renault clio!

Go Twin Linked Plasma gun / Lascannon Clio!!

The First battle against Eldar was with kill points and you had to divide 5stars to the army list of your opponent. I got tabled so I didn't got much Kill Points. 1 vs 22 KP! Really I understatement Eldar! Everything I shot with got strength 8. So my lascannons where now 8 except of 9. Kind of was a bummer for me + the dice gods failed me again!

Best Painted army

Descent of angels in a tin box!

This Necrons whiped the floor with me

Second battle was against Necrons! Wraith spam! I knew the result of this battle before we started. He is one of the top 3 in the Belgium ranking! I'm a bit glad I could play against him but the match up was weird. He won and I lost. So we met each other in round two. Really weird. I blame the organization for this lose! Just kidding! It was a really good and smart player. I did what I could do... shoot and hope things died! Another battle lost for me! It was time for a Duvel!! And new dice! So this will most likely be my 6th Edition dice!

Next battle was against Space Wolves! Not just any space wolves: Drop pod style and Logan wing! Also it was against a fellow Bolter and chainsword member! We met in other tournaments but it was fun to play against him! Skyrars Dark Wolves This mission was about holding objectives. 3 objectives. He landed with 2 drop pods right on them, then I shot one drop pod from it and then he deep strikes his land speeder on it! The battle was fun and sadly I couldn't contested with the lone sergeant against his Terminator Wolf Guard! Fun battle it was! I did parked my razorbacks and predator nice so he could shoot my vehicles in the behind!

Day two! A new day and we where battle ready! First battle: 3 objectives again! I played against miss/ commander Leafblower. 3 Hydra's, 2 Basilisk, 5 chimera's and then 2 vendetta's. Pfff I thought and I didn't do the right thing again! I should have moved 18inch. Popped smoke! And then when his shooting was done => full fire and assault in his vehicles! But it was a good battle. 2 predators survived AND! contested his objectives! I got mine save in the back with a home sitting squad there, behind a tree, so I got a cover save! My first win in a long time! The other one was with double teams. So that's halve the win.

Look over there!

Where!?

Samurai Ogres Are nice!

On to the next battle! Tyranids with kill points! Really? And the terrain was the size of a razorback + turret so no shooting over that. I was cursing the maker of that scenery! But it was a draw, cause we just played 4 turns and the next turn was a total loss for me. But since we both had to think which unit to shoot, to move, to have cover or to assault. Which was good for me! A fun battle! I got 8 on 10 for my army painting and scored a 13/20 for fluff quiz. Some good guess's also in there. We did have one fantasy player with us. I know he did better than me, but didn't go photo from the fantasy ranking only the 40k! Sorry folks! See you next tournament!

dinsdag 3 juli 2012

I got my Gamers Edition!

So now that's out of my system! I got my 6th Edition rulebook! I'm glad I got it! If read so much stuff about it already. And it made me wonder if it all was true! Most of it is true! I ordered this one because the handy back and the fancy dice! Also so I that I got a cool lasgun power pack I feel like an Imperial Guard now! Ooh yeah!! But first a short picture time of what If been up to lately.

We are going to play Infinity at our Local Game Store, I choose Caledonian Highland Army! A Scottish army! Ooh yeah! Grounds keeper willy there friends!

With the possible death company blood angels army's I decided to kitbash one out of a Chaos warrior legs & head, Chaos Knights torso and death company bolters and chaos space marine backpack. I end result is a bit bigger than a normal marine but looks cool in my eyes!

I'm thinking for a terminator based Templar army with Deathwing allies! HQ command squad with terminator chaplain in a land raider, Emperor champion in a drop pod unit. Thinking for two shooty squads. And then Belial in land raider crusader with some terminators. Maybe some terminator squads for the rest of points.

That explains the bleached bone terminator.

The chaos Wolves terminators are my vow for the Albion Summer Painting challenge! I taught it was a good idea to stimulate people to paint more of their army. Long live magnets!

The 2 Sanguinary Guard models are with the finished wings!

I also need to photograph my Nurgle Army for my last 5th Edition Tournament.

For my Black Templars I might consider Space Wolves also! Thunderhooves Calvary! I say also because I'm going to twilight saga with my Nurgle Angels! It fits my fluff so good!! I will wait a bit before I find a real good tactica about Blood Angels and Space Wolves and what army style to go with now. If got a feeling Terminators are back! Sanguinary Guard army / Dante Wing might also be cool. So much idea's I've got at the moment! Looking forward to my first 6th edition game!!

That are indeed some nice looking Forgeworld Packages aren't they? Well the Templar shields are for my Templar Terminators! Really nice looking stuff. The World Eater is going to be my take on Wodan (my count as Logan Grimnar) then last but not least! Space Marine Terminator Weapon set. Well also for my Chaos Wolves of course! Now where did I leave my instant mold and green stuff?