Belgian Grand Open 2013

In the weekend of the 9th and 10th November it was Belgian Grand Open for Warhammer 40K and Fantasy! This means big business is going down! It’s the only two day event in Belgium and I love it! 2 days of wargaming and meeting new people. This year they posted the first round pairing up front. 

First Day:

This showed that I would play against Tau and Eldar. I faced Cedric, the player behind the army, on F.A.C.T.S. tourney and had a blast game. This time the psychic powers weren’t with me and he placed all his kroot up front. This meant if I assaulted him he would over watch with almost his entire army on my guys. Thanks to the support fire rule of his Tau. He brought 3 riptides with him this time. And they were a pain… I managed to kill one squad of kroot and bring two squads below half. That was it! If the terrain would had been different, IF I had other psyhic powers. Maybe then it would be difficult for Cedric but he later on went and won the Belgian Grand Open. Which he deserved of course!

Cedric ready to shoot me from the board

Second battle was also against Tau and Eldar. This time it was a more fluffly Tau / Eldar list. My biggest mistake there was that I didn’t assaulted him the second turn. Cause he could shoot at his full Balistic skill with over watch. And a lot of units surrounding my target, with the support fire rule.  Result of that mistake => no units left to assault him… I should have let my spawns assault him first. Then my second unit spawns and then my 2 sorcerers in the combat… Stupid mistake learned and noted. I did got in assault with my destroyer lord and killed his Tau Commander! Felt good!

3^rd battle was the most enjoyable of the whole weekend. Against Grey Knights, cotaez and his henchmen dudes. It started with my rolling 2 sixes a row. Making Jacky go nuts… Then I terrified his dreadknight of the board and got first blood like that. Really I felt bad already. Later on he went and locking my wraiths in combat for 3 turns. Which I could have killed, if I didn’t challenge with my destroyer lord. And the fact that he killed my Warlord. Fun rounds later it was a Draw and he called it. I enjoyed it some irritating moments on both sides but it was fun.

Day two:

I was going to face a Salamander list. This meant a lot of AP 2 shoot weapons, flamers, 2 vindicators (which could hurt me a lot if I didn’t watch out) 5 thunderhammer salamanders.  I went first turn place my aegis defence line in the half of the table. Runned up to it and tried to puppetmaster his land raider to pop a whirlwind. Sadly for me he rolled a six in denying it. I just run with the rest of the unit and then he wanted to assault me with Vulkan and the thunderhammer squad. This would have hurt me a lot if he didn’t fail it. So I charged him the next turn + shoot something first at him. And thanks my invisibility he had to hit on 5’s. This meant that we had a long combat going on. In the end it was all very tight he couldn’t shoot me from the objective, so we contested it both and I got the primary objective at home safe and sound. This meant a win for me. Had great game! Even with the 27 saving rolls he had to make for 2 guys who got a 2+ save. I only managed to get Vulkan on 1 wound. Glorious moment!

The last battle was against Darek a german player coming all the way from Germany to play with toy soldiers. He brought a list which I would have a hard time against. A Leman Russ Punished… shooting out 29 shoots a turn. Against spawns with no save… bye bye unit of spawns in round two. I did got in assault with my destroyer Lord again! (He deserved a little rest after this weekend) And my warlord also made it and killed some imperial guard troops. With master of the fleet not all my flyer arrived in time and with that he could just intercept them one by one. I ended up being tabled. After the game he told me that he encountered a similar list already so he knew what to do against mine. Ooh well lesson learned against Imperial Guard. Certinally hope the air force arrive on time next time.!

One thing is for certain the organization did a great job hosting this. The awesome swords that were given to the winners. I also liked the location; this was in the Belfort of Bruges.

Some nice Tau conversion army

The Riptide of the army

Belfort inside

Some awesome Blood Chrushers

A Female Ogre Army!

Tzeentch sorcerer on a disk

 Nurgle Lord

The score: 19th overall!

Challenge 8, Training Day 1, F.A.C.T.S. and Chaos/crons

So it’s been a month since a posted something. Living together with the girlfriend I do have some less spare time to write anything but do get some painting done. Got some paint on the chosen, built and painted a Nurgle Portalglyph,  built and got injured by a Destroyer Lord, built some extra cultists for the new list and built an extra biker lord. My spawns are there way. More worms! Thinking about painting them Red, Purple and Orange. 

Awesome Helldrake

Funny Helldrake

Imperial Guard + Space Wolves

It was Challenge 8 (28/29 September). I wanted to end up somewhere between so I took a Juggernaut lord. Something that would chew everything in assault, a Nurgle Lord with Burning brand to blaze some models from the board. 2 helldrakes for antihorde, 2 havoc squads with Autocannons & Lascannons and 4 troops. This would make a interesting day. I started with a rough match up the first battle. Screamer council and flesh hounds. Ouch… I don’t like these guys. Got a draw out of it. Then it was Tyranids with no flyrants and 2 tervigons. But some Tyrants with 3 Hive Guards and 2x 30 troops of gaunts. So even with 2 helldrakes I had some troubles… I did kill a lot of his gaunts. The two failed assaults made it in the end and he won the game. 

Dark Eldar Ravager

Lord of Change

Best Painted: Eldar

Raven Wing in action

Last battle was against spam Dark Eldar with Eldar allies for the Divination. He had first turn so he got to shoot first. Got first blood and just keep shooting my rhino’s and such dead till the game was over. That last match I knew it was over and placing somewhere in between was a thing of the past. I did get a 14/20 for my painting which made me happy and found some old school fleshhounds. I was 29^th of the 32th people who came there. Could have done better… Ooh well had 3 fun games!

Getting my asskicked by Dark Eldar

So the first training day of Team.Be, 06 Octorber ,was interesting and fun! I learned a lot with the new list: Chaos Space Marines and Necrons! Tabled a 4 riptide list, of course this was with the help of the Team.Be folks and that I could redeploy instead of facing being tabled myself. Learned some nasty tricks and some handy things with the list. So the first battle was okay. We did something wrong with the force weapon and the warp charges. But we had good time. Now I don’t fear this list anymore.

The Four Riptide List

Some more pictures

Second battle was against tau. This was also a fun and intressing game. But I think I shouldn’t have gone after one riptide will the rest of his firebase was at the other corner. Ooh well lesson learned and next time will face time on a different way.

Look Tau and Grey Knights!

 And now I’m going for a Chaos + Necrons list. It’s more of a in your face list. And I kinda like that idea. Putting pressure on your opponent first turn and hopefully roll some good powers on Telepathy chart can make a difference.

Go get that Riptide!

 ARMY PRIMARY DETACHMENT DESCRIPTION : (Chaos Space Marines)
ARMY ALLIED DETACHMENT DESCRIPTION : (Necrons)

PRIMARY DETACHMENT:
HQ1 - Warlord : Sorcerer (60p),force axe (0p), Bike (20)p, +2 psycic levels (50p), Spell familar (15p), melta bomb (5p) [150pts]
HQ2 : Sorcerer (60p), force axe (0p), Bike (20)p, +2 psycic levels (50p), Spell familar (15p), [145pts]
Troop 1 : 10 x Cultists (50p), 10 x Autopistol & CC weapons, (0p) [50pts]
Troop 2 : 10 x Cultists (50p), 10 x Autopistol & CC weapons, (0p) [50pts]
FA1: 5 Spawns (150p), 5 x Mark of Nurgle (30p) [180pts]
FA2: 5 Spawns (150p), 5 x Mark of Nurgle (30p) [180pts]
FA3: 1 Helldrake (170p), Baleflamer (0p) [170pts]
PRIMARY TOTAL [925 pts]

ALLIED DETACHMENT:
HQ1 : Destroyer lord (125p), Mindshackle scarabs (20p), Sempiternal weave (15p) [160 pts]
Troop 1 : 5 x warriors in transport 1[65p]
Troop 1 : 5 x warriors in transport 2[65p]
FA1: 6 x wraiths [210p]
HS1: 1 x Doom scythe [175p]
Transport1 : Night scythe[100pts]
Transport2 : Night scythe[100pts]
ALLIED TOTAL [875pts]

FORTIFICATION:
Aegis defence line [50p]

ARMY TOTAL [1850pts]

F.A.C.T.S.!

My girlfriend as the Tardis from Doctor Who and Darth Vader

My girlfriend and me.

Tie Fighter!!

Today (20 October), it was F.A.C.T.S tourney in Flanders Expo of Ghent. This was an experience to remember. Lots of people walking around looking at you, maybe the doctor who cosplay had something to do with it, but I had 3 fun battles. Two of which I lost but I made the first opponent sweat until the end. He later ended up winning the tournament. It was a Tau and Eldar list, a very hard list to face and going up against. Second battle was against a friend of mine. He played Orks and Tau. So that was like again TAU? But he had also a in your face list. So, that was a bit of irritating. His trukks and battlewagon were like 1 inch from my wraiths and other units. My biggest mistake was not shooting at one of his trukks in the back so that I could assault of the units. Ooh well it was a fun game and we had some epic and fun moments. Third battle was against full Necrons, not much of everything and an okay list to do in tournaments. But I kind of knew what to do and to go up against it. He did do some great saves and wounds on his turn. This made a very exciting game as well. 

The score! 5pts for army list on time! And 10/10 paining!

Black Templars

So what do we have there? A new Space Marine codex and my favorite Chapter of Crusading Zealots are in it. How do I feel about this?? First of all it made me feel sick because Black Templars and smurfs (Ultramarines) share the same codex…. On the other hand we get all the funky stuff like Riflemen dreads, Whirlwind, Sternguard… If the rumors are true…  We lose, Sword Brethren, Sword Brethren Terminators, Righteous zeal,… We will see this Saturday. But it still makes me a sad panda!!

What will I do for now? Look at the meta change from Tau / Eldar to Tau / Eldar and Space Marines. That’s for sure. So hello veterans of the long war upgrade on my plague marines. I’ll also wait before I take my Templars back to the tournament level. First I have to do some painting on those guys! I really hope Games Workshop made them okay for 6^th edition. I’m aiming to get my Black Templar force ready by summer 2014. Then the meta has settled and I know what to choose for my Black guys. First thing to do will be updating the Rhino's for the Squads, an Aegis Defence Line for the Templars, paint High Marshal Helbrecht, my Emperor Champion, more Black Templars, a Stormraven, a Stormtalon,...

Black Tide is back!

For now I’m still going to tournaments with my Chaos Space Marines. Second Helldrake has been painted. Only need some basing done. Then it’s time for some zombies, plague marines, raptors and Chaos Guard allies!

Green Templar Squad

Last weekend I joined up with Jeroen for a Double Tournament it was a blast! We ended a bit low. I blame the second match. Double Riptide and Double Wraithknight. And it was killpoint mission. So we where kinda screwed. Drop pod Space Wolves and Chimera + 2 Vendetta Guard. Hmm? I had a great day and a fun time!

First game against Dark Eldar and Orks

Destroyer Lord

Wraiths eating some guard

Second match. Lucky for us Jeroen killed one Riptide in the beginning and both Wraithknights had one wound left. They wouldn't die and I didn't roll good enough.

The other Replay team

And then a good rest after a hard day of gaming and rolling dice.