TOURNAMENT: 1K ROE Tournament Results

Finally returned to Robinson's Galleria for the 1K tournament for Warhammer 40k. Ironic since my new office is just 4 four blocks away. Unfortunately on the day of the tournament I had been out of town and totally without sleep. Still I promised I'd show up and there I went, sipping Gatorade and 2 packs of Extra joss.



So how did I fare? Well read on:

(Games were all using Rules of Engagement)

Game 1.

Opponent: Ian "Beefcake"
Army: Chaos Space Marine - (Khorne)
Result: Draw
What Happened:
16 Khorne Berzerkers in a squad is just plain nasty. Wittled one squad down to shooting and an unsupported charge by a mutant mob before my shooting units got overwhelmed by his Daemon prince and second Khorne squad.

Managed to eck out a draw when I used my second mutant mob to take one of his counters though it came close when his Khorne squad charged the Leman Russ I stupidly moved forward and almost made it into close combat.

Game 2.

Opponent: Jun Ubay
Army: Tau
Result: Draw
What Happened:
The lack of sleep was starting to take it's toll on my condition. My opponent seeing this (and because he hadn't had lunch) told me that if ever we get to fight that let's just get a draw and go find some grub. By luck would have it we indeed were matched up against each other and shook hands and declared it a draw as we went to look for grub and to the supermarket to get some Gatorade and Xtra Joss.

Game 3.

Opponent: JP "Shrumster"
Army: Imperial Guard
Result: Draw
What Happened:
The bunched up Guardsmen made a good target for the Russ's Battlecannon. My mutant mobs raced towards his lines but I decided to divert them to charge the enemy Sentinels so that I would be safe from enemy shooting and to take them all out. Unfortunately one mob got stuck the entire game trying to down 2 sentinels ( I already had 2 power fists and still it didn't go down until the last turn.

This left the game in the balance on the last turn as I had one mob on his counter and my Spawn on mine. His shooting couldn't destroy the mutant mob boss and Aspiring champion until his BattleCannon got right on target. My spawn weathered Lasgun, Plasma and Missile Fire to remain on my counter.

Good Draw game all around.

Opponent: Dick "Timberwolf"
Army: Space Wolves
Result: Minor Victory
What Happened:
I had good positioning on the counters while had the same. He unfortunately exposed his Vindicator to a Lascannon Marine denying him his protection there as it exploded due to a side hit. This allowed my Mutant mob to contest his counter for the win while my other mob did a diversionary attack on his lines

Conclusion:
There was no Game 5 for me as the effects of Gatorade and Xtra Joss started to wear off. All in all not a bad three games for me. I wonder how would I have fared if I actually got some rest. Ahh will never know :)

(for more details of the action go to the RHGC Blogspot website which can be found
here )

WH40K: Return to Galleria:

As was read in my previous post I have been well "kinda" busy in preparing my forces for the 1k ROE tournament.

I brought the following to the tourney:



HQ
The Brothers ( Gomez and Burgos )
2 Aspiring Champions
- Pfist, bolt pistol, Daemonic Speed

Troop
- Renegade Marines from one faction and another. All have united there colors to fight the imperium

Space Marine Squad Alpha
5 Chaos Space Marines w/ 3 bolters
- Lascannon and Plasma

Traitor Squad Alpha
5 Traitors w/ 3 Las Guns
-Heavy Bolter (x1); Heavy Stubber (x1);
-Frag Grenades

Traitor Squad Beta
5 Traitors w/ 3 Las Guns
-Heavy Bolter (x1); Heavy Stubber (x1);
-Frag Grenades

Mutant Mob Crusher
16 Mutants w/ Firearms, Leaping, Frag Grenades
- w/ Mutant Boss - Leaping, Pfist, Frag

Mutant Mob BloodHand
17 Mutants w/ Firearms, Leaping, Frag Grenades
- w/ Mutant Boss - Leaping, Pfist, Frag

Heavy
1 Leman Russ Battle Tank
- Battle Cannon; Hull Heavy Bolter; Heavy Bolter Sponsons

The Anointed
4 Chaos Spawn

Models in Army: 55


Total Army Cost: 1000

I have no idea how this army is going to perform. I realize that with the opponents and the armies that I would be facing it was going to be an uphill battle.

Well will see.

PAINTING: Mad rush of painting.

One of the reasons that I like to join a tournament is that it forces me to paint my seemingly too high model count armies.

I had resolved to finish painting some more figures for the 1K ROE tournament to be held on Feb 17 at Robinson's Galleria and be done by Wed. Unfortunately procrastination and the lure of Company of Heroes gaming kept me from doing any painting until Wed.

Sigh.

Well I managed to finish painting my Chaos Marine with Lascannon and touched up on some other figs. Too bad the camera appears not to be able to get a very close up shot of the model. Nuts gonna have to use the older (but better) one.



I realize that the reason why I take so long with painting is because the consistency of my paints have turned to rubber. I have to constantly coax the paint to latch on to my brush.

Well at least that's done with, of to the gaming this Saturday. I wonder how I'd do?

Finished painting:
- Chaos Space Marine with Las Cannon

Finished touching up
- Leman Russ's Sponsoons (this thing still needs to have a Heavy Stubber attached)
- Based 4 Chaos Space Marines
- Added Details to the 2 Aspiring Champions
- Had one Traitor Soldier whose ammo drum was broken off and I could'nt find it. Just touched up the exposed part of the model.

TO DO:
- Once the gaming is over I need to Varnish the models which I resolve to do after the tournament as there is no more time left.

GENERAL: Another start

Well here it is, yet another blog for me to write on. Not that my writing has gotten any better as I age. Still this blog shall serve my own purposes. That is to finally log all the stuff that I need to finish assembling and painting (which are basically miniatures(figurines) for Games Workshop's games.

I have so many half started projects that I don't know where to start. I keep leaving something unfinished before i jump into another project. First I need to get organized again, unfortunately I think I have too much stuff to be able to just dump them in one part of the room. That or the game boxes are just to damn big and i need to replace them with something smaller.

Will need to do inventory of all my stuff again, then prioritize what needs to be finished.

Blegh. I'm beginning to dread it already.