Shadows of the Warp and Painting connundrum

The Shadows of the WARP campaign closed last October.. had finished 2 more games with one opponent being Tyranids and the last one against Dark Eldar.

I was able to wipe out the Tyranid player but got a draw with the Dark Eldar. I was actually in the running to win after the 3rd game but i don't mind losing to the DE (still using the old 3rd ed codex). My only gripe really was that I had to wait for 2 hours for him to show up and the wife was getting pissed because I was going to be late.

After reviewing it I agree with another players assesment. I did not want to get a bye from the game since that would have made me auto win the league (Winning on a bye on the last round just makes me feel dirty inside) But at least I should have fought the 5th person that was in the running so I can get that critical game in oh well thats that.

In Painting News...

After that event my planned painting run puttered out.. Since I don't like having to pay for painting I have done the next best thing and have my wife paint some of the army while she's at home to avoid her being bored :D

I get to play and field a painted army.. what a win win :)

GAMING: Shadows of the Warp event - Game 1 and Game 2

Well two weeks have gone by for Shadows of the Warp tournament at the bunker. It's a rehashed 40k in 40 minutes type of format for the 5th edition setting so that the newbies can have a chance at playing with the old blood people like us who haven't out grown our toys :P

So let's see what happened:

Game 1 vs Space Wolves (Kent)
Lightning Raid vs BridgeHead
 -- what he had.
2 Long Fang units ( one with 5(!!) Heavy Bolters ) the other with 4 ML
1 ten man Grey Hunter Unit with Rhino

What happened:
- Seeing the Killa Kans he made the mistake of placing them all nice and tightly packed in a single tower with his Heavy Bolters set up at his end of the deployment zone and the grey hunters in there rhino on his right side.

I hate L deployments. I just had both boy units at the far ends of each L tip with the Kans on the edges. Lootas where at the back. inside terrain.

First turn I manage to whittle down the ML squad with a lot of Grotzooka shots.leaving only 2 left. (It still managed to blow up one of the kans though :( ) And I wiped it out to shoota fire the next turn. The Shoota Boy squad on my left was getting hammered by HB fire from the LF while the grots were sneakily creeping forward. Managed to blow up the Rhino that decided to expose itself with Loota Fire but the boyz on the left were not in charge range and proceeded to be pummelled. They managed to survive the fire when the other kan came in and ground the grey hunter unit (thought its Krak grenades were managing to shake the kan)

The Long Fangs got a taste of Loota fire and eventually ran from the table just as the grots were about to be in shooting range. That was satisfying :D



Game 2 vs Space Wolves (Felix) -- hmm I'm detecting a pattern here
Firebase vs FootHold
-- what he had
1 Long Fang Unit ( one with 4 ML ) w/ WG
1 Grey hunter unit (10 man) w/ WG and Razorback
1 Sky Claw unit ( 5 man)
7 Wolf Scouts  w/ WG

What happened:
Yet another L deployment. I had the Lootas at the Center of the L and once again the boys on either end with the Kans at the tips and the grots in front of the exposed boyz.

I could have just kept within inside my deployment and away from line of sight of his long fangs.. but decided what the hey.. lets make it interesting.. that would be my biggest mistake of this game :P


 My shooting was excellent the first 2 turns. Managing to cause casualties on the LF squad and Sky Claw squad.

It started to turn though when I did not finish of the 2 remaining Claws in combat and tried to shoot at the Long Fangs causing grief to my Kans. That and the arrival of the Wolf Scouts at the back that proceeded to assault the ork boy squad on the left and grind them down.. they kept making there saves and my nob failed to hit or wound with his klaw for 8 combat phases.. sigh. the scouts would eventually wipe them out and reach one of my objectives. The GH squad meanwhile after finally wiping out the boyz on the right didnt make it to the other objective. So it was a draw.

I really got to think more before I start gaming.. that and yes this time I need to take a video or pictures :D

MODELLING: Spray Bombed some Orks and finally painted after three years

Managed to finally finishing assembling, basing and spray bombing the 500 point orks that I have in preparation for the mini tournament tomorrow. It's 500 points for 4 weeks. This finally gives me the push to start on the orks.. Now that I have them spray bombed comes what I have dreading.. Looking at my paints and see what has turned to lumps of acryclic and what can still be slavagable. Ugh.

In line with the need for new paints I have managed to get 1500 in the model fund after selling off the Metal Furies (at a loss) good ol JojoBrets. His ship finally came in and he should be in the country until December. That should give us time to actually have a game of 8th Ed Fantasy.. assuming I can get army builder to work again in time :P

I was able to actually paint another figure -- Obis Scout Missile Launcher which he had left to me three years ago for me to finish painting.. I must say I was impressed with the PP paints. at least they were still consistent, not gunky and hell of a lot cheaper than the GW ones.. With the money I got from selling of my figs I might be able to justify myself in buying new paints at Fortress.. stay tuned :)

MODEL FUND: What the were did it go?

I had amassed a good enough stash for me to be able to buy the new Fantasy 8th ed box set for October. Sadly with the wife coming over and a couple of vacations.. I had used the Model Fund as my contingency fund.

I have zero cash saved over the for buying new figures : ( oh well.. Guess my birthday present will have to wait by in 2 more months then.

500 point Ork Army List

Finally managed to get in a list for the 500 point gaming: Let's see if I can finish painting them all in one week :D (Gotta find all of the models first though)

Ork Boyz #1					165
	20 - Shootas 2big shootas 1 nob with claw
Ork Boyz #2
	20 - Shootas 2big shootas				130
Gretchin squad
	10 Gretchin 1 slaver				40
Lootas	5	Lootas			75
Killa Kan		Grotzooka			45
Killa Kan		Grotzooka			45

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                                                                                           500

500 Point League /Tournament at the Bunker

The Rolling Hills Gaming Club will be holding a 500 point tournaent/league every Tuesday of September all the way to October starting on the 14th. This will give a chance for the new blood to start getting used to the gaming and fighting the "veterans"

This also gives me a chance to be able to start painting a slew more orks that I still have NOT yet painted (hey what else is new) . I just need to create myself an armylist and from there start gathering the models, and then base and paint them all (most of them are probably assembled already - just a matter of finding them)

I will not use any of the existing models that I have painted (the few and far between ones) so that I get to force myself to paint some new stuff.. Now all I need is to get army builder up and running (or else heaven forbid I result to pen and papper *shudder) ... Still time is running out.. Will see :)

TIME FLIES AGAIN this 2010

Well with the misis arriving first week of July there has been absolutely nothing new regarding the painting modelling side. I just got lazy trying to wade through the different stuff strewn at the room for me to get back into even modelling.. though I did manage to finish assembling the killa kans (finally)

The wife would be leaving this end of August. This may give me the time to go back to assembling AND actually painting something.

Of course... I need to hurry up and finish something soon. After all she might be home earlier than expected this December =)

GAMING: Battle with Garrboi at the Bunker on a Friday Night

Was pumped up and excited to finally get to face cranky man garrboi -- of all close to 10 years that I have met him we never had a single game :P.

He surprised me with playing his 4e Plague Marine Friendly List. No worries he did not max it up or anything but he did have a nasty surprise in some of those units.

I had:

Warboss - PK, Heavy Armor
Big Mek - KFF
10 Lootas
8 Tank Bustas
Nob Mob - 6 Nobs in HA- 2 PK 1 Warbanner, 1 PainBoy
   w/ Trukk
Ork Boyz   - 20 with 2 Big Shoota
Ork Boyz  - 20 with 2 Big Shoota
Ork Boyz - 11 w/ Nob Pklaw
   w/ Trukk
Ork Boyz - 10 with Big Shoota
  w/ Trukk
Killa Kanz - 3 with Big shoota
Killa Kanz - 3 with Grot Zooka


What he Had
Chaos Lord with Mark of Nurgle and Man Reaper
7 Chosen w/ Champ Pklaw. flamer Melta
   w/ Rhino
7 Plague Marine with Champ - Klaw, Melta, Flamer
   w/ Rhino
7 Plague Marine with Champ - Klaw, Melta, Flamer
   w/ Rhino
7 Plague Marine with Champ - Klaw, Melta, Flamer
   w/ Rhino
7 Plague Marine with Champ - Klaw, Melta, Flamer
   w/ Rhino
Predator - with Mutated Hull, Twin Lascan, Lascan sponsoons


He had other stuff that I had forgotten what .


GAME PLAY:

He did a refused flank and sent his Rhinos to his Right Flank with his Predator the only thing not moving so that it can take shots at my Grotzooka Kans.  It would finally blow up when it exposed its flank to my Lootas when it was shooting at my Kans on the right flank to support the Death Guard that was there.


He had disembarked his Marines from there Rhinos and proceeded to double tap there bolters and flamer my boyz but there were enough boyz for them to remain fearless. 2 squad of boyz jumped on one unit of  Death Guard while my Nob squad with Warboss jumped up and down on another squad.


Garrboi finally understood what I meant when I said I just had to roll buckets of dice with this army. Literally.


We just kept throwing units on the right flank. He had killed the 2 units of boyz on the left but then my Nobz wiped out one plague marine squad before it got jumped by the Chaos Lord and the Chosen. He managed to kill my Warboss but then the rest of the nobz wiped out him and his squad. This is where Garr conceded the game.

Wacky Moments.
 - Tank Bustas blow up the rhino.. making it explode with a 6 inch kill radius.. killing a bunch of boyz
 - Rhino Rams Trukk.. blows it up exploding and taking out more orks (this is turning into a pattern)

It was good quick game. Got to finish painting all of them :P

GENERAL: Where Time Flys and Games in

Well instead of what I was expecting it looks like after the Gladiator Cup I decided to go into hiding again :P

Managed to play a game with Obi as he tests out his new Ork List at the bunker last Tuesday. Which gave me the impetus to start assembling the Ork Killa Kans that I just got.

Speaking of which I am trying to get the angry old man himself.. garrboi for a game. Gotta dismiss the "mega time-warp slowness" that he keeps saying how I play. It's all because of the orks I tell him. Maybe that will give me more impetus to assemble stuff in and finish em :)

The heat was unbearable but perfect for painting.. too bad all my paint has just dried up :P

GLADIATOR 2010 - REPORTS: Game 5 to 7

VS LUCAS (DARK ELDAR) - Win

- Lucas had his neat raider army with those upgrades that reduced the range of my shooting guns at him. He had boxed himself into a corner of the board shooting pot shots at my army. He was too late to get out of the box as I got to close and I started shooting down his raiders with Shoota and Big Shoota Fire. I had enough models left after flinging them off on the first wave to seal the massacre.

VS DONNEL (SPACE WOLVES) - Lose

- My first time fighting the new and improved Space Wolves took me by surprise.. Donnel had taken a shoot counter-attack army with lots of Rhinos Razorbacks and Long Fangs. My BattleWagon and Looted Wagon got gutted early on and my attempt to rush his army failed as his Wolf Scouts came out and took out the trukks.

My Warboss legged it off the battlefield as his 19 strong unit got wiped out by shooting except for the nob. I have to remember not to deploy my armor in the middle of the field when there are a log of Heavy  Support

I did manage to wipe out one unit of Long Fangs to shoota fire though.. and the other Long Fang unit finally got creamed by a very Angry Mega Armor Nob. Still he managed to kill everything in my army except one immobilized trukk and half a squad of Lottas.. oh well..

VS CLARENCE (Blood Angelos) Win.

- This had its high and low moments again. My Warboss unit once again disembarked to try to assault over-charged engine rhinos managing to stun, immobilize and weapon destroy it (this will be common theme in my quest to destroy the rhinos) and got to be in front of two Baal Predators. The Single Nob left got its revenge by blowing it up with his PowerKlaw and the Warboss killed some marines but got killed by a drop pod stormbolter. The Burna Boyz also just got annihilated by shooting and the Mega Armor nobz bounced off the Death Company.

There were some good moments though. My boyz in there truck managed to kill one dreadnought before being countercharged, a shoota boy unit managed to damage the other baal predator and the lootas managed to survive the whole game and another shoota boy unit killed off the death company and Corbulo.
My luckiest unit for the match would be the Rokkit boyz again.. they got assaulted by another drop podding dreadnought but was able to defeat it in hand to hand combat.

In the end it was close.. Managed to eck out a win by 35 points.


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And with that there goes the Gladiator Gaming. Managed to get a respectible 52 points with 7 total games. 5 wins and 2 losses. Here's to the next tournament :)

GLADIATOR 2010 - REPORTS - DPAUL (TYRANID Fight)

Week 4 against DPAUL (Tyranids)

Well the winning streak had to end.. After much delay I got the chance to fight dpaul and  his 6 Carnifex Shooty Army from hell Carni List.

My Heavy Hitters managed to slam his Heavy Carnifex but the Mega Nobz bounced off and the Ork unit with the WarBoss got dakkad to death before the WarBoss got split in half with a Tyrant.. Sigh.. Dang high toughness low Armor save units :P

Talk about Waves breaking on the surf.

Lessons learned - delay the assault, seriously consider putting Nobz with Power Klaws in the shoota lists just to make Heavy Assault units pause into thinking of actually assaulting me

GLADIATOR - 40k Game versus Sunny (TYRANIDS)

Finally got my first Game for the Gladiator and it was against Sunny and his Tyranids with his Gaunts that had without number.

It was a long game - it took 4 hours for us to just finish it. I actually outnumbered the orks 2 to 1 in this game but lost my heavy hitters in the first 2 turns do to failed leadership checks (I knew I should have  gotten that boss pole)

Still Killing of his Hive Tyrant with lots of Ork Shoota action more than made up for it.

GENERAL: Almost Lost my Mind

I was looking for the objective markers that I had made for my Lost and the Damned Army when I started digging through my models.. and found legions of unpainted models and half done armies... I almost lost my mind there just before I was able to throw them all back in their boxes...

Man I need to get rid of some extra stuff and start focusing on just one army at a time..  And I hadn't even begun to look at the Fantasy stuff that I still have.

Must focus.

GLADIATOR 2010 - REPORTS

Well week 3 is finally over and surprisingly I have won all three games so far against the heavy hitters in alabang with a combination of good luck on my part and bad luck from my opponents.

WEEK 1 - Sunny (Nids)

• Battled out Sunny and his Beautiful Psychic Scream Tyranid Army. That was a long game of 3 hours as he had three units of Gaunts that had Without Number constantly coming back. Highlights of that game include
• Killed off two Scream Zoanthropes with a turn 1 charge. Killed off the Hive Tyrant with shoota fire
• Warboss fails his leadership check due to shooting.. never comes back again..
• Burna Boyz do there thing all over again and toast gaunts and stealers and too the last wound of a Carnifex.. sadly the last turn I got too overconfident, charged the remaining Zoanthrope.. I lose combat and off they went
• Mega Armor Nobz needed to kill the Carnifex with a couple of 2+ to wounds.. I roll nothing but ones.. Nobz run away never to come back..

WEEK 2 Freddie (Guard)

• I was just trying to eck out a draw on this one. Being shot at by guard is no fun thing.. Interestingly I managed to NOT fail a single leadership check by turn 2 even as hugged the table edges to at least ensure that some of his ordnance would go off board. Hence my surprise when I got the win by sticking to the mission objectives
• Some Highlights include:
• Warboss dies due to a horde of powerweapon pin pricks.. 9 str3 powe weapon attacks.. and he got the needed 3 sixes to kill of the warboss.. doh.. Fortunately 54 regular ork attacks makes short work of the blob
• A charge at a devil dog by shoota boys makes it immbolized, stunned and weapon destroyed.. Oh good.
• Loota Boy survives to fight the next match.

WEEK 3 Jhei (Tau) 

• Managed to get the first turn for this one.. Well at least that got me one less turn of shooting before I got stuck in with the boyz. Kroot are nasty in big numbers.. good thing I got the chance to whittle them down before they got stuck in with the ladz. Jhei had to tap out by turn 4 but had one devilfish with troops and 3 crisis suits left.
• Highlights include
• Getting the Warboss and 19 choppa orks at the Tau Commander by turn 2. He only had two rail gun shots at the battlewagon. Managed to make my cover save from the KFF. There goes that. It then managed to survive a hail of shots as they attempted and eventually killed a HammerHead
• Rokkit Boy kills a HammerHead. Had to resist mightily the urge to whoop and scream for joy for that.
• Mass shoota fire will wipe out Crisis Suits and Kroot.
• Deep Striking Crisis Suits suffer mishaps.. One gets lost.. the other delays the drop.. sadly that other suit never comes back.

CONCLUSION: 

Well the army is still alive. I think most of the armies are setup as anti-Mech. Though the Imperial Guard have a lot of heavy flamers.. I never headed towards him for it.

My winning streak will be put to the test though. Am going to fight a Dakka Fex list. I need to get in close and stuck in or at least keep away from the 12 inch kill zone before I get to do so.. Will see..

As for painting.. dang it I got  4 weeks before this thing all ends.. and all I have done is buy a spray can..
Here we go...

THE NEW MODEL FUND: 2010

Was able to sell off a 40k Chaos Lord and the high elf models I had last week. Was also able to save some cash in the good ol piggy bank. That should increase the model fund significantly. Looks Like I'm off to a good start for my target. And that Target is:

TARGET - Have earned 20k for the MODEL FUND by the end of the year.

Money Sold from Models  - 2500
Penny Jar savings              - 1500
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                          TOTAL     4000        

So The GLADIATOR Begins

The Rolling Hills Gaming Club over here in Manila is starting strong by doing the semi-annual GLADIATOR CUP. A no holds bared screw-the-objectives-wipe-out-your-opponent-plus-funky-rules-per-week kind of thing.

What a perfect opportunity then for me to get my ass out of the couch and start painting away :)


I will be using the following list for the GLAD cup. It's going to be a fixed list thing for 6 weeks.. oops.. I thought we were going to be able to change lists per week but guess not.. It's heavy on ork footsloggas but not much else. Ho Hum here we go then :)

GLADIATOR ARMY: - BozzBeef's Boyz

HQ

• Warboss "BozzBeef" - Power Klaw, Heavy Armor, Stikbombz
• Big Mek "KnoWotz" - KFF, choppa, Mek Tools
  

ELITE

• Burna Boyz "Toasties" - 7 Burnas + 1 Mek "BadUm" w/ Mek Tools, KMB
• Lootas "Thumpas" - 8 Lootas
• Tankbustas "Boomas"- 7 Rokkitboys w/ 2 Bomb squigs
  

TROOPS

• MegaNobz x3 (counts as troops because of warboss) -trukk
• Ork Boyz x 10- slugga and choppa +1 nob with Powerklaw, trukk
• Ork Boyz x 18- slugga and choppa +1 nob with Powerklaw
• OrkBoyz x 20 - shootas, 2 bigshootas
• OrkBoyz x 20 - shootas, 2 bigshootas
• OrkBoyz x 10- shootas 1 bigshoota, trukk

HEAVY

• Looted Wagon - skorcha, big shoota, red paint job
• BattleWagon - 2 Big shootas, red paintjob, grot riggers 

TOTAL POINTS : 1500
TOTAL MODEL COUNT : 113

This looks more of a fantasy army I think :P. heh will see how this fairs in the battefield. Looks like I will be playing the southern boys for this league and fortunately looks like there built to fight mech rather than a horde list. Will see how this all works out then :D

GENERAL: 2009 Come and Gone.. On to 2010

Nothing survives contact with the enemy

- Wow where did the year go? I had a good plan all setup for January.. and then life/work and other hobbies got in the way (Boardgames) Nothing that I had planned for the year 2009 got to being completed at all in terms of gaming. I attribute it to more of not being able to play enough games to motivate me to assemble and paint anything at all. Speaking of paint, there is more resistance to me painting because I believe my paints have indeed all dried up and I need to start from scratch and that daunts me to paint.

Review: Frequency Posts.: F
- From a good 30 posts last 2008 to only 6 for the entire year.. wow that is bad.
Review: Number of Games in: D-
- I only got in a total of 8 games for the entire year and that definetly affects me in getting a chance to assemble and paint all of the figs that I do have. I wasnt even able to join the 40k GT.. All of the games had been with orks.. Perhaps I can get the momentum going with that part.

I was able to get one Horde game with SJ at Mcdonalds.. Just in time before MkII showed up.. Hah heres to that.

Resolutions:
- Nothing I had tried to resolve to do I was able to actually do for the entire year of 2009. Nuff Said.

To the Year 2010:
- So what about 2010? Do I just stop making resolutions and forget all about it? Im trying to analyze why I wasn't able to finish anything at all or do anything. I believe its because of inertia of actually trying to pick up a brush again and just paint anything.. For that I need new paints..
Will just buy the paints as soon as I realize I need one.. Yes its counter productive.. but at least I would be able to afford buying the paints again.

- The good thing about the first part of 2010 is the rise of the Gladiator Cup again to be headed by Romy. Im hoping this will give me the desire to pick up the brush and paint..

I at least haven't been completely idle. I was able to at the least assemble and convert a couple of lootas.. as well as clean more AOBR orks.

Here's a shot of those Lootas now.


Also was able to get some Bunker gaming with Owen and his Sisters during the December 30 summoning.... and with Jeff Yu back to gaming I got a place to get some warhammer gaming that is near my place. Perfect :)















Here's to 2010 and to the hobby :)
- I'm targeting the ORKS and THEN get back to Renegade IG (no promises this time)

Site Note: I finally got the chance to get a progress bar up and running on the right to look at the projects well at least its there :D