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...