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 :)