GENERAL: Badbeef is a Sad Panda

There goes Gladiator: 

I had wanted to join the Gladiator cup and was super excited that I had spent work not facebooking and instead trying to come up with multiple armylists, specially since they allowed Imperial Armour lists to be used.

I had been trying to see what kind of IA 8 Dread mob list I can make or even just combine the units from IA 8 with the regular Ork codex.


I had planned Mekboy junkas with grot bombs and Warkoptas with Tankbustas.. Sadly that ain't gonna happen after all.

TOURNAMENT: GLADIATOR 2012 It starts again

The Gladiator 2012 season has been announced !!! Holy crap this got me by my pants down !!!.. 7 Weeks of Gaming as announced on the MWPH (Miniature Wargamming Philippines forum -- which I troll about) ..starting January 30, 2012. With work starting to settle down somewhat I may be able to pull out some gaming at ATC Alabang. Looks like my plan to slowly complete my orks has gone into overdrive.

(Well I got two weeks to think of an army list then.. Here goes... crud)

The mechanics for the game can be found here.. 

Or if you are not a member can be read after the jump:

GLADIATOR WH40K - 2011 - Games 4 to 7

Game 4 vs Jessie and his Mech Blood Angels.

Jessie deployed in just one corner and it looked like we were fighting on a 4x4 :P. This was my first attempt at a Video Batrep (you can tell from the video :P )



The game was kill both HQs but only an opposing HQ can kill another HQ in close combat. Anything else and they become invulnerable to anything. See the video for yourself. But I was facing a very mechanized list with a very strong counterattack unit.

He managed to kill off the Warboss with Snikrot but not before they managed to destroy the dakka preds..

The death of the Warboss and Snikrot once again cost me 310 points but without that I probably wouldn't have been able to at least kill his Predator Destructors..

Game 5 vs Obi and 4th Ed Dark Angels

Game 5 was up against OBI and his Dark angels using the 4th edition ruleset (which was legal for Gladiator -- perhaps I should have just used my Lost and the Damned list) .. He had Tank Hunter Dev squads and Vindicator with Land Raider combo and more shoota units.. The scenario had meteors dropping at us each player turn causing massive casualties..

The most important shot was the Vindicator losing its Siege gun at the very start of the turn.. With snikrot and the Warboss appearing behind the vindicator and near the Predator and Dev Squad. I managed to gut them all and Obi proceeded to backpedal away and towards his Land Raider on his far left flank.

I actually had it in the bag with the Warboss and Snikrot managing to survive this mess until the last turn.. and despite me not making any single KFF save again like what happened last game

Game 6 vs Felix and Hestan

Game 6 was against Felix and his Vulcan Hestan list.. We had to deploy from the short table edge and had to walk on towards the middle .. there were 5 objectives in the middle of the field with 2 death rays moving to obliterate any model that it touches.

Felix had 2 dreads in drop pods and a teleporting 8 man thunderhammer squad.. he then had 2 tac squads and 2 multimelta land speeders. He decided to drop his first dreadnought near my lines and then tried to flame wipe out my boy squads.. I manage to hold on and manage to Powerklaw one dread... then his thunderhammer units teleport in. Instead of being more aggressive with it though he starts to back pedal with them.

This gives time for my Grotzooka Kans to hit them with pie plates and I manage to kill 5 of them in one go with a bit of bad luck from Felix.. still those 3 last Terminators manage to wipe out an assaulting Burna mob and to clump up another Boyz mob so they get beamed by the lasers..

I get some good luck and some bad luck as well. I manage to destroy his other dreadnought with nothing but bigshoota fire at the rear but I fail to dislodge the rhino in the middle objective and the Land speeder on the side that cost me the game.. oh well.



Game 7 vs Henri Tecson and his Space Wolves

Game 7 was against Henri and his Wolf-Priest Led Space Wolves army. He had the usual 2 Missile Launcher Long Fang list with 3 Wolf scouts and a GreyHunter with 2 Blood Claw units with rhinos and Razorbacks galore.

I had forgotten that the Deft Koptas have HIT and RUN.. a small chance to pull it off with my initiative.. but still .. that would have kept them alive against the assaulting blood claws. The mission had us randomly be deployed from left center or right of our deployment zone. I had my KFF mec at the very left flank and would not help with providing cover for the rest of the unit.

I experienced first hand how preferred enemy on a wolf priest and blood claws can get in close combat. The squad managed to wipe out my 20 ork boy unit and the gretchin squad. The other Blood claw unit managed to wipe out the other one as well. This was the only game were all of my troops got eliminated in the carnage.

Fortunately though my troops got wiped out, I manage to wipe out most of his other units except for the hiding Blood claw unit in the rhino. Well another phyrric victory for me.

CONCLUSION
So there goes the entire series for me. It had its ups and downs and I manage to actually at least be decent in some of those games.. Here's to the next series of games..

GLADIATOR WH40K - 2011: Intro and Recaps of Game 1 to 3

Introduction

Well the start of 2011 was a blast as I once again participated in the Gladiator Cup, a 7 week series of games with oddball scenarios that would eventually lead up to the top 2 of each area battling it out in a win-all type of gaming.

As was reported before in my last year's Glad up starting here, I managed to do all right in the Southern Sector with my Green skins. With my work throwing me far north of where I lived the best place for me to get some games in was to be at the bunker.

I decided to tweak last year's list and came up with the following. Sadly I screwed up my understanding of some of my army lists as we shall see.

My list was the following:

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.

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...

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