Crud : 2 nights to go for the Grand Tournament...

and Ive not even finished assembling the Retinue for my Inquisitor and the game is already this Saturday. Fudge...

Well this is the army list that I will be using for the Tournament. I just want to get this out of the way so that I can start focusing on the ork models that I have for 5th edition gaming. Since the new codex SM is just around the corner I decided I might as well have fun and use whatever gimmicks I can with the old one before it all goes away (like FOTA)

The Host of Faustus SM list - with WitchHunter and DaemonHunter Allies Radical Inquisition

HQ

Librarian Codicier Hernandez 103
- w/ FOTA

Inquisitor Lord Faustus DH Ally 187
- w/ PsyCannon; Emperor's Tarot
- 2 Mystics - w/ las pistol and CCW
- 1 Sage - w/ las pistor and CCW
-3 GunServitors w/ Heavy Bolter, Targeter, Krak, Frag

Elites

Daughters of Erathas (Arco Flag) WH Ally - 140
4 ArcoFlagellants

Hands of Erathas (DaemonHosts) - 170
2 DaemonHosts

Troops

Tactial Squad Alpha SM Marines x 5 - 100
w/ bolters , 1 lascannon, 1 plasma gun

Tactical Squad Beta SM Marines x 5 - 100
w/ bolters , 1 lascannon, 1 plasma gun

Storm Trooper A x 8 DH Ally - 100
w/ 2 plasma gun

Storm Trooper B x 8 DH Ally - 100
w/ 2 meltagun

Horde of Erathas Mob 1 WH Ally 175
Priest Zecarriah w/ pwr armour, pwpn and las pistol
19 Zealots
w/ Fanatic armed with Eviserator

Hordes of Erathas Mob 2 WH Ally 167
20 Zealots
w/ Demagogue - meltabomb and las- ccw
w/ 2 Fanatic2 armed with Eviserator
w/ 2 flamers

Fast Attack

SwiftWind LandSpeeder Tornado - 80
w/ Heavy Bolter , Assault Cannon

Heavy

Devastator Squad Gamma x 8 - 200
w/ 4 Missile Launchers

Vindicator IronHide 128
w/ smoke launchers


Total Points 1750

BATTLEREPORT: WitchHunters vs UltraMarines

Finally I got a game in for the year !!!. With the August WH40k GT just around the corner I need to start getting in some serious game time. Was able to go to Galleria last Saturday just before the typhoon decided to make a 90 degree turn and head north.

I had brought a camera to take pics. Too bad I didn't take any :D

WITCHHUNTERS(WITH ALLIES) VS. ULTRA MARINES

Game: Warhammer 40,000 4th Edition - Last Game before 5th ed
Opponent: Mike(??)
Mission: Alpha Cleanse
1st turn: WitchHunters
Points: 2000

WitchHunters

• Inquisitor Lord, bolt pistol, power weapon, 2x Warriors with plasma guns, 1 x Warrior w hell gun w/ Chimera Transport
  
• Priest w/ Carapace Armor
  
• 1 Eversor Assasin
• 5 Arco-Flagellants
  
• 3x DaemonHosts
  
• 10 Stormtroopers, 2x Plasma Guns, Rhino, Smoke launchers and Extra Armour
• 10 Stormtroopers, 2x Plasma Guns, Rhino, Smoke launchers and Extra Armour
• 10 Space Marines, Vet Sgt with pistol and PowerFist, 1 Flamer
• 6 Space Marines, Las Cannon, Plasma Gun
• 6 Space Marines, Las Cannon, Plasma Gun
  
• 20 Frateris Militia
  
• 3x Penitent Engines
• 1 Excorcist
• 8 Space Marines, 4x Missile Launchers

UltraMarines

• Tigurius
• Librarian (higher type), Land Raider Transport
• 5 Terminators, 2x Assault Cannon
• Dreadnought w/ DropPod
  
• 10 Space Marines. Vet with PowerFist plasma pistol, Lascannon, MeltaGun, Rhino w/ Extra Armour, Smoke
• 10 Space Marines. Vet with PowerFist plasma pistol, Lascannon, MeltaGun, Rhino w/ Extra Armour, Smoke
• 10 Space Marines, 4x Missile Launchers
  
• Predator w/ Lascannon sponsoons
• Vindicator

The game

The Space Marines deployed with all of their armor on the open patch of terrain on the right of his deployment. and the rhinos on either flanks to take a quarter. I had the Penitent Engines all massed in front behind the hill on the center. and the rest of my troops spread out as much as I can. The Penitent Engines then decided to just walk in amongst the boxed in armour and laid waste to all the vehicles there. One eventually managed to get Tigurius in hand to hand and snipped him in half.

My dice rolls were atrocious though.. specially my shooting. I had the first turn and managed to hit nothing despite having BS4. My Eversor died at the hands of the Librarian which then bio-meltdowned and killed my Inquisitor. The plan to delay the Dreadnought by having my Frateris Militia attack it was flubbed when I rolled a 12 for leadership and it found itself safe from the rest of my troops

With the more mechanized army he had most of my assault troops wound up milling around my table quarter. Despite that I managed to survive all of this simply because of the sheer amount of bodies I still had to throw at him.

I had 1 Quarter with 2 contested and 1 vacant.


Result: Win

Learning points

• An Eversor should only really assault foot troops and not characters that can attack them first.
• Change my dice
• Need to scratch build some penitent Engines
• I am rusty.. too many rule questions for me. Still wont matter much with 5th ed just the next month already.
  

MODEL FUND: Empire Sold.. and there there goes the Fantasy GT

Well I was able to finally sell of the Empire Army for a bargain 5k, this added significantly to my model fund for my future purchases. Of course with me trying to stop any additional purchases until I actually manage to paint everything (or at least finish painting something) the cash should sit in my bank account for a while.

In other news.. I had lost impetus to paint my fantasy army when I heard that the GT would be done on May 17 -- which happened to be our scheduled family vacation in La Luz. Ironically our vacation got cancelled due to a typhoon hitting the Batangas shores. I had planned instead to take my daughter to the Oceanarium but was suprised that my parents had taken her with them to Alfonso.

My day was actually freed up and I could have played at the Fantasy GT... If only I had woken up on time as well as at least doing some touch ups to my army.. Oh well theres always the next 40k GT....

What not to do with a Pinvise

Here's something I just found out. When the tube that contains your super glue has its nozzle clogged because of dried glue, never use your PinVise to try to unclog the hole when the glue hasn't dried yet. Heck don't do it regardless if the glue is dry or not.

I snapped the darn thing in half.. argh..

GENERAL: The Regatta is over, now back to my geeky stuff

I had participated last week in the 2008 President's Cup Regatta in Subic, my third one and finally we got to 3rd place overall.. (read more of it here ) Now I can start focusing on getting my fantasy army painted and ready for the April Fantasy Grand Tournament that is going to happen this April 18. At least I finished touching up/varnishing most of the mutants so at least there out of the way.

Time to paint the Waaagh.