KICKSTARTER LEAGUE 2012 - 1500 points

I had signed up for the Kickstarter League last September which was going to be a 7 week thing and you had to finish 7 games. This league had been created to encourage players to get their GT armies ready as well for everyone to get the hang of 6th ed 40k gaming.

With that in mind I joined the league with the following list:

Ork with IG allies:


Big Mek.. - W/ Burna, Heavy Armor. KFF - 110 points
WeirdBoy - w/ Warp Head upgrade - 85 points

Ork Boyz - 21 w/ Nob - eavy armour, pklaw, 2 big shootas = 176 pts
Ork Boyz - 21 w/ Nob - eavy armour, pklaw, 2 big shootas = 176 pts
Ork Boyz - 21 w/ Nob - eavy armour, big choppa and big shoota = 151 pts

DakkaJet - w/ extra supashoota - 120 points

Big Gunz - 3 kannons - 60 pts
                                                          Sub total - 878 pts..

Imperial Guard detachment

Company Command Squad
- Chimera, Las cannon weapon team, Astropath

Guardsman Marbo - 65 points

Scout Sentinels x2 - AC. Searchlights - 82

Infantry Platoon - 160pts
PCS with / AC
infantry squad w/ AC
infantry squad w/ AC

Manticore - 160pts

                                                     Sub total - 622pts.

With that in mind I have managed to acquire and partially assemble a Manticore (wanted to base coat and finish painting the body before I attach the missile assembly really.

I still need to create a Marbo model though. Aside from that most of the other models are assembled and just need for me to finish painting them all.. I had planned to finish all of this before October hit unfortunately something else came along the way ... it had an 8 pointed star...

Let's see if I manage to finish anything or Chaos pulls me to it.

BATTLE BROTHERS 2012

Me and fellow grot Obi during first week of September once again in the annual Battle Brothers tournament this time held in ATC. Unlike our last list from last year where we both used Orks I thought with the advent of 6th ed that we we would use an allied Ork , IG force. Both units that would probably be appearing in a lot of other armies as allies.. :P

We arrived early for the day of the tournament .. and as always we were too early :P

Anyway on to the games !!!!

Game 1 - Vs Lord Krakentooth and Ravenkruss
- Deployment: Dawn of War
- Mission : Scouring

How did it go:

The supposed grudge match !!!. Too bad it looks like it was all hype :P. Anyway we deployed in a line facing the awesome chimera firepower army and Nurgle support. The trick was to keep shooting the ones holding the objectives with Barrage weapons while the Orks moved midfield.

The Ork meat shield was being shot to pieces by the combined shooting of the Chimeras but we held on and kept moving forward. The Plague Marines in Rhino that was going for both of our flanks got shot to pieces but one was able to destroy the Pink Basilisk on the Right.

Marbo upon entering whiffed and never even got to touch the Colossus that he threw the demo charge at. The Nurgle Daemon Prince got shot by las gun fire and actually died to a squad sgt in close combat. The scout sentinel finally made it by turn 2 and managed to wreck a chimera when it got in.

Unfortunately time was called on the game (by turn 3 I think!!!)  and we never even got to use the DakkaJet :(.

Still we managed to cause enough casualties that we managed to gain more objectives and get the win !!!

Game 2 - Vs Furyan and Mark
 - Deployment : Hammer and Anvil
 - Mission : Relic

How did it go:

Dark Eldar - ignores Night Fight.. great.. Still the short edge deployment made it sure that we had the range advantage against them. After we mostly survived the Dark Eldar and Eldar shooting (mostly because we had a lot of bodies to spare) we proceeded to shoot them to kingdom come as well. Imperial Guard Vehicles had the range to do it too.

Managed to wreck a few Venoms as well as their Ravagers and  cut much of their firepower in half.. Marbo and the Desperadoes got shredded though.. at least Marbo killed a few Warwalkers with it's Demo charge.

The Ork DakkaJet came in. we declared WAAGH and tried it's best to shoot at the Seer Council in Jetbikes. With there ability to reroll armor save though all of that WAGGH dakka just made two bikes die really.

Unfortunately they managed to take the Relic and hitail it to a ruin (which soured me a bit...but never mind) where they tried to hide as much as they could. The Warp spiders came in and the Jetbikes turbo boosted all the way to the Loota Lines.

Sadly once again time was called before we could do some heavy duty counter-attacking. With them having the Relic it was a lose for us.

Game 3 Vs. Emcee and Pat Chua
- Deployment: Vanguard
- Mission:

How did it go:

This was us basically trying to shoot shoot shoot the 40 GK Terminators that were going after us and they constantly making their saves. A few units were in close combat with the GK terminators but we managed to survive the incoming Terminators but the full force was slowly walking forward.

Fortunately Marbo came in on the board and managed to throw his demo charge to get rid of some GK on their objective and managed to contest it. Also the scout sentinels managed to kill their Warlord and then the Desperadoes managed to get the objective on their corner for us to win the game !!!

Conclusion

Well we managed to have 2 Wins and 1 Lose. Not such a bad turn out though I think we could have gotten it all if we had enough time to wipe out the Eldar players in game 2. Still it was a great tournament.. hope to be able to do it again..

WIP - Long Weekend for some.. Work still for me

Well it was supposed to be a long 4 day weekend.. Too bad that didn't happen for me.. Still did manage to do some modelling work..

Got sidetracked with the Battlewagon build and just went ahead and started to build my Dakka Jet. As always I managed to sabotage myself early on by screwing up the assembly of the nose intake and the fuselage wouldn't connect right.. Fortunately found a way to fix it.

I am liking what I saw in a BOLS battle report on how he was able to have 3 twin linked supa shootas for his Dakka Jet and I copied that design as well.. Managed to at least finish most of it before having to need to paint it.

Unfortunately as soon as I connected one wing did I realize that I had connected it wrong (the gun ammo should be on top) crap.

I have actually let go of the concept that I could assemble and paint at my room. With the baby sleeping there I might wake her up and I am afraid that she would inhale the scrapings from the models that I am cleaning. Since I don't want to work at the balcony because I have to re-arrange furniture I am back to my old desk in my oldest daughter's desk  Just needed to remove/throw out a few stuff and I should be cranking stuff in no time.. I hope.

G.I.G Session 1 for me: Ork on Ork using 6th ED

Finally got to play at a secret location somewhere where I can't say.

And had a game of 6th ed with Garr. We slowly had our first 6th ed game (which more or less lasted 4 hours) There is definitely a lot of stuff and extra funky happenings that needed to read and re-read to get the hang of this edition

(all photos taken by Garr's funky cam)

WTF moment

WIP: Stuff I did on the Rainy weekend

Well my laptop was out over the weekend (stupid Malware pretending to be an Antivirus) and  there was a typhoon in the area making the weekend windy and wet That meant lots of downtime... Since I was not in the mood to paint then  I might as well started to assemble the stuff that I still have and make some.

More Lobbas
Finally brought out the plasticard again (haven't done so in years)  and started to make me some scratch built Lobbas. Might have to shorten out the base though so I can put some wheels in there. I would probably need to create Kannons next time .. well the good thing with orks is at least if it looks haphazard looking, then it must be orky

Now if only I can paint these.

Battlewagon
Started to assemble the wagon that has been in storage for a couple of years as well. I still would have wanted to extend the Wagon as per some of the stuff that is on the net that is circulating but I might not have the skills nor patience and I was procrastinating too long to find out how to do it.. So meh.. might as well just get it over with.

Coming together

Ork Shoota Boyz
Started to clip out the boyz from the sprue and started cleaning them up.

Hmmm.. How many boys do I really have?

Yes all of them are being assembled at more or less the same time. I do tend to switch from project to project and yes that's a problem when you want to get something done to completion.. Still relying on the whims of inspiration..

Also with the baby in the room I had the filing and cleaning of the plastic stuff outside. I really need to force myself to just paint stuff when I am in the room. Here goes next month then.