The Wh40kGT 2008 Report

The GT for 2008 used the (most unappareciated) 4th Edition rulebook./. The feeling with the organizer was to just get this thing out of the way already so that we can proceed with 5th ed. So sure thing we did =P

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It was an interesting first round of game play as I faced off against Romy with his Slaanesh themed Chaos army. He could have just laid back and sniped me from afar but decided to make a sport out of it and went in with his Chaos Terminator and Daemon Prince. The game got delayed quite a bit as Ronald (Mcheesy KraftMan) decided to heckle our entire game since he missed us so much :P


The game was good ol Patrol and once again the deployment killed me. NEVER NEVER choose an L deployment when your a horde army.. always go for the long table edge.... sigh..

I had already brought new dice but I still manage to miss my one shots with my lascannon. I was able to bring down Romy's daemon prince and his Chaos Terminators to interestingly manage to get a Draw.. so not bad on that :) while he downed my Tornado and immobilized



The next up was Ambush and I got wound up to be the one being ambushed against Joel's Nurgle Marines no less. I knew most of my foot slogging army wouldnt make it so I just sat my SM Marines at the back of the line and started plinking away at the enemy.. while the rest of my horde attempted to get stuck in with them.

My Vindicator got killed by the Obliterators and the resulting explosion took a lot of my clumped up figures as I was still trying to split them up from their initial congo line deployment. My entire mob of 20 Zealots got wiped out as I charge Nurgle Marines out in the open.

I was rusty, and my tactics showed it as I sent everything piece meal in this game.

I was thinking(deluding??) to myself that I was going to still get a draw out of this one but the rain and the tables being out in the open just doomed that plan. There goes my plan to get into the semis...

Still I had fun getting 2 games in with great armies and great opponents.. Maybe this will give me the push I need to finish my army? :)

More photos of the event can be found here:
http://lakwatserongkalbo.multiply.com/photos/album/90/Toy_Soldiers..._Pchuw_Pchuw

http://timberwolf168.multiply.com/photos/album/7/Warhammer_40k_Grand_Tournament_2008-08-23

MODELLING: Creating the Inquisitor and the Retinue

I had spent a long time in trying to get a DH inquisitor and Retinue finally completed and ready for the table top in time for the 40k Gt.. heres how I made the models.

For the Inquisitor and the retinue I started to scour for bits to use for them. I had old Chaos Marine plastics that had there heads removed before so I used them I wanted to create a Metal Storm unit.


For the inquisitor himself I had the idea to use a cadian grenade launcher and then merge it with a missile launcher so as to make a Psycannon out of it and then add some stuff on it some more.

I jury rigged a handle using some spare sprue then modified the cadian vox backpack to act as its power pack.

It was too armoured and not inquisitorial looking enough though so I added a parchment from the Skaven Box I had. I plan to at least paint freestyle the I on his shoulder pads





The Heavy Bolter servitors I once again used the Chaos Space Marine Torso and Legs. I then used Ork arms for them. I had initially set them to hold the Heavy Bolter in several poses with their arms but then took that out and then decided to just stick the HB on the torso itself. I then used zombie heads to get that lifeless look.


The Mystic model I used a Clan Pestilence body to get the hunched robe look and then just placed an empire head there. For the sages (which I had accidentally created two) I used high elf archer bodies with bits from the Clan Pestilence box and again Empire heads.



For the priest I used a High Elf bowman legs and torso with more Empire heads and then used empire arms for the gauntlet. I used a chaos ccw to act as a power weapon or eviserator.

Im hoping I have time to actually finish painting these guys up. Here goes to that plan...

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....