Doubles tournament

This last Saturday was the sluggaz doubles tournament which was great fun and my first 40k tournament

A huge thank you to all my opponents you were all awesome and to the tourney organisers

I am not going to post names as there are a couple I cannot remember which is not surprising when you add 10 hours gaming to a bad cold.

Game 1 vs tau and dark angels straight objectives

This was a disaster of a game tactic wise the pods went exactly where we wanted but failed to do much upon arrival and the drone squad with suit commander was disgusting in firepower ways.

In the end we were pretty much tabled.

Game 2 Eldar/guard - big guns never tire

Tanks and a wraithknight scared us quite a bit but we managed to hold on to a couple of objectives and snag the win.

Game 3 sisters of battle/guard - six random objectives

This was an awesome game and probably my favourite of the tourney especially as everything seemed to go badly for us with the drop pod scattering off the table and ending up in our deployment zone. It all came down to holding objectives and we managed to hold some of the objectives and so did our opponents meaning a draw.

Game 4 eldar/dark eldar - purge the alien

This was probably the hardest fought and fun game wraithguard and grotesques ripped through our ranks and it was just one big melee by the end which we luckily won.

So first tournament and a hard fought 2 wins and a draw

Pics are from the first game before phone battery got low

Colours 2013, Updates and Girl Painting's Crazy plans

Hi all,

Going to the Colours show in Newbury on Sunday Colours 2013 and i quite excited as Hawk Wargames will be there and they have already confirmed they are providing my missing parts

On the update table i have begun painting my Shaltari i am going blue & gold as a colour scheme. I am going to chat to a friend of mine about the PHR and see if he has some suggestions for a colour scheme as i am not sure i could copy the studio scheme.

i have almost finished my 2 klingon test pieces for Star trek which look pretty nice the minis are actually quite detailed its just a crap paint job (i am not saying they are amazing just have details).

I still have a Decimator, a Plaguehulk and a blightdrone to paint for my nurgle force and a huge pile of Eldar to paint or be rid of.

On a great note Warzone is beginning to ship this week so i should soon be positing pics of minis and videoing some unboxings. Deadzone also had good news in that it is shipping in late next month .

Finally GirlPainting  on You Tube posted a video about alternate heresy in a what if Erebus was killed and did not turn Horus. i find thoughts like this really interesting and if you do pop here http://youtu.be/0-uzouaPPQ4 take a look and comment.

Decisions Decisionsi

So following on from my previous post I have come to the decision that space is at a premium so I cannot focus on as many games as I would like and therefore am going to drop down to 3-4 games instead of 6+

So I am thinking of comparative gaming styles and whilst these are not identical they are similar.

40K vs Warzone. - both are squad based games and whilst one is considered a skirmish game and the other a mass battle game they have similar force sizes. Now I love the fluff of 40K and the sculpts are lovely but the prices are over the top and i am not a huge fan of the game play. so I will be focusing on Warzone as i really have gone in on the KS and the guys behind it are great and involved in the community.

Malifaux vs Deadzone - Again Deadzone i have gone in on the KS and played in the beta and it is a great fun game but so is Malifaux Whilst the theme of Mali with the steam-punk wild west horror is very cool the simple nature of Deadzone wins out.

Star Trek Attack Wing and Dropzone Commander - These are very different games and i am thinking can i not do both but time is the issue and the star trek game is great fun but the minis are poor so they need repaints. and i already own all the currently released Star trek mins so its definitely

So my new plan is Warzone, Deadzone and Star Trek Attack Wing.

and i will hopefully be having some details on Warzone next week.

New Project

I have started work on a new 40k project themed around ork pirates

I have started on a warboss to lead them and have worked out a list that should be fun and interesting to build and play.

My only decision is to make the battlewagon old school ship for Da Kaptin or a submarine?

Ill leave you with a pic of my warboss.

Ishi.