zaterdag 10 maart 2012

Tournament test battle vs Chaos Space Marines

Today I played a 1750 battle against a chaos space marine player. I wanted to try out my list with the special missions for a tournament I will be attending next month. In this mission each player begins with a flag marker and a 3”-diameter station marker. The station marker is placed 6” from the middle point of the long table side on which your army will deploy. The flag marker is placed on top of it. Each player must try to place his flag on his opponents station and capture his opponent's flag. In addition you can also score battlepoints with kill points as a secondary mission objective and victory points as a third mission objective. Deployment is dawn of war.

My opponent's army consisted of a lash daemon prince, a dreadnought, a defiler, a small unit of jump infantry, a unit of terminators in a landraider, a large unit of khorne berserkers in a rhino, a large unit of noise marines in a rhino and a small unit of noise marines on foot. I won the roll to go first and let my opponent choose side and start the first turn. He deployed his deamon prince and his khorne berserkers in base contact with his flag and ready to disembark into their rhino. I deployed nothing.

In his first turn, he embarked his khorne berserkers into their ride and moved them forward. He moved his other units on from his board edge. With nothing to shoot at, most of his units ran. The berserker rhino and the landraider popped smoke.
In my first turn Logan and the longfangs arrived first and dropped in front of the dreadnought and the berserkers' rhino. The small unit of terminators with the rune priest arrived behind the walkers and the rune priest left the squad when he disembarked. My large unit of terminators dropped down in front of his landraider on the other side of the board. I then shot a lot of missiles, multi-meltas and combi-meltas and destroyed the dreadnought, the defiler, the landraider and the rhino from the berserkers. I did take a few casualties from all the explosions.

In the next few turns, I destroyed his khorne berserkers, the daemon prince and the large unit of noise marines and their rhino. His jump pack infantry arrived using deepstrike but scattered on top of one of my units and were lost to the warp. The two remaining members of my small terminator squad took control of my opponent's flag and ran into cover. I totally ignored my own flag and with his mobility lost and most of his army destroyed, he no longer had any chance to win the game so we called it at the start of my fourth turn.

Tournament 1750 Army List

I am hoping to go to a few tournaments this year with my space wolves. I plan on taking the following 1750 list.

HQ - Skyrar (Logan Grimnar)

HQ - Rune Priest in Terminator Armour with Chooser of the Slain, Jaws of the World Wolf and Murderous Hurricane

Elites - 5 Wolf Scouts with Meltagun

Elites - 5 Wolf Scouts with Meltagun

Troops - 6 Grey Hunters with Mark of the Wulfen, Wolf Standard and Meltagun in Drop Pod

Troops - 6 Grey Hunters with Mark of the Wulfen, Wolf Standard and Meltagun in Drop Pod

Troops - 8 Wolf Guard (4 in power armour with Combi-Melta and Powerfist, 1 in terminator armour with Combi-Melta and Powerweapon, 1 in terminator armour with Combi-Melta and Wolf Claw, 1 in terminator armour with Combi-Melta and Chainfist and 1 in terminator armour with power weapon, stormbolter and cyclone missile launcher) in Drop Pod

Troops - 5 Wolf Guard (1 in terminator armour with Combi-Melta and Powerweapon, 1 in terminator armour with Combi-Melta and Wolf Claw, 1 in terminator armour with Storm Shield and Powerweapon, 1 in terminator armour with Storm Shield and Wolf Claw and 1 in terminator armour with Storm Shield & Chainfist) in Drop Pod

Heavy Support - 6 Long Fangs (3 with Missile Launchers and 2 with Multi-Meltas) in Drop Pod

Skyrar and the wolf guard with cyclone missile launcher will join the long fangs and will generaly be the first drop pod down. The wolf guards in power armour will join the grey hunters and the scouts. The remaining wolf guard terminators and the runepriest will also drop on the first turn. The other terminator squads will round out the first turn drop pod assaulot. The scouts will outflank. The grey hunters will stay in reserve.

donderdag 8 maart 2012

Hobby progress update

I made some progress on my display board. Here are some first pics...

I started by placing all my figs on the display tray so I could get a feel of how much space everything will take up. As expected, I will need to leave several of the drop pod closed as the army otherwise will not fit on the 50cmx60cm board.



I then traced a line on the board for where I wanted the levels to be. I then removed the figs so I could fit the first layer of foam .



Next up was tracing out the final layer of foam. All the foam will still need some work to make the edges more detailed but that's for next time.



It might look that not all the figs are visibile but when you are standing next to the board, you now can see all the figs without the drop pods obstructing view.



Comments welcome!

woensdag 29 februari 2012

Hobby progress update

I finished my last batch of chaos space wolves.

The 4th wolf guard with powerfist and combi-melta







The chainfist wolf guard terminator got a new combi-melta.



The wolf guard terminator with cyclone missile launcher got a new poweraxe so I can use his powermace for my wolfpriest in terminator armour.



And finally my runepriest in terminator armour with combi-melta and force staff.











With a weapon swap, he can become a wolf priest in terminator armour with stormbolter and dark crozius.





With this, my 1750 tournament list is done !!! I will post some pics of the complete army in the next few days. Next up : finishing the display board ...

vrijdag 24 februari 2012

Hobby progress update

I started painting the final two models of my hobby progress challenge. They are now in the usual basecoat+wash stage.



maandag 13 februari 2012

P&B 1750 points army painted

I took a picture of my fully painted 1750 list that I played in the Paint & Battle competition at my FLGS.

Hobby progress update

I went shopping this weekend and got the basic materials for making my display board. It's a 50cm x 60cm photo frame. I removed the plexiglass and put in a sheet of cardboard.





Now I only need to figure out how I am going to magnetise this so I can secure my models to it with magnets under their bases..

woensdag 8 februari 2012

Hobby progress update

I cut off the arm of a perfectly fine miniature so I could recycle the rest of the miniature. I then magnetised it's original arm but now he's ready to be upgraded with a combi-melta (as you never can have enough of those).



dinsdag 7 februari 2012

Hobby progress update

I finished the assembly for the last model of the 1750 list I will propably be taking to the next tournament I go to, the runepriest in terminator armour ...









I also finished some extra arms with alternate weapon options. I still need to magnetise the model that will be using one of these weapon options but that I glued its current arms on.



maandag 6 februari 2012

Hobby progress update

The fourth wolf guard with powerfist and combi-melta is assembled. I made the combi-melta in an alternative way.





I made some progress on a rune priest in terminator armour but I still need to cast the green stuff icon and do some final assembly.