Scott -

Steel Legion REBOOT. Stripping and repainting all my Legion models for use as, that's right, Allies. Blood Angels followed by a Leman Russ squadron? Oh yes. Pictures soon to come.

Also, photos of Blood Angels and Dwarfs. Both Brandon and I have been quite busy, sorry for the lack of updates.

Scott - 

EA and Bioware are creating a Heroes of Newerth/League of Legends style game called Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes. Apparently it has been in open beta testing since April... Seems to be more based around character vs character team battles... special objectives and overall killingness. Not sure if there will be NPC mobs.

you can check it out here http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/

I for one will be trying this out... what harm can be done by free play?

Scott -

Congratulations to Brandon for besting his foes at the Games Workshop Painting Competition! Truth be told, there were a handful of well painted models (not just ours) and Matt Sterbenz (Golden Daemon Winner) made an appearance with his wonderfully painted entry. In all fairness, I believe both Brandon and I were shocked Matt didn't pull 1st place, but overall "cool" and "brownie" points garnered him the win. Still well deserved for the time, effort and quality!

So the rest of the day was fill with gaming, learning the new 6th Ed. 40k rules and getting up to speed on 8th Ed. Fantasy. I'll give you a quick overview of the battles.

40k - Fairly new to 6th, still revamping my Blood Angels army... I was running 10 assault marines, 8 terminators and a librarian in 750pts. Played one match against a Space Wolf player who easily dominated me. The turn play by play is pretty much as follows. Overall, unsatisfied with my list. I need more models.

Turn 1 SW - Moved into central locations 

           Me - Did nothing, deep striking army

Turn 2 SW - Claimed tower in middle of board with devastators, held positions in terrain

           Me - Rolled for reserves, all arrive. IMMOBOLISED (yes caps.. frustrated) his vindicator

Turn 3 SW - Vindicatored 5 terminators, took out 3 assault marines with plasma guns

           Me - Beat a 10 man squad of tactical marines in CC, 1 ended up fleeing.. failed Sweeping Advance

Turn 4 Sw - Eliminated my terminators and Librarian with plasma fire. Gunned down 2 assault marines. Then decided to assault with his 1 guy for a "last stand"

           Me - Charged his other 10 man squad of tactical marines, 2 of my own guys getting overwatched...

Turn 5 SW - Proceeded with CC, didn't kill my sergeant

           Me - Continued CC for kill points, by the end of the turn my sergeant died but took 4 marines with him

Fantasy - Ok, this list on the other hand... super cheesy. I ran it as lame as possible. x36 Thunderers, x2 cannons, Organ gun and a Master Engineer. Easily the lamest list possibly for 1000pts of Dwarfs.

My first game was with Brandon. Easily the person i was most afraid of simply because of Ethereal units and Dwarfs dont have a lot of options for equipping squads with magical weapons. Ended up getting the win with some lucky outcomes

Turn 1 Brandon - Moved forward. Not a lot at this point, Magic was easily dispelled

           Me - Fired some pot shots at his Hex Wraiths with cannons, taking 2 of them

Turn 2 Brandon - Moved forward again, still no magic due to awesome dwarfyness.

           Me - Obliterated his Blood knights. Very positive for them to be removed, i was scared of them hitting my line

Turn 3 Brandon - Charged a regiment of thunderers, destroying them in CC forcing them to flee. His Hex Wraiths left at the table edge to come back the next turn. No magic (still!)

           Me - Fired everything at his block of 40+ skeletons... took a chunk out, not sure how many maybe 10?

Turn 4 Brandon - Hex Wraiths come in from table edge, movement ended no charge declaration. No magic

           Me - Grapshot at the unit of Hex Wraiths, wiping them! The scariest unit was gone! More shots at skeletons, not sure how many died

Turn 5 - So at this point Brandon was done... he wanted to quit but we kept going for "realistic" kill point values... in the end I won taking 730 kill points with me into the next game!

So i'm not going to list out the other fantasy battles because they both went pretty much the same way. The last opponent I played was fun though because it could have turned very south for me if Luke at not called Time for playing. His large chunk of clan rats were about to charge my line. Very fun matches all around though.

In the end I bested the competition in Fantasy with my Parking Lot Dwarfs. Honestly speaking, there were not a lot of competitors in the event for Fantasy but i ended up with 75%+ kill points in all my matches so it still ended well. I will relish the day for the new Dwarf book so i can add variety to my list... but for now, cheesy ball tactics are the best.

Brandon-

Did a painting session with Scott earlier today and decided the Silver Demon Entry was finished. Mostly because I was getting a little 'to give a mouse a cookie' on it and kept seeing more things I could work on with no end in sight.

Also if you like the piece, have some time, and a facebook account please vote for it here as this well help it be a finalist in the competition: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4777840929007&set=o.140851116006056&type=1

If you got even more time and more love please also like my good friends Matt Sterbenz and of course Scott Sanderson's pieces as well, as they are very well deserving pieces.

More on the piece; i'm quite satisfied with how the blending on the armor turned out but feel I could have kept going, and I do feel that the photograph didn't capture a lot of my work. I really need to learn how to take better photos...

Scott-

Hey guys, its been awhile (a few days hah). I finished my GW Scottsdale Silver Daemon Competition and i'd like to share it with you! I'm quite pleased with how he turned out. Win worthy or not, i feel that he is a proper and good center piece for my Blood Angels. Yet now it's time to finish the rest of the army.. Oh no!

If you like it, please go to http://www.facebook.com/GWScottsdaleTowneCenter and vote for it under the Birthday Silver Daemon Competition. Thanks guys!