Brandon-

Here are my ideas and some pictures of the lists I will be running at 2000 points I am thinking of running List 2 over List 1. Please tell me what you think of either the pictures of lists.


List 1 (more special weapons, less bodies)

Autarch w/ Mandibles, Power Weapon, Wings, Fusion Gun (120)

Autarch w/ Mandibles, Power Weapon, Wings, Fusion Gun (120)

10x Harlequin w/ 2x Fusion Pistol, 3x Harlequin Kiss, Shadowseer, Death Jester, Troupe Master (272)

9x Fire Dragon x/ Exarch, Dragons Breath, Crack-Shot (161)

9x Dire Avengers (108)

9x Dire Avengers (108)

10x Defender Guardian w/ Scatter Laser, Warlock, Destuctor (120)
-Wave Serpent w/ Eldar Missile Launcher, Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones (140)

10x Defender Guardian w/ Scatter Laser, Warlock, Destuctor (120)
-Wave Serpent w/ Eldar Missile Launcher, Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones (140)

10x Storm Guardian w/ 2x Flamer, Warlock, Destructor (127)
-Wave Serpent w/ Eldar Missile Launcher, Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones (140)

War Walker Squardon 3x  w/ 2x Scatter Lasers (180)

4x Dark Reapers (140)

Total: (1996)


List 2 (all shuriken cannons, more bodies)


Autarch w/ Mandibles, Power Weapon, Wings, Fusion Gun (120)

Autarch w/ Mandibles, Power Weapon, Wings, Fusion Gun (120)

10x Harlequin w/ 2x Fusion Pistol, 2x Harlequin Kiss, Shadowseer, Death Jester, Troupe Master (272)

10x Fire Dragon w/ Exarch, Dragons Breath (172)

10x Dire Avengers (120)

10x Dire Avengers (120)

11x Defender Guardian w/ Scatter Laser, Warlock, Destuctor (128)
-Wave Serpent w/ 2x Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones 120)

11x Defender Guardian w/ Scatter Laser, Warlock, Destuctor (128)
-Wave Serpent w/ 2x Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones (120)

11x Storm Guardian w/ 2x Flamer, Warlock, Destructor (135)
-Wave Serpent w/ 2x Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones (120)

War Walker Squardon 3x  w/ 2x Shuriken Cannon (120)

5x Dark Reapers w/ Exarch, Tempest Launcher (207)

Total: (1998)

My Former Eldar Warhost

Brandon-

Finally got a pictures of these fantasy models I did a while ago. I am trying to do some photos with all of the collection built and primed. Also I am coming up with army lists for multiple 1000, 1500, and 2000 point lists that can be run with the entire collection at the same time, along with larger 3000, 4000, 5000, and 6000 point lists which will use all of the collections.

Winged Vampire

Sartosan Vampire

Beastmen Minotaur

Winged Vampire

Sartosan Vampire

Sartosan Vampire/ Tomb Banshee and Cairn Wraiths

Standard Bearer Skeleton Warrior

Brandon-

Had a paint session and photo session with Scott all day today. I spent a good six hours trying to finish my fourteen storm guardians--they're almost there they will likely be done by the end of tomorrow. Pictures of the completed squadron are soon to follow. Featured in this post are samples of the next few squadrons I will be painting. With these next few squadrons I will be choosing to work on smaller numbers, I will likely do five at a time as opposed to fourteen. Fourteen at a time in assembly line appears to be too daunting for me. Too little progress is seen over too long a time and it becomes discouraging as you get ten hours in.

Also later are some random pictures I dredged up from Dakka Dakka of Games Day 2009 Chicago.

Dire Avenger Test Model

Fire Dragon Test Model

Warlock Test Model

Storm Guardian Test Model

Defender Guardian Test Model

Games Day 2009 Chicago Photos

Scott -

It's been a long six months since our last post. Lots of stuff completed and uncompleted, but hopefully we will be posting more new things now that its summer!

So speaking of new, here is my latest finished product. Exalted Chaos Hero Gamesday 2009. This was my first time trying out NMM, grain detailing on horns/wood AND snow effects! Oh boy! I'll eventually be constructing either an extra large base, or plinth, for this guy to sit in and really be a show model. I'm honestly most pleased at the snow and it's outcome. I ended up using Woodland Scenics Water Effects and Soft Flake Snow in a 2-1 ratio favoring the snow powder.

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.