Tyranid Bastion | Foamboard core template | part 1.
MOAR from my mate Liam – Scratchbuilt Warhound Titan
Otty’s Bio-titan and Liam’s Warhound go toe-to-toe |
Anyway, he’s renowned for his scratchbuilt Warhound and Warlord Titans and I managed to get some pics of his Warhound build, maybe one day I can bully him into starting his own blog or joining with me on this one, what do you think? Well, here’s the Warhound:
The Brood Mother has spawned – congratulations!
Just a quick shout out to Otty, Mrs Otty and all the little Otty’s who have been blessed with a new addition to the family – this being the reason we went to Throne of Skulls in March and not in May 😉 Y’see we could have made it there the other weekend, ha, ha!
All the best to everyone in the Otterburn household!
1500pt battle report – nids vs Imperial Guard
Another match up against Ben and his embryonic Imperial Guard, once again we did the full board density rules, this time using some of Ben’s fantasy terrain. Unfortunately I can’t find my army list with the Psychic Powers on, when/if I do I’ll update the list below:
Forgot to change, so left him with Catclysm |
The low down:
- Crusade.
- Vanguard Strike
- I won deployment but elected to deploy second
- Warlord Trait – Move through cover for ruins.
His Aegis is made of the dry stone wall and I have to say I was a little in love with the Autumnal Silver Birch trees cobbled together out of BBQ skewers and the leaves from the Citadel Trees he uses bare. I’ve wanted to do these Birch trees on Terra Genesis for years, got the flower arranging wire but just use it for other modelling purposes. Anyway I’ll get round to doing something similar when I’ve got time.
So the Vanguard setup and Ben went first, I was fearful of his Hydra and Quad Gun so kept the Winged Tyrant off the board but still fearful of what would happen when he deep struck. Luckily no -1 modifier for reserves this game, just a big Psychic squad.
Despite having a decent set of support powers I still chose to push the Stealers forwards, hoping for cover.
My Termagants were a bit lazy, so much for ‘move through cover’ and that was my Warlord Trait too.
Still, at least that wasn’t my Tervigon spawning rolls which were 8 for the CC and 14 for the vanilla and both spawned out. Everything else moved into whatever cover I could find but it was a bit of a parking lot. The Biovore took a shot but just clipped a single Guard behind the Aegis which absorbed the blast.
Ultimately the Doom controlled the game, he’s become Ben’s Nemesis. He wasn’t targeted too much with high strength weaponry so there were no insta-kill rolls but coming back from 2 wounds to 10 can really shake your confidence. On the one hand assaulting him at least controlled him, ensured the remaining army could focus on other targets and not get leeched but with so many rapid fire weapons available perhaps it would have been best to move out of range and then shoot. I think I may try a list without him next time, perhaps swap in the Swarmlord instead!
Terrain is everything – Inquisitorial Vault progress
200,000 Mark
Whilst I’ve been away in windy Wales the blog has hit the 200,000 views mark. It’s achieved the second 100,000 in considerably shorter time than the first but that’s to be expected because more people are visiting than ever before. Thank you to everyone who has bothered to pop along, read a battle report, downloaded a wound marker or built an STC. Admittedly this is a one man ego-fest for my own hobby addiction but the continued support of other addicts in the community will push me to create things worth sharing.
My next milestones will be along the line of 200th follower, To Do List 2013/14 or my October 3rd Anniversary, whichever comes first. No doubt I’ll see you then. Meanwhile you can still join my Facebook group here for more interaction and bypass coming to the site altogether, wait a minute, doesn’t that impact my page views?
Neal Crankshaw29 November 2012 09:38It is the finest facebook page in the history of facebook (not counting my own) 😉
Back to the blog, I’ve got a post lined up for tomorrow and quite a few in ‘draft’ but I’ve been away for a week in Pwlhelli and a massive build up of hobby to catch up on which will eventually translate to posts. Service should continue as normal but I really want to spend time ‘doing’ while I have the momentum and motivation built up – who doesn’t want to see my Tyranid Bastion, Inquisitorial Vault or even Dark Angles finally progress. Thanks again for all your views, comments and patronage – here’s to another 200,000
Tuesday Nights Alright for Fighting (pt2.) – Adeptus Titanicus
A freebie – Dark Angel wound markers courtesy of Chris Gillboy
I was doing a search on my computer to find my 4th Edition Dark Angel Codex to see how they paint Dark Angel Librarians in it and the search pulled up an email regarding Dark Angel Wound Markers which I couldn’t recall ever reading. I think the wife, bless her, must have opened it and therefore it never caught my eye. Anyway it was from a guy called Chris and I’ve posted the email below so you can see what it was all about:
Hi its Chris from the Lost Boys Club, you played my mate Mark last week with his space marines (and kicked his backside). Anyway, I was so inspired by your wound/hull pts markers that I decided to make some Dark Angels counters. I found a picture of the munitorium dice on google and changed it to green then coloured in the numbers using paint. Not as flashy as yours but i’m happy with the result. I only did up to no.6 as nothing in my army has more wounds/HP than that. Anyway here’s a copy of the image in case you wanted to put it on your blog.
Hope to see you at the club tomorrow
Chris
So here’s Chris’s markers for you all to use. I can’t say how happy this makes me feel. Chris could have gone the easy route, and I’d have still been happy, and printed out my markers but he’s actually followed the spirit of the blog and created something new for the community and is willing to share. That is the true ‘hobby’ ideal there and I’m pleased to present them below for all you Imperial players out there.
Tuesday Nights Alright for Fighting (pt1.) – The Hobbit
PeteB hooked up for a night of games, we’d hoped to get in a go on his Hobbit Goblin Town, march with the titans in my original Adeptu Titanicus and even use the force with a crack at X-Wing. Unfortunately we only mamanged the first two. I took photographs but I’m not sure what report they will make as the games were all new to me so details will be scarce.
First up PeteB made this awesome Goblin Town and threw me a curve ball on arrival anouncing he’s put it up on ebay! The auction will be over by the time you read this but at least we’re giving it a go before then. We played a scenario with a package at the back of Goblin Town surrounded by my Moria Goblins who were on a weekend city break to see the sights and visit the throne of the Goblin King. Their tour guide was an albino goblin captain Grinnar [?]. Bifur, Bombur and Bofur were there to steal their packed lunches. I also had the advantage that every turn I got to roll to see if a couple of Goblins joined the tour party on a 5 or 6.
Terrain is everything – some awesome terrain 10 pages worth
Quick one, I saw this thread on Warseer, some truly awesome terrain and 10 pages worth [so it makes up for the short post 🙂 ]. I particularly like the Dawn of War Sentry Turret and the Atmosphere Processors. Loads of extra details to make them more realistic and step-by-step guides to do-it-yourself
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?250009-Bunkers-barricades-and-battlefield-bits