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2x Forgeworld Lucius Pattern Drop Pods

I just finished airbrushing the atmospheric ‘burn’ on the two ForgeWorld Lucius Pattern Dreadnought Drop Pods tonight. It’s difficult to tell from the picture because the standard drop pod isn’t there for size reference…but they are huge!

Excuses: I didn’t have a large enough back-drop to show one closed and one expanded like i’d like…and just moved my little light-box photo studio and don’t have the lighting like I like it yet… so I’m not supra happy with the pictures but am very happy with the models themselves.

  • The main external metallic is Alclad II golden titanium over gloss black.
  • The internal metallic is Alcad II steel with some dry-brushed mithril silver highlights.
  • The red is Createx Wicked Crimson over primer gray and black shadows.
  • The atmospheric burn is Alclad II jet exhaust.
  • Throw in a few Reaper MSP paints on the details and that’s it!

2x Forgeworld Lucius Pattern Dreadnought Drop Pods

Forgeworld Lucius Pattern Dreadnought Drop Pods (Open)

Posted by  |  July 9, 2012 | Categories: Blood Angels, Dedicated Transports, Warhammer 40K | Leave a comment

Game 8: At Ease Games Final League Battle!

And I (sort of) fielded the reaver titan Saevus Verum!!!

While my 1500 points of blood angels faired poorly… Mostly do some very effective Dark Eldar (Allen!) dropping in on my flank and punching lots of painful, nasty holes in my army in the first two turns… my Reaver Titan walked the battlefield!! W00t!!!

Our tournament organizer, Josh, controlled the Reaver at the end of each turn (after all other 8+ players resolved their player turns). It was fun putting the apoc barrage template down… while it did do lots of damage, the dice rolls definitely still matter and many of the troops/squads targeted were remarkably resilient to the apocalypse missile launcher.

On the bottom of turn 4 or 5 (I’m not sure as I was tabled at the bottom of 3), Saevus Verum was finally reduced to 0 hull points and Josh rolled a ‘6’ on the catastrophic damage table… BOOOM!!! reactor meltdown = 6xD6 strength ‘D’ AP2 hit. This was especially brutal on the two blood angels players who had lots of troops near the Titan (I feel slightly bad, but what a great narrative!!!).

In any case, I had a great time… even won the ‘best sportsman’ league award. Everyone at the shop has been really frikken cool…and patient with me as I learn the rules. I’m really enjoying the ‘gaming’ side of 40k… only problem now is that my painting isn’t going as fast! :)

At Ease Games final League Game pic25

Folks measuring out…24″ (if I remember correctly) from the Titan to see who got hit by the reactor meltdown.

 

Posted by  |  July 8, 2012 | Categories: Battle Reports, Warhammer 40K | Leave a comment

Game 7: 2k vs. Chaos!

Had a lot of fun playing Mike and Jay. Lost the line breaker and kill the warlord objectives, but took ‘first blood’ tertiary.

Have to think what I’d do differently… wasn’t that close and I should be doing better.

blood angels vs. chaos

poor dice rolls for the loss!

Posted by  |  July 5, 2012 | Categories: Battle Reports, Warhammer 40K | 1 Comment

Victory!!! (Warmachine 24 point Cygnar vs. Cryx)

Siege Brisbane vs. Deneghra

 

Well, I finally won a game vs. Mr A.! So I am now 1 win & 4 losses vs. him. At last I have a point on the board!

It was a 24 point battle, 24 points of my Cygnar army led by Siege Brisbane against his army led by Deneghra.

The objective was to hold as many of the three objectives in the middle of the board as possible, gaining 1 point for each objective owned at the end of each player’s turn. Basically I lucked out and was able to move first, which meant I captured 2 points off the bat. My army suffered many, many venom sprays but given the sheer amount of cover ignoring spray attacks fared decently to Mr. A’s poor dice rolls. My Charger went for an assassination attempt vs. Denny at the top of turn 3, which caused him to pull her into the backfield… he moved his heavy warjack back with her to block my line of site. While this did mean it was effectively impossible for me to assassinate his caster, I was able to claim points from the center objective which put me over the top points wise.

A fun game, feel refreshed on the WarMachine rules, ready for another game! And I found out there is a WarMachine league on Friday nights! Will have to check that out sooner than later.

Posted by  |  July 3, 2012 | Categories: Battle Reports, WarMachine | 2 Comments

Blood Angel’s Whirlwind

Blood Angel's Whirlwind

Posted by  |  July 1, 2012 | Categories: Heavy Support, Warhammer 40K | Leave a comment

Game 6: Tyranid Swarm!!!

HUGE game. 3 players with 2k points each (Me, Jim, Mark) against a single Tyranid player (Josh) running approx. 4k of ‘nids. Josh looks to be the best w40k player at At Ease Games… he knows almost all model stats by memory, is super fast at gaming (hard for me to keep up), but a really great player/opponent. I had tons of fun! We ran out of time (the store closes at turn 11)… my 2k points were essentially tabled (killed) by what I think was the top of turn 4. The ‘nids went after my three assault squads first, neutralized them, then knocked them out. Josh definitely knows what he’s doing.

Tyranids 6k 3v1 w40k game

View from the Tyranid swarm

Posted by  |  June 29, 2012 | Categories: Battle Reports, Warhammer 40K | Leave a comment

Game 5: My Nemesis!

I demo’ed warhammer 40k with a friend from work (Mr. A). I was 0/3 playing him in WarmaHordes, now I’m 0/4 across two different game systems!

We played 1 HQ, 2 troops, 1 elite, and 1 dedicated transport (razorback) each. The game went about 3 hours… but in me ‘teaching’ the game I actually learned quite a lot. I enjoyed the game, and so did Mr. A., but not enough to hook him into painting up an entire army.

Oh… and Sanguinar can’t hurt a contempt or pattern dreadnought. :/

game 5 civil war!

Posted by  |  June 29, 2012 | Categories: Battle Reports, Warhammer 40K | Leave a comment

Blood Angels Land Raider Redeemer

Blood Angels Land Raider Redeemer

Finally finished up a land raider redeemer today. Of course photographed with a macro lens I see all kinds of things I want to change. :/

I had primed it and painted the base red shade months ago… and in the time it had set the front doors ‘froze’ in place. When I forced the door open the plastic hinge actually twisted off. So… I had to drill it out and replace it with a brass rod. Unfortunately, it doesn’t completely close now.

I also switched to a different color scheme for the forgeworld land raider doors… went to ‘black’ wings and I’m really happy with how they turned out. I could do more work on the comms relay metallic, the ‘burn metal’ on the flamer sponsors… Generally I’m happy with it and will move on to my next projects (2x Lucius pattern drop pods, a whirlwind, assault terminators, 2x Warmachine Hunters, Astorath the grim…ug, have too many projects going on right now!)

Posted by  |  June 24, 2012 | Categories: Blood Angels, Dedicated Transports, Warhammer 40K | 1 Comment

Game 4: VICTORY

(Image by Eddie Sharam)

Wow, big game tonight! 2v2. My partner was Chris (taught me w40k in game 1!) and I (blood angels) took on a Tau and Eldar pair (Mark & Ryan, respectively).

The game lasted a solid 4 hours (4k points is a lot of action!) and we tied on primary (control a center objective) and secondary (messenger) but won on kill points (tertiary).

I actually did okay! Learned a lot (as usual), am now starting to think through the ‘points efficiency’ of my models. For example, I had a drop pod with a furioso (170 points) that took out a fire prism (115) so was not a good trade. However, it did soak up a two rounds of ranged attacks from a unit of fire warriors and a unit of plasma crisis suits. (120 its + 240?)…. so It soaked up 360 points of damage, killed 170 points of damage (530) and cost 170 points. Worth it??? YES!!! (I think??).

Anyhow, having fun playing the game!

-Justin

 

 

 

Posted by  |  June 22, 2012 | Categories: Battle Reports, Warhammer 40K | Leave a comment

Game 3: 1250 Blood Angels & Tau vs. Chaos & Eldar

Warhammer 40k game 3

 

My parter was a Tau player, Will. Opponents were Mark (Eldar) & Mike (Chaos Space Marines).

We lost the roll to decide who chooses deployment order, our opponents went first. It was interesting… we rolled off TWICE with both sides rolling snake eyes, finally on the third roll of there was another 1 (us) and a 5 (them).

We got hit HARD with an alpha strike. I lost my vindicator and my dreadnought at the very top of turn 1… which meant that 15% of my army didn’t do anything before dying. I also choose to deep strike my two assault squads… so there weren’t a lot of models on the table in turn 1 which meant we soaked up a bunch of pain right off the bat.

Time to rethink my list, moving away from a DOA strategy… maybe mechanized assault.

Posted by  |  June 14, 2012 | Categories: Battle Reports, Blood Angels, Warhammer 40K | Tags: , | Leave a comment