My hobby is Alive

Well this week i can say that i finally feel gamed out.....lol managed to get four games in this week which doesn't sound allot but it 4 times the amount i normally achieve lol and with 3 win on loss I'm quite impressed on how my grey knights perform. bellow is a quick run down of the games i played:





Game 1: campaign match up Chaos Question Warband vs Grey knights Ellipse strike force:


Mission. capture and control


this game was against Curtis long standing chaos marines which had been carving a bloodily path into my territory of re cents and was desperate to stem the tide.... i achieve this with a convincing massacre of his forces. to be fair luck was not with him destroying 2 deep striking units and fluffing key assaults did not help. my luck i would say was average but the new tactics i deployed worked like i charm. this tactic allowed all my units closely supporting each other with the landraider and chimera mobile assault leading the spear head. This way no element was left unsupported allowing me to effect the outcome of a assault for example did not go my way. normally this unit would die horribly lol and shatter my plans due to low model counts. this tactic is still been tested but seems to be working for me.



Game 2 :

Misson: seize ground

Ork vs Grey Knights 1,500 points



this was my first encounter with the orks since their reincarnation in their new codex, and with the model count put down on the table i was scared lol 60 ork boys!!!! his troops out number my army by three times lol oh dear.

here the armies run downs

orks:

warboss on bike with klaw and other crazy gear lol

5 bikers with knob

trukk with 12 boyz

looted rhino with 5 knobs

5 looters

5 burners

big mech with kustom field

daemon hunters

grand master

4 terminators

crusader

greyknight squad: incinerator x2

greyknights squad: psycannon x2

stormtroopers in chimera with plasma melta

sister of battle: heavy flamer and melta

overview of battle:

well typical ork fashion the ork forces charge head long at my lines and think i did well to contain them, greyknights in cover did surprisingly well against ork boy units as striking first as well as power armour saved them from gruesome deaths and due to fearless they ork lost more of their number than they did in combat causing units to flee. but my army was slowly crumbling under weight of attacks. luckily the ork forces struggled with the raider and its armour 14 and basically ran amok of the ork lines holding the tide at bay allowing me to attack army piece meal an claim objectives, this plus grand master goodness won me the game but getting worried about the random performance of my army.... cnt wait to get my salamander started feel like an horde lol

any way my hand hurts lol

Slow the machine churns ever forward

Well I'm not sticking to my new year plans very well lol but Alas work and university had other ideas and I'm struggling to get time for my hobby. but i have some work finally completed in the form of the Grey Knight terminators with grand master I'm pleased with the way they turned out just wish could of got some better shots,


group shot with crazy flash lol


much better photo if a little dark

my grand master currently my favourite painted model

another pic of the grand master of my force

next on the block chaplain dreadnought which I am quite looking forward to painting and plan on having it completed by the end of next week fingers crossed. also hoping to get a game in the campaign next week planned as the imperials desperately need to regain some ground.

laters

Already Beaten?

10/01/09: well so far not good lol ok well got new marine force with my chrimbo money and current building them up into a salamanders force, but taking my time with this one to get them look great and ideal for uses in competitive gaming which i want to start getting into, but first need to dust off last years habits and start getting more games in for practise as well as actually painting and modelling instead of xbox lol. current projects under way are as follows:

• Salamanders Army construction: two tactical squads built all though waiting for heavy weapons
• Hellhammer construction for my first Apoco game on wed
• paint my 1750k daemon hunters for Feb half way completed
• Start learning 5th ed rules so don't have to refer all the time
• learn from mistakes more and hone tactics

Not much then lol Oh also had a game on Wed this week with my good old guard drop troops with the addition of a tank, just pulled off the win against Curtis new marines, leman russ rule lol, going to have to write up some kind of battle report laters

A new begining

wow its been a long time since i posted on here lol, well i intend to start back up where I left off as the fortex Prime campaign is still alive..........just lol. Well whats to look forward to in the future? well:

• constant updates on the campaign "winters heart" as it draws to an apocalyptic conclusion
• 502nd Army group grows: vostroyan armoured and imperial fists coming soon
• daemon hunters completed to 2k
• regular battle reports

upcoming this week:

land raider completion

grey knight terminator

Turn 2 of Campaign: The Advance

Imperial movements:

Imperial forces present in valley so far:

task force Alpha ( harakoni 101st alpha & bravo company)

2k task force bravo (harakoni 101st charlie company) 1k

movements:

Task force alpha added to task force alpha at the screaming valley and advanced to hex into ruins

Task force bravo reinforced plateau 52 position

Chaos Movments:

1k force moved forward straight down map into mountains

1k force moved forward into the fortifed complex

Painting update

well here is my latest additon to my harakoni warhawks 101st:








stormtrooper 122nd Company 2nd Squad

Campaign turn 1 complete

Well folks the campaigns under way with the imperial forces making little advances into the valley and quite fitting the chaos forces go for the furo temple lol.

Well this is how I am going to work it, the players will tell me where they next want to move their forces to allow me initiate turn 2 and what they want to do with the new army marker, leave message in the comments for this post and ill update and arrange games and if this works ill adapt to the larger campaign i am planning.

The map so far: