tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36795486295777478762024-03-18T19:59:12.359-07:00The Road To ValhallaMy Dropzone Commader Blog
(Originally this blog was for documenting how I was preparing my Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Space Marines and Daemons armies to attend Blue Table Painting's Valhalla event in October, 2013, but now it is dedicated to all of my tabletop wargaming hobby exploits, but especially - Dropzone Commander!)jdwelch62http://www.blogger.com/profile/09012158948009848728noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679548629577747876.post-51981745800715189182016-10-21T22:32:00.001-07:002016-10-21T22:32:27.024-07:00Tournament Battle Report – UCM vs PHR – Careful Advance<div class="MsoNormal">
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mentioned in my previous post, we had a tournament this past Saturday, 15
October, 2016, at Imperial Outpost Games in Glendale, AZ. I only got to
play in Round 2, unfortunately, but it was a fun game of Careful Advance,
pitting my unconventional UCM forces against Andrew Burke’s PHR army that
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One thing that I forgot to mention in <a href="http://theroadtovalhalla.blogspot.com/2016/09/phr-vs-shaltari-1500-pts-careful.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> is that after he found the objective in his home building in Turn 2, Andrew had one squad of Braves dematerialize through a Haven gate, which he prudently kept in the shadow of his home objective building, and had the other squad of Braves move to the central objective building via an Underground Monorail, despite that structure being severely damaged, and likely to take even more of a pounding. I had considered jumping one of my squads of Valkyries into that building after searching for my home objective Turn 3, and then moving my Immortals there as well (after one of my Infantry squads eventually found my home objective, of course), but with Andrew's Firstborns still in orbit and me without any Sirens, I opted to avoid that structure and stick with my original plan to bring it down as quickly as possible. There was an outside chance that I could've ultimately won the CQB that would've gone down there if I'd done this, but I didn't like my chances, and liked the idea of just flat out denying Andrew any more easy VPs from an objective he definitely could have found even better.<br>
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Score Recap - After Turn 2:<br>
JDW - 0 VPs<br>
Andrew - 2 VPs<br>
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<a href="http://theroadtovalhalla.blogspot.com/2016/09/phr-vs-shaltari-1500-pts-careful.html#more">Read more »</a>jdwelch62http://www.blogger.com/profile/09012158948009848728noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679548629577747876.post-45914881575363379112016-08-29T00:02:00.005-07:002016-08-29T02:27:41.358-07:00Tournament Results From August 6th, 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Three weeks ago yesterday, on August 6th, 2016, we held our eleventh tournament in sixteen months. I was posting on the Hawk forum throughout that day, but by the time it was over and we were all faced with packing up four tables and all of our gear, and then the long drive home, I just didn't have it in me to report on Round 3 and the final results.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444;"><br>
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">So, to everyone who has put up with my insane ramblings on the OB blog, the Swedish blog, the Hawk forum and Facebook in the meantime, and were expecting this blog post at least a week and a half ago, my most sincere apologies. Here is the much promised, under-delivered and very late blog post on my own, personal blog that you (may or may not) have been waiting for...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #444444;"><br>
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Well, I apologize for the very long wait, but it's been rather busy for me these past weeks. After my last post I left for GenCon, and had an amazing time. However, prior to leaving for GenCon I worked by tail off getting over 1,500 points of my new PHR paint scheme painted up and ready. I finished at 10:00 PM on the Sunday evening before leaving for Indianapolis on Wednesday morning, July 29th. I didn't manage to get any Infantry painted up in the new scheme, but reasoned that I could use what I had from my old blue-and-red scheme for any games I could get in at GenCon.<br>
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I've been working on these guys for quite some time. After the Helios were finished, Mega Mike suggested that I do something different for the walkers and/or the rest of my army. So with input from a friend at my FLGS, I chose orange as an accent color. The effect is quite striking, although it looks in like these pictures the Orange is a bit washed out and looks more yellow than orange. I took these pictures with my iPad in the FLGS at about 5:00 PM today, which was a bright, sunny day in Mesa, AZ. Two of the walls of the store are all windows, so there's lots of natural light, plus the fluorescent lights overhead. I'm going to try to take some more pictures after the sun goes down to see if I get a truer color, but I suspect I'll just get a lot of reflections from the overheads. If all else fails, I'll take pictures tomorrow in my backyard, where I get decent natural lighting at dusk, but I wanted to get these posted (as I wait for gloss varnish to dry on the latest batch) so I can try to post on the Hawk Forum and enter these guys in the July Painting Competition.<br>
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Not this past weekend, but the weekend before (April 10<sup>th</sup>
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models, specifically 6 Sabres and 9 Rapiers.
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So, as some of you might know, I love my PHR (Post-Human
Republic). It’s my “first” army for
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<a href="http://theroadtovalhalla.blogspot.com/2015/04/1500-point-dropzone-commander_87.html#more">Read more »</a>jdwelch62http://www.blogger.com/profile/09012158948009848728noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679548629577747876.post-42962213208802658222015-04-04T18:25:00.003-07:002015-04-19T20:44:19.858-07:001,500 Point Dropzone Commander Tournament - April 4, 2015 - Post 2OK, folks, Round 2 is over, and you can read about it on this forum topic on the Hawk Forums:<br>
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Here are some pictures from Round 2:<br>
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So we've got a 1,500 point Dropzone Commander tournament underway at Empire Games in Mesa, AZ. Here are some pictures from last night when I set up the tables. I was expecting 9 players, and that I'd need to play as the Ringer the first round, then a friend was going to be the Ringer for rounds two and three, but one of the guys decided he'd rather be the Ringer, if needed, meaning if there was a last -minute walk-on or drop, he'd play, but everyone else who registered showed up, so we have 8 players. I set up 5 tables last night, expecting 10 players, but I'm going to keep the 5th table set up and use it to rotate the different pairs in different rounds so hopefully no one has to play on the same table twice.<br>
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Otherwise, here's a couple of wide shot of everything that I got painted in the last 6.5 months, with a few exceptions, which I'll explain in a minute:<br />
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I need to do a more thorough post on everything that I was able to accomplish in the past 6+ months, but I wanted to get this post up ASAP, as I'll be leaving for Valhalla this coming Sunday, and between work, family and getting ready to go to Utah, I might not have time to do the subject justice (or at least the way I want to). <br />
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What's missing in the group in the above shots is one unit of 10 Plaguebearers, which I also loaned to John (they're finished), and the Herald of Nurgle I mentioned above. What's in those pictures includes some things that either I had painted much earlier in my career, such as 3 Obliterators (Night Lords), and a single, 2nd Edition Chaos Autocannon Havoc plus two Night Lords Aspiring Champions to use with my two squads of Autocannon Havocs. <br />
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Also included in the group of models in the pictures above are some models that were part of my "Guest Artist Series" of Heralds of Nurgle that were painted by friends of mine, including Epidemius, a unit of 25 Plague Zombies (the large unit on the far left, which I built by kit-bashing the Cadian Shock Troops kit with the Fantasy Zombies kit) which my friend Aaron painted for me, and Typhus, which was also painted by Aaron. Otherwise, everything else was painted by me during the time of writing for this blog.<br />
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The last thing that I was able to finish was painting/basing a Battle Foam X-Board display tray in a manner that would work for both my Nurgle forces and my Night Lords that are providing Heavy Support: Prior to that, and after I'd finished the second Plague Hulk, I was able to get the edge highlighting done on both of my Heldrakes. These two tasks, the edge highlighting of the Heldrakes and the purchase and painting/basing of the display board, were the last stretch goals that I was able to achieve, and marked the end of my preparations for Valhalla this year. I finished the display board this past Tuesday, October 15th.<br />
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And here's how my "standard" 2,000 point list of CSMs (Death Guard and Night Lords) with Nurgle Daemon Allies looks on the board:<br />
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The display board was John's idea. He's got one, too, and the plan is to avoid having to pack up after each game and then unpack again for the next game every day; instead, I'll probably be running the same list(s), or variations of them, most of the time, so I can just put the models onto the display board after a game, set it on a side table, go grab lunch or dinner, then come back and get my next game in, retrieving the display board (and my army) from the side table. It will save a lot of time!<br />
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Sorry I don't have time to write more as a summary of all of my efforts, or include more of the pictures of the entire group of both CSMs and Daemons in this post. I will do that as soon as I'm able, but for now, I just wanted to let you all know that I'm DONE with all my modeling, converting and painting, and ready to head North to Valhalla!<br />
<br />jdwelch62http://www.blogger.com/profile/09012158948009848728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679548629577747876.post-15612672542723271822013-10-08T15:39:00.001-07:002013-10-08T15:44:12.180-07:00Second Plague Hulk Completed!Hey, Folks.<br />
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Sorry it's take me so long to report this, but I finally got the second (and last) Plague Hulk (which I will be using as a Soul Grinder) completed back on Wednesday, October 2nd. I actually got him assembled and mostly finished on Tuesday, September 24th, but wasn't able to get any hobby time in after that due to attending all of my daughter's performances of an adaptation of <i>Hamlet</i>, in which she played Ophelia. (Let me tell you, she does "crazy" really well!). So it wasn't until October 2nd that I was able to finish all the edge highlighting on the legs and snap a few pictures, and then work got in the way and it wasn't until last night that I was able to set up both Plague Hulks together and snap a few pictures of them so I could put up this post.<br />
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So, without further ado, Plague Hulk #2, affectionately known as "Lefty", because his left claw still moves:<br />
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It only took me 26 hours to complete Lefty, compared to the 40 hours it took me to get the first Plague Hulk, "Righty", finished up. I think the difference was that with Righty, I didn't know what I'd be doing in terms of painting him, whereas with Lefty I knew just what I was going to do and just had to bang him out; also, when I did Righty I painted up both sword hands, including fixing the one I broke trying to bend the resin straight, so that added some time to how long it took to get Righty finished.<br />
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So, all told, it took me 66 hours to paint and magnetize both Plague Hulks. Here they are together:<br />
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I can't wait to get them on the tabletop and into a game!<br />
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And with that, all I had left to do was base all 5 of the Heralds of Nurgle, and do the edge highlighting on the two Heldrakes, and I could call it good.<br />
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I got the bases done on 4 of the 5 Heralds finished up last night (more work and family stuff causing me some delays in getting hobby time in), but I had loaned the 5th Herald to a friend of mine (along with 10 of my Plaguebearers) to use at DuelCon and Feast of Blades. So, I won't see Herald #5 until we both get to Valhalla, and then I'll need to get him based PDQ. Once I have all 5 Heralds finished, I'll put up a post about them, as they were painted by my "Guest Artists" series of painters, each one done by a different friend, in very different styles. (All but 2 of them are different models, too; I have Epidemius, which I can use either as himself or just a Herald on a palanquin, but in those games when I don't want to have either and still want to have 4 Heralds to run with my 4 squads of Plaguebearers, I got a second one of the new GW plastic Herald of Nurgle that came out when the Daemons codex hit this past February, so I can run that one as an alternate.)<br />
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Also last night, I was able to get the edge highlighting done on one of my two Heldrakes, and expect that I'll be able to get the second one finished tonight. So I will try to get updated pictures of both of those up as soon as possible.<br />
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In the meantime, please take a moment to comment on these two Plague Hulks, and let us all know what you think!jdwelch62http://www.blogger.com/profile/09012158948009848728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679548629577747876.post-78989400582098815602013-10-08T12:39:00.002-07:002013-10-08T13:10:34.295-07:00Chaos vs Tau Battle Report #2<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt;">
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against Tau, this time with a different opponent, my friend James Conley. James has been playing a lot of games with
his Tau since the new codex came out, and I think he played them quite a bit
before that; in other words, Tau are not a new army to him. He had a very different lineup from what Josh
threw at me about a week prior, which I knew was going to happen, which is also
what I wanted to have happen as I’m trying to get in as many games against
different opponents, armies and builds as possible before heading off to
Valhalla (in less than two weeks!!!). I,
on the other hand, used the same list as I did against Josh, but I’ll repeat it
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pictures. They’re a bit fuzzy here and
there, since it was just my old iPhone 3GS, which doesn’t have great focusing
software, but they should give you and idea of how the battlefield looked at
the start of each turn. You’ll find
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40,000 Battle Report<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tuesday, October 1<sup>st</sup>, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Chaos
Space Maries w/ Chaos Daemon Allies<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Vs<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Tau Empire<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1,850
Points<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Primary Detachment:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Jon’Ker De’Bloath, Chaos Lord on Bike with
Mark of Nurgle, Sigil of Corruption, The Burning Brand of Skalathrax, The Black
Mace, Blight Grenades, Melta Bombs, Gift of Mutation. – 220 Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">4 Chaos Spawn with the Mark of Nurgle – 144
Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">7 Plague Marines with 2 Plasma Guns – 198
Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">7 Plague Marines with 2 Plasma Guns – 198
Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">2 Heldrakes with Baleflamers – 2 X 170 = 340
Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">5 CSM Havocs with Mark of Nurgle and 4
Autocannon – 130 Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">2 CSM Obliterators with Mark of Nurgle – 152
Points.</span></li>
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<b style="line-height: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Allies:</span></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Great Unclean One, Psyker Level 3, 1 Greater
Daemonic Reward, 1 Exalted Daemonic Reward – 290 Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">10 Plaguebearers of Nurgle – 90 Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">10 Plaguebearers of Nurgle – 90 Points.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Total = 1,852 Points.</span></li>
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<b style="line-height: 18pt;"><u><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tau Empire (to the best of
my recollection, and without unit points costs):</span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Primary Detachment:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Commander Farsight.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Farsight’s “Gang of 7”, mostly kitted out
with double plasma, plus a fusion gun, and one guy had no weapons, just the
Command and Control Node so that everyone else could ignore cover; plus 6 shield
drones.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Crisis Suit Commander with missiles, plasma
and 8 Marker Drones.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">12 Firewarriers with Shas’ui and Marker
Drone.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">12 Firewarriers with Shas’ui and Marker
Drone.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">12 Firewarriers with Shas’ui and Marker
Drone.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">7 Pathfinders with Marker Lights.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">3 Crisis Suits with plasma and missiles, plus
3 Shield Drones.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">2 Broadsides with all the missle goodness and
Sky Fire.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">None.</span></li>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Total = ~1,850 Points.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">(I didn’t see James’ list, but I trust him.)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">James had a lot of points tied up with
Farsight and his Gang. It would be the
first time I faced such a list, so it promised to be interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I should note here that this was not a
campaign game, so my Nurgle Biker Lord did not have all the nice gubbins that
he had when I played Josh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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victory points for objectives, so we just agreed to <b>Crusade</b> and rolled up 3 objectives for that. <b>Dawn
of War</b> was the deployment that we rolled, and James won the roll-off to see
who would place objective markers first, so that would give him two objectives
to my one, which suited him well, as it allowed him to be more static, as Tau
tend to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I had set up the board while James was
getting his army out of his car. It was
my usual, less-than-creative, very symmetrical set up, with good amounts of
cover for all possible deployments.
James agreed that it was OK with him before we started rolling for
mission and deployment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I won the roll-of for who would go first, and
gave James the honor of deploying and going first, which would give him a turn
of uninhibited shooting to pulverize whatever he wanted to with all the Marker
Lights that he had, but I wanted to see how he would deploy, and there’s always
a chance to seize the initiative.
However, I generally like to go last in objectives games, so I often won’t
attempt to seize.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Since James was running Farsight he already
knew what his Warlord Trait would be, which is that Farsight and his unit don’t
scatter at all when they arrive from Deep Strike, which is what James was
planning to do with him. We agreed that
I would roll and then choose from one of the three tables in the BRB for my
Warlord Trait, as that’s the way James usually does it in his friendly games,
and that’s the way that Jimmy does it at Empire Games when he’s running
tournaments. Makes it a bit more
balanced in that you don’t necessarily end up getting totally screwed if you
roll something on the table you picked first that wouldn’t benefit you at
all. I rolled a 6, and chose from the
Personal table, which made my Warlord (my Nurgle Chaos Biker Lord) a scoring
unit. Well, if he survived until the end
of the game, which would be a rarity…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I then had to roll for my Daemonic Rewards
and Psychic Powers for the GUO. For the
Greater Daemonic Reward I rolled <b>Dark
Blessing</b>, which would allow my GUO to re-roll failed Invulnerable saves, which
wasn’t bad at all. For the Exalted Reward
I knew what I was going to do, but rolled on the chart anyway and got <b>Unholy Frenzy</b>, which would have given
him Rage and Frenzy, which weren’t bad, but I decided to do what I’d planned to
do anyway, which was to swap that out for one of the Hellforged Artefacts, the <b>Grimoire of True Names</b>. I’d only used the Grimoire once before, in
the previous game against Josh’s Tau, and it proved to be a huge boon to my
game, so I was hoping for similar luck this time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For my Psychic Powers for the GUO I rolled up
<b>Iron Arm</b> (Yeah!), <b>Warp Speed</b> (Yeah!), and <b>Haemmorrhage</b> (so-so), so no complaints
there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(And, once again, I forgot that I had purchased
<b>Gift of Mutation</b> for my Biker Lord,
so didn’t roll on the Chaos Boon table for him.
Need to create a checklist that I can use every game to be sure I go
through all the necessary pre-game steps, and also don’t forget to do Blessings
and Maledictions at the start of each movement phase…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all of his units, but kept his 3 units of Fire Warriors bunched up around the
two objectives he’d placed in cover in his </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">deployment</span><span style="line-height: 18pt;"> zone, just over 12” from
each other on my left side of the table.
I had placed my single objective marker in cover in my deployment zone,
but to the left of the center so that it was in the same half of the table as
James’ two objectives. This would
(hopefully) allow me to not have to spread myself out, as I knew I would be
making a push towards his two objective, as just holding my one wouldn’t cut it
by the end of the game; or so was my thinking along those lines.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">James held Farsight and his bodyguard in Reserve,
as expected. I had 11 units to work
with, so held 6 of them in Reserve: The
2 Heldrakes (which had to start in Reserve), Mr. Fat Pants (the GUO), the unit
of 2 Oblits, and both units of Plaguebearers.
My plan was to weather whatever shooting was necessary until Reserves
started showing up, and Deep Striking close to James’ line and press towards
his objectives. I put my Havocs in the
only building that made sense, and stuffed the Biker Lord and his escort of 4
Chaos Spawn down in the ground floor level of the same building, so that they
would have as straight a shot at James’ big cluster of Fire Warrior units as
possible on my turn, but would be out of line of sight of as much as possible
at the start of the game. I then
positioned one unit of Plague Marines about in the middle of the table, out of
cover but also out of sight of all of the Fire Warriors, although I knew they’d
be lit up by the Marker Drones with the Crisis Suit Commander, and then shot at
by the Crisis Suit Team on my right side of the table. The other unit of Plague Marines I put behind
the cover that my objective was in, so that they would be out of range of James’
Fire Warriors, and as out of sight from his Pathfinders as possible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">James’ Pathfinders lit up my Havocs with
their Marker Lights, and then a couple of squads of Fire Warriors shot the
living shit out of them, wiping out the squad.
I think the Broadsides contributed to that, too, but they may have shot
at the Plague Marines that were behind my objective, in which case that’s how I
lost one there. A few Fire Warriors were
able to take pot shots at my Biker Lord, but either none were able to wound, or
he successfully Look Out,Sir-ed them off to the Spawn, who make their cover
saves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">He then lit up the Plague Marines that were
hoping to make a dash for the cover in the middle of the table with 7 of his 8
Marker Drones, and then shot at them with all the Crisis Suits, and managed to
kill three of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In my half of Turn 1 the Biker Lord and the
Spawn crashed through the wall of the building they were sheltering in and made
a bee-line down my left hand side of the table towards the Fire Warriors
guarding one of James’ objectives. Two
of the Spawn managed to make it into cover, and three of them remained in base
contact with the Biker Lord, since I didn’t have to worry about any template or
blast templates hitting them, so I could distribute the Look Out, Sirs amongst
them as much as possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Plague
Marines behind my objective moved up into the cover (mostly), and the Plague
Marines that had been lit up by so many Marker Drones decided to angle off to
the right and head towards the Crisis Suits that had jumped closer to them in
their assault phase. I had very little
shooting, since my Havocs had been obliterated, but the Death Guard on my right
angling towards the Crisis Suit team got lucky and took out a few Shield Drones
with their rapid fire shooting. The
Biker Lord used the Burning Brand of Skalathrax to flame 4 Fire Warriors out of
the squad to my far left, which was the squad he and the Spawn intended to
assault next turn. The units I shot at
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And that was about it for Turn 1. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Farsight and his buddies, but they were still discussing strategy on the mother
ship, and decided not to turn up just yet.
That worked just fine for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">James moved his Marker Drones and their
Crisis Suit master closer to the Plague Marines on my right, and edged up his
Crisis Suit team even closer, I guess to try to get within rapid fire range, but
it was looking pretty hopeful that if they rolled poorly for their assault
phase jump, and didn’t wipe out the Plague Marines, that I might have a chance
of charging that unit of Crisis Suits in my turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">James managed to peel off a wound on two of
the Spawn, thanks to Look Out, Sirs, as well as the Biker Lord, who failed one
Look Out, Sir and then failed his armor save.
*Sigh*. Chaos Lords only have 3
wounds, so the loss of any one of them that could otherwise be prevented is
aggravating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Otherwise, the Broadsides targeted my Plague
Marines that were in the cover with my objectived, and managed to kill one of
them. Then, in his assault phase, his
Crisis Suit team on my right only rolled a 3 for their assault jump away from
the Plague Marines near them, which made me hopeful that they could assault the
Crisis team in my turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In my half of Turn 2, the following showed up
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">One Heldrake.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Great Unclean One.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">One unit of Plagubearers.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">This was also very beneficial for me. There were some tense moments for me, as I
got aggressive with my Deep Strike positions, and the GUO almost had a mishap,
dropping in very close to James’ Pathfinders, and the Plaguebearers almost
scattered onto the Spawn accompanying the Lord.
However, I got lucky, and both units came in just far enough out to make
it in and not require me to roll on the Deep Strike Mishap table. The Oblits hit right where I wanted them to,
and the Heldrake flew in from my right side, vector striking the Crisis Team and
taking a toll. The Crisis Team was still
there, but they lost some drones and some wounds from the Heldrake’s vector
strike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The GUO used the Grimoire on the Heldrake, as
James’ Broadsides had Sky Fire, and it was presenting its ass to the Crisis
Team, so if I didn’t get them tied up in close combat this turn, they could
take snap shots at it’s AV10 side with plasma, which could prove a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Lord then split off from the Spawn, and
both units advanced towards the Fire Warrior teams harboring in the ruins on my
left. The Plague Marines in the cover
with my objective moved through cover pretty well, managing to get most of them
out of the cover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the shooting phase, the Lord refrained
from shooting at the Fire Warriors in front of him with the Burning Brand of
Skalathrax, not wanting to thin their numbers too low, or have no models on the
ground floor to try to attack. The
Heldrake flamed the Pathfinders with its Baleflamer, causing considerable
damage and forcing the Marker Light toting Tau to break. The Plague Marines on my right declined to
shoot at the Crisis Team with their bolt pistols for fear of putting themselves
out of charge range, which after moving an unobstructed 6” was only 5”. If I recall correctly, the Plague Marines
emerging from the cover in the middle of the action where just barely in range
of the Fire Warriors opposite them, but I can’t recall for sure, or whether
they were able to shoot any of them successfully (they may have run, can’t
recall for sure).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The real boon to this turn of shooting, in
addition to the Heldrake’s results, was the Obliterators one-shotting both of
the Broadsides with their multi-meltas.
That took a huge threat off the board, and left the Oblits free to focus
on the Fire Warriors that remained directly in front of them on one of James’
objectives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In my assault phase, the Spawn assaulted the
Fire Warrior squad immediately to my left, drawing all of the Overwatch from
them and the squad next to them. Since
they were in the open, they didn’t have any cover, and as a result took a few
wounds, which left me with 2 Spawn with full wounds (James had a good Overwatch
on the Spawn). However, the Spawn were
able to make their short charge distance, and the Biker Lord, without having to
worry about any Overwatch shots coming his way, assaulted the same squad. My units caused enough wounds to force James
to make a break test, which he failed, and that unit of Fire Warriors got run
down. However, in the process they were
able to put a wound on the Biker Lord, so he was down to one wound, and they
also peeled one wound off of one of the Spawn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On my right, the Plague Marines were
successful in their assault into the Crisis Team. They took no wounds, and managed to kill off
one Crisis Suit and the two shield drones, but the Crisis Team didn’t break,
which suited me just fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Farsight & Friends were still busy
studying the unfolding battle from the safety of their Manta in orbit, and so
once again didn’t turn up for James.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Pathfinders couldn’t regroup, and ran off
the table (either that, or they ran off the table after being flamed by the
Heldrake, but at this point I can’t remember; I tried to get this battle report
completed the day after the game, but work got in the way, and I’m finishing it
up almost a week later…)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Biker Lord fell to Fire Warrior shooting.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Plague Marines on the right finished off
the Crisis Team and started making their way around James’ side of the building
in the center of the table.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">My second Heldrake turned up, flying in from
the left corner of my board edge towards the two squads of remaining Fire
Warriors.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">My second squad of Plaguebearers also turned
up, and scattered safely, but a little back from where I wanted them, but still
within range to make it to the nearest objective in James’ deployment zone.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Plaguebearers that had arrived Turn 2
rolled double 1s for their difficult terrain test, so just sort of spread out
where they were, preparing to head back towards the objective in my deployment
zone.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Spawn moved out of the cover of the ruins
on my left in James’ deployment zone and set up to charge the Fire Warriors
that were left there.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Plague Marines coming around from my right
moved forwards, aiming for the objective in James’ deployment zone on my right.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The GUO got both the Grimoire and Iron Arm
off, and moved out of cover and set up to attempt to assault the Crisis Suit
Commander and whatever was left of his marker drones.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The first Heldrake vector struck the marker
drone squad, putting some hurt on them, and set up to flame either Fire Warrior
squad remaining on the objectives.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Plague Marines in the middle of the
action continued to press forward, putting more distance between them and the objective
in my deployment zone, but in a position to dash back towards it in the next
turn if their bolters and plasma guns weren’t needed forward.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Oblits moved forward and got into “Howdy”
range of the Fire Warriors in the cover with the objective on my right in James’
deployment zone.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Heldrake and Oblits flamed the living
hell out of both squads of Fire Warriors, but not quite finishing them off.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Plague Marines on my right stumbled
forward 1” in the shooting phase as they tried to run closer to James’
objective nearest to them.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Spawn charged the Fire Warriors remaining
in the ruins on my left, finishing them off.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The Oblits charged the Fire Warriors to my
right of the squad the Spawn took care of business, finishing them off.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"> ==>> At
this point, James had no more Troops choices left, but he had First Blood and
Slay the Warlord, and still has the potential for Farsight and his bodyguard to
take care of my Troops and/or deny a key objective.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">The GUO charged into the Crisis Suit
Commander and his marker drones and got stuck in.</span></li>
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automatically came in at the start of James’ turn. Being Farsight, he and his unit did not
scatter when they arrive from Deep Strike.
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and his buddies (lots of dual plasma, plus a fusion blaster) made short work of
my two remaining Plague Marine squads, which were both out in the open and had
to rely on their Feel No Pain rolls to try to withstand the blasting they took
from Farsight’s squad, but after Jame’s shooting phase both Plague Marine
squads were gone.</span></div>
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squad towards my table edge somewhat with their jet packs, and spread out a bit
so that they wouldn’t be totally bunched up when the baleflamer templates
started dropping on them in my turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In my half of turn 4, the both Heldrakes
turned 90 degrees and were able to vector strike Farsight’s squad, taking a
heavy toll. The Plaguebearers in the
open made a 6” bee-line for the closest objective in James’ deployment zone,
while the other Plaguebearer squad managed to get out of the cover they were in
and headed towards Farsight’s squad to see if they could do anything. The Spawn wanted to join in that fun, too, so
they headed straight for Farsight and his bodyguard as well. The oblits managed a decent difficult terrain
test and moved off of the objective they’d stood on after they wiped out the
last of the Fire Warriors that had been there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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flamed Farsight’s squad, and did even more damage. The Oblits tried to use their plasma cannons
on Farsight’s squad, but they both overheated, and one of them took a
wound. Ouch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Then the critical question: Could I get both the Plaguebearers and the
two remaining Spawn into combat with what remained of Farsight’s squad? As it turned out, they did so easily. I ended up winning combat, Farsight failed
his break test, and the Spawn and the Plaguebearers ran them down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Crisis Suit Commander (who was down to one wound) was still in combat with the GUO,
as I’d essentially tabled James. Both
units of Plaguebearers would have made it to an objective marker in Turn 5, and
I had Slay the Warlord. The Oblits would’ve
made their way over to the GUO and Crisis Suit Commander’s combat and tried to
join in, and with two player turns in Turn 5 to work with, I’m sure they would’ve
taken care of the Commander. So James
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Victory Goes to Chaos!!!</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This was a well played game on both our
parts, I think, and I had a lot of fun, but then again, it’s always more fun
when you win. James seemed to have had a
good time, and was very good natured about taking the loss. In truth, his dice were not with him this
game, while with only a few exceptions, mine rarely let me down (even my cursed
scatter die!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In retrospect, Farsight lost him the
game. By staying in Reserves until he
had to show up Turn 4, the lack of that many points from his army taking part
in earlier Turns really hampered James’ ability to deal with all the threats
that I had on the table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For my part, it was good to get another game
in against a different Tau player who has a different style of play. It was also probably good for me to lose my
Havocs at the top of Turn 1, so that I had to figure out other means of trying
to deal with all of the Marker Lights James had early, and secure a victory by
some other means. The Grimoire only let
me own once, and my GUO did take a wound or two as a result of only having a
6++ save for one turn, but his Greater Gift was that he could re-roll
Invulnerable saves, and that helped.
Iron Arm was a help, but I kept forgetting to cast Warp Speed on the
GUO, which is just my inexperience with playing with a psyker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the time to do so. I hope you enjoyed
this battle report. As always, please
feel free to leave a comment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Hey, Folks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Just wanted to give you a quick battle report
of a game I played this past Saturday (9/21/2013). This is the first game I’ve been able to get
in in about 5 or 6 weeks, and prior to this game I had gotten in a game against
an experienced Eldar player, which was the first game with all my fully painted
models, and my first game in about 2 months.
(I’ll try to remember the details of that battle, too, and give you a
brief on it here when time allows; I’m doing this one now because I managed to
write down my thoughts and rememberences right after the game while they were
fresh in my mind, so let’s get this one out of the way.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The game that this battle report is for was
played against a good friend of mine, Josh Howery, who is a very experienced
Tau general, having played Tau since they first came out. He had gotten in quite a few games in the
recent weeks since the Tau codex dropped, so was pretty experienced with 6<sup>th</sup>
Edition Tau, at least the way he likes to play them. I, on the other hand, and as noted, had only
gotten 1 other game in in about 5 months or so, and that was a 2,500 point game
against Eldar about 5 or 6 weeks earlier.
I had only played the 6<sup>th</sup> Edition Tau once before, and that
was against another friend of mine, John Grasser, right after the new Tau codex
came out, and it ended very badly for me by the end of Turn 3. So I was not expecting to win in this game
against Josh, but felt the need to start getting in as many games as possible
before I head off to Valhalla in 3.5 weeks so that I’m not checking every rule
every few minutes, and I remember how to play my army.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the details of the battle:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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40,000 Battle Report<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Saturday, September 21<sup>st</sup>, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Chaos
Space Maries w/ Chaos Daemon Allies<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Tau Empire<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1,850
Points<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Daemons:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">1 Chaos Lord on Bike with Mark of Nurgle, Sigil
of Corruption, The Burning Brand of Skalathrax, The Black Mace, Blight
Grenades, Melta Bombs, Gift of Mutation. – 220 Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">4 Chaos Spawn with the Mark of Nurgle – 144 Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">7 Plague Marines with 2 Plasma Guns – 198 Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">7 Plague Marines with 2 Plasma Guns – 198 Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">2 Heldrakes with Baleflamers – 2 X 170 = 340
Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">5 CSM Havocs with Mark of Nurgle and 4
Autocannon – 130 Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">2 CSM Obliterators with Mark of Nurgle – 152 Points.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Great Unclean One, Psyker Level 3, 1 Greater
Daemonic Reward, 1 Exalted Daemonic Reward – 290 Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">10 Plaguebearers of Nurgle – 90 Points.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">10 Plaguebearers of Nurgle – 90 Points.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Commander Shadowsun and her retinue of Crisis
Suits (3?), Gun Drones (6?), Shield Drone(s), and a Command-and-Control Drone.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">(This squad had a mix of weaponry, including
Plasma, Fusion and Interceptor.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Big
squad, lots of goodies.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">Crisis Suit Commander with 6 Marker Drones
and Drone Controller.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">12 Firewarriors with Bonding Knives.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">12 Firewarriors with Bonding Knives.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">12 Kroot with Sniper Rifles.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">2 Crisis Suits with 1X Air Burst Fragmentation
Grenades, both with Plasma, not sure what else, and a Shield Drone.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">1 Hammerhead Tank with Longstrike.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">2 Broadsides with all the missiles they could
possibly take, and Interceptor (and SkyFire?).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">1 SkyRay Tank (6 Hunter-Killer missiles and 2
Marker Drones).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">1 Riptide, with big gun and shield (not sure
of the specifics).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We rolled up <b>The Emperor’s Will</b> and the <b>Hammer
and Anvil</b> deployment. About the
worst combination that I could hope for.
With The Emperor’s Will, it often comes down to who gets First Blood,
especially against a static army like Tau, vs a mostly foot-slogging army like
mine. This did not bode well for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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he didn’t provide very much cover for either of us. This would be a problem for both of us, but
more for Josh, I think, since he had so many Marker Drones with which to remove
my cover, and smart missile systems which ignore cover, so net-net I think it
was OK, as it limited the cover he could take from my low AP weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Warlord Trait taken care of. I rolled on
the “Personal” table in the BRB, and got <b>Master
of Defense</b> (Warlord and unit have counter-attack while in their own
deployment zone), which I knew wouldn’t do me much good, but then I’ve never
had much luck with Warlord Traits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Psychic Powers for the GUO. For the
Greater Gift I rolled <b>Touch of Uncreation</b>,
which gave my Great Unclean One Armourbane and Fleshbane in close combat, which
wasn’t bad at all. For the Exalted Gift
I knew what I was going to do, but rolled on the chart anyway and got <b>Tethered To The Warp</b>, which would allow
my GUO to come back from reserves with one wound after he died in the previous
turn. I decided to do what I’d planned
to do anyway, which was to swap that out for one of the Hellforged Artefacts,
the <b>Grimoire of True Names</b>. I’d never used the Grimoire before, but it
came highly recommended (by John), and I had recently re-done all of my army
lists to allow the GUO to take this, so I was looking forward to using it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For Psychic Powers I rolled on the Biomancy
table and got <b>Enfeeble</b> (not
terrible), <b>Life Leech</b> (not terrible,
and could come in handy if Mr. Fat Pants (the Great Unclean One) was low on
wounds), and <b>Endurance</b> (Yeah!). That was the big winner, right there. Getting Iron Arm would’ve rocked it, but I
was very happy to get Endurance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Then, I was supposed to roll on the Chaos
Boon table for my Lord, since I’d given him <b>Gift of Mutation</b>, but as this was the first time I’d taken this for
him, I forgot, which may or may not have made a difference in the game, but we’ll
never know. Lesson learned: Check to see that everybody made their
pre-game rolls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the roll to see who goes first, and had him go first, so he deployed his army,
leaving the 2-man Crisis Suit team and the Kroot in Reserve. He picked the side of the table that had the
better cover in terms of buildings in which to park his Firewarriors and
Broadsides. Things were getting tougher
for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I then deployed my forces (rather well, I
thought), keeping the 2 Heldrakes, Mr. Fat Pants (the Great Unclean One) and
the 2-man unit of Oblits in Reserve. I
deployed the rest of my forces in what cover I had, making sure that there was
nowhere that Josh could Infiltrate his Kroot into my backfield, so they stayed
in Reserve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which was fine with me, as I generally like to go second in objective-based
missions, and Josh didn’t have any psychic powers to power up his forces with,
but it did give him the chance to move first and start shooting at me, which he
did. A lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nurgle Chaos Spawn on my left flank with enough marker light hits to ensure
they would have no cover save from the cover they were in, and plenty of his
other units would get boosts to their BS.
Pretty much everything opened up on them then, whittling me down to just
2 Spawn. That’s OK, as they’re primarily
there as a delivery system to get the Lord into close combat, but they hadn’t
even moved and were pretty beat up. I
also lost a single Plague Marine out of the squad that was next to the Lord and
the Spawn from a big template from the Riptide.
My other unit of Plague Marines in the middle of my deployment zone
fared even worse, receiving a ton of wounds and rolling five 1s for armor
saves, and only making one Feel No Pain.
So that squad was down to 3 guys, but fortunately it included my two
plasma gunners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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down some of the Gun Drones in Shadowsun’s squad, and take a wound or two off of
the Riptide thanks to long range shots from the Plague Marines’ plasma guns,
but that was about it. The Lord and
remaining Spawn made a run for it to the difficult terrain in the middle of the
table, but didn’t quite make it (not that it would’ve mattered), and the Lord
was able to use the Burning Brand to knock out a bunch of the Gun Drones in
Shadowsun’s retinue. I knew I had to
deal with Shadowsun and her crew, but I also had to deal with the Riptide and
somehow try to whittle down all those Marker Drones with the Crisis Suit, but
Josh positioned them all very well so that the Crisis Suit commander would get
a re-rollable (I think) 2+ armor save (I’m sure of that), which meant he’d be
shielding the Marker Drones from the Burning Brand, so I worked on Shadowsun’s
unit instead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Both of Josh’s units in Reserve came in, and
he had the Kroot walk (stumble) onto the long board edge on my left side way
back in his deployment zone. The 2 man
Crisis Suit team with the Shield Drone, however, dropped behind cover over on
my right side in very good threat range to all of my Troops choices. Josh promptly used the air-bursting weapon
that ignores cover (and doesn’t need Line of Sight) on my group of
Plaguebearers that I had all bunched up in a ruin, and scored a “Hit” on his
scatter die. (It should be noted that
Josh scored a “Hit” with that scatter die every time he rolled it in this
game.) Without their 2+ cover save, the
Plaguebearers ended up losing 7 of their number, as all of them were under the
air-burst template and I only managed to make three 5++ saves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(I should also note that we’re in the middle
of a long campaign that our club is running, and this was a campaign game. Josh’s campaign army is his Tyranids, so he
did not have his Grand General in this game, but I had mine, and he has some
pretty nice upgrades that he’s earned throughout the campaign, including Feel
No Pain (5+) and Eternal Warrior.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Josh then proceeded to pummel my Lord and the
remaining Spawn with everything that he could reach them with with what he had
left, and that was quite a bit. The Lord
made an amazing number of armor saves, invulnerable saves and Feel No Pain
saves, but in the end couldn’t hold on to his last wound and was killed. If I had made one more Feel No Pain he would
have lived to assault Shadowsun’s unit on his own, albeit with only a single
wound, but, alas, it was not to be. True
to the folklore, the freshly painted Nurgle Biker Lord with The Black Mace
failed in his first outing; hopefully he’ll do better the next time around, but
he does present a real threat to most armies, and so has a big target on his
chest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Warlord. We both held our respective
objectives. Score at the midpoint of
Turn 2 was 5 to 3 in favor of the Tau Empire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were in Reserves decided to show up at the same time, which was a huge blessing,
as it denied Josh the ability to pick apart units coming in from reseve
piecemeal with all the Interceptor ability he had taken. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Since it was the Hammer and Anvil deployment,
there was nothing for my Heldrakes to vector strike when they came onto the
board, so I brought one straight on from the left corner of my deployment zone
so that it was right in front of Shadowsun’s squad (which had Interceptor), and
the other straight up from the right corner of my deployment zone so he could
try to Baleflamer those pesky Crisis Suits and their air-bursting badness (not
to mention their plasmas).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I decided to position Mr. Fat Pants right in
the middle of the board, just in front of a large piece of ruins for his Deep
Strike. Since a GUO has Slow and
Purposeful, he can’t run in the shooting phase, which makes him quite
slow. But I thought this was a good spot
for him to be in, as with a good scatter I would be in range to assault
Shadowsun’s unit the next turn, or just start moving towards the objective in
Josh’s deployment zone and choose targets of opportunity to try to assault. For once my scatter die honored me with a “Hit”,
so he ended up right where I put him, a little over an inch away from (and
behind) the cover in the middle of the table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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backfield where they would get a good shot at both units of Firewarriers, the
Broadsides on the second floor of the ruins back there, the SkyRay, and the
Hammerhead, and even could deal with the Kroot, if they wanted to and survived
that long. They scattered 7” straight
back towards Josh’s table edge, but I had given them plenty of room, so they
were fine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Maledictions and the all important Grimoire.
Since I’d never used the Grimoire before, I was a little nervous about
using it on one of my own units. For
those of you that don’t know, the Grimoire of True Names can either buff one of
your unit’s invulnerable saves, or de-buff an opponent’s unit’s invul
save. It has a range of 24” either way,
and if I use it on an enemy unit all I have to do is be in range and declare
it, and their invul save goes down by -1.
No Deny The Witch, no cover save, they just need to be in range and *POOF*,
their invul save goes down by one.
However, if I try to use it on one of my own units (including the bearer
and his unit), I have to roll a D6; on a 1 or 2, that unit’s invul save goes
down by -1, and on a 3+ that unit’s invul save goes up by 2+. So a Daemon unit that has the Grimoire used
on them successfully ends up getting a 3++, whereas if I try to use it on one
of my own units and roll a 1 or 2, their invul save goes to 6++. (Likewise, if I used it on an enemy unit that
had, say, a 5++ save, they would then have a 6++ save until the start of my
next Movement phase.) It’s risky to use
it on your own units, but the potential reward is significant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ended up right in front of Shadowsun’s unit with the Grimoire, and passed the
check, so that Heldrake now had a 3++ save.
Nice. I then cast Enfeeble on the
Riptide, and Endurance on the GUO himself.
Both went off without a hitch, so the GUO now had Feel No Pain, It Will
Not Die and Relentless (big deal), whereas the Riptide had its Toughness
reduced by 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I think the Riptide had SkyFire), and despite scoring a few hits against
everything he shot at (mostly the Heldrakes, I think) I managed to make most of
my saves. He did manage to score an
Immobilized result with a penetrating hit on the Heldrake on my right flank,
which meant it was now Vector Locked at 36” velocity. That was OK by me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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flank flamed Shadowsun’s squad, doing some damage before the Shield Drone
started making its invul saves, and the Heldrake on my right flank flamed the
two Crisis Suits and their Shield Drone, which got rid of one of the Crisis
Suits, but not, unfortunately, the one that had the air-burst ignores cover
launcher. The Havocs concentrated on the
Riptide and took a wound (or 2?) off of it, and the Oblits in the rear shot
their assault cannon into the Firewarriors in the building in front of them,
killing enough to force a morale check, which they passed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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succesfully cast Life Leech and then managed to hit the Riptide with this
Witchfire, taking another wound off of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And, to top it all off, at the end of my turn
the GUO regained the one wound he lost from Josh’s shooting thanks to It Will
Not Die that he got from a successful casting of Endurance, and I believe I
managed to put the hull point back on the Heldrake on my right flank that had
been Vector Locked when it came in from Josh’s Interceptor by virtue of its It
Will Not Die rule.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all 6 of its hunter missiles at the Heldrake on my right flank (which had not
been buffed by the Grimoire in my Turn 2), and I almost made all of its invul
saves, but failed one and it crashed, to no effect. The remaining Crisis Suit on my right flank
finished off the three Plaguebearers that were huddling in the ruins in the
middle front of my deployment zone, where my objective was, and the Riptide
killed two more Plague Marines from the squad that was next to that objective,
too, leaving a lone plasma gunner from that squad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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squads and the Kroot at the 2 Oblits in his backfield, killing one of
them. But other than that, not much
happened on his turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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something rather curious. He moved
Shadowsun’s unit into the cover that was in front of my GUO, bringing it closer
(I thought) to him being able to assault Shadowsun’s unit in my turn. I guess Josh was worried about all the plasma
guns that I had that could reach Shadowsun and her retinue in my turn, but it
looked to me like the GUO had a good chance of getting into close combat with
her and her gang in my turn. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the GUO, and thankfully it worked, which was good because if he was going to
try to charge Shadowsun’s unit, he was going to take a lot of overwatch fire
from most of Josh’s army, starting with the Marker Drones. I measured and we decided that I would need a
total of 11 inches to get into contact with the first model in Shadowsun’s unit
with the GUO. Luck was on my side, as he
rolled a 6 for his difficult terrain roll, bringing him within 5 inches of that
juicy target.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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struck the Marker Drones, managing to kill half of them, which left three plus
the Crisis Suit Commander, which would be a huge help. My remaining Plaguebearer unit, well within
my deployment zone on my right, but close to the Crisis Suit with the air-burst
weapon, decided to spread out a bit to try to reduce the threat of an air-burst
on them, and angled themselves closer to the ruins that held my objective; this
was still being held by the lone Plague Marine plasma gunner, but was far
enough away from those Plaguebearers that they needed to start moving in that
direction to be effective in later turns at holding it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Havocs concentrated fire on the Riptide, dropping it to a single remaining
wound, which meant that Josh wasn’t going to risk using his Nova Reactor to try
to supercharge it, significantly reducing it as a risk for 2 turns. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could make it into close combat with Shadowsun’s unit, charging through the
ruins. I needed a 5 to make it to the
closest model, and rolled a 6, a 3 and another 3 on my 3 dice for his charge
roll, so he made it! The 3++ save the
Grimoire had given him, plus the Feel No Pain (5+) that he got from a
successful roll for Endurance, really paid off when he shrugged off most of the
overwatch shots that came his way, which of course were boosted by the three
remaining Marker Drones, who overwatched first and put three markers on
him. In the end, he won combat,
Shadowsun failed her morale check, and the Big Fella ran down the command
squad. Slay the Warlord for me! The GUO then consolidated 5” straight towards
Josh’s objective while remaining in cover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a blow-by-blow description of what happened, and if you’re still reading at
this point, I greatly appreciate it. So,
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objective in Josh’s deployment zone, and ended up being parked right on top of
it, but by the time he got there he was down to a single wound. I didn’t want to risk casting Life Leech and
possibly rolling a Perils of the Warp, as he was my only chance to deny Josh that
objective, so he sat tight and hunkered down.
I rolled for the Grimoire of True Names 5 times during the game, and
never rolled lower than a 4, so he always had a 3++ save after he had buffed
the left Heldrake in Turn 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the final wound off of the Riptide in Turn 4, eliminating that threat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The lone Plague Marine plasma gunner made a
valiant attempt at taking out the Crisis Suit on the right (the one with the
air-burst fragmentation grenade launcher), rolling a 6 for difficult terrain to
get into rapid fire range! But, then he
failed to wound it. It took the Havocs
shooting through cover at that pesky Crisis Suit to finally get rid of him, which allowed the Plaguebearers
to move out of cover and head towards the SkyRay that had moved into that part
of the board in an attempt to tank shock the lone plasma gunner, who was now
standing on my objective, and get Linebreaker.
However, the Plaguebearers had other plans, and charged the SkyRay,
scoring a ton of hits with their 20 attacks, and rolling four 6s to glance it
to death. The Plaguebearers’ plague
swords have <b>Touch of Rust</b>, which
always causes a glancing hit on a roll of a 6 after hitting, but I forgot that
they were already Str 4 and needed 6s anyway, since they were hitting the
SkyRay’s AV10 rear armor. But, it was a
good exercise, and either way it got rid of the SkyRay, which could have rushed
forwards and parked itself right on top of my objective, keeping any of my
scoring units more than 3” away from it.
However, the lowly Plaguebearers had proven their worth and eliminated
that threat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The remaining Oblit in Josh’s backfield
managed to take out a Broadside with his twin-linked melta gun, and thin out
the Firewarriors in the same building and even cause them to break a turn later,
but they rallied the next turn and he eventually died to weight of fire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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continued to pour firepower into my GUO, but Mr. Fat Pants kept rolling above 2
for the Grimoire, and had a 3++ save to help him hang in there to the end of
Turn 6. This was a very fortunate thing,
as my remaining Heldrake, which had had to fly off the board earlier having
been Vector Locked, flew off the table at the end of Turn 6 and would not be able
to provide insurance for me to get Linebreaker.
The unit of Plague Marines that was still mobile were still too far away
from Josh’s objective to try to contest it and get Linebreaker, as I had to use
their shooting phases to try to get rid of the remaining missile
Broadside. In the end, they could only
get that MissileSide down to one wound, and were too far away from the
objective to make any more of a difference to the outcome of the game. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the GUO to survive being camped on Josh’s objective, in his deployment zone,
with two heavily reduced units of Firewarriors and a full unit of Kroot
shooting at him, backed up by the remaining 3 Marker Drones and their
Controller, Longstrike in his Hammerhead, and the MissileSide in the building
above him. At the end of Turn 6, he was
still there, with only 1 wound left, and I had firm control of the objective in
my deployment zone. We rolled to see if
the game would go to Turn 7, and it came up a 1, so the game ended there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Wow! I
can honestly say that I did NOT expect to pull off a victory in my first “real”
game against Tau. It was a close game,
and after my Biker Lord and his Spawn retinue got decimated in the early game,
I was not optimistic. Josh had a lot of Marker
Drones to light up pretty much whatever he wanted. However, I used the Grimoire of True Names 5
times and it never failed me. I failed a
few psychic tests, but never periled, which saved the GUO’s big butt. And I have to say, my dice were HOT! I was making invul saves and It Will Not Die
rolls like crazy all game long. The only
time my dice started to show the strain of doing so well was at the very end of
the game, when the GUO took a bunch of wounds and ended up with a single wound
by the end of Turn 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Josh and I quickly rolled out a theoretical
Turn 7 of him shooting at my GUO, and I did fail the last save, which would
have given Josh the game, as we both would have held an objective and had Slay the
Warlord, and neither of us would have had Linebreaker, but he had First Blood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Well, this Battle Report ended up being a lot
longer than I’d originally intended, but as I got writing it, I just kept going
and the story told itself. If you’ve
lasted this long, thanks very much. I’m
very encouraged by the results of my army against such a powerful 6<sup>th</sup>
Edition codex, run by a very experienced general. Overall I’d say that Josh and I are 50/50 in
terms of wins and losses against each other, and as I said, I fully expected to
get schooled on just how well Tau can shoot down pretty much whatever they want
to. But it just goes to show that even
the under-appreciated Chaos Space Marine codex, backed up by some solid Chaos
Daemon allies, can still win games, especially if your dice are on your side!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Josh thought that it would’ve been better if
I’d Deep Striked by GUO where I put the Obliterators, in his backfield where
the GUO could’ve romped through unit after unit, but in retrospect he would’ve
just been shot to hell by two units of rapid-firing Firewarriors, a unit of
Kroot, and 2 MissileSides, and probably Longstriker in his Hammerhead, all
after being lit up by all those Marker Drones.
Even with the 3++ save that the Grimoire could confer, that would be a
lot of shots to have to make saves against, and I don’t think he would’ve
lasted until the end of the game, as he did; plus, if he’d failed a Grimoire
test, he would’ve only had a 6++ save, as he definitely wouldn’t have any cover
save given how many Marker Drones were in the area. As it was, the two Oblits were a distraction
to the Firewarriors and Kroot to shoot at while they were back there, and
managed to thin out one of the Firewarrior units and cut the number of MissileSides
in half.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Man of the Match was definitely my Great
Unclean One (although an honorable mention needs to be given to my blue dice,
which were absolutely on fire most of the game!
And also the lone Plague Marine plasma gunner, who valiently chipped
away at the annoying Crisis Suit and its Shield Drone, and held my objective by
himself at the end of the game.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Painting:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As far as painting goes, I’m working on the
legs of my last Plague Hulk, and that’s the last of the painting that I <b><i>have</i></b>
to do. I definitely want to get my first
stretch goal of edge highlighting all of the metal on the two Heldrakes done,
but given that I’m about half way through with the legs of the Plague Hulk, and
then all I’ll need to do is assemble the legs onto the Plague Hulk’s body, I’ll
definitely have plenty of time to get that edge highlighting done on the two
Heldrakes. I want to spend as much time
as I can in the time remaining before I go to Valhalla to get in some more
games, especially against Eldar, Tau and any flavor of Space Marines that I can
find.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thanks for taking the time to read this
Battle Report, and look for an update on how easy it is to store and transport my
Plague Drones (which I forgot to discuss at length when I posted that I’d
completed painting them), and the final word on finishing up the last Plague
Hulk. After that, I’ll try to post
(shorter) Battle Reports as I’m able to get games in, and then will post as
much as I can while I’m at Valhalla in October.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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comment below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Here’s the latest group of models to join my Daemons of
Nurgle forces: 6 Plague Drones of
Nurgle, which I can run either as two units of 3 or one larger unit, up to 6.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Several months ago as I was planning out what I would be
building and painting, and when I’d be doing it, I was also trying to plan out
how I would be transporting both my Chaos Space Marines army and my Nurgle
Daemons army. I use Battle Foam P.A.C.K.
720s for each army, but the trick was how to configure the trays of foam that I
would need for each army. One problem
that was particularly prickly was how to transport these Plague Drones once
they were finished. I pondered how to
magnetize the wings, or the legs, or both, as when fully assembled these models
are a bit bulky, and look a bit fragile.
Nothing seemed to work in terms of magnetizing the wings and/or legs to
the bodies so that they would not droop due to gravity pulling the pieces down,
rather than having them positioned properly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I was working through this problem, my friend Josh Howery
suggested that we try to see if we could magnetize the two halves of each of
the Drone bodies together, and if that worked then I could glue the wings and
legs into whatever position I wanted to on each body half.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As it turned out, there are on the insides of each half of
each Drone body two round, flat spots that line up exactly with each half. That is, there are two round, flat spots on
inside of the left body half that line up exactly with the same sized round,
flat spots on the inside of the right body half. The following picture is a bit dark, and in
it we’ve already glued magnets onto these spots, which happened to be the exact
diameter of magnets that I had on hand.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In any event, and to make a long story short, it
worked. Josh glued a magnet onto the
circular spots on both halves of each Drone body, put in enough magnets on each
half so that they would meet in (or nearly in) the middle of the Drone’s body
when the two halves were put together. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Simply gluing the magnets in place wouldn’t hold them when
the two body halves were put together and then separated, so Josh then filled
in the space around the magnets with Apoxy Sculpt, which is a two-part modeling
putty similar to Green Stuff but less expensive and easier to work with. (The problem with Apoxy Sculpt is that it
takes overnight to dry, and comes in two large containers, but for large
projects, it’s more cost effective and easier to work with than Green
Stuff. Josh used Apoxy Sculpt to make
the custom Nurgle Chaos Spawn as my 5<sup>th</sup> Spawn for me a while back,
which I wrote about a few months ago here.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Taking this approach also allowed me to magnetize the two
different styles of heads that come with the Drones. As I hadn’t played any games with these
models, I wasn’t sure if I would always (or ever) use the Rot Proboscis option,
which makes the Plague Drones’ close combat attacks Poisoned 3+ instead of
their standard Poisoned 4+, at a cost of 5 points per model. Certainly Poisoned 3+ sounds good, but I wasn’t
sure it was something I wanted to take all the time. So I shaved down the plastic on the inside of
each half of each drone where the heads would attach, and glued a larger
diameter magnet there on the inside.
Then it was a simple matter to flatten the ends of all of both types of
heads and glue a corresponding magnet onto them. Of course, I made sure that the polarities of
all of the magnets were working in the same direction, so that I could use any
head on any Drone at any time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After that, it was easy to glue the wings and legs into the
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That was several months ago, and I’ve been holding off on
painting the Drones and their Plaguebearer riders for one of the last tasks
that I had to accomplish to get ready to go to Valhalla. Two Fridays ago I finished up the Nurgle
Biker Lord, so on that Saturday (September 7<sup>th</sup>) I was able to get
started painting the Plague Drones and their riders.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The process of painting them (well, washing them with
Citadel shades, mostly) went remarkably quickly, and I was able to get them all
finished in seven days of painting over 8 calendar days, committing a total of
45.5 hours to the task. Wow, that was a
lot of work for one week. I ended up
getting 10 hours of work done on that first Saturday, and then had problems
with my work laptop where it needed to be rebuilt by our IT department, and
that took more than a day, so I had a lot of free time on my hands late last
week to put into getting these Drones finished as quickly as I could. Also, the wife has eased up on giving me a
hard time about spending so much time working on my stuff to get ready for
Valhalla, and my daughter has had more rehearsals for her upcoming shows, so I’ve
had more time in the evenings during the week to spend working on painting that
I have had in previous weeks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One problem that I ran into as I was finishing up the Drones’
bodies and started working on the Plaguebearer riders’ bodies was getting the
riders to stay on top of the posts on the tops of the Drones after each Drone’s
body halves were put together with the magnets.
These guys really were meant to be glued in place on these posts, so I
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What I ended up doing was drilling a hole into the posts of
each of the Drones’ and inserting and gluing a thin brass rod such that it was
anchored inside one body half with superglue and Green Stuff, and stuck up far
enough above the post on the outside of the body so that any rider would stay
in place when mounted on the post + brass rod rig. This was a bit challenging and very delicate
work, but with patience and perseverance I was able to get all 6 Drones drilled
out and the brass rods installed and anchored with Green Stuff in the same
night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With a lot of time and working very quickly, I was able to
finish up these 6 Plague Drones and their Plaguebearer riders by last Saturday,
which was a huge relief. And with the heads magnetized, I can swap them out depending on whether I want to use the Rot Proboscis or not and by WSYWIG.</div>
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Hey, Folks.<br />
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I realized last night that I was in such a hurry to (finally) put up a post about the completion of the Nurgle Biker Lord with The Black Mace, that I forgot to mention how long it took me to paint him and the bike up, and customize the bike to enable it to pop a wheelie on demand:<br />
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29 hours.<br />
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That might seem like a lot of time to put into one model, but that includes the time it took to magnetize both the front and the rear. Also, there's a lot of detail on the bike, and it took some time to get The Black Mace put together with Green Stuff, toothpicks, plasticard tubing, brass rod and the chain from a pair of nail clippers. Also, being the Warlord for my Nurgle CSM forces, I wanted to be sure I did the model justice in terms of painting.<br />
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Just wanted to give you that quick update.<br />
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I also wanted to give you a quick tease: I've completed the 6 Nurgle Plague Drones (and their riders) already. It only took one week + one day (total of 7 days work over 8 days) to get them finished. I'll be posting about them soon, with lots of pictures...<br />
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As always, comments and feedback are always welcome...jdwelch62http://www.blogger.com/profile/09012158948009848728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679548629577747876.post-67763623787405737422013-09-16T13:08:00.002-07:002013-09-17T12:56:31.939-07:00Nurgle Biker Lord Finished on 9/6!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey, folks. Sorry
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this is the first chance I’ve had to write about getting the whole model, bike,
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I got the rider finished on Friday, September 6<sup>th</sup>,
and got him mounted on the bike with The Black Mace in his left hand. I was able to take a slew of pictures, so
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It was a lot of fun working on this model, and I’m really
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jdwelch62http://www.blogger.com/profile/09012158948009848728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679548629577747876.post-72721681791503421832013-09-11T10:06:00.003-07:002013-09-17T12:56:31.941-07:00Nurgle Bike Pops A Wheelie!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hey,
folks. It’s been a while since I’ve been
able to make a post, mostly because two weeks ago I didn’t get any hobby time
in during the week due to family responsibilities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nurgle Bike and Lord with The Black Mace is finished. But before I show it to you (that will be
another post, once I get good pictures), what I wanted to tell you about is
about the bike itself. When I first put
the bike model together, I made sure that both wheels would spin freely. It was my intent to be able to “pop a
wheelie” with the bike to give it some dynamism, and to have a cool in-game
effect when turbo boosting or charging.
(Hey, if you’re gonna play with toy soldiers, make the most of it,
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I was finishing up painting the bike last week, I started working on the
wheels, painting them with a basecoat of Abaddon Black. As I turned the front wheel to paint the
other half of it, the paint that I had already applied kept scraping off due to
the closeness of the wheel housing to the wheel itself. I eventually gave up on being able to spin
this wheel, and glued it into place. So
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the rear wheel still moved. I had glued
the rear wheel down to the bike base at the rear of the base, so the bike was
able to be angled up to pop a wheelie.
However, I had done such a good job of making sure the rear wheel would
spin freely, and with all the metal of the front plate and bolters at the front
of the bike, it meant that the bike had to be held up in place in order to
affect a wheelie position. This was not
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another problem that reared its ugly head was that when I picked the bike up
(by the bike), the front of the base would drop down, since the rear wheel
could move. This presented a real
problem for me, as I am quite a klutz, and could envision myself snagging the
dropped front portion of the bike’s base on other models and terrain when I
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I pondered what to do for a while, and came up with several options. One was to prop the front wheen up on
something, like a fallen Loyalist Space Marine or a rock or piece of bark. Another was to glue the rear wheel to the
rear of the chassis in a permanent wheelie, and another was to just give up on
the idea of being able to pop a wheelie when moving fast and just glue the
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Well,
I’m glad I didn’t do any of those things.
Last Wednesday, I was able to get some hobby time and headed over to
Empire Games in the late afternoon. Two
of my friends, Aaron Smith and Dana Mork, were at Empire, and I brought up my
dilemma and showed them how the front of the base would drop down when the bike
was picked up. I also explained that I
was almost to the point of just gluing the front tire to the front of the base
and being done with it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But
we bounced around a few ideas, and one thing Aaron said was that, since I’d
gone to the trouble of allowing the rear wheel to move freely, that we really
needed to take advantage of that. Anyone
can glue the front tire to the base, or to something to prop the bike up in a
permanent wheelie, but it would be so much cooler to be able to pop a wheelie
at will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dana
then made the penultimate suggestion:
Magnets! Of course! I was fully stocked with a wide variety of
rare earth disc magnets of various diameters and thicknesses, which I had
purchase online some months ago from K&J Magnetics (</span><a href="http://www.kjmagnetics.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">www.kjmagnetics.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">). (I highly recommend any
hobbyist get a wide variety of magnets from K&J Magnetics, as you never
know when they will come in handy!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we quickly figured out that I could glue several thin, relatively wide magnets
to the underside of the front of the base directly under the front wheel, and
then carve out a small cavity in the bottom of the wheel where it touched the base
and put a thin magnet of a smaller dimension in there. In order to ensure that I would have a good
magnetic bond through the plastic and paint that would separate these magnets
in the finished bike, I patiently shaved down and thinned the plastic of the
underside of the base using a hobby knife with a curved blade, and also shaved
a bit off the top side of the base, to the point where I just broke through the
thinned plastic with a small diameter hole.
I then glued three 1/4” diameter 1/32” thick magnets to the bottom of
the base in the space that I had thinned out, directly under where the wheel
would touch the base when down, and then sealed them in place with a generous
amount of Green Stuff. When doing
something like this, you need the Green Stuff to make sure the magnets don’t
pop off from the superglue if the model is dropped, or they get too close to
another magnet and be ripped off from the superglue (this has happened to me
before; those magnets are strong!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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then carved a hole into the underside of the front tire, and superglued a
single 1/16” diameter 1/32” thick magnet into this cavity so that it was at the
same level as the tread side of the tire.
I then filled in the extra space that I’d had to carve out of the tire
in order to get deep enough to fit the magnet in with more Green Stuff, and
sculpted it the best I could to look like the normal tire before I’d taken my
hobby knife to it. I knew I’d be
painting this part of the tire with Stirland Mud textured paint, so figured
what I had was good enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">But that left the problem
of how to hold the bike up in a wheelie when I wanted to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When
Aaron and Dana and I were brainstorming how to do this, we bounced around
several ideas, including adding a kind of kickstand under the bike’s
undercarraige that could be dropped down to prop it up, putting a strong spring
under the undercarraige to push the bike up, or hanging a hook of some sort
from under the back of the bike that could be hooked on the back of the base to
hold the bike up. I liked the hook idea
the best, but as I was working on getting the magnets into the front of the
bike, I thought more and more about it and realized that with all the Nurgly
stuff that was at the back of the bike it would be next to impossible to get
some sort of a cross bar up into the underside of the rear of the bike so that
a hook could hang freely. Also, judging
the length of the hook would be a challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As
I chewed on this idea some more, I had an epiphany: I still had lengths of chain from a nail
clipper left over from when I’d made The Black Mace. I could superglue the chain to the underside
of the rear of the bike, anchor it with Green Stuff, and then let it hang down
behind the rear tire. If I put another
three 1/4” diameter 1/32” thick magnets at the very back of the base and hung a
smaller diameter, thicker magnet (1/8” X 3/32”) from the chain hanging down
from the back of the bike (cut to the proper length), it would probably hold
the front of the bike up, despite all the heavy metal that was on the front
portion of the bike in front of the handle bars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Well,
it worked!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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used some more Green Stuff to make sure the magnet suspended from the chain
would stay in place at both the connection point under the back of the bike and at the bottom end of the chain when I wanted to disconnect it from the magnets in the base
and let the front wheel drop down again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the front of the bike stays put when I pick the model up, and I can pop a nice
wheelie at will when it’s time to turbo boost or charge.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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course, I wish I’d thought of doing this before Josh had built up the Shrine to
Nurgle at the back of the bike, but that’s 20/20 hindsight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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effect is, I must say, very cool. At
least, everyone I’ve shown the bike to thinks so. Please post a comment below and let me know
what you think of this conversion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jdwelch62http://www.blogger.com/profile/09012158948009848728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679548629577747876.post-78952996746962713502013-08-26T15:08:00.000-07:002013-09-17T12:56:31.943-07:00Final Batch of 30 Plaguebearers Completed Saturday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey, Folks!<br />
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Just wanted to let y'all know that I completed the final batch of 15 Plaguebearers this past Saturday, which is the final set of the 30 new PBs that I needed to get done in order to have at least 4 Daemons Troops choices and one set of 10 to pop out of the portaglyph. That means that I have 50 painted and based Plaguebearers completed in total, with each squad of 10 having a different color on their base edges to denote the different squads.<br />
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In total it took me just 34.5 hours to complete these last 30 Plaguebearers, over about a little over two week timeframe. Sorry I don't have more pictures of the newest 30, but I spent a marathon 7 hours on Saturday getting the last 15 painted and all 30 of the new guys based, organized into 5 squads of 10, the base edges of all 50 painted the appropriate color, all of them matte varnished, flocked and gloss varnished. After that, I was pretty spent, and just didn't have it in me to set out all 5 squads individually and take pictures of them. I'll try to get some close-up pictures taken here sometime soon, but you can see from the picture above what I've got, and get a general idea of what they look like and the variety in their finished looks.<br />
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That means that all I have left to do to get the minimum required done for Valhalla is to paint up the Nurgle Biker Lord, the 6 Plague Drones, and the last Plague Hulk. I should be able to start on the Biker Lord tonight, and work on him in the evenings throughout the week (although I'll have to do so at home instead of at my FLGS for family reasons).<br />
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I'm really glad that I had to reschedule from the August Valhalla to the October one, as the August one just started today, and there's no way I would've been ready for it, at least to the degree that I wanted to be ready.<br />
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Now, it's time to get the rest done, try to get a few stretch goals fit in (doing the edge highlighting on the two Heldrakes, and getting a few more Havocs built and painted up so that I can run a squad of 4 Missile Launchers and 4 Lascannons with Aspiring Champions, if needed, plus a few other "like to" tasks), and try to get a few games in so that I'm not too rough with my rules when I get to Utah...<br />
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As always, comments are always welcome!jdwelch62http://www.blogger.com/profile/09012158948009848728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679548629577747876.post-58302040822995875742013-08-20T16:38:00.003-07:002013-09-17T12:56:31.932-07:00Nurgle Biker Lord to Lead My Death Guard Built<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello, Folks.<br />
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Well, what I initially thought would be a major setback has once again turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I'm talking about how at the 10th hour it turned out that I wouldn't be able to go to Blue Table Painting's Valhalla in August; however, I was able to secure a spot for October, although just by the hair on my chin. What that did was allow me more time to get everything I wanted to get finished built and painted so that I would have 2,000 points of Chaos Space Marines and 2,000 points of Chaos Daemons. As it turns out, there's no way I would've finished all 2,000 points of Daemons in time to leave this Sunday, August 25th, to get to the August Valhalla, which starts next Monday, the 26th. As it stands with what I've completed, I'd be short probably 6 Plague Drones and one Plague Hulk (aka Soul Grinder). And I'd be in even more hot water with the missus than I already am now, as I'd have had to spend more time away from my family than I actually have in the last few weeks.<br />
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However, having the extra time will allow me to get all of my Daemons finished. But just as importantly, it will allow me to complete some "stretch goals", the first of which is actually very important. You see, I already have a Night Lords Biker that I was using as my Biker Lord with the Mark of Nurgle in games with my CSMs. <br />
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The spiked mace I modeled up for him 10 years ago worked out great as a representation of The Black Mace. The problem is, my CSMs have evolved into primarily a Death Guard force with other Nurgle supporting units, and I only run Nurgle Daemons as their allies. So, it seemed a bit inappropriate for a Night Lord Biker Lord to be leading my Nurgle army, but I was willing to settle for that to get everything else I needed to get done completed in time for the August Valhalla.<br />
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But with the extra time at hand, I've been able to convert up a more appropriate Nurgle Biker Lord, and will (should) have ample time to get him painted (er, washed) up in time to take him to Utah for Valhalla in October.<br />
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The picture at the beginning of this post shows the basic conversion of the bike, with a kind of Shrine to Nurgle affixed to the back of the bike. The bike model is a 2nd Edition Chaos Space Marine Bike, so it's a bit different than modern day CSM Bikes, and I've been saving it for a special character, so that worked out great. Josh Howery did the kit-bashing of all the Nurgly bitz onto the back portion of the bike, using a variety of bitz that I had on hand from all the Nurgle kits that I've collected over the past 10 months. Here are a few more shots of the bike from different angles:<br />
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What you don't see very well in these picture, unfortunately, is the slight conversion to the front of the bike. Thanks to a suggestion by Jimmy at Empire Games, I cut off the front wheel at the point where it connects to the handlebars, and extended the front out with about 1/2 and inch or so of plasticard tubing. (You can just make out the tubing in the second to last picture in the series above.) When I showed Jimmy what the bike looked like after Josh's kit bashing ministrations, and what the front piece would look like, he said, "Dude, that screams Orange County Choppers!", and suggested I make the extension. Fortunately I already had a supply of plasticard tubing of the right dimension, so with some careful cutting and trimming, and two small lengths of brass rod to run down the middle of the tubes and anchor into the handlebars and front wheel, I was able to turn this old 2nd Edition CSM Bike into a proper chopper.<br />
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I already knew that I was going to use the Aspiring Champion body-and-head from the Forge World Death Guard upgrade kit as the body and head of my Nurgle Biker Lord, so with the help of a little Green Stuff, I was able to attach him to the legs that came with the bike and get him set up and posed properly. I've left him off the bike for the time being so that I can paint him and the bike properly, but otherwise he's ready to go. Oh, yeah, I also used the backpack from the new CSM Sorcerer Finecast kit for my Nugle Biker Lord, as it's just such an awesome backpack.<br />
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The final bit of pre-painting conversion that I needed to do was to make another spiked mace on a chain like I had done for the Night Lords biker all those years ago to represent The Black Mace. For that I used the following materials:<br />
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<li>A length of plasticard tubing that would fit in the biker's left hand (cut and re-positioned) and allow the spiked ball to hang from the chain without (hopefully) interfering with all the stuff that was now on the back of the bike.</li>
<li>The chain from a pair of nail clippers.</li>
<li>A length of brass rod that would fit in the center of the tubing, cut long enough to extend up from the top of the tube into the "connector" of the nail clipper's chain, and also extend down the other end long enough to anchor the "tassle" that I'd be putting there.</li>
<li>4 toothpicks with the ends cut to the appropriate length.</li>
<li>The large topknot off the head of a regular CSM to be used as the "tassle" at the bottom end of the haft of The Black Mace.</li>
<li>Green Stuff.</li>
<li>Superglue.</li>
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And here's a shot of the biker body on the bike, showing the handle of The Black Mace in what I hoped would be the proper position, with enough chain to work with to attach the spiked ball:<br />
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I ended up having to break the left arm off and re-position it to get a better, more upward angle on the haft of TBM, but having used superglue, that was easy enough. Here's a few shots of the biker with the finished Black Mace mounted on the bike (the bottom foot plate of the bike is not attached at this point, which is why it looks a little out of alignment; it's just sitting on the ground to help keep the bike upright for the pictures, and to give the full impression of what the bike will ultimately look like after it has been painted and the final assembly of all the parts completed):<br />
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In this final shot you can see the tubing used to extend the front wheel out for the chopper effect. Also, I'm really happy with the way the spiked ball turned out; my first one, on my Night Lords biker, was my first attempt at using Green Stuff, and it shows. I worked on this ball for quite a while to make it appear as round as possible, with the spikes as evenly distributed as I could. All in all, I like the effect.<br />
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So, what do you think? Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of this guy. <br />
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At the moment I'm finishing up the last batch of 15 Plaguebearers so that I will have four units of 10 plus another 10 to emerge from the portaglyph that I intend to use in games with just the Daemons. After I'm finished with the "chore" of getting these 15 Plaguebearers finished (gotta have the Troops), I'm going to "treat" myself to painting this Nurgle Biker Lord, then I'll face down the "chore" of getting the 6 Plague Drones painted up, and finally "reward" myself with painting up the second and last of the Forge World Plague Hulks. Then I will be DONE with everything that I HAVE to have to take with me to Valhalla, but there are a few more stretch goals that I'd like to get done, too. Looking at my schedule and the time available to me, I think I'll get everything done that I need to get done, as well as a few things that I want to get done, like painting up four Night Lords Havocs with missile launchers and a few Havoc Aspiring Champions to go with them.<br />
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In the meantime, please opine on this guy. I'll post pictures of him once I've finished painting him and he's finally assembled and based...jdwelch62http://www.blogger.com/profile/09012158948009848728noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679548629577747876.post-54949921137313457942013-08-16T12:19:00.000-07:002013-09-17T12:56:31.925-07:00Pro Pics of My Chaos Space Marines<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A while back I promised that I would have better quality pictures of my Chaos Space Marines (and what Daemons I had done) than I was giving you courtesy of my iPhone and shaky hands. Well, a few weeks ago my friend James Conley brought a good amount (but not all) of his photography gear to my FLGS, took a bunch of pictures of what I'd painted up so far in my efforts to get ready for Valhalla (plus some pre-existing models), and then used PhotoShop to clean them up and make them pop a bit. So, here are the pictures he took for me.<br />
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The photo above is of my Night Lords Chaos Biker Lord with The Black Mace. This is actually a model that I converted and painted up about 10 years ago, but with that spiked mace on the end of the chain, he was perfect for a Biker Lord to lead my CSMs and Daemon allies in games of 6th Edition 40K. However, being a Night Lord, it didn't seem appropriate for him to continue leading what has become a predominantly Death Guard army, so with the additional time I have available to me now that I'll be going to the October Valhalla instead of the August one, I've been working on a proper Nurgle Biker Lord to lead my Death Guard. But, that's another post for another time. I've always liked this Biker, so thought I'd show him off here.<br />
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Next up we have a unit of Death Guard Plague Marines:<br />
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And here's all four squads of Death Guard that I painted up earlier this year, just a few months ago:<br />
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Here's a closeup shot of one of my Heldrakes:<br />
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And here's both Heldrakes swooping onto the battlefield:<br />
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Next we have the 5 Nurgle Chaos Spawn that I was able to crank out relatively quickly:<br />
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And in the background of this picture, you can see the two units of Night Lords Autocannon Havocs that I typically run:<br />
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Next up we have "Mr. Fat Pants" himself, the Forge World Nurgle Daemon Prince that I use as my Great Unclean One to lead my Daemon allies (and who will be leading my all Nurgle Daemons army once all those models have been completed):<br />
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And here's the GUO leading the twenty Plaguebearers that I have completed so far, which were the first models I painted for my journey down The Road to Valhalla:<br />
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That's it for now. I'm hoping James will take another series of pictures of all of my Nurgle Daemons once I have them completed (I think he will), and when he does, I'll post those pictures up for your consumption.<br />
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As always, please feel free to post any comments!<br />
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