Archangels, speeders and a tourney

Hey guys its me again here in my little slice of heaven southwest Florida.
Ok now that I have all you locals rolling on the floor laughing its time for
*cue deep echoey voice*
"STUFF I DID THIS WEEK!"
So its been a little busy around here. Ive noticed that somewhere in every ones blog there is a post about moving. It is like a rule you start a blog and all of a sudden out of nowhere its time to move. Well it looks like I'm gonna be following the trend since the house has been sold in record time and I have to get my big ass out by the 15th of may. Don't worry I'm not going to far still staying around here somewhere.

So back to 40k. I finally got my full orders in from the shop. The other 2 land speeders I ordered about 3 weeks ago and the sanguary guard ,box,. It has been so long since I ordered theses (the day after the codex was released) that I had given up hope in seeing them this month. Well I got em' and oh damn was I happy. Now I had the opportunity to use some of the DA bits on them and since it seems to be my mission to piss off Tim the DA player around here I made them into a unit of "Archangels" for my *Dark Angel "counts as Blood Angel until we can get a codex that's worth a damn" successor chapter the Guardians of the Covenant*. Whoo that's a mouth full. now I have taken about 2 dozen pictures and I have discovered that I am a cheap ass and need a new camera but Ill post what I got.






Oh and hers some shots of the land speeders and all of their uniform glory.




We had the monthly 40k tournament and again this week I was not able to attend. Stupid work. I stopped in there this morning on the way and hung out for about a half hour to check and see what the guys were bringing to the tables. All in all it was a good turn out and if I had remembered to put my deathwing in the car I bet I would have come down withe the 24 hour flu this morning.
As I sat there at work trying to explain what email was to an old lady I kept thinking "I could be fighting glorious battles instead of doing this job that sucks my soul away and gets me a little closer to eating a bullet everyday."

But such is life and I have to be responsible and all that especially if I am going to buy another deathwing army (whatchu talk'in bout Fitz?) Yeah that's right Ive lost it I'm buying another deathwing army from a good friend Todd. Now I know i don't really need another deathewing army. I told Todd I would rather him not sell his army but if he feels like he must I will buy them and when he gets the itch to play again I can say "I have a army to sell right here"

Ok enough! I promised myself I was going to start shortening these things up.... We can all dream right?

FITZ

This week in 40k

Hey guys its been a while but I have been playing allot lately.
First I want to start by saying that the space marine land speeder kit is by far the most finicky, delicate, and hardest to put together of all the SM kits in 40k. I have to bend plastic to make it fit. I have pegs that aren't there because the molder used .00001oz to little of plastic. And trying to put tabbards on them was ridiculously hard and after it is assembled you wont see them at all. *sigh* oh well when the rest of my order comes in Ill have to put together 2 more.
On to this weeks gaming. I played a few games this week. On Tuesday I had a 2200 (weird number right) game with Adam and his space marines. Now he loves to sternguard melta spam Belial and his squad to death. This game saw Belial get his revenge.
It was a seize ground scenario and he started with a Rhino and one squad sitting about mid field. I of course started with everything in reserve. On my turn one I hit with 4 squads using the deathwing assault and proceeded to scatter every which way but where I wanted to go. Belial and his squad actually landed on the rhino. Oops time for a mishap. So I roll a 4 and Adam proceeds to place him in the back corner of the board edge. Looks like hes hoofing it from here. I blast the rhino with 3 assault cannons and all I could do is shake it.
So his turn and most of his army arrives from his board edge or via drop pod. He has 2 vindicators that proceed to pummel my squads and gets Vulcan and his melta squad of death to land around one of my squads. He decides to combat squad them nd only fires 5 meltas at the librarian and apothicary squad. After some force berrier apothicary ignores and some crazy invulnerable saves he kills one of them. Then as the game progressed for their trouble the sternguard and vulcan are raped by the librarian and the squad the broke off is eventually ran down by Belial and his squad moving from the board edge "thought I was gone huh, RAWR!"
Ends up a win for the Dwing.
Wednesday saw the forces of chaos fighting a objective game at 1750 pts. The chaos player was a quiet guy and I don't remember his name. (I'm horrible with names.) He had a land raider with a chosen squad 2 rhinos with thousand sons and a 10 man 4 lascannon dev squad. The only thing I took away f rom this game is to STAY AWAY FROM THOUSAND SONS!!!! Each squad had a sorceror and he dropped my librarian in short order so I had to dea with 2 winds of chaos a turn. Not good for the guys in the massive hulking armor that apparently doesn't like to work. It was a loss for me at the end of the game I had 2 terminators and 2 immobilized dreadnoughts.
Oh well ya win some ya loose some.
Me and Ben (ork player) have made changes to my list and I have had 3 bikes that started life as chaos bikers in the 90s then were made into nob bikes as soon as the ork codex came out have been thrown into the simple green and will emerge as raven wing, hopefully.
Until next time, Same fitz time same fitz channel.

FITZ

Ive become a fallen angel

Well... (that's a deep subject isn't it)
Ive finally been kicked out of the imperium and called Excomunie by my mother chapter the Dark angels.
After my dismal display in the games on Tuesday getting tables in pretty much the 1st turn of the game. (in a 1850pt game I lost about 1000 pts he didn't kill more because the rest had not arrived via deep strike yet, the rest of the game was along those same lines so 35 of the empors finest laid low and only got 2 kill points /sigh) The resident Dark angel Tim has said that he cannot replace those losses so fast and that I have set both our chapters back by 1000 years. So I am no longer getting loaner terminator suits while mine are being repaired...
So that means my Defenders of the covenant are now homeless and are adrift in the galaxy. Hey wait a second the blood angels seem to be recruiting lately.
When I broke out the blood angels codex at the store Tim saw what I was doing and immediately started jumping up and down pointing screaming heretic at the top of his lungs (I love my store because this isn't out of the ordinary)
Now instead of just being cut off by my mother chapter I have been classified as one of the fallen chapters in our local fluff. So I have no qualms about making a blood angel army and painting them up in my defenders of the covenant scheme. *evil grin*
Soooo Ive decided to go all in on the blood angels list I have been rolling around in my head for the last week. I know the book my be classified as broken by some but in the words of the Commissar "That book is full of GLORY!"
Where the lion loses the angel wins

FITZ

40k escalation leauge at 2d10 games

So after the backlash on the interwebz from adepticon and other conventions this year, with the possibility of cheating and cheesy lists and comp scores that were rediculus I have decided to hit the cosmic reset button in my gaming group.
I am in the process of setting up a new player/escaltion leauge with the new crop of gamers gettting out of school in the coming weeks and our veterans that havent played in forever in mind.
Ive ran tournoments and large games as the game master but never a leauge. So this is going to be a new experience for me as well and as much as I want to im gonna have to force myself to stick to the logistics and not participate directly since I will have prize support and trophies. It would look beardy of me to win my own contests.
Well its tuesday tomorrow and I hope to get all of this approved with the store owners and can come up with a snazzy name and hopefully a hard start date.
If you guys have any suggestions or comments please leave them here or email me directly any help is greatly appreciated.

FITZ

Am I playing the right angels?

So another day of 40k. Well actually it wasn't. I got to the store at about 3 and sat around till 9. Didn't play a game. Dave was there with his space wolves. He has never [played a game before and making his army list me and a few of the other guys helped him out and we just sat around talking tactics for about 3 hours and never rolled.

It was fun though I'm always for getting people into the hobby and am there to answer any and all questions about it.

After he had to go me and Nurgle sat down and I was complaining about the blood angel codex some more as we all have for the last month. He of course took the side of the blood angels as he is the constant antagonist to any argument.

After a 2 hour ranting session and going through the codex unit by unit and comparing it to other marine codex and noting the discrepancies I started to write a list. I play dark angels deathwing because I like the challenge and I had the opportunity to paint all the men to the best of my ability and not be rushed with a hundred guys on my "to paint" list.

I thought the deathwing was the ultimate elite against the horde army, I was wrong. I have created a list for the blood angels with such an amazing elitist feel that I pre-oredered some of it today. I'm not going to post the list because it was created after me and nurgle were both hoarse, had headaches, and I had not slept in 2 days. That is the type of 40k nirvana I was in when creating it and You cant appreciate it until you reach that point.

So go bash your head against the wall and sit down with a codex for about 6 hours and you might come up with an amazing list like we did.

This reminded me of another marathon strategy session me and another friend James undertook. We stood in the parking lot of the game store till 3 in the morning after we got kicked out at 10 trying to come up with a way for his american flames of war army in mid war to kill geman tigers. The next day me and him placed 1 and 2 in the flames of war tournoment.

So go read your codex. Then read it again. Then read it backwards. Then make a list. Then throw it out. then read the codex one more time and you might come up with a game changeing radical idea and it might just make the difference.

FITZ

Slow at work

Hey everyone its slow at work tonight and I have had some hobby stuff I wanted to talk about so here I am.

First things first I don't remember if I had posted about this previously but I was able to get some of the micron pens finally. The day that I played Dak in the flames of war game the shop closed early so I decided to pop in a art store on my way home. I felt so dumb when I was walking down the pen Isle and say the exact pens that I was scouring the interweb for. Here they are in a place I pass everyday. So feeling ashamed that I chose the Internet over my local area I bought a .005 black a.01 blue and the brush for both colors. OMG the brushes are amazing. Black ink in a pen form that goes on with a brush applicator that I have yet to screw up. It has changed my habits in painting immensely. If you get the chance I suggest buying at least 10 of them since they are sepia's gift to hobbiests.

So the deathwing is complete, at least the ones I have purchased. I have a half dozen old school termies given to me in a vat of simple green at the house and I might have to buy another box of them to get the exact list that I want but for now I have over 2000 pts of deathwing all painted up in the guardians of the covinent colrs and ready to smash face.

In other news one of the guys here was cleaning out his desk to move chairs and he has a ton of bitz. (We are all gamers here) and he gave me about 5 lbs of dark elves bitz. Hmm the dark eldar codex is not to far away and I have about 30 warriors in my bitz box at home not put together yet. Since Im out of terminators I think Ill start on those. I also demanded Rob give me his howling griffons to paint lest I go crazy with nothing so Ill get to them as well. And I get to see Rob field a painted army.

Oh well just got a call back to work!

FITZ

Absolute ork-ocide

So i played a few games on Tuesday with the deathwing. all losses. Still learning, but the main event was a 1850 pt beat fest I played against nurgles imperial guard and my green tide orks.

It was a list I play strictly for fun and there is a new guy that wants to make an ork army and see them in action so we decided to have a last stand type scenario for the guard.

My list was warboss
10 Nobz w/ painboy
weirdboy
15 lootas
5x 30 boys w/ nobs and power claws
30 grotz

His list was

Valkyrie
vendetta
leman russ generic
leman russ demolisher
3 veteran squads
2 infantry platoons
master of ordnance
alot of other lasgun toting guys

here it is after the first turn (I forgot to take a picture of set up)

I also apologise to everyone in the room as my fly was way open when the picture was taken, good looking out Dirk.

I got the first turn and ran forward with the bulk of the force. Blasted a squad with the lootas and hid the grotz in the ruins that held the objective in my deployment.

He moved 2 squads forward in a picket line formation and blasted me with 3 templates. The guy watching the battle summed up the ork horde army the best. "I know he killed 15 orks but I cant tell where."

Well the horde waaaghed the next turn and I was in combat across the front. What was left of 4 mobs and the warboss with the nobs crashed into his lines. The picket line worked and the mobs blasting the center were stopped 6 inches from the main imperial force staring down their barrels at them. The Valkyrie and vendetta failed to show up and his tanks and hundreds of lasgn shots later the nobs are gone but the warboss soldiered on alone. And the two other mobs in the center started to run since he got them to 7 and 8 models respectively and of course they booked it.

Turn 3 I charged the warboss directly into his center horde of guardsmen. (hey if your gonna go out go out with a bang) and the mobs on the flanks pushed into his center. The warboss thrashed around alot but only got one wound on the squad and he wounded the warboss in turn so the combat drew. The squads on the flanks ground to a halt when the difficult terrain tripped up both of the mobs. In his turn I got to see his special action squads in action... the demo charges. Of course they didn't deviate and bang the two flank mobs were cut down. No big deal I said I have tow mobs behind them.

Then 4 fraking difficult terrain stopped the reinforcements from doing anything except blasting at them with sluggas. The warboss thrashed around again and didn't kill enough to get them to run. His command squad charged into the combat but whiffed. Then the vendetta and Valkyrie showed up. Blasted the hell out of the mob on my left flank and the 2 imperial squads blasted the ones on my right. The mob was able to get into cover near the objective and hug it for dear life.


After that I realised that the ork train has come off the rails. So in good ork conscience i had to keep moving forward so the squad broke cover and assaulted a squad that had come to close.

Then after that they went back into hiding. The blast templates rained down and even though I went to ground couldn't hold onto the objective. It was turn 5 and he flew his vendetta with squad inside to contest the objective in my deployment zone. He rolled the dice and we went to 6.

The lootas after wiping a squad a turn saw a juicer target and blew the Valkyrie out of the sky! Whoo hoo one for the good guys. Then the squad inside got blasted by my grots and force to fall back. It was tied up 1 to 1. Then on his turn he blasted the lootas with a battle cannon and they promptly ran away. Such is life I suppose. He boosted with the Valkyrie and it was starring down the grots.


So I rolled the dice and it went to turn 7... figures. Well I called the game since I had only a gtotz mob with 3 templates 4 flamers and a dozen lasguns staring at them. But in ork tradition I WILL BE BACK FOR MORE LATERZ!!

Her is what was left of the guard at the end.


and the ork dead pile. That's right 177 dead orks...


A great game good fun and there was so much death I was joking that I was going to flock the table since nothing makes the grass grow like ork blood.

Well back to work for another week but I'm sure Ill have something to post before too long.

Laterz people.