Baltic Brother Challange Part 2

Ok, part 2 of my short report of the BBC...

Game 4 we had to face Team 40kings,ETC Teammembers,tough one.... SailingLord against a horde of Thunderwolfcav and I had to play a leafblower-guard list. Mission was tablequarters, 12" in. I won first turn and set up,my plan was to ignore the mission until I crippeld his army enough to gain one or two quarters, depending on what´s left on the table.
He stole the initiative.
Yay, that moment I felt like my hamster died.
Long story short, turn one he silenced my guns and stunned or destroyed my vehicles.Turn 4 he left nothing but cinders...


SL managed to gain a draw, but we still lost because of me getting blasted off the table.

Game 3
Mission was 5 objectives, 12" in, both players at one table. Awesome. We played against a Blood Angel jumperlist and a mixed guard,again members of the ETC-Team.
I don´t remember any huge events anymore because most of the magic took place within small thinks like positioning within combats and stuff, except from some insane rolling the first 3 turns which granted us a huge advantage. Top of turn 5 we held 5 of 5 objectives, bottom of turn 5 it was 1 to 1 and ended. They made some really good moves right there and due to some good rolls they managed to turn a devastating loss into a good draw.My respect there.

All in all we became 4th out of 19. Not bad but we hoped to reach at least top 3.But next year XD

So,take care and a happy new year

Baltic Brother Challange

Has been quite a time since I wrote my last blog entry, but real life kept me busy, but now I´ll take a break from cleaning up my room and write a bit.

So we went to the Baltic Brother Challange at Rostock, a team tournament where you have to divide into attacker and defender, my brother in arms was TheSailingLord with a Tyranid Sporepod list representing the attacking force and I went with my BA, giving them a chance to proof themselves viable again. I decided to build an aggressive list, planning to put my opponent into a defensiv role and force him to react to my actions.

I went with :

Reclusiarch 

Sanguine Priest

Assaultterminators 3x Lighteningclaws 2x Thunderhammer/Stormshield

Land Raider Redeemer, Multimelter

Librarian Dreadnaught + Wings & Bloodlance

2x 5 Marine Ass.Squad 1x Flamer, 1x Meltagun

RB Las/Plas 1x HK Missile

1x 5 Marine Ass. Squad

RB Twin. Las

1 Attackbike + MM

Baalpredator +twin Ass.Cannon+ heavy Bolter Sponsons + Stormbolter

Predator + Lassponsons

Dreadnaught + twin Autocannons

Yor team is allowed to use 3550 points to make two lists which has to be at least 1725. We decided to use 1775 each. Missions were really different from what we are used to :

First mission was killpoints, the defender sets up first, attacker automatically has the first turn and enters the game deepstriking in two waves, like Demons. 

I faced a Demonplayer, SL had to deal with Orks. Both of them seemed to be rookies and unfamiliar with their armies so we both scored a 20/0 major victory with almost no losses. Nothing really spectacular happend here.

Next game was 5 Objectives, honestly what I expected to be the worst mission for my list because of the simple reason that I just had 3 small troopchoices which will die if you look at them awkwardly. I played against a well-built Vulcan Marinelist whilst my buddy at to engage a classic lash 2/9. Not the best match up for our armies though. At first glance I didn´t know what to do with all these meltas and raiders and stuff, best I could do was to move up my parking lot and try to put pressure against his terminators in the raider while killing off the small stuff to decimate his anti-tank.Worked well. Throught field controlling with my Terminatordeathstar he was forced to spread out, encircle my army and devide his firepower. Through that (and some bad rolls/good saves) he wasn´t able to destroy my Landraider and I managed to pop both of his the next shooting phase and I started pushing forward and assaulting which ended the game pretty much for him. I won with 3 to zero objectives which was a major victory and SL beat the crap out of that 2/9. I thought that anybody who says Nids are crap just don´t understand the codex. 

Next game was against two guys from the Northguard,a gaming club from Hamburg. We already knew them and have played them at several tournaments around here and I was sure that that´s going to be a really though one. Mission was Killpoints again but the long side of the board was divided in 3 areas. The attacker approaches from one side,scoring 1 extra point for every unit within area 2 and 2 extra points for getting them into area 3 (the defenders deploymentzone). My opponent played Orks with a Nob-Deathstar, some Stormboyz, 2 squads of Lootaz and 90 boyz or somewhat. So I planned on playing to minimize how many points he´ll score for there was no hope for me  winning that game and pray that SL scores enough point to bring us victory (the points at the end of every game were added to determine which team won). 

He set up, I set up and he got first turn. He popped two of my RB with his lootas and slowly approached on the table,so I had to do something to stop that horde on the other side of the table. I moved up and shot everything my guns could spit out into the lootaz, making them fail their moralechecks and run away, unfortunaly one group was able to recover a few inches away from the table edge. His battletank came out of reserve and he decided to put him into cover, leaving the terraincheck for the next round. That was a mistake for my last RB was thirsty for revenge and popped it with his lascannon.Boyz died and red tanks rolled up delivering the Emperors fury. I made the mistake to move up my Attackbike to far forward and I realized that the Stormboysquad of 20 was able to assault it. He suggested to just take it away for we´d save some time he otherwise would take for rolling, but I made him roll it, and tadaa, my bike only took a wound and tarpitted the stormboyz for my advancing Terminators (har). Unfortunaly my Reclusiarch failed an invulsave, otherwise Id have won by one, but I won´t complain for my attackbike could stand 20 Boyz and life. It was a draw and i was very satisfied with it. My buddy Saillinglord was able to put the BA´s Terminator/Rocketlauncher-list to the mangle and so we scored our third victory. Im not sure how many points we scored on that one so Ill just leave it.

So, this was the first day of the Baltic Brother Challange and we were really excited and looked forward to the second day eagerly. Ill write about that in a later post because this already is a huge chunk to read. 

So, more to come, take care !

Sick of power armour

Damn Im sick of it. And my Blood Angels kinda know this, I think. Yesterday I went to a small tournament and received a beating I´ve never had before. I experimented with some stuff in order to get away from vehicles for everyone is planning on de-meching your whole army by turn 3 and what shall I say, it didn´t work out too well. Although I did quite well at the last two tournaments, I realized that I need to field something different, especially yesterday. Don´t get me wrong, I still love marines, but Im just fed up with playing them and I think it is time to play something completely different from that...

Necrons
I like them, got an army, but I think Im just not good enough to win a whole tournament with them, they are fun to field and give your opponent something unexpected to deal with for no one plays them anymore.Anyway, I think no current competetive Necron army could stand an imperial Leafblower or a Razorangels/wolves spam commanded by a skilled player...and by the way, 3+ power armour....

Eldar
Very classy, I got a Saim Hann army too, but I don´t feel like playing a skimmer-themed army with a council, for I got very few models on the table to work with and...no, just don´t feel like it.

Nids
I love the codex, I love the models but a teammate of mine is already playing them and I think, Ill leave them to him, for he does better with them than I would ever, and I think,Ill take the opportunity and start *tadam* with Dark Eldar.

So, why ? First, shiny new codex. Lots of unexplored possibilities and the chance of switiching my perspective of wargaming and creating cheesy tactics and mechanisms within the army.Second, awesome new models, enough said. And last but not least, it is something I´ve never played before and Im curious how they ´d play.

So, enough rambling today, take care

Quick update

Hi there,

just a quick update befor I proceed with my holy mission of dish-washing. I have my Space Wolves almost done and ready, just one rhino is left to paint. Ill field them on the Halloween tournament Warpack 2010 at Oldesloe,near Hamburg.That´s going to be a tough one, a lot of good players from around here will be there and Im really looking forward to a fun and challanging tournament. My Wolves are nothing spectacular, lots of Greyhunters, some Longfangs and some stuff.My beloved Blood Angels are completely in a repaint-phase because I found my old Marine army ! It rested deep within the basement of my Mum´s house, never meant to be seen again. As you could imagine, I was very happy and proceeded with my project of my Adeptus Mechanicus Marine chapter which I dropped several years ago. "Iron Angels" or " Knights of Mars" or something like that, I have no name for it yet, but I think it´ll be damn cool.



So, praise the great Omnissiah and take care

Battlefield Brunswick

Hi there,

just a quick update here. 

I went to Braunschweig last weekend with two guys of my club. I was eager to try out my new army concept, list was like that : 

Logan Grimnar

Runepriest with living lightening and jaws. 

1x Wolfguard with 3 stormshields, 1 thunderhammer and 1x meltabombs and a pod

3x Greyhunters, a 10 man squad with pod and meltas and all the good things, 1 in a rhino and 1 in a razorback

2x Landspeeder Typhoon

2x longfangs frist squad with 4 multimeltas and a missilelauncher plus pod, second with 5 missilelaunchers

1x Wolfscouts with mark, melta and meltabombs.

I put Logan into a pod together with the meltafangs,giving them relentless and delivering an awesome alphastrike but I really have to improve the list. The tournament was ok, I went 11th overall (because I didn´t send in the list by time, otherwise would´ve been 9th or so ) and 7th in General with one loss, two draws and two victories. It was the first time I played that list and for me beeing inexperienced with it, it was quite ok.Could have done better, but I just didn´t. Next time :)

take care

Has been a long time...

since my last post, but I got a lot to do. I had to finish up my wolves for a 1850 Tournament and had to spend time in strange things like realtionship and real life :) But now Im back and got a lot to tell. I tryed out my Space wolves in a small tournament last weekend called Raumpatrouille (Psacepatrol) VIII.

It was a strange concept.Your list had to start at 750 points and built up to 1000 and then 1250 and you weren´t allowed to change what you´ve already got.
I fielded my space wolves, just had 658 or so points to be able to field my landspeeders later,just two squads of greyhunters in rhinos with a Runepriest and a group of longfangs. First game was against a IG-Chimera spamlist with a Valkyrie, 3 Objectives. He scout-moved up and I seized.From there everything just went wrong.In my whole turn I fired everything, living lightening, 5 missles, 3 melta-guns and assaulted the valkyrie with one squad and managed to break of a lascannonen.To make a big whining short, nothing worked out and I lost with 2 to 1 Objectives which was counted as a 7/4.

Next game I had against a Tau list with Shadowsun and mainly ghosts, backed up by a two broadsides and some firewarriors with pathfinders.I added two Typhoonspeeders and a squad of wolfscouts to my list.The mission was three markers and you had to collect lootpoints by beeing within 3" of a objective with a scoring unit at the end of the enemys turn. I was really surprised how much firepower wolves can lay down when I recognized that I can outshoot Tau. I almost blasted him off the table and won with a 11/0 and 10 to 1 lootcounters.

Last game I had to play Dark Eldar.Lancespam, a few Transports, 2 Talos, 3 groups of footslogging Warriors, an Archon with that pesky 2 up invul and some other stuff I don´t remember.I now had a razorback with 5 greyhunters and a bikesquad of 3 with powerfist and meltabombs added to my list.  Mission was standart mission in the rulebook 3 objectives.It was a tough game, but by turn 3 I could wipe out his whole left flank which were held by his warriors and reinforced my hidden rhino on the right. He got scared and withdraw his transports in the back of the field where I got a nice lane of fire with my longfangs and my speeders to put his HQ on foot far away from my greyhunters so I could move up to the objecitves with my troops easily. It was a good game with some glorious moments when I jawed away one Talos or killed of the Archon and his retinue with my wolfscouts.
Game ended with 3 to 0 obkjectives and a killpoint ratio of 10 to 0(I was surprised by myself^^) and I scored 11 points the second time.

Overall I additionally earned the full 4 points for having a completly painted army, so I got 30 points out 37 which made me second place. First place went to a guy from my gaming club with orcs, so it was a great day for Kiel.

Tomorrow Ill drive down to Braunschweig with two guys from my gaming-club and try out my logan-list concept.More to come

take care

Nordmanöver

So this weekend I participated at the Nordmanöver.1750 points no restrictions.Damn I screwed up. I chose usual BA list, but exchanged an assaultsquad for a second Predator with lascannon-sponsons.
First game I had against a codexmarine army.Mission was killpoints with dawn of war. Went really fine, I blasted him till he got a rhino and a bikesquad without heavy weapons left. He managed to run away and hide and deny my a massacre. Whatever,nice game, really nice opponent.
Second was against Orks, 5 Objectives, Spearhead.
Simply exhausting, he gave me really hard time by fielding 9 kanz, a Nob-bikersquad lots of boys.I got second turn and that was, what saved me victory. By the bottom of turn five, I managed to obtain 2 objectives and contest 2, by placing two really decimated troops on "my" objectives and draw him away by charging the kanz with my terminators and the heroic death of my last sanguinary priest in round 4, in which he charged a big orkmob and made room for the razorback to reach the objective.So, I won again.
Game number 3 I went against Tyranids.Capture and Control, pitched battle. Damn how I hate playing against Nids. Lots of Genestealers, lots of monsters. It was the smallest table, lots of cover, lots of terrain. Till turn 4 it was a fierce fight, than he just kicked my butt. Pity.
The next day, 4. game, killpoints against a very unspectacular appearing marine droplist.I was sure Id win, but what followed was just wrong. He got first turn, we set up. I castled and made myself ready for beating the crap outta him.First Droppod came with an Ironclad and melted my Landraider.Ok, shit happens. turn two he made a shot of my Deathstarunit of 5 Terminators, a Reclusiarch and a Sanguinary priest whit his vindicator...everyone died.My Librarian Dreadnought roled for wings...12...6...ok, the dice gods hate me.And the whole game went like that.So whatever, I lost again.
Ok, my tournament enthusiasm was gone for that day and I decided to relay and just enjoy the last game,however it would look like.
Again Orks, again 5 objectives, pitched battle. Went really fine, I dominated the whole game because he let me dictate his movements.I think he was too scared of my Libby or my Raider.I won 3 to 1 objectives.

I made place 9 out of 26. Not bad but not what I aimed for. Whatever, it was real fun and I´ll take part again next year.

take care

akl aftermath

Hi there,
I came back from a very nice tournemant yesterday night and was too exhausted to make an update. I made 7/26 and could almost smell the air of the 2nd.

It was 1250 points and I came with a shooty BA list, pred, Baal pred, dread with twin autocannon/twin las, 2 melta-attackbikes,2 las/plas razors, rhino with Libby, some assaultdudes, powerfist, melta, infernuspistol.

The first game I had against a Deathguard army.Prince, dread,defiler and lots of plaguemarines. Mission was 3 objectives. I set up and fired, he came towards me, nothing special there but thanks to my dice I just managed to make a draw.I always try to critize my own actions, tactics etc. but that was just ridiciulous.Ive never seen so many ones and twos,and I mostly roll a lot of them.However, enough whinig for now.

Second game I played against Orcs. 1 deffdread, 3 small dreads, 2 koptaz, battlewagon, and some other stuff I don´t really remember. Mission was killpoints. The emperor guided my fire and I tabled him turn 5.

Third game was against Chaos demons. Mission was 3 objectives. He fielded a bloodthirster, 5 bloodcrushers,3 flamers, that demon defiler thing, 5 plaguebearers, and some horrors. I deployed first, castled up and waited.He came down with his first wave, Thirster, defiler, crushers and flamers. Flamers mishaped, everything else came more or less on point.Turn 2 the action started. My attackbikes destroyed the defiler because I turboboosted them into the middle of the table in turn 1, the Thirster died by massive shooting and my dread charged the crushers.Although my opponent destroyed my dread in his cc-phase, I gained enough time to re-position, blast away the crushers and take the objectives.

Fourth game was against Quasar from my own gaming club.He played wolves. Awesome game.It was capture and control and dawn of war.We deployed facing each other because there was a huge rock in the middle of the table which blocked los entirely and I had faith in my long- and midrange firepower.
I can tell even if I don´t play against wolves often, I will never forget that thunderwolfcavallery has fleet.Until turn 3 everything went just fine but I made the mistake of becoming overzealous and lost my assaultforces within one round. I tried to manage a draw but he just beat the heck outta me in my back ranks, made a lot of invulsaves and blocked my pred off his marker.Very exhausting game with a lot of tension. At least the 2nd went to Kiel and Quasar really deserved it.

Oh I got carried away a little, but I hope you enjoy it,

take care

le surprise

A guy from my club asked me to join him on a small 1250 points tournament tomorrow. There some restrictions that allow you to only take 2 of the elite, heavy support and fast attack choices and forbids doubling units, except for the troop choice (there you are only allowed to take 4 units).I don´t want to put the list in here, but Ive got 5 lascannons and quite some assault capabilities and will use that list to test a few things out for the larger tournament next weekend.

take care

Navy blue

Today I purchased the Space Wolf Codex and Army Painter Navy Blue to basecoat the models I stripped this morning.Came out quite nice, because I want the grey a bit blueish, for Im going to build an army of Krakendooms Greatcompany which mainly consists of sailors.
If anybody wonders why I got so much free time to spend on my models : I got summer-holidays from university since july for two months and my girlfriend is working,so I got enough time to nerd around :) But back to topic.
Right now I got 10 grey hunters, a rhino, 2 landspeeders and 12 longfangs I made out of bits and pieces.I want the army to look awesome, so I´ll have to take my time for every model,although Im eager to "invest" in SW - boxes, especially to build and convert a bikersquad, got some ideas with harpoons and stuff, to make them look like they´re experienced in hunting seamonsters.

Apart from that, the guy I paint a couple of bloodcrushers for visited me and was very satisfied. He wants me to paint the rest of his demons and Im about to earn my first 100 bucks for painting (yeeeeeehaaaw !)
As soon as I can get a camera that isn´t too crappy Ill load up some pictures.

take care

Daemonettes finished and wolves calling in the dark...

I finished up the last 8 Daemonettes almost, just a few highlights left to paint...but Im afraid I got infected with Space Wolves...took a peek into the codex and got to know the fluff around Engil Krakendoom, with ships and stuff, almost custom-made for the ancient viking people of northern Germany and southern Denmark,just awesome. I painted up a grey hunter just to see how it would look like and many many ideas crept up my mind....lets see how this will come out.



take care

damn you, Friday 13th !

Friend called, canceled our game tonight because of some cheap excuse like work.Just kidding, got enough to do with my daemonettes and earning relationship points from my beloved girlfriend.Anyway, my first batrep has to wait until wednesday.

take care

Tournament Preparation

Ok, Im preparing myself for my next Tournament on the 28th this month. Ill go with my Blood Angels aka Angels Sanguine, and as far as I see, surprisingly the most chosen army there will be witchhunters, second are ba, guard and marines.
After a bit playtesting, I think Ill go with this list :

*************** 1 HQ ***************


Reclusiarch
130 p

*************** 3 Elite ***************

Terminator Assaultsquad
5 Assault Terminators, 3 x Lightningclaw, 2 x Thunderhammer & Stormshield
+ Land Raider Redeemer, Multimelter, additional Armour, searchlights
 476 p


Furioso-Librarian, bloodfist & Psiweapon, stormbolter
"Wings of Sanguinius", " Bloodlance"
175 p
2x Sanguinary priest
50p


*************** 4 Standard ***************

Assaultsquad
6 Space Marines, 5 x Boltpistole, 1 x Meltagun
1 x Infernus-Pistol, 1 x Powerfist
+ Rhino .
 183 p


Assaultsquad
5 Space Marines, 5 x Boltpistol
+ Razorback, searchlights, synch. Heavy Flamer,
121 p
Assaultsquad
5 Space Marines, 4 x Boltpistol, 1 x meltagun
+ Razorback,Lascannon & synch. plas .
165 p

Assaultsquad
5 Space Marines, 4 x Boltpistol, 1 x meltagun
+ Razorback,Lascannon & synch. plas .
 165 p
*************** 1Fast Attack ***************

Attackbike squadron
2 Attackbikes, 2 x Multimelter 100 p

*************** 1 Heavy Support ***************

Predator, Autocannon, Lascannon sponsons 135 p

Total Blood Angels : 1750

I think thats a good mixture of firepower and close combat capabilities. Id love to have another Powerfist in there, but I need a second attackbike to actually use them at all, because for some reason in the last 7 games it could only hit once and did actually nothing with the meltas. Normally Id drop the bike completely but its speed and its scary multimelta gave me huge advantages in almost every game, so i decided to just increase its effectivity.
Tactic in gerneral here is weakening up the enemy while advancing with the whole army,taking out major threats like demonprinces or opening up transorts, and then crush them in the assault.
 
Ill test the attackbikes tomorrow night, might put up a batrep.
 
take care