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.

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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.

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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.



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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.

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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